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by vbtemp 6y ago
This is something I've been mulling over for such a long time and want to resist simple answers. But this phenomenon seems to hold true no matter the organization: A new hire for position or level X with Y years of experience will ALWA
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by vbtemp 6y ago
Many other responses are absolutely true, but here's something else to consider: Over the last 12-14 years, I've never, ever had a "job" that had specific, clear requirements and duties. In the field we're in staff
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by vbtemp 6y ago
> If you want to hear about it's "success", just remember it was used for F-35's software... This is the example I use all the time!! Maybe agile is great when you're making an online shopping cart for a e-commer
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by vbtemp 6y ago
> That's literally the agile manifesto. I know, that's the irony. Agile as pushed today ends up with the compete anithesis of that. It's the difference between "Agile" (Capital A), and "agile"
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by vbtemp 6y ago
For the past several years now, each time I join a new team or project, my first objective is to detach and destroy the "Agile" process workflow. When you finally liberate a team from Agile, it's just breathtaking how much yo
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by vbtemp 7y ago
I might not have a multi-billion dollar company, but Think deliberately, Code carefully, Test thoroughly seems to maximize success for minimal stress...
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by vbtemp 7y ago
I ask this literally every time... Explain-Like-I'm-Five: Why would you use Robin Hood instead of a normal brokerage like Vanguard, T. Rowe Price, Fidelity, Charles Schwab, etc that.. (1) already have commission free trades, (2) a
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by vbtemp 7y ago
First step is making sure you're using the flags `-Wall -Werror -pedantic` and then one of `-std=c89` or `-std=c99` (Or equivalent in whatever Windows C compiler)
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by vbtemp 7y ago
On Reddit I've been trying to ask this ELI5: Why would you use RH instead of a normal, mainstream brokerage like Vanguard, Fidelity, etc that already has (1) an app and (2) commission-free trades?
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Ask HN: What's the metagame of job hopping and raises
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by vbtemp 7y ago
They would if people were cash-flow producing assets to be bought and sold.
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by vbtemp 7y ago
If you establish a strong, rigorous software QA process, everything will be like butter. Your team will feel more confident about the product they release - and thus about you and each other, and you will have fewer emergencies to deal with
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by vbtemp 7y ago
Having started my career in spaceflight software engineering, I can 100% confirm this comment is correct. Having now left the field, working on most other software systems and teams tends to basically be "code-til-it-kinda-works"
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by vbtemp 7y ago
For me, recently, procrastination (at work) was something deep down inside telling me that I was not happy where I was at work. When I got a new job with much more autonomy, and the position was what I could make of it, my procrastination
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by vbtemp 7y ago
> wikihow is a cancer on the internet, clogging google and google image results with inane how-to guides This 100x over. I've been trying to find a convenient way to block the domain from all my devices. It's all just utterly c
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by vbtemp 7y ago
What sad terrible news. I finished reading the Silmarillion just last week, and was impressed by how he turned loosely associated stories and myths into a single, cohesive narrative that even had full continuity with LoTR. Just this week ag
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by vbtemp 7y ago
Interesting how people ascribe responsibility in different ways to thigs. Ultimately, those responsible are those killing the animals, thereby providing supply to a market for it.
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by vbtemp 7y ago
Curious why do you say that?
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by vbtemp 7y ago
I started to agree with you, but this took a different direction. In general, it's smart, informed work that matters. Not grinding yourself down hard work. I feel Ive developed enough good intuition and judgment over the years that I&#
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by vbtemp 7y ago
I saw this the other day. It is indeed cherry picking various data points (e.g., chance of being beaten by spouse is not on there, chance of being sexually assaulted, etc). However, it does beg the questions that you aren't supposed to
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by vbtemp 7y ago
I too have been around before Agile took off, and I too recall how dysfunctional it was before that. I do, however, attribute the positive development to better tooling: Git (and GitHub) instead of SVN/CVS/Nothing, Cloud computin
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by vbtemp 7y ago
I think Agile is the heart of the problem. It is a cargo cult that brings predictability to software projects by ensuring that it's always a dumpster fire, that everyone's stressed, and that everything takes longer than estimated.
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by vbtemp 7y ago
I don't think so. The person would not know how much the sender "paid" for the "postage" for that message. From ANYONE's point of view, they are not receiving more than N messages per day, as N+1 would become e
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by vbtemp 7y ago
They would not have to make the first move -- at least not the attractive ones anyway. They would just be fewer, higher-quality messages. All the cruft and messages that came from guys "firing from the hip" would disappear.
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by vbtemp 7y ago
Interesting idea, the floor does not have to be zero.
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by vbtemp 7y ago
> I would assume the main idea is to put pressure to limit low-effort, low-likelihood messaging from both sides, more than putting a pricetag on a person. Exactly.
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by vbtemp 7y ago
I would argue the "magic" is that someone considered the risk and cost of messaging you, and feels confident they found something to connect about
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by vbtemp 7y ago
Fair point that I had not considered. However, I would not necessarily say desperate but may be risk-taking, strategic thinking, and/or wealthy (enough to handle congestion prices) men
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by vbtemp 7y ago
I had an idea for a dating app a while back, in which the basic idea is that you pay the service to message someone (above a free weekly limit of say 1 msg). The pricing would be reactive - as popular attractive people get more messages, th
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by vbtemp 7y ago
What about most compensated tech skill. Highly doubt SQL and Java rank highly there.

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