nednar

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by nednar 5y ago
> that was obvious? Why would you hire someone unless you had a need for their talents? To me, that sounds like you think of weakness in terms of "Oh, our UI sucks, let's hire a javascript developer." But is that really wh
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by nednar 6y ago
You don't have to be smart, you just have to surround yourself with people smarter than yourself. The rest will happen automatically. Have you tried joining one of these projects you mentioned as open source contributor? I know at leas
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by nednar 6y ago
> The alternative theory is [...] So there are only two alternatives, and we just need to compare which sounds more likely? Or could it be that you exclude about a million other alternatives here, while also ignoring that just a little
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by nednar 6y ago
Hope, I won't miss when you make a blog article about the great experiences and green flags.
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by nednar 6y ago
I see, so the financial side between projects and operations is also different. When would you choose to do software as a project, coming from that perspective? Maybe the budget for operational things is more limited, and so you choose to d
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by nednar 6y ago
There are still people who develop software in traditional projects? As software can easily changed according to changing business needs, software is never really done. So, it's unnecessary to put it in a project. While you do a factor
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by nednar 6y ago
Is there a network of managers in your company you could sync with? If you consider switching companies or even career paths you might be at a point where learning might be more important than keeping (secret sauce type) leverage or saving
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by nednar 6y ago
> I agree with the sentiment that I should go find them. I can sympathize with feeling overwhelmed when searching for similar Issues in a bug database, as I was in a similar situation in the past. What happend was this: I went to the cen
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by nednar 6y ago
> What are you trying to say here? I want to look at the problems. But I don't want to do a guessing game with the 159 open issues, which one may relate to one of these points or not.
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by nednar 6y ago
What are the Github issue IDs for these 4 problems?
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by nednar 6y ago
You can't show that it's okay to leave, because you won't be there anymore to correct the narrative told about you.
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by nednar 6y ago
What about the other people around you?
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by nednar 6y ago
> Adopt a survivor mentality What does that even mean. Somehow I feel the article doesn't speak about the title's content at all.
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by nednar 6y ago
Email is another decentralized, distributed system that is often ignored. The only real difference between chat and email is that the interface makes it seem like chat is quicker. Nothing stops us from writing such interfaces for email as w
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by nednar 6y ago
This confusion you felt while you wrote it: That's the feeling of not knowing what you don't know. Remember it, so you won't make bad decisions when it happens in a more important situation.
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by nednar 6y ago
Is there a way to standardize your fixes for others, e.g. through a pull request to teh neovim plugin?
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by nednar 6y ago
If you have three clients, each gets a third of the ring's space. If you have 200 clients each gets a 200th of the ring's space.
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by nednar 6y ago
You can relicense your code at any time, but if I have an AGPL licensed copy of your source code of that version I can still share it under that license, right?
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by nednar 6y ago
Who knows more about the tent design shown in figure 15. This looks super versatile, but also hard to repair, build in a factory setting and maybe also unintuitive to set up. I hope this is more useful than it looks. Then it would be great
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by nednar 6y ago
Most people don't know that always writing tickets, even if they get refused and ignored, will have an impact. Your goal is not to convince level1 support to be your friend, but to turn the statistics into a way that forces administrat
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by nednar 6y ago
Yes and no. People can force software on your office computer but not on your private laptop, tablet and raspis. And even on windows computers you will find ways to install software without admin rights (e.g. Putty doesn't need any adm
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by nednar 6y ago
Tacit knowledge is the result of deliberate practice.
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by nednar 6y ago
Also let's not forget that automation still means someone needs to write some code, which needs to be written, maintained, updated, synced with other projects etc. The act itself creates new jobs already. For instance: In IT we also ha
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by nednar 6y ago
> I used normal blue/green deployments on self-managed VMs in the past, then worked with beanstalk, heroku, appengine and I much prefer k8s. Yes it's easier on heroku, but try to run 2-3 different containers on the same dyno fo
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by nednar 6y ago
regarding this "you want to seem like you're having your * together": My experience is this is bad advise. There are people who care a lot about this appearance stuff and people with skills, in any role, even as pure inve
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by nednar 6y ago
Hasn't FB always been the company where pragmatism and competitiveness trumps justice, moral and general decency? Why did these 600 people start working there in the first place? I'm confused. No judgement, just trying to understa
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by nednar 6y ago
0.002% is again a different number than 3%, 1.5%, 0.3% and 0.15%. Also to compare two numbers don't you need a second one as well? 0.00002 is a magnitute smaller than what number?
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by nednar 6y ago
I'm surprised if updating papers to correct mistakes is not the common path. Especially with software being a crucial part of it. I mean, how many software products do we know of that shipped flawlessly in v1.0?
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by nednar 6y ago
Sent by <name>@stanford.edu with host email server verifying the email came from there?
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by nednar 6y ago
Side question: The very first comparison of covid-19 and seasonal flu I read (before covid-19 was called covid-19) said that covid-19 would have a mortality rate of 1.5% and seasonal flu of 3%, therefore covid-19 would be less deadly. In re

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