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by artsyca 7y ago
Add to that standing orders to 'move fast and break things' -- this is just the same corporate shit warmed over that keeps people comfortably numb and confused about whether to lead follow or eat a donut
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by artsyca 7y ago
I feel you on this Angeo34 -- even the ancient Greeks guarded citizenship and the right to vote very closely, I'd venture closed democracy is the only democracy And I totally understand the irony of what you're saying -- the downv
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by artsyca 7y ago
Yes! Add to that fixer, tinker -- as knowledge workers, our role is to create knowledge and disseminate it into the organization which is frankly the hardest task in the world, especially when we're working against our own selves
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by artsyca 7y ago
Yes I'm sure that's what was going through Turing's mind when he solved the enigma -- let me save freaking Western civilization so I can be forced to suicide and all these millennials can come and get free lunch from their be
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by artsyca 7y ago
Yea but you're selling yourself and all of us short -- you're either a hacker, a poet or a craftsman, haven't you heard?
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by artsyca 7y ago
Top two posts on hacker news today -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21302498 ^ this is the other one, wherein the second line of the article states: 'As programmers...'
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by artsyca 7y ago
The software profession has been corrupted and utterly misdirected by the entire management industry that has been built around it -- it sounds like you've got the beginnings of enlightenment brewing inside of you and I invite you to u
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by artsyca 7y ago
Here we go again with downvotes-as-disagreement; completely understand the sentiment behind this post and it ought to read 'proper' business, not mutual exploitation You'd think all the free thinkers on this website would und
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by artsyca 7y ago
Why couldn't they call his bank and get them to contact this fellow?
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by artsyca 7y ago
Yea, the minute the managers stick their beaks in the whole vibe turns sour
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by artsyca 7y ago
Another cue I want to offer you is `The Donation Game` which is a variation of the Prisoner's Dilemma[1] -- Treating a business dealing as a game perhaps it could be viewed as a variation of the Prisoner's dilemma or Donation game
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by artsyca 7y ago
I know it's crazy, but there are psychological, sociological, anthropological and other reasons, all of them perhaps anecdotal or circumstantial and it takes a mental leap in order to get the point -- that's actually a good thing,
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by artsyca 7y ago
And furthermore, of course you can justify 'they're just people' but by virtue of their position, they are to be held apart and to a higher standard than ordinary people -- they are in a position of authority and leadership!
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by artsyca 7y ago
Like I mean most all tech execs dress as some variation of Marc Benioff of Salesforce .. unbuttoned shirt, jacket, looking like they just came out of the shower My question is how many are doing that because they are simply copying each oth
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by artsyca 7y ago
Are you referring to Jack Wolfskin? Yes it's not something that might be consciously noticed but 100% it's picked up by the subconscious and in post-processing this CEO is going to be a blur with all the other tech execs who flash
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by artsyca 7y ago
This argument is somewhat metaphysical but it strikes at the core of the tech industry as it stands now -- the question of being overdressed vs underdressed, of fitting in vs standing out It seems that the safe and generally accepted path i
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by artsyca 7y ago
You might believe that questions of this nature don't belong on HN, but they certainly do when viewed from the perspective of semaphores -- human beings are going to communicate on all possible wavelengths and that includes the visual
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by artsyca 7y ago
Let me give you an argument from a functionalist perspective, as a designer -- If you're never going to wear a necktie, why bother ever wearing a collared shirt? The collar is in place to hold the tie, you don't need a tie, you do
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by artsyca 7y ago
I'm utterly tired of the way tech executives are dressing nowadays; this audience clearly doesn't believe it matters in the slightest, but I'm challenging anyone to come up with some inkling of why it actually might --
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by artsyca 7y ago
I'd venture that if Google, Amazon or Microsoft were to buy Docker, it would also be so that none of the others could buy them?
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Docker is in trouble(zdnet.com)
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by artsyca 7y ago
Classic situation faced repeatedly throughout one's career -- I used the word nuance just yesterday! Lest we forget, stack exchange is already rising from the ashes of the 'Experts Exchange' if anyone remembers that --
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by artsyca 7y ago
As well, even if you yourself disagree, can you imagine that some percentage of human beings might disagree with your disagreement? I view humans in a systems-based perspective, you can't possibly assume everyone thinks the same way yo
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by artsyca 7y ago
I'm of the opinion that sharing code is the most intimate act that people can engage in, it's like writing a story and you both have to agree on the plot, the characters, the layout.. now you might say you can spend 8 - 10 hours a
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by artsyca 7y ago
Let me give a little anecdote -- Apparently according to a previous post, there are three tribes of programmers[1] The hackers, the makers and the poets In my view there are actually other tribes, for example `the fixers` which I personally
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by artsyca 7y ago
It's like a git repo.. you can check out, but you can never leave
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by artsyca 7y ago
I too like the word professional very much, to me it means that I'm staking more than my reputation on something, I'm staking my clients' reputation as well I've made many sacrifices along the way to call myself a profes
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by artsyca 7y ago
bigred100, you've expressed the general consensus and I can't disagree with you, most of us are mildly detached and don't care about the 'soft' stuff but.. like.. hmmm.. all things considered, if you were to be paid
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by artsyca 7y ago
Hear me out: assuming we have some kind of freedom and actually choose to work at a company and we're not slaves -- We are investing the vast majority of our efforts on work, even 8 hours per day, not to mention most of our productive
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by artsyca 7y ago
Work people ought to be closer than family and friends if you really think about it --

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