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Thank you for sending this over.

Yeah unfortunately it isn't my call but thank you for your advice.

I know a ton of intelligent people in their 30s or 40s at or near the poverty line. Being intelligent doesn't in any way guarantee you good money.

If you haven't heard of the just world fallacy, it might be worth looking into.

I think it's convenient to give a leader all of the credit for what is a massive effort by a massive organization.

I think it's convenient to say that a massive organization is doing well only because of that leader and not, at least occasionally, despite that leader.

Moreover, a lot of educated people understand that graphs have incredibly complex behavior and can't be well understood from the "first" node a stimulus enters through and yet we are quick to laud Jobs for all of the successes of his network; it's like this insane pyramid scheme of credit attribution.

How big is his severance going to be if he loses complete support from the board? Is he going to get any jail time with that severance?

Yes, this is exactly what I intended to say. I should have said that they also need to treat other employees well too but I fell asleep shortly thereafter.

I'm not comfortable working for any company who treats any of their employees like garbage.

Yeah, there isn't a chance in hell I would work for Amazon for the foreseeable future. I have plenty of opportunity with employers who pay me to live a comfortable lifestyle and treat me well.

How is it 20,000:1? Google's conversion calculator has it around 20:1 right now.

Hate to break to you but, every corner of the internet mocks every other corner of the internet. Even HN is heavily mocked on other sites.

I feel like I'm much more able to see pedestrians in my Cayman than in my 4Runner. People seem to blend in with the surroundings the higher up I am.

From what I recall of the training I received from a somewhat well-known Chief Quality Officer, you don't get things right more often by getting better people, you get things right more often by making better processes for people to follow (the latter of which isn't as directly tied to better people as you may think).

Frankly, I don't get the hype. I've interviewed FAANG engineers and have given a thumbs down almost as often as I did for engineers from other companies.

For swe, I've rarely seen it happen except with junior engineers and end-of-career engineers.

X1 carbons aren't exactly known for being the most repairable thinkpads.

My new P15 still has a modular gpu and, IIRC, has easy access to most components by removing the back cover.

There are very much different versions of the truth; even at a fundamental level. Do you know what a reference frame in Physics is?

Empathy stops people from doing awful things pretty regularly. Moreover, many religions allow people to subvert their empathy w.r.t. people who don't fit heteronormative standards. Hell, some sects of Christianity are pretty awful to women.

I don't see a use for religion other than to allow people to skirt their responsibility in having/maintaining a mature line of empathy.

For me, it would depend on how stabby the ship is.

(I don't want to get injured by a ship in disrepair)

Yeah, I heavily bucked trends at my past 3 companies. I even got into plenty of disagreements with "principal engineers" at the end of their careers and those engineers inevitably won the arguments. However, there were enough times where, once the team realized how problematic those solutions were, they backtracked and used my solutions.

Every manager (as well as a few colleagues) has tried to get me to come back so far. A couple have recommended me to lead the tech side of their friend's (well-funded) startups long after I left.

I wouldn't ever do it again though unless it was explicitly asked for. Stressing about getting fired in the initial weeks after getting hired (or during a boss change) just isn't worth it.

I have lived in LA county for more than 25 years and lived in East Hollywood ~1 year. I have never heard gunfire anywhere in LA. I'm sure it happens in the worst areas but I've never heard it and I've been around plenty of recreational gunfire (outside of LA).

Do you think it's possible they're mistaking gunfire with fireworks? There are plenty of fireworks here.

I don't think this is true. In the circles I run in (which are as nearly as "woke" as you can be), your family and closest friends have carte blanche to tell you you're full of shit.

I know I rely on my family and friends to do so. Conversely, I know I'm able to do so with them and they love me just the same.

I mean, it's a trope at this point in American media where your loved one can slap your face hard to give you a reality check. I've never personally had that happen but to say the culture is a culture of enablers doesn't seem well supported.

If that was the case, it would be just that much more important than the effects while in the workforce. In actuality, a lot of these things can affect you when you already have a job and are looking for another. It also turns out that you can go to grad school while being in the workforce.

> the second your ass enters the work world nobody will give a shit what percentile of your class you graduated in or what your SAT/GMAT/LSAT/MCAT scores were.

I guarantee you they do. I guarantee you I know people with PhDs in neuroscience who've been asked their SAT scores.

I guarantee you that Boeing or some other major defense contractor (it's hard to keep track with how many were on campus) has made it well known at my school that if you graduate with a 3.7, you automatically get a job.

I guarantee you that when a school like mine does grade deflation to the point where the average engineer gets a 2.7, the people who cheat make it such that the people who didn't cheat struggle to find a job. Then when they do find a job their success is delayed substantially.

I guarantee you that people who already study their ass off for tests also cheat so that they guarantee that A. They also guarantee what would have been an A ends up as a B. There are only so many spots at top universities, guess who those spots go to.

Guess what happens to a school's reputation when their "best and brightest" end up being idiots in the workplace. Guess how hard it is for the smart ones who didn't cheat to find a good job.

Cheating does a lot more damage than you give it credit for.

(I've also met a lot of brilliant people that didn't cheat but there are far more smart people who do than don't)

I have undergrad degrees in EE and physics. There is barely any similarities besides a class or two in electrodynamics.

I even went a step further with how involved with physics I was during the EE degree and specialized in RF; hardly any of that was covered in my physics degree.

The statement wasn't on greatness. The statement was on "never good."

I think the programming community largely agrees that indenting is good. If something is forcing you to do something that is good, then it definitely doesn't fall into the category of "never good."

I can't think of a single time in the nearly 10 years of using Python daily that made me want it to operate differently w.r.t. indenting.

Python forces you to indent.

My physician told me that under no circumstances should I be getting my vitamin D from the sun as skin cancer was not worth it; she instead recommended I get it from my diet.

I was a teenager doing Android Development in 2010. What difference does age make in this discussion?

This kind of crap has been around long before people started caring about how marginalized people feel. Look no further than obscenity laws which have been in place a lot longer than this wave of empathy.

And yet, despite all that annoyance for the ways Americans use the language, a significant number of French derived words are butchered on that side of the pond (e.g. lieutenant).

There is far more to writing correct code than knowing the contents of undergraduate computer science inside and out; there is an entire world of software engineering where undergraduate computer science theory is damn near meaningless.

I mean, I worked at a medium sized medical device company (10,000+ people) (who was considered the gold standard of their industry in many respects) where you would be hard pressed to find a single person that wrote a lot of code who had anything but a Physics, EE or CpE degree; I honestly can't remember a single person who had a CS degree despite being on an algorithms team.

I can't even remember a single person at the scientific device company I worked at where their algorithms team had anything but PhDs in Physics.