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by dasmoth 10y ago
Something where I can immerse myself into a project for at least a few weeks without needing regular state-exchange with others. I thought programming was the thing, but does seem to be moving in a rather collectivist direction right now.
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Pretty much this, I think. The trouble I run into is that there seem to be people rather eager to create process for any field where there's much money to be made. That said, areas like agriculture do look kind-of enticing.
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by dasmoth 10y ago
>>> Google is trying hard to make it's hiring and promotion process objective and unbiased. That's why they happen by a commission of peers. How on earth does this follow? I know that peer review is in fashion right now,
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by dasmoth 10y ago
As someone who generally wouldn't look at large companies, that does make FB sound kind-of interesting. One question: how much emphasis is placed on day-to-day visibility? Is it legitimate to hide in a corner for a few weeks trying so
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Outside of cities, I'm pretty certain that I could be happy in most of the not-stupidly-hot world. In practice, probably England/Wales for family reasons.
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Moonlighting managers ain’t got no time for bullshit(m.signalvnoise.com)
4 points by dasmoth 10y ago|0 comments
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Ah, makes sense. Thanks.
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by dasmoth 10y ago
>>> * Who reads your team's pull requests? (worst answer is "nobody", 2nd worst answer is "the team"). What's the best answer you've heard for this one?
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by dasmoth 10y ago
My phone number certainly isn't public information!
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Suspect the source is http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/8963177... or similar.
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by dasmoth 10y ago
A large part of my mind agrees with you 100%. There's a little voice in the back of my head saying "isn't that effectively what Lotus Notes was trying to do"? (...which doesn't mean it's a bad idea...)
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Interesting way of thinking. I'd add Agriculture and Cooking, too. Maybe also Medicine. Edit: and writing?
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by dasmoth 10y ago
How many of these still have substantial unrealised potential? For example, thinking back through various organisational Wikis I've encountered over the years leaves me thinking that practical Hypermedia needs a little bit more work ye
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by dasmoth 10y ago
I broadly agree with this, and nice to hear from people who've made it work. But how feasible is it to do this today when so much of the current crop of advice seems to be teams-over-individuals, nobody-is-indispensible messages tellin
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Libraries have slightly different rules to the average open plan office: in particular, there's a fairly strong expectation of silence and if you can hear people talking in the distance, it's relatively unlikely that the convers
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Keeping an open office quiet is certainly helpful, but for some people it's visibility rather than noise that's the biggest impediment to concentration. If you have to do it then maximizing the number of "back to a wall&qu
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Holding a Program in One's Head(paulgraham.com)
4 points by dasmoth 10y ago|0 comments
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by dasmoth 10y ago
It's not out of the question that they might. Although there's a countervailing view that humans motivated by passion perform better -- perhaps dramatically better -- than those who feel like cogs in a machine. Either way, it&#x2
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Those words don't even appear in the essay. It's targeted primarily at "administrative" jobs -- and I'd say it's well worth a read.
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Ctrl-F "team"... Actually, fewer matches than I might have guessed, but even so there seems to be a great deal here about teams and interactions and very little about letting smart individuals get on with things in private spaces.
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by dasmoth 10y ago
It's a couple of years since I read that article but I'm pretty certain top chefs -- who work directly on products that people clearly want a lot -- are the exact opposite of the kind of alienated work Graeber had in mind.
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A team of one(blog.jpl-consulting.com)
3 points by dasmoth 10y ago|0 comments
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by dasmoth 10y ago
I realise that async communication isn't for everyone, but personally I'd pick it every time. Discussions where people get some time to think over and edit their replies are so much more enjoyable.
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by dasmoth 10y ago
There are different models for joint authorship. Some are pretty course-grained. In a lot of cases even if the writing used is pretty collaborative, one author does a final editing pass to come up with an integrated end product. From wha
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by dasmoth 10y ago
That "save 90%" seems to be ignoring any possibility that the original developer might have a comparative advantage.
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Quite. There does seem to be a lot of resistance to the idea of handing problems to solo programmers right now though. Any hints as to how you've made this work?
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by dasmoth 10y ago
>>> Do you enjoy not having any sort of best practices process defined in the tool To be absolutely honest: yes.
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by dasmoth 10y ago
>>> The amount of busy work and slop and inefficiency it allows... (Disclaimer: I've not used it in a business setting, but do roughly know my way around because we have a "family Basecamp" for some projects) Have yo
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by dasmoth 10y ago
One reason to want to do a startup (in the abstract) is because you're unhappy with the degree of autonomy at most 9-5 jobs. I somewhat think a bootstrapped-profitable business might be a better route though, if you can manage that.
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Agreed, and would probably go a bit beyond "minor". Other chat systems offer the ability to attach a message to your AFK status, which can be pretty helpful for setting expectations about when you might be back. Last time I looke

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