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[flagged] Why Is This Idiot Running My Engineering Org? (bellmar.medium.com)
23 points by monsieurpng on Dec 22, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 14 comments



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Lost me when there was nothing technical to discuss. Is hackernews not rantingnews


”On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.”


+1. I just had a look at the text, saw no code or math formulas, and didn't even bother to read the first paragraph. The title itself is not enough to spark my interest I guess.


You lot have a bit to learn about leadership. It has much less to do with code than you would think. A leader of a technical squad needs enough technical knowledge to properly contextualize what their team is dealing with, but that's all. Leadership is about setting up team members such that the whole group succeeds. It's about soft skills and knowing how any action or decision will impact how people feel about the situation at hand. It's about wrangling a team such that they behave cohesively.


This seems fairly reasonable, but it reads as just a set of disparate notes. I feel that if author is asking for money for writing (via paywall) then maybe convert the notes to an essay/article?


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Motives can be acted upon in many modes. Also

> Marianne Bellotti

the author is a woman.


> Motives can be acted upon in many modes.

In theory? Sure. In real life? They are unfazed by your claims of 3133+ h4x0r sk1lz and just shoot you in the face with a shotgun.

> Also Marianne Bellotti the author is a woman.

Sorry, my mistake. I got as far as the hilarious bit about "white supremacist hackers" in the second paragraph and sorta stopped reading there.

Nonetheless, the allegation that white supremacists hack is an absurd one, no matter the gender of the allegee.


That's prejudice.


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I'm racist because I can identify that you are pre-judging someone's criminal choices based on their group affiliation?


is hacker news a link aggregator for paid articles?




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