I've had managers who not only don't code, but never coded. I'd settle for one that had substantial engineering experience in the past.
Readit NewsBuldak commented on Should managers still code? theengineeringmanager.sub... · Posted by u/blah2244
Buldak commented on Schools reviving shop class wsj.com/us-news/education... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
They should also revive or create classes that teach other important, basic, life skills - budgeting, banking, getting a loan, investing, hiring a contractor, buying appliances, tiling, roofing, drywalling, etc, etc.
We called that "Home Ec" (as in "Home Economics") when I was a kid. (I'm an elder millennial.) To be honest, I didn't find it particularly useful, and I think many of the calls for "practical" classes in primary or secondary education miss the mark.
Buldak commented on “The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study” jmspae.se/write-ups/kebab... · Posted by u/TeMPOraL
Easy fix: just add a ? to the end.
"study" is already in scare quotes
Buldak commented on Ask HN: How do you work with people who are "not quite smart"? · Posted by u/charles_f
I don't really have an answer, but I've thought about this problem too. It can be uncomfortable to fire people for things that aren't transgressions (such as laziness, irresponsibility, rudeness). Some people don't do anything flagrantly wrong, they just don't have the level of ability required for their job despite otherwise exhibiting qualities of a good employee. I'm sure many HackerNews readers work at companies that are serious enough about performance that it seems obvious to simply fire under-performers as such. But in my experience, the average company is much more forgiving than this.
Buldak commented on Wasted Education: How We Fail Our Graduates in STEM [video] youtube.com/watch?v=ZTWaS... · Posted by u/amichail
Bad advice. Most people are not deciding between coding and some other great job that they’re passionate about. I’m not passionate about coding at all and never have been but I can’t imagine anything better. Pay and work life balance are way too good
I agree with the other guy in this thread. Loving your job is a luxury that most people can’t afford
Yeah, I think it's a form of self-flattery or gatekeeping for programmers to say that you need passion or drive to have a career in tech--outside of the upper echelons, you clearly don't. In this respect it's a mundane occupation like most others, and I wouldn't expect coders to be any more passionate about their work than nurses or plumbers or accountants.
It’s funny how when it comes to housing, better way is always to do something that won’t have a meaningful impact on most people for many years or even decades.
A lot of things are like that (e.g. nuclear energy).
Buldak commented on Housing should be affordable except for when I sell my house for $1M mcsweeneys.net/articles/h... · Posted by u/baron816
These people believe that they aren't NIMBYs, despite literally premising their opposition on the fact that it's being built in their back yards.
What you describe reminds me of arguments about whether "TERF" is a slur (and therefore objectionable) or just a straightforward description a specific political stance.
Generally I feel like I'm pretty good at understanding concepts.
But after reading this Wikipedia page and then Googling it and then reading MollyRealized's ChatGPT explanation in a sibling comment...
...I have utterly no idea what the heck this is supposed to be.
If this is about using nonsense to explain something in philosophy, that seems awfully silly.
If this is about how e.g. high school students need simplified versions of how an electron works (a point) before college students learn the reality (a cloud), then it seems banal.
If this is about achieving mystical realizations along the lines of zen koans, then OK but what has that got to do with Wittgenstein? And it seems like a Wikipedia article ought to mention this.
So I'm baffled. I think I need a ladder to help me understand this ladder? And understand why this was submitted to HN in the first place?
Wittgenstein tries to explain how language works, how it represents the world. One consequence of his theory is that language cannot represent that relationship itself. (At one point, he compares this limitation to the way that an eye necessarily can't see itself.) Well, if you believe that, what's the point of writing the Tractatus? So the ladder metaphor is supposed to suggest that contemplating the Tractatus might lead the reader to grasp the nature of language, even as they ultimately realize that a book can't really depict that straightforwardly.
One source which I've found very accessible on this topic is Bryan Magee's interviews of John Searle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrmPq8pzG9Q&list=PLB72977AF4...
Buldak commented on “I would like to apologize to Halli” twitter.com/elonmusk/stat... · Posted by u/minimaxir
c'mon, dude. his hair is an icon of classical music in itself
I'm a little surprised at people here who claim to be classical music aficionados and yet haven't heard of him. I would have guessed it's hard to know enough to be able to name more than two or three classical violinists and not know who Bell is.
But I think that's beside the point, because I don't think the premise is that people "should" have recognized Bell as a celebrity. The naive hope is rather that people can recognize great art when they encounter it.