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by p4wnc6 11y ago
If you can guarantee that non-Agile teams never have deliverables required for Agile teams (and it sounds like such a guarantee is something you strive for), then this seems reasonable. But it seems very fragile if you can't guarantee
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
> I also don't really know any organization that goes all in on "all team members are interchangeable". This has been a ubiquitous and openly stated goal from management in every job I've had. In one job that followed
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
So few implementations of Agile have the slightest connection to the quality-focused spirit of the Agile principles that there is no such thing to talk about "Agile" apart from the ubiquitous failure mode. You say, >the kind of
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Your comment represents a No True Scotsman fallacy -- the idea that whatever "agile" is, it must be equivalent to the ideals espoused by people who are affiliated with it. I've written much more about the in principle fai
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I've read the Netflix document many times. To be fair, I don't have any special knowledge about working at Netflix to suggest that Netflix doesn't actually empower specialists. I am curious if Netflix avoids Agile/Scrum
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Even Apple doesn't do it that way. Like many things Steve Jobs said, it contradicts what he did. The things we say about ourselves espouse ideals and far-mode thinking to enrich our status and legacy. But the brass tacks of what we act
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
> Then I read complaints about how the owners (shareholders) of the company are making pots of money and the employees aren't, and how brutally unfair that is. The employees should be receiving dividend-like cash bonuses and should
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
So few people make bank from tech stock that everyone should literally ignore this anecdote and operate in life as if it is not true. This is like saying you're not going to buy that $2.00 lottery ticket, then being mad when someone el
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Not if you want to diversify. If your job is the source of your cash income and is also the primary source of equity, that's a problem, because if the employer has a downturn, you lose twice. It's generally bad if your cash inco
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Most people writing Haskell code for real problems should never write their own instances of Monad. When you see someone implementing tons of instances of Monad, it's a sign of over-engineering and Haskell masturbation. Very, very fe
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
> the training provided by the company reflects the skills they want you to have, not the ones that you might most want to have. This usually means you should leave if they won't fix it. They either bait-and-switched you into a job
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
This article makes the mistake of assuming that things like the national debate of encryption and privacy sparked by e.g. the San Bernadino iPhone ordeal are actually about the moral themes they are characterized by. They are not about thos
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I have had remarkably awful customer service from System76 and after my current 2-year-old laptop dies, I will refrain from ever dealing with System76 again. A friend of mine has also had the same problem with customer service. In both case
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
That all sounds complicated and open to debate. Was Jeremy an employee? Did Kyle have any standing to fire him? What were the circumstances under which Jeremy left? Did Kyle use any primary IP contributions from Jeremy, like architectural d
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
The things you depict as "training" ought to be business-value-additive tasks that happen to be both my daily work and also tasks that facilitate the career growth I desire. If the business can't do that, then they hired me f
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
> He finds Jeremy, they talk, they hit it off, and they decide to apply to YC together, and Kyle offers to split the existing company 50/50. But they don't put anything in writing... One of the major questions is whether the YC
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I propose the name for 50% equity: DDaS Attack!
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
From the YC application video alone, there seems to be a major point of contention about what Jeremy actually contributed. In the video they are talking about specific plans involving commodity hardware, that they devised a way to constrain
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
What is interesting to me is that the video offers some hints that both parties are being uncharitable in their description of the other party. Jeremy acknowledges previous robotics and technical competency of Kyle, and Kyle describes bot
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
If they provide less than ideal for you, then you leave. Providing less than ideal is less than ideal for them, unless they don't care about losing you, in which case you probably don't want to be there anyway. Out of the four job
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
The HR staff will say misleading things and present a rosier picture than the technical staff. The technical staff are the ones who know what the sociological issues are really like, and the degree of happiness you experience in the job i
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
That's like saying developers need to get away from the idea that it is the company's responsibility to pay them salary, offer retirement benefits, provide them shelter from the weather while working, etc. The company may not have
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
No, it's too critical to make sure you're not wasting time with open-plan office nonsense, stack ranking nonsense, or many other other kinds of systematic dysfunction that are frequent in tech jobs. If you only focus on tech detai
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I always liked Michael O. Church's way of phrasing this from his post on "the Haskell tax" (I think it's been taken down). Paraphrasing, he said something like, "most jobs require you to have work experience that is
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
How much time do you typically allocate for this? I generally feel frustrated when an interviewer hammers me with difficult questions for 55 minutes and then leaves me with less than 5 minutes to ask questions. I don't think I have eve
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
The primary use of questions during an interview is to actually determine if the employer is a good fit for you. Your advice seems to take a different approach -- that you shouldn't use questions as a means to ensure you will be happy
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I agree, and a number of my grad school friends were into climbing. I would never have identified them as "the climbing man" or "the climbing woman" though, since it was just one aspect of their personality. If someone h
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I don't see why these figures are considered useful in this context. The total amount of tax revenue needs to be larger (and more efficiently distributed), and that increase in tax revenue needs to come about almost exclusively through
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I think relative to the kinds of wealth increases the bottom 50% of the world is permitted to realize (e.g. access to ad-drenched web services and internet devices, entertainment consumables, heavily processed food, clearly-second-class med
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
> Nobody in the US is in the bottom quartile. Did you read my comment? I said they are in the second quartile, and they foot the bill for a lot of the ways that wealth improvement reaches people in the first quartile. Although, across

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