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Good point. I agree the word "productivity" is bundled up with many meanings, and it could be a whole study in-itself to unpack it. Preliminarily, I'd say productivity is pragmatic…

Thanks for the writeup. I think you're right: the idea of external validation / accountability is definitely involved here as well. And I think it's easy to read what I wrote to me…

Good points! I agree the feeling of shame is pre-reflective. At the same time, I think we have the possibility of comporting ourselves in a way-of-being that better copes with sham…

Okay, so shame exists because it is good for a society that is built on shame? I don't mean to be derogatory in anyway, but the fact something is stabilizing doesn't mean it is goo…

Yes, I'm not questioning whether one would be more productive (I think actually someone would be more productive!). It's the value of this productiveness in the context of manipula…

No, I'm not referring to pair programming. That is a dialogue between two people working to get something done (no shame involved). I'm focussing more on the aspect of having someo…

Anybody else get an immediately negative visceral reaction from this? If I'm understanding this correctly, the aim is to manipulate our sense of shame/guilt to boost productivity. …

You're right; I don't know OP, and I've probably made some assumptions that are incorrect, but that's just the inevitable consequence of stating anything positively. I did, however…

A passion is something that is personal and internal. It's your direct experience with a craft that is becomes a natural extension of you. When you change your relationship to that…

Given the post's lack of detail relating to the experience of creating the game itself, I fear OP is treating his craft as a means to an end; instead of loving his craft for what i…

I think the point being stated is that exercising shouldn't be seen as a means to an end for living-the-longest-life.

well, we can think of the synthesis as returning to monolithic services with the understanding the sufferings of microservices.

yup. basically Hegel's dialectic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic#Hegelian_dialectic Thesis --> Antithesis --> Synthesis

The person came forward with the device and it was determined that the phone wasn't actually a Galaxy Note 7, but was just named that way. We were very close to being diverted thou…

I was on this flight. The flight wasn't late; but we almost had to be diverted because no one came forward with the device. It took about 30 minutes and 4-5 reminders from the flig…

If you're interested in learning the basics of reductive synthesis, I recommend Syntorial ( http://www.syntorial.com/ ). It teaches in an interactive way by first playing a tone an…

How does everyone else modularize their javascript? I'm kind of a noob when it comes to this (jQuery spaghetti, cough cough), so I'm really interested in this subject. This article…

I don't understand how a service can be both secure and centralized. You'd have to give 100% of your trust to a single entity. I'm not pointing fingers, but DDG is a good example o…

Cool. I'm curious: what was your motivation for doing this rather than using Chef's encrypted data bags? Is it because it's tightly integrated with IAM? If that's the case, does th…

This isn't a job, but if you follow #hack4good on twitter or geeklist's hack4good feed ( https://geekli.st/#hack4good ), there are some cool projects going on around social good. M…

Like the idea of using Geohashes to quickly search for "near" objects and then using the client's processing to extract lat/lngs. I've setup postgis before and it was more of a has…

I don't have a good answer for you, but let me shoot a question back at you: "How do you determine whether the code you're looking at is good or bad?" Surely, there's an algorithm …

Self-maintained groups and incentives based on performance. It would be interesting to adopt this in the tech area: the amount and quality of your unit tests means you get paid mor…