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by dfcowell 5y ago
1. Set an agenda and share that agenda with participants in advance, 2. Make sure the agenda includes specific desired outcomes (e.g. We will decide on the scope for release x and choose what gets dropped,) 3. Keep meetings short. Likely, y
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by dfcowell 6y ago
I think the difference here is that Linus was at least self-aware, humble or critical enough of a thinker to realize that his behavior was problematic, state the fact plainly and take responsibility for changing it for the good of the comm
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by dfcowell 6y ago
I still occasionally stumble on the sequencing of arguments for chmod/chown and I can’t tell you off the top of my head which demands -r or -R. I’ve been doing this for years.
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by dfcowell 6y ago
Challenge accepted. Do you have an example?
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by dfcowell 6y ago
"I made the query for X, an operation that is performed Y times per day, Z% faster resulting in N% increase in Xs performed daily. This meant we could (defer hiring additional headcount|do more <profit-generating/cost-limiting
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by dfcowell 6y ago
Most of that information is available in the initial report linked to in the first paragraph of this blog post: https://github.blog/2021-03-08-github-security-update-a-bug-...
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by dfcowell 6y ago
This sounds like ActivityPub?
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by dfcowell 6y ago
Mini/micro-HDMI are plenty slim enough.
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by dfcowell 6y ago
Every single dongle I’ve used, without fail, runs stupidly hot and inevitably has random failures within ~6 months (display channels drop out, network adapter disappears, USB devices chug) and concentrating all peripheral load into one port
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by dfcowell 6y ago
So I can port doom to gnu printf?
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by dfcowell 6y ago
I reply only because I can’t downvote. Satoshi is a common name in Japan. I work with a guy by that name and know several others. This says more about your own bias than it does about the title.
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by dfcowell 6y ago
This is another entry for the “things you can do” list... Contest unjust fines. I’ve received 4 parking fines in my life, all were for parking somewhere that had no signage or had signage that permitted my behaviour. All 4 were successfully
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by dfcowell 6y ago
It’s impossible to give a rational answer for this question. There aren’t any general OKRs or KPIs for software engineers (or most roles in a business) because there’s no business where the raw work product of an individual is an indicator
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by dfcowell 6y ago
In Australia at least you can claim a tax rebate if you have private health insurance. I imagine the UK would have a similar system.
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by dfcowell 6y ago
The most interesting thing about the YouTube outage for me was that attempting to play a video would result in my cooling fans spinning up to max while the loading spinner looped in the background. Closing the tab they spun down to normal l
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by dfcowell 6y ago
For what it’s worth, you aren’t invisible.
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by dfcowell 6y ago
Slingbox is a brand of Sling Media. A brand which appears to be getting killed off.
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by dfcowell 6y ago
Namespaced system labels (e.g. gmail:trash, gmail:bin) with one canonical representation which is actually stored in the database, these can be aliased in the backend to all of the localized labels. Custom user labels can be arbitrary, non-
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by dfcowell 6y ago
100% this. That omission took the 12 from an insta-buy to an "I'm probably going to skip this gen."
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by dfcowell 6y ago
Watching this with interest. I’m living in Tokyo and would like to undertake a similar project.
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by dfcowell 6y ago
We're going through this at my company currently. The best way to increase the capacity of a small team is to decrease their maintenance burden and the surface area they have to cover when implementing new features or changes to a comp
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by dfcowell 6y ago
You will see a sunset behind you.
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by dfcowell 6y ago
This is fundamentally missing the point about what story points are, and goes to show you’re unfortunately stuck in another of the many companies using them poorly. Many (poor) product managers look at velocity dropping and blame the team,
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by dfcowell 6y ago
> whereas pilots take almost all information from looking at the dials. Under normal operation, yes, a lot of information is available there however all pilot training is underpinned by learning to fly the plane by eye, without relying o
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by dfcowell 6y ago
That absolutely does still work. Used it a few times today.
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by dfcowell 6y ago
> It is feasible to know everyone's destination station at the time of boarding. I challenge you to find a mechanism that works for this and is quick enough to keep up at rush hour in the average Tokyo train station. Additionally, p
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by dfcowell 6y ago
I’ve found this to be a common trait amongst most authors I reach out to when commenting on the specifics of their work.
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by dfcowell 7y ago
Or a whole bunch of scared people were trying to do something to help their family back home. I'm an expat, living abroad, with a large group of expat friends. Everyone is doing the same thing - thinking about what resources we have ac
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by dfcowell 7y ago
I can highly recommend “The Culture Map” which I’m about half way through right now. Really helped me wrap my head around this, and other cross-cultural communication pitfalls.
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by dfcowell 7y ago
Thanks for the question - for clarity, this is the file I'm referring to in this reply: https://github.com/Viveckh/Veniqa/blob/develop/shopping-serv... 1. The service is a leaky abstraction, it know

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