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[–] jeff@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

There's a big difference between winning a rigged election, and losing an election but staying in power anyway.

[–] jeff@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Look, I could point you to the blogs and patch notes for Chromium and Firefox and you could read into it and make your own conclusions from it.

From my perspective as a solution architect that has worked for several mid to large size organizations, is that security is difficult to measure and constantly changing. When I evaluate what software to use I do it on the basis of how they've historically addressed security concerns, and where the organization that develops the software priorities lies. My opinion is that when it comes to security, Mozilla and Google are about the same when it comes to Firefox and Chromium.

I haven't looked into Brave much, so I can't comment there besides it's another organization that you have to trust so it's inherently more risky.

[–] jeff@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

The article you linked is over 3 years old at this point. You can't use that as the basis for your argument for software that's likely had hundreds of patches since the time that article was published.

[–] jeff@programming.dev 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

(me, an American) Well, forty isn't that many.

[–] jeff@programming.dev 21 points 1 month ago

You can install Windows on it and should be able to play those games.

They are obviously saying that their hardware is powerful enough to play all games; not that all games support their choice of OS.

[–] jeff@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago

We're social animals with big brains. Other great apes, elephants, whales, even some birds like parrots and corvids mature slower.

We rely less on our instincts and more on what we learn from the previous generations, and that takes time.

[–] jeff@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

Well, I know how I'm starting and ending all my emails now

[–] jeff@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

There was actually a numberphile of this like 2 days ago. https://youtu.be/47qEMTMKRdA

[–] jeff@programming.dev 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There are novels that don't measure up to the writing of visual novels.

There are comics that don't measure up to the art of visual novels.

There are video games that are less engaging than visual novels.

Broad generalizations like this are so useless. It's okay that you play one or two visual novels and they weren't for you. I don't particularly like visual novels either, but to discredit an entire genre because of it is just ignorant. I've played some visual novels that were excellent and pushed the boundaries of video games. See Slay the Princess and Doki Doki Literature Club. I'm playing Date Everything right now, it's not exactly innovative, but I'm having fun with it.

[–] jeff@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago

I'm not a geographicist, but this looks right to me.

[–] jeff@programming.dev 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Hormones can play a role as well. Anecdotally, my wife's hair during pregnancy became fuller and less brittle. Duckduckgo "pregnancy hair". A monthly cycle, being on hormonal birth control, etc. will likely have some effect. I definitely agree that genetics does play a bigger role, but claiming that gender/sex plays no role is definitely incorrect.

[–] jeff@programming.dev 72 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I like how OOP gets the name wrong also. Shane not Shawn. It really makes it feel extra condescending.

 

*or other media; video, article, etc.

The Phoenix Project (and The Unicorn Project) by Gene Kim really opened my eyes up as an engineer and made me feel like I could start fixing the problems I was seeing on my team, on my project, and in my organization.

I started reading The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier and have really appreciated how straightforward and relevant it is.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by jeff@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
 

IMHO, it's a horrible hack that is just broken. It's obscure and we need to rewrite it because it has a bad structure. ^X^Cquit^[ESC][ESC]^C

 
 
 
 

My company started using Lattice software for tracking 1 on 1s, reviews, etc. I don't really love it, but it's nice to have something that the entire company is standardizing with.

I've been using Obsidian for my personal notes before I became a manager.

And I use the M$ Suite as needed with SharePoint.

Any other tools, software, processes, that you use for the people management side?

 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/144418

I generally don't like "listicles", especially ones that try to make you feel bad by suggesting that you "need" these skills as a senior engineer.

However, I do find this list valuable because it serves as a self-reflection tool.

Here are some areas I am pretty weak in:

  • How to write a design doc, take feedback, and drive it to resolution, in a reasonable period of time
  • How to convince management that they need to invest in a non-trivial technical project
  • How to repeat yourself enough that people start to listen

Anything here resonate with y'all?

 
 

Posting some general questions to get this community going...

I recently moved from a software architect to an engineering manager position after I was asked by my company leadership a few months ago. Mixed feeling about the move. I really like technology and being deep into the code but I am also pretty good at being a manager.

Anyway, why did you make the jump? How has it been?

 

Hey everyone! I'm Jeff and just moved to from a tech role to a manager. Looking forward to this community.

 

I trialed GitHub Copilot and used ChatGPT for a bit, but recently I found myself using them less and less.

I've found them valuable when doing something new(at least to me), but for most of my day-to-day it seems to have lost it's luster.

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