Ned, an experienced programmer, writes on Substack about workplace stories, career tips, rural broadband, and computing history.
HN commenters enjoy his stories, particularly "A teenager's guide to avoiding actual work," and read his rural broadband series, though one calls his handling of a manager immature.
Oh no, I thought this was about the GOOD Scott Adams, pioneer of Adventure on microcomputers. He did a wonderful AMA on Hacker News a while ago (and didn't even praise himself with a sock puppet like the Evil Scott Adams used to do), and it was quite engaging.
He's a really kind guy, who faithfully practices Christianity instead of weaponizing it. I'm glad the verify from his Facebook account that the Good Scott Adams is still happy and thriving and had a wonderful Christmas with his family -- what a relief!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams_(game_designer)
HN discussion: The Further Text Adventures of Scott Adams (madned.substack.com):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29330015
https://madned.substack.com/p/the-further-text-adventures-of-scott
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46314723
DonHopkins 25 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing ...
It's unfortunate that The Good Scott Adams occasionally gets mixed up with The Evil Scott Adams. It's so ironic that they share a name.
Many people know who the The Evil Scott Adams is, because he's such an unrepentant attention starved troll who is notorious not only for making a sock puppet to praise and flatter himself as a genius on internet forums, but for his obsessive unvarnished hateful bigotry, racism ("blacks are a hate group"), misogyny, conspiracy theories, anti-health-care-for-poor-people ideology, and Trump boot licking, and he obsessively…
I feel like the author might benefit from reading a blog post that was posted on HN a while back[0][1], specifically the "two and done rule" and the "do it anyway principal". Yes your manager is wrong, but the way you handled it is very immature. There are "shit" managers everywhere, if you get one, suck it up and start planning your escape. If you really want, you can go higher up the chain and raise your concerns. If your concerns are dismissed, just drop it, there is nothing to gain by fighting.
I also think that you made mountains out of mole hills in some situations. The time estimation "catastrophe" wouldn't even phase me. I'd just say some very high number (3-4 months) and if they weren't happy, I'd just reply "when we start working on it we'll do our best to pull it in". Yes it sucks that you have to do that, but you should really learn to play the game, at least a little bit.
[0] https://madned.substack.com/p/an-old-hackers-tips-on-staying-employed
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28141203
With D language it can be the music, instruments, player and the conductor all at once [1].
Fun facts, Walter the original author of D language wrote his popular Empire game in Fortran [2]. Some of the ideas that make Fortran fast is incorporated into D language design and this makes D is as easy if not easier to optimize than Fortran [1].
[1]Numeric age for D: Mir GLAS is faster than OpenBLAS and Eigen:
http://blog.mir.dlang.io/glas/benchmark/openblas/2016/09/23/glas-gemm-benchmark.html
[2]A Talk With Computer Gaming Pioneer Walter Bright About Empire:
https://madned.substack.com/p/a-talk-with-computer-gaming-pioneer
If you mean "Thin Pipe, part II" - its there. hackernews moderators did something weird - this original post and early comments were just part 2 of the story, since i had posted part 1 separately last week. they relinked this part 2 post back to part 1, which was the earlier stuff leading up to the municipal broadband part. but the comments for part 2 remain. anyway sorry for any confusion -
direct link for part 2 is here:
https://madned.substack.com/p/thin-pipe-part-ii
I loved the story!
It seems that in the comment section under the blog post, there is good stuff too for example the one that starts with:
> Ned (if that is your real name), I have a story with virtually the same beginning, a different middle, and a similar end... [1]
[1] https://madned.substack.com/p/a-teenagers-guide-to-avoiding-actual/comments#comment-2001712
And this can be a mixed bag.
Princeton, MA is a really good example because they've got success and failure. They sort of succeeded with Internet and sort of failed with electricity (and windmills).
See Mad Ned blogs for Internet: https://madned.substack.com/p/thin-pipe-part-i https://madned.substack.com/p/thin-pipe-part-ii