adjkant

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by adjkant 3y ago
Slogan an old company of mine tried to socialize while trying to wrangle overbooked meeting issues: "No agenda, no attenda"
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by adjkant 3y ago
Yep fully agree! I wanted to highlight some areas that devs may immediately "get" but "developing the spec is half the work" really should be shouted from the mountaintops.
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by adjkant 3y ago
I've noticed that people can conflate "detailed spec" with "terribly meticulous process". Close collaboration with design/product doesn't mean that writing things down isn't useful, and can come in ha
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by adjkant 4y ago
Okay, that's not what I said or what OP said though: > How does that get to 4 hours a day
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by adjkant 4y ago
Maybe so, but it's varied across size and industry and matches with my friends experience in other broad areas. So I guess let's reframe: what is my meeting load estimate (the 4 hour a week high side) missing? How does that get to
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by adjkant 4y ago
Disclaimer: Defining and using a narrow definition agile IMO is a useless rabbit hole. And the big names in tech also purport to use agile and spend maybe an hour every Friday or Monday doing "agile" type meetings. Which are we ta
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by adjkant 4y ago
Commenting this on every post without explaining anything doesn't really do anything but confuse. And the more you do it, the more it appears that your definition of "agile" would be the outlier here. Though as many will tell
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by adjkant 4y ago
> My current company spends 4 out of 8 hours every day in meetings This doesn't have anything to do with agile. You can run "agile" with as little as an hour of meetings a week if you want. Planning, retro, refinement in o
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by adjkant 4y ago
Actually not sure of the law here myself but FWIW as a NYC resident I regularly encounter places that don't accept cash.
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by adjkant 4y ago
> I'm willing to bet investing in yourself early will outperform the compounding interest you make on income you have at the start of your career. People present this often as a choose 1, but in reality there's a big gradient o
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by adjkant 5y ago
While Google may beat that salary, Google interviewing and hiring practices are infamous for being over the top filtering, choosing many false negatives rather than having false positives. I'm not sure I'd bank on Google hiring an
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by adjkant 5y ago
This idea would be antithetical to decentralization of cryptocurrency, but I think that since this issue is a platform level problem (e.g. future contracts can also introduce this) what is needed is a set of mediators/arbitrators (we c
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by adjkant 5y ago
They are in location X and it has been written into code that there is no way to ever remove them from X. The only difference between throwing this "money" into a black hole and this is that you can see what's in this black h
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by adjkant 5y ago
And for others it goes quite quickly! There is no doubt that programming can be helped with a natural aptitude and that it won't make sense to everyone no matter how smart they are, but that is true of many fields. I'd also argue
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by adjkant 5y ago
Many things have difficulties and complexity. I would phrase it not as "software isn't hard" but that "it is no harder than many other things". This specific questioning is not often employed for many other equally
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by adjkant 5y ago
I think you've missed a step jumping straight to prison. If you accept a lack of free will, the solution does not need to immediately jump there but rather to finding a way that is fair to all to prevent the bad behavior thing from aff
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by adjkant 5y ago
Absolutely a UX failure here, one that it seems some doctors translate for patients while others are left in the dark on. From the way people are responding on here about the use of statistics in the article, it's clear that a big port
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by adjkant 5y ago
While the author may not be well versed or focusing on the stats side, you're missing the human side here I think. > the tests are inaccurate, when in reality the tests are accurate If the test make someone consider terminating a pr
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by adjkant 5y ago
Because there is an upper bound for most candidates, and there most certainly is a lower bound if the company means to hire fairly to employees. But as others pointed out, most companies do not have an unlimited upper bound. Additionally, c
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by adjkant 5y ago
Then put that upper bound as unlimited and make a note that these are estimates. The theoretical candidate doesn't outweigh the value you provide to the vast majority of candidates if you do agree with the premise that it's good t
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by adjkant 5y ago
If that's the case, why not post some general guides based on experience? It seems like this excuse doesn't hold up if the job posters actually cared about transparency. Example: Job: Software Engineer Description: Lorem ipsum Ran
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by adjkant 5y ago
Those work for me on private browsing / it's set up to work for public viewing I think. What do you see when you try to click them?
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by adjkant 5y ago
Why not have them both and use Notion? It allows you to flip between both views of the same data :) Zero affiliation just a very happy user. As an example, here's my TV show tracker in both forms: Sheet Style: https://www.no
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by adjkant 5y ago
Ah, I misunderstood then. I see that as a total misapplication then, as it actually assumes way worse - that 100% of the people would not like this work condition described, which is evidently false as OP has a company of people working in
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by adjkant 5y ago
Curious why this is downvoted, it seems like a valid question here of how to handle a situation that may arise. I like a lot of these rules but could see myself hitting these. What if I "can't make" 25% of Mondays. What about
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by adjkant 5y ago
Your points weighs heavily on a lot of implicit parts of the value equation you left out. 1. That 20% number. What if it's 40%? 50%? 2. How easy/quick is it to replace the people you will lose who don't prefer this work style
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by adjkant 5y ago
There are solutions here that aren't predicated on that decision, such as shutting down the dangerous avenue to all data equally (though that would break the Facebook ad machine). The point that a lie in this context can be societally
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by adjkant 5y ago
More context here, as I had to look it up and this one fits into the same pattern, but adds a layer of muddiness: https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/john-stossel-sues-face... In Stossel's case, one of
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by adjkant 5y ago
While there may be some good life wisdom dispensed in this thread, honestly I think it will all amount to armchair psychology. I think some individual therapy may go much further here. Have you been to one to specifically talk about this? I
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by adjkant 5y ago
I would similarly commend you for the awareness and bravery to step down, but I would offer two notes here: > In no way am I a great CTO > I am not a good manager It sounds to me like one core thing you learned is that good developer

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