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jimrhods23 commented on Tech companies have seen worker protests, but they are still far from democratic   bostonreview.net/class-in... · Posted by u/huihuiilly
jimrhods23 · 6 years ago
"including Facebook’s sharing of data with the dark arts firm Cambridge Analytica—and ever-growing worries about the tech giants’ monopoly powers."

We only care about this because it helped Trump win the election. Ask yourself this: If this helped Hillary win, would you care? I'm guessing we wouldn't even be hearing about it now and anyone that mentioned it would be laughed at/silenced.

Our privacy always matters, regardless of the politics of the day. When a Democrat becomes president, these discussions will most likely go away.

Zuckerberg certainly doesn't care about your privacy. He only wants to please the masses so he can go back to ruling the world.

"There is also a third option, which would be just as momentous: workplace democracy. By which I mean, we should ensure that tech workplaces are governed in accord with basic democratic norms and ideals"

Why do tech workers need to have a union? They are paid more than most jobs in the world and can pick/choose where they work.

Unions will only limit the good employee's pay and allow the lazy/mediocre to take over. Not to mention making it impossible for a small company to survive, because of the regulations that are involved with unionization.

It's great for changing the landscape to mostly large companies and the government..which is what happens in Countries like Sweden and Norway...but terrible for people that want to start their own company.

jimrhods23 commented on How Old Are Successful Tech Entrepreneurs? (2018)   insight.kellogg.northwest... · Posted by u/spking
AchieveLife · 6 years ago
> What may sound like oppression many times is a desire to not go down a path to failure that I can see from a mile away, but someone with less experience may not even understand.

There's a cultural difference here. In a culture of collaboration that experience is simulated for the group to grow mutually. In the hierarchical culture it's the objective reasoning that is the focal point. The difference is motivation of growth vs money.

> I feel like if you don't run into someone who fits this motive, you won't even listen to what they have to say because you feel like you are being oppressed.

I never said I won't listen. I value people who focus on collaboration because I can trust they have a stake in our mutual growth. This is not a feeling rather a thought.

> You can thank companies that fire the people with experience and hire the youthful and cheap for this.

No, I credit the people who create the bias around them in everyday interactions. Bottom line is that present day moments are not made up of stereotypes. People are responsible for their behaviors and attitudes.

jimrhods23 · 6 years ago
"There's a cultural difference here. In a culture of collaboration that experience is simulated for the group to grow mutually."

So, to 'grow mutually', we need to use ideas that never work or will take the project down a path of failure? This does not foster growth or success.

I want the best ideas to win, if it's mine or from an inexperienced colleague.

"The difference is motivation of growth vs money."

You can try bad ideas on your own time If you are working on a project and being paid for it, I don't really know how it doesn't have some motivation for money.

"I never said I won't listen. I value people who focus on collaboration because I can trust they have a stake in our mutual growth. This is not a feeling rather a thought."

Teaching you the proper way is focusing on mutual growth, so you will be successful in future projects that might involve the same problem.

"No, I credit the people who create the bias around them in everyday interactions. Bottom line is that present day moments are not made up of stereotypes. People are responsible for their behaviors and attitudes."

So you don't want to be told what to do and you have no problem with a company ushering out more experienced developers and replacing them with ones that are cheaper and younger.

While people are responsible for their behaviors and attitudes, I can't imagine if you were in the same situation you wouldn't be resentful. This is because you are young. In 15-20 years, I think your attitude and outlook on life will be much different.

jimrhods23 commented on Voice Pitch Predicts Labor Market Success Among Male CEOs (2012) [pdf]   scprod2-lb.mccombs.utexas... · Posted by u/mpweiher
door5 · 6 years ago
It isn't, there is an enormous body of evidence demonstrating that the gender pay gap is driven by overt sexism and institutional barriers. This evidence is far more compelling than speculation about height.
jimrhods23 · 6 years ago
There is also evidence that the gender pay gap is due to other circumstances:

-women not negotiating what they are actually worth in terms of pay -women taking less risks and less demanding jobs after having children.

jimrhods23 commented on How Old Are Successful Tech Entrepreneurs? (2018)   insight.kellogg.northwest... · Posted by u/spking
AchieveLife · 6 years ago
This hasn't been my experience at all as a young person. Really the old/young paradigm is a shallow mask of personality traits and their relative development.

As a young person I've encountered older individuals with the motive to

- Shape me into their image (duplicating the ego)

- Threatened by my existence (ego in survival mode)

- Oppress my voice and project what they think I should be (super-ego acting like a child)

- Attempt to take advantage of my 'youthful ignorance' (ego with neutral/evil alignment)

- Interact with me like an individual and genuinely place interest in the mutual growth (self)

I highly value people I run across who fit that last motive.

jimrhods23 · 6 years ago
"Oppress my voice and project what they think I should be (super-ego acting like a child)"

I'm in my 40s and am managing a team of developers in their 20s. What may sound like oppression many times is a desire to not go down a path to failure that I can see from a mile away, but someone with less experience may not even understand.

My way isn't always correct either. If you can back something up with great supporting evidence, you win. I find that many people now don't feel they need to back anything up with evidence and any sort of criticism is seen as oppression.

"Interact with me like an individual and genuinely place interest in the mutual growth"

I feel like if you don't run into someone who fits this motive, you won't even listen to what they have to say because you feel like you are being oppressed.

"Threatened by my existence (ego in survival mode)"

You can thank companies that fire the people with experience and hire the youthful and cheap for this.

jimrhods23 commented on Surviving Your First Junior Developer Job [Guide]   univjobs.ca/blog/develope... · Posted by u/stemmlerjs
jimrhods23 · 6 years ago
Don't accidentally delete the entire table because you left off a WHERE clause.
jimrhods23 commented on A software developer is using neural networks to imagine a car-free world   theverge.com/2019/5/7/185... · Posted by u/denzil_correa
jimrhods23 · 6 years ago
This is so simplistic. Yeah, it might be better if we had less cars on the road, but the US is very large and not that easy to traverse without cars.
jimrhods23 commented on Ask HN: If everyone can learn programming for free, why is the salary high?    · Posted by u/kwikiel
jimrhods23 · 6 years ago
Anyone can slap down some code and get something to marginally work from a tutorial they read online.

The skill (and subsequent value) comes in when priorities change, things need to be refactored, and you need an experienced developer to come up with a solution that works well.

jimrhods23 commented on Our database host messed up their maintenance   mobile.twitter.com/mxstbr... · Posted by u/yagodragon
jimrhods23 · 6 years ago
"When you do your post-mortem, focus on actionable outcomes rather than placing blame. Because ultimately anyone can screw up at any time."

I disagree with this. You need to place some sort of blame and focus on actionable outcomes.

Anyone can make this mistake, but with important data, there are some people that really shouldn't be handling it and they need to know why, which is where the blame comes in. This is the only way to resolve the issue.

jimrhods23 commented on Dear Client, Here’s Why That Change Took So Long   simplethread.com/dear-cli... · Posted by u/jetheredge
dfjhdkjfhsdkf · 6 years ago
I agree with your comment about senior devs. it seems as devs climb the ladder many get a superiority complex where they could do things quickly and others cannot.

I was once a tech lead of a team where the architect had been berating and criticizing a team member for weeks over something he thought should take a day.

I suggested he should take over and complete it. It took him weeks to complete.

jimrhods23 · 6 years ago
"I was once a tech lead of a team where the architect had been berating and criticizing a team member for weeks over something he thought should take a day"

As I've gotten more experience as a developer, I've realized that most tasks take longer than I used to estimate..usually because I want to come up with a long-term solution and not just hack something together with no testing.

jimrhods23 commented on South Korea's booming 'webtoons'   japantimes.co.jp/news/201... · Posted by u/oska
cblades · 6 years ago
>There is value in scarcity

I'd argue that for easily digitized works, there's no such thing as scarcity.

Certainly publishers have the right to sue and limit legal distribution, but it does seem at least naive for them to believe they can control illegal distribution. Perhaps that's not the rationale; maybe it's a purely principled stance.

Nevertheless, their work will be spread digitally, and it seems like cutting off your nose to spite your face to not have some legal form of distribution that the publisher can make money from.

jimrhods23 · 6 years ago
"I'd argue that for easily digitized works, there's no such thing as scarcity."

Since AI can't create great pieces of art or digital works in a short amount of time, there still is scarcity.

u/jimrhods23

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