There's no ulterior motive. I just messed up. I fixed it as soon as I got called out on it without objection and I left it there so people can see what the issue was.
If you are going to participate in this discussion, you need to keep up. You're attributing malice where there is none. That means you have to see the picture.
I'm not saying you can't say anything, just that I'm going to dismiss you out of hand.
I made a mistake but everyone knows what picture I'm talking about. It's not a lie.
So it was a child carrying a doll that had BDSM gear. But that's funny cus if the girl was the one in BDSM gear, that would make it wrong? Is that the line?
I think it's really creepy that you don't see anything wrong with a child in BDSM gear. And alcohol.
That's actually sadism.
I dunno, maybe you just don't get it. Do you know what sadism is?
On the other hand, I've yet to hear a convincing argument as to why it shouldn't bother me other than "oh just get over it it's not that bad", which isn't working with me, since I have no petty bourgeois sensibilities, and I know what I'm doing when it comes to art.
I got into Flash while studying animation at UT but then Steve Jobs banned it from the iPhone, so I switched to Ruby on Rails when v3 came out. I started freelancing projects with Ember.js and Express for a while, but switched to React when that got big.
I’m comfortable full-stack and I’m best with JavaScript, but I’ve worked with Python, Golang, Ruby, Java, etc
Did 4 years at a couple big companies as a tech lead but started freelancing again about a year into the pandemic when layoffs hit.
I was coasting on savings but you know how the situation is rn so my semi-retirement is over :(
“It was very frustrating to me that the correct answer to most prioritization and architecture projects was obvious”
Lost me there. People that think they know everything are the easiest to trick.
“People are complex, and they get energy in complex ways. Some managers get energy from writing some software”
No. We get energy from food.
“folks will accomplish more if you let them do some energizing work, even if that work itself isn’t very important.”
Cited himself. No proof of claim.
“ fun project is prototyping a throwaway service in a new programming language, then hmm, maybe that’s fine. But if you put it into production, then your energizing detour is going to be net negative on energy generation after other teams are pulled in to figure out how to support it. Honestly, don’t worry about the other rules, just make sure to follow this one.“
I think you should fix your deploy pipeline. Prototypes don’t belong in production. Now, if that started a prototype and team decided it had to go to prod, then it’s a good decision. They had their reasons
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I gave up. It’s hard to take it seriously. Obviously the self is always more important.
Anyway, the main issue is you have two midwits purple-prosing past each other.
Circumstances change. Shit happens. There is no such thing as “the right way”. Or correct. You pick the lesser of two evils and do your best.
“still believe it’s the correct advice, and I continue to see managers who fail because they are missing this perspective. However, I’ve also seen some of the best leaders that I’ve worked with burn out by following this advice too loyally.”
Then by definition it’s not “correct” because it can fail and fails spectacularly.