sedawk
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Comment · 6 months ago
This!
The most cogent and concise explanation I've heard for something this!!
Comment · 9 months ago
I had to read it twice to get your point, well said!
Comment · 9 months ago
So true, voting with your wallet (for myriad of practical reasons) isn't always possible. And sometimes you/spouse/friend/whoever will often say "how bad can it be"! And often we ourselves wonder "Ah! I can get used to it".
Comment · 10 months ago
> ...deeply incentivized to openly praise...
Sadly, you're not far off from describing the reality in many cases!
Comment · 11 months ago
This is true, but is effective only if the dogfooders' feedback is accepted and worked upon. Which is not the case, I can tell you this from first-hand experience (currently work at Msft).
Also unleashing and forcing tech savvy people to use immature tools is only asking for trouble when you don't have allocated enough manpower to deal with the fallout (that is, incessant downpour of improvement feedback). One cannot just force engineers to dogfood tools and then ignore them. This is precisely like Win-8 era mania, only this time it's infecting the whole company not just single org!
Comment · 1 year ago
It most certainly would be a very interesting experiment...
Alas, the real powers-be would never let such an experiment off the ground... EVER!
Comment · 1 year ago
Really? Are you suggesting you getting solid 9h on full charge, while developing on Windows+wsl??
That's very hard to believe, but if that's true color me impressed.
I get no where near that (albeit older hardware).
Comment · 1 year ago
Pretty sure I'm not touching any app that starts with AA0* (esp. if that name isn't relevant to app's functionality in some way)!
But I get the point you are making, on how current system can be gamed with just app-naming and frequent (meaningless) updates to the app :-(
Comment · 2 years ago
I have recently discovered a combo of white-noise + music, but I must tell you crackling fire noise makes me too relaxed, making me feel I need a quick nap! Rainfall sound works better for me :-)
Haven't come across myNosie before, will check it out, thank you for sharing!
Comment · 2 years ago
You didn't tell yours yet! :-)
Comment · 2 years ago
> Lately it has definitely felt as though Microsoft is resurrecting Ballmer's old meme as "AI! AI! AI!"
You nailed it! Having spent significant time (as low-level minion) under both Ballmer and Satya, it certainly feels like the old Ballmer-time meme is coming back with the AI!
Also with it, the forced-curve ranking that Satya disbanded is being re-instituted under a different name.
Comment · 2 years ago
> The current commercial alternatives for Lightroom unfortunately are still lacking, last time I looked at them (Capture One, DxO Photo Lab)
Genuine question, how do you find DxO PhotoLab lacking when compared to LR?
I'm an old-time LR user and due to Adobe's licensing shenanigans exploring alternatives. I am having a pretty good time with trial version of DxO PhotoLab7. So far I haven't come across something that I could do in LR (as a hobbyist) that I can't achieve in PhotoLab7. And, I'm loving the built-in DeNoising algorithm in PL7.
Comment · 2 years ago
I used to use MAFF (Mozilla Archive Format)[1] a lot back in the day. I was very upset when they ended the support[2].
I never dug deeper whether I can unzip and decode the packing, but saving as simple ZIP does somewhat guarantee future-proofing.
Comment · 2 years ago
In a recent org-wide all-hands a member from senior leadership (C-suite) did explicitly say that they always have a much higher budget for new hires than the budget for rewarding/retaining existing talent; and that this is by-design. This was an eye-opener to me :-|
Comment · 2 years ago
In no particular order...
0. Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony, by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura
1. The Practice of Programming (TPOP) , by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike
2. Wings of Fire, by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari