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by dasmoth 9y ago
Yep, if you need to have developers working on-site, a Joel-esque layout is going to be hard to beat.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
It sounds uncomfortably close to "mediocre".
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by dasmoth 9y ago
You're definitely not the only one. Here's a question though: in a workplace with lots of space that's able to offer a choice of a small private office or a well-set-up desk in an open office for every developer, would you st
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Agree -- it's better than most (and good job fleshing out the design), but there does still seem to be an air of "let's make 1-person spaces undesirable because we don't really trust the minions to work without someone
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by dasmoth 9y ago
In a world where organisations want everything to be a "process", and broken down into tiny steps, it's useful reassurance that retreating to a darkened room (or whatever your preferred environment might be) and thinking thro
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by dasmoth 9y ago
As one commenter signed off: “Looking forward to one day reading a book by plant-light.” Count me in. Disappointing to see the shift away from the glowing plant idea, but sounds like there company isn't done yet.
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A Software Developer's Mac Pro(carpeaqua.com)
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I'm not sure that's the metric that motivates me: better to work heroically on an ambitious project which ultimately fails than to add tiny features to something popular-but-mediocre.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Yes, absolutely, I had meant to mention that one but got distracted. Although it does rather collapse with Java in my mind.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
What are you trying to achieve? Change the way you think about programming problems: Haskell Enterprise Development: Java. Maybe Scala? Apple Ecosystem: Swift (and actually, it seems like a kind-of pleasant language for general server-side
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by dasmoth 9y ago
300k pounds is roughly USD$600k I think; Oh, if only that were true! (It's less that $400k at current exchange rates, and arguably even that overstates the purchasing power). not exactly a "modest family home" in most of
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by dasmoth 9y ago
This is an exploratory document only and does not constitute a plan for any specific feature in any specific version of the Java Language. I hope it does go forward, though. Really useful feature, and given the constraints of the existin
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by dasmoth 9y ago
QA is disappearing because of automated testing. They are, and frankly it shows. Someday we're going to realise that (especially for tools that the developers can't or won't dogfood extensively) it's a terrible loss.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I kind-of wonder if a key point here is: Grooming newly trained engineers to be comfortable with a proprietary tech stack, a particular delivery cadence and a company’s cultural values results in a shorter and more seamless onboarding proc
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by dasmoth 9y ago
One of the best things about remote work is that it puts the responsibility for the working environment on the individual rather than the organisation. Agreed. But there are some surprisingly paternalistic views out there about employer-e
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by dasmoth 9y ago
How much do you think an island costs? Small ones are on the market for less than a modest family home in popular urban areas, e.g. http://www.orkneyproperty.co.uk/content/b7a2dd97-8b71-4b09-9... Much of the issue with
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by dasmoth 9y ago
If you have a dedicated home office where you can put your headphones Better yet (if you're one who like background music while working): a home office with speakers . Even nice headphones get uncomfortable after a while.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I found the first part, about the difficulties of attaining flow at home, pretty interesting. I have much the same problems while at the office (and while avoiding open-plan areas helps, all offices seem to be distraction factories to some
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I've been somewhat out of the Clojurescript loop recently, but this looks conceptually a lot like the om.next model ("colocated queries"). Makes me curious how many people are using om.next in anger. It's always seemed
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by dasmoth 9y ago
The donated telescopes were build for the Future Imagery Architecture project: http://www.space.com/16077-nasa-space-telescopes-failed-nro-program.html They're substantially newer technology than Hubble (which is
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Video from space has been done by civilian spacecraft, e.g.: https://terrabella.google.com/ We know that the film-return satellites were working in push broom mode (or "whisk-broom", as I've seen the K
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Is it though? DVD players conform to region code requirements. And at the time DVDs were launched, many in hacker/geek/whatever circles were pretty horrified by this development. To me, it's more than a little alarming how
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by dasmoth 10y ago
It's a useful tool (and huge thanks to those who built it -- and SlimerJS for that matter) but whenever I've reached for there's always been some issue to resolve, generally relating to the exact version and/or set of
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by dasmoth 10y ago
You spend 8 hours a day working. Why would you want to be isolated from other people? Some people (myself very definitely included) need some regular isolation. Talking to people all day at work leaves me very poorly prepared to deal wit
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by dasmoth 10y ago
When comparing this to today's workplaces, the most striking point is that they all had doors .
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by dasmoth 10y ago
humbleMouse's profile: "Mid-Twenties" So? S/he could well have 10 years of relevant experience.
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by dasmoth 10y ago
I pushed http://geekbot.io/ as an alternative for physical standups at my current place -- it's been generally well received, and when I've used it on short projects (that were set up a way that needed daily sync-
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by dasmoth 10y ago
It matters if you're trying to preserve some decent chunks of time for focussed work. And if matters if the standup is scheduled for 9am and you can't drop the kids of and be sure of getting in before 9.10 If everyone goes for lun
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Some advocates are pretty open about this: https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/ssssh....agile-is-all-about-micromanaging Interesting question is -- why is micromanagement by "the team" more palata
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Daily standups have been the most useful development I've seen in my 17 year career so far, I'm not sure why there's the hate for them. Two things that bother me: 1) You either have to hold them at the start of the working

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