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by cntainer 4y ago
Interesting, building a team and operating as part of a now stable team ca be different affairs so that might be part of the issue. Anyway, the interest from other teams is a good sign that your skills are still valued elsewhere. Moving on
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by cntainer 4y ago
Does anyone in the team understand what you bring to the table? Is your contribution key to the team's success? If that's the case then the others could serve as promoters for your case in front of the boss who apparently doesn&#x
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by cntainer 4y ago
Not all writers apply the "Chekhov's gun" principle. Inconsequential details can be fun in stories but they're not always appreciated, especially not in non-fiction.
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by cntainer 4y ago
I guess it makes sense if the place is huge/hectic and you want to "industrialize" the serving of food while reducing mistakes (wrong table, wrong order, kitchen mixed orders, etc). It sounds "cool" when you say tha
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Software is a City, not a Building(ozdemirv.medium.com)
2 points by cntainer 4y ago|1 comments
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by cntainer 4y ago
I completely agree. From my perspective there's the day to day operational kind of feedback: "X, your latest change broke production the 2nd time this week, let's see what we can do to prevent that". This needs to be add
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by cntainer 4y ago
Any process can easily be abused, especially when the people responsible for driving the process are doing it for the wrong reasons I think that shouldn't discredit the original concept though. > My suggestion was to fire Jim but th
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by cntainer 4y ago
It really depends on the system. I agree that most companies tend to end up with a cesspool of middle-management political games but that's not something unavoidable. I've seen examples where the objectives of the management and t
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by cntainer 4y ago
The way I'm sharing it with the person being reviewed is: "This is all the feedback you got from people you work with", without attaching names to it. If I have reasons to think the person will take it personally or the way i
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by cntainer 4y ago
That's a choice not a law EDIT: in most successful teams I know manager and team are in the same boat
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by cntainer 4y ago
I think that's a matter of trust between the manager and his team. If the team culture is set for continuous improvement this kind of feedback should be considered normal. If an employee is at risk for termination that won't be de
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by cntainer 4y ago
I'm curious how this applies to employee performance reviews. Could feedback about what an employee needs to improve be perceived as criticism no matter how you try to frame it? What I noticed is that, when I have to review someone in
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by cntainer 4y ago
Honestly diversity is a good thing. It's good that different people are trying to solve problems at the heart of software in different ways as it creates new perspectives and possibilities. Now, after reading these replies I'm rea
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by cntainer 4y ago
I'm in the "continuously improve the team's process to best suit its needs" crowd. Sometimes TBD is the answer, sometimes you need something else. What I did notice is that, with time, mature teams end up simplifying pro
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by cntainer 4y ago
Well, I believe "absolutely doing it wrong" is a bit strong-worded. Of course you can do it like you said but that means longer feedback loops in general. If the team wants to integrate more often and reduce feedback loops then th
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by cntainer 4y ago
Wow, that sounds crazy. I'm curious what kind of system are you building and what types of tests are you running to get to those numbers.
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by cntainer 4y ago
Emphasis on all :). Of course the CI should always run them, but that should normally be as a confirmation/safeguard. I've seen too many cases where the devs wouldn't even run the code locally. They would push it and expect t
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by cntainer 4y ago
Well, how short the feedback loop needs to be is something that can be controlled by the process, and the team sets the process. I can have the normal flow, which takes minutes and runs all the tests and other stuff I might have on my pipel
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by cntainer 4y ago
I fail to see the point being made in the article. CI done right is the best thing that ever happened to me in terms of collaborative productivity. Of course there are many pitfalls. Like with any tool it becomes trivial to use it wrong. In
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by cntainer 4y ago
I don't want to admit it but I'm guessing this scenario happens more often in the real world. And I'm sure most Gordons would approve this behavior much more readily than the one described in the article. Is this some kind of
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by cntainer 4y ago
great, now I need a new branch of math to be able to continue, lol!
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by cntainer 4y ago
It does sound like overthinking to me, but context is king. Without context/requirements we're just guessing. Maybe the job interview is for Space X and they're working on some new system of mini-satellites-on-a-rope called H
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by cntainer 4y ago
Yes, but that's still a geometry problem. Don't get me wrong, geometry was my favorite branch of mathematics in school, but I don't see how this is relevant for most software engineering jobs. I guess this type of question mi
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by cntainer 4y ago
sure, the answer might seem counter-intuitive but the method to find the answer is not, as long as you know the connection between a circle's circumference and its diameter I still fail to see how this is relevant for a technical inter
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by cntainer 4y ago
add 6 feet to a rope around the world, stretch it out and how far off the ground would it be is this a technical puzzle/question? to me it reads like a middle school geometry question. it would be fun to discuss it with friends/
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by cntainer 4y ago
I thought the same before reading the article. After reading it I feel like Gattaca barely scratched the surface. It was actually a pretty tame movie. Some of the points made by the author are far scarier: gene editing startups with VC fund
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by cntainer 4y ago
I'm sure you can reduce bias in this way but it still feels incomplete. I'm thinking another (more efficient?!) way would be to teach interviewers to detect and manage their own biases, both positive and negative. For example if I
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by cntainer 4y ago
Won't the bias still be present in the report? For example if a candidate left a good impression on me I'll definitely make sure that the report captures that. Not because I'm a bad actor but because I don't know any bet
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by cntainer 5y ago
Better readability for fellow humans. I think these 2 quotes by matz describe best ruby's philosophy. > I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy. That is the
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by cntainer 5y ago
I've been doing something similar when coding. On one long-term project we even had special comments with an expiry date attached. Every time the build was running a script would scan all comments and print to output those comments tha

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