artsyca

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by artsyca 6y ago
Make the change easy -- then make the easy change They're probably waiting until it goes away on its own as all epic bugs do
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by artsyca 6y ago
Dude I spent a large portion of my early career as a web developer making rounded corners on divs using all sorts of kludges
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by artsyca 6y ago
Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, the Medici, Nintendo and Apple in the early days, a lot of Canadian and probably American banks in the sixties and seventies and eighties.. Airlines before the economy model.. Lots of iconic hotels and restaura
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by artsyca 6y ago
There are no great companies left and everyone of any worth evaporates and ends up "working for themselves" and employee mentality has made most corporations into dystopian surveillance states where management rules by force of me
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by artsyca 6y ago
Have you ever personally had a long term career in a corporation that somehow managed the escape velocity to actually become something other than typical? i.e. typically toxic and bound to these laws?
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by artsyca 6y ago
I hear you bro then we can call ourselves a professional team -- don't even stop there! Let's dress as a team and wear a uniform too I mean that with no hint of sarcasm most people can't draw the line between casual and toxic
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by artsyca 6y ago
I'm reading 'The Culture Code' and from what it says all elite teams qualify themselves as family That most corporations fail at it doesn't mean it's not the ideal
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by artsyca 6y ago
Yes I've suffered the same - farsightedness making it hard to focus literally and a slight astigmatism where one eye focuses a little better than the other combine to increase fatigue and make prolonged writing very difficult With glas
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by artsyca 6y ago
I'll elaborate -- The first one was a large bank doing agile by coercion aka forced sprints to hell A bunch of diddling directors convinced an airhead VP that it would boost productivity and then they got an army of middling managers w
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by artsyca 6y ago
Are you referring to the differences between leftists and fascists or do you still believe that any ideology is anything more than a blatant power grab? Tell me O noble throwaway warrior Edit: Fuuuu this is the comment that brought you ou
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by artsyca 6y ago
Another my work is my hobby cat
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by artsyca 6y ago
I've walked away from tons dude two mega corporations and an agency and at a heavy personal cost may I add but what choice did I have? Selling my ethics was too high a price Listen every large organization becomes a leftist surveillanc
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by artsyca 6y ago
When every comma and semi colon in a document of code can be a potential Chesterton's fence you have to wonder how any progress can ever be made
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by artsyca 6y ago
Hear hear and that is usually some trifling corporate rumour that keeps circling and lending itself legitimacy but nobody recognizes as hearsay and everybody accepts as fact
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by artsyca 6y ago
Or a canine chasing tails
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by artsyca 6y ago
False corporacy makes people do stupid things A casual company culture is an implied pungent disregard for others and it comes with its own pungent smell of entitlement too
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by artsyca 6y ago
Did you ever think you'd get here when you were a kid building spaceships out of lego?
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by artsyca 6y ago
Inefficiency is a form of stupidity and always being busy is a form of inefficiency
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by artsyca 6y ago
Yea the downvotes are designed to create a climate of fear https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3bjpj/amazon-vp-tim-bray... Look it's made the cool kid news
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by artsyca 6y ago
Somewhere between university and the present day we went from being idealistic to realistic to defeatist and the tone of this conversation stinks of pre-covid stereotypes let me guess you enjoy the free coffee and casual culture too much to
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by artsyca 6y ago
A lot must be getting leased and returning as used cars I'd venture the average life is within ten years even though with proper care a Toyota could ostensibly go for a lifetime
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by artsyca 6y ago
He talks! Isn't that the whole point of casual culture? When you come up short you can protect your self by saying oh well at least we didn't try our best
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by artsyca 6y ago
Did they have a casual company culture?
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by artsyca 6y ago
Hey bro humans suck at corporacy I'm 42 and at the top of my game as a professional You gotta see your work as an investment and not as an exchange of time for money as seems to be the governing consensus I'm so sick of the tropes
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by artsyca 6y ago
Amen! A component is like a bag of poop an HOC is a double bagged dog turd with a poorly documented interface
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by artsyca 6y ago
The mythical person-delight-hour
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by artsyca 6y ago
As a recommendation I'd suggest the typing of the dead hands down the funnest way to learn touch typing as well I recommend the DVORAK key layout because it's much more suited to touch typing as one's hands require far less t
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by artsyca 6y ago
I'm calling bullshit on this because without the cafeteria worker the whole place would be a cockroach infested dump with moldy lunches in the fridge It's a fallacy to view anyone's work as less valuable when contributing to
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by artsyca 6y ago
If you're serious about typing ditch the QWERTY layout and learn something that's actually optimized for the language of your choice it's so naive to attempt mastery of a broken paradigm without ever questioning that paradigm

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