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This metaphor doesn't work for me. Source code is not analogous to organizational behavior. Not to mention it gives readers confused context about the link, wh

by xpe 4y ago

This metaphor doesn't work for me. Source code is not analogous to organizational behavior. Not to mention it gives readers confused context about the link, which is about GitLab layoffs.

nfw2 4y ago
It's not a metaphor...it's a joke
- proc0 4y ago
  Or maybe a prediction.
  - brookst 4y ago
    git doesn't have branch prediction
    - fragmede 4y ago
      maybe with colab v3 or so.
      - oneplane 4y ago
        gpt-git might have branch prediction, but it might also have side-channel attacks
    - 60secs 4y ago
      make sure your git branch is set to protected
  - pc86 4y ago
    Nope, just a joke.
- xpe 4y ago
  Step 1: throw some words from your keyboard into a comment box and claim it was humor. Step 2: downvote people that don't laugh. Step 3: someday realize that humor and metaphor are not mutually exclusive.
roboben 4y ago
xpe is taking everything 100% serious here.
- mcast 4y ago
  Their post sounds like a ChatGPT response
- xpe 4y ago
  I have a sense of humor; the above was meh P.S. and that attempt at humor definitely involved metaphor
eclipxe 4y ago
[flagged]
drewcoo 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law
- xpe 4y ago
  > Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure. — Melvin E. Conway (via Wikipedia) > The law is based on the reasoning that in order for a product to function, the authors and designers of its component parts must communicate with each other in order to ensure compatibility between the components. Therefore, the technical structure of a system will reflect the social boundaries of the organizations that produced it, across which communication is more difficult. In colloquial terms, it means complex products end up "shaped like" the organizational structure they are designed in or designed for. The law is applied primarily in the field of software architecture, though Conway directed it more broadly and its assumptions and conclusions apply to most technical fields. Conway's Law does not apply (doesn't say one thing or another) regarding the connection source code and layoffs.
- deleted 4y ago
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by xpe 4y ago

This metaphor doesn't work for me. Source code is not analogous to organizational behavior. Not to mention it gives readers confused context about the link, which is about GitLab layoffs.

nfw2 4y ago

It's not a metaphor...it's a joke

proc0 4y ago
Or maybe a prediction.
- brookst 4y ago
  git doesn't have branch prediction
  - fragmede 4y ago
    maybe with colab v3 or so.
    - oneplane 4y ago
      gpt-git might have branch prediction, but it might also have side-channel attacks
  - 60secs 4y ago
    make sure your git branch is set to protected
- pc86 4y ago
  Nope, just a joke.
xpe 4y ago
Step 1: throw some words from your keyboard into a comment box and claim it was humor. Step 2: downvote people that don't laugh. Step 3: someday realize that humor and metaphor are not mutually exclusive.

roboben 4y ago

xpe is taking everything 100% serious here.

mcast 4y ago
Their post sounds like a ChatGPT response
xpe 4y ago
I have a sense of humor; the above was meh P.S. and that attempt at humor definitely involved metaphor

eclipxe 4y ago

[flagged]

drewcoo 4y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law

xpe 4y ago
> Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure. — Melvin E. Conway (via Wikipedia) > The law is based on the reasoning that in order for a product to function, the authors and designers of its component parts must communicate with each other in order to ensure compatibility between the components. Therefore, the technical structure of a system will reflect the social boundaries of the organizations that produced it, across which communication is more difficult. In colloquial terms, it means complex products end up "shaped like" the organizational structure they are designed in or designed for. The law is applied primarily in the field of software architecture, though Conway directed it more broadly and its assumptions and conclusions apply to most technical fields. Conway's Law does not apply (doesn't say one thing or another) regarding the connection source code and layoffs.
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