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by luffapi 5y ago
That doesn’t make any sense, you can’t define other people’s goals. I’m sure 100% of the people who took issue with what Yang said are happy with the result of this effective activism.
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by luffapi 5y ago
It did meet the intended goals. You and the author are just fabricating new goals that have nothing to do with the activism at hand.
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by luffapi 5y ago
Something doesn’t have to be fully addressed to be effective. You’re moving the goalposts.
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by luffapi 5y ago
I think we continue doing what we always do: write mountains of terrible code. My argument is that it would be less terrible if you at least put yourself in the mindset of good development, and to me that means not obsessing over “catching
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by luffapi 5y ago
I wildly disagree with that statement. To suggest that money, political capital and many other things besides popular support are irrelevant, is disingenuous to say the least.
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by luffapi 5y ago
I would argue that software is too complex to be created by non-experts. This is why so much of the software ever created is garbage. There is no magic wand or process that will ever turn an average team into a unit that can produce great s
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by luffapi 5y ago
When you have to fight lobbyists, effective activism looks different. You try to cut off funding and political support. One could argue that there is already widespread support for these ideas, now it’s just a matter of doing battle again
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by luffapi 5y ago
If it accomplished its goal, then it was effective. Are there other goals to accomplish? Sure, but to say this wasn’t effective is incorrect.
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by luffapi 5y ago
If you can’t afford to pay for good developers, then you shouldn’t expect good software to be written quickly. That’s something only good developers can accomplish. I think what you want is not possible. More process, monitoring… is only go
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by luffapi 5y ago
The very first paragraph: > A few weeks ago, in the midst of the latest Israel-Hamas conflict, Andrew Yang, a mayoral candidate in New York, tweeted in support of Israel. The backlash came fast, and by the next day, #YangSupportsGenocid
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by luffapi 5y ago
The article literally starts with a story about how “meme activism” (aka slogans) was effective.
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by luffapi 5y ago
Things take as long as they take. Certainly, they will take longer if a “non technical manager” is cracking the whip on the team. Hire good people, managers included. Keep trust high. Keep motivation high and keep autonomy high and I assure
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by luffapi 5y ago
> Sure, you can take the position that it's managements responsibility to figure this out and fire you but understand that this type of thing is why many companies are against remote, especially with how vehemently most developers
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by luffapi 5y ago
Please don’t “test” to see if people are slacking when they’re wfh. Successful wfh requires a high degree of trust. Everyone benefits from that increased trust. It’s an unspoken upside of wfh. > Do they deliver what is expected of them?
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by luffapi 5y ago
Cities offer many opportunities to socialize outside of work. Especially when you’re wfh and can go out and mingle with people as needed.
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by luffapi 5y ago
I can’t speak for the pro-office crowd, but as a strong wfh advocate, I’ve been extra loud about this because for the first time in my life, there’s a dramatic phase shift that looks like it can change our global work habits for the better.
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by luffapi 5y ago
> There is a group of people for whom "work friends" are really important. These people are generally very disruptive and a huge burden on people not looking to mix their social and professional lives. The reason they’ve been
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by luffapi 5y ago
I’m older and would never work in an office again. It feels like a lot of those who want to go back in the office want to do it for social support reasons (lonely, single, don’t get on with family…). The thing is having to be the social sup
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by luffapi 5y ago
Apple has always been like that with the exception of the Apple IIe. Lately things have been taking even more of a nose dive though. Have you ever used Apple Music? There is no excuse for that product to be as bad as it is. It’s probably
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by luffapi 5y ago
Yes, it’s basically NeXT and is 100% a Jobs thing. The parent is correct that it’s had major ux issues since day 1 though. Interestingly they also mixed in terrible OS 9 ux (cough Finder, cough .DS_STORE).
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by luffapi 5y ago
Structural barriers to entry will mask all manner of incompetence (c.f. Microsoft in the 90s). It’s important for our industry to recognize what actually leads to success instead of cargo culting horrible managerial practices that only succ
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by luffapi 5y ago
Ah so you don’t have sources. I do though. US Military: https://qz.com/1655268/us-military-is-a-bigger-polluter-than... Billionaires: https://www.gq.com/story/billionaires-climate-change/amp
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by luffapi 5y ago
It’s fairly well known that Amazon can only hire “mediocre” tech talent precisely due to their hostile work environment and relatively low pay. Top people go elsewhere.
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by luffapi 5y ago
Do you really think Linus works 9-5? I assure you he doesn’t. I’ve also developed and led teams that developed many OSS projects and very successful consumer applications. Not once did I micromanage my team’s working hours. They make thei
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by luffapi 5y ago
All of the things you list are other great examples of problems caused by economic growth. That’s my point, to suggest growth comes “for free” or that there are no externalities, is to ignore all of human history.
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by luffapi 5y ago
I think Linus and 90% of GitHub projects would disagree.
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by luffapi 5y ago
That’s not true at all. Look at open source. Some of the most important software in the world was written when the devs were motivated to write it, not 9-5 m-f.
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by luffapi 5y ago
I feel like if you need all hands on deck 100% of the time, your process is flawed. Software productivity is exclusively driven by good devs who are properly motivated. If you want to succeed, maximize their creativity and peace of mind. Th
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by luffapi 5y ago
> We've reversed a lot of that destruction in the past century. Not even close, where are you getting that from? > Unless you're suggesting we all go back to some sort of nomadic lifestyle? US car culture is the first th
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by luffapi 5y ago
> You make this sound like a boring dystopia > Don't complain about ads the next time you stand in line and whip out Instagram rather than an ebook. I can think of nothing more boring or dystopian than Instagram. > And, s

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