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Watch this https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090586/

The captain was on a break when the co-pilots became confused by faulty air-speed readings. They then mistakenly pointed the nose of the plane upwards when it stalled, instead of down.

Investigators concluded the co-pilots did not have the training to deal with the situation

Blame.

You allude to the difference between requirements and constraints. What you say is true, but also it's true that the Therac-25 was not designed to not output high power when an operator typed quickly.

This sounds to me like the tech version of QAnon.

Being a Staff Engineer vs just Senior gives you more leeway for negotiation with prospective employers.

"Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" by Susan Cain. This book made me think about my own thinking and social behavior patterns.

In the article, it mentions "In any case, the majority of people are on a spectrum of introversion to extroversion.".

C'mon, don't you guys be so nitpicky... The comment above was made in the context of financial places, and is clearly referring to the "City" of London, as they call the financial hub, not the "City of London" as a whole.

Yes, way better and using a humble tone, e.g. "Introverts are not smarter than extroverts. According to IQ scores, the two types are equally intelligent. And on many kinds of tasks, particularly those performed under time or social pressure or involving multitasking, extroverts do better."

If you knew what the problem was before the outage happened, and didn't consciously put the effort to prevent it, then oh well, that's professional negligence. Maybe not on you because you may not have the decision power to apply large-scale changes, but definitely somebody within the company. And if you didn't know what caused the outage, and you conducted some type of investigation to get at the heart of the problem, then you need a postmortem.

That's one of the main goals of a postmortem: document what the cause of the problem was, not just for you, but for all interested parties. If some human caused the issue, you need to document what happened and what should be done to prevent it from re-occurring. And fix it, of course.

Good postmortems should be created for human-induced errors or top-down decision to cut costs. Especially for those.

Same here but s/used book store/amazon/.

Blindsight (Watts)

Between the World and Me (Coates)

Economics in One Lesson (Hazlitt)

Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know---and What to Do About Them (Shapiro)

Los últimos españoles de Mauthausen (Hernández de Miguel)

Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit (Takada)

The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm (Dartnell)

Historia mínima de España (Fusi)

Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders (Marquet)

What I Learned Losing A Million Dollars (Moynihan)

Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems (Google)

Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum (Francis)

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces (Arpaci-Dusseau)

"Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders". I am reading it now, very entertaining and you'll learn thing about management styles.

And Cornell Tech campus in NYC starts running business in 2017.

In Madrid? Prfff, you were lucky, my friend. I lived there for 4 years and I see them as the Mafia on wheels.

I guess not tipping enough is linked to its previous point around rudeness. This happens to me in the city. They are usually rude, and when I tip them %10 or less, their rudeness becomes even more apparent. Meh.

Do you believe in earnest that those $25,000 are destined to feed Zimbabwean people?

Thinking in Systems: A Primer

http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Primer-Meadows-Donell...

I would like to understand why he's got an account on Twitter. Yes, he uses to proxy his credentials to other sites, but I see the other reasons for not having an account on other sites also applying in the case of Twitter.

i'm so very sorry stating an obvious observable fact hurt your fragile moral sensibilities.

Why the patronizing? Asking why you don't prefer the bus when you deem it the best in the world was actually a great question. Using your personal car also makes you move at the same speed as traffic (duh) and obviously it costs you more than a dollar.

Are we obviating that Sony is a Japanese company?

I wondered what Scheme dialect was F4. Epic!

Totally agree. Another blog in the lines of Good Math & Bad Math or Betterexplained would be awesome.

The good news is that SICP is an illuminating experience, the bad news are it took me 1 year to go through it, doing all the exercises along the way.

Math + Haskell = http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jve/HR/

http://www.anatomy-class.org http://www.greenbuilding-class.org https://6002x.mitx.mit.edu

There is no need to be rude, mst. If people don't consider such submissions interesting, they simply won't vote them up.

Personally, I am not a fan of these lookma-my-interpreter-in-zero-lines stuff. Take a look at http://norvig.com/lispy.html. Bigger, but well engineered.

Related to this, what are good book authoring tools? Or at least the ones you use for writing stuff that can be exported to pdf, html or printed out. I'm talking things in the line of Tex, Docbook, etc.