p_v_doom

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by p_v_doom 6mo ago
I think from a proper systemic view that joke is more correct than not. AI is just the frontend of people ...
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by p_v_doom 6mo ago
That may not be a bad comparison. A F1 car is really fast, really specialized car, that is also extremely fragile. A Lada may not be too fast but its incredibly versatile and robust even after decades of use. And has more luggage space
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by p_v_doom 6mo ago
> I saw tables with more than a thousand columns. I used to work in a company that had all the tags in their SCADA system feed into SQL tables. They had multiple tables (as in tens of tables), because they ran out of columns ...
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by p_v_doom 7mo ago
you mean agile dot ai?
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by p_v_doom 7mo ago
> "but real scrum has never been tried" types. Im one of these people. I do think for real that what most companies do is basically project management that wears the skin of scrum, and in most organizations beyond a certain siz
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by p_v_doom 7mo ago
Except sometimes you get absolutely banger dreams.
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by p_v_doom 7mo ago
Friedman is also not someone anyone should be taking seriously in the year of our lord '26
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by p_v_doom 8mo ago
Also rigor is slow. Looks like a waste of time. What are you optimizing all that code for, it works doesnt it? Dont let perfect be the enemy of good. If it works 80% thats enough, just push it. What is technical debt?
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by p_v_doom 8mo ago
> If a data science team modeled something incorrectly in their simulation, who's gonna catch it? Usually nobody. At least not until it's too late. Back in my data scientist days I used to push for testing and verification of m
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by p_v_doom 8mo ago
Yes.
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by p_v_doom 8mo ago
> No, they are equals. IDK, where I am its always been that managers specifically have power over ICs
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by p_v_doom 8mo ago
> even when they resist understanding Agreed. You may know so many things, but ultimately its useless if the other party does not care about wanting to understand them. And I have no clue what the right way is, besides letting people and
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by p_v_doom 8mo ago
Generally yes. The more power one holds in an organization the more safe they are from automation.
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by p_v_doom 8mo ago
> the real cause of nobody being able to afford anything is rent extractors. Employers/Owners are essentially rent extractors to workers. Its even worse IMO. They buy some of your time to do stuff for them. They also lend you the to
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by p_v_doom 8mo ago
> You have to be the one who creates things to do. Problem is it gets fucking exhausting to organize and reach out after a while. Especially with DnD.
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by p_v_doom 8mo ago
> I’m reading Domain Driven Development and learning why so many of my projects have been tough to maintain. Oooh, thats a good one. Next read the Architects paradox, Why Greatness cannot be planned and Understanding Variation and your v
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by p_v_doom 8mo ago
That I promised my boss to check the office fridge for what we need for the team breakfast and forgot about it. Also that Newfoundland has a pretty unique music tradition, that captures what irish music sounded before the Great Famine
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by p_v_doom 9mo ago
Almost everywhere management- whether wearing the skin of agile on top, is still bound to good old school Taylorism. And there is always this complete lack of understanding of the types of work there are and that you cannot cramp work relat
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by p_v_doom 9mo ago
People in some places already are doing that. The Dystopia is now
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by p_v_doom 9mo ago
We should make one new standard for everyone to use ...
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by p_v_doom 10mo ago
I am working in a company that never did the whole agile thing and stuck to project management approaches from the last century. I never thought that Id ever miss Safe and crunchy SCUM. I think a lot of those problems you describe are less
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by p_v_doom 10mo ago
I have a pet passion for an old simulation language called Dynamo. I think you will find people passionate about LISP and people that care about COBOL, and C is already multiple decades old.
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by p_v_doom 10mo ago
Rent wont pay itself. Switching jobs has costs.
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by p_v_doom 10mo ago
The problem imo tends to be not that there are guard rails in place. It's that they are often build by people that only care about the guard rail part and completely forget that its supposed to be last barrier and that there are other
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by p_v_doom 10mo ago
> we have pursued equality by making this dream accessible to NO ONE. Nah, that is not what has happened. Equality is more of an unrelated thing. Business owners and capital are by their very nature opposed to the dream. Even if in a giv
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by p_v_doom 10mo ago
quid custodiet ipso custodes, amirite?
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by p_v_doom 10mo ago
Never thought Id see Beer references on HN
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by p_v_doom 10mo ago
Automating work and making life easier for people are two entirely different things. Automating work tends to lead to life becoming harder for people - mostly on account of who is benefiting from the automation - basically that better life
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by p_v_doom 11mo ago
Nope, audacity and Dunning-Krueger all the way, baby
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by p_v_doom 11mo ago
Yuup. I do find that most of the time business decision makers actually have no clue about quality. Especially with software products if it looks like it works in the demo/looks pretty then the quality must be good right, and these eng

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