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by Ensorceled 4y ago
> The throwaway comment about not using diagrams was truly baffling to me. Very bizarre ... also, why not BOTH a diagram and discription.
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
Yep, could also be those things. But accounts and bookkeepers all know what QuickBooks is and are quite happy to not have to explain to their clients why they need to spend $75 a month on "KowalaBabyPooPoos" or something equally l
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
Inside this essay giving horrible advice, is more horrible advice: > Even worse are those ubiquitous diagrams everybody uses to communicate about software, where there’s a box labeled OrdersService with an arrow connecting it to a box la
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
Standard scrum accountability. Everybody says good morning to the team when then the start their day. Daily stand-ups. Weekly 1-1s. These are all pretty standard but become critical remote. I have informal 1-1s to go over problems and p
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
I try not to speculate on why people are unproductive, I just ask them in the next 1-1
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
This is the problem with pretty much all of these articles. Some employees ARE more productive. Some are just as a productive but are happier because they have no commute. Some are LESS productive because they need the team structure. Som
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
Please don't ask them to dox their wife.
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
I was being sarcastic. California gets 17% of their electricity from solar and 8% wind, but their current issues are during a sunny heat wave so solar should be going like gangbusters.
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
I didn't realize California etc. had hit the level of dependency on solar/wind where this could be a factor. Good on them.
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
As a co-op student in the 80's I needed to solve this problem in Fortran IV for a CAD/CAM system that ran CNC milling machines that created shoe molds. This really brings back memories. My solution was ... not as elegant ... and
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
That's my point, this could be accomplished with plain old contracts ...
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
Or, hear me out, what if we just used the plain old contracts that already exist... this article came out of an investigation of plain old contracts.
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
This is only an issue once we stop having electricity sources that can be turned on reasonably quickly when wind or sun is under producing (such as natural gas and, to some extent, hydro electric). Since wind/solar is still a small par
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
I think most privacy teams are responsible for compliance to legislation and, hence, have clearly defined, concrete goals. Are you disagreeing?
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
I think these are all examples of teams that can have concrete goals: accessibility teams can be enforcing a standard or regulation (like WCAG), privacy teams can be auditing for compliance to GDPR or COPPA, security teams can be monitoring
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
There is a grove of red pine near where I grew up that was planted row on row about 15 feet apart. These trees are 70+ years old but most of them are only 7-8 inches in diameter. The floor of this grove is just red with pine needles, noth
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
These things always devolve into the Product Owner or the Project Manager are actually the Engineering Manager without the pay and/or authority.
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
Also, a prompt decision can also get the team to the point where the decision is proven wrong and one of the other decisions correct or, as is often the case, a separate best option becomes obvious.
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
Oh, I agree completely that the article should be taken with a grain of salt but don’t need a disclaimer. I also didn’t really see anything in the article that made me suspicious.
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
The number of leaders I've encountered who demand consensus and 100% agreement with all facets of a decision is mind boggling. Eventually they browbeat dissent into discontent when they could have had an entire team of "I've
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
> In a group debate, nobody has to (or even should?) change their minds. It’s okay to have different priorities and think different things are best. Debate is not about admitting fault or changing one’s mind – it’s about informing the re
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
This is jarringly orthogonal to the point you are replying to, did you mean to reply to another comment?
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
It's on their corporate blog; I'm totally unfazed by the lack of disclaimer since it's literally running under their banner. Do you have any issues with the article?
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
"New bad thing is similar to existing bad thing so we should consider it good" is a distressingly common argument.
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
I'd like to think there are a wider group of options than a binary choice between "American Late-Stage Capitalism" and "Venezuela"
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
I'm cynical Google will be able to truly fix this or even want to. I think Google is part of a cartel; their search funnels people to sites that run ads that often are part of the Google network. Yes, they make a ton from search adver
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
The first headline is "Better ranking of original, quality content" The update literally says they are working to get rid of the type of useless content you are talking about.
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
Yes, but it's still not close to the total aggregated costs of delivery of services. Suburbs are REALLY inefficient and expensive.
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
I'm trying to figure out if you are agreeing with me or arguing with me. Rural: Low usage, low maintenance low services (road,power,internet), low tax base Urban: High usage, high maintenance, high services (water, sewer, road, power,
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by Ensorceled 4y ago
We’re talking suburbs. My city block contains literally thousands of homes and commercial properties in a zone that would contain, at most a few hundred McMansions. The cost to deliver services needed are within an order of magnitude of a

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