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by thebent 10y ago
@trevyn We've got some things in that vein that are working in the app today — and are working toward even more. If you’d like, we could hop on a call and give you a tour of the app and show you where we’re headed? Seems like you'
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by thebent 10y ago
Would love to better expose our data set. It’s a bit tricky however: we’re specifically interested in enterprise software engineering (the patterns of which differ radically from the open source world). In order to dig into enterprise data,
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by thebent 10y ago
@trevyn Co-founder here. You’re right: this post is a narrative about product development, and a strong correlation we found between two variables across 20 Million+ commits that we thought was fascinating and supports general 'kitchen
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by thebent 10y ago
Highly recommend Daniel Pink’s “A Whole New Mind” on this topic Correction, the Pink title I was referring to was "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us" Pink does a great job unpacking research that demonstrates h
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by thebent 10y ago
“to affect my pay” ← totally agree with you here. This is a big part of why we think engineering metrics are a tough nut to crack: there’s a fair bit of research that suggests tying KPIs to compensation is a huge anti-pattern for certain
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by thebent 10y ago
@debaserab2 100% agree, well said.
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by thebent 10y ago
@Bartweiss thanks for the feedback. The thing about “gaming the system”, is that it presumes an adversarial relationship between engineers and non-engineers. That’s pretty unfortunate, and it’s our view that a good portion of this is due to
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by thebent 10y ago
@cbcoutinho appreciate that. i think this should work: https://blog.gitprime.com/rss.xml
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by thebent 10y ago
@shandor — yeah, there's some secret sauce happening in that impact metric, but this post breaks it down so you get a sense of how it's calculated and how teams are using it: https://blog.gitprime.com/impact-a-bett
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by thebent 10y ago
Ah nice, @Eiriksmal — 'once upon a time…' and 'pre-impact', sounds like this was a while ago now :) Encouraging to hear that this has been helpful for you.
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by thebent 10y ago
Thanks for checking it out @gaastonsr — yeah, you make a great point. we've figured out some ways to account for that in the software itself.
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by thebent 10y ago
"Every measure of a good developer is qualitative. That makes them all subjective." ^ This post scratches the surface on a timely and relevant question many teams face, but the author seems to throw hands up and say everything i
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by thebent 10y ago
The commentary is blistering.
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Why Tokyo Is the World’s Best Food City(luckypeach.com)
68 points by thebent 10y ago|60 comments
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by thebent 10y ago
Yeah, have to agree with louprado here. The 'People around you control your mind' although a bit more entertaining and click baity is actually more accurate than 'peer' or 'pressure'.
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Peer pressure’s effects are perhaps more powerful than we thought (2014)(washingtonpost.com)
110 points by thebent 10y ago|84 comments
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Why It's Impossible to Know a Coastline's True Length(atlasobscura.com)
1 points by thebent 10y ago|0 comments
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England’s 7-Circle Roundabout(wired.com)
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How Default Settings Rule the World(propublica.org)
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by thebent 10y ago
It's all about the elevation. You can drive for hours on the east coast and be in the same relative eco-system. Here in the west, you drive an hour and can move through several. Start in a scorching red-rock desert and move in elevatio
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by thebent 10y ago
But then you'd have to live in the SF Bay Area ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by thebent 10y ago
yesss… "It sucks here! Don't come! You'll hate it."
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by thebent 10y ago
Thanks for the conversion. Whoah, that's cold.
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by thebent 10y ago
Favorite part about this is June, July, August and September in Colorado. Summertime in the Rockies! Any startups needing an excuse to get away, come visit us :)
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Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America(citylab.com)
232 points by thebent 10y ago|141 comments
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Antikythera Mechanism: mysterious technology from an ancient Greek shipwreck(theatlantic.com)
2 points by thebent 10y ago|0 comments
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Mechanical keyboard with analog input for precise control in games(wooting.nl)
2 points by thebent 10y ago|1 comments
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How insane work hours became a mark of American privilege(theweek.com)
2 points by thebent 10y ago|0 comments
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Atlas of Oblique Maps: vintage USGS collection [pdf](pubs.er.usgs.gov)
1 points by thebent 10y ago|0 comments
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Git didn’t beat SVN, GitHub did(blog.gitprime.com)
5 points by thebent 10y ago|0 comments

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