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by dasmoth 9y ago
Give me (a realistic and workable level of) freedom, a living wage, and treat me right, and I'll stay here as long as I can. He agreed. Good on him. But I believe a fair number of institutions now have up-or-out type rules which exp
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I don't get this at all. Wouldn't the "nasty game" be to hire them then fire them after a few weeks because they don't bring the level of intrinsic motivation that the environment requires? Or are you saying that no
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I try to be equally clear when I'm hiring. I make it clear to the candidates that this is not a place for individualism, not a place for innovation, not a place for cutting edge tech. We are heavily team oriented, process oriented, CR
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I don't know how close the thing you read is to what's on slideshare, but the public version has a slide which explicitly addresses the "this is not for everyone" issue, and says they're trying to filter out the peo
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by dasmoth 9y ago
http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/lisp1.5
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I suspect a key difference is that the old Bell Labs wasn't beholden to excessive Professional Project Management running the show and making sure everyone has their nose to the grindstone at all times. I think that's true, and
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Agree with all of this. But there seems to be active distrust of coders working solo, both from managers and from other coders. There's a surprisingly strong perception the "a team" is the safe option.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
The people buying the automation are generally not the users. Those with purchasing authority probably already have a somewhat stereotyped view of the workflow in question, so selling them a rigid version may be pretty easy. And taking au
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Same goes for office automation in general. Technology have augmented human-unassisted output (well, in case of office automation a lot of that has been wasted on futzing around with fonts and so on, but still...). That's one issue t
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Any thoughts on what people who want to be generalists should be doing? The implication of some of that post would seem to be "leave".
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by dasmoth 9y ago
ultimately, this is why people are uneasy about unions.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
While I don't doubt that's true for some people, I'd argue that the precise opposite is also possible.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Yes, I've enjoyed collaboration -- but almost always when it's reasonably coarse-grained, i.e. split a problem up then go [at least] several days without constant re-synchronization. But still think the biggest satisfaction for me
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by dasmoth 9y ago
it's not just work it's teamwork That's clearly where many people find satisfaction, but when contemplating the future of work, please please don't overgeneralise. There's always been a group who find their sat
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by dasmoth 9y ago
That said, what's stopping remote engineers starting to work in expensive regions (say Vancover/Toronto) and then moving to cheaper regions (Saskatchewan/Manitoba/Alberta) for example - would salaries be adjusted every
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by dasmoth 9y ago
When I look around at the pro market that need fast machines I see people working with 3D/CAD, video and sometimes sound and pictures That's the market Apple have historically singled out, but it isn't the only "pro&qu
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I think most answers can be summarized as "When I'm left alone I get into the flow mode, and that's enjoyable". The same way I mostly get it when working together with a colleague on a problem. Both ways may not always
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by dasmoth 9y ago
whilst contemplating an entire career change To anything in particular?
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Not the previous poster, but I'd argue that being able to point to something meaningful (doesn't have to be the whole system, but a coherent component) and say "I made that" brings satisfaction that's hard to beat.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
If giving people private offices was much cheaper you'd never in a million years see a company accept the increased cost of an open office just because "it's good for collaboration". Were this testable, I'd absolu
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Thanks, that puts a slightly different perspective on things! I still feel there's a slightly-unfortunate ambiguity in the linked announcement post, though.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I realise this is being done with the best of intentions and will probably be a big net positive in practise, but something about the way it has been presented here rubs me up the wrong way. In short, the blog post makes very little mention
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by dasmoth 9y ago
To avoid that, you need to standardize on a blessed set of versions to be tested together, much like assembling a release of a Linux distro. That's pretty much the Stackage/LTS Haskell model. Seem to be working pretty well ther
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by dasmoth 9y ago
It's problematic because current business organisation fads seem to mean that anybody doing hands on work has to be "on a team". Recognising the existence of one-person teams might help a bit.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Fine grained efforts to "encourage collaboration" in places where it's not clearly needed is micromanagement. In fact, from an introvert's point of view, it could be the very worst form of micromanagement.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Sometimes that's the right answer, sometimes it's better to just hit your head against it for a while. (This can be an individual thing, I'm definitely a learn-by-doing type and need to be "spinning my wheels" som
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by dasmoth 9y ago
If you have to have fine-grained updates, this is so obviously the right way to do it that I'm startled it's not ubiquitous. (But if there isn't a compelling reason to be counting the days, it's still nice to have the op
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Where I work you just report to the tech lead every 2 or 3 weeks. Sounds pretty much perfect to me (although I also know people who would go stir-crazy like this...) Can I ask: what sort of company is this? Dedicated software operation o
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by dasmoth 9y ago
None of these specifically motivate daily being the right granularity. In my experience, the frequency seems to be more about maintaining a feeling of supervision.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I realise moderation is tough an never pleases everyone, but have to say I'm disappointed here: in some circles, "esoteric" carries some quite strong negative connotations, which I think are unwarranted here. Some of these la

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