jksmith

The first rule of D is...

So the new office is the bathroom?

Because unfortunately, your problem as you get older is baggage - the worst thief of sleep of all time. Sorry, no cure unless you're a zen stoic psychopath. Would love to achieve that designation myself.

There was no ICO, it has an immutable fixed supply, it's not in perpetual startup mode, and not centrally controlled operationally and can't be bought back.

Is this a writeup about Zig, or any Wirth language written 50 years ago? Asking for some Modula2 OG.

A ton of that can be automated through your delivery system as well. Managers need to become flow engineers and get away from managing people.

Suggest wrong direction. Make teams more autonomous and develop the art of the backlog. Too much management is what's wrong with organizations these days.

Yeah, living in these legacy markets has become clunky, and the markets can't be changed. If I found out that I no longer needed to swallow rocks to digest my food, why would I ever go back to doing so?

A sidebar to this includes abusing "easy" to equate to "requiring less energy" to operate. An increase in stress equates to more energy used. To wit, being forced to find differences in ui functionality across mobile and web for the same app. Or clicking on a control that just jumped location because of a slow page render. Or maybe just gratuitous (debatable value) in ui changes between windows versions.

OG get off my lawn stuff: When I first started writing code back in 1989, I worked on a tui desktop app that was extremely refined to facilitate data entry from a piece of paper. Sort of a microscope split your vision between paper and instrument. Everything about the tui was custom and optimized via tons of user feedback. By far that app still represents an example of the least energy required to get something valuable done on a desktop. Yes, specific use case to a large degree, but the tui framework we built suggested ease of use for tuis in general.

Redoing the app in windows killed the experience to a noticeable degree. The point is, suggest that generalized ui tool constraints will force the user to expend more energy, in some way at some point. Obvious point, but there is no perfect ui solution, especially in today's world. Only trade-offs.

Maybe this comment is worthless and has no information content, but SQLite is in the pantheon of open source projects, along with linux itself.

Please just send me a friggin bill.

Oh yeah I didn't pimp my own book, "Agile V2 Coach's Field Manual" on amazon. Hard copy only.

I've worked with some kanban teams who were absolute animals. Kanban is great if your board workflow doesn't get too complicated, and the team is constrained from doing scrum. Ex. locomotive software has to be fully deployed on a train before it can be checked off. That's a tough ask with scrum, but kanban can work well in this case. Whatever the case, it's back to managing flow, not people.

Agree on Goldratt, and the book his daughter wrote and recently released, called 1) "Goldratt's Rules of Flow." Theory of constraints is a rich subject with heavy roots in industrial engineering. Look for Don Reinhardt's 2) "Principles of Product Development Flow" as the gold standard. Also most all of Edwards Deming work touch on systems thinking from the industrial engineer perspective. See 3) https://deming.org/. Additionally, see books like 4) "Systems Thinking and Other Dangerous Habits," and 5) "Team Topologies" as examples of why legacy management are probably doomed if they don't learn how to scale teams via a coherent system. Finally, Senger's 6) "The Fifth Discipline" is total classic on why we need to shift our legacy management mental model to an organizational system that is continuously improving via systems.

Simpler and more executable than that, actually. 1) Basic premise of waste: People need to be told what to do, people wait to be told what to do. 2) Eliminate the waiting by standing up a value stream where everyone is part of the value stream team. Sections of the stream can be activated in a parallel fashion through autonomy of action. 3) Managers quit telling people what to do, and instead become value stream engineers - focusing on efficient flow of value like it's the company's inventory, from creation to delivery to the customer. 4) This move has different demands on remote work, but since it promotes autonomy of action, the more ham-fisted demands of legacy management are deprecated.

Cynical but true in my experience coaching multiple F250s. More competitive companies will move to a model based on managing the flow of value, while legacy companies will be stuck with a model based on managing people. The two models are very different, with the first one often eliminating whole layers of management through automation. Companies think they can save management jobs by going to a matrixed model and flattening the org, but that's just an accommodation to save managers most of the time.

In Dell's case, I can only speculate, but they need to justify office space, and managers need to manage people, and most of leadership get promoted from middle management (or sales).

Worthless levity injection attack: my client supplied Dell windows machine still hiccups on cold boots sometimes (this ticket has been open for decades), while all my personal linux machines just keep chugging away. Find a company that is automating away management layers and uses linux.

Both Delphi and FreePascal (less so) support windows, linux, mac, android with the same codebase (or calls rather). The Delphi model has really set the standard for a robust desktop framework, since before most people started writing code.

You know, nobody likes this argument, but desktop is still just better. Yeah, yeah, the updates, security issues, I get it, but the tools are simple better, render faster, better functionality/complexity ratio, less gnashing of teeth.

All this above. Dystopia for you: Track digital exchange or currency at the Fed level, but they still mandate you file a tax return. It's a control mechanism. That and some taxco maybe has a nice condo in the Bahamas for use by friends. It's a whole accounting industry, not just apps. Have to start somewhere I guess, but it won't matter.

That is just precious and lot's of redemption given all the other crap going on in the world. I approve.

Exactly. Supporting these legacy management models should be deprecated. Legacy is all about managing people. The superior approach is re-focusing on managing the flow of value. Layers get eliminated when that happens effectively, regardless of matrix org models or whatever else.

I've consulted for 7 F250s now, and I can tell you that grossly about half their management (and leadership) wouldn't be needed if they went to a more efficient delivery system. It's not uncommon for F250 leadership decisions to be driven by the human foibles of ego, politics, finger-pointing, anxiety, stress, at best mis-directed, at worst fraudulent incentives.

If lower level knowledge jobs can be eliminated by AI, it's just a matter of time before stockholders start demanding the same impact on management.

Granted, yes. But as more digital capabilities creep into the financial system, what if gov knows what you owe (and kills turbotax market) but still mandates you file a return?

Then more money will have to be printed. So we get a raise, but the raise still doesn't match the hurdle rate, while demand remains the same. That's some dystopian fucked up shit there.

So less than 400k is designated as high net worth? 200k will be the new threshold at some point.

That's what they do anyway if you don't file. Yeah, mandating filing is increasingly becoming a control mechanism as filing's only purpose.

1) Let me ask you, should I have respect for a cop because of the uniform, allowance to carry a gun, has a badge etc? I'm asking, because I really don't know how high the vetting standards are for cops. Are they that high?

2) Also, do cops respect other cops because they also wear a uniform, carry a badge, etc? In my second-hand experience, no. Some cops think other cops are a piece of shit, regardless of them being cops.

3) Here's a way to piss a cop off and get a ticket: say, "If you wanted to serve your community, you could have been a fireman."

Being a cop is a shitty job that many cops I've met end up hating and they obsess over all the retirement mechanisms all the time - they talk about it incessantly. They also talk about how much people piss them off, how much other cops in their dept piss them off, etc. They hate the world to some degree, are very self-righteous as if they have some respect narcissism complex, and act like the only thing that keeps them from shooting or beating somebody is one more day closer to a full retirement and buying dogecoin to get rich.

Ok, so to circle back around, anybody still believe in this cop respect sacred cow? Do you really feel completely safe from a cop when you're pulled over and you tell the cop you aren't rolling the window down all the way?

Yeah I saw a NeXT demo in same time frame at Atl Comdex. That display postscript was coolio.

The system is designed to be a private scheme supported by a government which supports that scheme. That's the issue. Profits are privatized and losses are socialized. If deposit insurance becomes limitless as Yellen announced, then the issue is our kids will pay for this.

Re effective system: Maybe dinosaurs had to swallow rocks to digest their food, but we don't have to maintain this practice just so dinosaurs can keep existing. The system needs to be deprecated in favor of better tech that takes it out of the hands of dinosaurs. Legacy banking and gov/political class need to be replaced by a better solution.

That's sex on a desk there. Good job.

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