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Not the parent, but it's half joke half truth. Anyone who's done a lot of "first principles" work falls into this trap a bit, it's an issue across stem fields. Most grow out of it, or at least learn to qualify their statements for the audience.
Wait, are you talking about llms or people?
I use vi because I'm not a savage
As an old hand that's managed many people, I can tell you this is true.
As a tech manager with twenty years experience, I can assure you, in fact, engineers are people. And they interact with those MBAs, project managers, etc. The really good product/project people understand this as well, and make a point of doing their very best to be effective when interacting with the engineering team. They know how expensive we are, and try to bring our our best.

To the point of this article, the best product people were in fact respected by the tech team, and it made all the difference.

Re:Enhancing the Factorio experience with SAT solvers on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @08:45AM (#39369660)
Dude, that is sick.
Re:Culture Change at Google on Friday January 19, 2024 @07:27AM (#39054647)
As a father to both biological and adopted children, I couldn't agree more. I'm Dad to all of them.
Re:Unciv on Sunday November 26, 2023 @08:44PM (#38427157)
The strength of unciv is how close it comes to civ 5, and for that I loved it.
I had a zip disk for all my work in college. It's completely impractical for anything these days, but it was so much fun. Having 100mb in your bag in the era of floppies made you feel like a king.
Re:Inflation Bites U.S. Engineering Salaries on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @07:41PM (#37683084)
What makes you think the residuals would fare better than the options? The risk is about the same, yes?
Re:Factorio: Space Age on Friday August 25, 2023 @08:17PM (#37268634)
Not quite. It's simply an argument that the money will end up back in healthcare, just maybe further down the line, and maybe that's okay. Just remember that as everything else gets cheaper, the percentage that is spent on healthcare must increase.
Would it, or would it simply delay the bill? Every one of us must pay the final price at some point.
A data point - the capital one AWS breach ended up costing $270M[1]. While they weren't destroyed, it wasn't cheap either.

1. https://techmonitor.ai/technology/cybersecurity/capital-one-...

Re:“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful on Thursday May 11, 2023 @04:09PM (#35907733)
Smells like breakfast
That's a nice tractor you've got there. It'd be a shame if something happened to it.

Can I interest you in some protection... Err, 3 year service plan?

Re:Make JDK source code UTF-8 on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @08:40PM (#34977659)
I once wrote a math library with using the letters delta and epsilon. It was cute, but I had to copy/paste every time. Never, ever again.
Re:We Need Programming Mentors on Saturday February 11, 2023 @08:54AM (#34752298)
What do you recommend instead?
Re:Htmx on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @04:49PM (#33991089)
You need to start merchandising. Complexity very, very, bad.
Re:Htmx on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @02:32PM (#33988869)
GRUG? Is that you?
Re:Ask HN: Have you experienced “hiring fraud?” on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @08:32PM (#33002939)
Dude, no. The sheet number of times I've seen candidates point blank lie to my face in a zoom is to high. Spend some time at the manager's side of the table in the interview process and you'll see this immediately. This is a major problem.
Re:Robinhood lays off 23% of staff on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @12:42AM (#32327739)
Careful, you might turn into a Boggle-head if you follow that logic too far...
Productivity 3 modules anyone?
Anecdote not data

Some of the grocery shops near me are known union shops. The prices are in fact higher than the non union shops.

Re:Cat S22 Flip Phone on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @12:22PM (#31494092)
Right, but experience has taught me that construction equipment has nothing on my toddler...
If you seriously need legal advice talk to an attorney, not HN.
Re:Ask HN: Best Engineering Blog Posts? on Saturday January 01, 2022 @11:02AM (#29759617)
Gotta give patio11 some love here...

https://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/

Honest question here, slightly of topic. How do you handle indexing a compressed column? Or is this considered an anti-pattern?
Re:This word does not exist on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @07:05PM (#29007517)
So I just had a hit on a real word (pejorative), not sure if that's the plan or not

https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/oLvV

Re:Factorio's Belt Bug on Saturday October 02, 2021 @10:09AM (#28728675)
Here comes 1.1.42. I'd expect it cob Monday, even Wube would get the weekend

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