as with all advice - disregard it and do whatever you want.

they gave days of advanced warning they would do this. there was time to prepare.

its ridiculous

> "big alt-rising in the form of AFD, and consequently, they do track social media heavily. There is also a non-insignificant fundamentalist Muslim population"

These two are highly related

They are not though alt-right movements all work on shifting the blame. They always find a scapegoat (jewish people in WW2) for material conditions instead of attacking the root causes.

a malicious person could put your email address on there with the intention of getting you blocked

when is C going to win a Pulitzer?

> In 1990, both Ritchie and Thompson received the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), "for the origination of the UNIX operating system and the C programming language".

> In 1997, both Ritchie and Thompson were made Fellows of the Computer History Museum, "for co-creation of the UNIX operating system, and for development of the C programming language."

> On April 21, 1999, Thompson and Ritchie jointly received the National Medal of Technology of 1998 from President Bill Clinton for co-inventing the UNIX operating system and the C programming language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie#Awards

I think that's also good ;) Ritchie and Thompson also received a Turing Award; not for the C-language, but for UNIX and OS development in general.

ive been at my company 16 years and still haven't had an impact, so... yeah.

that is some brutal self-honesty right there

Especially since they mention being a surgeon in some other comments.

um, no i didn't

If you've been there 16 years, I'm sure you employer feels your impact has been worth the investment. Are you really saying that you don't feel you have made the impact you would have liked to make? Do you feel under-utilized?

You can work your entire career and have "no impact" depending on how you define it.

A factory worker may be one of the best assembling doodads, but have no real impact on the job over their career, for example.

That is because these days what used to be high impact is now table stakes.

That's interesting; I feel like like it's the opposite: What used to be great work is basically unfathomable today and what used to be regular productivity is seen as almost superhuman. People get almost nothing done nowadays and I've never felt like expectations were ever really at the level they ought to be at, especially with how much money people are getting.

Some people are more productive. Others less so.

There is a tension between the two groups.

Some workers think meetings are great. Others hate them.

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