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by mjfisher 3y ago
> When fired from the hospital For anyone else that stumbled over that for a second - "fired" is of course synonymous with "discharged". English is a weird language!
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Australia legalises psychedelics for mental health(bbc.co.uk)
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by mjfisher 3y ago
A bit late on the reply, but someone else mentioned observable HQ for lots of examples. I found this YouTube video of someone walking through creating a bar chart helpful - the author explains as he goes: https://youtu.be/B
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by mjfisher 3y ago
I've been vaugely interested for years, but I never quite had a good handle on what problems D3 solved; it's lower level than a charting library - to the extent that you use it to manipulate SVG primitives directly. At that point
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by mjfisher 3y ago
It's not quite the same, but The Week is a magazine (available online too) which summarises news stories using the perspectives of many different media outlets. It's about as broadminded and objective as you can get, I think.
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by mjfisher 3y ago
No, actually - right post, but I might not have been specific enough. In particular that: This variable has a generic name, please make it more expressive is an indication you're heading to a PIP and a firing seems to be reading a h
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by mjfisher 3y ago
That reaction is really extreme; to the point I'm not quite sure if it's satire? If it's genuine, why not respond with "good call, will update" or "I couldn't think of anything better for this situation -
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by mjfisher 4y ago
There are a couple of specific situations I tend to run into fairly frequently with my consultant hat on: 1. People or organisations wanting to implement process by well-defined stages and checklists. They'll see that works in certain
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by mjfisher 4y ago
Useful take on a common problem. Another way of approaching the same concept would be through the Cynefin[0] framework; maturity models occupy the simple or complicated contexts, whereas capability models can be fulfilled via iterating in t
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by mjfisher 4y ago
That chart shows a net increase in M2 of about 5% for the UK, rather than multiples - the Y axis doesn't start at zero, which might be misleading at first glance.
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by mjfisher 4y ago
It is rendered server side, but typically the server keeps track of only what needs to change and sends as small as possible an update to dynamically update the DOM. You end up with a user experience that feels close to an SPA, but a dev
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by mjfisher 4y ago
This is a really interesting experiment, and the author did a great job of breaking it down and quantifying it. I do wonder how much a measure of "productive time vs unproductive time" corresponds to actual outcomes though; it&#x2
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by mjfisher 4y ago
It's worth noting there's quite a distinct separation between the BBC and BBC Studios (which used to be called BBC Worldwide). The BBC is publicly funded via the UK's TV license. BBC Studios is entirely funded by its own prof
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by mjfisher 4y ago
The Kubernetes nodes and control plane are not something I manage directly. DigitalOcean perform regular upgrades to keep the cluster at a minimum supportable and secure version. They're reasonably sophisticated, and if they can't
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by mjfisher 4y ago
Digital Ocean's managed Kubernetes offering has been great for me. There's lots of potential complexity to K8s, but if you're not managing the cluster and you have simple workloads the ratio of "stuff you have to learn&q
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by mjfisher 4y ago
Oh, come on. This obviously isn't pretending to be a highly polished game experience - it's something someone made for a game jam, and they've taken the time to publish it and write it up to a reasonable degree so that other
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by mjfisher 4y ago
How could they? It would be indistinguishable from a documentary at this point.
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by mjfisher 4y ago
The point of having sprints is to trade off some utilisation for predictable delivery. I.e. everything should be easily deliverable within a given sprint, to the point that almost everyone is idle (or working on non-sprint activities) by th
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by mjfisher 4y ago
This sounds like an interesting case of third parties recommending sets of products that create unfortunate combinations within Amazon's own recommendation system. Twitter is an absolutely terrible format for such long form content, so
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by mjfisher 4y ago
Gotcha. I think we're probably thinking about different kinds of environments - probably the key differentiation is the total volume of logs, the kinds of services we're monitoring, and how bad a given error is. > Having old lo
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by mjfisher 4y ago
Really? We might be working in entirely different spheres and cultures, but I tend to look at (recently historical) logs pretty frequently for a bunch of reasons: helping to isolate infrequently encountered and hard to reproduce bugs, traci
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by mjfisher 4y ago
That's not universally true. Most of the contractors I know are a mixture of PAYE and dividend (pension requirements don't apply to directors and paying nominal NI secures a state pension on retirement). It's usually the setu
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by mjfisher 4y ago
It varies massively depending on seniority, company and location, but a representative range could be £400-£600 a day. Much above £600 tends to be for "multiplier" style roles that increase the output of other engineers, e.g. Devo
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by mjfisher 4y ago
I was almost one of them. I think the way people manage tasks and external state is so situationally, personally and contextually dependent that most todo list software gets to 60% of people's ideal workflow and that just isn't en
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by mjfisher 4y ago
Actually reaching a level of team culture where you can be as brief, blunt and to the point as possible is a wonderful thing. There is no offence to be taken, because the deeply held respect for each other as team mates is already there and
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by mjfisher 4y ago
I've been thinking in a similar direction lately. A lot of the more effective practices historically assumed that a single unit of value end-to-end was deliverable by a single engineer (with supporting QA and review, etc.) The reason t
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by mjfisher 4y ago
I’m not a dwarf, but I do have smaller than average hands and really struggle to type on a phone one handed. I dropped my phone a lot trying to balance it. Have you come across pop sockets? Small collapsible self-adhesive handles for the ba
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by mjfisher 4y ago
Every single hot sauce your generator comes up with sounds amazing
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by mjfisher 4y ago
Yeah it’s really hard. I tend to want developers to be product engineers and really care about not just coding but solving problems for end users. Reality gives us a bunch of people with different goals and different ways to make them happy
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by mjfisher 4y ago
3-4 minutes per person is huge! What does an IC talk about for all that time? Thirty seconds per person is closer to the mark in my experience, and that’s as part of encouraging slightly longer stand ups as a fully remote team. The actual s

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