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Trump signs proclamation adding $100K annual fee for H-1B visa applications

apnews.com
8 points·by ptr·10 months ago·13 comments

Simple Sabotage for Software

erikbern.com
3 points·by ptr·3 years ago·0 comments

Spotify Will Cut Headcount by 17% to Confront Slower Growth

bloomberg.com
5 points·by ptr·3 years ago·0 comments

The Swedish Pandemic Approach: Now we know the results

larskarlsson.com
29 points·by ptr·3 years ago·21 comments

The unspoken truth about managing geeks

computerworld.com
3 points·by ptr·3 years ago·0 comments

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ptr
·7 months ago·discuss
Apple software used to exhibit reasonable UX for “edge cases” just like the one you described. This was one of my main reasons for going Mac — they cared about the details. Sad to see that seems to be going away.
ptr
·3 years ago·discuss
Yes — the Wikipedia article that I linked says so as well. But Polestar is headquartered in Sweden, and the cars are designed by Swedes in Sweden. It’s a Swedish brand.
ptr
·3 years ago·discuss
Polestar is Swedish. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polestar
ptr
·3 years ago·discuss
It’s not just you — something happened with me where I mentally checked out from the MacOS train after Lion. The versions from Mavericks and up are “those newfangled versions with their silly names”. And Mavericks is 10 years old! Maybe it was the RDF wearing off.
ptr
·3 years ago·discuss
Coroutines are an abstraction though.
ptr
·3 years ago·discuss
Something that coroutines made a big impact on for us was testing. Multi-step integration tests became a breeze. With state machines, each test would need its own FSM, and callbacks would make the flow hard to read.
ptr
·3 years ago·discuss
Great teams self-manage. Managers and management generally exist to ensure a baseline, but they can’t really do much more. In a strong team, everyone displays leadership properties, and they typically don’t listen to non-technical management.
ptr
·3 years ago·discuss
As a software engineer (consultant/contractor), you can easily make 80k USD post tax in Sweden. That’s not too bad.
ptr
·3 years ago·discuss
You don’t have to, most people buy their apartment. If you don’t have the money when you’re young, parents tend to help out with the down payment. The more you get from your parents, the closer to the city center you can live.

I can see why this doesn’t work for everyone, and I wonder what kind of social effects it will have.
ptr
·4 years ago·discuss
Since services are basically modules in monoliths, does that mean that we should have cute names for those as well?
ptr
·4 years ago·discuss
I’m not sure that’s it. Sure, Norway was invaded but it was a pretty “benign” invasion in comparison to what happened to others. Same with Denmark. Would be interesting to see their stock market returns.
ptr
·4 years ago·discuss
Nominal Swedish stock market return 1879-2012: 10.9% arithmetic mean, 9.0% geometric mean. Real return: 7.9%/6.1%. And Sweden isn’t really the world’s dominant superpower. https://www.riksbank.se/globalassets/media/forskning/monetar...
ptr
·4 years ago·discuss
I’ve been on the stakeholder side in similar situations. Rather than saying that they were very busy and that it can take a while to get my task done, they strung me along (“we’ll take it up in next sprint planning”, “oh we missed your task, but it might be added to next sprint”, etc). Granted, this is an anecdote, but if a team can only plan a couple of weeks ahead, how should stakeholders be able to plan?
ptr
·4 years ago·discuss
Sprints are also detrimental to “soft values” in my experience:

* Engineers rushing to wrap up for the sprint (stress and decreased quality is bad for morale)

* Engineers getting monitored and measured on a task level since all tasks need to be estimated (micromanagement, lack of trust)

* Agility is decreased since everything needs to be planned (lack of autonomy)

Sprints tend to become “phony deadlines”, a key component in “Teamicide” (from “Peopleware”).

I’ve been trying to come up with benefits but I’m coming up short. Wish someone could tell me!
ptr
·4 years ago·discuss
The argument is usually that sprints just add overhead on top of picking the highest prio work from the backlog. Ie, sprints don’t have to be replaced with anything since there are no benefits.
ptr
·4 years ago·discuss
Parts of Russia are in Europe.
ptr
·4 years ago·discuss
Where in the world are nuclear disasters “in vogue”?
ptr
·4 years ago·discuss
How do you deal with errors? Do you check them at every callsite and manually “bubble up”, or do you use exceptions? I’d love to use coroutines but we don’t use exceptions and I’m not super excited about handling errors manually.
ptr
·4 years ago·discuss
I wonder if it’s the Internet’s fault. Maybe people have become so jaded by Online discourse and carry it over into IRL?
ptr
·4 years ago·discuss
That’s exactly what it was, https://www.forsvarsmakten.se/sv/aktuellt/2015/11/analysen-a...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seafox_drone