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Misleading role description! - They only search for an onsite/hybrid role as they have an office starting this month (but their comment lists remote, too) and “want” to work there. - Disappointing: CEO [name redacted] finds it for some reason important to answer from a generic jobs address hiding his name, similarly attributing the office policy to the team. — Lack of ownership of management. But might fit to the automotive industry’s culture.

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The letter says that you violated section 3.2(f) of the ADP agreement. [corrected the section no.]

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Years ago I ditched Celery in favour of using BLPOP with redis. It was multiple times faster than Celery. Is this still the case today? So with vanilla Redis you need less workers for same throughput; if you need more throughput, spawn multiple workers.

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So, which carmaker does surprise you pleasantly nowadays?

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To which extent was the implementation in C# benefitting off both the clarified requirements (so the Rust experience could be seen more as prototyping mixed with production)? Was it actually in major parts just a major refactor in a different language (admittedly with much more proven elements)?

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I challenge this: How do you measure processing time? From first customer interaction? Or from all input data are present? I assume in most situations they are not present upfront. Therefore it’s a tedious back and forth. Sure, that compounds with the roundtrip time. Digitisation is a trap because it doesn’t change the paradigm to full-kit upfront necessarily. Digitisation can be a nice entry-point to this, but unfortunately digitising data does not necessarily introduce the full-kit.

The system needs to be designed in a different way: “We guarantee processing within x hours (weekdays) from the point you’ve provided us a full-kit.”

This, in turn, requires thinking backwards from the result through all steps, resulting in a definition of what a full-kit entails. Of course this requires a different (system) thinking which is contradicted by the rigid hierarchy (and no, doing away with the hierarchy isn’t a solution either).

Work force would not be busy 80% of their time = capacity to go back and forth to figure what’s missing and switch around cases. When starting with full-kit, 80% of their wasted time becomes processing time. In turn, their throughput was 20%, it goes up to 100%, or x5.

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We were searching for a long-lasting washing machine 2 years ago. We asked local electrician shops with their classic Miele sign. Not one but many were recommending us AGAINST Miele due to recent quality problems. One electrician went with us to the models he had in-store. They changed the door now from metal to plastic. While Miele is bragging about their internal tests “our machines are tested to hold up against usage for up to 20 years”, they offer you a meagre 2 years warranty (that is compulsory in Germany). Well, guys, if you brag about your reliability, why can’t you even offer a 3 (!) year warranty for no additional cost if your product cost up to twice the price of a BSH device. “Well, you can purchase warranty extension for additional cost.” FU. …and recently Miele has problems selling their stuff for quality problems and they try to compensate for that by cutting costs by moving production out from Germany.

There is a market for old Miele washing machines. If they get defect, it’s usually shock absorbers or other easily repairable parts. Once repaired they last long. Of course with the higher electricity & water consumption.

Dishwashers… My father in law had rust issue with their dish rack of their Miele dish washer. The replacement part cost > 50% of a new dish washer. So he went with a a new Miele dish washer. Result: The new dish washer uses less water to save water. How does it work with less water? Doubling the runtime. Doubling the runtime doubles the wear and tear of parts. Assuming still same quality parts, the dish washer’s life time is halved. He should have been better off with replacing the dish rack.

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Dead horse strategies http://www.dbrmfg.co.nz/Next%20Step%20Dead%20Horse%20Strateg...

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I’ve turned some time ago a build and deploy script (single production server) some bash scripts into Haskell using Turtle [1]. What I enjoyed was the ability to reduce redundancies significantly. It was significantly shorter code afterwards.

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/turtle

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Pauses. I am experimenting with basic scheme of 25 mins focus and then 5 mins pause. It is mind blowing how it lowers frustration and sort of ensures that I start work only on a clear task which I often tend to loose to easily. The biggest surprise are the pauses (no, no email checking or web browsing; get up and move around). While formerly I experienced it that I don't have enough time to do what I want to do, I experience just the opposite of it during pauses. Now, what do I do in this time? Wow. That's new. But also hard to stick to it. But there is more to it, the rules and principles that go along with it.

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How does it compare to Janet https://janet-lang.org/ ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23164614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28255116

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