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This is gonna be just a short one. I was seeing a couple of very, very toxic reactions to developers having to demo something they have learnt about on Saturday on the next Monday. The reactions were talking about how “lazy” these people were, and “everything…

Reading how a serious problem about fake networks got ignored at Facebook I remembered my own little story about raising a problem and getting the hammer for it. This was also partly the reason I think I was fired: “András, why are you spending time on…

In my professional career I have worked with a very hierarchical company and a very loosely coupled, very flat company. Having to see the same problem in totally different context made me realize this: Things without a clear owner will rot. How was it in the hierarchical…

Humans have a remarkable ability to subvert any nice rule. The same book to preach for peace can be used to preach for annihilation and so on. It is true in corporate life as well. This article is about a rule that sounds…

As I promised in this series I try to share sad stories from the corporate IT world and I would simultaneously add how those situations could have been solved in a humane way. My goal is to start the discussion on how we live a…

Timnit Gebru and the realization of abnormal I was following the Timnit Gebru vs. Google story for some time and I have read both sides a bit. When I read the answer of the team lead at Google, I reacted with “Yeah, c’mon, she was openly…