OpenDrapery

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by OpenDrapery 8mo ago
Is telling AI to do thing, doing the thing?
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by OpenDrapery 1y ago
Definitely. Universities keep asking for money even after you've completed the transaction. We wear the shirt and tout our pride. Win the hearts and minds. Perfect marketing play.
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by OpenDrapery 1y ago
Sports franchises are the ultimate trick, in that they are profit-oriented, yet they somehow play on our tribal nature and fool us into forgetting about the profit part. I guess you could argue the same for a church.
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by OpenDrapery 2y ago
Being a contractor can be a good play, especially if your spouse carries benefits for your family. Being a contractor is generally considered low status and temporary, so if you can get over that, then you can thrive. The upside to this is
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by OpenDrapery 2y ago
I like to see working software alongside a PR. GitLab has the concept of a Review Environment, and it spoiled me. Ephemeral, dynamically provisioned environments that are deployed from a feature branch, are absolutely amazing productivity
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by OpenDrapery 7y ago
Downloading is the problem. Twenty years ago, you would go on the internet and find an installer and just trust it. Now days, you have to figure out which of the 10 download buttons is the real one. And then you have check hashes if you w
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by OpenDrapery 8y ago
I can tell that you are an architect from they way that you like to use the terms "right" and "wrong". There is no right and wrong. There are only opinions and stylistic preference. There are solutions that are better
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by OpenDrapery 8y ago
Skill and talent are at odds with process heaviness. Oftentimes I think it's a "pick one" type of scenario. Do you want critical thinkers who just "get it" when it comes to complex technical matters? Or do you wa
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by OpenDrapery 8y ago
Yes, you just "know" when you've entered an unhealthy employee/employer relationship. It bleeds over into your personal life, and makes it difficult to focus on the actual work. Exit these relationships.
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by OpenDrapery 8y ago
Conspiracy theory: Follow the money and you will usually find that the staffing firm or consultancy has a "good old boys" relationship with the employer. I've seen it personally, but I don't buy in to the idea that it
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by OpenDrapery 8y ago
Yeah, it's fairly gross. Insurance and banking are chock full of corporate cockroaches. They can hide for years without adding any real value. But boy, do they want their fair treatment.
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by OpenDrapery 8y ago
I'm really surprised that so many employers use the middle man to find contractors. How do you tap into that market and skip the middle man? Seems like a win-win to me. (Except for the recruiter who's left out in the cold)
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by OpenDrapery 8y ago
Things that have gotten better in the last 10 years: ubiquity of high speed internet, tools such as voip, screen share, chat, cloud hosting across regions, lower cost of home office hardware like monitors Things that have gotten worse: tra
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by OpenDrapery 8y ago
As usual, the workers and managers are playing different games. As a developer, it's easy to assume that productivity is the game. Form a strong team and add business value through execution, right? Wrong. Management is playing a ga
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by OpenDrapery 8y ago
I think the big dirty secret is that even in the office, there is a need for down time. The problem is that my options are limited, so I sit at my desk and look at the same stupid web sites in a clandestine manner. Or I get up and go for
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by OpenDrapery 8y ago
If I want to make a 2 hour task take an entire work day, I will do that whether I'm in the office or not. Sometimes devs need to coast a little. The notion that they will just continue to vigorously attach a backlog of monkey work is
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by OpenDrapery 8y ago
I think when I was younger, I wanted to believe in it. But, yes, now that I'm older and I reflect, I don't think I've ever been part of one that wasn't fake. There are the owners/middle management/laborers. T
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by OpenDrapery 8y ago
I love the idea that we want to find the smartest people we can find, and hire them. Then tell them they need to drive in to an office every day and fill a seat, on the .01% chance that a client might drop in. Yeah that makes way more sens
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by OpenDrapery 8y ago
Turds have a way of living on in the software world.
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by OpenDrapery 8y ago
What is the general opinion of CMM these days? I always associate it with UML diagrams for some reason. There was a time when the industry really wanted software to be fully specified. Seems like most people gave up on that dream, when
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Child's play(devreaction.blogspot.com)
51 points by OpenDrapery 8y ago|60 comments
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by OpenDrapery 8y ago
Interesting that you think SF is special because Google is there. What made it special before Google existed? What made it special before computers existed? It's geography, climate, and culture make it special. Tech companies don&#x
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by OpenDrapery 9y ago
If you profit off sick people, are you motivated to move toward a world with no sick people? If you profit from prisons, then you need to fill you prisons. Problem is, that as a society, we should aim toward not needing prisons at all. T
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by OpenDrapery 9y ago
I've been around long enough to see software development methodologies come and go. I worked for GE for a decade, and they tried to force Six Sigma on everyone. Devs put through training. Lean. KanBan. Single piece flow. The thing
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by OpenDrapery 9y ago
I really want [thing] but cannot afford [thing] at the current price point. Rage! Kick! Scream! Doesn't this sentiment have to be nearly as old as markets themselves? What makes you more angry, the fact that you cannot get the thin
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by OpenDrapery 9y ago
I'd be interested to know where you've seen this. The consulting agencies I've seen will typically bill $90 - $100 an hour, and then give you $50 an hour. This comes with 2 weeks PTO and 5 holidays. The rest of the time yo
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by OpenDrapery 9y ago
Columbus desperately needs some tech employers that are not in the healthcare, banking, or insurance sectors. As a software developer, it would be nice to be able to get a job in the engineering group, rather than in a standard IT shop.
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by OpenDrapery 9y ago
Another theory is that middle management's only purpose is to act as a buffer between the workers and the owners. The middle manager is just a useful idiot to the owners. Right out of the manager's playbook: "Well, you see,
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by OpenDrapery 9y ago
I agree that FTE's tend to get exploited more. Being hourly means that they usually don't want you to work more than 40 hours/week, and if they do, then you're getting paid for it. Also, it's much easier to shirk t
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by OpenDrapery 9y ago
That's the path of least resistance. Just passively accept calls and interviews via recruiters, and next thing you know you're in the enterprise. It's what happens when you don't have a plan.

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