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by jseban 5y ago
People also like to choose whatever they think is fun, if you want to play tennis instead of riding a bike, because you think that's more fun, you should be able to do so. Your fun is at the expense of other people's mobility, why
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by jseban 5y ago
No it's not. People don't like to be very uncomfortable and inconvenient. Cycling year around every day, is very uncomfortable and inconvenient for many many days, so why would you do that if you don't have to? I can argue ex
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by jseban 5y ago
Not the car, take the bus. The reason cycling is unnecessary is that all use cases are already covered by public transport and/or driving. That's a fact. There's nothing that you specifically need to cycle for. That makes it
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by jseban 5y ago
If it's light snow, it doesn't matter because it's dry, so you only have to dress warm, not warm and waterproof. You do care if your hands get wet when it's +2 degrees, because you will freeze and get sick. What I&#x27
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by jseban 5y ago
The truth is that cycling infrastructure is an unnecessary luxury. It's a "good thing" in principle because it's a way of transportation that's good for the environment and gives people exercise, but it's redun
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah and even if it would be strictly according to the rules, it would still be rude and completely against common sense, same thing then to walk in the middle of the road even though there's a sidewalk "the road is for everyone&q
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by jseban 5y ago
And the most difficult, practically impossible weather to cycle in, is winter rain. 0-5 degrees celcius and rain, good luck riding your bike. You literally can't dress for it, it's better to even walk because then you can use an u
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by jseban 5y ago
It's stress free yes, but also boring for many people. People don't live in big cities because of how easy it is to take hot showers, they live in big cities because of culture, social life, activities, sports, shopping, restauran
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by jseban 5y ago
Same here, and that lady gives me the heebie-jeebies, and the way she speaks gives me cult vibes. I don't get the point of this either, it's just reinventing a village, only more cramped. Seems like she just used her political con
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by jseban 5y ago
> But ultimately, if the world is extremely unequal, but no one is destitute, then that economic system is good. And we're very close to that by continuing with current trends Yes. If everyone is actually better off compared to the
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah but it gets tiresome when leftists never bother themselves with any form of practical solutions of even a path forward, always just point out that things are not perfect, and then hint at some vague ideal. What's the point of inst
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by jseban 5y ago
What is broken is the open floor plan and the "put everyone in the same room" as a workaround for a disorganised and dysfunctional workplace.
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by jseban 5y ago
No it's not, it's only broken because it's become synonymous with open floor plan, which is fundamentally broken and unhealthy.
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by jseban 5y ago
> As everything, it depends on the context. Following a set of rules blindly just for the sake of it when you and your team is producing good quality code and have a good team culture is absurd. It is absurd yes, but this is exactly how
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah and this inequality also comes with a lot of benefits, who knows how much of that wealth would even exist in the first place if you didn't have that motivation. I mean we've seen what happens in more equal socialist countries
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah using the gold standard limits the pace of progress of society to the pace of which gold can be mined, which is a completely arbitrary unnecessary limit ever since printed money was invented.
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by jseban 5y ago
> For me, Europe is an socialist dystopia which punishes individualism, risk-taking, private businesses, and where people don't have a passion for much, no hobbies, and no aspirations. I'm from the EU and I totally agree with y
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by jseban 5y ago
Most of the time, it's the paid maternal leave and free/cheap child care, and this equation usually never works out in favour for anyone who doesn't have children.
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by jseban 5y ago
I think your solution here was to move the typing to the application layer, which kind of makes sense because that's where you know the locale. But why also move the data to NoSQL, I don't see what that would add. If you had alrea
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah you can never get away from the fact that programming is best done in isolated concentration, and then occasionally gathering in a group to share insights/gather feedback. Just like academia and every other field that requires con
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah this is how I always felt about Scrum, that it's made for IT consulting firms to manage the relationship with the client, and that the "product owner" is in the clients organisation, and scrum master works in the consult
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah and there are many blue collar jobs where workers have way more integrity and respect, and where the managers are actually (held) accountable. Being a software developer is pretty spineless in comparison, even though you make more mone
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah that semantic debate about what exactly the story points mean, is my least favorite recurring stupid conversation, right after that angry debate of what exactly constitutes a "true" unit test, lol
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by jseban 5y ago
> they can not work on 15 things at the same time 200% of the time. Haha this is funny because it's so true. And this is a person who is actually a supposed to be a professional at allocating resources ;)
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by jseban 5y ago
I wish scrum had some support for decision making, where you'd attempt to evaluate suggested solutions based on the actual goals of the team/company, have healthy moderated debates, and in the end (by voting or manager) make a dec
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah, and that feeling of someone oversharing something both irrelevant and boring, while you already have an overfull short term memory from your own work, AND being forced to pretend to pay attention, it's just so painful.
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by jseban 5y ago
Daily standups, weekly retros and weekly 1-on-1:s. Those are the ones that bother me the most, the micromanagement around planning, I can deal with. But the creepiness of these other vague "Hey, I'm your friend, we can just talk&q
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah same here, I quit my last job when they started the transformation to Scrum and I got a supervisory manager. Not only does it turn developers into factory workers, but also which is my biggest source of burnout, it turns developers int
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by jseban 5y ago
If you are a human you have judgement and can determine which tests are the most critical and most relevant, so you don't have to always execute all of them. "It's just one line of css change to fix the styling, ok deploy&quo
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah but what's the point then, in that case you can just take back the old QA team and delete the gazillion lines of e2e test code and save yourself the liability of all that complexity. If it's cheap and simple to make a manual

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