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by romanows 6y ago
Agile is the opposite of "closely scripted, narrowly defined workflow is a one-sized-fits-all solution to optimizing teams under all circumstances and contexts." You're thinking more of Scrum?
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by romanows 6y ago
I guarantee there were some technical people saying this was a waste of time and money.
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by romanows 7y ago
What interviewer isn't going to dig into their concerns anyway? I mean, if you can read the person and they seem like they'd be down for "let's get down to brass tacks" kinda talk, go for it. Maybe it makes you seem
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by romanows 7y ago
I would think that the difference between a towel and water alone for cleaning hands is smaller than the difference between water alone and water with soap.
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by romanows 7y ago
When I was commuting, I had a theory that looking out the bus window or biking into work was important because it forced me to be aware of the distance and time separating my home and work. It allowed me to transition between the two, wher
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by romanows 7y ago
Thanks for your comments in this thread. Some people seem to have an axe to grind concerning the hubris of software hackers and are pushing that debate rather than addressing the question.
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by romanows 7y ago
I wonder how long it would take to teach someone to be more help than harm? After 30 intensive days of training, what would candidates lack?
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by romanows 7y ago
Instant messaging is synchronous two-way communication like voice and video. I'm not sure what you mean by "fluid" conversation, though. Voice is good for people who aren't good at typing or expressing themselves via t
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by romanows 7y ago
I vastly prefer text. Sometimes I need to extract information out of someone who doesn't do a great job of communicating via text and voice helps. Sometimes it's clear that there's a tone-based misunderstanding and that the
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by romanows 7y ago
I really dislike video chat for full-time remote work. Video chat is still too lo-fi to approach the utility of in-person meetings and has the same downsides (grooming, dress, other appearance-based stereotypes). What's wrong with vo
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by romanows 7y ago
"Several grumpy opinions about remote working tools at Tailscale" would do it.
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by romanows 7y ago
Social security?
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by romanows 7y ago
I'm suspicious that it's difficult to know someone's work-related emotional state if you're in a position to affect it. And are you in a position to do anything about it if you find that they are stressed? Just ask in a
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by romanows 7y ago
Note that protecting the company from being sued can mean protecting you. For example, a harasser might be fired to avoid a lawsuit. But you hear stories about HR people putting the company in legal jeopardy (e.g. not firing a harasser) d
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by romanows 7y ago
Just give your opinion as you would to a coworker on your best day. That's what any reasonable interviewer is looking for unless otherwise stated. Similarly, you can tell a lot by how your comments are received.
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by romanows 7y ago
FYI, there will sometimes be nice comparison tables to make comparing software easier. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_deep-learning_so...
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by romanows 7y ago
Non-IT person here but their security updates seem very nice if you are dealing with systems that store sensitive data?
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by romanows 7y ago
You're just doing work on your personal laptop? That doesn't mean you own the work you produce so I think it would complicate ownership of the non-work you produce. Best to use the work laptop for work and the personal laptop for
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by romanows 7y ago
It's bad that there are half forgotten systems but almost every sizable business that has been around for many years will have this. On mobile, but there's a famous story of a server that had been drywalled over and had been runni
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by romanows 7y ago
The article seems contradictory. Is it really estimating if you drop features you can't finish to ship by a deadline? Is a 16 month estimate worthwhile when you screw around for 12 months before getting serious and then getting it don
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by romanows 7y ago
Taxes are more about having the right training/mindset when approaching a potentially complex set of instructions. It's more about how daunting it feels. Same way I've talked myself out of putting in the work to think long an
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by romanows 7y ago
Soylent tastes good. I actually crave it some days. Feels like there is plenty of room in this market without resorting to negative advertising but maybe it'll work for you...
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by romanows 8y ago
In my darker moments I think people don't want to take the time to type a good question and only commit to it when they believe I'll be faster than grep/google. Not sure if they realize that now I have to sit through that t
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by romanows 8y ago
Some people advocate that microservices own their data and only provide it through an API. In this scenario, Service B would need to query Service A for the authoritative copy of the record. I think the standard way to deal with the query
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by romanows 8y ago
Heaven forbid that someone responds to a point made in another post. On a public internet discussion forum. In a discussion about the context and effects of divisive and difficult decisions. /s
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by romanows 9y ago
I do that with a monthly clothing service and it works pretty well, so I guess YMMV.
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by romanows 9y ago
s/J/Sh/
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by romanows 9y ago
Could you ask this question directly in an interview? If you have to assume the response is actually talking about "white males" or that the respondent is confusing bias with ping-pong tables, perhaps you are not being direct eno
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by romanows 10y ago
Matches mine in Austin.
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by romanows 10y ago
Yikes, was that on an iPhone? I'm not seeing permissions to read email or calendar content on the Android version. It does have permissions to read your contacts.

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