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Unintuitive Things I’ve Learned about Management — The Year of the Looking Glass

I first started managing people seven years ago, three years after I graduated and got my first design job. At the time,…

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Hasnain says:

This is a great read

"Unfortunately at many places, you’re roadblocked in advancing your career unless you become a manager. This sadly incentivizes the wrong outcomes, in which people who don’t love dealing with people become bad managers, and both they and their team suffers. "

Posted on 2016-04-03T16:56:48+0000

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AP Style alert: Don’t capitalize internet and web anymore

Associated Press editors announced a new stylebook change Saturday ahead of a session at the annual American Copy Editors Society’s conference — the 2016 stylebook will lowercase the words &#…

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We Are Morons: a quick look at the Win2k source || kuro5hin.org

The timestamps on the files generally say 25 July 2000. The source is contained in a Zip file of size 213,748,207 bytes, named windows_2000_source_code.zip, which has been widely circulated on P2P networks. Some dummy files of similar size, containing just strings of zeroes, have also circulated.

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Clang vs. GCC - code coverage checking

Recently, I've been compiling some of the codebases I work on under Clang 3.8 instead of GCC 4.8, to take advantage of better compiler warnings and faster compilation speed (I've seen a 33% speedup, though I haven't tested this rigorously). Today, I got to grips ...

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The Invisible Catastrophe

Over the course of 4 months, 97,100 metric tons of methane quietly leaked out of a single well into California’s sky. Scientists and residents are still trying to figure out just how much damage was done.

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