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by afarrell 5y ago
By “you do not need an app for this”, you probably mean “I do not need an app for this”. Knowing other people’s needs requires listening to them first.
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So much of "working conditions" are habits and culture. Changing those is a lot harder than installing new lighting or safety guards. Worth it? yes, but there is lag time.
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Indeed. It is too easy to read this as a rejection of tools, processes, documentation, and plans. That interpretation makes it harder for at-the-coalface employees to get help from leaders when they... - actually need tools and processes de
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Is it to pander to your ego, or is it to make it easier for a new joiner to onboard successfully into the tech part of the business?
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> Sure, there's best practices, models, a strong mathematical foundation, but on the other hand there's way too much freedom. I wonder if the same could be said of animation.
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Right. Software is more like a form of artistic/literary expression. We can fight this and find ourselves confused and frustrated. Or we can embrace this and start adopting the techniques of the worlds of art and literature. * Design C
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> Programming is engineering Is it? Genuine question that I've been asking myself for the past several years: In what senses is software engineering actually an engineering discipline? If you make a project trade-off for the sake of
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> It’s been a mere 70 years and the logistics that went into D-day are never talked about. False. Loads of books have been written about the subject. Here is a video from a video series titled The Logistics of D-Day: https://y
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Insufficient time spent with your brain attending to your body. One solution is to play futbol. Insufficient affectionate hugs. One solution is to go folk dancing. Insufficient time spent listening to people chat about their lives. One solu
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Solution: 1. Buy bluetooth headphones or the headband that comes up when you google "sleepphones". 2. Pick an audiobook or podcast which is entertaining but has no consequences to whether you remember the content or not. 3. Plug y
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Yes. It is easier to persuade people of a belief based in fact.
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Because it was used by a newsroom in Lawrence, Kansas and they wrote a web framework in python called Django. Their journalistic culture led Django to have really great documentation, which led to an influx of more casual developers who had
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Which management books did you cite to back you up?
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The invasion of Iraq was in 2003 …and …erm …was more complex than that. How deep is your understanding? Citation needed on the massive claim that we can be carbon neutral in 10 years without massive riot-causing disruptions to people’s live
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MLK’s problem with white moderates was not being a middle ground, it was that they urged delay and inaction. > I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro&#x2
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If you are unwilling to walk halfway to your destination, you can never arrive.
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Because it is widely believed that there is a climate emergency caused by CO2 emissions and so people want to focus.
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Because if you say at standup "I'm going to work on X" and then you don't work on X, you lose the trust of the people you said that to.
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I've faced this difficulty. One way I overcome it is by co-writing a document with someone over Google Docs or Dropbox Paper.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy “The first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to
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Common passions are great! If I’m joining a chatroom of your open source project, I’d be grateful to share in your passion for the open source project itself. > loneliness is bad You can say that again.
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Yea, my reason for not wanting to solve the problems of IRC isn’t a disinterest in solving problems. On the contrary, if I’m joining an open source project’s discord, it is most likely because A. I’m interested in the problems that the open
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So my biggest problem with IRC in 2009 was that it lacked newlines. Is this now solvable? Okay. I have limited time & limited yak-shaving energy. In the choice between something whose problems are solvable and something whose problems a
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Hard for me and hard for the author of the blog post.
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Firstly: http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html Secondly: Yes, people who like talking with people tend to go into careers that primarily involve talking to people.
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The goal isn't to maximize efficiency. It is to increase human connection. Why? 1. They want you to feel a sense of trust to increase the probability of taking additional steps in the process. 2. They are mostly extroverts who want to
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Let's have a sense of proportion. There is a significant difference between applying a mild economic disincentive and the starvation of 3.9 million people.
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> I wonder if they could in the future be viewed as "battery hogs". Adding social punishments here would hurt momentum. It is far better to reward imperfect progress than to create a social environment where people feel like th
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Because the government entities who mind this issue are different than the ones you are looking at. https://www.nato.int/docu/review/articles/2021/10/25/an-arti...
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I imagine it is hard to measure that, since 1. It is a "wimpy" thing to admit to. People are reluctant to think things about themselves which, if admitted aloud, could earn social ridicule. 2. One fear can prompt another and lead

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