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by ebiester 5mo ago
I have all the empathy for people in the world. A corporation is not a person. If your organization cannot handle the load, then you need to adjust your practices. The organization needs to prioritize their paying users. The organization ne
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by ebiester 5mo ago
I wrote about this - https://www.ebiester.com/agile/2023/04/22/what-agile-alterna... - Royce was describing what he saw as an anti-pattern that it was risky and invited failure without iterations. (and m
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by ebiester 5mo ago
This is a particular artifact of the government system process. These are contracted pieces of work that Company A would deliver, Company B would administer, and Company C would be contracted out for additional work. Further, all specificat
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by ebiester 5mo ago
Oh certainly - I'm conflating the adjective of agile with the manifesto of agile. I've been on projects with multi-hundred page design docs and multi-week UATs. And nobody wants to go back to prince2 for example. The point I was
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by ebiester 5mo ago
There is a lot of room to reevaluate the lessons of software development pre-web in the context of the current environment. Like, if waterfall of a project can be done in 2 weeks, is it agile now?
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by ebiester 5mo ago
Go look up "Tokenmaxxing." Yes, it's as stupid as it sounds.
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by ebiester 5mo ago
Missing here: some organizations were rewarding high token usage as productivity without critical evaluation. People were afraid to be in the bottom because outcomes weren't being measured. It is a giant Goodhart's law lesson
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by ebiester 5mo ago
Can I rephrase it slightly? Humans have some repeatable bugs in our wetware, and it can be predictably exploited in a way that is hard to correct. It isn't "some people" - it's all of us, and the moment we think we'
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by ebiester 6mo ago
Business/Enterprise accounts are billed at $20/seat + API prices, not subscription prices. You can give them a monthly dollar quota or let them go unlimited, but they're not being subsidized like in team. And team can't
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by ebiester 6mo ago
First, the authors make very little money on most textbooks. You would be shocked. The money is staying with the book publishers. Second, they've started publishing new editions so quickly with only the problem sets changed (in general
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by ebiester 6mo ago
Okay... you're an HTMX fellow. We live in the age of AI so if you're going to make an example, don't show us the trivial things we know HTMX can do. You need to show a real application with pieces of the system that coordinat
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by ebiester 6mo ago
They explicitly said they were ceding the frontier model game to others, and that they were content saying a few months behind the state of the art. In the long run, this is an interesting freeloader play that a few people are making. http
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by ebiester 6mo ago
So, it's just changing the problem up a level. First, is a 500 because you are using the API in a way that is unexpected a customer found defect? If Claude can't find the answer, what is the expectation of support? If an internal
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by ebiester 6mo ago
I think that's unfair - if HiFiMAN, Moondrop, or even KZ bought up the Sennheiser assets there would be very little difference. (HiFiMAN had QC concerns 7-8 years back but as far as I've heard they have been much better over the l
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by ebiester 6mo ago
That was a bad acquisition and their parent company is now in a bind, but I don't see a world where they can't sell it somewhere. Hopefully it doesn't end up in private equity hell because the 600/650 line is legendary a
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by ebiester 7mo ago
They were different people, but they were in the same group and knew exactly what it was being used for.
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by ebiester 7mo ago
These are a group that used outside signal chats to discuss war plans. What odds do you have that he didn't use a personal email to avoid future accountability?
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by ebiester 7mo ago
One of the products my employer builds is used twice a year. People pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege of using it twice a year. It's tremendously valuable to be used twice a year. Value and use are not always synonymou
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by ebiester 7mo ago
I think the supply shocks is the part of the pro-natalist view that is hardest for me to accept. My counter-argument: the full expression of human achievement is not genetic; it depends on the resources given to the human; If we accept that
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by ebiester 7mo ago
It isn't as if the non-globalist affiliations are any less interested in this kind of control. This is frankly ad-hominem.
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by ebiester 7mo ago
Because you see the IC side of the Atlassian toolkit. The management side is much more expansive and this starts mattering when you are coordinating larger projects. That said, if you are a smaller company, you absolutely could kill Jira pr
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by ebiester 7mo ago
The frustrating thing is I also thought about this as a natural conclusion - but as a natural workflow that corporations will do when they see AGPL dependencies they want to use. (I also think there's a world where we start tightening
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by ebiester 7mo ago
I mean, this is a task board and not a Kanban board - Kanban implies things like Work In Progress limits, continuous improvement, and measuring flow to get rid of blockers. But you're right - you can visualize your workflow without usi
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by ebiester 8mo ago
People tried reinventing terminals, SSH, and tmux for phones. It's a pretty terrible experience using your thumbs. And it takes significant know-how to set up. And in modern stacks, it almost necessitates a man in the middle - tailscal
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by ebiester 8mo ago
The number of maintenance items are fewer. The cost of those remaining maintenance items are the issue. That said, it's a reasonable hypothesis to say that this is an economies of scale issue. (Also, as I understand it, tires are used
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by ebiester 8mo ago
I heard a story from someone whose relative was in the Korean War - apparently people manning radar stations used to warm up by getting in between some microwaves. I just looked it up and the danger isn't cancer - but you stay too long
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by ebiester 8mo ago
It's not confounding at all. It's making the point that internal motivation, according to the study, has no major factor in savings regret. It says that understanding risk (as operationalized by understanding probability) has a la
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by ebiester 8mo ago
Put a culture of stopping work at 40 hours. Allow the work to be the work and stop deadlines. Otherwise, people will take every time savings possible. If I'm using AI for anything, it's because it's important enough to someon
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by ebiester 8mo ago
Consider - why did Discord or Slack win over IRC? It turns out it's very slow to evolve a protocol. How long did it take for IRCv3 to handle channels having persistent history? How about channel takeovers via network splits? We knew th
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by ebiester 8mo ago
Tenure, in this case, is rewarded by not being laid off - because this person had old knowledge and friends with people who were in power and knew them from earlier in the company. It absolutely does happen. But I have also seen people rise

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