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  • Yeah. It was pretty awful early in my career. The good news is that "The person with an opinion has no power over the person with an experience."

    As I've built up years of my own work experiences, I don't spend as much energy on each new idea I encounter.

    Now I'm just proud that I still, once in awhile, significantly change the way I work, thanks to new information.

    But, since what my team is doing works well already, I have to encounter the same advice from several trusted sources. And then we put it through a test sprint with a thoughtful team retrospective, after.

    It's possible to find a happy balance, but it takes experience to get there.

    Edit: So to answer the obvious question - what advice stuck with me?

    1. Host team retrospectives. The rest of Agile is optional. Effective retrospectives are mandatory, because they're what tunes everything else correctly for my team and my organization.
    2. Cherish plain text under version control. I've slept soundly many nights when others were up and working late, thanks to the simplicity and clarity of the process of reviewing what changed in plain text files. Any time a tool supports being setup with plain text files under version control, I advocate for that option.
    3. Pick one thing that matters for today. It helps me focus, and forces me to really decide what matters, today. It helps me say "no" to requests that need to wait. And it helps me choose to give myself a break after I get that one thing done. One important thing per day adds up to awestriking levels of annual productivity, given reasonable opportunities.

  • Yeah. This is pretty likely, at this stage.

    General purpose AI may be coming, but it's not here, now.

    Sadly, a bunch of them will just recover by convincing idiots to give them venture capital.

  • Fuck. That's a little on point.

    This also clearly explains why the CEO wants to replace me with Gen AI. I had better start acting excited about Blockchain.

    Rah! Rah! Blockchain! Hooray.

  • Oh good. I love to hear what Jeff has to say. (This is Sarcasm).

    (Not sarcasm:) Jeff is the single human with the most recent chance of making huge positive global impact, and instead there are people on his payroll pissing in soda bottles.

    Jeff's only legacy will be a pathetic footnote in history books, contrasting him with better people who did more with less resources.

  • I think you've inspired a new genre of TNG Motivational poster!

  • "Alexander, holding you is no effort. I cherish these moments, before I return you to Earth to ignore you for another decade."

  • I've been saving up for some space tourism, but you're right, it's time to buy a senator. (This is sarcasm.)

  • TNG, with the Moriarty episodes, seems to imply if a hologram exists the holodeck, they get deleted. But Voyager's EMH constantly gets turned off or disrupted (more so after getting the mobile emitter) and is otherwise fine.

    I have mind-canon for this: on Enterprise D, Miles O'Brien was relegated to transporter duty, and Commander Broccoli was their Holodeck expert.

    So I figure that the Holodeck on Enterprise D was running without even basic backups, much less a thoughtful disaster recovery plan.

    Voyager, in contrast, at least had the recycle bin enabled.

    Also, we all know, in our hearts, that there's a macro on Enterprise D that wipes the entirety of Holodeck history, each time Broccoli closes a program.

  • This also illustrates the importance of listening to my inner six-year old.

    There's no better feeling than realizing I've just done something that my six year old self would have bragged about for weeks.

  • Do it for Ron, be grateful to Earl. Self-sufficiency 101.

    That's delightful. Thanks.

  • This is the same voice that gets me through command line Linux every day for my job, lol.

    "Who remembered a grep flag on only the third try after only using the same command 2,000 previous times?"

    "It was me! I did!"

  • Uh....I didn't realize I had ever shared my desktop background. Huh. Neat.

  • Everyone is losing their minds because they're afraid there'll be a run on popcorn, not because anyone will miss a waste of space healthcare CEO.

    If people don't feel like we can make things better with negotiation, this is where it goes. I'm not up for pretending I didn't see this coming.

    This may be good time to be an experienced professional body guard, because there's a lot of healthcare CEOs left and no way was the alleged attacker (I didn't see shit!) the only person they've hurt.

  • Lol. "Internal party divisions" is what we're calling "we can't win the presidency without running (and putting up with) an idiot racist misogynist sociopath", nowadays?

  • Really shitty ones, but yeah.

  • they want poor who can work to stay alive and live as their obedient slaves that serve them.

    Minor clarification.

  • Uh..."from scratch"? No thanks. I'm a big fan of GCC, and don't intend to learn to code without it.

  • Lol. I assumed they were shopping around for a burned out hard drinking senior developmer - one ready to walk away from computers entirely.