But only one of those needs to be taught directly, and that's phonics. Sight reading can be left to emerge later on as the amount of reading increases. English is not Mandarin Chinese, we don't need to guess the meaning of words from what they look like, we can mostly read out how they sound.
This is the tyranny of documentation. We really have little insight into the plebian life. Most direct information comes from funerary inscriptions and graffiti.
Both open carry and concealed carry are legal without a permit in Vermont, which is the model for how States should behave in reverence to the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
On April 3rd, Florida became the 26th state that allows concealed carry without a permit[0]. This means over half the states now allow concealed carry without a permit. And it's likely that Nebraska will also pass constitutional carry [1] (ie concealed carry without a permit) this year becoming the 27th state.
Bringing people down for the sake of equality? Depends.
Bring in more tax money from the rich and build a safety net...that's pretty popular.
Don't allow a student advanced math classes because he'll get ahead of his peers. Unfortunately this is actually being pursued.
Title IX in the US might be used for either side of the argument. Everyone should have equal access in education -- positive. We need to get rid of men's soccer so we can balance the scholarship numbers (bad for men's soccer players). No idea why we can't balance football scholarships with academic/art/engineering/architecture/whatever scholarships.
One of the many reasons I hated this story when I read it in high school was because it's kind of a straw man with no shades of gray or nuance, and thus felt like kind of a dumb thing to discuss.
Stripped of fluff, the main point of the article seems to be that their engineers are doing too much manual repetitive work, due to bad tooling and processes. Why would that be caused by their performance review system?
Easy: tooling and process are often seen as being of little importance because they’re not easily associated with metrics that are important in toxic review process cultures. Engineers who like working on these things are treated as second class citizens and performance reviews will reflect that.
(I don’t know that this is the case with Amazon: I’m just providing an anecdote based on my observations at places I’ve worked.)
Not just engineers, but also engineering managers and product managers. Shipping bugfixes and tooling improvements is often harder than shipping new features, and is generally less visible to the people who make hiring/firing/promotion decisions.
I’ve found tooling lags behind in places where incentives are too short term, or most of the funding comes from projects (rather than durable product teams). I’m not saying this is Amazon.
> Why would that be caused by their performance review system?
May be because their performance review prioritizes employee contributions that impact bottom line immediately instead of building infra that might improve developer productivity?
You can't manage what you don't measure. Developer tooling quality impact on revenue is very difficult to measure. Therefore, a rationally managed organization cannot authorize any work on developer tooling.
TBF, that was scrapped in 2017. Source: worked there.
There was a clear culture shock for some of the more seasoned Amazonians (and you could see a fall out effect with some "mails to your manager" every now and then if you crossed a Grand Poobah the wrong way), but to all of us "newer" hires, the times of adversarial review were just a story.
I'm not saying there aren't other issues - there certainly are. What you highlighted is one of them. All I'm saying is that The Grand "Me-vs-You" peer review process is gone.
Anecdotally, I can say with confidence that some teams have a lot of autonomy in deciding to follow (or not follow) company-wide practices / guidance like what you've posted (obviously, only a few do it, since non-compliance isn't officially blessed). I was lucky enough to work in a team which was much better than baseline. But I try not to let that colour my memory - I heard and saw plenty of horror stories, and I saw plenty of people (including in my leadership) trying to do the right thing. Like most things, there are shades of grey here.
Have never worked at Amazon nor do I know anyone who did, what exactly did that entail? "Snitching" on your co-workers? I'm asking because a quick web search didn't help me too much.
But writing is learning. Brains use sensory feedback to remember and recall. Cursive is just a method of faster writing. The physical act of forming the letters leads to better recall of what is being written. Reorganizing and rewriting does even better.
Learning to write is as important as learning to read and learning to do math. There are good ways and bad ways to learn.
It's too bad this skill is being neglected and people turn to measurably worse methods of learning.
Learning cursive isn’t learning to write. As a kid I spent copious amounts of time learning to fit the sweep of my cursive to a rigid meter, and form them just so… it was closer to learning to draw than to write (which I could already do)
I went from a manual to an electric car. I miss the five speed, but the EV is so much more convenient and better in every other way that it doesn't bother me as much as I though.
You need both skills.