johnm

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by johnm 6y ago
Given all of the vagaries in the hiring process, do you believe that e.g., algo approaches are actually fair in the way that you intend?
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by johnm 6y ago
Sorry but the pointed out problem is both way more commoin and way way more of an issue. Interviewers talk about "I just want to see how someone thinks" but the implicit biases and the overuse of problems leads to unconscious expe
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by johnm 6y ago
Implicit vs. explicit interactions/contracts. Both between consumers & producers but also... The features, constraints, goals, etc. expected out of the ESB substrate by the different use cases becomes a nightmare of responsibility&
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by johnm 6y ago
Here's a PDF version: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.29.4...
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by johnm 6y ago
Skip to original Dactyl and look at the configurability/customizability of the Dactyl Manuforms. Personally, after using the Kinesis Advantage for many years, I'm going a different direction... fewer keys, lower profile, etc. E.g.
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by johnm 6y ago
I see. Yeah, sounds like a one of the Dactyl Manuform's is in your future. :-) Given the parametric nature, it seems like you be able to tune it to your specifics. For me, on the existing flat thumb ergos, hitting the thumb buttons wit
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by johnm 6y ago
I don't know of one that exactly fits your constraints. But there are so many and more being created all the time. Trying asking on https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/ In terms of the tall versus shor
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by johnm 6y ago
Indeed. I started with the original Advantage a long time ago. After getting used to it, switching back and forth with the laptop keyboards doesn't scramble my brain. But making the jump to the modern, smaller splits + multiple layers,
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by johnm 6y ago
Nowhere close. There are DIY mods that people have done to be able to run e.q., QMK as well as make them bluetooth. My impression is that people who really want the concave keywells are building variations of the Dactyl Manuform.
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by johnm 6y ago
Indeed! Was just looking at that yesterday.
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by johnm 6y ago
There's basically two directions that people are going... Splits with lots of keys so you can have keys dedicated to whatever you want or going more and more minimalist. The minimalism idea is that since these are all programmable, we
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by johnm 6y ago
Actually, there are people who have already written firmware in Rust for their DIY/kit keyboards. Nothing yet mainstream like QMK. Here's a write up of one of them: https://josh.robsonchase.com/rest-of-the-keyboard
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by johnm 6y ago
Do you only use the Advantage at home/work? I.e., what do you do when you're traveling (or just using your laptop away from you desk)?
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by johnm 6y ago
Can you add more details about the problems you had with the Kyria thumb positioning? Too much usage of the inward thumb keys? Angles?
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by johnm 6y ago
Is there mobility so people can leave bad managers and move to other teams easily (i.e., vote with their feet) rather than being stuck under bad managers and getting screwed this way?
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by johnm 6y ago
So then what was the behavior after the bad manager was let go? Did they actually reach out to those who were let go? The toxic effects of bad managers is way larger than ICs.
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by johnm 7y ago
Because you made a variety of specific points and it's easier to address them specifically.
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by johnm 7y ago
Yes but there's all sorts of silliness that people and companies need to unlearn so they can do this effectively and efficiently.
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by johnm 7y ago
And let's not forget how scant real mentorship and training of managers is in this industry. Nor, how we've setup the power/money hierarchy that many people feel the only career growth path is to become a people manager (even
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by johnm 7y ago
As I mentioned in a sibling comment, the toxic (and incompetent) manager problem is fundamentally a leadership problem. The single biggest responsibility of the founders is the culture of the organization -- everything stems from that, one
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by johnm 7y ago
Note that I'm also not talking about companies doing forced rankings and nuking the bottom X%. That's a different form of systemic toxicity and, alas, plays into the technical industry's huge problem with toxic "geek mac
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by johnm 7y ago
Unless you work in a crazy place like Germany with the extremes driven by the work councils, probationary periods are an HR gimmick. If people aren't working out, they can be let go. Have simple, clear, legal policies and simple docume
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by johnm 7y ago
Re: your point about interviewers looking for their expected/standard answer vs an actually innovative one... I take that as part of my job in interviewing the the company/interviewers. I will very deliberately give a more radical
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by johnm 7y ago
Sure you can. You can talk about the hard problems that have nothing to do with the fact that it was part of a missile guidance system or whatever. If you worked on anything non-trivial there are always some interesting problems you had to
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by johnm 7y ago
On the manager side, I can't upvote that enough. Toxic systems are always the responsibility of the managers and that's from the top down. The systemically perverse issues created by people "managing up" is one of the mo
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by johnm 7y ago
Alas, for all of the focus on the interview processes to "prevent" false positive hires, those same companies suck as actually getting rid of the bad hires. Some is rational risk aversion to lawsuits and the like but that clearly
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by johnm 7y ago
These are, like NVC, tools to help when people are generally intending to work together. I.e., it presumes non-toxic participation. Alas, in, for example, big company "politics" manipulating the system to further oneself typically
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by johnm 7y ago
Fantastic! I'm so happy that's working for you. One of things that's missing in this is that the parties involved actually intend to work together. As is clear from the various threads of discussion to this post, people react
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by johnm 7y ago
That's presuming that the drivers for management have product/customer reality as a high priority. In big companies, "managing up" and corporate politics strongly dominate. Those are the fundamental drivers of whiplash m
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by johnm 7y ago
In terms of the licensing debate... Did you bother to actually read the Common Clause FAQ? Here are the first 2 FAQ entries: "What is Commons Clause? The Commons Clause is a license condition drafted by Heather Meeker that applies a n

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