artsyca

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by artsyca 7y ago
Look I appreciate the sentiment but I'm calling bullshit You're putting way too much effort into choosing a look whereas in a real professional world everyone would choose to exnovate at one kind of outfit and move on to more impo
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by artsyca 7y ago
People don't really have their own opinions we are just collections of ideas picked up and regurgitated
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by artsyca 7y ago
Lost generation
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by artsyca 7y ago
We're both looking at the same evidence and drawing different conclusions I respect your opinions but I wouldn't want to work in an environment like that my whole life because I genuinely have better things to do
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by artsyca 7y ago
> only wishing they had prioritized more time with friends, family, and loved ones. That's the point dude why would you spend a whole life passionlessly working like an emotionless robot only to regret not being with your friends?
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by artsyca 7y ago
Like to clarify Whether I spend my day playing foosball and drinking kombucha with a bunch of ass dragging laggards or saving orphan refugees in a war zone I'll be equally tired when I get home to my family After a decade or more of do
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by artsyca 7y ago
Hey I appreciate that but I don't have the luxury to treat it like anything but survival I used to be very laid back but as you said once again I am not willing to compromise things I value a lot in exchange for things I value less in
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by artsyca 7y ago
Even so I'm grateful to the comment you wrote because it very succinctly expresses the crux of the issue "I prefer casual culture because I'm not that into it anyway" I'm very grateful to that I wonder who else is w
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by artsyca 7y ago
You said it yourself but I'll spell it out anyway What you're saying essentially is you're not that invested in your work That has societal repercussions in an organization when so many people who are essentially uninvested s
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by artsyca 7y ago
You said it yourself dude
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by artsyca 7y ago
Casual dress goes with casual culture which is inherently toxic at scale
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by artsyca 7y ago
Quite tellingly the first paragraph mentions casual dress
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by artsyca 7y ago
Slow clap
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by artsyca 7y ago
I've often wondered why the software industry as a whole is so biased towards automotive and factory metaphors eg Toyota JIT manufacturing and nobody ever talks about the quality and joie de vivre of early video game software teams
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by artsyca 7y ago
Yea nowadays he would've been pulled into a 1:1 and dressed down before being let go three months later
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by artsyca 7y ago
Next you're going to start assigning story points to bugs and have a velocity of dozens of points per sprint while delivering zero usable features
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by artsyca 7y ago
Add to this Conway's principle and Greenspun's tenth rule and you have an environment where the culture ends up somewhere between animal farm and Brazil and the only ones benefitting are spies from former and current communist dic
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by artsyca 7y ago
And the way engineering culture contributes to this toxic ecosystem is by perpetrating the myth of casual professionalism thereby selling ownership by avoiding responsibility and taking perks over substance in the bargain
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by artsyca 7y ago
By the way the word pivot is largely misunderstood It means to change the approach while maintaining the vision and values My values have always been on teamwork and knowledge creation and I pivoted in the sense of changing the approach but
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by artsyca 7y ago
No. I went directly to the client and sold them on the idea of iterative process from first principles The difference is that the emphasis is on knowledge creation and relationship building Believe me that there is a way to do the right thi
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by artsyca 7y ago
You sound like me a couple of years ago until I realized I was the problem the whole while Why was I contributing to this madness when I knew better? So I took the show directly to the client and never looked back I'd love to elaborate
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by artsyca 7y ago
That's when done in a factory feature farm where you've already sold your control for the safety of a steady paycheck Try selling a really agile methodology to a client of your own before you jump on the turnip truck When done pro
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by artsyca 7y ago
100% agree learning is the core problem people in large organizations really don't know how to learn and the typical corporate environment is the perfect quasi academic environment geared towards pursuing metrics that amount to chasin
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by artsyca 7y ago
i.e. the 'hey I'm a billionaire / bond supervillain' look
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by artsyca 7y ago
As usual it involves making questionable fashion choices
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by artsyca 7y ago
The ultimate drawing course taught me a lot of helpful little tidbits that improved my drawing - https://www.udemy.com/course/the-ultimate-drawing-course-beg...
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by artsyca 7y ago
This is the sort of environment I had always envisioned growing up dreaming of being a software professional I've lost some colleagues along the way too you never know when it's going to happen every chance to speak should be trea
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by artsyca 7y ago
Love your cynicism bro but you gotta realize that's only the beginning of the realization you still haven't decided which pill you're going to choose
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by artsyca 7y ago
Or if you've ever read about the cooperation dilemma which is a variation of this conundrum
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by artsyca 7y ago
Actually this whole 1:1 thing is nothing but a prisoners dilemma played out over and over in various ways by people who claim to be experts in game theory but fail to recognize the game is playing them

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