yahnusername

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by yahnusername 6y ago
A tool like the paper encourages won't hurt, but in my experience the biggest problem with tech debt isn't on the identification side; it's on the resourcing side. I've worked at a few places with a big big backlog of, I
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by yahnusername 7y ago
I dunno, calling people unsophisticated drug dealers because their game designs don't value the same dimensions of fun as your game designs seems pretty judgemental. > This isn't an editorial. I'm not judging anyone. I wri
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by yahnusername 8y ago
I've worked at places where the managers hem and haw over firing someone even going so far as to use passive-aggression to make them leave on their own. In environments like that, the cost of hiring the wrong person is huge. It could t
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by yahnusername 8y ago
Couple ideas: Maybe it doesn't change often, but the developer pool is full of people early in their career who would rather find the next big thing and get in on the ground level than be 3-5 years behind the curve on the existing stuf
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by yahnusername 8y ago
I wrote a firefox plugin that removes likes/follows/upvotes/hearts style vanity counters from a bunch of websites. It absolutely makes them better to use. This is a good change. I had a middle-of-the-road idea in this area to
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by yahnusername 8y ago
I miss the old internet when we trusted each other enough to trade star wars cards by posting on forums and exchanging mailing addresses. If I tried to do that on today's internet I'd have a SWAT team show up to murder me. And not
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by yahnusername 8y ago
Hah I wonder how much of this we do presently without realizing. Shaking hands maybe
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by yahnusername 8y ago
I like to think about communication in four tiers from best to worst In-person: all context clues available Video: screen acts as barrier; latency inhibits rapport Voice: all visual information missing Text: all visual and tonal i