gorzynsk | 5 years ago | on: I suspect many task deadlines are designed to force engineers to work for free
Hanlon's razor is an aphorism, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
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gorzynsk | 6 years ago | on: Jira and Confluence Suck
Adjusting Jira to author's liking would, at least in some points, make Jira even more complicated and bloated.
I guess the more clients, the more feature requests. One will see a feature as a bloat, other will consider it a must have to do their job.
gorzynsk | 6 years ago | on: Ex-Facebook engineer mocks the culture and jokes about how he was fired
What works for gaining viewers on YouTube will not work when you have to decide on highly technical manners in software development.
For one purpose likes are useful, for other purposes they are absurd.
gorzynsk | 6 years ago | on: Our Brains Are Not Multi-Threaded
Consciousness about what our brain does is single threaded. Everything else is massive parallel processing.
gorzynsk | 6 years ago | on: A.I. Is Learning from Many Humans
I hope A.I. is smart enough to learn only from smart people. The are not so many of them though...
gorzynsk | 6 years ago | on: How to Pay Programmers Less (2016)
Additionally when they treat managers as other engineers - meaning that they want to discuss changes or improvements without judging others for their ideas - just decide for them and announce your decision to show who is in charge.
gorzynsk | 6 years ago | on: Why Developers Hate Coding Skills Tests and What Hiring Managers Can Do
There’s stupid simple way to test interview process - let your current engineers go through it. I bet best performing ones will fail mentioned algorithmic and abstract assignments.
Sometimes the best value to the team bring a person who doesn’t know algorithms but can e.g. foresee problems or ask “stupid” questions which lead others to think differently.
gorzynsk | 6 years ago | on: Facebook gets closer to letting you type with your mind
Why would anyone want that? People never post what they really think on Facebook...unless of course they write without thinking enough.
gorzynsk | 6 years ago | on: When Having Friends Is More Alluring Than Being Right
That's why education is so important. If as kinds those people would analyze the evidences of both - flat and sphere earth they would be immune to flat-earth nonsense.
After kinds lose their natural curiosity and gain political views it's nearly impossible to convince them to something different than they believe.
gorzynsk | 6 years ago | on: A software engineering manager guide to measuring an engineer’s performance
I know how to fix most problems with measuring an engineer's performance. The best solution is to remove "manager" from measurement. Lead developer would speak with all team members to assess performance of colleagues. Those are those who know exactly who makes their work harder and who helps them everyday whether by wise advice or by leaving clear code and thought through architecture.
Managers will argue that they have so much responsibilities that they cannot code together with teh team, but I again would say that the problem may be reduced with reduction or higher management. Bussiness part shall talk with engineers on feasibility of their vision and ideas without proxies who are so in the middle that they neighter understand bussiness nor technology.
gorzynsk | 6 years ago | on: Google HTML/CSS style guide suggests omitting head and body tags
Removing ads and tracking scripts will be more effective in reducing page size.
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