How do you usually get along in a professional setting with Dvorak? I use it too been using it for like 20 years now and it's very smooth but I'd be interested to know your impressions.
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I consider a message from dang as a badge of honour.
I totally understand the tone of my messaging is rather incongruous with the ethics of this site but I hope you can believe there is a light that shines deep within which actually cares and nurtures a deep love for our community and everyone in it.
I'm not sure if you can call it tough love but it's a mask for a sincere affection. I will try a different tack and I am grateful to your words.
It's our Achilles heel that we don't recognize our own selves and don't always see ourselves in others, we use the voice we talk to ourselves with to speak to the world around us
It's like I'm trying to solve the hardest computer problem on earth and I've been banging my head on my desk for an eternity. I think we can all relate to that feeling.
It's good of you all to keep it real for all of us, goodbye.
For a lot of us fonts were a key selling point of early computing and there's a story about Steve Jobs taking in design courses in fonts as an inspiration for the design of the Mac operating system.
The whole concept of fonts on the machine is another example of the message in the new medium essentially encapsulating the old.
Fonts are an important tradition going back to the printing press and we are rightfully protective of them.
I've done my part fighting false corporacy bro. It's always the same scenario played over and over a bunch of diddling directors and middling managers cuddling up to their overlords while the team is sold up the river based on their performance evaluations. You'd think we'd learn to DRY but we can't apply systems thinking to our corporate citizenship it's easier to be governed by morlocks.
Speaking of dress have you ever seen an engineering culture where people take their jobs seriously enough to dress up for work, outside of the movies? Huh me neither.
Ever wonder why the root word of investment is 'vestment' as in 'article of clothing?'
For me it was the millionth time I saw my manager wearing the same printed sweatshirt with an illustration of an astronaut that caused me to lose all hope for this industry as a whole.
Edit - I guess you may not see the correlation but it goes to attitude
Software people are so keen to fit in yet not seem organized that they refuse to dress up for work and this is a litmus test for whether they will ever be a strong group versus a collection of free radicals. Doubtful until a new generation able to see through the games comes through kinda like -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23404186
The answer is always right under our noses but we refuse to see it. It's hard to wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep as it's said.
The fun loving my hobby is my work technology crowd ever getting serious about professionalism and unionizing when there are clueless eager greenhorns pouring in at an exponential rate who will work for the privilege of wearing casual clothing and pizza once a week? C'mon get serious you expect these people to be invested in their own careers apart from chasing approval?
In other news there seems to be a quiet revolution happening -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23404116
As if it'll gain any traction but here's hoping.
It was an awesome sight though, the containers all lined up in perfect rows.
I have a new OWC SSD upgrade so that should be alright.. Trying to keep it running cool without heavy software but the battery is at like 500 charge cycles and 70% capacity man it feels so scary getting old
Being that one ought to believe in people over processes we ought to examine what in the process is causing these outcomes rather than assigning blame to the people?
Of course people have responsibility over the processes but by the same token they must be freed from the blame and given the chance to improve the process.
There's gotta be a game theory approach that allows for good and bad actors to coexist given the right incentives?
Times Roman is just another example of the defaults becoming the standard and we've all been trained to know the defaults serve hardly anyone yet we keep hammering away at them relentlessly as if they'll give us anything but default outcomes
There is zero incentive to hire for anything except individual performance (superstar) or technical knowledge (basically the same as above) and any success can be humbly accepted while blame can be cleverly diverted onto the team while advancing one's career and looking good to one's bosses.
A better scam has never been perpetrated and it all starts from people trusting too much as is often the case.
In fact the majority of communication operates on signals and we ought to know that by this millennium.
If you're not using signals to advantage well then maybe you've got a culture where people are putting out the wrong signals and they're being ignored or people are putting out conflicting signals and a lot of the wrong signals are getting picked up or any other combination that doesn't spell success.
I wonder how many founders in the industry would say the same and how many of them are captains of a barely floating ship with dozens of little holes?
And a million other questions about why victory is never guaranteed, only deserved.
Or maybe you think culture grows organically like some crazed survival of the fittest type of scenario.
I can tell you more about how that works out by examining the kitchen and the bathroom than attending any management meeting.
The manager is an anti-pattern in software and so too in organizations. What is their role anyway? Naming things is hard perhaps scheduler would be a better classname or resolver?
Given n where n>=1, how can we optimize such that n+1 is maximally effective
The current corporate tropes have utterly failed us but instead of reinventing corporacy in a newer image we seem to have thrown out everything that was good about it and then replaced it with this toxic sludge of performance evaluations and weak, conflicting signalling. Anyway.. Who's reading this in the belly of some beastly code dungeon?
We were required to take a breadth of courses first year that helped create a well rounded foundation to my studies in software which I value greatly.
I can tell many people in the field have never looked past the technicals to think about how computer science connects to the world at large and it's a shame because there is a lot to learn and much wisdom to be gained by taking a holistic view.
Some of my favorite courses were sociology, anthropology, chemistry, physics, biology (I did switch majors) not to mention classics and astronomy.. They gave me a very rich insight into the philosophy of thought outside of software and I've always applied my learnings to corporacy and professionalism.
Not all universities are like this and graduates while technically proficient graduate wholly unprepared for the realities of social programming because let's face it software is a social medium in the truest sense of the word and university work with its emphasis on solo work i.e. individual performance and occasional groups (which are invariably one person pulling all the others' weight or someone bossing everyone until they give in) as well as emphasizing marks as the primary metric serves very little utility in preparing people for the real world and even co-op programs serve only to reinforce the stereotypes rather than disrupt them.
I have Japanese tattoos where does that place me?
How about another example. Have a child.
Dude that link is about a tattoo friendly place. Anyway nobody really cares everyone is keeping to themselves and even the Japanese are covered in English lettering same way we're covered in kanji go figure.
Yo! But you don't know whether you would've regretted them had you gotten them. But then again some people get them for the wrong reasons, granted.
You should only get one when you can practically see it coming out from under your skin.
Quite honestly the best part for me is seeing old school NASA engineers wearing professional dress including neckties
Try getting a tattoo for an example of this
Edit; it's very right you can't decide rationally and that's why we're emotional beings but on the other hand given you have already done it once you emerge on the other side chances are you'll be pleased
If you don't want to get a tattoo try wearing professional clothing to work for a month
Those who don't believe in magic will never find it -- Roald Dahl
Usage of the word within the in-group may mean one thing but from the out-group it means a whole different thing.
You're basically calling yourself a slave and justifying it with blissful ignorance.
You're saying 'words mean what I say they mean and I'm ignoring all shades of meaning but the ones I choose'.
and you can't see that in a professional culture if some people are "suits" and some people are "geeks" it's a drastic disadvantage situation in favour of stereotypes over reality.
And plus bro I wouldn't call you bro at the office but you'd surely call me a geek.
Contractors are treated with less dignity than they deserve on a number of fronts
As a contractor and even as an employee I've been treated with less dignity than I deserve especially when being let go on a moment's notice and treated like a plague carrier the minute I'm terminated