Simon_O_Rourke

Well said, he got what was coming to him too.

Nonsense, it'll end up with merely some public head scratching and shrugs, and a "gee whiz monsieur, it sure is a mystery to us too".

Interesting that whatever they wanted to do backfired in NYC.

I would have loved to have had ChatGPT when I had to do a few modules in formal methods, I'd say it would have eaten through the BS I had to wade through

Another great post by one of the nations best public intellectuals.

Mediocre sales leaders I've found treat pipeline stagnation as a motivation problem rather than fixing the underlying issues with training, lead qualification, or sales collateral. Previous company had a sales pipeline tanking, and the "brilliant" Sales VP thought bringing forward a sales off-site to get the best performing reps together to motivate them. Net result, pipeline tanks further, VP waits a few months and leaves, and the reps all get upset at missing their targets for a full quarter.

You could fit in most senior directors, consultants and sales VPs into that bucket comfortably.

I'm just waiting for my current company to have a Sev 1 CritSit so I can document the bejesus out of the root cause and expose our non-technical AI evangelist leadership as the sort of goons most of the senior development staff already suspect.

Only by walking us into some revenue or customer impacting failure - through inappropriately having junior devs doing senior level things - will some sense of sanity start to prevail again.

This is a nothing burger of a story.

As someone who is being actively "encouraged" to be more collaborative with a few non technical political type managers merely for the appearance of it, this rings true. Collaboration is great if you don't have a clue and can coast on someone's coattails.

Fun times in Caracas. Interested to see what future Mafia film will use this a backdrop.

I am amazed that people take Hal Puthoff at his word that he has worked on all these secret projects for decades even though he cannot describe in definitive terms what the actual outcomes of those programs were.

This is one hundred perfect my view on this, and things are more than suspicious when suddenly being asked to get into the weeds on some technical aspect these guys start citing national security to keep things vague.

A lot more of Max Hastings than I would care to admit. But boy, can than man write a ripping yarn.

That's terrible. If the NTSB had flagged this flaw before then someone failed with an inspection regime or maintenance.

The NTSB doesn't ever accept the "sometimes bad things happen, shrug" excuse and kudos to the professionals there.

I presume he's moving on to some Trump appointed position.

Bush league poetry compared to WB Yeats or John Berryman.

I would send business that guys way if I could, he seems like good people, unlike the more famous Zuckerberg.

Great way to 'other' a group of folks who don't tend to stick to an all veggie diet. It wasn't enough just to say you can eat nettles and they're ok, but they had to take a dump on meat eating while they're at it

That'll save them a few million dollars when things are tight.

CORBA, it got hopelessly complex but it's full potential was never reached as the greed heads took it over.

I respect the honesty that went into that writing.

Beautiful, but definitely not worth invading or sending our troops to take over, if you don't awfully mind Mr. President.

Just don't fall off the side of those platforms.

It'd be interesting to see what additional "personal atmospheric floatation" devices would be needed.

So what happens if she racks up a few million in fines and declares herself bankrupt, say in the UK, where you can't then be held responsible for earlier debts?

This would lead to literally murder in my part of upstate New York. Heck, my neighbor will even park on his own lawn to avoid the ten foot walk from the pavement.

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It's absurdist whataboutery from Kushner, and no doubt the Israeli foreign ministry pulling the strings.

One does not equate to the other.

What it does do however is undermine current Israeli domestic policy, which can be neatly summed up as keeping their PM out of prison by focusing on the external enemy.

As a manager a lot of the annoying interruptions I put down to, and I chafe at using the word, a lack of hustle.

Okay, so I view my job as primarily giving devs some strategic direction and priority, but also unblocking them from getting work done.

On the later, the kind of interruptions I get are from folks who just don't want to do and figure some things out for themselves. Need access to a database... Go ask infra support. Don't know who wrote this API client, go look in git. There's folks who just don't bother to go search for these things themselves.

Close, travellers mostly.

Not very is the answer. When I worked in finance in the UK a few years back, the credit control team had a few ex-commercial bankers. Those guys had wild stories, the best ones were usually how much money they'd find being added to children's accounts for "birthday gift money". Usually with certain groups who have traditionally large families, the children would all have regular four and five figure cash lodgements.

If the selection function for senior leadership is tuned to a certain personality type, you're doomed to repeat your mistakes.

Amen, Amen... Preach brother!

All this rings true, from the complete org dysfunction, to the security theatre, all of it paints the hellscape of large enterprises in great detail.

My own personal struggles in this corner world resonate strongly here. I worked in a large energy company, with layers upon layers of incompetence and waste.

Including paying a consulting company a small fortune to build a data warehouse that was so locked down that they had to pay them more and regularly, to access the data it contained.

Security theatre where bozos would open your desk drawer if it was unlocked and confiscate your paper notes and books unless you crawled back to the apologizing.