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I've found the advice to remember that you "only ever actually be doing one thing" not to be very broadly applicable. It's good advice for some situations like
by benatkin 3y ago
I've found the advice to remember that you "only ever actually be doing one thing" not to be very broadly applicable. It's good advice for some situations like driving a car, but for things like writing code while responding to the occasional Slack message, it's not specific enough to constitute good advice.
Still, it's true, when understood properly, and maybe I just need to study it more to put it into practice.
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- abbadadda 3y agoIf you can, close slack while writing code - someone will call or tap you on the shoulder if there is an emergency.
- ilyt 3y agoBut that's worse!
- benatkin 3y agoIndeed, exactly my experience. =)
- darth_aardvark 3y agoWhen I'm on call, I've got to respond to slack messages in 4 different channels with a 1hour slo . Messages responded to outside the SLO get brought up at perf review. This isn't viable for some of us.
- 1_1xdev1 3y agoThat’s a pretty tough gig. What’s your title? Are you expected to write code while “on call”?
- darth_aardvark 3y agoSenior software engineer at a small company that was a startup but went public in 2021. And yes, code productivity is expected to be unaffected. And yeah, I'm looking for a new job.