thebent | 7 years ago | on: The Quietest Room in the World
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thebent | 9 years ago | on: What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike
@kevin488 The Adventure Cycling Association is the de facto source for bike touring routes and maps: https://www.adventurecycling.org/routes-and-maps/
thebent | 9 years ago | on: Affordable Care
Yes, the group insurance through a payroll processor is a great solution. That's what we do now.
The caveat is that it only works if you're collecting a paycheck, but not if you're bootstrapping from savings.
thebent | 9 years ago | on: Affordable Care
Yep, you nailed it. Had it not been for ACA, making the career leap to co-founder would have been incredibly difficult. Two years later, it's a honor to be able to provide insurance to our employees.
thebent | 9 years ago | on: Prolific Engineers Take Small Bites
My actual suggestion was to hop on with the product team/co-founder. This article is a narrative about something we found pretty interesting during product development.
Similarly, the offer here is to take a deeper look at what we're building and a (quite genuine) offer to incorporate any suggestions you might have into our roadmap.
thebent | 9 years ago | on: Prolific Engineers Take Small Bites
@trevyn We've got some things in that vein that are working in the app today — and are working toward even more. If you’d like, we could hop on a call and give you a tour of the app and show you where we’re headed?
Seems like you've given this some thought on how this should be done right; would love to include them in our product development discussions.
thebent | 9 years ago | on: Prolific Engineers Take Small Bites
Would love to better expose our data set. It’s a bit tricky however: we’re specifically interested in enterprise software engineering (the patterns of which differ radically from the open source world).
In order to dig into enterprise data, we sort of need to have a ToS that only allows us to talking abstractly about aggregate data.
Any thoughts on how we might navigate that?
thebent | 9 years ago | on: Prolific Engineers Take Small Bites
@trevyn Co-founder here.
You’re right: this post is a narrative about product development, and a strong correlation we found between two variables across 20 Million+ commits that we thought was fascinating and supports general 'kitchen logic' around best practices. The axes are not labeled, but if you like we can set you up with a demo account and walk through your data with you.
One other note: the typical common use case for the product has been stakeholder management; something we have doubled down on in product development. Any specific critique about how we can improve most welcome!
thebent | 9 years ago | on: What Makes a Senior Software Developer?
Highly recommend Daniel Pink’s “A Whole New Mind” on this topic
Correction, the Pink title I was referring to was "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us"
Pink does a great job unpacking research that demonstrates how this type of 'affect my pay' dynamic backfires for engineering.
thebent | 9 years ago | on: What Makes a Senior Software Developer?
“to affect my pay” ← totally agree with you here.
This is a big part of why we think engineering metrics are a tough nut to crack: there’s a fair bit of research that suggests tying KPIs to compensation is a huge anti-pattern for certain types of work (chiefly those involving lots of novel problem solving).
Highly recommend Daniel Pink’s “A Whole New Mind” on this topic; it’s pretty fascinating stuff.
thebent | 9 years ago | on: What Makes a Senior Software Developer?
@debaserab2 100% agree, well said.
thebent | 9 years ago | on: What Makes a Senior Software Developer?
@Bartweiss thanks for the feedback. The thing about “gaming the system”, is that it presumes an adversarial relationship between engineers and non-engineers. That’s pretty unfortunate, and it’s our view that a good portion of this is due to non-engineers not really understanding what happens software development.
But yeah, my co-founder has a pretty interesting take on gaming the system.
TL;DR: So, can you game the system? Absolutely. The point is to game the system: https://intercom.help/gitprime/general/cant-you-just-game-th...
thebent | 9 years ago | on: What Makes a Senior Software Developer?
@cbcoutinho appreciate that. i think this should work: https://blog.gitprime.com/rss.xml
thebent | 9 years ago | on: What Makes a Senior Software Developer?
@shandor — yeah, there's some secret sauce happening in that impact metric, but this post breaks it down so you get a sense of how it's calculated and how teams are using it: https://blog.gitprime.com/impact-a-better-way-to-measure-cod...
thebent | 9 years ago | on: What Makes a Senior Software Developer?
Ah nice, @Eiriksmal — 'once upon a time…' and 'pre-impact', sounds like this was a while ago now :) Encouraging to hear that this has been helpful for you.
thebent | 9 years ago | on: What Makes a Senior Software Developer?
Thanks for checking it out @gaastonsr — yeah, you make a great point. we've figured out some ways to account for that in the software itself.
thebent | 9 years ago | on: What Makes a Senior Software Developer?
"Every measure of a good developer is qualitative. That makes them all subjective."
^ This post scratches the surface on a timely and relevant question many teams face, but the author seems to throw hands up and say everything is subjective.
Our work suggests otherwise: https://blog.gitprime.com/check-in-frequency-and-codebase-im...
thebent | 9 years ago | on: McMansion Hell
The commentary is blistering.
thebent | 9 years ago | on: Peer pressure’s effects are perhaps more powerful than we thought (2014)
Yeah, have to agree with louprado here. The 'People around you control your mind' although a bit more entertaining and click baity is actually more accurate than 'peer' or 'pressure'.
thebent | 9 years ago | on: Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America
It's all about the elevation. You can drive for hours on the east coast and be in the same relative eco-system. Here in the west, you drive an hour and can move through several. Start in a scorching red-rock desert and move in elevation to an alpine meadow in a short drive. And the temps drop 3°F for every 1k feet you gain in elevation.
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Whoah.