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by tsuujin 4y ago
I’d like to offer an alternative framing: don’t debate at all, just listen. While high school debate did teach me many positive lessons and I am thankful that I spent four years of my life doing it, many years later I have come to understan
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by tsuujin 4y ago
People feel the need to defend Bay Area tech for whatever reason. I’ve been trying to tell people for years that my experiences at multiple companies, and talking to many, many other devs I met in the area and at conferences, indicate a ser
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by tsuujin 4y ago
I worked for multiple companies in the Bay Area, and this was standard fare at all of them. Hire young people with no personal obligations and gaslight them into believing if they don’t live and breathe work they’re “not a team player”.
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by tsuujin 4y ago
I spent a decade working in Bay Area tech. I guarantee you the culture absolutely demanded that “personal time” simply didn’t exist. You worked at work, you worked some more at home, you came into the office on weekends, and when you weren’
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by tsuujin 4y ago
Sometimes it’s just politics. I manage software engineers and am responsible for advocating for their raises. Occasionally the answer from above will be “no” because budgets are tight and it’s a bad time to be handing out money, but if I ha
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by tsuujin 4y ago
There is an awful lot of discussion out there about TDD that does not mention the Red-Green-Refactor concept at all. I think that really changes the impression of TDD.
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by tsuujin 4y ago
I feel like carbon monoxide would be so much more humane too. I used to work a job where we had to vigilantly check for CO because it could kill a whole family without anyone realizing they were in danger. 1200 parts per million is fatal. P
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by tsuujin 4y ago
Augmented Reality (AR) takes an image of the real world around you (or just the real world itself through a transparent screen) and superimposes images onto it. You could be looking at a very real tree in front of you and see a virtual squi
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by tsuujin 4y ago
On the other hand: all hail printables.com, king of the print file hosting services.
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by tsuujin 4y ago
That isn’t a slippery slope. That’s cause and effect. A slippery slope would be “if we let that rock fall, soon it will be all rocks, and bigger rocks, and they’ll fall faster and faster until all life has ended, so legislate against fallin
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by tsuujin 4y ago
Not really defending the OP here, but technically a slippery slope is a logical fallacy. It basically implies that any situation will eventually result in the most extreme outcome; e.g., if you let a barber cut your hair, eventually they’ll
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by tsuujin 4y ago
Misskey as a project looks pretty cool, but they seem to lean really hard into the anime culture thing. I couldn’t find, on a cursory glance, an instance that seemed like it would feel appropriate for a middle aged man. No shame to anime cu
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by tsuujin 4y ago
> On the other hand I can’t find any source to tell if they had 1-1s from the begining or not. From the court findings: “In February 2022, Miss Besse began having weekly meetings with her manager to help her better manage her files. She
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by tsuujin 4y ago
I worked really hard with my current company to reinvent our software engineer interview process, taking it down from weeks of multiple interviews and a full day test to something we could do in one 3 hour sitting (or break up if the candid
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by tsuujin 4y ago
An answer I haven’t seen yet is that making your website look and act like other websites is fairly well established UX principle for avoiding user friction. It’s known as Jakob’s Law. https://lawsofux.com/jakobs-law/
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by tsuujin 4y ago
The order here is what I’m taking issue with. - The 1-1s should have been happening from day 1 of employment, especially for a remote employee. - The manager should have initiated them, not the employee. - When the employee asked for help,
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by tsuujin 4y ago
Sure, they need to be honest about it and lying about it is wrong. I would definitely tell one of my direct reports not to do it again. If they persisted I’d put them on a PIP and if they failed to correct I’d fire them. I have let people g
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by tsuujin 4y ago
There is indeed a chance that someone doesn’t want to work and doesn’t have a place on the team. I have let people go for this, but only after extensively attempting to remediate. That’s why it’s an “indication” and not a “guarantee”.
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by tsuujin 4y ago
Genuine question: what makes you sure I didn’t read the article (because I did). Nothing in the article contradicts my post. The lady was almost certainly billing time she didn’t work, but I would still ask myself what I’ve done to enable t
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by tsuujin 4y ago
> I really wanted to be upset with the company here, but it sounds like she shot herself in the foot. Both of these things can be valid at the same time. She was certainly technically in the wrong and made some questionable choices (with
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by tsuujin 4y ago
Yes, but that is not in opposition to what I said above. Hours were certainly logged fraudulently, I’m not debating that. I’m saying that rather than firing her, I would have asked a lot of questions about the situation and if I pushed her
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by tsuujin 4y ago
I don’t think this is analogous to a punch clock. The clock just says when you’re in the building, where the kind of software they’re using here is more like just having someone stand at your desk and ask you what you’re doing every couple
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by tsuujin 4y ago
For context: I am a software engineering manager. If my employees are spending a lot of their time goofing off, that’s an indication that I’m doing a poor job keeping them motivated and is an opportunity to reevaluate what we’re doing and h
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by tsuujin 4y ago
Do yourself a favor and turn on reader mode for this article, there are _24_ ads weaved between the paragraphs.
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by tsuujin 4y ago
As an engineering manager: yes to all of these. When I 1-1 with my reports I’m looking to see where their mind is this week and what they’re struggling with, so I can figure out how I can help them. The small talk is more important than man
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by tsuujin 4y ago
Sometimes you need to both type and listen to other people talking, so talking over them would be pretty rude. Also typing with text to speech in a public place would really rob you of privacy. Honestly for me steno is about ergonomics. It
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by tsuujin 4y ago
I wasn’t able to glean this from the article: -which- site? Is the number cited the unique members across every federated server? Or is it just mastodon.social? Is there a way to determine membership across the fediverse?
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by tsuujin 4y ago
This kind of use case should have been what the Touch Bar supported. I was actually excited when the Touch Bar came out because I though I would finally be able to just have named buttons, even click-through menus, instead of having to memo
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by tsuujin 4y ago
I’ve been doing this for a while too. I used lastpass for a couple of years then bounced between dashlane and 1Password for a bit, but when apple added 2fa I dropped everything else and use it exclusively. There are some UX things I would l
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by tsuujin 4y ago
It sounds like you’re asserting that any password login must have been rolled by hand from scratch, when in reality there are many great community built password login frameworks for basically any language and tooling combination you can th

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