jpswade

This is actually good advice.

I read that any more than 4 meetings per day was too many, this seemed like decent advice. The reason was context switching, which makes sense.

I know that if I get all my meetings done in the morning, it gives me a run at the afternoon uninterrupted or be it, dedicated interruption time if that's what's needed.

So I've blocked out my afternoons for "focus work", meaning, you can now only book time in my diary in the mornings.

This means meetings are now tightly packed together. No Swiss cheese. You could argue however, there's very little time to reflect, but I've yet to see negative effects of this as most of the meetings I'm in are set up to make decisions there and then, rather than to distribute information.

I do finish my focus work time before the end of the day, incase anyone needs to book in an end of day catchup or otherwise check in.

Their homepage says "We’re not just for dating anymore Bumble Date", it looks like they have a product called "Bizz".

I used to work with someone who used to say “I’m all out of spoons today” when it was a bad day.

I understood, but I take it that it’s from this.

The article doesn’t say when it was published but it looks quite old.

Interesting that it’s surfaced here, now.

Which document is this from? They do appear in quite a few articles from 2008:

- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2008/616/annex/chapter/1...

- https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/

- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

- https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-9152-2008-A...

I remember the video being posted here a few years back, interesting stuff.

Original discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15122031

Finally, I've been saying this for years, glad to hear that people are finally acting on this. Great news.

What do they mean by “GA”?

This has worked for me in the past, especially for settling debts.

I adopted a mantra of "remain professional", avoiding engaging with their emotional tantrum and escalating the situation, just sticking to the facts and explaining the situation to them and what needs to happen to reach a resolution.

It's hard, because people get emotional, and you have to force yourself to detach from them attacking the thing you have built and want to defend and instead become very objective, robotic in nature, but it works.

It's not for the light hearted but sometimes this is what it takes to get paid.

Was this place used in Golden eye? It looks familiar.

Whatever you think is obvious to me, isn't. Have you considered that might be why I was asking the question in the first place?

Love the idea, not sure I quite understand the obsession with this song.

Open Source libraries get used all the time in popular gaming systems, what makes this one so interesting?

This doesn’t answer my question though.

This website is primarily a news website. That's it's role. Sure, recognition is great on Twitter, but why did it have to leak here? What's the news here? "Developer was happy that open source code was being used"? Is this the story here?

What's the news here? "Retail electronic product uses open source code"? Why is this news?

That’s not strictly true, once you’re signed up, you can usually login using your email address if you need to.

In around 2010, I made a conscious decision to go paperless, or at least as much as possible.

At the time I remember wasting so much paper trying to get inkjet printers to work. I’d had enough.

I bought a HP laser jet printer, which I replaced with a wireless one in 2015.

I’ve never replaced the toner since I bought it and it prints flawlessly, quickly every time without fail.

I get that people are unhappy with HPs motives but I’m a happy customer, and if it’s any conciliation taking this approach will result in HPs business model not working out for them.

Good luck.

Sounds like burnout, wondered what caused the loss of momentum.

Can they be independent? Yes, are they intertwined? Yes.

Quality is not an easy thing to define, you can’t point at something and say, “that’s a quality”, there’s no thing that represents quality, like how you could say a compass would represent the word “direction”.

When pushed, we generally talk about quality products, usually high end cars like Porsche, Mercedes or Audi. We think of these as quality products because people are willing to pay large amounts for them. Their customers like the product enough to part with their hard earned cash.

However, If you agree with the agile manifesto, then "working software is the primary measure of progress", I think that gives the "zen-like sentence" you're talking about.

To help make it easier to understand, you can break down "working software" into two parts:

1. Objective, from a craftsmanship perspective, you can measure code coverage, performance and bugs.

2. Subjective, from a customer perspective, Does it meet their expectations? Is it useful, and secure? What are they comparing it to?

Hopefully you'll find this is easier to use than another pyramid.

I think this assumes you want to write perfect software, when sometimes it just needs to be good enough.

I think a better canary would be if Microsoft start buying Linux-based companies that have already solved these problems.

I feel like this is yet more terrible news for the UK.

Technical debt is just business debt, it’s risk to the business if people don’t understand it or it’s hard to maintain.

Technical debt is a terrible term because it implies it’s just a technical problem, but it’s a business decision.

Choice.

Betteridge's law of headlines applies.

It feels like this is trying to solve the wrong problem.

People aren't asking for a new document standard or a new browser.

If you follow the money, you'll find that most of Mozilla's money comes from Google. Most of Google's money comes from Ads on its search platform(s).

The way to a better web would be to solve the discovery problem. If you didn't need to use Google or App Stores to find the content, then you would not be dependant on their ad revenue.

Obligatory Tom Scott https://youtu.be/nAsrsMPftOI

I had this exact same issue with this exact same device. I never replaced it.