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xornor··on Is going to the office a broken way of working?
After 1.5 years, I tried working in office yesterday. The experience was horrible. Work conditions were inferior when compared to my home. Going to office and back home feels very inefficient and harmful to the environment.

No thanks for offices.

xornor··on What went wrong with the Texas power grid?
Here where I live (northern Europe), chimneys are always internal. Nobody would even think external chimneys. Heat loss is massive that way.
xornor··on HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know
You just get much worse lords and lose all your freedoms which you may still have.

Free market democracy is not ideal system, but it offers at least some freedoms for serfs. All other systems take them all away.

xornor··on Vitamin D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function: 12-month RCT
And even in Northern Europe, people were outside all the time. Nowadays we sit in the dark offices in the artificial lighting.
xornor··on My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work
That would ensure also diversity of staff. Very good idea.
xornor··on My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work
Work results are only sensible measure for the work performance. Easy hire and fire is one solution. Also a short trial period at the start of the work agreement should show if results happen or not (fg. 4-6 months).
xornor··on French fathers will now get 28 days of paternity leave
Twelve kids is 24/7 work.

Why I would change 8 hours to it?

It is also unethical way of life in this planet.

xornor··on We need to take CO2 out of the sky – an overview of climate tech
Or, have less people producing waste everywhere.
xornor··on The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer
It is very easy to find -10x programmers, which proves that there are also 10x programmers. It depends on the reference skill level.
xornor··on US Ranks 41st in Press Freedom Index Thanks to 'War on Whistleblowers'
Finland and Russia has the most steepest border in the world if measured by the freedom of press.
xornor··on Minecraft creator Notch shares the darker side of life after a big exit
If the burden is unbearable a solution is easy - he can just give everything away. Usually problems of life are not that easy to solve. This was very childish for Notch.
xornor··on My husband needed therapy after working for Amazon
I am now quite happy that I failed in the Amazon recruitment process.

Their guidance said that I should prepare couple of weeks for the interview. For me they gave one weekend which I had to use for the family event. Perhaps I was not engaged enough after all.

xornor··on Jeff Bezos Says Amazon Won’t Tolerate ‘Callous’ Management Practices
Never trust HR in big companies. They are there to do human resource management easy for directors. Their task is to do everything for the company.
xornor··on Why we should all learn from the ancient Greeks
In Finland there is a collection of ancient stories or poems - Kalevala. It is something like Iliad and the Odyssey. Language of those poems is really something unique and exceptional. I have been always thinking that it is impossible to really translate it to any other languages. Probably same applies also to original greek works - we who have not studied ancient Greek, can read only bland versions of texts.
xornor··on My Summer Car Game
This will be the greatest art project ever about genuine finnish culture.

Almost every finnish man has lived this fantasy in the summer when he was 18. It needs also small town with girls - if you are drunk enough and your music from stereos is louder than anyone else's, they will come to back seat of your car for the drive.

xornor··on Why Learning to Code Is So Damn Hard
Learning to code is not so hard, but learning to code well is extremely hard - almost impossible. I have been doing software development years and years also in some well known companies and I am not sure if I have yet met a good developer.