Why would you help the police state?

Decent summary here:

http://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Sinfest

Tldr, he took the soul out of the comic and the characters to push an agenda, and devoted cycles to mocking his fans instead of keeping up the wholesome stuff.

This is like the one case where that isn't an exaggeration.

That "overhead" is essential to keeping a team running.

Hiring means the right people get brought in and the talent pool grows and a positive culture (say, blameless post-mortems, learning and sharing, etc.) forms.

Firing means that people aren't getting booted on a whim and that when they are getting booted it's done quickly and efficiently.

Performance reviews help guarantee good pay or good feedback for the people on the team, and are what helps keep them from leaving.

Meetings are the way that you advocate for your team and where you can meatshield to keep the howling vortex of crazy that is business for making their life harder.

It's all "overhead", but that "overhead" is very important to the quality of life.

I really liked this answer. Thank you.

This is exactly how I've seen it - but I suppose the book was just very pessimistic.

People always like to point out the management-free organization that is Valve...but I think a lot of my anxiety around my servant leadership aspirations is that most of my friends are developers that are trying to convince me that I'd be more valuable as a coder...

...but as I've acted as an advocate for my team as a team lead, I've gotten a lot of good feedback. Everyone else seems to think I'm a good manager (at the team lead level) so I'm probably just stressing about a potential career change :)

Thanks!

I'm shadowbanned right now, so I doubt anybody will read this, but I worked in EHR/health IT for a couple of years.

"replacement users might love?"

Users loving these systems is completely immaterial. The key to these systems is that they:

a) integrate with the massively nutzo installations of health infrastructure devices

b) provide flexibility to capture really arbitrary workflows and business logic

c) provide compliance and auditing to ensure that billing and security for patient data is handled correctly

d) most importantly, come from a company that is Too Big to Fail and which can be payed gigantic sums to offers absurd SLAs and to take on the liability of killing people using their software.

That's before you even touch on the "boring" issues of multi-year sales cycles, truly byzantine and absurd legal requirements (because the only thing hospital legal teams want to do is tell you no), FDA certification for certain types of systems (itself a very tricky and expensive process), and all sorts of other bullshit.

Epic is not something you just "replace".

You'll see extra discrete instances of your finger, as though lit by a strobe light.

This is how we used to be able to measure speed of spinning objects too. :)

Since you've continued to post personally nasty and otherwise uncivil and unsubstantive comments, and ignored the many requests we've made to you to stop, we've banned this account.

Since i saw your banning and was watching that since it seemed a little rediculous with your karma, I'm curious, did you do anything as your newest comment is now not dead?

Yeah, I show dead so I saw and I'm replying to my own comment since I cannot to yours. That sucks.

Maybe try emailing them with an apology since you have 15000 karma.

Sorry, that sucks

What an incredibly sad way of living and defining friendship.

Well, it works for me. Keep your snap judgements to yourself.

Domain squatters are scum. You're scum. Congrats.

This attitude puzzles me a little, especially on Hacker News where there is a good-sized contingent of libertarian free-market types. Domains are an asset with value. What's wrong with buying them and then selling them for as much as you can. How does it differ from the sale of any other item or piece of information with value?

Domain names are an artificial monopoly that does not work, unless we all agree to play fair.

Otherwise, Oracle could have bought every common word domain at the birth of the internet.

Well put.

The problem is that speculators are not adding value to the market, they're subtracting from it. They've become parasitic actors.

Honest question, why should I worry about adding value to a market which I'm not actively pursuing?

I'm a developer and buy domains on whims of various service/fun ideas. I've been interested in domains since early highschool and collecting them is a hobby of mine which has happened to earn me some money from people reaching out to me.

You shouldn't worry about it, the market should be regulated towards efficiency, then speculation wouldn't be a problem.

What did you expect?

You didn't post about the cool sites you built. You didn't show off your code. You didn't add value.

You posted bragging about "Hey, what if I 'collect' more domains? How much money would that be worth?"

You're not displaying something that most would consider "hacking".

I mean, I suppose you're not wrong.

How old are you? Are you supporting a family? Where do you live?

What's the amount of your salary? What's the value of your equity compensation? How much time do you get off?

(your benefits may not be as good as you think)

34, yes, jointly supporting a family, DC, salary you can look up. I am staff frontend dev technically, unlimited time off. Can't speak to the value of my equity compensation.