Simon_ORourke

Doesn't that just mean they won't ever to subject to prosecution by the International Criminal Court?

> the gifted and talented communities.

As in gifted and talented individuals who form a community, or all these folks from this ethnic background you think are talented? Because if it's the former then I'm surprised they've got a community going, and if it's the latter you would be better served getting the calipers out and go measure some skulls instead to promote that nonsense.

Replace "perfect" with "likely optimal" and you get the general thrust of it without the deus ex machina.

An overall truthful statement to be fair to the authorities. Perhaps less fair to those at the other end though.

Ad hominem retorts are more the mark of stupidity, but I'd suspect you wouldn't know about that one way or the other.

A base inability to argue facts also would likewise betray some lesser faculty or learning.

How is this not open to corruption and worse too. Folks doing "favors" to supervisors who then get marked as doing a day's work. Or some other favorites getting preferred work over others.

It's not that simple, and it's why a free market would probably work better over the long run than some proto-communist jobs for everyone scenario.

I've seen this a lot, especially with junior folks getting on their high horse publicly about some direction or decision. Whenever it happens I make a point of putting a reminder in my calendar to check their corp Slack handle after three weeks to see if they're still employed. 9 out of 10 are deactivated when I check back.

Hold your tongue, there's no such thing as a safe space in any all hands or group-level meeting.

> If you find yourself working under such people, don't bother giving feedback, start polishing your resume.

Never a truer word said than this. It's incredibly naive to think that any unfiltered feedback upwards to senior management will be welcomed. In reality, no matter how accurate the feedback may be it will be regarded at best as useless, and at worst as a direct threat to leadership requiring a response. This response may come in the form of a re-org, team move or headcount reduction.

While totally disingenuous, your best strategy is to simply tow the corporate line while looking for a new job.

11AU is close enough thank you very much

100% agree, especially when you have to deal with distributed teams in the UK with all their "bank holidays" which all seem to land on Mondays.

Will Amazon leadership require it's new Gen AI to physically move itself to an office to perform valid work?

And I'd argue that AI drivers are probably better rated than human ones too

I'm sure folks like myself living in a city townhouse without the luck of having a woodworking studio "out back" are cursing our lack of facilities for having this kind of fun.

Not putting too fine a point on it, but Gandhi's non-violent resistance worked in the India of his time, because the British wanted both the labor and the natural resources, and killing all the former would simply have cost them.

In Gaza and Ukraine right now, the colonial powers simply want the territory, and are largely indifferent or are openly hostile to the continued physical existence of the people who live there.

Profit?! Commodore 64!! Sirs I duly doff my cap in your general direction.

I saw something recently that the Vikings practiced similar bone replacement for their guys who lost limbs in battle. One poor guy was emasculated with an axe and had to be buried with a replacement boar's tusk 'down there'.

> It's nice to see that for this author, three years in he did manage to find something that made money, but realistically most people don't have that much runway to keep at it without generating income.

Precisely this, and while I completely support the original author in their quest to find their own bootstrapped business, I keep wondering what the "what if" would have looked like had they stayed earning the big bucks in Google.

> Managers who are the sort of people who don't value helping your colleagues

Helping, yes certainly one of the core requirements being a manager is unblocking direct reports from whatever they're doing.

But it has limits, because you as a manager have finite time. I've got seven direct reports, three are relatively new hires and so consume most of my "help". Of the remainder another three are great senior devs who can be trusted with getting the broad brush strokes of a problem and going off independently to delve in.

One however, a struggling senior dev with junior dev capabilities, and having major childcare issues at home is totally floundering, pulling sick days and basically failing. As a manager I basically don't have capacity to commit the amount of time required to pull them out of it, and I'm trying to move them off the team.

"fully automated market-driven load balancing" more like.

What's the matter with calling it out like it is, "fandom is sometimes a grotesque blight that poisons the society surrounding it with its mean-spirited obsessions and ridiculous, unearned sense of entitlement."

We need more of this - identification and clear instructions rather than any clickbaity "10 best plants to have in your home" nonsense.

Would second the opinions in the comments that I'd need to know if this is going to be useful to me before I signed up to anything.

Lazy Edwardian industrial workers demanding 8 hours sleep after 16 hours work!

"Oooohh we used to dream of living in a corridor..." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE

I hope those guys brought along some fava beans and a good chianti.

But but but.... Won't somebody please think of the hurt feelings amongst the commercial landlord community.

Seriously though, any of those a-hole CEOs, like Amazon or Intercom may as well come out and say they don't trust their staff, all the while getting chauffeur driven into the office themselves and have legions of housekeepers and nannies taking care of things at home for them.

My ex-wife demanded that we store some awful, terrible wicker furniture after a house move, so I put these cheap monstrosities into a $40/month storage unit in a semi-desolate area of town. The unit was broken into three or four times but the thieves didn't do me the favor of actually stealing anything. On the last break in I contemplated just leaving them a note with $20 inside pleading with them to just take the damned things.

Of course they are, anything for a quick buck but it must be hinted at somewhere in the terms and conditions

Agreed - anything which drives the likes of TurboTax and Block towards a Chapter 11 bankruptcy is objectively a good thing.

For a second there I mis-read that as Canva, and thought what the hell?

No, say you're on a team of five with two consistently poor performers that not only fail to achieve limited tasks, but constantly draw off support from the rest of the team.

There's no technical fix for that. The nuclear option of getting them sacked and replaced dents team morale and probably wouldn't let the team back up to speed for three or four months with all the onboarding required.

Coaching in areas where they should be self-learning consumes the focus of others on the team or in the business.

Ignoring them and ploughing ahead without assigning them work drastically reduces team effectiveness.

Not much in the way of a technical fix in sight - unless copilot suddenly becomes really really good.

This seems quite appropriate listening to half wits like Joe Rogan giving equal weight to an expert in a given topic and then cutting away unashamedly to some fruitloop with a theory that would make a sane person blush.