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What Is a Good Manager?

I have been asking this question to myself, and from my past experience all of the managers/leadership I have worked with have a survival mode. They basically do things that protect themselves from getting replaced, or make themselves to be a control point of the team. Why is that?My current manager does these things that irks me a lot -1. Every 1:1 starts with a small negative thing about you,...

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What is with this 'help me, but not like this' attitude?

Of all taxes paid, where will the government allocated funds go? Its not like the government is running out of money to not fund this.

Re:Cook whole grains like popcorn on Monday December 19, 2022 @02:18PM (#34056324)
The best way to eat whole grains is to roast them (like popcorn), along with some dry fruits ground them into grainy flour.

You can try multiple combinations, (rice, wheat, millet, corn, lentils, with cashew/pistachio/wallnuts)

Use that flour with milk/sugar or with literally with anything and you have your fancy breakfast!

Re:Uber Sinks to New Record Low as IPO Share Lockup Expires on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @11:30AM (#21464140)
I was hired at Uber with the promise of 49$ a share, and boosting that it will go up to 75 by the time of IPO. Naive me at the time didn’t research more on it, but these were just some numbers thrown at me in 2015. I will never trust a recruiter offering me snake oil again. That said, I left after a year and a day, and this price makes my compensation close to less than new industry hire.
This was a DOA when I first read it. S3 or AWS wouldn't break a single customer before changing anything.
Re:Snowboarding for Geeks on Friday December 14, 2018 @02:00PM (#18683525)
It hurts. True! The day one of snowboarding is knowing exactly how much it hurts to fall. The next day is all about learning how to not fall. As you learn how to not fall, the day 3 begins with how to move your weight and balance your center of gravity and so forth. The trick to learning snowboarding is knowing how to avoid the hurt;)
Re:Gmail eventual consistency on Friday November 10, 2017 @07:04PM (#15674155)
4. create new email -> primary to secondary email -> delete some existing email.. success! (my secondary email actually received from primary)

5. retry: create new email -> primary to secondary email. Fail!

Gmail eventual consistency

I created a new secondary account for some reason, and tried to send ping-pong emails from both accounts.1. secondary to primary works!2. replying to secondary's mail from primary works!3. create new email -> primary to secondary fails spectacularly with following error.Address not found Your message wasn't delivered to <email address> because the address couldn't be found. Check for...

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Crappy experience from American Airlines

The american airlines have really screwed up this time. I have never experienced such a terrible service from any other airline in the world.I was flying from Zurich to Seattle via JFK where I had 6 hour layover, which is enough for any sane person for boarding the connection. Then many things happened-1- The flight was delayed by 5 hours in Zurich due to some technical difficulty. When I asked...

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