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biceps crimes posted:loving kill me if i had to attend a daily hour long stand-up They say weekly right in the post
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StumblyWumbly posted:They say weekly right in the post sorry, it was a stress reaction to memories of having had to attend a daily one hour standup in the past biceps crimes fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Apr 9, 2023 |
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Apr 9, 2023 16:41
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You can just do what my company does; schedule them for 15 minutes and have the PO frequently hijack the meeting with extraneous 45-minute long discussions that don't involve everyone 
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Apr 9, 2023 16:42
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The trick there is to say, after 15 minutes, "I have to go, I've got a clashing meeting right now".
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Apr 9, 2023 22:42
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"Sorry, I need to drop now, please reach out if you still need me for something thanks"
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Apr 10, 2023 23:41
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Any meeting where I don't know why I'm supposed to be there I just skip. Like, if you didn't explain it before inviting or the invite is clear. Team lead backed us up on it and told us to send anyone complaining to him. I don't think you could get any work done if you didn't do some form of this. Company is big enough that I could fill each day with random pointless meetings if I wanted to.
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Apr 11, 2023 07:56
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the people at my last job would not leave meetings early unless you kicked them out by name. it would be a 2 person conversation and they'd just be there listening
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Apr 11, 2023 08:18
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I worked with a dev who demanded to be in every meeting attended by anyone on the team, else we were unfairly excluding them and limiting their ability to succeed. They spent all day every day in meetings. They then complained that they were in too many meetings and couldn't get work done. I would scope meetings to not require them to ease the meeting load and they'd rant about it to everybody who would listen. Like a masochist eating reaper peppers despite not liking spicy food.
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Apr 11, 2023 12:32
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Volmarias posted:"Sorry, I need to drop now, please reach out if you still need me for something thanks" I basically have this on a macro
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Apr 11, 2023 12:39
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Need an opinion or two, goons. I work remote and I've done so with a sorta-jank setup - I have my work laptop set up on my desk, and I RDP to it from my personal desktop. Work stuff stays on work device, personal stuff stays on personal device, I can shitpost to my heart's content without worrying that CorpIT is monitoring my E/N posts. Do you think this is blurring the "keep personal and work stuff separate" line too much? There have been some new security measures rolled out recently that have made this more difficult, and I'm wondering if that's enough impetus to start trying to draw a more coherent line. Main downside is that I don't have space for another work space, so no matter what I have to reuse my current peripherals, which means KVM or unplugging, each of which has been a huge pain in the past for me
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Apr 20, 2023 19:59
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I've got two monitors and I move my desktop's windows over to the side monitor and then switch inputs on the main monitor to my work laptop. Using a separate mouse & kb for the laptop, bluetooth so it's easier to cleanup after work hours.
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Apr 20, 2023 20:12
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I used to use software that turns a simple usb switch and a monitor that accepts multiple inputs (ie basically all of them) into a KVM switch: https://github.com/haimgel/display-switch I only stopped because I no longer wfh full time and unplugging my dock a few times per week is no big deal.
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Apr 20, 2023 20:23
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I have no idea if it's any good these days, but I used to use Synergy to use one set of inputs across multiple computers.
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Apr 21, 2023 05:16
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On the topic of project methodologies: I’ve very very recently been put in charge of a small team of developers at a largeish tech company (you’ve definitely heard of it). The only rule I’ve been given so far is “do your weekly prioritisation meeting on the same day as the others teams” and “here’s a backlog you’ve inherited, try and balance that against new work, use your judgement”. I’m going to use this as an opportunity to run a team in the way I’ve always wanted to see one run. I’m looking forward to seeing how this all falls apart on me! (Spoiler: it’s going to be surprise pressure to scrum out of nowhere, or I’m going to get fired for tanking productivity)
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Apr 21, 2023 11:43
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When I run teams I prefer to meet twice per week as a team (1 hr first meeting, 30 min second meeting) and once per week with every member (30 mins). I would run sprints but it's more about making sure people have enough to do and priorities were set, not as an expectation that they'll finish everything assigned to them. This worked well with a team of ~10 people.
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Apr 21, 2023 12:06
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biceps crimes posted:one guy on the team that had to dump every piece of detritus out of his skull onto the team. I had x meeting with n. Did a with b. I worked with a guy like that once. I mentioned it to a colleague who said “oh yeah he used to work for a terrible micromanager who was always unjustifiably on his rear end for not doing enough work, and those granular updates are the only thing that would shut the guy up.” It put a little different spin on it.
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Apr 21, 2023 13:28
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ChickenWing posted:Need an opinion or two, goons. I've been doing exactly that for 11 years and it's fine as long as you have discipline to not gently caress around all day instead of working.
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Apr 21, 2023 13:41
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ChickenWing posted:Need an opinion or two, goons. I spent the start of the pandemic with that reversed. I'd use my personal device for everything and synergy later RDP into the work desktop. That way only work items hit the work device. RDP was corporate approved synergy was a don't ask / don't tell. Nowadays I do 99.8% of work on my personal device since it's all meetings, jira, confluence, sharepoint, o365 etc... and if I actually need to do anything with git/perforce beyond looking at a PR I'll break out a laptop and VPN in. Ensuring no personal device VPN access is how I manage the divide. Difficulty: I'm a full time manager with no IC directors, or IC skips.
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Apr 21, 2023 15:57
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Okay wicked glad to know I'm not crazy. Desperately wish I could do some work stuff on my personal but there are a whole lot of security measures that require connection from a corporate issued device - rip any productivity with jira/confluence/etc lol Synergy sounds interesting - worth the $30?
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Apr 21, 2023 19:31
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Yeah it's really cool and works flawlessly
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Apr 21, 2023 20:18
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ChickenWing posted:Need an opinion or two, goons. On which side of the mossad / not mossad threat analysis is your workplace? ChickenWing posted:Synergy sounds interesting - worth the $30? Yes.
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Apr 23, 2023 02:26
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Popping in to lol that our restaurant group also subscribes to "agile" methodology and the implementation is exactly as stupid as it sounds.
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Apr 23, 2023 06:32
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My downstairs neighbor is a newspaper editor, and they’re using scrum, and he hates it.
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Apr 23, 2023 14:14
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lifg posted:My downstairs neighbor is a newspaper editor, and they’re using scrum, and he hates it. at first i struggled to imagine this - perhaps they're just having a lot of meetings and using agile verbiage? then i realized that's exactly how it works in the software world unless you're a true scotsman.
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Apr 23, 2023 17:47
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There's a lot of dumb management stuff, but one of the dumbest is that connecting with people and saying "You're actually doing the thing I asked you to do yesterday, right?" can help more than it hurts. If done correctly. The dumb thing that works against scrum is that meetings will naturally grow and wander around unless someone tries to prevent that.
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Apr 23, 2023 18:58
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Volmarias posted:On which side of the mossad / not mossad threat analysis is your workplace? I'm not 100% certain what this question is actually asking but there's some pretty intense baseline security that's expected because we are not a huge company so when a notable client says "hop" we say "how high?". However, especially where devs are concerned, security's policy seems to be "take as much rope as we can give you and if you hang yourself so be it"
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Apr 24, 2023 03:36
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If you don't understand the question the answer is probably "not Mossad."
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Apr 24, 2023 08:02
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For context, the question essentially is "do you need to defend against nation-state intelligence agencies (such as Israel's Mossad) deciding that it's in their national interest to penetrate your company's network". If you're "not a huge company" and you're not working on like, centrifuge control software for your government's clandestine nuclear program, then you're probably on the "not Mossad" side of the line.
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Apr 24, 2023 10:34
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lifg posted:My downstairs neighbor is a newspaper editor, and they’re using scrum, and he hates it. This is funny because "media scrum" is a term that I believe predates scrum in terms of software development, though it's more of a commonwealth term.
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Apr 24, 2023 11:53
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Cup Runneth Over posted:If you don't understand the question the answer is probably "not Mossad." I'm not sure if this paper by James Mickens is the original source of the concept, but it's funny so I'll link it. quote:In the real world, threat models are much simpler (see Figure 1). Basically, you’re either dealing with Mossad or not-Mossad. If your adversary is not-Mossad, then you’ll probably be fine if you pick a good password and don’t respond to emails from ChEaPestPAiNPi11s[@]virus-basket.biz.ru. If your adversary is the Mossad, YOU’RE GONNA DIE AND THERE’S NOTHING THAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. The Mossad is not intimidated by the fact that you employ https://. If the Mossad wants your data, they’re going to use a drone to replace your cellphone with a piece of uranium that’s shaped like a cellphone, and when you die of tumors filled with tumors, they’re going to hold a press conference and say “It wasn’t us” as they wear t-shirts that say “IT WAS DEFINITELY US,” and then they’re going to buy all of your stuff at your estate sale so that they can directly look at the photos
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One time, a friend of mine pissed off the wrong person and wasn't sure if he was dealing with not-Mossad or literally Mossad, and all the technology around him gaslit him to the point of complete life-controlling paranoia. So I guess my point is that there's some grey area in there
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Re: multi computer remote stuff I have a displaylink dock for my Mac that connects via usb c. I have 2 monitors on my desk, they're both connected to both dock and my desktop pc and set to auto output so whichever computer is on is the output that gets used. I have a ugreen usb switch from Amazon with a button to swap the Webcam, keyboard, mouse, mic, headphones to whichever computer I'm using. There's a usb hub in the mix too cause the usb switch only has 4 inputs. I haven't had any issues with this setup, just need to make sure current computer is asleep before waking other one or monitors probably won't swap over.
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Started my first project as a consultant after joining the new company. Fired from project after two days! The client signed me on kind of sight unseen, trusting the judgment of the team lead, but then decided they wanted to test the new hiring process they were developing for future internal hires on me after the fact. They wanted me to recite a bunch of orthodox OOP theory, principles, and patterns from memory. It's not my strong suit. Never got to see or solve any problems. They also wanted me to have a bunch of experience with ASP.NET webforms, a legacy framework not supported by ASP.NET Core, which is where my little .NET experience (I have mainly worked with Java) lies. I am kind of relieved. I was pitched on them wanting someone to help them modernize an old .NET thing by rewriting it as Kotlin microservices and getting some DevOps stuff in. In reality, they just want someone to maintain this hulking monolith, and they are bound by contracts that preclude any kind of CD.
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May 10, 2023 11:37
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Sounds like they did you a huge favor OP
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May 10, 2023 15:10
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That is a blessing in disguise.
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May 10, 2023 19:51
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What're the current places everyone uses for job listings, I've got to start looking
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May 11, 2023 01:09
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I've had good luck with LinkedIn (pick up a skill badge or two) and Glassdoor.
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May 11, 2023 05:44
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Apparently one side effect of all the tech layoffs is that attrition is way down this year at our company. Like low single digits of people leaving.
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May 11, 2023 11:30
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smackfu posted:Apparently one side effect of all the tech layoffs is that attrition is way down this year at our company. Like low single digits of people leaving. I'd imagine that that's more because of hiring freezes than because of layoffs
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brand engager posted:What're the current places everyone uses for job listings, I've got to start looking Got all my offers off Indeed listings
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