rrr_oh_man

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   by rrr_oh_man 3y ago

   You're not their customer. You're their product.
2. 1412.▲
   by rrr_oh_man 3y ago

   I like you.
3. 1413.▲
   by rrr_oh_man 3y ago

   > until I realized what he did that no one else did, which turns out freed up the rest of the team Can you elaborate?
4. 1414.▲
   by rrr_oh_man 3y ago

   <3
5. 1415.▲
   by rrr_oh_man 3y ago

   Can you give a concrete example or elaborate a bit more?
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   by rrr_oh_man 3y ago

   > Tests in school don't require creative problem solving I’m not sure you can make such a broad statement.
7. 1417.▲
   by rrr_oh_man 3y ago

   Thank you for introducing me to this!
8. 1418.▲
   by rrr_oh_man 3y ago

   That's an interesting take!
9. 1419.▲
   by rrr_oh_man 3y ago

   Fun fact: In German the words for knowledge ('Wissen') and wit/joke ('Witz') share the same root.
10. 1420.▲
    by rrr_oh_man 3y ago

    I appreciate that question! Something something about age and responsibilities and tiredness and not having trained for that, but... it's worth it to think about it, anyway — at least as risk-mitigation for yourself, going forward. May
11. 1421.▲
    by rrr_oh_man 3y ago

    Fucking hell. Wow.
12. 1422.▲
    by rrr_oh_man 3y ago

    As people have done for (maybe dozens or even hundreds of) millennia.
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    by rrr_oh_man 3y ago

    > Canadian homicide rate is comparable to Balkan countries At 2.1/100,000 it’s a hair above the 2021 Balkans average, which is, frankly, quite low and just a little higher than the Northern Europe average. > each famous in their
14. 1424.▲
    by rrr_oh_man 3y ago

    > I am not sure about which blindspots you have in mind, though? Not trying to throw shade, but in my experience people who are confident that they have no bias usually do, often heaps of it, and are just not that much aware of it. Espec
15. 1425.▲
    by rrr_oh_man 3y ago

    Thanks for the clarification!
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    by rrr_oh_man 3y ago

    Not disagreeing with your point in general, but: Not everyone can become an architect or water systems engineer at 50, after having worked a "general assistant" type office job for many years. I think that (and its consequences) m
17. 1427.▲
    by rrr_oh_man 3y ago

    How do you control for bias and blindspots?
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    by rrr_oh_man 3y ago

    It might be, if it’s directionless pushback instead of genuine curiosity to understand the need of the internal customer. From my personal experience, people are often positively delighted when you make an effort to try to understand them
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    by rrr_oh_man 3y ago

    > Why do you need a baby? > Do you need to grow your own, or could you adopt? > Is it about birth itself? Does it have to be a human baby? > Does the baby need to be related to you? > What if we hire a baby actor? …
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    by rrr_oh_man 3y ago

    Any downsides to this approach, from your experience?
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    by rrr_oh_man 3y ago

    > are all these rules actually helping to improve quality of the software While I agree with your sentiment, high quality software (and: what is high quality, anyway?) is not necessary the goal of an enterprise.
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    by rrr_oh_man 3y ago

    > Unless a team has put hard work into unintuitive ways of working, the average ticket will spend grossly more time waiting than actually being worked on. What do you mean by "unintuitive ways of working"?
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    by rrr_oh_man 3y ago

    I just took a 3 month break after working 12 years almost non stop. Rebuilt my kitchen (manual work, accomplishments, yay!), visited some cool places, reconnected with old friends. Didn’t think about work for _weeks_, at least. Even though