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yaml-ops-guyon Mark Zuckerberg's phone number appeared among the leaked data of Facebook users

A citizen being unable to contact their elected official about legislation that could have an impact on their life because said elected official only uses Facebook as a contact page isn’t a strong example?

Yeesh.

yaml-ops-guyon Bertrand Russell Is the Pope (2010)

This is a remarkably disingenuous distortion of what the phrase actually states: disapproving with a statement should not in good faith be equated with denying one the agency to express it--unless one is hiding cards up their sleeves about their motives.

yaml-ops-guyon 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online

I wouldn't call any of them SpongeBob "fans".

There’s over 70k of them, how can you be so certain?

yaml-ops-guyon Amazon acknowledges issue of drivers urinating in bottles in apology

Toilets are available. Not enough toilets are available for public use

yaml-ops-guyon Deliveroo April Fools' joke backfires in France

Sadly with the amount of “it’s just a joke bro” I see on the Internet, it wasn’t as difficult for me to model the person lacking the necessary scruples to think of this and then immediately think “nah, I better not”

yaml-ops-guyon The sound of the dialup, pictured (2012)

This was basically an audio coordinate system (or just a 2D array): an X tone and a Y tone played at the same time.

Auditory....Vectors? (Thinking aloud)

yaml-ops-guyon 'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter

So a transmogrification of The Peter Principle but in more words?

yaml-ops-guyon It Doesn't Work

Don't feel like looking at it? Just ignore the bug report. Literally - don't even read the report.

Presumably this is what product management is supposed to function and give attention to, isn’t it-at least to an extent? Or have I misunderstood what those staffers do?

Seems lately I’ve seen developers frustrated about this because they want to be developers, but the company wants them to be everything and anything more (sometimes, maybe often-times because of poor resource allocation/chronic understaffing on the part of the business) from triaging feature builds to project managing entire releases.

Maybe I’ve worked at shitty companies.

In fact...now that I think about it.......

yaml-ops-guyon Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up

You should re-read the second sentence of what was actually typed. Maybe a few times. Your characterization is flagrantly opposite of what this person shared.

yaml-ops-guyon Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers

I’ll bring snacks

yaml-ops-guyon Show HN: Dendron – fast open-source note-taking in VSCode

Have you ever looked at jrnl? iirc it was debuted here on HN

https://jrnl.sh/en/stable/

I use it and like the way it's implemented md and other format support in that you can either create a new note formatted as markdown, or update existing and previously created journals and the tool will re-render them to md: https://jrnl.sh/en/stable/formats/#markdown

yaml-ops-guyon Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers

How have you found success balancing these things? It’s been my experience that managers of the first group eventually become unintentional members of the second group, even despite their best efforts to maintain productivity of their subordinates with intentional prioritization and grooming exercises because the business wants that new feature yesterday, and not getting it means lost revenue, angry customers and negative performance reviews.

What happens though when the business puts these types of middle managers in the impossible position of not being able to say “no, this isn’t a priority right now” but still expected to maintain the same amounts of engineering productivity and feature throughput?

I didn’t write this article, but it sums up my headspace, currently: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stop-doing-more-less-2019-mat...

yaml-ops-guyon Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers

I sardonically feel like you already know the answer to this ;)

(but yes)

yaml-ops-guyon Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers

2b) Start coding again because your superiors promote you to management but treat you like you’re still an IC and ask why you haven’t contributed any points to the latest sprint while actively shutting you out of the kinds of discussions and decisions an EM would be making in most other orgs—-while somehow simultaneously asking you to also be the bearer of frequently changing and poorly communicated business priorities for your subordinates

Yes it’s happened to me, yes I’m a bit bitter about it, yes I’m looking for a new job because of it

yaml-ops-guyon Webmention.io

Which is how it's been seemingly forever (or at least the age of the television), but I think media literacy and its pedagogy-beyond kind of vague notions of what the "news" is has failed a generation of this distinction, and many more important and built-in nuances of mass media communications.

Not helping matters was the lightswitch flip to 24-hour news and the blurred line between news and "news".

-A J-School grad turned engineer.

yaml-ops-guyon Piracy is not theft, Lost sales don't exist, says Minecraft creator (2011)

I think you're understating the size of the studio production world who are as much extensive consumers of comparatively inexpensive VST plugins as they are consumers of multi-hundred dollar workstations.

yaml-ops-guyon In Defense of Dumb TVs

tvOS has supported vp9 since last year, the youtube app however has been slow getting that message...

https://9to5mac.com/2020/09/18/4k-youtube-videos-still-not-c...

yaml-ops-guyon A solo journey to $100k in sales

I am truly amazed and impressed with how many different software you bothered to create a consistent design language for with this theme.

From Ableton, one of my favorite DAWs to Blender, one of my favorite tools for modeling.

Like seriously, WELL DONE, friend. I'm happily making my way to checkout right now, thanks for sharing this with us

yaml-ops-guyon How They SRE

company which calls their IT departments "SREs" now.

My org recently made a bunch of people SREs, with no one leading the cause except for a Director who only involves themselves enough to be effectively seen as a taskmaster, and otherwise is forgetful, disorganized, egotistical, lacks follow-through, constantly spreads his team too thin, and has put my direct boss in a REALLY terrible spot more than one after my boss did exactly what he was instructed to.

A bunch of people were moved from roles they previously excelled at into this new org structure and called SREs. Hired a few more off the street. What are they doing? 25% help desk tasks, 25% break fixes on legacy systems, 40% fixing their own damn laptops, 10% having panic attacks. Roadmaps? Lol. Planning? Lol. SLO? SL-NO. Error budget? I dunno, expense it.

We had to have a zoom to explain and get approval to use Terraform this morning. Not even Terraform enterprise (which is a cost), just plain Terraform.

Management essentially threw a bunch of shit at a wall, stood back, watched as it slid down towards the carpet and but found themselves pondering why the shit wont stick.

Short of using my main account which is a bit too revealing, I have NO qualms admitting a brutal truth about the situation in which I find myself: I am milking this company for every ounce of knowledge and upskill-ing my dev chops and I am gone come Summer.

The pay is JUST good enough that I can take my time, be VERY selective about the next job because good lord if I end up in another shop like this ever again it will be 100% my fault. I'm about to start being stupidly picky about who gets my labor from now on, my only regret is not seeing this value sooner.

Sorry for the rant but I'm mad and snowed in and that part of your comment really brought some shit up.