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by dasmoth 8y ago
A slightly different take on why scrum becomes micromanagement, which has always seemed revealing to me: https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/ssssh....agile-is-...
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by dasmoth 8y ago
It’s got a little bit of tech, but I can’t recommend “The Soul of a New Machine” (Tracy Kidder) highly enough.
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by dasmoth 8y ago
One track of pop, on repeat for the duration of the session. Today it was something by Dragonette, but that’s just what came to hand. After a few repeats, it becomes somewhat hypnotic, and something with human voices in is helpful for cut
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Snowdrops are white?
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Based on the title, I was nearly convinced that this would be about Arthur Whitney (author of the K and Q programming languages)
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Yikes, I had totally forgotten that term (which perhaps reinforces your point..)
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by dasmoth 8y ago
The alternative seems to be something like “people operations”. I don’t find that any more encouraging, really...
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by dasmoth 8y ago
BYOD resolves most of the factors that would make me want to provide my own office at home. If you’re reasonably happy with open-plan offices, that might be true. If you’re not... there seem to be few alternatives nowadays.
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Doing things independently. Especially things which directly contribute to the necessities of life. The (mostly fruit and vegetables) garden is going pretty well so far this year...
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by dasmoth 8y ago
I think this is true, but it’s also a bit frustrating in that it’s not at all obvious that programmers are building more or better stuff as a result of the “bad working environment” side of things. So can’t we just lose that? (It probably
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by dasmoth 8y ago
I believe Airbus have let the type certificate lapse. Nobody is allowed to fly them...
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by dasmoth 8y ago
King’s Cross is right next door and had turnstiles last time I was there.
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by dasmoth 8y ago
There’s a pretty strong social expectation of “getting a job”. When full time “working for the man” employment is what friends and family expect, it easily becomes the default. Mortgage lenders (and probably other financial institutions) a
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Oh, please please please. If it’s programmable (and they did a decent job of making the touchbar programmable), it could be an incredible tool. And while getting the haptic right is probably tough, I wonder if it could be in reach now (I l
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Certainly. Most around here (UK) tend to make more ornamental than functional stuff nowadays, but skills are definitely out there. This being a somewhat “horsey” area, there are also plenty of farriers. It’s also somewhat accessible to ho
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Pivotal is clearly a style that works well for some people. But couldn’t you categorise the constant pairing as a form of ongoin meeting? It doesn’t seem like the place to go if you want to be left alone...
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by dasmoth 8y ago
I already conceded the “tools” issue. That’s not necessarily a huge input though — good tools last a long time. Can you find a blacksmith who would trade tools for food? I’ve never had cause to find out but it wouldn’t shock me if you cou
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Imagine you had to harvest your own food, build your own shelter and manufacture your own clothes... you would not have time to be in Hacker News. Don’t be so sure about this one — there are a fair number of people who do grow much or all
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by dasmoth 8y ago
The linked article mentions “Whiskey Lake” as an intermediate 14nm range (actually it says “desktop”, but I’ve seen it mentioned in a laptop context elsewhere). But I fear you’re right that LPDDR4 support is still being left for Coffee Lak
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by dasmoth 8y ago
From what I understand LPDDR4 as part of Cannon Lake is directly affected by this delay. Do we have confirmation of this? It seems startling to release yet another generation of laptop CPUs without this... but I admit I can’t find anythi
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by dasmoth 8y ago
You’d be surprised how many places track hours worked. (Believe it or not, I’ve seen timecards in academia...)
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by dasmoth 8y ago
That would certainly seem like the ideal.
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Just because it's normal for shops to open early doesn't mean that people who work those jobs are less negatively impacted by alarms and sleep quality. I’m not at all implying that they aren’t. However, because shops are open f
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by dasmoth 8y ago
The downside of this is that the 9am-ers don’t get a solid stretch of focus in the morning. Have you considered an asynchronous status-reporting thing instead?
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by dasmoth 8y ago
What’s the reality here? Some sense of “fairness”? Because shop-workers need to work fixed hours, everyone should? You’re hiring developers to build software, not to be office furniture — do the exact hours worked matter very much?
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by dasmoth 8y ago
This is an interesting follow-up to the original example. I quite like the proposals he makes (although with some reservations about the extreme one —- some level of contact with end users is always valuable in my experience) However, rele
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by dasmoth 8y ago
That’s the one kind-of solid reason (albeit one which implies bad planning and/or inflexibility on someone’s part). But if so, you’d damned well better be giving anyone doing desk work flexible options for working remotely.
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Therefore once someone has an office, it's practically impossible to get them to not have one any more, even if circumstances have significantly changed. What sort of change are you imagining which means someone should stop having an
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Here’s what I like in a workspace: natural light, quiet, knowing that I won’t be interrupted if I don’t want to be, long blocks of time, and being comfortable and relaxed Sounds good to me. Is there some hope that we’ll see Y Combinator d
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by dasmoth 9y ago
A good pair of headphones can help a bit. If you’re not used to working with headphones, it might be worth trying that out in advance. What has changed that means you think you need to go back to an office?

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