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by greenrd 9y ago
I don't think that's necessarily a case of conflict of interest, but merely misunderstanding what agile methodologies are really about. They're really quite radical.
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by greenrd 9y ago
Sometimes code ownership means something slightly stronger, i.e. that no-one else has the authority to change the code. It's fine for a team to own code in this sense, but it's really bad news if an individual owns code. This is o
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by greenrd 9y ago
Oh, so just garden variety tech feminism then. So what specifically do we need to do in tech? This is all very vague generalities at this point.
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by greenrd 9y ago
> Though, if true, it would be useful to know. Money could then be directed to research and policy that helps increase IQ. If I ever get really rich, that is what I plan to do. But the Flynn Effect has started to slow down or stop in man
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by greenrd 9y ago
> What isn't PC on Hacker News is the idea that it isn't society who is against women as programmers, but the environment built by "us". That maybe it isn't this environment that is more accepting than all other
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by greenrd 9y ago
> This is of course a failure of meritocracy, in the same way that charisma often trumps skill at a job (which is the big problem for anti social men). It isn't a failure of meritocracy - in both cases, it's a failure to ac
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by greenrd 9y ago
> Idk, I feel like saying that humans should somehow manage to turn off grouping and categorizing things is kind of lazy. I don't think that's what danieltillett was calling for at all. Rather, I think he was arguing for not le
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by greenrd 9y ago
I guess it's an incentives thing. How much pushback do journalists ever get in their lives for writing lazy, uninformed and inaccurate articles like that? I'd guess jack squat, because we probably all think we have better things t
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by greenrd 9y ago
Well, because of organisational biases. There are principal agent problems dotted throughout most businesses larger than a single room, and people care more about looking good than being theoretically optimal, and this is recursive. And how
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by greenrd 9y ago
You don't generally hire your CEO - and if, contrary to all precedent, you were hiring the CEO, you'd probably want someone who could speak convincingly and confidently to the media and investors, while speaking authoritatively, f
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by greenrd 9y ago
Funny, I got where I am today by speaking in the manner I was being spoken to in interviews. They seem corporate - I speak corporate. They seem informal - I speak real. It works for me.
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by greenrd 9y ago
No, it's just immature thinking from people who aren't familiar with the workplace and its norms. If it wasn't social media it would be some IRL friends.
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by greenrd 9y ago
Do retrospectives at regular intervals and encourage everyone in the team to bring up (almost) any issues, large or small, in those meetings, and discuss them, with a solution-focused outlook - what can we actually try in order to address t
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by greenrd 9y ago
Maybe it's the way you tell them. With engineers, a little explicitness goes a long way, and will generally be accepted - unless you're being patronising and telling them something they already know. So try saying "I'm n
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by greenrd 9y ago
Reality check here: I think if she were a man - and not a boy fresh out of school, mind - she wouldn't have been hired in the first place. And yet here we are, seriously arguing about whether her naivety and immaturity should have been
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by greenrd 9y ago
> What kind of filter do I want my employees or coworkers to have at work? Should we systematically favor bravado over vulnerability? My gut feeling is that we should not. I think structural/procedural solutions can be very helpful
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by greenrd 9y ago
What counterexamples would you offer? Bearing in mind that it may have been intended only to apply to consequences that he was responsible for, not things that he had nothing to do with, but I can't think of any examples of the latter
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by greenrd 9y ago
The point is, these consequences can include everything up to and including termination, and a resultant difficulty in finding a subsequent job that pays as well. The young woman probably didn't think of that when she blurted that out.
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by greenrd 9y ago
I can't relate to that at all. Having to stay awake in even more boring meetings? Not being able to write code any more? Why would any programmer want that - unless they didn't actually enjoy their job?
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by greenrd 9y ago
Don't ever trust your employer. I've learned this the hard way. It's 2017 - employers have no loyalty to us when the shit hits the fan - and we should have no loyalty to them. Stay if you like it, go if you don't - becau
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by greenrd 9y ago
Neither quitting in a fit of pique nor being fired look good in an interview. You can get away with a prima donna vibe - but only if you're really good - and sometimes not even then.
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by greenrd 9y ago
As a tech lead, it's actually easier for you to admit weaknesses, since your subordinates will be happy if you arrange things such that their job satisfaction is high, regardless of how much or little technical work you do. For a front
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by greenrd 9y ago
The person you are replying to didn't say exploitative competition. They just said competition. Indeed, exposing vulnerabilities (of the personal kind, not the security kind) can be imposing in a very inappropriate way. Your colleague
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by greenrd 9y ago
The reality of group projects is that all too often, one person ends up doing most of the real work. Group projects don't need to be more infantilising, they need to be more "shape up or ship out!"
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by greenrd 9y ago
See - even this woman who studied CS and got a job in the field ended up regretting it. And that's hardly an isolated example. I'm not saying all women who study CS regret it - far from it - but maybe James Damore was onto someth
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by greenrd 9y ago
You know that many professors don't actually do a lot of the nitty-gritty work, don't you? They farm that out to their grad students. So in theory all someone has to do is get a PhD and get hired as an academic. What's worryi
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by greenrd 9y ago
I think it means deployed on the customer site, for better communication with the customer. At least, that's what I'd do if I were Palantir.
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by greenrd 9y ago
Feature design phase? Sounds like waterfall. Avoid that too.
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by greenrd 10y ago
GitHub also lost a bunch of PRs and issues sitewide early in their history. They claimed to have restored all the PRs from backup, but I was pretty sure I had opened a PR and it never came back. I emailed support and they basically told me
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by greenrd 10y ago
It doesn't say "don't sign all your comments", it simply says "don't sign comments". Also, it should be interpreted in the light of the fact that modern netiquette on other sites like Stack Overflow which

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