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by ath3nd 3y ago
Disclaimer: Head of Engineering, been working in startups only. > In a startup, if you tell an engineer to do something and it turns out it's impossible I see a problem with that approach. To me, it's not about you telling the
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by ath3nd 3y ago
How is Signal a questionable technology? I do understand whatsapp and telegram though.
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by ath3nd 3y ago
I always find it fascinating the amount of large scale time waste corps are willing to commit themselves to just to prove to themselves that they are the ones running the show. Ammoral out of touch douches like this deserve all their worker
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by ath3nd 3y ago
I hate to point out the obvious, but expecting vision and compassion from the guys who make their workers pee in a bottle and work their factory workers to death is like expecting COP28 being hosted by oil sultans to focus on actual climate
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by ath3nd 3y ago
If it was meant to be a guidebook with examples, why all the fuss about it? You don't see people worshipping Cooking for Dummies, so why are we so cult-y about Scrum or The Phoenix Project. What's with the weird zen/Kung fu k
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by ath3nd 3y ago
I don't know, to me, that was not literature, but a guidebook with examples. Here is Bill, he's tired and overworked. If only he can focus on the important tasks and clear the clutter... Here is Security guy. He is grumpy and is i
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by ath3nd 3y ago
Let's throw the guide as well, cause it's the people reading the guide who made the ecosystem. If one is faced with a guide that essentially tells them: communicate well, don't be a douche, improve constantly, and do hard and
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by ath3nd 3y ago
I don't want to make an impact in any organization where experienced engineers are treated like children. So Timmy, what did you do today? Ah, cool, make sure to raise your hand if you make a boo boo, and involve your little buddy Mike
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by ath3nd 3y ago
I feel I have to respond to this, as the Phoenix Project is probably the cringiest book I ve read in my life, and I've read The Effective Executive... I just don't understand why we have to veil common sense practices (like contin
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by ath3nd 3y ago
I am convinced we are doomed, but still would like humanity to try something to mitigate the amount of hellfire that is going to rain on us in the not so distant future.
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by ath3nd 3y ago
Where I am at (Amsterdam), we see a slight awakening of the green voters, but that's drowned by the rise of right wing populism. In the last 5 years I became convinced that unless some very very very strong and forceful measures are ta
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by ath3nd 3y ago
In my experience, POs are a glorified middle man with an unclear role that acts like a mini CEO and just stands in between developers and the outside world. In their most useful, the best they can do is stay away and not bother the devs and
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by ath3nd 3y ago
For structured binary data, protobuf is, of course, probably a better fit than JSON. However, I don't think structured BINARY data is encountered as often on the interwebs as JUST structured data, and simpler textual formats like JSON,
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by ath3nd 3y ago
Protobuf is great, but wait till you hear about JSON! Jokes aside, while JSON is bulkier, binary protocols like protobuf, avro, thrift have one big penalty: they are hard to read/understand by humans without some tooling. The value of
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by ath3nd 3y ago
That's why there are guardrails like credentials scanning tooling, security trainings, SAST, code reviews etc. Additionally, most providers now provide out of the box tooling, see: https://docs.github.com/en/code-s
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by ath3nd 3y ago
I believe the CVE is this one: https://confluence.atlassian.com/security/cve-2023-22518-imp... , so since 31-st of Oct (at least that's when it was officially released to the public)
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by ath3nd 3y ago
At this moment, are we even surprised that big-capital-anything is doing amoral things in the singular pursuit of profit?
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by ath3nd 3y ago
> I don't see why it suddenly would now if we only want it hard enough. It wouldn't. It hasn't happened so far or at least what's been happening has been painfully slow. We don't have the time to convince mom-n-
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by ath3nd 3y ago
Guy, some men wouldn't stop beating their wives, and that's why there were (recent) laws where this is is a punishable offence. Or people dumping their garbage on the street. Or medicine companies cornering the market, filing a pa
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by ath3nd 3y ago
Or "my freedom to have a stash of 20 luxury cars that I never use because I fly with a private jet everywhere. I also own 20 mansions in 10 different countries, and a zoo (just cause)"
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by ath3nd 3y ago
This a typical what about-ism. The fact that there are other problems in the world doesn't invalidate the global warming/climate crisis. Interestingly, lot of those things are connected: Global warming is making droughts and flood
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by ath3nd 3y ago
The catastrophe is upon us now. Just look in the number, frequency and scale of wildfires, tsunamis, floods, etc. It's too late to put the genie in the bottle now, but if anything, the government of the world haven't been strict e
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by ath3nd 3y ago
I've been struggling with health/weight myself and stressful work + personal life. So I feel for you, what you are going through takes its toll on a person. It's also great that you want to change this, because you can. The m
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by ath3nd 3y ago
How is blindly emulating some practices that you just read about in a Scrum guide gonna contribute to the business goals of the company? The perversion of the industry is that sleazy manager/business/coaching/scrum types weas
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by ath3nd 3y ago
In my 15 years of experience in software engineering, I've never found it either. I have, however, wasted 1000s of hours playing with poker cards and Fibonacci numbers instead of actually working. But I get paid for this, so, I guess:
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by ath3nd 3y ago
We are talking about the people who: - were an instrumental part in creating Big Tobacco's strategy of "distract and create doubt, then delay, delay delay" - applied the same playbook with Big Oil - helped create the opioid e
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by ath3nd 3y ago
> Participating benefits your career. That means NOT participating hurts your career, or at least doesn't further it, which is the same thing. Career outlook should be dependent only on your performance at work, and requiring to do
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by ath3nd 3y ago
As someone who is also on the spectrum, the following common behavior in a company baffles me. The company will exhibit the following behaviors at the same time: - they will organize a bunch of social events, full of drinking and games, fly
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by ath3nd 3y ago
Very astutely put! > That is why I'm relatively certain at least some people will choose violence - the question is how many will follow them Judging by history, long periods of wealth disparity, inequality, hunger, authoritarianism
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by ath3nd 3y ago
I do something similar, but I have a late breakfast (like 10:00-ish, second meal is at 16:00 or latest 18:00).

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