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by dasmoth 10y ago
This makes a really interesting comparison. It's noteworthy that (fiction) writing hasn't gone down the "collaboration is part of the job"/"don't trust the coder hacking away by herself" wormhole that
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Office space isn't that expensive. While cost IS a factor, the idea seems to be going round that open plan is genuinely superior. (Although rarely so superior that the executives partake...)
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Good for you. I can assure you that there are plenty of people with kids who like this idea, too! But what's the justification for a more-than-pro-rata loss of stock grants?
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by dasmoth 10y ago
>>> Neither are people being highly productive without "adult supervision." This may be true, but it's frustrating when that just gets assumed.
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Certainly agree on the "less draining" part -- but I'd like to think I'm being paid for making stuff, rather than for ending the day shattered. Some employers seem to have different views, though.
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by dasmoth 10y ago
And, somewhat, tamed using tools like get-in and update-in. Clojure.spec is looking promising as a route for making this general style more robust without losing the ease and flexibility.
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by dasmoth 10y ago
The implication of those hours is that you go to bed pretty soon after finishing work -- how easy do you find it to wind down on a schedule?
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by dasmoth 10y ago
I'd agree with your final statement, but I don't see any connection between "full immersion" and eight+ hour days. Rather the contrary, actually. Three or Four hour stints of concentration are optimal for me, and seldo
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by dasmoth 10y ago
I have no objection to canabis or those who choose to enjoy it, but the idea that I might need psychoactives to handle the work environment -- even when I'm doing something I'm widely considered to be pretty decent at -- is repell
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by dasmoth 10y ago
I'm glad it's worked out for you. Not convinced this is really the "bootstraps" narrative, though -- isn't that more along the lines of "quit and get the job you want"?
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Thanks for writing this. I particularly like the suggested desk arrangement -- although I'm not sure I can see it catching on given that pairing is often coupled with long tables in open-plan offices. Once upon a time, I thought progr
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by dasmoth 10y ago
...but do hopefully see their families, at least for a bit, when they get home.
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by dasmoth 10y ago
No, it's not a crazy distance, but the time adds up by the time you've got to the airport, checked in, etc. He's also away from his family all week. Great if it's working out for him, but a little surprising to see it ju
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Sounds like heaven to me. Are there times you have to be available, or are you able to be entirely async?
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Yes, but so should the under-40s. (If this ends up as a threshold, it will become yet another factor encouraging the middle classes to delay having children...)
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by dasmoth 10y ago
>>> what surprises me, is that sometimes programmers ask for it. it illustrates how strong the desire is to follow the latest trend. While I'm far from a Scrum fan, it's not necessarily the worst thing in the world. For
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by dasmoth 10y ago
I reckon most experienced coders can cope with estimation when it's justified (i.e. "can we realistically get this done before <specific, real and externally-imposed, deadline>? And if not, is there a useful subset we can m
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by dasmoth 10y ago
>>> Scrum is intended to be the straightest line towards measuring your real progress on a project, and not much else There's slightly more to it than that: it also encodes an assumption that you're working with a single
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Pair programming, in this context, means two people sharing a workstation. No "single developer" code allowed, at least when it's taken to extremes. Agree with much of what you say and... >>> how do the introverts g
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by dasmoth 10y ago
In the UK, Acorn Computers were just hanging on (and working on one last RISC OS machine -- which sadly never saw the light of day). At least their CPU architecture lives on, which is more than can be said for many of their competitors.
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Anywhere that focusses on pair programming would be an obvious start. Similarly, watch out for use of the term "cowboy coder" applied to anyone who'd rather work through a problem in private rather than engage in highly coll
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by dasmoth 10y ago
A great read, thanks for digging this up. One thing that struck me was the comment that >>> Unlike operating systems before and since, CP/M was not the result of years of research by a team of software engineers. To me, 1997 s
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by dasmoth 10y ago
>>> bear in mind that you actually get less done in a 60-hour week than a 40-hour one On aggregate, sure (and for a lot of people in a lot of scenarios, the actual threshold is probably lower still). But there are outliers here --
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by dasmoth 10y ago
I get what you're saying, but it seems pretty dictatorial. Would you apply it to startup founds? Lone inventors tinkering in their basements? Musicians practising to be the best? It would seem to exclude trades like "work hard
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by dasmoth 10y ago
This, I think, is why it's so frustrating when occupations which have historically been fairly flexible and creative start to gain a lot of process and become more formulaic.
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Is writing "the average bizapp" as an SPA a bad trade off? Depends on the circumstances and the people involved, but it's certainly not clear to me that this is going to take more time, or entail more risk, than writing an &
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What “full stack” really means to the job market(chrismm.com)
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by dasmoth 10y ago
Given that 8 hour workdays generally seem to involve a fair amount of faffing, and a fair number of people report diminishing returns beyond about 6 hours, what are those 10 hour days like? Does the expectation of a long weekend get everyo
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by dasmoth 10y ago
With the four-day-weeks in the summer, it's really ~32 days (albeit with some restrictions on when you take them). They also mention "a few personal days" -- so call it 35 total? I've seen few places offer more than th
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by dasmoth 10y ago
It's on top of their basic vacation (which, at 3 weeks, isn't stellar, but is better than many US jobs), and the implication is that you take it all at once -- so not to be sniffed at, I'd say. It's not really equivalen

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