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by dbrueck 4y ago
OKRs just seem like another attempt in a long line of failed attempts to make development costs more predictable. I applaud the effort, but at any company I've worked, they've always turned into a stick used to beat on the underli
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by dbrueck 4y ago
This time around at least, you should do it yourselves. It's rewarding in its own way, it's incredibly educational and eye-opening (especially wrt taxes), and there's a decent chance you will otherwise undervalue that role.
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Pretty sure I'm not lying to myself, thanks.
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by dbrueck 4y ago
>> One of the biggest reasons for going "unlimited PTO" is that there's no accrual, therefore they owe you nothing. > IMO that's the only reason for employers to offer "unlimited PTO" schemes. I think
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by dbrueck 5y ago
It already IS a nonprofit. /rimshot
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by dbrueck 5y ago
Yes! I keep a per-project journal file in each project's repo and it's so helpful when you end up having to take an unexpected break to bringing yourself back up to speed on why you made certain decisions or what the overall statu
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by dbrueck 5y ago
The cost/benefit ratio would be way off though. The article mentions one of the proposals that Linus shot down "because it did nothing to prevent future problems from being introduced". Were they to use C++ in the kernel they
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by dbrueck 5y ago
Or a SpaceX drone ship!
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by dbrueck 5y ago
A scary possibility is that it has to do with how much of the alternative you've experienced in your life, i.e. infinite scroll grabs you less if you've experienced the joy of a hobby, a good book, being outside a lot, etc. - thin
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by dbrueck 5y ago
Hmm... maybe. Since we're generalizing, I'll throw another generalization on the pile. :) Most parents are slow to react to these problems but, once they do react, they want fast results and so they are tempted to reach for action
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by dbrueck 5y ago
My two cents: kids can not do this on their own, and the comparison to drugs is apt. I think as parents the goal is to teach the kid the risks and the importance of limits, and then help them over time learn to manage it on their own (i.e.
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by dbrueck 5y ago
Haha, I'm definitely thinking of the issue; I've raised several kids and this is stuff we dealt with all the time. It's not easy and as a parent you screw up a ton because you're usually figuring it out as you go and mak
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by dbrueck 5y ago
At the risk of oversimplifying: if you have a problem with something but the kid does not see it as a problem at all, and it doesn't give them much pause that you consider it to be a problem, then that's a problem. :) Any rules yo
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by dbrueck 5y ago
> I've totally failed with my four step kids (15-23) I don't know you or your kids, but I can almost guarantee that this is not true at all, so please don't tell yourself that. You don't take credit for their good tra
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by dbrueck 5y ago
Just to break it down a bit more (and with this particular article we are speculating some since there aren't a lot of details, but the situation in the article sure looks similar to what parents deal with a lot): 1) With anything, it&
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by dbrueck 5y ago
4 kids, 18-26 years old.
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by dbrueck 5y ago
Yes, thank you for saying it more clearly than I did.
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by dbrueck 5y ago
A good starting place for assessing is on communication-related things like: do we regularly just talk with our kid? How does that go? Are we able to talk about anything it depth or is it just superficial "how was school today" st
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by dbrueck 5y ago
Parenting is hard, but if you ever find yourself in a situation where you are doing weird stuff because your kids completely disregard family rules, just stop. There are more fundamental issues that need to be addressed first, and your kids
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by dbrueck 5y ago
I'm hesitant to write this because of the potential responses, so let me start with this caveat: I know many people are doing their best and are still barely scraping by, and that what I'm writing below does not apply to many peop
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by dbrueck 5y ago
On a small scale, this is exactly why when I'm stuck on a development problem (an elusive bug or trying to hammer out a good design), a thorough email about it to a colleague often provides the breakthrough. Because you're taking
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by dbrueck 5y ago
Cool tech + crappy business model = little interest from consumers. Early on it was sort of described as a Netflix for games, but instead it became a thing where you pay full price for games, and maybe also a monthly subscription. Or someth
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by dbrueck 5y ago
> On native apps, there's no scary warnings That's not really relevant because the content is delivered the same way to native apps as it is delivered to the browsers as there are huge advantages to using the same tech and the
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by dbrueck 5y ago
These days it is nearly 100% of the time because browsers will put up lots of scary warnings for non-HTTPS requests (and most video these days is delivered in chunks over HTTPS instead of custom or lower-level protocols).
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by dbrueck 5y ago
It is somewhat rare but not entirely unheard of for carriers to have agreements with the major streaming providers, and so in some cases the streaming provider will actually aid in the process. Most of the time, however, this isn't nee
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by dbrueck 5y ago
Can confirm. I successfully got off cocaine by replacing it with heroin and it was as easy as pie.
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by dbrueck 5y ago
> I would appreciate a trigger warning before people use the word Curious to know what you mean by this. Are you literally asking that people say/write "trigger warning" (or something to that effect) before a certain word
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by dbrueck 5y ago
Interestingly, according to the article, it was the decision to limit it that led to its popularity.
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by dbrueck 5y ago
Came here to say this. This is my most common use of metaclasses, and __init_subclass__ looks to be a much cleaner solution.
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by dbrueck 5y ago
> The sustainable path is commission-based works which could extend to patronage I'd be curious to see how this would play out - maybe it'd be great, I dunno. I do wonder, though, if approaches like this discourage people from

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