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by artsyca 6y ago
The quality of the software is the best metric of whether the process is working but management has no incentive to blame the process when it breaks down and every incentive to blame the people instead
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by artsyca 6y ago
This has a lot to do with putting processes over people and it's been a lengthy process of us as so called engineers getting our hands forced while maintaining an appearance of being cool and entitled It's well known that the syst
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by artsyca 6y ago
Wow that's a very kind way of putting it I appreciate the warmth of your sentiment @themodelplumber
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by artsyca 6y ago
Not to pick on a single stereotype but it seems we've become memes and it's led to an attack of the clones on the ideas of diversity and inclusion flipping everything on its head Think about how 'fitting in' is also a te
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by artsyca 6y ago
How many software engineers fit the mold of the bearded male craft beer connoisseur vs how many are trying to shoehorn themselves into it?
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by artsyca 7y ago
I'm not sure I did -- a pencil pusher is an accountant and they don't even push pencils any more
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by artsyca 7y ago
A lot of the clichés we use don't apply any more pencil pusher is one of them
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by artsyca 7y ago
Y'all it's best to understand the universe for what it is an immense perpetual motion machine We often think of perpetual motion as set it and forget it once it's set in motion it continues forever but of course this isn&#x27
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by artsyca 7y ago
How are they planning to produce these exactly?
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by artsyca 7y ago
I like how the decline in formal systems is linked to the scourge of casual culture
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A New York Power Plant Is Mining $50K Worth of Bitcoin a Day(coindesk.com)
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by artsyca 7y ago
Choosing a shirt and tie doesn't contribute to decision fatigue in fact modern professional dress is designed to mitigate decision fatigue in many small and subtle ways without reducing the process of dressing to absurdity
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by artsyca 7y ago
Agreed you're going to DRY yourselves into repeating the same naive mistakes as every trio of passionate and friendly guys who are looking to make their first hire and don't screen for whether they use the urinal without holding a
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by artsyca 7y ago
Turing is my hero as I'm sure he is for a lot of us I sometimes apply the reasoning of what would Alan Turing say? And not only what would he say but how would he say it? I'm fascinated by his gentle nature as an algorithmic think
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by artsyca 7y ago
Listen there are comments on the post itself raising the idea that responsible includes proper borders let's take the party there and let poor HN off the hook for once And I agree the implications are far reaching as are the chilling e
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by artsyca 7y ago
So the tradeoff is doing something you don't particularly value in exchange for something you do value I feel like you're ripping yourself off
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by artsyca 7y ago
Wayyyy too much research went into this but it is worth it in the end
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by artsyca 7y ago
I'm not even sure what that means but have an upvote
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by artsyca 7y ago
Listen y'all there's a lot of comments in here about dress and culture and it boils down to the 'no true Scotsman' argument which you can look up on Wikipedia No true professional can be casual period and casual culture
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by artsyca 7y ago
Also you're meant to read my comments like Chris Walken just pause when you please and extract any sort of meaning you wish after all we're all just shouting at ourselves by proxy
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by artsyca 7y ago
But don't fool yourself into thinking these kids entering the industry now are facing anything like the same conditions we did in fucking 1985
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by artsyca 7y ago
But don't fool yourself into thinking these kids entering the industry now are facing anything like the same conditions we did in fucking 1985
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by artsyca 7y ago
Ah then you're as salty as I am good on you bro do as you fucking well please
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by artsyca 7y ago
Let me also ask how long you've been a software professional and whether you've looked into the history of software from its early start in the textile industry
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by artsyca 7y ago
Even so I'll address some of the issues here There are holes in your initial assumptions and I won't point them out save to say that a lot of people think the same way you do and that in itself should cause you to reconsider Final
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by artsyca 7y ago
Killameme99 this diatribe shows me pretty much how much you overthink just about everything
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by artsyca 7y ago
It's turtles all the way down bro
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by artsyca 7y ago
Yes the teams were tiny and well dressed and working at the cutting edge of technology of the day building everything from the level of assembly I'm telling you these are the people to emulate not the factory practices at the other Jap
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by artsyca 7y ago
I think it's possible to invest a whole life under someone's thumb being compared against KPI's and other metrics and get neither professionalism nor the trappings of it Taking the trappings even when they're not on offe
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by artsyca 7y ago
You're naive if you really believe that how long have you been in this industry Do you seriously believe the software you produce in isolation has any bearing on the world outside your window? The only thing that matters is the quality

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