OpenDrapery

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by OpenDrapery 9y ago
Drive it until the wheels come off can be a valid decision. Just be aware that when the wheels come off, you will be without a car for some period of time.
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by OpenDrapery 9y ago
Kudos to the company for taking onboarding seriously. Most places are abysmal at it. But then again, I've recently been working at places that leverage a lot of contractors/consultants to get work done. The attitude seems to be
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by OpenDrapery 9y ago
I was thinking along the same lines. Hiring units of people sounds like a slippery slope to collective bargaining and unions, which have turned into bad words in the US in the last 30 years.
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by OpenDrapery 9y ago
I guess there is a fine line between collective bargaining and holding a company hostage. Remember when the cast of Friends all negotiated for $1M/episode, and they pitched it as "you pay us all, or you don't have a product&q
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by OpenDrapery 9y ago
If you are not asking questions like this, you may just be one of the willfully oblivious ditch diggers who is just there to work. And that's fine. Even in the days of galley slaves, there was probably only a small percentage of rower
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by OpenDrapery 9y ago
Is buying a guitar in hopes of learning how to play it an investment? What exactly are the fundamentals? Do I need to understand vibration and frequency? Or just basic music theory? I agree with your sentiment. But there is a difference
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by OpenDrapery 9y ago
I was thinking the same thing. I wonder how much of it is due to the way we make devs work and the hours we make them keep. For example, I'd be more than happy to use the same old, tried and true, boring tools to just get the job done
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by OpenDrapery 9y ago
It feels like QA is an antiquated notion these days. Why is a prod-like test environment too much to ask for? As a developer, if you call me in the middle of the night and tell me we are in crisis mode, my first thought might be "Did
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by OpenDrapery 9y ago
Sad truth is that coding and problem solving and getting your hands dirty is low status work. I've had managers that new the application they were responsible for, and could speak coherently about technical things. I've had manag
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by OpenDrapery 9y ago
I really like that you use the term "engineers". Columbus has way too many employers that use the term "IT".
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by OpenDrapery 9y ago
I think the Yankees model is a (possibly reaching) metaphor for capitalism. All the capital concentrates in a few hands. But where are all the "best" people supposed to prove themselves? That's why you see so many posts in
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by OpenDrapery 9y ago
You can't measure it before you join, just as they can't measure your effectiveness before you join. The best you can do is hit the eject button after 6 months after you've assessed what's really going on. Same goes fo
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by OpenDrapery 9y ago
Are you still doing consulting? I find that the upside of consulting is that there is a well defined finish line before you are deployed. When you land in a role that has no finish line, it kind of removes the benefit of being a consultant
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by OpenDrapery 9y ago
What does acquiring the token do for you?
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by OpenDrapery 9y ago
Kind of like Ohio State football
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
I feel like this is akin to working for a small company versus a larger company. Rules always cater to the lowest common denominator, because the people that make the rules are lazy and prefer blanket policies over stratified ones. In a sm
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
I've had interviewers try to school me on something that I wasn't super well versed on, and my internal thought process was "If I wanted to learn the finer points of xsd, I'd go dig in on my own and learn it. Right now
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
I think most young engineers are surprised to find that after they've navigated the hiring guantlet at BigCorp, they were never interviewing for a specific position to begin with. They were interviewing to be thrown into a pool of new
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
I'm wondering if all the people who can't get over the name CockroachDB are also people who insist that professionals should dress the part. Can't take someone seriously if they don't have their shirt tucked in? Style o
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
Agreed on the quality of employment. It's quite eye opening when you realize that a company will pay you $100k salary, basically to "own" you. Show up for work at the designated time, sit in your assigned seat. Sometimes yo
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
Throwaway, prototype, proof of concept, spike, playing around, whatever you want to call it. In many (most?) businesses, they never get thrown away. They form the basis of the product. In other words, the thing that makes software so uniq
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
I saw it written somewhere that when we were young, we had freedom but no information. Today, kids have all the information, but no freedom. Proof once again that life is a series of tradeoffs.
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
Funny that you mention that the report writer becomes the person closest to understanding the business. In my experience, the report writer many times is the developer on the team who drew the short straw. So you get this weird effect where
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
When the developer is the domain expert, you've achieved the singularity. /s A large percentage of the time, there is no domain expert available, or there simply is no domain expert. We've all worked at that place. You star
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
So, when a team of 12 delivers a product that makes X amount of money, we say to ourselves, "Each individual on this team has an output of X/12 ? That's silly. Also, your comment, "Why, by performance of course."
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
Management/Educators/Government will always cater to the lowest common denominator(LCD). It only takes one person to screw it up for everyone. This is the real upside to working for a small company. The larger the company, the l
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
I'm still looking for a dev job in Columbus, OH where I can be part of the engineering team, and not part of IT. Seems that all of the dev jobs are in the IT cost center around here.
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
The decision maker always spins open office as some kind of collaborative, productivity enhancer. But we all know the real reason is cost.
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
The things that I enjoyed at 25 years old are not the same things that I enjoy at 40. Well, some are. But not all.
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by OpenDrapery 10y ago
Sounds like we've found the guy who has the secret to measuring productivity. Care to share what the rest of the industry has yet to figure out? How, on earth, do we measure developer productivity?

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