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I upvoted it - because I loved those two suggestions and have already have them open in another tab. I believe a bunch of others would have done the same.

Indian Police shares EV charging logs publicly on twitter to reply to civilian twitter accusation

Just chiming to say that we used Hellō for one of our products ( bestozy.com ) and the whole experience was a breeze. Dick Hardt was very accessible - but tbh we didn't need much help at all as the integration was straightforward and the documentation comprehensive.

I think we need to factor in "Correlation is not causality" and the presence of confounding variables.

Slave abolitionists explicitly mentioned where they derived their morals from - clearly establishing causality.

Could there be something else common among slave practitioners apart from religion - like common materialistic greed and superior firepower to overpower and dominate others?

I totally agree that asking people who created/maintain/make significant contributions to open source projects is a waste of time.

However, for hiring people who don't have a public body of work to point to - it remains pretty effective. (I am not affiliated with hackerrank/hackerearth/codility - just been on the hiring side for the last many years)

Also, in my current org - we've been able to trust people lacking the "expected" graduate degrees - solely because they were able to prove their acumen in the interview by solving algo-data-structure problems. (Of course, we have to be creative here - and avoid like the plague the same bunch of questions which are present all over the web)

Obligatory - https://acoup.blog/2019/08/29/collections-this-isnt-sparta-p...

Not as glorious as it is made out to be..

Loved your blog - but I think the parent's question was how to gain the skills of working/designing OT/CRDTs etc on their own. (I am clarifying the question - since I'm interested in the answer as well)

On a related tangent -

One thing that I learned from Gladwell's masterclass notes [1] is giving the reader (or listener in a speech) some candy. Candies are fluffy - but they also help readers/listeners retain more and also share more. Personally I've noticed myself using such candies to broach an idea with someone or a team - and the difference in interest is visible.

[1] - https://taimur.me/posts/notes-from-malcolm-gladwell-s-writin...

This will be similar to the college fees conundrum, no? An increase in financial aid resulted in colleges spiking up their fees (one of many factors - but definitely one factor). So won't landlord be similarly incentivized to increase the rents they collect? Maybe a better example of what i'm referring to was a recent blog about why amish people get away with low medical expenses (one of the reasons being - their not being part of the insurance that the rest of the folks have..)

> "Thirty-four officers have had 40 or more allegations against them."

That's 34 people who should be off the streets - so that's notable.

It would also be interesting to find the count of claims where the board was unable to get evidence it was entitled to.

Agree on the cheapening part - but I really love the reminders on my phone - 5yrs ago or 3yrs ago of simple everyday events - cheap photos but fond memories.. photos that probably would not have been taken with an actual camera.

In Akamai the mantra is - Stabilize, Adapt, Emerge

Anecdotal experience - I've noticed that shipping late by 2 weeks with advance notice to stakeholders is taken way more positively than shipping late by 1 week but informing people late.

This seems like plain common sense and required courtesy but I've been on the wrong side of this from both approaches enough times from both sides of the table - people somehow have a block in sharing the bad news (also because in unhealthy places the messenger is shot - just makes me realize that I'm in a good place).

(In any case the blog actually talks more of sharing the context you are in and not just about sharing bad news early - sharing context is definitely safer and a better approach)

This is awesome. If you haven't thought about it - looks like you can compete with coderpad etc. for monetization.

"I would like you to do a favor though.." - right when the congress approved aid was blocked seems damning. Context is everything.

May not be a popular advice - but try a church. If you have reservations about religion you can let them know, but more often than not - there is a welcoming community and in local church groups you'd find a bunch of folks who are willing to go an extra mile for someone else and most of them do really care.

Obvious disclaimer - do watch out that they do not end up exploiting your vulnerabilities - there are known cases where that unfortunately happens as predators are everywhere.

Check hackerrank.com - practicing there should help.

Hmmm... I'm not sure where you work but I can talk about my experience

* I've learned a lot about architecture and scaling * Maintainability of systems is something typically that people learn with experience * there's a lot to learn from code reviews * we have DataArch reviews, SecArch reviews, and I've got to learn so much from each of those (Akamai)

Apart from that - talking about Akamai specifically where I work - * there's a program I'm currently enrolled in called "Intrapreneurship" where we are trained on all aspects of the business - marketing, finance, product management etc. in which I have learned so much * I recently became a people manager - so there's a lot of training associated to that

So, if you feel you are not learning - it might be specific to your experience or a set of companies - but there are definitely companies which invest in their people - so actively look out for such opportunities.

Misleading title - this doesn't go into the "how" part at all.

This was a lightbulb moment, and I realized the contradictory stance I have - no oversight on social media but I believe in gun control/regulation. People and tools.. and what tools are dangerous enough to be regulated, the thing with social media regulation and censorship is that seems so closely tied with free speech and free market enterprise so any oversight is revolting to me, but given the effect fake news has - I realize it can be as dangerous, if not more, than guns.

1. Having more of something - gives one the tolerance to lose some of it without feeling the pinch.

2. Again - the ability to take risks increases - this is one reason the rich get richer - they can make riskier investments while the poor can't make such bets

3. People with more to lose - are the people who lose a greater percentage of their savings - a rich person losing $1000 vs a poor person losing $1000 - a poor person loses more

where their worm shall never die..

This contradicts the advice others are giving but in my experience here's what has worked for me. * Communicate early * Document the warning signals - have an email thread - this is critical in saving you later * You will be asked to hustle, have explanations for why hustling won't help reach the deadline * Have clear reasons why the delay is caused - why wasn't the skill gap known earlier?

Be ready to lose some weekends and burn additional hours - but people will appreciate your being on top of things.

People shoot the messenger - when the messenger is too late in delivering the warning when the rest of the business can't do anything to fix it. Even if management is anticipating delays - it will still look good on you that you are able to foresee problems, and your foresight will be rewarded later on.

People don't like hearing bad news - but if the bad news is delivered early and documented in such a way that it makes them responsible for not acting on warnings, they tend to work on it positively.

If you do the above and still get shot as the carrier of bad news - the work culture is toxic you are better off working elsewhere.

Mixed emotions here - on the one hand - its not an accounting firm and they are very clear that it wasn't done in accordance with Generally Accepted Auditing Standards and so that gives the firm FSS a cop out should anything go wrong. On the other hand - a reputed firm has staked its reputation to do this - and being wrong would destroy their credibility.

Yes - pay/benefits are mostly related to hierarchy unless someone is a tech star mostly.

And even if not - the folks higher in the chain also get to decide what gets to be worked on.

But promotion is one of the incentives to be best - so unless the other incentives are stronger - promoting randomly or promoting the worst performers will remove a strong incentive and will pull down the productivity of the organization anyway. Or there should be an explicit test for the skills needed at the next level.

> Whether a business is a failure or a success is 99% based on the relationships and contracts it forms. Typically, unskilled managers and executives will forge the deal FIRST, and then go get the expertise and skilled laborers after.

Maybe - forming the relationships and contracts and forging the deal - is a valuable skill too, and since I've been on a lot of interview panels - getting the skilled laborers and expertise to work for you is also another very valuable "skill".

It just happens that a capitalist writing a large number of checks happen to write a couple of right ones. And often we need them to write some wrong ones too.

25 points in less than 30 minutes - the rate at which it gets attention matters in the ranking AFAIK

Noise cancellation tech will catch up too.