azanar

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by azanar 16y ago
I never say "No". I just say, "Yes. And this is what it will cost you to do it right" You have a number of "this is what it will cost you" options which will only work if the party you are negotiating with is reasonable. There are teams
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by azanar 16y ago
That said, are you sure that is realistic, and not just engineer-is-totally-terrified-of-confrontation talking? I'd say it is more realistic in other places than it is in Japan and similar social cultures. The limiting component is one's
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by azanar 16y ago
That's exactly how software estimation works too. If you add something to the scope, it gets added to the budget. There's simply no room to do otherwise. There's a difference between the two examples in your metaphor which is extremely im
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by azanar 16y ago
There's a lot to hate in this sort of passive-aggressive yet obsequious stance of project management. It is akin to the Agile practice of nailing notecards to a wall, and then forcing a territorial pissing battle carried out on that same wa
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by azanar 16y ago
I think the economic analysis of this is incomplete. There is more to the cost of airing a pilot than just the production cost of the pilot, and this even assumes the network has agreed to assume the cost of that. There is the cost of linin
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by azanar 16y ago
I think it is a far more valid statement to say that demographics who use Hulu are a subset of the demographics advertisers will pay to interrupt with their message, probably enough of a subset that some advertisers just won't bother to adv
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by azanar 16y ago
For those who thought about applying and didn't, I sincerely say you should try as much as you can to overcome your doubt next time and send an application in. For those of you who applied, but were turned down, you should apply to future e
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by azanar 16y ago
If you needed further evidence, this suggests that there are ridiculous inefficiencies in matching up labor and jobs that you could make money solving. There are ridiculous inefficiencies, but they exist do to some completely screwed up a
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by azanar 16y ago
It is mind-numbingly stupid, because there wasn't much thinking involved in coming up with the policy. The companies who post this policy are simply codifying what individual resume screeners have done for eons now. People who screen resu
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by azanar 16y ago
An alternative (or even complementary measure) to strict abuse detection is graduated benefit reduction. Graduated benefit reduction might prevent the moral hazard, but it does so at the expense of introducing all sorts of assumptions abo
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by azanar 16y ago
I'm confused by how these are destructive thoughts. Unappealing, perhaps, and in that sense enough of the right sort of education will teach you not to have these thoughts. But that has no effect on the veracity of the claim. I think the ul
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by azanar 16y ago
Potatoes are not made up of refined carbohydrates. If I pull a potato out of my backyard garden, bake it, and then chow down, what part of that has been refined? There's as much fiber in a russet potato than there is in a half-cup of brown
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by azanar 16y ago
There really isn't a whole lot you can say; quips certainly won't help. The problem here is a fundamental misunderstanding by your new coworker of exactly how the employer/employee relationship works, as opposed to how he, or really most pe
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by azanar 16y ago
Turnover is the effect of one of a number of causes, and not all of them are indications of bad management or a bad company. It's possible the organization encourages people not to linger in the sense Alex Papadimoulis discusses in http://
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by azanar 16y ago
I think it is many times companies settle for hiring as many people as possible to get their profit margins slim. Do you have any insight about the motivation to settle for slim profit margins? This seems counter-intuitive, unless by shri
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by azanar 16y ago
Google uses startups for hiring inflow, I doubt they want to choke them off. They do this simply because that is the only way for them to either get the talent of the startup, or get a competitor to start working on their behalf. If the s
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by azanar 16y ago
Happiness and life fulfillment are very much found in the 9-to-5, pay-check-to-pay-check demographic of society. I wish this were true. The impression I get is more of numb, passive contentment, at least from enough people in this demogra
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by azanar 16y ago
You're right about the matter of wife and family, but not in way most people believe they are right about it. There is a wide chasm between finding joy in something, and feeling the compulsion to sacrifice for it. That you find joy in your
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by azanar 16y ago
I'm another one of the 69 people laid off today -- I lasted a little longer, 4 months. My condolences to you jemfinch, btw, and anyone else from Ning lurking on Hacker News. Not the best day for any of us. For those who might be recruiting,
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by azanar 17y ago
Good PMs will defer on technical decisions and be firm on business decisions. Bad PMs won't. The logical precursors of this is that technically minded people are either not capable of analyzing business decisions, or that they shouldn't b
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by azanar 17y ago
What developers need to always understand is that the PM's view is the business's view. I've never understood this bright line boundary between the patchwork of people that make up a technical group, and the patchwork of people that make
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by azanar 17y ago
However, to answer your question: if someone can determine whether you get to keep your job, whether you like it or not you are that person's subordinate. It's interesting how two different perspectives on what is largely the same arrange
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by azanar 17y ago
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/03/caring-f...
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by azanar 17y ago
I suspect more deliberately exaggerated than sarcastic. Many people tend to see deliberately introversion and aloneness as deliberate alienation. It's a cognitive leap that still confuses me; people assume a behavior that isolates the indiv
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by azanar 17y ago
I don't think it's sad; I think it is a matter of having motivations so disjointed that each side can't make sense of the other's enough to even begin a discussion toward understanding. I don't think that, even for people who actively sacri
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Curiously recurring template pattern(en.wikipedia.org)
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by azanar 17y ago
We also need more application (front-end) and platform (back-end) developers. People who are comfortable in both worlds are definitely welcome. Have a look at the job link posted by ohlol for descriptions of these positions as well.
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by azanar 17y ago
I think he is assuming way too many things to be constant, and then using that to justify his thesis of addressing efficiency concerns only just-in-time. The biggest concern I have is that he account nowhere for growth of that new feature
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by azanar 17y ago
It doesn't require you to install a second, shadow Perl, Python or Ruby in order to install other packages. Instead Homebrew uses the Perl, Python and Ruby that OSX already provides. (This may be a con, depending on what you think of Apple
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by azanar 17y ago
Hmm. Good point. This becomes a much larger problem if something runs things from /usr/local with increased privileges -- something from launchd run as root, for instance. I was originally thinking just from the perspective of the active us

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