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Ask HN: KPIs for a Development Team?
2 points by klenwell 8y ago|6 comments
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by klenwell 8y ago
That's a great example. I think basketball, especially the NBA, is an interesting correlate for thinking about team dynamics, especially programming teams which in my experience have often been about the size of a basketball team. I re
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StoryCorps: Jack ReVelle on 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash(storycorps.org)
1 points by klenwell 8y ago|0 comments
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by klenwell 8y ago
Larry David hears you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2CFFULmONk
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by klenwell 8y ago
I'm enjoying this thread. Maybe HN needs a new monthly "Glassdoor HN" or "Who's Reviewing" thread.
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by klenwell 8y ago
> Mr. Grantham is investing in technology that will show a profit because of climate change, it is a subtle difference but an important one to consider, sort of the grain of salt that should be taken with reading of the article. I bookma
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What We Learned from the First Year of the Local Reporting Network(propublica.org)
1 points by klenwell 8y ago|0 comments
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by klenwell 8y ago
You will be interested in this NY Times article from 2004: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/09/magazine/chrome-shiny-lig... I suspect a lot of the techniques mentioned in the article made their way from s
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by klenwell 8y ago
Not shocking at all when you understand "right-to-work" is an Orwellian term coined by business-friendly political operatives to erode labor rights and advance corporate/shareholder interests. https://en.wikipedia.
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by klenwell 8y ago
I do something very similar but I use a Trello board with columns like these. Specifically: - Daily - Weekly - Monthly - [YEAR] Completed I like Trello because the cards support checklists, due dates, and comments which are great features f
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by klenwell 8y ago
I was just about to post the link to this New Yorker article in response to GP's question. I believe this is the one you're referring to: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/26/do-protein
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by klenwell 8y ago
Reminds me of an incident in my early education when I happened to catch a documentary spoof about Stonehenge on TV that depicted whales building the ancient wonder. (I think Steve Martin was involved.) Coincidentally, a few days later the
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by klenwell 8y ago
My impression going off what I've seen and read of the culture is you're right. But I've imagine a lot of us have worked with the dev or manager who seems like he'd fit right in that environment. And if you were to make
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by klenwell 8y ago
I always liked Anthony Bourdain's take on "Meez" from Kitchen Confidential: Mise-en-place is the religion of all good line cooks. Do not fuck with a line cook’s ‘meez’ — meaning his setup, his carefully arranged supplies of
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by klenwell 8y ago
Whenever this topic comes up or managing generally, I point to this Ask HN on the same topic from the end of 2011. I think it's gold and has served me well in my career: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3407643 Esp
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by klenwell 8y ago
I can relate. Especially the pointless drama. I remember dreading yard work, especially having to pick weeds. It felt so pointless and arbitrary -- a real chore. Years later I was listening to an interview on the radio with a famous natural
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by klenwell 8y ago
Three entertaining reads that also turned out to hide interesting little studies in team management: - Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain (the breakout memoir that made his career) - Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam (about the 7
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by klenwell 8y ago
The other way I've heard this expressed: The opposite of bureaucracy isn't efficiency. It's corruption.
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by klenwell 8y ago
Interestingly, 3% was the magic number that helped break the global economy in 2008 according to Planet Money: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/355/the-giant-pool-of-money In short, finance professionals looking for re
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by klenwell 8y ago
> At age 19, Dr. Knuth published his first technical paper, “The Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures,” in Mad magazine. I'd say she did something positive with the opportunity.
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by klenwell 8y ago
In the final interview, the candidate meets with 3 to 4 of us on the team and we talk for about an hour. Our team comes in with a set of prepared questions which address past work experience, company culture, team practices and relationship
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by klenwell 8y ago
I notice a lot of these answers focus on the technical or coding challenge. As a hiring manager, that's critical, but technical competency only accounts for about a third of the qualities my team is evaluating in a candidate. I've
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by klenwell 8y ago
One of the most magical experiences I've had in my life was a morning out surfing alone in Huntington Beach years ago. It was a weekday in... I don't remember the time of year. October? May? When do they usually end up in Southern
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by klenwell 8y ago
Among the online services I would like to see my state add, enhance, or simply fix, I do not prioritize accepting bitcoin for tax payments very high in the backlog.
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Ricky Jay, Magician Who Mastered Sleight of Hand, Dies at 72(nytimes.com)
11 points by klenwell 8y ago|0 comments
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Brings to mind one of my favorite Onion articles: "Partygoers Mocked By Catering Staff" https://www.theonion.com/partygoers-mocked-by-catering-staff... Experts say mockery of the well-to-do by the serving class i
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by klenwell 8y ago
Morality seems to be common as dirt in art And this is why Wilde challenged and denigrated morality (middle-class morality was the pejorative term both he and Shaw liked to use). He was actually an extremely moralistic writer and philosop
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by klenwell 8y ago
Built a team of over a dozen programmers the past year using a similar strategy. I was able to bring over a couple more experienced developers I had worked with in the past to serve as mentors and get things kick-started. Then filled out th
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by klenwell 8y ago
A couple members of my team attended and we made a friendly wager before they attended: how many conference attendees would be primarily Rails developers? We guessed respectively 25%, 50%, 75% (my guess). Based on some very, very, very fuzz
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by klenwell 8y ago
That looks ideal. I've added it to my shopping list. Thanks for the detailed response!

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