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by randomdata 2y ago
> but interpersonal bad behavior reflects on your self, professional bad behavior reflects on your institution. Perhaps, but their self or their institution don't want you, so why would they be concerned with what you think of the
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by randomdata 2y ago
And the comparison with Tinder also carried the implication that the successful swiping had already taken place that there was human-to-human communication that was happening, but where one party decided to no longer engage. There may be es
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by randomdata 2y ago
> why can't software? It can, but remember that we lost the competency to Agile, which is centred around eliminating managers in favour of self-organizing teams. For a time we didn't think we needed managers at all. As we as
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by randomdata 2y ago
To be fair, those who become uncomfortable from words are equally insane weirdos.
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by randomdata 2y ago
> Code coverage has absolutely nothing to do with code quality It is quite indicative of documentation quality, though, which is most important as a codebase ages. You may know how it works now without documentation, but future develop
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by randomdata 2y ago
> I have never in my life met a professional who sits on their hands for 23 hours... I will if there is a regularly scheduled meeting to discuss such matters. If the company is fine with you taking the day off, take it!
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by randomdata 2y ago
Thing is, the standup originated out of a methodology that describes operation of an organization without managers. The standup is time allotted for the developers to fulfill some of the duties the manager would have otherwise done for them
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by randomdata 2y ago
> should include only project managers and/or team leaders The daily standup comes from XP, which has no real concept of project managers or team leaders. Under XP, everyone is considered to be the project manager and team leade
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by randomdata 2y ago
Everyone will already know about the blocker as soon as it happens. Reasserting it again at a regularly scheduled meeting would be even sillier than regurgitating the commit log. At least there is a slim chance someone hasn't kept up w
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by randomdata 2y ago
I'm skeptical that there is anything of value communicated in just 15 minutes when you have more than one speaker and without a very specific agenda. At most you're going to get a brief status update, but that is pointless informa
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by randomdata 2y ago
> Developers are absolutely terrible at balancing business and customer priorities with technical ones True, but project managers are even worse! (There are always exceptions)
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by randomdata 2y ago
> I, for one, prefer more static typing, rather than less. I prefer Scala, OCaml, F#, or Rust. Why, then, don't you prefer languages with more static typing? Scala, Ocaml, F#, and Rust are middle of the road at best. It seems you&
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by randomdata 2y ago
Static typing exists on a gradient. A ounce of static typing is useful to help with the refactoring, as you suggest, but the tradeoffs seem to quickly take over once you go beyond typing basics. Not even the static typing die hards are will
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by randomdata 2y ago
For what reason would school need to change? Education will change, but education moved to happening outside of schools a long, long time ago.
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by randomdata 2y ago
Coworker implies paid work, and therefore they are not amateurs. They very well may make the same mistakes, but those mistakes would be professional mistakes.
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by randomdata 2y ago
Yes, it is true that Javascript folks do seem to want to think they are different. But they can never figure out exactly what is different.
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by randomdata 2y ago
Yes, that's right. Compile and transpile are the same thing.
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by randomdata 2y ago
Of some sort. The C is transpiled to machine code so that the processor can execute it. Turns out CPUs don't understand C natively. In addition, it automatically generates wrappers to transparently convert between Javascript's mem
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by randomdata 2y ago
What is similar about a language that compiles to Javascript and a more efficient Javascript FFI?
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by randomdata 2y ago
> it could be replaced by something else It is not really Linux-based if something else. Assuming the Linux-based property remains, though, isn't that still Linux, even if it ultimately is taken down roads Linus would have never a
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by randomdata 2y ago
> Something else will eventually take Linux's place, in some form, it might even be a Linux based like Android, WebOS, ChromeOS. So Linux won't be the same because it might start being marketed under a different brand name?
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by randomdata 2y ago
> there is none of this happening regularly enough to warrant coming in the office full time. Even if it only happens just once, that's more than enough justification on the employer's side. That's a huge win. The employ
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by randomdata 2y ago
Companies need you to perform a certain amount of defined work (as captured by performance goals) to keep the lights on, and aside from some jobs that require the physical touch this can be done remotely just fine, but what they really want
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by randomdata 2y ago
Are you struggling to say that Cuba will blame AI for allowing the USA to beat them to their post-scarcity goals? Perhaps. American innovation is unquestionably leading the way to communism right now. If communism ever is realized as more t
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by randomdata 2y ago
The absence of good does not imply bad.
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by randomdata 2y ago
I work with someone who has that job. The stream of consciousness is much preferable. I need to know the big picture, not some distilled set of requirements. Give requirements and I will spend half my time trying to "reverse engineer&q
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by randomdata 2y ago
> Did communist utopians realize it doesn't work so now they're adding "post scarcity" to it to make it work? Did TV fanatics realize that Star Trek doesn't work? What does this even mean? Communism isn't
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by randomdata 2y ago
And most of all, have fun.
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by randomdata 2y ago
> But I don't care about whether or not people on HN would talk about it. You certainly don't have to care, but that is the discussion taking place. It is a necessary precondition for this supposed parallel to exist. If you&#
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by randomdata 2y ago
> You seem to disbelieve such a narrative exists. It has been said over and over that it no doubt has happened, but is not common enough that anyone here would speak to it. Digging deep into the depths of what HN largely considers a tr

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