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by twh270 3y ago
There's "simple" and there's "naively simple". I agree 100% with YAGNI, but you can also wedge yourself into a corner with a design that allows no room for growth unless you scrap it and start from scratch.
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by twh270 3y ago
There's a strong mentality of "anything good for GDP is good for the country" in the U.S. The constant stream of economic reports in the news (from "markets rallied today, with the S&P..." to the latest jobs rep
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by twh270 3y ago
Everything in the human sphere is 'politicized', but that doesn't mean politics is the only game in town, i.e. that all science is politicized and thus the retraction should be assumed to be political.
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by twh270 3y ago
You can't "re-make" a company by replacing the CEO/CxO, but I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss the influence of the c-suite either. What they care about and talk about filters down, often through unofficial channels
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by twh270 3y ago
Yes it was, I had it hooked up to my target machine with a serial cable -- developing display drivers for Windows and OS/2. The only thing SoftICE couldn't do was debug the video card itself!
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by twh270 3y ago
A few more: * If possible, set up your home office next to a window. Open the window whenever weather permits. I don't follow the "20-20-20" rule for eyestrain relief, but it's relaxing to just stare out the window for a
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by twh270 3y ago
We don't live in a hard, binary world of extremes. Yes -- buildings and locks are, for the most part, easily compromised. But... If I make a window of bulletproof glass, it's a lot harder to compromise. If I surround my building w
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by twh270 3y ago
Wishful thinking. The masses don't "remove" someone who has a dozen or more ultra-mansions, yachts, and private jets, with wealth and assets all over the world. Also, the masses usually end up in just as bad a pickle as befor
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by twh270 3y ago
IMO: since this is not a problem for the ultra-wealthy who make policy decisions that set the direction of the economy, affordability will not improve. They have no real incentive to make things better for the 99.9% of the rest of us. And p
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by twh270 3y ago
That section reads like a Bad Advice column for software testing in general. "Ehh, don't bother with end to end testing -- testing each part in isolation will be fine." Maybe fine for an e-commerce site or game, where the sta
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by twh270 3y ago
Bingo, came here to say this. The goal of our society should not be to make everyone as "productive" as possible, but to make everyone's lives as good as possible.
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by twh270 3y ago
Federal pandemic money plus we were still at super-low interest rates. Now the Federal spigot has dried up (well, is back to normal) and interest rates are higher.
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by twh270 3y ago
"Your job is not safe" does not mean you should do everything possible to keep your job -- allowing yourself to be unfairly exploited and abused. It means that you need to be responsible for yourself, and not allow thoughts like &
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by twh270 3y ago
100%. High trust companies are better performers. WFH is (typically, not always) a sign of trust.
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by twh270 3y ago
This is quite the pessimistic take. If you could wave the old magic wand, what would you do? I feel like you'd start by shutting down the Starship program completely and putting the money/effort elsewhere.
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by twh270 3y ago
Yeah, the "if I can't have X you shouldn't have it either" mentality. These people are a joy to be around, they get a twisted sense of satisfaction when they manage to get X removed. I'm like, go get some therapy fo
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by twh270 3y ago
Pairing does not work if you believe you have to convince the other person that you are right. What you did wasn't "pair programming", it was an argument.
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by twh270 3y ago
Notice how shi*y companies always seem to find that "unfairness" needs to be "fixed" by removing the benefit?
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by twh270 3y ago
Hyperbolic bull*it. Modern ICE cars regularly run for tens of thousands of miles with nothing more than an oil change.
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by twh270 3y ago
In my young years I had little understanding of the value of time, and would spend an inordinate amount of time on eking out that last little bit of perfection (whatever "perfect" looked like to me, anyway). Bragging rights fits i
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by twh270 3y ago
That's a good list (though I personally find it impossible to nap during the day). I'd add one thing: reduce stress.
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by twh270 3y ago
The importance of "The Economy" doing well is baked deep into the American psyche: if the economy is healthy, the country is healthy. And "doing well" is understood to mean businesses are healthy (revenue/market&#x2
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by twh270 3y ago
We've adopted Quarkus and it's been a breath of fresh air. Excellent all around, DX, performance, features, it's all been good.
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by twh270 3y ago
Also, SQL is sCaRy. It's "hard to learn", and "we'll need experts to tune the database queries", and "schema migrations are a nightmare", etc. Whereas MongoDB is "simple".
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by twh270 3y ago
Hence this being a proxy measurement. But managers really want a way to measure "developer productivity", and the feeling is that proxy measurements are better than nothing, even though they aren't. (Two simple examples: (1)
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by twh270 3y ago
When our performance reviews (read: raises and promotion) and, sometimes, whether or not we get RIF'd if the company needs to shed workers, depends on us making our metrics look good, you bet your ass we're gonna play the game, ev
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by twh270 3y ago
There's both. There's the "I have persistent trouble coping with what we generally accept as 'reality' in a healthy, functional fashion" and "I've just had a moment of completely stupid/delusiona
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by twh270 3y ago
Related-ish, http://www.thecodelesscode.com/contents , "An illustrated collection of (sometimes violent) fables concerning the Art and Philosophy of software development, written in the spirit of Zen kōans.
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by twh270 3y ago
I've also been impressed by the progress in Ladybird. One point though is that there is an incredibly long tail of work in the major browsers related to OS-specific work, performance, browser-specific features, edge cases, legacy sup
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by twh270 3y ago
To add to the other comments, when the nature of the job or the work environment is dysfunctional/dystopian it's easier to get people to be a little more productive when they are in the office.

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