penguinvondoom

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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
I don't think it's a lack of will. It is more an environment that is overwhelming most peoples capacity of will, as well as simply just material circumstances that make all those changes even more difficult, or impossible. Inbetwe
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
Completely agree. I think the fundamental problem, is that the public facing internet is kind of like electricity or water - it is a utility, that isn't inherently monetizeable. So the only way to make money off of it is to advertise.
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
When you draw the line, for both investors and owners, the unit of value is indeed dollars. The goal is to maximise the amount of money you make (subject to some constraints of course), and the use value that people derive is secondary. I t
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
It's interesting when you see tech people trying to reason about concepts that have been thoroughly discussed and rediscussed, without said tech people seemingly having any background in that. At least its better than MBA and business
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
Im at work, and a 20 minute video is just the thing I need to pass the time
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
bones, seeds etc. can fossilize
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
I think a large organisation absolutely can be agile... but you will have to rethink what organisations are and how they work, dispense with things like orgcharts, and the way that power works and think about the underspecified parts of agi
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
The late David Grabber had a great book about this - Bullshit Jobs. And when you draw the line, we do keep a lot of work and a lot of jobs around purely because if we don't a lot of people are going to have a lot of free time to ask a
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
The problem is that there are a loooot of ethical implication on using your own personal data in the first place, where that goes, who has access to it, how is it handled, and so on and so on. Then advertisements isn't anything but pro
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
OMG, pretty much a lot of what I have personally been through. But the problem is deeper and goes beyond a company not knowing what to do with someone that does ML/Data Science ... Most of software that comes out either does not contri
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
> The idea was always build something impactful and make it as profitable as possible via fulfilling your company's mission. Nah, the idea was always to make a lot of money. It was never to build something impactful or useful. Sure
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
Quite the opposite. In many ways employers are like tenants - they rent out the position to you and in return cash in a certain part of the value you produce. Just like with landlords in a properly just society you do not need that middlema
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
The two are sides of the same coin and both are founded in the need of capitalism to make people work more so more profits can be made and more surplus extracted.
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
Duelling was very much going on in the mid 19th century, tho ...
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
I think both the rebuttal and the original articles are good, but talk about different things. The original one seems to talk about the way Agile tends to be done, especially via the world of corporate, consultant agile, certified scrum mas
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
There is also what Stafford Beer writes about when discussing viable systems - the goal for most organisations, is not their stated goals, but survival and perpetuating the system. The stated goals are a byproduct of that, if and when achie
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
Oh, there is definitely something to that. There are people, not just managers, in general who for one reason or another _want_ someone to take charge, be responsible and tell everyone what to do. Which is not bad, per se, it gets bad when
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
IMO the main problem is in the very way organisations are structured - it is about power, and people (really meaning management) want to achieve good enough results, given that their control is maintained. Agile as aesthetics is cool, but
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
IDK, from multiple accounts Amazon is an absolute burning garbage bin of a mess for everyone that works in it.
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
> (twelve years ago! And if you go and read some old management cybernetics you see all that stuff back in the fucking 60s, 80 years ago. I think you absolutely hit the nail on the head tho
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
And in big corporations it isn't very different. There used to be theory of management and of organisation, that somehow got lost along the way, with only vestiges popping up here and there in stuff like the Toyota model, the original
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
No-one has free trade. Most of the time free trade agreements are made in a way that clearly benefits one side, and are an expression of power as much as a fleet with aircraft carriers
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
To be fair, CEOs are also kinda useless... on a more serious notes, these consultants are more like priests of capital, there to prosletize whatever new cargo-cult framework is popular (without actually making any real change mind you). I k
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
Dividents are political, as well as stuff like who owns the company and executive policy and rewards and so on. We just tend to not talk about it a lot, or even see it as a political problem, even though these things underlie a huge part of
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
Definitely not. Computer engineers are famously humble and rational
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
There is nothing wrong with goofing around or slacking off. Cause for your 300k your boss makes 300 000 000, and his work is going golfing and having fancy dinners, and calling it work. If you have fallen for the corporate bullshit and push
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
It's only been high due to historic reasons and hype. Business has been on a decades crusade to push down payment for the software labor aristocracy, and to be fair security has nothing to do with it too. There is absolutely no inheren
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
To be fair, we can probably replace most of these with ChatGPT
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
> it’s cringe to see people making way more than most people cry about how things are not fair. you’re getting many months of full pay and health insurance extensions. Far from it. What is cringe however is that not all employees get th
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by penguinvondoom 4y ago
Or maybe we need some kind of worker protections, where you can't just get people fired in the middle of the night. Unions and shit...

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