alexandercrohde

It's not your problem to solve. It's likely not a problem at all. I think it's just a reflection of our nature -- we all claim to seek boring stability, yet actually thrive on drama. Pe…

I think punishing the engineer would be much less practical than the CEO. There will always be an engineer (perhaps a remote contractor) who will build this.

One way to look at this is to say "Hah, how shameful." The other way to look at this is to say "Hah, clearly business success isn't a function of code quality"

>> The murders-for-hire are absolutely the most critical part of this whole case. Well maybe he should have been charged for that.

Care to explain the downvotes?

tl; dr: nothing is proven yet in either direction. The report acknowledges "ongoing work" is needed to root the phone. Maybe they should have waited to publish until they did that.

>> A lot of processes are inefficient but there is nobody you can talk to about improvements. Well, I don't think there's nobody you can talk to. Let's just take his first 3 exam…

As far as I can tell, the central thesis is that companies (maybe just tech companies) are screwed up. The sardonic tone though makes it almost entirely undigestable to me. There's an emotional a…

How is this a story? If people don't want to use an unsafe library, don't. If their patches aren't getting merged, clone it. If reddit is being meany-heads, don't login. I really d…

Yes. Moreover, if you backup the system great, you get peace of mind, but management hardly cares. If you BREAK the system while trying to establish a backup, management cares and it's "your…

Aren't you sort of victim blaming here? This guy is saying "I believe X" and is fighting really hard for his beliefs. Instead of addressing whether it's valid/worthy, you'…

That's all totally reasonable. However independent of that- One thing he said that sounded completely outrageous though was that the inclusivity committee asked "A reduction in the amount of…

It's apparent you didn't understand what I wrote at all. My point is (and I'll spell it out for you too, since I think it may apply) -- knowing the right thing is usually much much much…

For those unaware -- men's sperm count has gone down 3% a year since we've started measuring. I see these two facts as potentially related and warranting significant investigation.

Maybe you're obviously not the target audience then. Since you seem at a loss as to why this article is so successful -- maybe you should ask yourself what you're missing. It seems to me y…

>> “business people” ... and they typically make decisions in order to maximize good business outcomes. You had me until this statement. It's been my observation that "business people&…

This is irrelevant all-or-nothing thinking. Of course all things change -- that doesn't mean something changing for the worse is therefore inevitable or less shameful

Indeed. There are certain jobs I wouldn't take, or that would have to pay me at least 100,000 more a year to be associated with their moral ambiguity (for me it happens to be facebook)

And you really believe your stressed, sick-of-you-already, doctor is going to even consider a brain amoeba when you present flu-like symptoms? They either have a checklist, or they wing it. You give o…

To Trimbo's point though, college is the most expensive it's ever been (by several fold factor). The math more that checks out to pay all university professors over 200k, if you could reduce…

It wouldn't have to be in writing. Have a friend call up, say they are from "Tech Co" and "Would you recommend Joe Shmoe?" Very easy.

Most doctors are doing simple glue stuff and think they're hot shit. You think I couldn't diagnose that cold, or a machine? Most lawyers are doing simple glue stuff and think they're ho…

What a dumb article, the whole thing is the title. Here's my measure for "meaning density" in article. "How many sentences did it have" divided by "How many distinct poin…

Sure. A more mathematical description would be "standard deviation of beliefs across numerous issues predicts thinking for oneself" Of course, thinking for oneself might not correlate with b…

I find it disappointing so many HN comments don't understand this post has nothing to do with politics really. It's general to any set of tribal belief set A and B.

Well let's not conflate front-page and "getting shot-down." Something can be both. Also, one reason this is getting shot down less hard than the atlantic is that it's a simple poin…

No, because you can be DevOps without Sysadmin. Many DevOps come from Dev, and are avoiding most sysadmin via abstractions.

This is exactly what I mean. I can't tell if that's a joke or not.

As a functional programmer myself, I have the same confusion. As best I can tell, category-theory a cargo-cult thing ("I want to look like the type of engineer who CARES about monoids [because if…