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iovrthoughtthis··on Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission
You are mischaracterising the point and assuming bad intent.

What I am saying is that your actions and omissions have political outcomes whether you want them to or not.

iovrthoughtthis··on Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission
Perhaps that is because, in this instance the term “political” has 2 meanings which we need to tease out to see why your statement is false.

1. Political intent - acting or omitting to act because of a political view point. 2. Political outcomes - the results of actions or omissions to act which impact politics.

I guess my point is that your actions and omissions have political outcomes whether you want them to or not.

We should also agree what “politics” means. I’m not simply referring to the science of government but to the decisions around the distribution of power, resources and status in groups of people.

iovrthoughtthis··on Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission
You can be apolitical in that you are not interested in politics.

But:

1. Doing so is a political decision. 2. Your views shape your perspective and there will be actions and omissions that you take that impact politics in ways that you are unaware of.

iovrthoughtthis··on Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission
Probably because none of these things exist in a vacuum. Simply because we give a title to an "area of political focus" doesn't mean that it exists in it's own silo, unimpaired by decisions in any other area of political focus.

What happens when your area of political focus crosses tracks with another area of political focus and you're faced with a trolley problem? Do you simply steam ahead regardless of the overall impact or do you consider the overall impact?

"That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen" [1] applies to all policies, not simply those undertaken by states.

[1]: http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html

iovrthoughtthis··on Ask HN: How does one lead a team in a hackathon?
They started as one and the same but as in all multiplayer games, the meta evolves.

As hackathons started giving away bigger and bigger prizes the participants more and more join to won said prizes.

The Judges only get to judge what you present, so what you present becomes the most important aspect of the hackathon.

You don’t need to build a solution to present it.

And here we are.

iovrthoughtthis··on We cancelled standups and let the team build
Well, email and IRC existed at the time so I am not certain of that.
iovrthoughtthis··on We cancelled standups and let the team build
You might not.

“Individuals and interactions over processes and tools”

Doing standups for the sake of it is adherence to a process over the needs of you’re people.

Equally, a core principal of agile was always:

“The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.”

And I think it’s always worth considering if your truth is the same for everyone on the team. This is actually something I’d bring up in a review (assuming you have those too right?). If you all agree that notifying and handling problems in Slack is enough, that checking the board is sufficient the just do that? What is stopping you?

I would also look for actually data too back it up. How often are people blocked. How do they get unblocked. How long does that take. Etc. Gives you some insight into the reality of the situation and some ammunition to get things changed if you’re team isn’t really being agile and is just doing the corporate software eng dance.

iovrthoughtthis··on We cancelled standups and let the team build
Thats sounds really quite personal to the individual / team culture and you’re likely right given you’re a part of the team and so one of the best people to know.

If standup’s aren’t solving a clear problem for you, stop doing them.

Have you spoken to your lead / manager about why you do them? How do the rest of your team feel?

iovrthoughtthis··on We cancelled standups and let the team build
1. Standups are a place to make people aware of problems, not the only place.

2. You don’t discuss problems at a standup, you make your team aware (if you haven’t already) and organise a separate session with only the interested people.

iovrthoughtthis··on Woman dies during a ransomware attack on a German hospital
Have any other health services been under attack recently?
iovrthoughtthis··on What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
And yet everyone is different, on different devices.

Why should they all see the same thing?

Using PDF here is self serving. It’s actively user-hostile.

iovrthoughtthis··on Multi-Tenant Architectures
“Just”. Depends on the number of tenants and how divergent they are.

I would incrementally bring tenants together into a single DB.

iovrthoughtthis··on Wirecard hired actors to fool auditors
This is naive. Violence is the last resort. If the stakes are high enough and you’ve tried everything else, violence is the only remaining option.

Sometimes actions don't need to be acceptable, they just need to be impactful.

iovrthoughtthis··on Mexican states are moving to ban the sale of junk food to children
I believe you are committing the logical fallacy of "Whataboutery" [1] here.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

iovrthoughtthis··on 1Password for Linux development preview
Do you not think that poor Linux support is a result of low users numbers rather than the communities requirements?

MacOS has higher barriers to entry than Linux if you want to be on their stores, these do not seem to be an issue for people to overcome.

iovrthoughtthis··on Remote work is not necessarily a good thing for the worker
Maybe we can separate our social lives from our work lives finally?

I want to work with my friends from somewhere while we all work for different companies.

iovrthoughtthis··on How you 'attach' to people may explain a lot about your inner life
This mirrors my experience. Even down to the book recommendation in sub comments (the body keeps score).

Learning to incorporate all of me, my physical and emotional needs, had drastically helped me improve from being burnt out and depressed.

For so long I focussed on my rationality without any regard for my emotions. It’s like droving a car without being able to see out of the windows. I needed to listen to me, my body, learn to interpret it (still learning), learn what it needs, what I need.

iovrthoughtthis··on The global fertility rate is falling
Lets build a world people want to have kids in then.
iovrthoughtthis··on Bringing the print statement back
“I believe there are some other languages that support a similar grammar (Ruby? R? Raku?) but I haven't investigated.”

Poor effort tbh but I’ve been excited about new possibilities before too.

Can anyone say which style of parser python used before and why The bee PEG parser is more powerful. It’s my understanding that PEG parser are equivalent to RDPs.

iovrthoughtthis··on BMG: A Production Ready Relational Algebra in Ruby
Intended - I have no idea.

Possible - Absolutely.

iovrthoughtthis··on BMG: A Production Ready Relational Algebra in Ruby
My personal experience is that the ruby job market is quite strong. For context, I've been a ruby developer (among other languages) for 5+ years.

Have you tried looking for some ruby work?

iovrthoughtthis··on Study: White Police Officers Not More Likely to Shoot Minority Suspects (2019)
This is a very white take on the problem. Seeking individual racist actions so as to find individuals to blame.

This side steps the issues of systemic racism with few individual acts of racism but rather large systems which are inherently racist.

It matters not whether each individual cop shoots more minorities but whether more minorities are shot by cops.

iovrthoughtthis··on Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public
I have found that this is because our explanations handle the rational aspects of belief without tackling the emotional aspects.

I could explain more but honestly James Clear has done a far better job here: https://jamesclear.com/why-facts-dont-change-minds

iovrthoughtthis··on Android Studio 4.0
Perhaps you could explain how you think that would help? Without an explanation you comment is quite the low effort drive by.
iovrthoughtthis··on The Day AppGet Died
I'm sorry. This does feel like a pretty shitty situation. I hope all of this attention helps connect you with some people you go on to do great things with!
iovrthoughtthis··on London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline
Ironically, something we already had.
iovrthoughtthis··on Singing is the most accessible stress reliever
The city might not but my neighbours... they might haha.

Seriously though. How would singing be relaxing if you had to deal with angry neighbours every few times you sung?

iovrthoughtthis··on A non-moral dilemma about cheating, but it brings up some points (2019)
Why don’t we democratise nepotism instead (or as well)?

Personal recommendations are used because they work and outsource trust. Yes, they can be abused but this hurts the recommenders social status which reduces their incentive to recommend.

iovrthoughtthis··on A non-moral dilemma about cheating, but it brings up some points (2019)
“The ‘kind of person’ who will cheat on an academic teat is intuitively also the ‘kind of person’ who will cheat in other areas of professional life’.

Ah, I see. Do you also believe in ‘good’ and ‘bad’ people?

In my experience, all people are capable of cheating and given the uniquely require circumstances, most people will cheat.

Integrity is a well supported, secure persons value.

iovrthoughtthis··on Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public
You’re right. Supposedly the hints have been in the privacy policy since December 2019.

Identifiers, third parties. “ Companies that use our services to be matched with job candidates. Candidate profiles created by our users are accessible to the public. “

https://triplebyte.com/privacy

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