I worked for 7 years in a place where my technical insight slowly turned into questioning my decisions and expertise (this was after being 3 years in tech lead and 2 years in staff engineer role). Sometimes the solution is just to walk away
I think when you are new with good ideas, you are judged against average. If you are above average, you are listened to.
As years pass, you are judged against the standard you set, and if you do not keep raising this standard, you start being seen as average, even if you are performing the same when you joined.
I've seen this play out many, many times.
When an incompetent person is hired, even if issues are acknowledged, if they somehow stay, the expectations from them will be set to their level. The feedback will stop as if you complain about same issues or same person's work every time, people will start seeing this as a you problem. Everyone quietly avoids this, so the person stays.
When a competent person is hired, it plays out the same. After 3/5/10 years, you are getting the same recognition and rewards as the incompetent person as long as you both maintain your competency.
However, I've seen (very few) people who consistently raised their own standards and improved their impact and they've climbed quickly.
I've seen people lowering their own standards and they were quickly flagged as under-performers, even if their reduced impact was still above average.
I agree with this summary to a degree. Additional problem arises when you simply cannot raise the standard as you lack political influence to do so. As it is said in the article - sometimes companies are comfortable with status quo, irregardless of the problems, whether they are technical or not. Another issue stems when product, rather than looking at tech as a partner in pursuit of common goal starts to see it as an underling.
While I can't say that I observe that kind of radical shift for myself, one of the reasons I still can see something similar is AI development.
Basically manager asks me something and asks AI something.
I'm not always using so-called "common wisdom". I might decide to use library of framework that AI won't suggest. I might use technology that AI considers too old.
For example I suggested to write small Windows helper program with C, because it needs access to WinAPI; I know C very well; and we need to support old Windows versions back to Vista at least, preferably back to Windows XP. However AI suggest using Rust, because Rust is, well, today's hotness. It doesn't really care that I know very little of Rust, it doesn't really care that I would need to jump through certain hoops to build Rust on old Windows (if it's ever possible).
So in the end I suggest to use something that I can build and I have confidence in. AI suggests something that most internet texts written by passionate developers talk about.
But manager probably have doubts in me, because I'm not world-level trillion-dollar-worth celebrity, I'm just some grumpy old developer, so he might question my expertise using AI.
You mention the tradeoffs between rust. Including the high level of uncertainty and increased lead time as you need to learn the language.
The manager, now having that information, can insist on using rust, and you get er great opportunity to learn rust. Now being totally off the hook, even if the project fails, as you mentioned the risks.
“Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown."
- Luke 4:24
It's why people often trust consultants over the people inside the organization. It's why people often want to elect new leaders even if the current leaders are doing a decent job.
The baby almost always gets thrown out with the bath water.
I find this hilarious given that I've experienced it from both viewpoints - 1. consultant implemented their half baked solution that continued to bite us for my tenure and imo was completely unmaintainable; how were they able to convince leadership about their ideas - sometimes it's just snake oil 2. In new place am preaching certain things to people that do listen and seem to want to do it - it makes me a bit uncomfortable and to a degree scary in how easily you can find acolytes. They do validate my suggestions, ask questions and most importantly - think, so I am hopeful that I won't turn out to be a false prophet
I've also played both roles myself at times. I've been the wise consultant. And I've been the Cassandra that nobody would listen to. My wisdom was never as good as presumed when I was the consultant. And my wisdom was far better than was assumed when I as the Cassandra.
The prevalent pattern I can see is making things mundane. Capabilities that you are enabling are no longer something that only you could do, was you expertise there at all? Things running smoothly is something that is granted. Doing your job well becomes unexceptional
It was a pretty good burger until 2013 when they changed the machine they used to cook the burgers. Now it's worse than McD's and that's saying something.
Wait that explains so much! Do you know more about the change?
I've been weirded out by the fact that their jr burger buns are now super shiny as if they are spraying something on them. I know this is processed food, but no burger bun should be able to reflect sunlight the way their burgers now do...
I'd be inclined to agree but typically egg wash alters the texture of the bread. You get a more darker and crunchy texture after baking. This bread is still soft and still quite light. The weird thing is the more expensive burger(Whopper) is still matte. You'd think if they were going to fancy up the bun it would be the Whopper bun right? Very strange.
I can't tell if it was franchise specific, but we have a Burger King near us in Clear Lake/Houston that is absolutely amazing. Fries are always crispy and well seasoned, the patties actually have grill marks and taste like they've been charred. The location hasn't been updated since before I moved away in 2015, and has been consistently good since 2010 or so when I first moved near it.
That said, every other Burger King around me, and near my house in Louisiana, and near all of the places I lived including NJ, NY, CT, VT have been awful. I never ate there BEFORE this 2013 change though, so I cannot comment on the quality in the before times. But my local, is amazing. Tastes like I remember it from the 90s.
The burgers are fine at the one accross the road from my job but the Burger King here has to most bland frys I dont think they salt them at all they are crispy but lack taste.
Something interesting I found while looking up Hungry Jacks (the Burger King franchise here in Australia) is that the angry Whopper is a normal menu item here but it seems to be only a seasonal/special item for Burker King.
I lived in Quito Ecuador back in the late 70s/ early 80s. There was a hamburger place called "Burger Queen"--the name was in English, presumably to attract people who knew about Burger King. They had a sign that read "Casa del Whooper" (not Whopper).
As an outsider I have a question - do you actually feel that protest after ICE killing an american citizen would be driven by somebody paying for it, instead of being a civic movement?
do you actually feel that protest after ICE killing an american citizen is driven by somebody paying foe it?
In my opinion there is almost always money involved. People need incentives to put their lives and their families lives at risk when they would otherwise not be involved living multiple states away and would otherwise not be impacted such as by ICE in this case. There will be exceptions but I suspect those are a minority that may involve mental health, loneliness, attention seeking, virtue-signalling, roped in by emotion triggering videos, etc... I suspect one motivation would be to radicalize people when their paid rioters are told to do things that could risk an agent using bad judgement and someone gets hurt.
We're talking about people who were cosplaying militias for years or decades before they got their "authorization" to pretend to be federal "law enforcement". Were they getting paid that whole time? I suppose it's not out of the question that foreign intelligence services have been funding these groups through one or two "benevolent" members, but overall they seem like quite the crowd of true believers.
Statistically, if you put enough stupid people into enough spaces with hateful rhetoric being taught consistently, make them immune to consequences, and reward them when they do things that push towards the civil war you want to have, then eventually either you will completely oppress your country or you will have a civil war.
Statistically, if you put enough stupid people into enough spaces with hateful rhetoric being taught consistently, make them immune to consequences, and reward them when they do things that push towards the civil war you want to have, then eventually either you will completely oppress your country or you will have a civil war.
I could not have said it better myself. I still think it would not become a national level civil war but Minnesota could get messy. Plenty of other states would never let things escalate to this level. All of this could have been avoided by having local law enforcement or worst case the national guard get things under control. Minnesota have conflicting incentives delegate counts driving their bad judgement in addition to their governor being in the hot seat at the moment requiring a distraction.
Or from a movie some of us have seen, someone will do something stupid [1].
I think you've misunderstood the situation (and the article). Having the national guard get things under control means pitting them against ICE and likely actually triggering a civil war.
The problem is not Minnesotans or paid protestors rioting, the problem is a hostile occupying force is actively targeting Minnesotans and Walz is trying to balance protecting his constituents with not escalating the situation.
I'm not sure what you mean by "Minnesota have conflicting incentives delegate counts driving their bad judgement" or why you think its bad judgement to protest the murder of a community member.
But I dont disagree that as tensions ratchet up eventually someone will do something stupid, and ICE will threaten enough people that it sets off a conflict between ICE and the local law enforcement/national guard.
Having the national guard get things under control means pitting them against ICE and likely actually triggering a civil war.
No, used correctly the police and national guard would round up the rioters. The governor is seeing it the other way around because he is in a lot of trouble with the federal government at the moment for unrelated issues. I never base things strictly on articles as the authors are often misinformed and wish to control narratives. The governor not only wants the riots he is actively promoting fights between his citizens and ICE.
Stop consuming whatever high-test nonsense you have been freebasing, go breathe some fresh air, and then read the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.
They might be too far gone. People that worship Trump and laugh with glee when ICE murders an American who is surrendering to them makes me think of 2nd Thessalonians 2, 9-12:
The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
> A degree used to be a class distinction, a signal that someone belonged to the affluent in-group.
While I understand and agree to a certain degree, (and as a person with degree) it still fills me with dread where I work with senior developers who don't have a clue what is complexity of their algorithms or lack basic problem solving skills that a degree would instill in them. People can absolutely learn on the job but degree would still give me an idea of what I can expect from given person.
As a side note, LLMs are an equalizer that makes degrees less relevant when near keyboard; still, I want to talk to people that understand the concepts they're operating with when afk
> The reverse of the string 'gssssyeekxxuoaqaaaiooo9aaa7zjx' is:
xjz7aaa9oooiiaaaqauxxkyeessssg
> Youve made a mistake
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I see where I tripped up! Let's re-examine that long string carefully.
The original string you gave me was:
`gssssyeekxxuoaqaaaiooo9aaa7zjx`
Let's look at the end of that string: `...aaa7zjx`.
When we reverse it, it should start with: `xjz7aaa...`
Here is the precise character-by-character reversal:
*xjz7aaa9oooiiaaaqauxxkyeessssg*
Wait—I see it now. In my previous response, I included an extra *'i'* and missed one *'o'* in the middle section. Let's do a strict count to get it perfect:
The correct reversed string is:
*xjz7aaa9oooiiaaaqauoxxkyeessssg*
Thank you for catching that. It’s easy for the eyes to glaze over when there are so many repeating vowels!
Since I've stumbled a bit on these, would you like to give me one more string to see if I can get it right on the first try?
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After more back and fors it consistently fails in this task, even though when strictly dividing the tokens it will get this right. Yet the final answer is always wrong.
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