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by ebiester 4y ago
You are mixing up advertising slogans and beliefs, and it's why "save the earth" has largely been abandoned as a slogan in favor of "the earth is fine -- it's humans that are in danger." Even that is a bit diff
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by ebiester 4y ago
As a manager, that's half true. We have business needs, but I am hiring for the ability to think past "what is being asked of me" and into "What do we really need, and how can we deliver it?" That isn't rewarde
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by ebiester 4y ago
This is a key learning I had to learn as a manager: people learn what they need to turn their inputs to outputs well enough not to be fired. It's management's job to internalize the business and its needs and make sure that the in
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by ebiester 4y ago
The part I thought was the best was this: "This was not an easy decision to make. It’s weighed heavily on me for the past month, keeping me up at night and nearly causing me to cancel the exec team’s offsite, even though Bad Bunny’s ap
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by ebiester 4y ago
Isn't that the purpose of Chemours?
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by ebiester 4y ago
There are some subtle differences, but framing is important. Debt has connotations of digging yourself into a hole. If you are in a new project, you likely have all sorts of tools that you would like to build. You are not in debt to start -
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by ebiester 4y ago
I don't think that's what's happening. People are buying them because they are art objects. The vinyl record is useless, but it's attached to a beautiful album cover and liner notes. It also becomes a conversation piece
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by ebiester 4y ago
This is why I prefer a balance of "Product Initiatives" and "Engineering Initiatives" and that number has to be bigger than 10% because of all that it encompasses. The hard part is explaining to the business the return o
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by ebiester 4y ago
Is that implementation or is that a base problem? I agree - I would much rather write SQL. But like others have said in this thread, I hate writing custom code to translate anything but the simplest queries into what I actually need. I also
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by ebiester 4y ago
Government and corporate licenses, mostly.
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by ebiester 4y ago
Libre, not gratis. And I'm leaning toward a new philosophy of gratis for people not making money off the code, and paid for people who are. In many ways, the industry might be better off if the corporate software supply chain is profes
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by ebiester 4y ago
It's not about being able to do all of it -- it's about being able to do it in a sustainable number of hours a week. Otherwise, you just have someone with the programmer title but actually doing PM work, and not doing it as well a
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by ebiester 4y ago
Fine. Let's assume that Agile is worse than the alternative. I am willing to accept that. However, which process are you arguing for, in its stead? "Programming, Motherfucker?" Shapeup? (Shapeup gets pretty close to agile in
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by ebiester 4y ago
Another perspective not mentioned is that there is a real context for why the distinction matters in the US. In the US, new features can be described as capital expenditures, or CapEx, whereas maintaining the fitness of the software is cons
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by ebiester 4y ago
That's because of the industrialization of those creator economies. There are still bespoke furniture designers out there, but it's very competitive in the same ways other arts are.
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by ebiester 4y ago
There are also a massive number of 15-25 year olds that think fine art is a reasonable career path. Or sports. Or music. Or acting in Hollywood. Or writing books. Art and entertainment has had more supply than demand for at least a century
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by ebiester 4y ago
Were I the author, I wouldn't want for someone to know my name either. The last thing I would want for a potential employer to know is that I was in a self-confidence crisis or that I might even be right that I wasn't a good devel
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by ebiester 4y ago
Fancy cars also have a function of status. I don't need to prove my status, so I drive an inexpensive car. That said, my friends in the trades are regretting their choices as they age and their physical ailments add up. I think it&#x27
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by ebiester 4y ago
I think what is missing here is that it doesn't have to be an either-or at the organizational level. If you have a particular piece of the system that needs to be scaled, you can take that module out when it becomes necessary. You can
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by ebiester 4y ago
And if you entrust it to a safe deposit box, then... ? And if you trust it to a safe in your bedroom, and your house burns down, then... ? Which is more likely?
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by ebiester 4y ago
Are you going to rename "mincemeat" while you're at it? or the meat of the nut?
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by ebiester 4y ago
There are a few reasons. First, it suggests a preparation that is reminiscent of a food that people enjoyed before they stopped eating animal products. This means that the spices and texture will be similar. That's an indication for bo
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by ebiester 4y ago
I spent Christmas Eve in the emergency room with a question about if my leg was broken, my knee's ligaments were damaged, or what was going on. Just lucky, I guess! As soon as I can get an appointment, I'll be going to a doctor to
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by ebiester 4y ago
Isn't this more of a stable set of people on the cruise ship? You would be able to have normal relationships with the other long term contingent of the ship. I don't think starting a family would be viable, and you'd have to
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by ebiester 4y ago
https://www.ebiester.com/documentation/2022/12/23/building-d... is my thoughts. Let me know if that answers the question.
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by ebiester 4y ago
This is probably written better as a blog, so let me put in the highlights and commit to having a blog written by the end of the week at https://ebiester.com - I've written a few things about documentation but haven't
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by ebiester 4y ago
That's true no matter what. That's the manager's job to enforce the definition of done to include updating documentation, pushing to retire or archive outdated information, and providing a vision and culture of effective docu
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by ebiester 4y ago
And three years from now, he could have a house. Is section 8 fast anywhere?
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by ebiester 4y ago
Is the start of the golden age of comic books enough? I'm honestly not convinced.
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by ebiester 4y ago
The whole point of civilization is that generation to generation, our standards of living should increase. Instead, they are regressing. If we are comparing to 100 years ago, we sure should have been doing better! If we compare to 50 year

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