leetrout

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   by leetrout 3y ago

   I have a quip I have repeated for years that aligns with this: The people talking about the stuff largely arent the people doing the stuff because theyre too busy doing the stuff. Where, in my case, in our tech circle, that is generally des
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   by leetrout 3y ago

   This is exactly what the parent is calling out. Using a standup as a bandaid for fundamental team behavior.
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   by leetrout 3y ago

   If you need a designated meeting for communicating with your teammate you already failed the qualification of highly functioning team.
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   by leetrout 3y ago

   I support daily standup (and stand down as needed) during times of churn / tight deadlines. These should be exceptions not the rule. The current use of stand up meetings as status meetings while also expecting everyone to be interrupti
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   by leetrout 3y ago

   I am in the same boat and am interested in the same type of books! If you'd like to have some accountability and some sort of light book club kind of thing let me know, as well. I am a social creature and would love to collaborate. Als
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   by leetrout 3y ago

   Fascinating... I've not read Pirsig's book but have, of course, heard of it. A quick search led me to wikipedia and this bit: > "Quality," or "value," as described by Pirsig, cannot be defined because it emp
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   Diesel Locomotive Builders Explored(trains.com)

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   by leetrout 3y ago

   For folks that agree with the post I am replying to: Take a look at the writings of Christopher Alexander. What is missing, this ungraspable "thing" that we only gain through experience is written about as "quality without a
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   by leetrout 3y ago

   This is like a "water is wet" post for me. Maybe it is because I have been doing this so long... maybe for another reason. But people need to hear it. The important part is buried at the bottom and I'll re-summarize in less w
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    by leetrout 3y ago

    Related, on the meditation side, "Sit" was posted on here the other day https://sit.sonnet.io/
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    by leetrout 3y ago

    Yes indeed
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    by leetrout 3y ago

    Sorry you perceived it as an insincere ad.
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    by leetrout 3y ago

    I am listening to the Oppenheimer biography and was surprised to learn we were much closer to a surrender than I had known. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-08-05/hiroshima-a...
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    by leetrout 3y ago

    My mom bought me a simple puzzle game subscription called "Finders Seekers". The puzzles are much, much simpler than this but still give you a great "that was clever" feeling. I will be playing the next installment with
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    by leetrout 3y ago

    Off topic but... > I work at a startup where business evolves really fast, and requirements change frequently, so it's easy to end up with big piles of code stacked together without a clear structure, specially with tight deadlines
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    by leetrout 3y ago

    I will give you a different answer than what I see others saying: Good noodles are good. You can buy good noodles. If you can tell the difference between De Cecco and Barilla spaghetti noodles then you could easily discern homemade pasta. I
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    by leetrout 3y ago

    Are you dogmatic about things such as only one assert per test case or similar?
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    by leetrout 3y ago

    I look around at my neighbors, my friends... everyone must be doing better off than me OR everyone is just constantly living in debt and considering a car payment a permanent "tax to live" because I see people with new cars (if us
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    by leetrout 3y ago

    What is Asmodees business model and what does it have tondo with BGA?
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    by leetrout 3y ago

    Sorry for your loss. I hope something was learned by others so it will not happen again.
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    by leetrout 3y ago

    It's Latent Consistency Model (LCM) and ControlNet added to PIXART Alpha. https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05252
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    by leetrout 3y ago

    Respectfully, and thank you for taking the time to reply, this is why I clarified I like Django and dislike Flask. I'm not interested in writing all my sql for every operation. I will gladly take the overhead of an ORM for the convenie
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    by leetrout 3y ago

    If they were smart they would engage with the current game creators and spin this into something bigger.
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    by leetrout 3y ago

    Ehhh yes and no. I still run into a lack of "it just works" and stays that way in JS land. It is likely I have not found the right combination of tools or the right framework but nothing has been as reliable as django and the buil
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    by leetrout 3y ago

    Or, no snark, open their eyes to how little their options are worth.
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    by leetrout 3y ago

    More like a big truck?
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    by leetrout 3y ago

    I believe there is a form of PTSD that develops within toxic software development jobs and I wish it would receive more legitimate attention and treatment options. I have tried to explain to my therapist why I have developed something like
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    by leetrout 3y ago

    Previously: 2009 - 13 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=600799 And a dozen other submissions over the years including the first submission 17 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=812
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    by leetrout 3y ago

    Brought to mind what I am reading in Corporate Rebels and really like the concept that Haier used. https://www.corporate-rebels.com/blog/next-influential-manag...
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    by leetrout 3y ago

    Some places make you sign papers you wont reapply to get your severance. Someone explained that in one of the other recent layoff threads.