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by allenu 5y ago
Same here. Been working professionally as a dev for 20 years and each year I care less and less about changing other people’s minds about architecture. Just this year I was working with another team that wanted to move to an architecture th
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by allenu 5y ago
"When running the Vietnam office, we had many other business-related problems to deal with; building consensus wasn’t something that I always had the time to do. So the way I ran certain org changes was to: 1. Get a sense fo
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by allenu 5y ago
If we assume doers as being goal-oriented, then I can see it being easier to educate them in ways to help them get closer to their goals faster and more efficiently. On the other hand, someone who doesn't really care about the goal, is
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by allenu 5y ago
Growing up playing video games in the '80s and '90s, I always thought the companies making games were massive. As an adult, I've gone to several retro gaming conventions and seen game creators from back then talk about their
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by allenu 5y ago
I would (and have) kept my cards close to my chest when searching for a new job. I think the employee/manager relationship is a delicate one because on the one hand you're human beings and you develop a relationship as human being
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by allenu 5y ago
Yeah, you've got a point. They're still ads at the end of the day. A lot of the design language is also very much a product of the time. Very type-heavy (I'm reminded of the magazine Ray Gun) and a lot of "attitude"
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by allenu 5y ago
There's certainly an amateurish charm to old video game ads. Today, everything is pretty slick and there's a general base understanding of how to write copy and how to make ads look polished (probably thanks to the internet), but
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by allenu 5y ago
Ideally, a debate would be best. The challenge is that it's very easy to make false statements. It takes very little effort. You can "Gish gallop" your way through a discussion and the other side is forced to refute every sin
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by allenu 5y ago
Yeah, I was confused by the copy. I also thought it wasn't a real service. On the "Money" page (with title "Buy my shit"): > That's because we want to avoid having to sell photos of your vagina to shady Russ
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by allenu 5y ago
I laughed out loud as soon as I saw the gif of the turn signal. This is an unintentional Stroop test in a place where you need to have absolute clarity.
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by allenu 5y ago
I love little hacks/projects like this. It's art.
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by allenu 5y ago
I see this a lot nowadays. It just keeps recycling the same things and feels stale. I remember about a year ago, it got into a weird state where I watched an old Cat Power music video, then every time I looked at recommendations on other
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by allenu 5y ago
Ah, in those days I remember friends referred to Microsoft as The Evil Empire. I think there was also a little bit of "friendly" debate over the superior OS at the time. (I ran OS/2 Warp for a number of years myself.)
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by allenu 5y ago
Looking forward to watching this. His previous talks, such as the Ultimate Commodore 64 Talk, have been comprehensive, clear, while being very concise on each bit of info.
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by allenu 5y ago
And each release is "our best camera yet" or "fastest processor yet" or "best battery yet". I mean, yeah, you're probably not going to release an update that has worse performance. Apple is the master at e
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by allenu 5y ago
One thing about slack- and zoom-based remote working I've noticed is that there's less room to be your "informal self". Meetings require more coordination since only one person can speak at a time and there are fewer non
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by allenu 5y ago
I used to do the fluff thing more early in my career, thinking I was being polite and comprehensive in my communication, then over time I realized people are more likely to respond if you’re concise and clear in what your request is. Nowada
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by allenu 5y ago
With many of us working from home, now all of our "normal day to day" communication channels are basically "hosted" by the company. When you were in the office, you could easily walk over and have a private conversation
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by allenu 5y ago
You may want to read the book Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit, it describes waste in the same manner and offers principles to help reduce it.
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by allenu 5y ago
You're probably right. I've just started watching The Wire and in season 2, the loading dock workers whistle to each other to let them know cops are around.
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by allenu 5y ago
Yup, and it has a close button that conveniently appears right beneath the scrollbar.
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by allenu 5y ago
Since we're all commenting on what's missing, here's another missing thing: you scroll down to the end of the article and a totally unrelated article begins underneath it.
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by allenu 5y ago
I put together a page that lets you try out different spaced repetition algorithms (with javascript code included), and you can try out your own algorithms as well: https://www.ussherpress.com/freshcards/srs/ Ther
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by allenu 5y ago
Playing around with BBSes as a teen, I'm super familiar with ANSI codes. I remember being fascinated by how they worked after opening up a .ANS file to see their contents. One of my earliest programming projects was creating my own dia
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by allenu 5y ago
This is a very strange “revenge” and the idiom of “cutting your nose off to spite your face” applies perfectly to it. I don’t understand the end game here. Users are annoyed about lack of Apple ID sign-in on the web and so stop buying Apple
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by allenu 5y ago
I agree with all your points, although I'm lucky that where I'm working today, #3 is not an issue, but it has been before. I absolutely agree with #2. I definitely got demoralized over the years when I realized even if I did a goo
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by allenu 5y ago
I'd love to see a survey of what developers do as they age, how many leave the industry, why, and to do what. I'm 43 and I'm the oldest person on my team by around 5-15 years. My manager is younger, my coworkers are younger,
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by allenu 5y ago
I used to live nearby and would walk past the machine every day on my way to work and way home. Over time, all (?) the options went from specific flavors to the "MYSTERY" option, but I always attributed it to them just getting laz
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by allenu 5y ago
I'm a few years younger than the author, based on when he started working, but I can relate to some of the attitudes of "the old days". I worked at Microsoft and do remember when everyone had an office and the goal of manager
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by allenu 5y ago
As someone who's been working in the industry about 20 years now, I agree with some of the points. I don't agree with the attitude toward testing. I worked at Microsoft for about 12 years and when I joined I was an SDET (sort of a

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