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Understanding Ordinary Events(ordinary.blog)
2 points by watters 3mo ago|0 comments
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by watters 9mo ago
The second footnote acknowledges that the post is largely tautological.
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by watters 1y ago
For plenty of already-in-shape people, the calories expended during the exercise are largely incidental, with the goal of exercise being to enhance or maintain some other property of their physical capacity.
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by watters 2y ago
This reads like a paraphrase of this widely circulated post from 8 years ago… https://sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction
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by watters 3y ago
See also: * DevOps * Microservices * SOA * ACID * Observability Semantic diffusion, dilution, and drift are endemic in tech because terms are so frequently co-opted by opportunists who want to find a way to sell the concept as a product. Wh
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by watters 3y ago
Which specific idea(s) presented do you believe has its merits undermined by this lack of impartiality?
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by watters 3y ago
> There is nothing less productive in this world than a team of developers. First, yikes. Also, I'm quite curious about how productivity was measured here. For a (successful) software business, the work output of developers is highl
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by watters 3y ago
> For reasons that should be obvious to anyone with a bank account, you really really want both updates to happen, or neither. This is what atomicity guarantees - that the entire transaction will either succeed or fail as a single unit.
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by watters 3y ago
Would be great to have a feed that was only dogs, tho.
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by watters 3y ago
We humans are a bizarre lot. We build complex systems and environments that alienate and marginalize massive groups of people and then, rather than recognizing that as a failure of the system, we frame the problem as one of individual respo
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by watters 3y ago
Very large household-name companies often own or otherwise control significant amounts of commercial real estate, which sit on the company's balance sheet. If commercial real estate in general loses value, the value of these assets is
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by watters 3y ago
Hence my choice of phrasing: "benefits to results". There are certainly perceived benefits to management and/or related to real estate interests, including but not limited to: easier observation and suppression of employee or
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by watters 3y ago
If RTO drove actual, material benefits to results, companies would be explaining RTO policies by connecting those dots. At this point, I haven't seen a single attempt from any company to offer such a rationale. We can reasonably infer
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by watters 3y ago
It's almost as if the typical contemporary "knowledge work" shop has completely discarded ergonomics, industrial engineering, and library science as potential sources of wisdom about how to construct effective socio-technical
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by watters 3y ago
> The levels “Very little of the time”, “Some of the time”, and “Most of the time” were collapsed into a single level—“Hybrid”. “Not at all” was recoded as “Do Not Work from Home” and “All of the time” was recoded as “Work from Home Only
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by watters 3y ago
I'm not sure if this qualifies, but I found it interesting at the time I solved it (Spring 2011?): https://cameronwatters.com/writing/2017/08/01/take-the-time-... TL;DR (of the problem): customers f
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by watters 3y ago
Sure. Anyone working on a sponsored visa has a very short period to find a new job, or they have to leave the country. Unemployment insurance maximums is below minimum wage in some states (e.g Arizona). In Washington, where I live, it'
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by watters 3y ago
Yes. Yes. Yes. Biggest challenge I've seen is with stalled advancement, particularly for people with 10+ years of experience. That said, those impacts are less severe (for ppl like me) these days as recent layoffs are more broadly reco
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by watters 3y ago
The title is a fairly harmless form of click-bait. What the author describes is the effect on a solid senior engineer working in a terrible organizational system for a not very skilled or savvy manager. Such managers (and directors and VPs)
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by watters 3y ago
When/if I leave tech, I intend to become a union electrician. Pay and benefits are reasonable. They seem to be in high demand in my area (Pacific NW) and the work is physical without being so grueling that it destroys one's body.
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by watters 3y ago
There is a shortage of workers that the companies desire to hire. That's not necessarily the same thing as a shortage of workers who have a particular set of skills. The difference is usually related to social conformity, particularly
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by watters 3y ago
Most organizations use a widespread corrupted form of Scrum, the most important features of which are the two-week sprint and task estimates expressed in "ideal developer days" but labeled story points. This allows managers to en
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by watters 3y ago
My current commute to the office is 2.5 hours each way, minimum, so more often than once or twice a week is impractical. So, yes, if required to be in the office 3+ days per week, I'd likely look for a different job that was fully remo
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by watters 3y ago
While some reasons may be more compelling than others, there are no wrong reasons for quitting a particular job. A manager saying you lack courage is despicable and reinforces the idea that it was an unhealthy situation. What is or is not c
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by watters 3y ago
I get it. That they're willing to sacrifice effectiveness for an illusory sense of control is precisely what I'm characterizing as bizarre ;-).
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by watters 3y ago
The part of this that is so bizarre to me is that the offices to which folks are being asked to return are frequently ergonomic wastelands of poorly ventilated open floor plan desk motels that are difficult to sanitize effectively, if emplo
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by watters 3y ago
I find that the vast majority of assessments like this are rooted in the mistaken belief that there are common, well-understood, and widely shared meanings for words like "simple" and "complex". The post isn't obser
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by watters 3y ago
Technical Debtor is a particularly nice refinement because it points toward the fact that this archetype is often exploiting incentives in a broken system rather than occupying an awkward-but-appropriate developmental phase.
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by watters 3y ago
These examples could variously describe median (or worse) product managers, eng managers/directors/VPs, and program managers.
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by watters 4y ago
The corrupted forms of agile—which are so pervasive that they're now what most folks think agile is—have definitely make the experience of being a software engineer worse. Some of what you're describing can be found in for-hire fi

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