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Oh, everything popular before Zoom sucked so bad. Getting on a call was incredibly complicated, getting someone else in a call even more so. I got deflated whenever I saw a WebEx mail.

There were alternatives... But Skype was getting worse by the day, moving from decentralized to MS servers for all calls, and support for everything besides MS and the official App was also non-existant.

Google Calls/Hangouts/Meet/? was mistrusted by all MS shops (and still is)

Teams was nowhere it is right now beginning of the pandemic, and required buying into the Ecosystem.

In fact, Zoom was a (!) low entry, mostly platform-independent solution that was easy to set up if you had nothing to start from. And joining a call was not asking much from customers, students, business partners, etc.

All the competitors learned a lot from Zoom and we take these things for granted now.

There were other solutions of course, but sometimes you're lucky, and ads help.

I fully agree, Video-calls are tiring.

But I would say the same is true for all calls (where I cannot freely drift off or even work on something else).

I would try to reduce the number of calls you're in :S

That might all be true.

But working together efficiently means acting as a team, being a "human" (sorry all cooperative animals, you're human too)

To act as a closely connected team that is able to sort things out and deal with the unforseen, helping each other out and understanding what the other needs, it is simply not enough to be a genius with chat and mail and a todo-list.

It might work, but then you either rely on others to deal with the chaos for you, making you a drone, or you remain well under potential - what you could achieve with a good team.

So much vitriol :(

I can say from personal experience that people tend to drift off more easily if their cameras are off, no manager present. My team even just agreed themselves to enable the cameras during refinements.

Is the main problem boring meetings? Of course it is! But you won't get people involved by not having any team meetings at all... Sometimes the spark needs to catch first.

VR ping pong table??? Not every company here can and will afford VR headsets for everyone just for kicks. And it is beyond the point. Trust is built by sharing, not by playing VR games. It can work, but it is neither necessary nor sufficient. This statement is so cliche SV.

It is the same thinking as the "you need to start with C to become a good programmer".

They started with ink, it worked for them, so we obviously also had to.

For me it was even worse. My teachers argued that I must not use my Pelikan pen (all my classmates were on fountain pens) and write with pencil instead, because I was using to much force.

The most infuriating thing about it: I never saw a teacher using anything else than a regular pen. Strictly forbidden. Those were for grown ups.

To be fair, this has changed considerably over the last 10 years.

GitLab was drastically cheaper, offering free private repos, and interesting features ahead of GitHub (although IMO always slightly less "sexy" than GitHub, using Ruby on Rails, etc.).

But at the time they gathered (1) serious funding money and (2) influx from MS-asylants their priorities started to change. But they were still the cheaper option for quite some time IIRC. The pandemic and the associated gold-rush/growth in IT pushed the dynamics over the edge I think.

Now their position is not really that different from GitHub's, and I think it is kind of a preference thing.

I can do with both, but I kind of still like the appeal and UX in GitHub. GitLab will always be in my heart, just like ever "Underdog" (even if that was a long time ago).

I could further see myself immediately falling for a third alternative, if it was sexy/unique enough with drastically better UX, and I think that is not even too far fetched.

But there is the thing, GitHub is a platform, not (just) a tool. GitLab still managed to take ground - kudos! That would be the hard part.

No, it doesn't.

Something "making sense" does not mean mistakes are not possible.

Assuming only idiots make mistakes is rather black-and-white.

I think most commenters on lwn are misunderstanding this gravely.

RHEL not supporting LibreOffice doesn't mean you can still install it, right? It just means RH won't offer support for it?

Also does not mean you must use Flatpak to use it, does it? Am I missing something?

If it does make sense business-wise, it's their call. I'm pretty sure they know their userbase and did the math.

I also prefer efforts put on Wayland improvements, much closer to the OS itself and relevant to several use cases.

The Problem with Jira is not that it's dumb or too sophisticated.

The first problem is that everyone, even in the same team or org, needs something different from it. Sometimes it is even single individuals needing one particular thing one time, and the same day for another workflow or view another thing. It is when Jira caters to the wrong use case for you right now where the a lot of frustration arises.

In a similar vein, it wants to cater devs, coaches, POs, business people, customers and all of them over various orgs with drastically different workflows. Serving everyone equally must lead to a mediocre experience. You will always miss something, while there is so much stuff you don't need or want and you have to work around.

Arguably, this has become better a lot in the last 10 years, but you will always long for "something better".

But the most painful issue is that in some orgs Jira is the workflow, instead of supporting it and staying in the background. At some point people are only sending around ticket links, commenting on tickets, requesting people monitoring their queues. This creates overhead, redirection and Jira becomes a distraction you need to handle.

As a result Jira becomes a proxy for all the things going wrong with your daily work and a problem of its own.

Dude. Everything you said is correct, but:

I responded to

> Google could be requested to peer not just into the user's google account, but into accounts they have with other companies/organisations too

Your response to my response should somehow relate to that.

Wow.

Fine for what?

Gag order? Does not help them.

Legality? That would count, if it was something I could order them to do, but again, what do you think would happen there?

"Dear Google, we know you have user TechBro8615@gmail.com, could you please:

- Go through all your data, and gather which Accounts for which services TechBro8615 has

- Go through all these accounts TechBro8615 has with every possible service and reset all his passwords with these accounts (without him noticing)

- And use the second factor TechBro8615 has to login

- Make a user data takeout for all the data TechBro8615 has with all these services

- Create an index of this data, because, well we ask you to, although we can't make you do that

- Tell us if TechBro8615 likes Cranberry juice???

Legality does matter, if you request something from third parties. Why on earth should Google ever cooperate beyond step 1? Would you do that?!

I think this is a little far fetched as a scenario.

Under which assumptions should Google be forced to "peer into accounts a user has with other services"?

This is not only not enforceable, it would be illegal.

Companies can not be enlisted to do such things governmental agencies are doing. How should a company decide what to look for? Google is not the police and can not be made an investigator just-for-fun. FBI's search engine?!

Also, you need the first factor. Do you expect Google would also send the "password reset"-request, reset the password, use your 2nd factor... Just to be nice to the authorities?

Wild theory if you ask me...

See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwentendorf_Nuclear_Power_Pl...

Completely finished, everything was ready, even the protective clothing and all employee contracts, fuel rods on standby, just never switched on due to popular vote (political miscalculation).

"The most expensive museum in the world".

The whole idea of acidic/basic foods is not grounded on the scientific meaning of basic/acidic.

Food considered to be "acidic" often has no particularly low pH, and vice versa. And most of all: you can't influence your body's pH (i.e. blood) by eating something specific. You would be dead immediately if this was possible.

The pH of your stomach content might vary if you just ate, but your body will create the acid by itself. As soon as you see food.

There might be still something to whole acidic/basic idea, but it has nothing to do with pH ;)

That's not what the rest of the world considers a "regulation"

As much as I have sympathy for the pain (besides the influencer thing) - what exactly do you expect from the government here?

And I say this as European, I mean, we at least have some regulations...

With technical managers: how things are going, what needs to be solved to speed things up, what is holding the progress up.

With non-technical managers (which I would expect to have 1:1s in the first place):

- How it is going

- How the team is doing

- What I need

- How my life is

- How his kids are

- What I would like to see happening in the team or company

Usually if this is a team manager, he had zero insight from the daily progress or process (why should he). So to see where problems need to be solved for the team, whom to promote or move into another position, etc. can only come from such meetings. And he also needs personal, confidential opportunities for that.

Not everyone is vocal, not every team member understands what is a problem or an issue in the first place...

Thanks for your comment. But I disagree -- almost no one has to "just accept his fate" and be stuck with Windows nowadays.

Unless you are a gamer or you strictly work with Windows only software, there are plenty of alternatives. And just to be clear, nowadays you might not find everything for Linux or BSD, but there are quite a lot of perfectly fine MacOS alternatives for most Win tools.

Well, there are alternatives...

There might be different definitions of "important stuff" between you and others...

Nobody ever died because he did not have enough acceleration.

That whole argument is as old and tired as it is wrong.

Escaping from dangerous situations is not a thing. Speed got you in that situation in the first place.

No, I'm not and I never said anything like that.

This is the case for several laptops and computer displays I can tell from experience, even those from large brands (looking at you Dell).

Alienware? I suspect you have a dedicated graphics card?

Or any other "performance"-component for that matter, which typically requires proprietary software counterpart (drivers) to run efficiently. Most vendors only ship decent Windows drivers, and the Linux counterpart (if any) is considered "good enough".

I would not consider this the fault of kernel developers. Often there is basically nothing they can do. You just need to look at what hoops the Nouveau-devs have to jump through - colossal effort, little appreciation from users.

> It's easier to be wrong.

And it is cinsiderably harder to be actually helpful.

While everything you said is true, we and the author do not know what was previously discussed with the client. We don't know what was promised by either party, we don't know what the client messed up

Heck, I attended meetings with partners/clients that were simply impossible to get an output from, since the expectations in general were on completely different sides of the book.

But you air this out, realize that everyone agrees, most people resignate, and really helpful is this one guy, that offers to invest effort and time to work closely with a well chosen peer from the other side to get them on your side and finally work on the interesting things.

This is helpful. And it is hard.

You're missing the point.

What a novice usually does not realize is:

It is easy to be right. What is hard is being actually helpful, coming up with a viable solution (vs. an idea).

In the posted article there simply was no such solution. It was not viable. Unacceptable.

Yes, an outsider with fresh eyes might see things differently and without bias, but most certainly the experienced team knows damn right that you're right (to some degree), but also knows that it's just not that easy.

Throwing "We are doing this all wrong" around is often just short of saying: "I just came here and I immediately saw that you all are idiots, you should listen to me!".

I'm not saying that fresh input can't be helpful, outsiders might bring in new tricks and ways, but being humble is way more helpful than being loud.

Dude, the 2018 Citroen Berlingo (cheap family car) has a glove box without a latch. I didn't even find ours for the first week, because it is in an unusual spot where you would expect the airbag.

https://youtu.be/cNpGQWtgoRA?t=2m15s

Mechanical hidden latches existed for ages now.

Ha.

The newer VW models (Golf, ID series, etc.) had touch controls on the steering wheels instead of physical buttons. Of course what happened is what you anticipated. Bad customer feedback made them reverse that for future models.

It's not "perceived cons" - it causes accidents. It is distracting.

Days?

In the "big 'ol" companies I worked at, something like that takes months! If even possible...