- Titles in of themselves are meaningless, I've seen a kid hired straight from uni into a "senior" position lol
- JIRA is a great example. I used to have automation when it was hosted on prem and I had database access.
Now it's locked into the cloud with piss poor APIs so they can sell you more add-ons. I'm actively looking at alternatives.
- Gabe is literally practising Noblesse Oblige, which is really funny but really shows that our billionare society is really just a reduction to old aristocracy. He's just the good Duke, whereas most Dukes are horrible, horrible people.
- Security is an optional feature? You must be a sales executive...
- It was, repeatedly. It's a very important historical document that defined negative rights (congress shall pass no law) and inspired most modern constitutions.
The problem is the US never bothered to address it's technical debt, so it's patch on patch on patch. An updated constitution would probably cut through a lot of the bullshit in American politics, e.g. the interstate commerce clause being the entire justification for the federal government lol.
- In parliamentary systems we see fractures and reformation all the time, including in the current political climate in the UK.
Duverger's Law is only really parroted by Americans, who's ballot access and districting is determined by a coalition of two political parties instead of an constitutionally defined apolitical government institution. Don't forget to vote Green or Libertarian! Oh wait, you can't because the dems and repubs struck them from the ballot :(
- Hilarious that redditors think calling a call center will do anything, they've clearly never worked at one. Call center employees are nothing to Visa/Mastercard executives. And those same executives are nothing to the billionaire pushing this, he's going straight through the board.
People at the bottom really don't know how power works.
- I've lost 100 lbs twice. You absolutely can outrun a bad diet lol.
It's just a LOT of exercise and counting all of your calories. A 1600 calorie bag of chips is 4 hours of cardio :)
- Fuck no. AI/LLM is a tool like any other and we need to keep on top of it.
If anything it needs less politics, I have other sites for that bs.
- Probably browsing without an adblocker. I do the same on my work laptop so that I don't have to factor that into troubleshooting front-end issues.
The non-ad-blocked web is fucking insane.
- Perception is reality. In my experience, if you're a "useful" employee to your management you are boxed into tactical. If you're "valued" then you are invited into strategic decision making.
It really doesn't matter how much strategic thinking you do if nobody cares.
- Lies. Fucking lies. We were a three environment shop until we moved to Exa and the compute/$ ratio is so bad that we had to cut it down to two.
But we're talking about Oracle here so that's par for the course.
- uhhh you should really look into how that works. The union playbook is to organize in secret because retaliation is in the HR playbook. All sorts of fun and completely (not)illegal retaliation like firing organizers.
- Lying about the true cost of software and taking credit for your employees work is the basis for consulting. Some might term these as Profit, and Reputation. But that's sales for you.
Situational Leadership gets into this. You want a really efficient McDonalds worker who follows the established procedure to make a Big Mac. You also want a really creative designer to build your Big Mac marketing campaign. Your job as a manager is figuring out which you need, and fitting the right person into the right job.