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by afarrell 5y ago
yep
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by afarrell 5y ago
Yes, ~~but~~ and the fact that some police departments are broken doesn't mean we need to propagate learned helplessness about all police departments.
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Drop the illusion that you are living in a spy novel. Realize the far more boring yet terrifying truth that people are doing their best and muddling through. Learn examples of clear communication and practice them to help clarify reality.
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by afarrell 5y ago
When in-person events open up, look to see if there is a makerspace near you. Sometimes hardware problems are better solved with someone nearby as a sounding board.
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by afarrell 5y ago
20K troops are people's sons and daughters. Those are real people with personal stories that can credibly threaten to move votes and enlistments.
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by afarrell 5y ago
You’ve reframed the problem — have you made it larger or smaller? Which problem requires a smaller team to achieve: A. Training a high enough software engineers in the negotiating skills that they could get the time to develop that understa
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by afarrell 5y ago
True, yet Action is impossible to coordinate without hope.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Different people have different things they care about at different times. If I’m currently trying to improve my ability to do effective stakeholder interaction, I’m going to be reasonably resistant to switching to spending a bunch of time
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by afarrell 5y ago
“Ensemble programming” is a slightly better name for it.
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The problem is that there’s no agreed-upon point when we give FOSS maintainers the negotiating power to get the compensation they actually need —- whether that is patches or pesos.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Yes https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/heart-palpitations/
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by afarrell 5y ago
This would be described as “how to communicate and lead more effectively” and yep, such courses are occasionally available. If you find yourself advocating this, that tells me that either: A. You’ve observed someone else needs these skills
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by afarrell 5y ago
Agreed. We live in a world with many grave challenges—and yet the correct response is still hope.
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To attract contributors who want to learn more rust by collaborating on something they care about.
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by afarrell 5y ago
A human being should be able to 1. Change a diaper 2. Plan a party 3. Buy groceries 4. Change a tire 5. Redesign a room 6. Write a thank-you letter 7. Balance accounts 8. Assemble Furniture 9. Clean and dress a wound 10. Comfort the grievin
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by afarrell 5y ago
Can anyone name a single real person who can do all of those skills competently? If not, this is an unhelpful response to this question.
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by afarrell 5y ago
The ability to wisely manage one’s own attention has always been powerful. If you read How to Win Friends and Influence People, its core message is to direct your attention with a forgiving curiosity about those you work with. If you want t
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by afarrell 5y ago
For example: The idea that there are many programmers who cannot even write fizzbuzz sounds like a very strong claim. It seems far more likely that there are many programmers who have socially-induced anxiety.
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by afarrell 5y ago
A scorched-earth campaign would prompt a lot more blue-on-blue attacks and assassinations from people who don’t like having their homes and mothers incinerated.
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by afarrell 5y ago
You’ll see these questions more clearly once you start applying Hume’s Guilloine: Some questions are “is” questions: objective truths about the world and how causality operates within it. Some questions are “ought” questions: choices about
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by afarrell 5y ago
There is a danger in taking this too far. If you assume that facts don’t change people’s minds, you fail to build the skill of arranging facts clearly in a way that helps people think most clearly and allows them to decide to change their m
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by afarrell 5y ago
On the one hand, this is a good thing for the easy ability to access public information. On the other hand, this removes an important backup source of funding for the US federal courts. On the gripping hand, it is bonkers that court admins
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by afarrell 5y ago
So that people can install and update the tools via the same habits they’ve already learned. > Users who can’t do that shouldn’t be using CLI Users who can do that will still find it an odd departure from convention.
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by afarrell 5y ago
If the “best” way to do it is via a method which would discourage us from trying at all, we should change the definition of “best” to one that does not result in PTSD.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Is this a consequence of planting trees or of working at a breakneck pace for an abusive employer?
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by afarrell 5y ago
I have seen that failure mode as well. I cannot emphasise enough that it needs to be like pair-programming. Without the more senior person there, the more junior person will struggle to know how to get started and need to ask so many initia
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by afarrell 5y ago
> prepare good documentation It is difficult enough to overcome the curse of knowledge when writing documentation that a better path is to open up a pair-programming setup and co-write your documentation with an intern or new-joiner.
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by afarrell 5y ago
A fraction of the ones that are successful. I suppose what I really mean is: If your leadership subordinates (especially new joiners) are starting to struggle to coordinate, consider the possibility that you might already be at that point y
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by afarrell 5y ago
It is worth checking if you are: A. Falling into perfectionism. B. Putting unhealthy time pressure on yourself. C. Worrying too much that people will think of you as perfectionist.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Some problems genuinely aren’t very amenable to mathematical/engineering analysis. Examples: - Fixing a marriage - The Vietnam war https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy This makes avoiding self-deceptio

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