LegitGandalf

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by LegitGandalf 4y ago
Non-clickbait title: Teslas running Autopilot have been in 0.0000273 crashes/km in less than a year! I've been alive long enough to see a considerable sample set of human drivers and I've got to say the bar Autopilot needs to
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by LegitGandalf 5y ago
As I've used slack over the last 5 years I've come to the conclusion that they have a quality problem of some sort. The software just behaves weird, especially in the voice and screen sharing areas. It seems like their management
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by LegitGandalf 5y ago
Reddit's new UI is a decent first step down that road.
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by LegitGandalf 5y ago
I came here for a cat pic, left disappointed!
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by LegitGandalf 5y ago
Way to much written content implied, needs more twitter embeds
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by LegitGandalf 5y ago
My grandfather, who I respected very much, was an accomplished career bureaucrat and considered any sort of promotion beneath him, and for sure crafting clickbait would earn his scorn. Thus marketing, promotion and crafting clickbait goes
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Optimal Probabilistic Cache Stampede Prevention [pdf](cseweb.ucsd.edu)
1 points by LegitGandalf 5y ago|0 comments
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by LegitGandalf 5y ago
I'm just over here thinking of the health benefits provided by broken McFlurry machines!
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by LegitGandalf 5y ago
“Tell me how you will measure me, and then I will tell you how I will behave. If you measure me in an illogical way, don't complain about illogical behavior.” – Eli Goldratt
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by LegitGandalf 5y ago
Working with a Mac for the first time this year, excel on Mac is actually worse than excel 2010 :(
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by LegitGandalf 5y ago
Tables are probably the most overlooked feature of Excel. Why use tables? * Each column is uniquely named - no more wondering if you are referencing the right cell, no more thinking about "to $ or not to $" * The table's rows
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by LegitGandalf 5y ago
A large part portion of the software industry skips this form of testing in favor of using a portion of production with health metrics to detect chaos. Which is alright, unless someone like Boeing does it with an airplane. If unleashing cha
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by LegitGandalf 5y ago
The physical dependencies of a house vs the abstract nature of software interdependencies really makes the analogy fail for me. Houses just don't don't regularly fall down 8 times a day because one framer is putting a nail in a n
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by LegitGandalf 5y ago
How do you reconcile how bespoke and ever changing the requirements are for software products vs how stable the requirements are for garages? I'm asking because I see the construction analogy pop up a lot and I just can't reconcil
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by LegitGandalf 5y ago
On mobile there is a pretty massive white space gutter on the right and left of the text. This makes the article challenging to read.
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by LegitGandalf 5y ago
I always say, never start with a zero vacation balance!
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by LegitGandalf 5y ago
You are so right and I'm so sorry. It is truly miserable at so many companies for exactly what you wrote here: "Software engineering is a thinking person’s game. I get that management wishes it weren’t, but it is."
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by LegitGandalf 5y ago
I started using slack about two years ago, and in my opinion they have a quality problem. There are just too many issues that crop up when they roll out change. It reeks of the "just get it done" anti-pattern where done is change
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by LegitGandalf 5y ago
Or perhaps she trusts him and Ann.
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by LegitGandalf 5y ago
>The thing that hasn't come about yet though is, sales, marketing, accounting can also be outsourced. Dare I say automated. Yep, just consider how much sales, marketing and accounting work the App and Play store has automated. Not
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An ultra mega giga curated list of programming games(github.com)
3 points by LegitGandalf 5y ago|0 comments
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by LegitGandalf 5y ago
I've yet to see a remove feature OKR. As a matter of fact I've seen the super-opposite more than once. That's where the organization figures out they are having the team work on something no customer wants, but they decide th
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Love for Ohno, Hate for Taylor?(bobemiliani.com)
2 points by LegitGandalf 5y ago|1 comments
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Develop your people patiently rather than rely on Super Taylorism(lean.org)
1 points by LegitGandalf 5y ago|0 comments
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How Toyota thrives when the chips are down(reuters.com)
2 points by LegitGandalf 5y ago|0 comments
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Software engineers make excellent CEOs, but few of them think they could do it(tlt21.com)
48 points by LegitGandalf 5y ago|15 comments
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by LegitGandalf 5y ago
For those paywalled, here is the money paragraph >NASA lets net users sign up to send their name to Mars on a future flight. Taiwan appears as an option on a “country” drop-down box. It’s unclear how long Taiwan has been called a c
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by LegitGandalf 5y ago
Very cool, I've always wanted to watch the NSA watching me!
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by LegitGandalf 5y ago
>The majority of these men believe that the fundamental interests of employees and employers are necessarily antagonistic Taylor's ideas were quite good in the context of labor practices at the time. People were getting paid a buck
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by LegitGandalf 5y ago
Quarterly and annual goals setting is all about telling a story to wall street. Executives are obsessed with chasing quarters because there are significant bonuses associated with meeting quarterly and annual targets, and so it is natural

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