dogleash

22 ms·

331.
by dogleash 2y ago
>I see it all the time in large organizations, where different teams forget what the goal of the company is and instead get hyperfocused on their teams KPI's to the detriment of the company as a whole. I thought it was well understo
332.
by dogleash 2y ago
Dude, I'm not making a defense of mailing list workflows here. I'm just pondering the nature of the world where despite all the yapping about git I've seen floating around on the internet for as long as I've been lurkin
333.
by dogleash 2y ago
> It's always exciting to see new approaches to code reviews - GitHub has its strengths, but it’s far from perfect. This is nice sentiment, it's positive reception to an idea and polite to the incumbent. But it's so thorou
334.
by dogleash 2y ago
> Our industry needs to finish what it starts. "Our industry" is a pile of snakes that abhor the idea of collaboration on common technologies they don't get to extract rents from. ofc things are they way they are.
335.
by dogleash 2y ago
> IMHO it tends to create an expectation that all interesting and challenging work should be uncompensated The more significant contributor to that expectation is large commercial vendors using open source as a loss-leader or goodwill ma
336.
by dogleash 2y ago
Step 1. Think "this is probably fine" Step 2. Find out it's actually a fucking nightmare Step 3. Finally stop thinking everyone who worries about obstacles you assume don't happen are tinfoil hat weirdos. It's alway
337.
by dogleash 2y ago
> git is based on content addressable storage, so it makes sense that anything that is every public will never disappear. No. That doesn't make sense. It only sounds vaguely plausible at first because content addressable storage of
338.
by dogleash 2y ago
> # Reddit believes in an open internet, but not the misuse of public content. Calling it "public" content in the very act of exercising their ownership over it. The balls on whoever wrote that.
339.
by dogleash 2y ago
> Because I believe those work like smartphone fingerprint scanners, you enroll on the device and it’s just a hash. "Probably X, but depends on the implementation" isn't very reassuring. I, on the other hand, worked at a g
340.
by dogleash 2y ago
> 2) The fact that air passengers now know that a hijacking is not an inconvenience (or maybe a stop at an exotic destination), but is a death sentence. With any plausible armament that a team of hijackers could get into the cabin with e
341.
by dogleash 2y ago
Didn't the Open Source Definition start as the DFSG? You telling me Debian hates the Free Software movement? Unless you define "hating Free Software" as "not banning the BSD license", then I'll have to disagre
342.
by dogleash 2y ago
Defending yourself by clarifying you didn't do X, when the suggestion was that you did Y, always looks more sus than not saying anything at all.
343.
by dogleash 2y ago
The relevancy of advocacy groups is at an all time low because of just how little the professionally informed care these days. Tech was a "community" when the grifters slid in wanted something from the rest of us, and YOLO fuck yo
344.
by dogleash 2y ago
Of all my colleagues I've had the chance to have a real talk with, defense was the only vertical where the developers more-often-than-not had a robust understanding of the moral and ethical questions their products posed. I might disag
345.
by dogleash 2y ago
Nobel idea, never gonna happen. Media depicting the characteristics of life in various (types of) areas of the US are all simulacra. A lot of writers have the self-awareness to know this, but delude themselves that they're able to act
346.
by dogleash 2y ago
I dunno dude, I think it's just called blogging. Sometimes people like showing more personality and opinion than you get in other blogs that do super serious technical writing or thinly veiled product advertisement.
347.
by dogleash 2y ago
lol, boomers acting like bluechecks were trustworthy even before elon started selling them.
348.
by dogleash 2y ago
> If you don't pay enough money for a product that would sustain good customer service, you won't get it. If you do pay enough money for a product that can sustain good customer service, you won't necessarily get it then
349.
by dogleash 2y ago
Then they keep launching with lower strictness "because it worked last time" until something else fails. Feynman's section of the investigation report is basically the argument that's what was already happening at NASA a
350.
by dogleash 2y ago
Whoever wrote that section on wikipedia didn't do a great job. They're mentioned by name when they were against the launch, and they're "Morton Thiokol leadership" when they change their mind. It's technically
351.
by dogleash 2y ago
Yeah, they're risk analysts, not technologists. That's not inherently bad, you need those. In a previous life I worked in a domain with a lot of risk analysis, by the end I liked a lot of them and they were usually fairly easy t
352.
by dogleash 2y ago
> it's pretty obvious ...to you. Someone who lurks hacker news. Given what my some of the people I work with think AI is, I can't even imagine how bad it is out there.
353.
by dogleash 2y ago
I looked at their report. The year-to-year trend doesn't show COVID. 2020 looks like 2017. That's enough for me to write it off entirely, but I kept reading. It's surveying overall satisfaction, and what they identify as com
354.
by dogleash 2y ago
Self-diagnosing is just part of the current fad of credentialism in discussing the psyche. Nobody can exhibit a pile of adjectives. They need to be attached to a proper noun from a book to be acknowledged. If there isn't a proper nou
355.
by dogleash 2y ago
To answer your question for real: Yes, obviously. To answer your question practically: No, it's just a job, gotta pay the mortgage. And you know companies have a legal duty to be amoral in the quest for profit, right? We live in a time
356.
by dogleash 2y ago
>when do we get the next alias that has 24 episodes a season and 8 or 9 seasons When? It'll be 3 years late when you discover a cult classic that was canceled for abysmal ratings after 6 episodes. Which is why they'll never ma
357.
by dogleash 2y ago
> We are all goths now. I agree with the long tail part, but goths rose to a subculture status that most things never will again. A meme with a short shelf life is the most external acknowledgement most subcultures will see these days.
358.
by dogleash 2y ago
The article reads like kindness is only a correlated trait to what the author is actually trying to convey. To me this article is the same as any other basic "collaboration" explainer. I guess in cultures where a lot of external
359.
by dogleash 2y ago
> This is where it's actually interesting, it's not prototype -> live and boom. > It's the fifth mission or something, and worked for two years. Interesting how? I'm reminded of a quote from a famous failure an
360.
by dogleash 2y ago
The presentation of this article is confusing. Does the author or this researcher actually think this is novel enough to write about like this? Or are they just too embarrassed to have a single paragraph that translates roughly to "he

More ›