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Across the board, correcting and confronting people, no matter how you do it, leads them to double down, in most cases. Source: reality.

Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. We can still measure how quickly new (average) developers become proficient, average team velocity over time, and a host of other metrics that tell us if we are increasing or decreasing the quality of our code over time. Ignoring it all because it's somewhat subjective is selfish and bad for your business.

Leave off the word "clean" or whatever... DO have metrics and don't ignore them. You have people on your team that make it easier for the others, and people who take their "wins" at the expense of their teammates' productivity.

Selling eternal salvation to the poor will always be easier than selling another support tool to a procurement person spending someone else's money and probably with one eye on a new job.

Does anyone consider FAANG to be startups? I'm confused by your comment.

> seems like saving face matters more

This is sadly always the case. For everything. We'd rather let people die (e.g. Challenger) than admit any fault or delay to fix a problem.

The article mentioned the issue with vacuum tubes: they work, but are at high risk of losing vacuum.

So... hire to SpaceX do it?

Best: what it takes to do a great job. Level of detail, thought before action; how to have a productive debate.

Worst: some people will put all their effort into the performance of working but never actually work. You risk your own job calling it out because their speciality is hiding their incompetence.

> should

Why?

Have you thought about taking lessons from a teacher?

Or suggestions to the page author to improve readability on [platform].

I've been using Alacrity/Sway for at least that long, and it's been perfect. Maybe I have a low end machine.

How does it misbehave on Wayland?

Rails routes. ActiveRecord. RSpec

It's never your job to empathize with your manager. They get paid more to manage you. If your manager needs coddling, you're managing them. Or you're being a friend; but as a subordinate they are responsible for enabling you, not the other way around.

When I'm a lead/mentor, I know my job is to protect and enable people. When I'm a cog in the machine, I expect leadership to have their shit together. When leadership doesn't have their shit together, I quit.

Wow if you're real, I'd love to have worked for you. Typically managers don't do the other half of what you do: they want critical surprise issue fixed yesterday, and with no caveats; you better still be available for marketing bullshit and that salesforce thing and that support issue we escalated to you and also when's that feature going to be ready?

Except BO isn't a competitor, really. They'd just like to be.

Yes, the title should be "Microsoft blocks FLoC..."

I also use vimwiki extensively. It's always at hand.

It's a very light truck. Especially these days. Seems like a vanity vehicle mostly. If you're hauling you have a bigger truck, and if you're offroading you have a jeep or something.

Nobody is using electric for anything that we'd relate to as "critical" or "high availability". In fact, there are trucks that just bring gasoline to bigger trucks.

Source: I live at 8300ft in Colorado.

Phish did that. I pay them. They're objectively the highest paid independent artists ever.

That's always the case with study vs experiment. If you didn't control for all the variables but one, you can't make a conclusion about cause.

I think the honest thing to do is to include alternate hypotheses; or at least mention some possible confounding circumstances.

Because the audience is discouraged from screaming and they're less intoxicated?

Just to clarify: you think it's fair that less than 20% of what you pay to Spotify goes to artists?

That's fair. There is also a category (I'm thinking musical instruments, sports equipment, vim) that grows with you. You might miss out (or worse, quit guitar) because you were too cheap to ever figure out what you were missing.

I swear when I was a kid the rules must have been different. Every metal slide was always hot enough to fry bacon.

Except at the end you own a house and maybe some land. Usually people with a mortgage they planned for don't describe themselves this way.

Something like https://github.com/fukamachi/sxql

Many of the standard unix tools are not written in sh. They're written in C. Am I missing something in your comment?

Nope, we don't have any fowl here other than domesticated chickens and the occasional wild turkey family. Also Wild Turkey.

The word "peacock" is now only really useful in streaming TV.

And the difference is what? If I have no "talent" on guitar but I practice for thousands of hours until I can "trick" you into thinking you're listening to Hendrix...