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Slogan an old company of mine tried to socialize while trying to wrangle overbooked meeting issues: "No agenda, no attenda"

Yep fully agree! I wanted to highlight some areas that devs may immediately "get" but "developing the spec is half the work" really should be shouted from the mountaintops.

I've noticed that people can conflate "detailed spec" with "terribly meticulous process". Close collaboration with design/product doesn't mean that writing things down isn't useful…

Okay, that's not what I said or what OP said though: > How does that get to 4 hours a day

Maybe so, but it's varied across size and industry and matches with my friends experience in other broad areas. So I guess let's reframe: what is my meeting load estimate (the 4 ho…

Disclaimer: Defining and using a narrow definition agile IMO is a useless rabbit hole. And the big names in tech also purport to use agile and spend maybe an hour every Friday or M…

Commenting this on every post without explaining anything doesn't really do anything but confuse. And the more you do it, the more it appears that your definition of "agile" would …

> My current company spends 4 out of 8 hours every day in meetings This doesn't have anything to do with agile. You can run "agile" with as little as an hour of meetings a week if …

Actually not sure of the law here myself but FWIW as a NYC resident I regularly encounter places that don't accept cash.

> I'm willing to bet investing in yourself early will outperform the compounding interest you make on income you have at the start of your career. People present this often as a ch…

While Google may beat that salary, Google interviewing and hiring practices are infamous for being over the top filtering, choosing many false negatives rather than having false po…

This idea would be antithetical to decentralization of cryptocurrency, but I think that since this issue is a platform level problem (e.g. future contracts can also introduce this)…

They are in location X and it has been written into code that there is no way to ever remove them from X. The only difference between throwing this "money" into a black hole and th…

And for others it goes quite quickly! There is no doubt that programming can be helped with a natural aptitude and that it won't make sense to everyone no matter how smart they are…

Many things have difficulties and complexity. I would phrase it not as "software isn't hard" but that "it is no harder than many other things". This specific questioning is not oft…

I think you've missed a step jumping straight to prison. If you accept a lack of free will, the solution does not need to immediately jump there but rather to finding a way that is…

Absolutely a UX failure here, one that it seems some doctors translate for patients while others are left in the dark on. From the way people are responding on here about the use o…

While the author may not be well versed or focusing on the stats side, you're missing the human side here I think. > the tests are inaccurate, when in reality the tests are accurat…

Because there is an upper bound for most candidates, and there most certainly is a lower bound if the company means to hire fairly to employees. But as others pointed out, most com…

Then put that upper bound as unlimited and make a note that these are estimates. The theoretical candidate doesn't outweigh the value you provide to the vast majority of candidates…

If that's the case, why not post some general guides based on experience? It seems like this excuse doesn't hold up if the job posters actually cared about transparency. Example: J…

Those work for me on private browsing / it's set up to work for public viewing I think. What do you see when you try to click them?

Why not have them both and use Notion? It allows you to flip between both views of the same data :) Zero affiliation just a very happy user. As an example, here's my TV show tracke…

Ah, I misunderstood then. I see that as a total misapplication then, as it actually assumes way worse - that 100% of the people would not like this work condition described, which …

Curious why this is downvoted, it seems like a valid question here of how to handle a situation that may arise. I like a lot of these rules but could see myself hitting these. What…