Readit Newsreledi commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2023) · Posted by u/whoishiring
reledi commented on Backend of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10 twitter.com/llanga/status... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
reledi commented on Apple: Whistleblower about Working Conditions twitter.com/ashleygjovik/... · Posted by u/dalf
I’m surprised to see that Ashley has a Wikipedia page. I would not have thought the allegations to be notable enough. But Wikipedia editors seem to disagree in an Article for Deletion [1], citing that there are high-quality sources. News outlets will easily pick up a story about taking on Apple - or anything anti-tech for that matter - and Ashley herself has been very active about it for years. She runs a consulting firm in her name that seems to focus on megacorporation reform but also advertises herself for leadership consulting. The LLC also runs several websites related to the Apple saga: gjovik.co, ashleygjovik.com, whatsintheair.org, justiceatapple.org, iwhistleblower.org
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...
reledi commented on Things I’ve learned in my years as a software engineer (2021) simplethread.com/20-thing... · Posted by u/excsn
Love the list just a shame to see the 10x myth. 10xers really do exist but it's hard to think about when framing it simply as 10x programmers.
These are people who see two levels of hierarchy requesting something for months and then builds a prototype over the weekend that solves 80% of the problem. Who sees two teams arguing for days back and forth and gets them together to make a decision with them and moves on. Who sees the hours wasted every day on bad tooling and bloat and makes the bold decision to cull and simplify. Who sees a product team losing a quarter building the wrong thing and is not afraid to shut it down with the boss. They know how to hire A players and raise the bar. They know when to hire. They know when to let people go.
They are not 10xers relative to 0.1xers, these are everyday 1xer situations.
They consistently have multiple magnitudes of impact. That's not easy. For most of us that happens a lot less.
Alternatively, if you’re not fit for work, then don’t be at work?
I mean, at what point is it over the line to be useless at a job you’ve agreed to do, and that you demonstrated competence for and interviewed for?
Many times I’ve said things like “just restart the cronjob for this” or “just tag this issue to so-and-so if you can’t get it, they wrote the original” etc.
I’m all for taking care of yourself, but if you can’t handle the literal word “just” then maybe there’s bigger issues riding on your shoulders than my vocabulary.
These types of article are alienating to me, a bit. I’ve lead teams in government sector contracts, private mil, *-int, and many different analytical capacities and I’ve never heard someone criticize me for saying “just restart rstudio” or “just put a cache in and tag the issue to me for later”.
Truly bizarre. I don’t think the youth are this soft. The young folks I work with, granted are graduate age and older for the most part, are often very cordial and respectful and slick. Occasionally I see some hangovers, some sick calls, some romance drama, the usual bullshit, but never anything as microscopic as this.
There are situations where it comes off condescending, and minimises the listener.
But I will say that I sometimes appreciate hearing it when I'm overcomplicating things. It reminds me to keep it simple.
reledi commented on Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username emails receive no spam · Posted by u/sbf501
> A few vendors got upset that I had their name in the address
A few years ago I created an account with a freemium publisher with the email address their.domain@my.domain and as soon as I logged into my account I had full unlimited access to all content.
I suspect their system had a routine that detected staff accounts based on a string search for their domain.
I've seen this bug in prod while consulting. Bad regex.
> too high maintenance to be a store of value like gold
Really? because the price/value flutuates too much? How is storing 1B dollars in gold lower maintenance than storing 1B dollars in BTC or other high-liquidity crypto?
Harvesting and storage of a naturally occurring element is lower maintenance in theory. It is easily stored a thousand years ago and a thousand years from now, even if some global catastrophic event occurred that renders modern technology useless.
reledi commented on Yandex CEO resigns after being targeted by EU sanctions reuters.com/technology/ya... · Posted by u/thm
if you don't mind, why should ceo be sanctioned for this? is there a chance for him to do the opposite? it's basically punishment for being a ceo of a russian company.
google does pretty much the same as yandex and baidu. and it was going to do the same trying to go to china.
what eu does can't stop yandex from doing that, so it boils down to just alienating. not for eu's good. the war will end and eu will depend on US even more.
You misunderstand. He's not being sanctioned because he's CEO.
reledi commented on So I took a corporation to arbitration shuchow.com/so-i-took-a-h... · Posted by u/snapetom
Is there a term for these denial of service tactics that many organisations employ?
E.g. not having the authority, being the wrong person and sending you in another direction, putting the onus on you to move things forward, not responding to emails and calls, ignoring questions and selectively answering, not making contact details or policies available, and so on.
reledi commented on My students cheated... a lot crumplab.com/articles/blo... · Posted by u/benjyhirsch
This professor seems very pleased with himself but I think he handled this in the worst way possible.
He should have said on the WhatsApp group, right at the beginning, "I am your professor,and I monitor this gc. You can use the gc to discuss the class and ethically help each other, but if you engage in exam and quiz cheating on here I will see it, and I will fail you. If you open or join a new secret gc to circumvent this, I will find it and I will fail you. Do the work.".
If they cheated after that, immediate ban. Cut them from the course. Stop wasting everyone's time.
Instead he got off on spying on them for months, buffing his ego with how good he was at using tools to measure the cheating, had to actually change the course and the final because he was letting the level of cheating get out of hand.
He's like a boss who gives you zero verbal feedback all year, maybe only positive feedback, then sticks you with a bad annual review, listing behavior that would have been easily corrected had it been mentioned.
Yes everybody knows they are not supposed to cheat, but he let cheating become the way things worked "in practice" for his class, and then punished them after wasting a lot of their time and money.
They would continue to cheat but more discretely. It's a cat and mouse game. For example, they can easily start a new gc and invite everyone but the instructor via DMs. Or invite everyone but add a verification phase. They love a challenge when it comes to outsmarting the system.