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Cake day: December 20th, 2023

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  • LEAN from the web:

    After each iteration, project managers discuss bottlenecks, identify waste and develop a plan to eliminate it.

    1st iteration:

    Project Manager A: Requiring approval of multiple Project Managers for the same thing is causing a bottleneck. So is having to wait for a specific manager for a specific topic.

    Resolution: Let all managers approve everything and need only a single manager’s approval.

    2nd iteration:

    Project Manager B: There are too many redundant managers. It’s a waste of resources.

    Resolution: Get rid of all mangers but one. Actually, let the engineers manage themselves.

    3rd iteration:

    Consensus: LEAN development is a scam though





  • Silicates are everywhere! It’s hard to throw a rock without throwing one!

    If that’s all that’s needed to consider yourself having a basic understanding, then I already had it by the time I passed HS.

    Unfortunately, the Alt text doesn’t tell us the bar, so we can’t know how round we are.


  • People do the designing and architecture and programming just because it all pays well, not because they have a love for the craft.

    True.
    I like programming and tend to pride myself in making good code, but when I see other’s attitude at work, it makes me reevaluate what I care about.

    Perhaps this is the reason of the memetic difference between corporate code quality vs OSS code quality. When I contribute to Open Source (at least to other’s projects), I see myself try to be as considerate as possible of multiple factors that I wouldn’t even care of at work.


  • One of my previous employers once told me (abridged)

    It’s not like old times when we could slowly work to get a perfect result.
    Nowadays, we need perfect results, fast.

    They were asking me to do technical content writing for their website.
    I quickly realised that it’s actually the threshold for calling something “perfect”, that has lowered over time.

    Clearly, I was not fit for that work, because instead of just plagiarising and paraphrasing stuff from other websites, I insisted on reading up on material from multiple sources, understanding it well and then writing it down myself. That makes it pretty slow.

    That was a year before ChatGPT, or I would just have used that thingy.




  • I don’t get it.

    We have only 1080px in vertical, part of which is also used for Taskbars, titlebars and toolbars in most cases. Then there is this trend of sites not using most of the horizontal space for main body text.
    So, what reason do we have to not use the wasted side-space and instead congest the already low vertical space?

    I would understand if it were a mobile-only site or if you were explicitly talking about the vertical version of it, but even for 4:3, I won’t consider a sidebar to be a bad idea, unless perhaps, it was German.