just_had_tea
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Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
> And then most junior managers never end up seeing it. Took me a while before I did - I liked my boss, even, but then they left and someone new came in, and the difference was night and day. Being able to come into a new place and figure out what details to focus on and what to not, identify common problem areas, identify people to delegate to and trust, get upper-management support for you when necessary, figure out where you're still uncomfortable and how to get you to start stretching yourself there... it's not stuff I knew I was missing. And I could've gone another decade without knowing it, probably!
Perhaps a silly question, and definitely tangential, but do you have resources / pointers on where to learn about these kinds of skills? Or is that what MBA's are for? (sounds snarky but meant sincerely)
Comment · 10 years ago
* Keyboard-based interaction.
* Actual macros and extensibility (i use mu4e which isn't strictly a console e-mail client, but it's text-based and allows me to Elisp the crap out of any issue i'm having).
Comment · 10 years ago
For years i used Mutt as an IMAP client, but that was honestly quite a nightmare. Even back in the day at uni with an über fast internet connection it was still just not responsive enough. The day i switched to using OfflineIMAP and a local Maildir it was as if the blinds had been drawn aside and sunshine streamed into my INBOX :).
Having said that, i use mu4e these days, because i've become an Emacs user. With a few tweaks it now scratches my itch very effectively (except of course the HTML-email problem as mentioned elsewhere -- this is especially troublesome at work where they want me to include an HTML-embedded-image-tabled monstrosity with about a page of legalese as a signature).
Comment · 11 years ago
That is both sexist and ageist. There is nothing about being female, old and/or having reproduced which makes one follow rules to the letter. "Google is training cars to drive like sticklers" is perhaps a more appropriate version.
Comment · 11 years ago
Cut defense wastage. Uh, sorry, I meant defense spending.
Comment · 11 years ago
...in which we learn the real reason you're against UBI—dirty immigrants.
I really fail to see how this can be anything other than an argument for more fair/equal wealth distribution in the world. If most countries had similar schemes, then why would the "good for nothing immigrants" go to supposedly scrounge in the US?
Comment · 11 years ago
I wish there was a translation of this article into English: https://decorrespondent.nl/511/waarom-arme-mensen-domme-ding...
Basically, the argument is that "poor people do stupid stuff" because their "intelligence bandwidth" is being sucked up by worry about where to find the next meal/rental payment/etc. leaving no brainpower for what we well-off and spoilt folk would call "constructive pursuits".
Comment · 11 years ago
Wow, that's really sad. Do you have a link for that statistic? How is it determined?
I suspect it depends on your bank. Back when i used Crédit Agricole, i was indeed forced to do SMS auth, which is inferior.