kraigie

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by kraigie 7y ago
But not terrible enough to issue a refund for the taxpayers.
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by kraigie 7y ago
How would the salespeople make their money then?
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by kraigie 7y ago
Well it kind of does. They forget the agile cycle moves from maintenance back to development again. Makes more sense just to offer devs more holiday and less pay.
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by kraigie 7y ago
SLC also has lots of US citizen foreign language speakers. As well as those with experiences of other cultures. Really handy for foreign companies expanding. Send a founder and hire a local VP who can translate to American customers and Emp
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by kraigie 7y ago
What about cat example.txt? No browser needed. No GUI. Works offline. Surely that's simpler?
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by kraigie 7y ago
If companies are persons. Should we arrest them? Tax them like individuals?
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by kraigie 7y ago
How do you feel about the US' government mandated overtime laws? The government mandated exempt employees? Just curious.
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by kraigie 7y ago
I do wonder if Norway has a different Pension/benefit scheme. Or if they need ever greater numbers to keep the benefits paying out like UK/US.
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by kraigie 7y ago
Freedom of movement means you can look at the EU rate. Immigration moves people about quite well.
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by kraigie 7y ago
Hence temps. Or they can redistribute the salary as overtime. If there are enough interested workers.
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by kraigie 7y ago
I think this is why evolution gave men nipples.
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by kraigie 7y ago
All of your assertions are false. Male wolves and foxes help with child rearing. Aka Pygmy Men breastfeed (some men can lactate a little) Most Women outside these tribes don't look for it in a man. Whereas there's do. Social Servi
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by kraigie 7y ago
You put the /s their. But they don't. That's why orphanages can raise children.
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by kraigie 7y ago
This means other women will have the same resource options you do. Why shouldn't their husbands stay at home?
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by kraigie 7y ago
Paternity leave is a lot easier to implement than artificial wombs.
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by kraigie 7y ago
What if their lifestyle costs tens of millions? This just proves how stupid the label is.
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by kraigie 7y ago
The German Mittelstand is a more positive version of this. It is literally "Middle Class" They want to stop at the 'M' part in SME.
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by kraigie 7y ago
If it's that disruptive to chat. Perhaps the extra effort of going elsewhere. Then reduces meetings. As Jeff Bezos says "communication is terrible" Perhaps all that chit chat and meeting time is put to good use instead.
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by kraigie 7y ago
This makes sense. You can't have an internal monologue until you learn a language.
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by kraigie 7y ago
So if you say the world is flat is the correct perspective and I'm wrong. While I say the world is round is the correct perspective. Are we gas lighting each other?
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by kraigie 7y ago
>As a manager it's very hard to get everyone else on board with this If management was easy then everyone would do it. How about this for a start? You taking total control of your direct report's calendar. They have read only s
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by kraigie 7y ago
>Some Sr. roles allow for hard-split meeting days vs. productive days Such as?
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by kraigie 7y ago
>Or perhaps the meetings are actually more important than the coding tasks and that is why they get priority. If that is the case. Then the programmers KPI and perfomance review should be based on how many of these meetings they attended
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by kraigie 7y ago
>manager-types try to come up with metrics to measure programmer productivity. Plenty can. The CFO types look at profit per commit/schedule whatever. A lot of middle managment types look at activity per commit. The real issue here i
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by kraigie 7y ago
>a SPOC that can filter all meeting requests by the email / 5 minutes / required vs inflated attendees / agenda / etc criteria before they even happen. That's the project manager's job. The more meetings the
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by kraigie 7y ago
>The problem is that when you do this, and then don't go to the meeting, and then a decision is made that you don't agree with, you are told, "well you had a chance but you didn't come to the meeting". I would ha
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by kraigie 7y ago
>Any recommendations? Yes. That 'maker' time is a 'virtual' meeting. If you can schedule it with a name. E.g. TPS report meeting with Bob it is much more respected. Your in a meeting, so you must be very busy. Harder
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by kraigie 7y ago
Was this Google's entire point of 10% time? An outlet for unicorns that keeps them away from the company bread & butter and unicorns.
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by kraigie 7y ago
>To play devils advocate: If he was as brilliant as you imply perhaps he SHOULD have been the one making the key decisions under his purview anyway If he should have been. Then he should probably have been lead eng or something. His aut
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by kraigie 7y ago
Wait until the dover-calais power grid interconnector goes down on nov 1st.

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