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by strangetimes 11y ago
MarsEdit is the client most people mention as a Mac replacement for Windows Live Writer, but after using WLW for years and then trying MarsEdit, it didn't hold a candle to WLW. It's shocking--WLW is a free tool that hasn't ha
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by strangetimes 11y ago
To this day I run a Windows 7 VM in Parallels on my MacBook Air in Coherence mode just so I can write blog posts in Windows Live Writer. I looked for years for a setup that could beat this, and unbelievably, never found it.
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Open Plan Alternatives: Gleaming the Cube(mattblodgett.com)
1 points by strangetimes 11y ago|0 comments
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Open Plan Alternatives: Ask Your People(mattblodgett.com)
1 points by strangetimes 11y ago|0 comments
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Law of conservation of complexity(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by strangetimes 11y ago|1 comments
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by strangetimes 11y ago
> It's hard for a lot of people on here to imagine dealing with 100k+ other coworkers but at a point you oftentimes have to abstract away what makes people human to work in most large corporations. Working myself for a company of 15
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“That’s Easy. You Just…”(mattblodgett.com)
2 points by strangetimes 11y ago|0 comments
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Backlog Prioritization Affects Developer Morale(mattblodgett.com)
3 points by strangetimes 11y ago|0 comments
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If You Don’t Buy the Philosophy, Don’t Bother with the Practices(mattblodgett.com)
1 points by strangetimes 11y ago|0 comments
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The Library and the Bazaar(mattblodgett.com)
2 points by strangetimes 11y ago|0 comments
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Technicians Get No Respect(mattblodgett.com)
2 points by strangetimes 11y ago|0 comments
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by strangetimes 11y ago
Maybe they should add some tigers roaming around the office to keep the workers extra alert?
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Are Software Developers Respected by “Business People”?(mattblodgett.com)
3 points by strangetimes 11y ago|1 comments
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by strangetimes 11y ago
I had the same experience working for a company that did pair programming 100% of the time. Very productive but exhausting, and in my mind, not sustainable.
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Just Wear Headphones(mattblodgett.com)
278 points by strangetimes 11y ago|203 comments
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by strangetimes 11y ago
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Probably not Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattblodgett Email: mattblodgett [at] gmail [dot] com Blog: http://mattblodgett.com --- My
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by strangetimes 11y ago
"A Pattern Language" by Christopher Alexander https://archive.org/details/APatternLanguage
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How to Make an Open Plan Office Suck Less(mattblodgett.com)
78 points by strangetimes 11y ago|45 comments
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by strangetimes 11y ago
This was posted on HN a few days ago, which largely discusses how the weather in LA is luring New Yorkers... http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/style/los-angeles-and-its-...
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Remote Work Denial Is a Bad Look(mattblodgett.com)
2 points by strangetimes 11y ago|1 comments
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Continuous Delivery and Management Pathologies(mattblodgett.com)
1 points by strangetimes 12y ago|0 comments
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Your Problem Is Not Unique(mattblodgett.com)
2 points by strangetimes 12y ago|0 comments
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by strangetimes 12y ago
I actually believe that Scrum is a way to avoid micromanagement. There's no way of getting around the fact that the people who pay you want to see steady progress toward the thing they're paying you to do. One 15-minute meeting ea
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Should Managers Share an Update in the Standup?(mattblodgett.com)
2 points by strangetimes 12y ago|0 comments
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by strangetimes 12y ago
How about the entire company sits at one continuous "superdesk"? "The challenge was to create the most collaborative, creative environment possible. The result? A desk that we could all share, literally--4,400 square feet of
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by strangetimes 12y ago
My Spotify Premium subscription is worth it just for the fact that I haven't had to touch iTunes in months.
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by strangetimes 12y ago
I've run into this before as well, where guys will brag about how much (unpaid) overtime they put in, how early they get to the office in the morning, etc. I feel pity for them, not respect.
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by strangetimes 12y ago
> Open-plan began to go into vogue as a backdoor mechanism for age discrimination, due to studies showing that older people were quick to associate them (and visibility from behind) with low status and therefore leave. Do you remember wh
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by strangetimes 12y ago
This is the kind of shit that makes me angry. Microsoft should know better. Slick presentations about bullpens being the future of work, like it's self-evident. A generation of software engineers are going to come up with the belief th
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by strangetimes 12y ago
I agree that absolute silence is a bit stifling. The spot I'm working in currently is very quiet and I actually prefer when the HVAC kicks on and covers up all the little sounds (mouse clicks, chairs creaking, etc.) with a base layer o

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