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This is a very naive analysis. It defines toxicity as propensity to be fired, only looks at big corporations, and uses self-reports in interview tests (like paper tests) as the independent variable. I…

Thank you for posting this article. I've often felt the "walking on eggshells" phenomenon you describe, but I've never even felt able to call it out without risking being labeled a…

I can see where you're coming from, but I don't know if that's a fair reduction. In the app world we initially thought more everything was better. When apps that took things away (twitt…

I remember when I took the SATs I did quite well on the reading and math, but not so hot on the writing. I remember feeling that the grading of the essay wasn't made clear at all- Should I throw …

I almost want to flag this link for playing loud sound advertisements on page load, but I'm not sure that's proper in this community. Is there not a better link to this content?

Are you saying that we therefore shouldn't mind the ad-hominem bias?

I'm not sure what character has to do with anything. I think the real story here is how emotions (both by Weev and prosecutors) interfere with our ability to give all equal justice.

That's ad-hominem.

One the one hand, it's pretty clear that "Weev"'s reaction is emotional, ethically questionable, and not an effective way to build sympathy toward reform. But on the other hand may…

"Do the right thing" defined as “– follow the law, act honorably, and treat each other with respect,” just doesn't feel the same. "Don't Be Evil" appeals to a force above…

Personally I'm curious what valid scoring mechanism there is for a test with "abstract questions with no right or wrong answers." Unless, of course, it were some old-boys club of inside…

I really like this article. To summarize it: Author contends - Managers (etc) try to quantify engineers' productivity. Even though some are 10x better, quantifying from the outside is an impossib…

Again, this is something that is independent of microservices. If you have a modular mono codebase then one team can easily deploy commits that only touch their module.

kinda ad-hominem. I disagree with the approach that somehow advancing the discussion a half-step by calling attention to an important piece of the article (rather than taking the full step of going on…

-- A “democracy” in which 400 families give 50 percent of the money in campaigns is not American democracy. That's a really compelling statistic if true. I wish there was a source for it. Anybod…

What's hyper-exponential growth supposed to mean? "User base doubles every month" (so 2^x) but then "the value is the square of the number nodes" which yields 2^2x, which stil…

Wow, another arbitrary interview technique of dubious worth. Yay... "Are you ready to be CEO of Google on Monday?" If they say yes, then I'll probably entertain myself by asking how the…

I agree. He manages other managers and so has a vested interest in maintaining the content of his employees. What really struck me as cool-aidy is that he tosses out statements like "Amazon is, w…

I was thinking about why this website triggered my skeptic alarms and came up with a few things. 1. The web interface makes it hard to go back. The first thing I want to do when I see a surprising ans…

I cannot tell if blog post is this a theory or 15-page commercial for one man's opinions. The title claims it turns engineers into remarkable managers, yet provides no evidence. I see a lot of bo…

The thing I dislike about this article, as somebody who as experiment with ketamine (I took it twice two years ago, and then twice last month) is that the article's presentation implicitly vilifi…

It sounds to me like the implication here is --Snowden disrupted our intelligence agencies by preventing us from crucial information, therefore he harmed our government--. The assumption being that Am…

>> "Dry is an optimization. What is the cost of DRY? What are the costs of not being DRY?" Agreed 100%. I actually made a javascript programming game to try to find explore that balanc…

Agreed. Who says social comparison (discarded by this article as "carnival tickets") plays no role in satisfaction? Research shows that making more than peers is a better predictor of happin…

This is a genuinely interesting piece that touches a number of loosely related points. They are (as I read them): - Engineering jobs are not primarily being about problem-solving (like he had hoped) -…

I guess I don't really get the point here. This video walks a line between comedy and fact where I'm not really satisfied in either. I can't always tell what's a joke, does he actu…