jdbernard

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by jdbernard 3y ago
> Their goal is to make as much money as possible This isn't a nitpick. It's the point under contention. Companies setting core values like Hashicorp has are ostensibly saying "we're not just all about profit, we care
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by jdbernard 3y ago
How does that square against every real-world example of communist government?
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by jdbernard 3y ago
I'm in management, have been for about 5 years. I've never found it difficult to judge the productivity of my team members. Even in the 15 years I was primarily an IC it was obvious, to me, who the most productive people on the te
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by jdbernard 3y ago
I agree with the author's broader point about being more open to alternative paths into UNIX/hackery/etc. However, I'm not sure that I agree entirely with this statement at the end: > I’m pretty confident that someone
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by jdbernard 3y ago
One of the many ways management benefits from having hands-on experience prior.
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by jdbernard 3y ago
I'm not sure I would include that in "cost of living."
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by jdbernard 3y ago
When the company lawyer is teaching management how to manage, the company culture has lost all positive vitality. As a first-line manager, my reports and my boss understand that my job is to align in both directions. We're in this toge
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by jdbernard 4y ago
As a manger myself, I try to be careful about what I ask for this reason. I can easily ask a lot from a team member, but I often don't have the ability to really reward them beyond a set limit. If I'm not in a position to adequate
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by jdbernard 4y ago
There is a difference, I think, between consequences resulting from your actions and being prevented from taking those actions at all. With regard to speech it's not a clear line, certainly, but the distinction matters, I think.
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by jdbernard 4y ago
The problem is that inevitably "but they're morons" becomes the excuse to deny them agency and freedom. And then it's just a matter of who gets to decide who is "smart" enough to deserve freedom. Every single t
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by jdbernard 4y ago
I'm glad we didn't have to worry about Mozart or Beethoven trying to bury their previous works so that they wouldn't have to compete with their previous titles. This seems like a perverse incentive unique to modern creative w
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by jdbernard 4y ago
I don't think so? It sounds like the state of the app is being persisted via the chat history: > We represented the state of the app as a json with some prepopulated entries which helped define the schema. Then we pass the prompt, t
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by jdbernard 4y ago
It seems like there is a lot of disagreement and discussion about the role of SRE vs Devs. My team is responsible for our own operations (we are Dev and DevOps, no SRE team), this is a great list of questions to ask ourselves during the pla
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by jdbernard 4y ago
I have found myself in a similar position for most of my career. I also got into for the love of working with code. But I've stayed in the industry largely because it enables me to provide a comfortable lifestyle for my family. I am st
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by jdbernard 4y ago
I'm sure they'd be happy to give you a refund. :)
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by jdbernard 4y ago
This isn't really JetBrains fault, but the track record of products making full redesigns is bad enough that we do tend to assume that the priorities, values, and considerations of UX professionals run contrary to developers/users
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by jdbernard 4y ago
I don't know that I'm convinced of that point though. I've been developing software professionally for almost 20 years and my usage and reliance on a debugger has decreased over time. At the moment, I think it's been pro
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by jdbernard 4y ago
I am similar. I have a very good memory, and am ability to hold a lot of detail in mind, but my recall is horrible. It can take me hours to get my head back into a subject, but once I'm there I can easily go deep. As you can imagine, c
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by jdbernard 4y ago
You're right, but the difference is that I don't think most people know it's coming, despite how much we try to shout about it.
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by jdbernard 4y ago
I'll second this recommendation, as I've found it very pleasant to use as a developer laptop.
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by jdbernard 4y ago
Well, given that people make pretty good money baiting companies that don't respect their opt-out, I'd say it's working fairly well. It's not scammers we're battling here, it's companies that need to play by th
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by jdbernard 4y ago
If there is actually legal force behind our ability to say no, then this is not a bad place to be. Ideally we'd include in the law the provision to say no once for some extended period of time. CAN-SPAM is a precedent for this, I belie
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by jdbernard 4y ago
Well, it's a choice that we get to make by shaping our own work environments. The more senior we get, the more impact we have to shape the culture of our workplaces. In my experience technical contributors underestimate the amount of l
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by jdbernard 4y ago
I don't know. While I'm not completely against the points the OP is making, something about this statement "you should go into meetings only if you know in advance what their outcomes will be," really rubs me wrong. In m
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by jdbernard 4y ago
I'll add my data points as well. I've had several bikes, one with a loud aftermarket pipe installed by the previous owner. Of all of them, the one that was noticed the most was the larger sport-touring bike with relatively quiet s
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by jdbernard 4y ago
Fixed cost to create, sure. Not fixed cost to keep up to date, running on the current version of OS, hardware. The basic design of a simple wheelbarrow has not needed to change since its invention. A wheelbarrow made 30 years ago will still
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by jdbernard 4y ago
The problem is that assumed knowledge is so implicit. If you're not familiar with the norm, it's easy to get confused about what someone actually did. Add to that the inherent desire of our ego to over-inflate our own importance,
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by jdbernard 4y ago
Everyone is focused on work-life balance because so much of the article praises the idea that dedicating your life to work is what makes companies "incredible sources of community and self-actualization." Imagine you are a young a
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by jdbernard 4y ago
Right, but Ubisoft's actions here still undermine trust in Steam. It sucks because it's not Steam's faint, but I think OP is right. This may ultimately be training people to distrust platforms like Steam and return to piracy.
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by jdbernard 4y ago
This irks me: > We — the programmers, designers, product people — collectively decided that users don't deserve the right to code in everyday products. Nope. People chose the simpler platforms and tools with lower barrier to entry (

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