BlargMcLarg

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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
Eh, Rare was putting out multiple games in a short timespan of larger size in programming teams fairly small in the 90s. The tools themselves don't seem specific to inducing incredibly large development times when the game developers b
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
That still doesn't solve the prerequisites being exceedingly rare in most teams. A system solving an issue under rare circumstances is barely worth considering, doubly so if it doesn't solve the issue in your specific circumstance
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
You might be a decade behind, but there's still diminishing returns kicking in hard even just a few years in. That's disregarding inefficient learning and what else which may close the gap further. Your latter point is far more im
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
>but this is the issue addressed with planning poker. It isn't. Having a team which is both intimately familiar enough with the set of features as a whole, and understands how to use the system to get around the inevitable 'A d
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
>We go through life making a lot of guesses and utilizing a lot of prior probabilities. Work history is, in my experience, one of the stronger signals available to us. Research continues to fail to support this. At what point is your exp
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
>(and it is mostly boys) I'd really like to see on what basis you're writing this when many other things point to either the opposite or the numbers being equal. >because society's attitude towards checking out has beco
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
> Code where the project manager didn't believe in encapsulation, or refactoring, or none of that "architectural nonsense" If anything I find the largest proponents to have drunk too deep from that well and cause the rewri
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
>Suddenly this is the thread that has snapped for you and said this is wrong? How about we take our own advice, stop making assumptions and "be nice" as you put it, hm? >The cops showing up at your office and just 'ques
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
>not to do business with a likely sex offender And if you are wrong, are you also willing to apologize for hasty decision making? Or will you hide behind the crowd and say 'well everyone else said X!' Because that's what i
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
Consoles aren't going to be obsolete anytime soon while the alternatives, PCs and laptops, are more expensive, worse at the same price range, and provide worse handheld experience. Less of a market share maybe, but still a viable niche
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
>And should mediocre CEOs that fail or otherwise perform poorly get golden parachutes? No, of course not So start there instead of making it seem like your few specific examples speak for the entire population of CEOs. Talk about the CEO
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
Only Japan would remotely apply unless you're cheating the system by checking only hotspot cities and trying to claim they are the entirety of their country. Suffice to say, most people don't live near Amsterdam, let alone able to
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
>but how is that too much otherwise? Because people lack discipline, will powder Scrum meetings on top of existing meetings, create more meetings from stand-ups because Scrum doesn't teach individuals to be disciplined, drag out the
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
>If you burn out your employees Burn out in Europe is still omnipresent and rising these days. This includes Germany, the 'chosen child' every proponent points at in these discussions. A few weeks off barely makes a dent in thi
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
Free healthcare is not a given even in well-off EU countries. Besides a 'strong social system' (too vague given the dozen ways each country's system is leaking), the remaining points can be done by anyone who has the income t
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
Counterpoint, most places do not teach individuals how to check in often and make their stuff smaller. Some of them don't even realize merging side branche into side branch is a valid strategy to avoid merging incomplete features into
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
Cool. Real question, and truly think about it deep and hard: are you okay with being the martyr who ends up jailed, prosecuted, dead or what-have-you before we self correct? These statements are very easy to make, but when push comes to sho
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
What nuance would you want? YouTube is the most similar to Google Search of all Google products in regards to 'doing things people hate about Google', beyond maybe Android. The product has been trend-chasing for years trying to do
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
>I generally avoid Google products, but I do not understand the animosity towards YouTube It's still a Google product that does Google things. If you hate Google things, making an exception for YouTube is saying your standards have
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
You're seriously arguing that someone with general knowledge of programming is going to get hard-stuck not knowing specifics of a language you and thousands of others have blogposted about for years, while linking your own posts? Let&#
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
>men feel like they paid and should therefore receive Way to simplify something very complex. What do you expect men to do, quit trying everything and leave it up to fate? Keep up with women's magazines changing their minds by the d
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
Just say what you want to say instead of hiding behind your snide comments. Those methods already exist, albeit weak, and business management still routinely favors theatrics over measurements. You can put their noses on the metrics clearly
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
Sincerely, who gives a flying ** as long as things get done? All I can tell you, having 2 loud conversations going on in an open office almost the entire day is going to mess my performance up far more than taking a 30 minute break hanging
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
2 hours? It takes a few minutes to bake most lean meats and eggs. Potatoes aren't too difficult to cut and cook. Same for rice. Many vegetables can be eaten raw. All of it can be done in parallel. Who are you talking about in this, a f
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
This was a webapp to be used internally in an enclosed system, so yes, modifying the keyboards. Company's own hardware.
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
Wait until you get asked, by CTOs and business people, to disable F5/refreshing because it breaks the process flow but building a resilient process flow into an old app takes 10x-100x as long. Only for them to realize if you restart th
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
>But none of those worked out. You succeeding means you're better than those 22 men before (likely also including in bed). That's a premature conclusion. You have no idea why they have 22 partners or whether the person in quest
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
Outside of cities, the car reigns supreme in practically every developed country. Including the ones people love to bring forward as 'counterexamples' to car culture.
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
>If you offer the right incentives and opportunites to the wrong people, Then you didn't offer the right incentives and opportunities. GP simplified it correctly. Most people aren't lazy or malicious in the face of good rewards
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by BlargMcLarg 3y ago
>As an uninvited specific action recommendation: I've made it a habit to look through PR's (merged and unmerged) regularly. If you did this in an environment with undercapacity, with the exception of being a very well respected

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