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by artsyca 7y ago
You have to distinguish between yourself as Mr. Nice Guy Manager™ and management culture as a whole where incentives are so ass backwards that people are cutting off their noses to spite their face and kowtowing to a bunch of geriatric co c
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Look I realize you're being facetious but let's take this reasoning to its natural conclusion What's even more efficient and lets us focus even more on the task at hand? Company issue overalls and living in a company dorm You
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Bro the very fact that you're defending your right to wear your crusty cargo pants everywhere (to an interview for shame! Did you sleep in them the night before to shave off a few extra minutes?) shows that dress matters and it's
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Yes! There's an imbalance no call it what it is 1 > 1
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The very idea that there are two ends is your fallacy bro you are already putting yourself in the magnanimous role of giving something A 1:1 is inherently a meeting of minds where there is no power imbalance and genuine trust can develop Th
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I'm with you 1000% I hate one on ones they're for the manager caste to wash their hands of the blood from the front lines and find ways to sharpen their knives while you confess all your sins I'd like to see an organization w
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If there even is a she within a fifty metre radius yes I'm telling you that so called tech workers aka code monkeys have graduated straight from the dorm to the open office and have no clue about anything that happened prior to the inv
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What do you keep in your cargo pants anyway? Tater tots?
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Except dress technology
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Bro I use dress as a way to read people one way or another how you dress is how you play
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What else have you been doing the same way since the fourth grade?
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Chapium I'm glad you asked and I believe the explanation would fill a volume the size of the art of computer programming I want to encourage you to consider the sociological and epistemiological implications taking into account every r
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The word 'dress' doesn't appear once in this thread and that's a sign of the disgusting state of affairs all in itself It used to be people took care in small gestures like wearing a pressed shirt but now all the auspice
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The first thing we talk about is the clothing we wear to work, that is poignant A lot of tech workers would classify themselves as neither white nor blue-collar because they wear t-shirts thus eschewing the whole conversation whereas techni
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I've known this for ages it goes without saying that in real design when you show your work to another designer they're meant to find the one thing that sticks out and the more brutally honest the better
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Look https://www.popsci.com/story/technology/mcintosh-amp-factory... This is how software could be instead it's a joyless endeavour perpetrated by sexless beta humanoids at the behest of busy waiting plate sp
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by artsyca 7y ago
I've taken my learnings and rebranded myself as a hands on process and transformation consultant You'd be amazed how much value a truly agile workflow provides to the client relationship when centered on the principles of knowled
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It's the small things this whole industry is a toxic brew I'm sick of all of it
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Look the open plan works amazingly at libraries but there's one rule: no talking
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It's definitely the why for any particular unorthodox bits like shims hacks workarounds and the like The worst is finding some snippet from stack overflow or GitHub without a reference to the issue to back up why this thing is here or
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A rule of thumb I follow is that code is twice as hard to read as it is to write so comments may of course help but in the other case comments that have to overly explain what the code is doing or why it's doing it also indicate that t
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We're so quick to climb onto the corporate hierarchy even as we scorn the 'suits' and their corner offices Every dev has low level access at some point be it writing or approving production code where do you think the concept
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The tone of this conversation is wrong on so many levels Lower level can equally mean 'direct access' or 'service level' it doesn't have to be a corporate hierarchy thing
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Bro! Shoes with toes I'm dying -- he's got me nailed
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Dvorak in da house! Been down since 2003 after stumbling onto this article https://ma.tt/2003/08/on-the-dvorak-keyboard-layout/ Discovered WordPress that day too and the rest is aoeuidhistory
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All writing is rewriting and all factoring is refactoring it's a question more of how it's actually done i.e. in-situ or in parallel and of course there's no technique that's good or bad per se how many times have we all
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Or: are we letting our companies run us?
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There are a lot of thoughtful and insightful comments in this thread which I will look forward to reviewing with the care they deserve very grateful to each and every one even the downvoted ones which I can totally understand too In short i
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Ask HN: I don't want to be a worker any more I want to be a professional
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I want to wretch when I hear the prideful vocal fry of technology workers preaching with authority while talking out their asses

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