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ultrafilter posted:Wanna add unicode support to legacy systems? Looks like there's going to be a pretty big market for that soon.
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Doom Mathematic posted:Then use UTF-EBCDIC, which is a thing which exists.
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Presto posted:God help us all. Just more proof that if there is a god, they have long since abandoned us.
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Promotion get: Principal Software Developer  musta learned something in the last 350 pages
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Oct 26, 2021 14:11
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Fancy title, congrats!
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Congrats! In my own career, I often wonder which is better: being one of the best senior engineers, or being one of the few principal engineers.
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Oct 26, 2021 20:36
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How do other companies define senior vs. principal? I'm not sure we have a clear distinction here.
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Oct 26, 2021 21:59
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Pedestrian Xing posted:How do other companies define senior vs. principal? I'm not sure we have a clear distinction here. Autonomy, scope, etc. Senior/staff divide is usually where you're no longer allocated to a single team, and instead working across the division. Principal is something like a step further in that direction, working across divisions. Some ladders list that they influence the industry broadly. Of course none of that really matters and I'm sure there are principals who are allocated to individual teams/etc.
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I realized recently that my job title is apparently "Developer II". There are three others in my immediate dev team, two of whom are "Developer I" and the most senior one is "Developer III". On a different note we're currently doing Big Room Planning for our next Super Sprint, which means everyone in the company spends two entire days in nothing but meetings to plan the next four months. It's all very agile and I want to die.
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Woebin posted:I realized recently that my job title is apparently "Developer II". There are three others in my immediate dev team, two of whom are "Developer I" and the most senior one is "Developer III". lol i was on a team at one point that took 2 days to plan a 3 week sprint
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Oct 27, 2021 10:26
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Rubellavator posted:lol i was on a team at one point that took 2 days to plan a 3 week sprint *I mean the sprint structure could have some value if we actually did the things it's meant for. And also if we weren't in practice three separate teams pretending to be one, including stakeholders in the same processes as developers.
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Oct 27, 2021 10:36
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Woebin posted:On a different note we're currently doing Big Room Planning for our next Super Sprint, which means everyone in the company spends two entire days in nothing but meetings to plan the next four months. It's all very agile and I want to die. This is how we started using big room plannings. Then we reduced the BRP to half a day which is just ticking checkboxes for a planning we mostly prepare in advance. Then we convinced the company that we could only plan 50% of our velocity during a BRP, the rest was needed to deal with uncertainty for planning so long ahead and for technical maintenance (this is actually true. Planning 100% of the available velocity so long ahead never works out). During each sprint planning (which takes about half an hour for a 2-week sprint) we start with the 50% BRPE planned stuff, and fill up the rest with some small features that didn't make the BRP and with techdebt / maintenance work. And what we pick for the second 50% is almost entirely decided by the team. So: In exchange for half a day of our time every 2 months: - Devs get huge freedom on what to plan for 50% of each sprint - Customer-facing people are no longer allowed to bother us in between BRPs at all, if they want to get some new feature done they'll have to get it ready for the BRP, and convince the roadmap team that it's important enough to consider for planning at all. The huge freedom it gives us + the fact that customer facing people can't gently caress over the planning every week any more is absolutely worth the pain, imo. Especially since this is the only idea from SAFe we actually use.
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I worked in a similar place with Project Increment Planning (PIP) sessions lasting 2-3 days where each developer team were required to plan out the next four or five sprints (five springs happened only the increment before Christmas). A sprint was 2 weeks in this place. Of course this means each team has to figure out, down to putting points on stuff, what they want/need to work on the next 8 weeks. The first sprint was always amazingly well planned and everyone were aligned. The following sprint was a mess: People learned new things which meant the stories planned to be worked on (which by the way is the wrong way of doing things but what do I know about upper management), meaning an entire day was lost to re-planning what was necessary. This rippled through the entire increment as by week 4 everything was replanned. Now for the fun stuff! We were 8-10 teams of 10 developers, some interdependent. We had an infrastructure team who had, as a requirement, that you could tell them sprint for sprint in advance what you needed from them. If you ever needed a change to a fargate task or god forbid something novel like Kafka they basically weren't allowed to look at it before the next PIP. Needless to say at least half the developer time was spent on working around this terrible system. The other half of working time was spent bitching about it.
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Y'all need to  so this can be a SAFe safe place. No trigger warnings or anything.Shameful.
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champagne posting posted:I worked in a similar place with Project Increment Planning (PIP) sessions lasting 2-3 days where each developer team were required to plan out the next four or five sprints (five springs happened only the increment before Christmas). A sprint was 2 weeks in this place. Sounds like you did the full planning instead of the 50% planning I just mentioned.
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Oct 27, 2021 13:39
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leper khan posted:Y'all need to I too labored under the illusion that working in development was about technology when I was actually about bullshit meetings
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champagne posting posted:I too labored under the illusion that working in development was about technology when I was actually about bullshit meetings I finally pulled the trigger on moving into management when I hit 75% of my time booked in meetings as an IC. I understand bullshit meetings very well. 
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leper khan posted:I finally pulled the trigger on moving into management when I hit 75% of my time booked in meetings as an IC. I understand bullshit meetings very well. The project is behind schedule. We'd better have three times as many meetings about the status of the project with the developers, that will certainly help them deliver on time. I work for a small company and I've been around long enough that I can get away with saying "Things would be going a lot better if you trusted us and stopped scheduling endless panicked meetings that sap morale and keep us from working. There's nothing you can do. We can do a retro after the project. Please leave us alone so we can deliver. I will tell you if I think you can help."
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Oct 27, 2021 14:54
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My one experience with PIP had programmers planning implementation tasks for the same features designers were planning tasks to come up with the design for in that same increment. That was nice and impossible and happened at least two increments in a row.
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Oct 27, 2021 15:37
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champagne posting posted:I too labored under the illusion that working in development was about technology when I was actually about bullshit meetings Since is decided to move into management I have like 20+ meetings a week now. I mean I can’t complain really because I don’t have to do any real work.
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Aramoro posted:Since is decided to move into management I have like 20+ meetings a week now. I mean I can’t complain really because I don’t have to do any real work. 
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Oct 27, 2021 23:33
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Being in meetings always feels like sitting in timeout. Like sitting in a chair staring in the corner because you were rude to your grandma time out
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I miss being able to take meetings remotely on my phone. There’s such a huge difference between being stuck on camera or just having to listen and respond when needed
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Oct 28, 2021 00:14
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As far as my coworkers know, I have no devices anywhere in my apartment capable of doing a video call and I'm never going to clue them in if I can help it.
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Oct 28, 2021 00:21
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Always refuse video. The last 3 cameras I've had all have mysterious problems where they never work. Weird how that keeps happening.
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wilderthanmild posted:Always refuse video. The last 3 cameras I've had all have mysterious problems where they never work. Weird how that keeps happening. until you get forced company hardware with built in cameras on you by a very high up in the org individual because "being on camera for meetings is essential for team unity and empathy" ask me how i know
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gay_crimes posted:I miss being able to take meetings remotely on my phone. There’s such a huge difference between being stuck on camera or just having to listen and respond when needed it's awesome being the phone guy, but awful being on the other side and having to deal with phone guy
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Oct 28, 2021 01:18
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I've always assumed people on the phone were just too dumb to use the computer somehow
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Rubellavator posted:it's awesome being the phone guy, but awful being on the other side and having to deal with phone guy we were all phone guy, and I didn’t realize what I had and that I would lose it
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Aramoro posted:Since is decided to move into management I have like 20+ meetings a week now. I mean I can’t complain really because I don’t have to do any real work. I accepted it when I pictured myself as not really doing anything productive but just paying homage and showing up, occasionally muttering the correct call or response to placate the gods. Courtier is right behind prostitute in the oldest professions. So just imagine the long unbroken chain of humanity you are a part of! (I left middle management for an R&D team and did not look back)
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I would rather do a full days worth of coding (5 hours) than attend a one hour meeting.
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marumaru posted:until you get forced company hardware with built in cameras on you by a very high up in the org individual because "being on camera for meetings is essential for team unity and empathy" can't get my camera to work, yeah i'm on the phone with it right now
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Oct 28, 2021 05:04
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prom candy posted:I would rather do a full days worth of coding (5 hours) than attend a one hour meeting. 
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it's sincerely surprising to me that folks itt think that anything can be built, released, marketed, and sold without being involved in meetings like, do you just want to be ticket jockeys and have no say in the work you do?
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I would rather have a discussion on a wiki, message board etc instead of connecting to a zoom call where 3 people talk for an hour and 8 others sit in silence.
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Blinkz0rz posted:like, do you just want to be ticket jockeys and have no say in the work you do? uhhh… yes
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prom candy posted:I would rather do a full days worth of coding (5 hours) than attend a one hour meeting. One hour meetings have an odd tendency to last more than one hour in my experience anyway.
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Some meetings are necessary, but they don't have to be as plentiful or as badly run as most meetings are.
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