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by fastbeef 9y ago
Without going into details, the product was started 10 years ago by one of the programmers whom I suspect wanted to be a game developer, so the product is filled with gamedev patterns and due to a tech choice it's not possible to migra
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by fastbeef 9y ago
I did the same journey as you are about to embark on a year ago. It did not end well. The job itself was titled "scrum master", but the description read more like a team lead/product manager role. I've done a little bit
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by fastbeef 9y ago
I quit Facebook right around the time my son was born. It wasn't for privacy reasons (and frankly, it never bothered me), but rather for the enormous energy and time sink it had become. Truly, it was as if I was a dopamine junkie and F
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by fastbeef 9y ago
Not a programming book per se, but seeing that you had "The Healthy Programmer" in your list I'll throw it out there: "The underachievers manifesto" - a short book that does wonders for your mental health in a world
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by fastbeef 9y ago
You ask us to be adults and then finish it with _that_ link?!
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by fastbeef 9y ago
Just to be clear, this isn't some experimental new thing that the Nordic countries are trying, this has been in place for well over 40 years - It. Works. Does it create a suboptimal situation at the workplace. Sure, sometimes. However,
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by fastbeef 9y ago
It's not paid for by businesses, it's paid by the government. It's pays out up to 80% of your income up to a limit and some companies chose to fill in the final gap as well.
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by fastbeef 9y ago
Ranking system?!
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by fastbeef 10y ago
But when in the form of methane it can be used as fuel on the farm which means that the equivalent amount of fossil fuels don't need to be consumed.
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by fastbeef 10y ago
But that methane is used to drive a combustion engine. Otherwise the ammonium and methane from the manure would just emit into the atmosphere. It's basically free energy.
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by fastbeef 10y ago
No digester: manure -> ammonium and methane straight into atmosphere With digester: manure -> compressed methane -> combustion engine -> energy + Co2. It's such an enormous win-win it's strange not everyone is doing th
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by fastbeef 10y ago
No. This process is 100% carbon neutral. It recycles the carbon already in the pig manure as opposed to natural gas which is a fossil fuel and adds to the carbon cycle.
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by fastbeef 10y ago
Not sure about the laws in the US, but my wife works as a chemical engineer at a sewage treatment plant here in Sweden and they run _all_ incoming sewage through a aneorobic digester. This generates enough methane to run all the busses in S
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by fastbeef 10y ago
Easier on the eyes. When working with media you tend to stare at details for long periods of time, a dark theme makes the UI non-distracting.
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by fastbeef 10y ago
I hope you were handsomely rewarded for saving the company tens of thousands of dollars, if not more.
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by fastbeef 10y ago
In Sweden, which I image has similar laws, managers (ie. employees with responsibility for other employees, not "team leads") usually have no specified working hours at all. They're trusted and expected to work as much or as
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by fastbeef 10y ago
While snarky in tone, he has a point - The Market doesn't have a spectacular track record of having foresight longer than the next quarterly report.
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by fastbeef 10y ago
Seeing how the free market tends to optimize for short term gains for private actors at the expense of long term costs to society I'd say government "meddling" is a must in this case. Coca Cola, the poster child for the free
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by fastbeef 10y ago
Somewhere between job #2 and job #3 I discovered that the reward for work isn't O(n) as I've been taught my whole life - it's O(log n). This was a total game changer for me, because I relaxed, lowered my expectations, was hap