Do you want a fork? Do you want to drive more people to Pale Moon? Do you want to become even less relevant relative to Chrome? Do you want to make the web even less user-centric? A change like this is how you do that.…
You know what also makes you sick? A lack of professional accomplishment, missing respect from your peers, and a general sense of purposelessness. It's easy to look at the costs of ambition and ignore its benefits.
Nicotine is best administrated through gum or a transdermal patch. I haven't heard of many people using it in pill form. Nicotine alone is similar to smoking a cigarette, but not identical: cigarettes also contain MAOI…
Modafinil and nicotine. Cocaine too, I imagine, although that's more a sales guy thing.
Why is it surprising that nootropics exist? Half the good people in tech are on them. And there's nothing fucking wrong with that. "My body, my choice", as the slogan goes.
I am well qualified to comment.
The specific root cause is Google's practice of promoting based on product launches; it literally doesn't matter whether that product goes on to be successful. This practice creates a strong and perverse incentive to…
He's not missing much. It's just a big squabbling company.
> Being ethical is a core value of the company > Google is trying hard to make it's hiring and promotion process objective and unbiased Google tries very hard to appear to be ethical, unbiased, responsible, and…
Netflix's stack ranking is a huge turnoff though. Netflix's philosophy is that it has no loyalty to employees and expects none in return. Regardless of Netflix's other attributes, this policy is a huge turn-off.…
> 100% pair programming I don't think there's a faster way to send me running away screaming. I'd actually take "100% Visual Basic" over "100% Pair Programming" if I had to choose one at gunpoint.
> My suspicion is that Apple / Tim Cook knows something BIG that we don't that they are going to get PERFECT while they still have the cash fire hose of the iPhone to drive the engine. Possible --- but it seems to me…
> Also, the areas in which Microsoft is revitalizing itself are green field projects like the cloud and some other interesting hardware/software integration The example I have in mind is in a big legacy product. I can't…
What about all the hundreds of decades of work lost because extreme risk aversion makes it impossible to add productivity features to GMail for fear of breaking what works already? Some people like to cower behind…
I can choose not to work in an environment riddled with "scar tissue". Instead, I can go work at a startup and eat that enterprise's lunch with a tenth of the budget. Unfortunately, thanks to inflexible and…
Do you have any actual evidence that a culture of design documents and signoffs produces code with fewer vulnerabilities?
Where are the mods? Does the rule against inflammatory ad-hominem attacks apply only to those holding unpopular opinions? Believe me, I'm the furthest thing from junior you'll ever see. I don't particularly care what…
> Internally open does not mean that everyone can always see everything though. If secrecy is rare in an organization, secrecy-induced problems in that organization are also rare. > I'm not sure I agree with this. I'm a…
> secret If your culture is one of secrecy (Google's generally is not), then you need process to effect coordination, since nothing else can. Fortunately, good (IMHO) software companies are internally open, so there's…
Saying that process is a necessary side effect of growth is like saying cancer is a necessary side effect of age. I don't think you have the causation quite right --- it's not necessity that forces the adoption of…
Coordination is important. I think you can achieve it without a formal design document and approval process. Your team could post a quick, informal message to a mailing list saying that you're going to work on a new…
RFCs are usually protocol specifications. Specifications are usually intended to facilitate interoperability. They document protocols or grammars or some other artifact. Specifications need to be well-written and…
I don't think so. Who looks at design documents? Your own team. If you don't yourself catch that a change will cause problems with other teams, the existence of a design document won't magically alert that team. If you…
If it produces results, does it matter whether you call it "engineering" or "hacking"?
I find the "five questions" approach helpful. The classic questions are "Who?", "What?", "Where?", "When?", and "Why?". If you answer those questions (probably best to start with "What?") and additionally address…
Do you want a fork? Do you want to drive more people to Pale Moon? Do you want to become even less relevant relative to Chrome? Do you want to make the web even less user-centric? A change like this is how you do that.…
You know what also makes you sick? A lack of professional accomplishment, missing respect from your peers, and a general sense of purposelessness. It's easy to look at the costs of ambition and ignore its benefits.
Nicotine is best administrated through gum or a transdermal patch. I haven't heard of many people using it in pill form. Nicotine alone is similar to smoking a cigarette, but not identical: cigarettes also contain MAOI…
Modafinil and nicotine. Cocaine too, I imagine, although that's more a sales guy thing.
Why is it surprising that nootropics exist? Half the good people in tech are on them. And there's nothing fucking wrong with that. "My body, my choice", as the slogan goes.
I am well qualified to comment.
The specific root cause is Google's practice of promoting based on product launches; it literally doesn't matter whether that product goes on to be successful. This practice creates a strong and perverse incentive to…
He's not missing much. It's just a big squabbling company.
> Being ethical is a core value of the company > Google is trying hard to make it's hiring and promotion process objective and unbiased Google tries very hard to appear to be ethical, unbiased, responsible, and…
Netflix's stack ranking is a huge turnoff though. Netflix's philosophy is that it has no loyalty to employees and expects none in return. Regardless of Netflix's other attributes, this policy is a huge turn-off.…
> 100% pair programming I don't think there's a faster way to send me running away screaming. I'd actually take "100% Visual Basic" over "100% Pair Programming" if I had to choose one at gunpoint.
> My suspicion is that Apple / Tim Cook knows something BIG that we don't that they are going to get PERFECT while they still have the cash fire hose of the iPhone to drive the engine. Possible --- but it seems to me…
> Also, the areas in which Microsoft is revitalizing itself are green field projects like the cloud and some other interesting hardware/software integration The example I have in mind is in a big legacy product. I can't…
What about all the hundreds of decades of work lost because extreme risk aversion makes it impossible to add productivity features to GMail for fear of breaking what works already? Some people like to cower behind…
I can choose not to work in an environment riddled with "scar tissue". Instead, I can go work at a startup and eat that enterprise's lunch with a tenth of the budget. Unfortunately, thanks to inflexible and…
Do you have any actual evidence that a culture of design documents and signoffs produces code with fewer vulnerabilities?
Where are the mods? Does the rule against inflammatory ad-hominem attacks apply only to those holding unpopular opinions? Believe me, I'm the furthest thing from junior you'll ever see. I don't particularly care what…
> Internally open does not mean that everyone can always see everything though. If secrecy is rare in an organization, secrecy-induced problems in that organization are also rare. > I'm not sure I agree with this. I'm a…
> secret If your culture is one of secrecy (Google's generally is not), then you need process to effect coordination, since nothing else can. Fortunately, good (IMHO) software companies are internally open, so there's…
Saying that process is a necessary side effect of growth is like saying cancer is a necessary side effect of age. I don't think you have the causation quite right --- it's not necessity that forces the adoption of…
Coordination is important. I think you can achieve it without a formal design document and approval process. Your team could post a quick, informal message to a mailing list saying that you're going to work on a new…
RFCs are usually protocol specifications. Specifications are usually intended to facilitate interoperability. They document protocols or grammars or some other artifact. Specifications need to be well-written and…
I don't think so. Who looks at design documents? Your own team. If you don't yourself catch that a change will cause problems with other teams, the existence of a design document won't magically alert that team. If you…
If it produces results, does it matter whether you call it "engineering" or "hacking"?
I find the "five questions" approach helpful. The classic questions are "Who?", "What?", "Where?", "When?", and "Why?". If you answer those questions (probably best to start with "What?") and additionally address…