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Your attitude seems pretty bad.

I don’t think that was the point I was making at all.

This seems exactly like a case where computer algorithms would function worse than humans. It is not surprising (to me) that those exist.

For instance, put a sign that flashes “Skydivers will land 100m in front of you in about 5s, break now” and human beings will have 100% success rate in avoiding it, and computers will not. (Or any other situation that relies on written communication that is not usually used on the road).

There’s plenty of situations where human ability will perform better than computer models (and vice versa).

The dummy in no way looks human in the context I’d expect a self driving system to have. Humans don’t have a way to move their legs back and forth that way while remaining stationary (unless on a treadmill I suppose).

You can infer that it is meant to represent a human, and thus likely to move across a crossing, but there’s no reason to expect a computer to read it as a human right?

The most obvious characteristic is distinctly not human (Legs don’t work that way), so it looks like some weird windmill, or one of those hot air moving men.

They have a great group of people. I’ve worked with maybe 6-7 of them directly, and they’re all on my list of people I’d actively want to work with again, across a pretty wide set of skills.

The ones I just know of are also people friends say are both great at their stuff and good to work with, so I have high hopes they’ll make some awesome stuff.

The tasks are not the hard part. Alignment is a lot easier when you’re all close. I went from a distributed team (4 offices spread between EU and US) to a team that’s all co-located. The speed and quality of alignment is miles different.

There’s stuff we outsource (easy to describe tasks), but the stuff that needs tight iteration loops is so much easier when you can just get up, walk a few meters, and talk about it.

The spyglass and the spider took 15 year old me like a month to figure out. Still think it’s one of the most enjoyable games I’ve played.

In Sweden, the government does the work for most normal cases. They send you a suggestion of “this is all we know about” and you just say “yeah, seems right” via SMS.

In Ireland you don’t do anything in the usual case, unless you think it’s wrong, everything is taxed at source by the employers/banks.

Both cases different if you’re a company ofc.

I too worked in France. I hated the long lunches, since it meant you left work at 6 or 7 in the evening. I’d rather be out the door at 5 (like I do now in the US) or 3-4 (like I did in some previous Swedish jobs) than spend the entire evening in the office.

The upgraded membership is 60usd more than the normal, gives you 2% back on purchases, and they will refund it to you if you ask, so not sure how you could lose 100 on that.

Advertising? “We have a big group of users, and being featured with us will cost you X and bring Y more sales”.

Price comparison sites is not a new thing?

Living now in the US I am confused why houses are so big and yards so small. Well, not confused, it makes financial sense for builders, but a bit sad.

I’d much rather have a smaller house but with a yard I can grow stuff in, or be outside in, than a 3000 Sqft house on a 8000sqft plot.

And there are a lot of regulators. Some of them a lot more combative than others. That is my main reason for dislike for the regulations.

Overall I support the regulations, but I really wish the penalties had more documented structure than “We will fine you anywhere from 0 to an 8 digit number (in our case) depending on what we think is right”.

The regulation is very ambiguous.

Try to understand what is even personal data from this:

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

It is all about risk, ambiguity and individual circumstances. I dont think that is bad, but there is no clear record of what it even is we are meant to protect.

At any kind of scale that is 100% not the case.

The orchestration of a data extract from even a midsized corporation is a significant endeavour.

Someone in the company knowing what data we have on an entity is a significant step away from the entire company being able to access that, because, you know, we take data privacy seriously, so we don’t make it easy to access all data on a single entity.

If your approach to privacy is putting all the eggs in a basket, allowing easy extraction of everything from that basket, and hoping the basket can be kept secure I’d argue your model is weird to begin with.

Yes. Emails are 100% PII. Even user names can be argued to be.

Or you were in university/connected to a university.

The Swedish qwctf scene at least was very clearly divided in 20ms people who went to or worked at, a university, and 150ms people who played from home.

There were some 50-60ms ISDN people too but I can only remember a few.

To me it was almost unwatchable. My eyes aren’t great, and excessive use of darkness / lack of contrast magnifies that. I have the same problem with some video games.

I think they are referring to Herzberg? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-factor_theory

Sounds like a different way to express that.

Until you live in an apartment complex that has eliminated keys. My place is all keyfobs (except for the mailbox).

I disagree on the best in class. Apples insistence on hard plastic means they give up the proven best choice for sound isolation (silicone or foam buds). Claiming it is a feature to save lives is a stretch.

There’s plenty of better sounding fully wireless headphones in that price range - Jabra elite 65t are meant to be good, I have the beoplay e8 and they are quite nice, Sennheiser momentum are in that same price class etc etc.

The argument of employers being these evil things that hold no loyalty is tiresome.

Loyalty is not a black and white thing.

I can list close to 15 years of small experiences that make me feel like my current employer truly cares. I’ve had very few negative experiences, and when I have had them I’ve said “hey that’s not cool”, and the company has fixed it as much as it could be fixed. The fact that I may be fired at some point does not invalidate that.

To me, loyalty between a company and an individual is not about the contract of work, it is about the environment that exists while you are working. Both I and the company have the option at any time to terminate the employment, that’s just part of the deal. That does not mean long term loyalty and expectations can’t exist.

For me at least, I would not use a throwaway.

The one thing we get asked to do for social media is always be clear that we have ties to the company but don’t speak for the company when commenting on things that could potentially be a conflict of interest. Both sides of that matter - I.e. I don’t want there to be any risk that someone doesn’t know I work at Blizzard when reading a comment (mostly because of native advertising rules) but I also don’t want them to think I speak for the company (mostly for fair disclosure rules).

I think that’s a reasonable request and I feel like using throwaways goes against that (and make it seem like there’s something to hide when really there is not).

When someone writes an article about how the other side is doing something wrong, without presenting any content of why your side is right other than vague hand-wavy stuff, that’s a red flag to me. “Bringing it into the 21st century...”

If the thing you’re supporting is good enough to stand on its own, then present why that is, don’t spend the time talking about how the other sides techniques are wrong.

It is legal to request, but you would/should never do so as part of interviewing.

You really don’t want to know the candidates age, marital status or citizenship as part of an interview process. Once you do, you’re open to discrimination lawsuits for your hiring practises. Avoid asking questions that reveals information about stuff that is protected from discrimination.

https://www.government.nl/topics/discrimination/prohibition-...

My French contract had 2 months notice and a non compete option for the employer, where they had the option to pay me 75% of the salary for 2 years to enforce the non compete. That kind of non competes I don’t mind.

Feature decomposition is an antipattern. This is not related to JIRA. Features are the result of integration of systems. Starting with features is insane. Design the system, then integrate parts of the system to create features. I don’t think prose is the answer, but it certainly sounds better than starting with features.

If you get the chance I’d recommend taking the architect/project design master classes by Jowal Lowy. If you can stand the delivery the message is extremely on point.

JIRA does not have those problems.

Portfolio allows for multiple layers on top of epics. Boards can be set up to pull from multiple projects, and boards are what are tied to sprints, projects are not tied to sprints (mostly, there’s some oddities).

Portfolio is implemented somewhat badly (Why the hell can’t I do skip level relationships?) but it certainly has the features you say you’re lacking.

For sure. Just saying that I think that is the argument.

Our team is about 70% guys who learnt from scratch on the job I think. We have very low turnover, and you don’t come to us if you’re chasing max compensation anyway, so we do not have those problems as much (we don’t pay bad, but you can certainly make more other places).

Prisoners dilemma.

New guys are expensive (especially in time), experienced guys are valuable.

If I spend a bunch of money/time on new guys I have less to spend on experienced guys compared to the company that just spends it on experienced guys. So, the companies that don’t train new can pay experienced more, thus getting the experienced guys.

The easy answer is change jobs. You don’t have to stay anywhere, and you presumably have one of the easiest skills to find work with today.

If you actually want mechanisms for being happy no matter what, start realising that none of the stuff you’re stating as issues actually matters, and you can work on accepting that. What does the walls have to do with your happiness? You control if you’re happy or not.

Stoicism-like ideas and reading can help (or at least do for me, minus the religious bits) with realising that external factors do not matter for your happiness. Happiness is 100% controlled by your mind. There are unhappy people who have all the things you say you lack and way more, and there are happy people who have none of them, and are in situations that are objectively way worse than yours, so the state of material things is not the defining factor for your happiness. The defining factor is you and how you choose to react to external things.

In big cities at least. I used cash once in the last three months I think (because the place we were shopping at looked a bit dodgy).