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by gravity13 10y ago
I'm personally hoping for Basic Income, myself.
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by gravity13 10y ago
I don't want to make blanket statements about any group of people, but this has been my experience with everybody I've worked with that has come from Yammer.
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by gravity13 10y ago
I think my favorite part of all this is that Sacks has dubbed his start at Zenefits as "Day One" and is dubbing this Tony Hsieh move "The Offer". I imagine that after today he will go home to The Woman and sit in The Cha
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by gravity13 10y ago
I feel like this is a classic example of abusing your knowledge about your product. You gotta account for the fact that users will usually come in having little knowledge about what your product is and will derive that from the functions av
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by gravity13 10y ago
Because they don't know how to. (so even if they do test it, they fuck that part up too).
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by gravity13 10y ago
This is where I feel like the title "project manager" ought to be reconsidered, perhaps to "project secretary." That way, it's a bit more clear there's less of a hierarchy and more of a duty.
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by gravity13 10y ago
The article misses some key things I would throw out there, here's to hoping they come to value with you. 1. Bake rules into your workflow. For instance, enforce daily or semi-daily standups. Make git commits a portion of things in tho
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by gravity13 10y ago
Funny thing was this place did espouse "test everything" except it came in the form of our Product leads "test only the things I don't agree with." Which of course meant we were using all of our testing budget on
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by gravity13 10y ago
I'll just consider myself happy I don't work with a manager like you, then. The company doesn't exist for me to hack on cool new things. Of course not. But what you fail to understand is that I'm a very intelligent perso
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by gravity13 10y ago
I got to disagree with the whole continuity over ingenuity trope. It's how I can continue to remain modern as an engineer, and if done correctly, leads to vast gains in cognitive complexity by delegating concerns to newfangled tools th
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by gravity13 10y ago
ha! Very same experience here, too. I was just working at a place where one of the designer-founders redesigned a page to look one way. Then three months later, he redesigned it again, to look back the old way. He actually put these into th
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by gravity13 11y ago
> is just shooting yourself in the foot in a future time, as this has shown only because of a design oversight by npm which is now being fixed. Like I said, fix the issues in handling your dependencies, and you remove the overhead of inc
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by gravity13 11y ago
> By the time you've read the explanation, you've moved past it Not with dense material. Often, I'll read through a chapter quickly, then go through the derivation of something three or four times until I understand it dee
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by gravity13 11y ago
I've actually been thinking about doing the same thing in a side project of my own, and while I think you're somewhat correct, I don't think this is all necessarily attributable to affinities for symmetry. For instance, if yo
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by gravity13 11y ago
> A little copying is better than a little dependency. I actually disagree with this. Given that we're already working with projects that can have several hundred dependencies - I think the goal ought to be in removing the weight of
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by gravity13 11y ago
Or a "Sales ALL THE THINGS" manic ex-CEO, who used massive rounds of funding to hire uncontrollably fast, was replaced by a more product-oriented one.
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by gravity13 11y ago
I did something like this for Neo4j, if you're curious: image: http://www.gravitypersists.com/assets/neo3.gif https://github.com/neo4j-contrib/versal-cypher-gadget/blob/m...
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by gravity13 11y ago
This is exactly what happened to Digg. You had people getting paid to get stuff up on Digg's front page. So Digg introduced friends and the ability to see what friends are digging. And they banded together to really ruin the experience
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by gravity13 11y ago
Check out notion too (think it's notion.so). They do a great job with this
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by gravity13 11y ago
Re: There cannot be these many quality engineers. I've seen grads come out of boot camps that are better programmers than people who have been programming for years. They might lack the knowledge, but they've got good sense and hu
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by gravity13 11y ago
> The definition of artist, that I could find, is recursive so that's the first problem with that. Huh?
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by gravity13 11y ago
The comments in here today are a bit out of touch. >You can't do that with React. You can. Other than React's rather hefty size, there's nothing stopping you. React is just a view layer, is unopinionated about how you ge
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by gravity13 11y ago
I get the sense Manhattan was established, and then tapped out, hence Brooklyn. Whereas San Francisco is neither of those. San Francisco is the hip place to be (for tech) and Oakland is perceived as the fallback for companies that can'
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by gravity13 11y ago
There's a really interesting book called [A Pattern Language]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language ) that goes into this. They attribute tall buildings with insanity, as denizens begin losing scope of t
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by gravity13 11y ago
Angular: for people who think programming UIs is all about two way data binding.
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by gravity13 11y ago
I've gone back and forth on this with a previous coworker before. My opinion on it now is: there's two common general ways to use css. One way is as a style class, which is something you'd apply in multiple places around your
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by gravity13 11y ago
uhh, don't know what beach you guys are working from, but I appreciate a strong 'Work hard' vibe, myself. You want a chilled out work-to-life ratio, there's a number of places out there for you. Hell, some of them are st
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by gravity13 11y ago
>At this point I don't even think they know who they're targeting they're just trying to do a little bit of everything They're basically trying to brute force their way by now.
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by gravity13 11y ago
Yeah but the action of maneuvering through the content is fleeting. Rather than squinting and parsing a whole bunch of stuff - you're just filtering as you move down the page. I do the same exact thing on HN. It's just that I can
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by gravity13 11y ago
Only in the context of our fleeting industry.

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