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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
^ and this is why technical managers are so problematic. a manager who worked as a developer for 3 years some 10-15 years ago is not in a better position to estimate the work than an actual developer with the same 10-15 years of experience.
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
I'm trying to understand what that quote means. Is it that they feed themselves first and only give what they don't need and that amount grows as their own income/wealth grows?
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
I wonder if that was Apple's CSAM stuff. Funnily enough, after transferring everything to the new phone, the first thing I did was go through all my photo's and start deleting a lot of photos. I didn't realize it, but any ti
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
and that's a large part of what I meant by trust. Even something as simple as believing when a developer says 3 weeks for something.
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
Is it your supposition that managers should be doing things like code reviews to ensure quality? If they're not working at that level, why isn't the output enough? Developer X's solutions are solid, developer Y's soluti
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
> Would you say I don't "trust" the team by not allowing them to work in a silo? Yes, this means you don't trust them. As I've already said, I've been doing this for roughly 25 years now. I can tell the dif
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
> and I'm not sure why you're confusing the two. pegged you correctly.
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
> So many competing things certainly, I just wonder about IQ. Of course IQ is itself an inexact proxy for things such as processing speed but the correlation does exist so something is going on there. Whether it's causation or not
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
I'll add one to the list just because it's been on my mind the last few weeks. There's a correlation between IQ and general health, and most of your "processing" is subconscious. Could this correlation be due to hig
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
That jumped out at me too, but I decided to let it go :)
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
> Were they a great manager simply because they let you do what you wanted, without any deeper guidance or feedback? Why do I get the feeling you're a technical manager trying to rationalize why you don't trust your developers?
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
Why do I feel like this thread is giving the word emergency an existential crisis :) To be an emergency or not to be an emergency, that is the question!
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
This sounds so familiar. I've seen so many problems caused by not having clear direction from leaders. I once pointed out to the president of a small/mid-sized company that he was acting CTO and it was hurting the company. All d
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
The single best manager I've ever had was completely non-technical. Some of the worst I've had were very technical. The difference between them is who treats me with trust and who doesn't, the technical/non-technical di
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
Agreed. There are only two windows machines in my house. 1. work laptop 2. gaming machine I tried converting the gaming machine over to Linux, but it's just not there yet. It's making huge strides and I'm super happy about
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
Thank you for saying so. I have so many car stories from when I was young. Cars that had no floor (you could literally see the street as you drove), to cars that needed 2 people to start (solenoid bolt was stripped so it required someone h
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
I blame the landlords. For example, they bitch about how hard it is to get tenants out of the house due to existing laws. That's absolutely true, but what do they think the laws were put into place for? On the whole, they cannot be tr
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
You still get protection from a debit card but the bank will cancel and re-issue since it's considered a point-of-sale. I've had to do it twice. Banks are required to do this due to consumer protection laws. I actually think th
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
I'm not even sure it's faster. I flew out very early one morning and put my toothbrush, etc, in a small plastic bag and stuffed it into my duffel. The scanner detected the liquid so they pulled me to the side. As soon as the TSA
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
I was in a conversation on HN the other day where I pointed out certain behavior was unconstitutional. The person replied that it was legal. Sure, it's legal, but due to the interpretation issue you mentioned, I fully believe it'
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
this year I purchased a low-milage 99 Ford Explorer XLT for $650 and put a couple thousand into it (guy thought he was taking advantage of me). I didn't have to put nearly that much, but I did for the purpose of long-term maintenance
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
The ensuing shit storm wouldn't be worth it for them, not for something like this.
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
> I think it also indicates that we’ll see a price stagnating base-model phone and an ever increasing top-tier model as the companies explore how much people are willing to spend (a Corolla vs a Mercedes). I don't think so. A Merced
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
As a counter-point I went from an original iphone SE to the 3rd gen iphone SE this year because it started having major problems holding a charge for any length of time. I much preferred the old form factor and would readily give up the fas
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
I love when you google for something and in order to stretch the content out 80% of it is completely unuseful, barely relevant, content. "How do you change the sandpaper in a sander" and most of the article is explaining why sande
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
> I see low-quality scraper domains which have ranked highly in their search results for years but never seem to be de-ranked despite just displaying content from GitHub or Stack Overflow. I flat don't even bother doing "X vs Y
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
I think you're getting downvoted but I agree with everything you've said. So many tech people think that if there's an explanation it legitimizes the end behavior, but I emphatically disagree with that. It doesn't matter
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
I experienced this once with my mother, jesus H ... Good luck getting her to stop installing random "cat cursors" for windows.
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
This attitude is why a poor person will effectively be put in debtors prison and no one bats an eye. It requires "someone important" before people think maybe it actually happens.
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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
wut? he was arrested in the bahamas, the bail terms came AFTER the arrest. How the hell does someone breach bail terms before they're arrested?

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