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by dasmoth 9y ago
I’m a little surprised that a road link didn’t get at least slightly more serious consideration when the existing tunnel was planned. Certainly, in light of recent politics, I can’t help thinking that a road link would make “middle England”
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Not that strange — it was really the successor of the PDP-11, which was a quite different architecture.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I do to an extent, and certainly appreciate it! But it’s hard to disconnect completely when everyone else is at work. Having a corporate chat system doesn’t help in this regard, but even without that the interruptions come. A couple of tim
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I think the obsession of many modern workplaces with “team stuff” is making things pretty hard for some introverts. If I could work (truly —- i.e. no interruptions at all unlesss something’s on fire) solo for a couple of days a week, I sus
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by dasmoth 9y ago
In a mostly-synchronous society, “standard” working hours become somewhat desirable. Working 9-5ish typically maximises opportunities to see friends and family, and for parents it means they get to take advantage of free government-provide
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I’ve encountered developers who appear to advocate for JIRA. Pretty sure it’s not driven by “this product is a delight to use”, though, but rather a badge of honour saying “look, we’re professionals doing things properly.” Like the siblin
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by dasmoth 9y ago
“Skunk Works” by Ben Rich. It’s showing its age a little bit in places, but seems as pertinent as ever.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Sure. But keep that set to the absolute minimum.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
One reading is that if a lot of key decisions are being made in meetings you're already in trouble, and rather than trying to improve the meetings you should cut them down and -- as far as possible -- let individuals make decisions.
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Some excerpts from recent Alan Kay emails(worrydream.com)
337 points by dasmoth 9y ago|136 comments
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Can you be a bit more specific? I clicked through to some of the linked profiles and they broadly matched what I would have expected.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
What I want to learn: thinking in array languages. Have been curious about them for a while, but over the holidays went through Advent of Code in K/Q. Without much prior knowledge, some of my solutions ended up distinctly awkward,
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Beyond the computer and monitor: headphones; lip balm; couple of spare adaptors (I'm currently juggling two laptops, one which is thoroughly USB-Cified and one which... isn't); stud finder; pencil. It's relatively clear at t
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Treehouse had a (year-round) 4day/32hour week for a while. But seem to have abandoned it now... (I’m all for shorter work weeks but the seasonality of the Basecamp version seems to make a few assumptions...)
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Here’s one which isn’t exactly negative (and note that it’s hosted on their blog...) but does have an example of an employee running up against some limits. Found it pretty thought-provoking when originally published: https://m.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
but that time off cost me about $60,000 How did that compare with the costs you’d imagined beforehand? Were there any big-ticket costs associated with taking a sabbatical which you hadn’t expected?
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I’d add “The Soul of a New Machine” by Tracy Kidder.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
There’s an open source impl of an earlier version of K: https://kona.github.io/#/ There’s also a JS implementation that aims to implement K6: http://johnearnest.github.io/ok/index.html I don’t bel
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Aside: has anyone heard any recent news about the K5/K6 rewrites of the underlying interpreter? There was a fair amount of chatter about these a couple of years ago, but all gone rather quiet... (Some context: http://archiv
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Couldn't agree more. This does seem to be a relatively rare perspective right now, though. (Somewhat seriously) are you hiring?
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I’d flip this around and ask when did we start expecting kit to be so drab? This thing doesn’t hit the level of having, say, an SGI Onyx beside my desk, but did make me smile. I’ll remember that next time I need GPUs.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Try it before committing, and if you do go for a remote access system make sure that everyone is happy with it. Have you considered personal workstations on movable desks as apparently used by Valve?
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Writing novels has always been a primarily-solo activity. I don't see demand for those dropping off drastically. The guy who re-plumbled my house was working there alone pretty much all the time. That seems to be a common way of work
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I'm going to disagree here. It's entirely possible to work effectively with others via mostly-asynchronous communication. Open source projects, as you point out, can be a pretty good example of this. I'd further argue tha
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Thoughts on Full Time Pair Programming(wezm.net)
1 points by dasmoth 9y ago|0 comments
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by dasmoth 9y ago
This isn't much different than where quality of MP3 players, laptops and smartphones was headed. Perhaps quality then was being measured just by percentage of customer returns, not by customer satisfaction. Steve Jobs then changed the
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by dasmoth 9y ago
This doesn't quite say, but seems to imply, that if all software was written by people punching in and our every day and having no fun whatsoever, software quality should improve. I'm unconvinced by this argument. Maybe complianc
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by dasmoth 9y ago
How do you define software quality? Just off the top of my head, I can think of: * Defect rate (does it do what it's meant to do?) * Does it do what the user wants? (not always the same as the above...) * Is it pleasant and effici
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Every year we continue to exist, it’s a surprise(theguardian.com)
1 points by dasmoth 9y ago|1 comments
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by dasmoth 9y ago
For what it’s worth, I’d probably be more interested if it was something I paid for. Otherwise, ends up looking a lot like the existing contingency recruiter model.

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