grumpy_coder

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by grumpy_coder 4y ago
Are we sure this isn't just because lone developer projects are more likely to have the whole dev team gone when you want to ask questions?
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by grumpy_coder 4y ago
Except the company cut has been getting bigger and bigger for the last 40 years. Productivity has increased and wages have not.
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by grumpy_coder 4y ago
Very much agree with this comment, creating and gaming KPIs is at the heart of most DEI departments now. We do need long term improvements at the start of the funnel, but no-one is adding a 7 year KPI for improving stats of 14 year old girl
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by grumpy_coder 4y ago
Or more generally, how does doing the simple low complexity thing benefit them? If you are a manager who wants your reports to just do the work that makes your job easier and you look good then you are in for a long hard road in most corpor
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by grumpy_coder 4y ago
People should at least read about 'paint drip' people https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/paint-drip-people-jack-many-t... I'm not really clear if David Epstein merging the two ideas is the 'true' i
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by grumpy_coder 4y ago
The practice of having most 'final' decision making at some SVP level is stupid on its face. I can see a need for tie breaking between two teams, but the person who spends 4 hours a year thinking about a project needs to butt out
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by grumpy_coder 5y ago
Book has interesting parts, but seems to be trying to cover too broad a field, offering little of the tradeoffs promised in the title. Is is often very opinionated about a highly technical area where the answer is always 'it depends&#x