Yeah, those kinds of people are horrible to work with. I know you figured out how to make this work thirty years ago, but they built it into the program twenty years ago.

he had the guts to tell me I have to talk to him

I’ve worked with people who say they are all work and no talk. Their work was generally worse than others because they wouldn’t stop to coordinate with others while they worked and they should have. There were plenty of times they would make decisions when they should have talked to others, then those decisions needed to be backtracked because those decisions were wrong on the context of the project, costing time and money. They also end up being hard to work with because they devolve into screaming matches with other staff whenever there needed to be a discussion on his to proceed.

It ended up being a problem for their advancement because I couldn’t trust them in a leadership position they asked for when they wouldn’t show any leadership equivalent to their job’s roles and responsibilities.

Whenever I’ve given the direction “you need to talk to others”, it isn’t about talking to others about their day, but to talk to them about their work because their work is uncoordinated.

It isn’t meant to be consistent; it is meant to enforce the views of the church.

I mentioned Linux.

Exactly. There is a community set up, but posts are daily at best with only a few comments.

Outside of Communism, Linux, and Star Trek, there isn’t that much.

Most people aren’t here because of what this place is, but what other places aren’t.

I feel like that’s because the concept of software architecture isn’t really taught and understood industry wide; it is like getting a journeyman carpenter to design an addition to a building but they don’t understand how the original structure was built so they recommend to tear the original building down and start from scratch.

It is made worse as programmers have a vested interest in maintaining a construction once maintenance mindset since construction requires more labor then maintenance.

Brotato?

I loved the season opener. It was hilarious having actual lawyers judge how bad it was and Mommy Standards and Practices was well done.

The problem is that there isn’t a Dropout community and the equivalent Nebula community is rather dead.

Starbound was an example for how to not develop a video game. I feel like the have could have done a lot better if they spent more time trying to refine small parts of the game before building it out.

They wasted so much time redoing work because they developed on poor assumptions and then had to go rip out back out when it failed.

Your should try it again. I heard they added a couple of things.

The increase in productivity is likely due to WFH, but it will be interesting to see the why part get analyzed and I don’t know if it is because of “worker happiness”.

First, there was a lot of work done in those few years digitizing a lot of workflows which were previously done via paper because they were forced to, including digital signing across companies.

Second, it felt like a lot of siloes of data were opened up because companies were adopting new digital tools which allowed for greater cross collaboration.

Third, companies could hire outside of their geographic area. This allowed them to find talent faster and easier since they had a larger pool of candidates, even if the office had a hybrid schedule.

Fourth, a lot of people near retirement decided to retire then, accelerating Boomers leaving management positions. Combined with a external force to push new technologies to be adopted, this could have lead to more efficient work flows actually getting adopted.

I’ve run some very small ones. A large one would feel like running a sewage treatment plant.

Given past sports washing events, people don’t care about that.

It seems to be a combination of extremely high ticket prices combined with a fear that ICE is going to disappear you when you’re traveling the country.

Unless the existing staff break down and can’t do enough work to keep the place running, management don’t care.

They’re greedy, not stupid.

Don’t you understand, the Fediverse is serious business!

According to the US military, it takes 64 weeks to learn Japanese as a native English speaker as it would take 26 to learn Spanish as a native English speaker.

Say what you want about the US military, but they likely have a lot of data in learning how long it takes for native English speakers to learn other languages.

Well, the Lemmy devs have stated that their goal isn’t to design a system that scales well and it shows. Part of it is that there may be a future where there are too many new users for a mod team to handle, especially if the barrier for signing up is extremely low.