folkhack

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by folkhack 6y ago
"Self made" is an over-simplification of a complicated process... one which you impressively admit you've achieved. Which, 100% - that is amazing, and you should be proud of your accomplishments. My definition of "self m
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by folkhack 6y ago
I am 100% dialing it back in good-faith to explain why I just framed it as you put it. 1. I read tinco's comment to state (paraphrasing): "it is difficult to start a business, and for the common person it is a game of chance.&quot
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by folkhack 6y ago
This is super interesting to me and I would actually love to learn the origins of this... do you have any resources you may be able link? Books, articles etc.
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by folkhack 6y ago
How many people do you think working the counter FT at Taco Smell can save enough money to afford their own franchise location? > The cost of opening a new Taco Bell restaurant is between $1.2 million and $2.6 million. Taco Bell also cha
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by folkhack 6y ago
> books Most books don't pan out and if I don't turn myself into a marketing personality good luck. I say this as someone who's marketed books professionally as a web product across all major publishing platforms. I'm
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by folkhack 6y ago
"The Millionaire Next Door" was published in 1996 when the economy was booming, the dot-com bubble had yet to burst, and the employment market meant anyone slightly skilled could get a FT+benefits career. In the 24 years since tha
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by folkhack 6y ago
> Middle-class America seems to have a particular disdain for the less well off. Hell as someone who's struggled early-on... Poor America seems to have a particular disdain for the less well off too. I feel like I'm constantly
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by folkhack 6y ago
This seems incredibly dismissive of what I was trying to say with your whole "nice anecdotes!" bit. Obviously it's situational.
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by folkhack 6y ago
> or envision themselves as (somehow!) becoming part of the top 10% I don't disagree with you but want to add some insight to this... My entire life I've been told the lie that if I "just work harder" I can be rich et
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by folkhack 6y ago
Also with such highly populated games they have to do a TON of ongoing work to support the infrastructure to the point that they would lose money on customers in a matter of months if they didn't charge subscription fees.
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by folkhack 6y ago
I'm higher-risk due to past lung disease and have been taking this incredibly seriously due to not wanting to go through pneumonia again. I've been taking the social distancing stuff seriously, wearing a mask every time I go out,
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by folkhack 6y ago
I've advised a couple of people looking to go to school to take a gap-year to hedge risk of the schools having their stuff together. If there's anything I've noticed about higher education after working in/with it, its t
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by folkhack 6y ago
Yeah and to a captive market too. College textbook sales is one of the most insane rackets I've ever witnessed... "milking the students" is no exaggeration.
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by folkhack 6y ago
...And with abuse patterns a lot of us had that ingrained at a super young age as a control lever our parents/guardians installed. I think a hard part of this is that people commonly abuse these mechanisms for control in social structu
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by folkhack 6y ago
I've been thinking since yesterday and I think I'm going to jump back into Deming's work... do you have a good starting point? I had the realization that I hadn't read "Out of the Crisis" since my early 20&#x27
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by folkhack 6y ago
> My remaining fantasy is to encounter a software manager who is familiar with Deming's work and has thought about how to apply it to software management. Am familiar and in my experience TQM is just as cargo-cult as Six Sigma, Wate
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by folkhack 6y ago
Lol - old graybeard ... it was Bill freakin' Atkinson. Author of HyperCard and one of my heroes! This story came up often when I said I read the commits daily. I would just roll my eyes and say "I read code, I don't look at a
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by folkhack 6y ago
Sounds like a solid manager! People wanna feel safe... And go figure, when they do their output usually goes from being minimal effort to above and beyond. Also feeling safe has sooooo many more institutional benefits etc. Errors are identi
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by folkhack 6y ago
I mean - it's a nightmare and it hurts a lot. My experience is always lots of planning, refactoring the original schema, and working with SWEs directly on the code. As a SWE myself, the two major Oracle to MSSQL transitions have been h
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by folkhack 6y ago
Yep! Or even just people documenting could look weird on metrics/etc. I'd admit I was in the dark a lot, and that many times I would be perceiving a "productivity dip" when it was a situation like you're describing.
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by folkhack 6y ago
It was never about productivity or the worker. It's a well studied thing that there's a steep drop in productivity when moving from closed-offices to open plans. I think it's a foggy cloud of reasons this came to be such a fa
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by folkhack 6y ago
I'd say about 70-80% of managers I've had couldn't build or work on the product that they're tasked with managing. And... I resent that. The truth is you need near-100% understanding of the code going into the product to
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by folkhack 6y ago
Same - it's such a difficult technology to deal with when outstanding flavors of DB exist (many for free): Postgres, MySQL, MSSQL. The Oracle projects I've worked on are just people choosing it because "it's the safe b
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by folkhack 6y ago
> He micro managed everything. He had an office manager sitting with the engineers reporting to him multiple times a day on if the engineers were sitting on the desk. I really related to this in my last role. It's the butts-in-cha
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by folkhack 6y ago
Hasn't had any updates for two years and looks like it's doing something weird with the base font inclusion assuming you have "nunito" already (not a safe assumption). Also I'd suggest to anyone to potentially avoid
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by folkhack 6y ago
Yeah - it's an over-generalization for sure... my anecdotal experience may not apply across the board. Things moved fast and people were pushed to innovate/iterate within their roles. The Japanese mothership was quick to get thing
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by folkhack 6y ago
Confidence will get you everywhere - be confident in your skills! People buy into people - not tech/resumes. I struggle with the same thing myself... SOME impostor syndrome is healthy and it sounds like you are handling it in good way
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by folkhack 6y ago
Before I respond to your points - I conflate UX and design in my mind as I see UX being a subset of design by definition. > Sometimes my feeling is that blogs, small businesses such as this one, well... pages, in general, are overly comp
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by folkhack 6y ago
> Just we shouldn't be applying aggregate performance reviews based on this episode which don't account for the varying burdens being experienced Empathetically I agree, but as a realist you can't expect that burden to be
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by folkhack 6y ago
This is a weird read. I think what the author means is that sometimes your design needs to "step out of the way" of someone else's design. This happened all the time for me in my early-20s doing band websites where there was

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