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by rowyourboat 9y ago
That sounds like a normal organization to me... > Engineering managers assign projects to engineers So engineers do only work on tasks handed down to them. We just did not agree on what "task" means.
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
Note that Firefox' autoplay blocker breaks some video sites because the Javascript assumes the video is playing when it really isn't. However, with Firefox, videos never autoplay. Chrome's autoplay does not always work, but i
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
What I meant was: How do other parts of the organization know what's being worked on? How do marketing, sales, product management influence the decision making process? GP made it sound as if engineering on its own decides what improve
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
So, you guys are all developers and product managers rolled into one? How do you decided what gets worked on?
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
Exactly. Due to the ever-increasing friend list, I now consider posting to facebook effectively the same as posting something publicly and non-anonymously. Which I never do.
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
They justify it by the same reasoning that any other company justifies a layoff. How much money the company makes does not really factor in, they don't exist for the benefit of society.
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
That, the superior handling of short-message group conversations and the fact that the number of people who could email me is vastly greater than my team members on slack. As such, I tend to check slack relatively frequently, while I check
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
A testament to how important signal processing is: Despite its 22 different photoreceptors rather than the humans three (four if you count cones), mantis shrimp can only distinguish a limited number of colors as their brains do not mix the
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
I found that to be a problem of organizational culture, not of chat itself. In my experience, if it was culturally fine to interrupt other people's work, quick answers were expected via chat, too. If it was the organization's cult
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
I'ld much rather be IM'ed or emailed than called or paged. If I am called, the phone rings or the pager beeps, and I have little choice but to interrupt my work. My slack client, on the other hand sits in the system tray, silently
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
Thing is, I have always used IM in one form or other for work. Slack is finally one that can handle code snippets well. It's not worse at interruption than any other IM (and you can tell it to shut up, so), it does not replace document
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
We used them in a web agency that has lots of different projects running on different stacks, and we have to go back to old projects from time to time. Having your dependencies, version, setup and even build tools all referenced in a compos
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
> How does "It auto-updates every time you deploy" fit with "The difference between my local, staging, and production is tiny"? It builds once, and then that very container with those dependencies gets pushed through
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
Thank you. I wasn't playing devil's advocate. I am not from the US, and the specific hangups and dos and donts Americans have around the issue of race are a bit alien to me. (That's not to say I am free of hangups, but mine a
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
> And in fact, for a very long time we resisted allowing people to filter by race—we felt it just wasn’t appropriate. > But then we learned about some use-cases from the other side—someone who is Filipino who wants to find other Filip
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
I was contesting the statement that forward-facing eyes somehow make us special. They don't. They are a trait we share with most predators.
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
Evolution is not straightforward. If a carnivore changes to a plant-based diet, chances are some carnivore traits are going to remain, if they are not too hardly selected against. See panda bears, fruit bats, ...
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
> Instead of having good vision, dogs, horses, mice, antelope – in fact, most mammals generally – have long damp snouts that they use to sniff things with. It is we humans, and apes and monkeys, who are different. What a load of bull. Do
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
Or just make the battery replaceable.
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
If you only know about the crimes people confessed to, how would you know that everybody actually confessed to every crime they did?
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
Around here, if somebody is talking into a phone on the train, they get dirty looks. It really is not at all common and pretty awkward. I have never witnessed anybody give a voice command to their phone. At work, we isolate the frequent-pho
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
Well, we do get born at a very early stage, if you compare with other mammals (not counting marsupials). Things simply can go wrong at that stage with no discernible external cause (e.g. cot death).
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
TIL that is an option at all. It's there in earlier versions, too, all they did was change the default behavior for Private Browsing mode
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
That's a myth. Most airplane crashes are survivable, they just don't garner any media attention. In most cases, the planes don't just nosedive into the ground, they veer off the runway or crash into obstacles while on the gro
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
The article mentions this problem, and there seems to be a concept emerging that is called "volume": Basically, how complex the algorithm can be you can run on a quantum computer, taking into account the number of qubits, their er
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
Your definition is not unusual at all, in fact, it is pretty close to the German definition of "Datenschutz" (data protection): Individuals have the right to know who has what information about them and the right to determine to w
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
Social media platforms are used for one-to-one communications and should support that. Furthermore, social media platforms should support sharing something with a group and only that group of people. Really, the only time I should expect th
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
There is no such requirement in EU anti-trust law. Any deal that restricts the freedom of contract with a third party is illegal.
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
In European anti-trust law, excluding competitors (or restricting anything regarding third parties) is illegal regardless of your market share. You might come under closer scrutiny if you have a quasi-monopoly, but the behavior is very much
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
Ditto on the SwiftKey recommendation: I have German, English and French always at my disposal.

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