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by philpem 8y ago
UK actually. A FTSE-listed company. I've mentioned some of the other stuff they did in my other comments so I won't dig it up here. I left at the end of last year and at that point I was doing the job of four engineers (who'd
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by philpem 8y ago
Could also be part of the ratings scheme. Maybe there are events triggered by a score (e.g. 3/7 is a review of skills, 6/7 is consider a promotion). Or perhaps the manager has to justify any above-average ratings to their superior
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by philpem 8y ago
One of my previous employers had an open-plan office, and after a management change introduced mandatory hotdesking. You had to move desks every day -- management checked every morning and wrote people up if they sat at the same desk for tw
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Why it’s important that employers let staff personalise their workspaces(digest.bps.org.uk)
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But you do need deep pockets.
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Thanks for the details :) I said 747 because I was thinking Boeing at the time, and that was the first of their aircraft I could think of! I was also thinking something smaller like a Cessna might not have the same setup because they'r
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by philpem 8y ago
They're certainly going that way. Group DMs don't work with the API (in that there's not even a "hey log onto the website your client doesn't support this" notification). A ton of features have been removed fro
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by philpem 8y ago
To put it bluntly -- the prevailing mindset is that customer support is a cost-centre. It's hard to reliably measure customer satisfaction, so its value is misunderstood. And if you're the only game in town with your own little wa
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by philpem 8y ago
Your boss just called. They said to tell you to stop padding your estimates...
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by philpem 8y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if this was a liability thing. You can't subpoena a conversation unless it was recorded...
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There's a point where shortcuts are appropriate, and there's a point where the shortcuts actually cost you time. You can spend ten weeks messing around with "quick fixes" when it'd take two weeks to redesign the uns
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by philpem 8y ago
There's also the prevailing management theory that "all staff can do the same job" -- I've seen this in various perverted and butchered variants of Lean and Agile. The theory is sound -- at least two engineers on a proje
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by philpem 8y ago
That sounds so unlikely that most people would dismiss it as silly... I'm not a pilot, but if the controls are linked -- why would the plane need to know where the pilot is sitting (or even have a switch for it)? (Any 747 pilots readin
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by philpem 8y ago
What stunned me was that the German legal system is going after the managers who made the decisions, not the engineers who implemented them (undoubtedly under duress). In any other country -- and especially UK/USA -- I'd expect to
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by philpem 8y ago
With the obvious warnings about limited sample size, anecdotal evidence and so on... I've encountered a few people with this trait, and the general trend I've noticed is an excess of optimism and a hint of complacency. "I hav
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by philpem 8y ago
Unfortunately I don't sell the ready-made units any more -- they're just not cost-effective to sell like that at a price the market will bear. I want to do a redesign with more cost-effective components (an STM32 Nucleo and a shie
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by philpem 8y ago
The store closed years ago. I was working 7am-6pm for a long while and just didn't have the time to put in. I still have about a dozen boards and a few components, actually. Look me up on Twitter (@philpem) or Mastodon (m0ofx@mastodon.
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by philpem 8y ago
Depends if someone's already written the Dockerfile for you ;) But to be fair, I usually just clone a Virtualbox machine because I'm used to the workflow. :)
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There's an "on penalty of perjury" clause in the law (if memory serves, it's part of a clause which must be present for a takedown notice to be valid). In practice, David often can't afford to sue Goliath. I don&#x2
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by philpem 8y ago
Metrics are only worthwhile if they're accurate and measure what needs to be measured! The last place I worked went as far as putting badge entry/exit readers on the toilets -- the stats were aggregated by person and anyone signif
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by philpem 8y ago
It's pretty easy to install Python on Mac (use Brew) or Windows (use WinPython), and most Linux distros include it by default... running an installer is hardly an onerous task.
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It is if you run it inside a Docker container... no mess, no fuss...
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by philpem 8y ago
Sorry, quite correct. Apparently I can't even remember my own domain name! It'll do exactly what a Kryoflux can do, including flux-transition-level read and write. (I'm not sure if the Kryoflux can write). The big differences
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by philpem 8y ago
Or if you prefer free-as-in-speech kit, there's also Discferret (www.discferret.org) and a ton of other similar community-developed tools :) (Full disclosure: I'm one of the guys behind Discferret but it hasn't seen much dev
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by philpem 8y ago
For me it's not so much slow walkers that's the problem - everyone walks at a different speed, and I tend to walk quite quickly anyway (pretty close to a slow jog, I'm told). The more annoying thing are the "street zombi
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by philpem 8y ago
I guess going back to 2019 and getting a copy of the ROS dump from Github was too easy ;)
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I'm guessing the OP didn't have a logic analyser. You'd need to grab the address and data buses, and synchronise that to a point in the fetch cycle when the data is guaranteed to be stable. It also means a lot more test clips
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by philpem 8y ago
In my experience this is largely a function of environment. If you give a realistic estimate and constantly get "stop padding your estimates" or "this needs to be done quicker" in response, after a while you start giving
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by philpem 8y ago
It's truly amazing how few people can grasp the concept of the time/quality/cost triangle. If you want good quality in a short time -- it'll cost more. If you want cheap -- you have to compromise on the amount of time or
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by philpem 8y ago
If you think about it, it's a pretty good musical trolling exercise. A song about irony which doesn't contain a single instance of irony.

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