We had a vote thrown out of an election several years ago, the woman died right after the election, the signature on the card looked nothing like hers and was probably done by her daughter.

That said all indications are voter fraud is not any kind of wide spread problem in the United States.

The loading dock was kept completely open "because it's hot and we don't have A/C back here!".

He started complaining to management that 50 CI/CD setups was his limit he could support.

He was absolutely amazed when I showed him he could combine endpoints into a larger logical service. 50 services became three, and it’s still three a few years later now.

I was going to highlight this as well, but it is also one of the trickiest parts of the equation, because by definition this inevitably involves a lot of politics and social implications.

What I have learned over the years: let the overall direction, and also the overall competitive pressures, filter down through your umbrella. But shield them from the details and your specific efforts here, unless it is relevant.

Maybe even more important, though - recognize inflection points in your company and your group. How you manage during routine times and during stressful times may well be very different. If they're not, then you have a serious problem.

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And yes, the bias is heavily to the left. I am very centrist in my views so a left or right leaning bias would be upsetting.

We live across the river from Bucks County PA in NJ, Bucks County journalism and the NJ equivalent are just shills.

Funny. Back in the 90s Microsoft just hired kind of random kids from college to write their OS in C.

These kinds of costs are baked into every level of the company. This is a place where they calculate it costs about $30,000 to add a period to the end of a sentence in a static website.

The author lost me right here.

Not because he’s wrong about this in general - he is not. But it seems to not be any kind of differentiator at Google. Maybe the opposite is true- make it as screwed up as physically possible, then make it a little worse, then release it - that seems a lot closer to the lesson Google engineers learn. As long as you are “first” and shipped it.

Then get promoted, move on and meanwhile your crap code eventually gets the axe a decade later.

This is bad too.

Except when it’s not I/O.

The sixties were over 50 years ago, I know as I am a child of the sixties :-)

Given how necessary driving is to living in nearly all of America, and that a with certificate is the primary point of ID to get one, there is a very strong motivation to get a birth certificate.

Python’s issue is that it is incredibly slow in use cases that surprise average developers. It is incredibly slow at very basic stuff, like calling a function or accessing a dictionary.

If Python didn’t have such an enormous number of popular C and C++ based libraries it would not be here. It was saved by Numpy etc etc.