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The second footnote acknowledges that the post is largely tautological.

For plenty of already-in-shape people, the calories expended during the exercise are largely incidental, with the goal of exercise being to enhance or maintain some other property …

This reads like a paraphrase of this widely circulated post from 8 years ago… https://sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction

See also: * DevOps * Microservices * SOA * ACID * Observability Semantic diffusion, dilution, and drift are endemic in tech because terms are so frequently co-opted by opportunists…

Which specific idea(s) presented do you believe has its merits undermined by this lack of impartiality?

> There is nothing less productive in this world than a team of developers. First, yikes. Also, I'm quite curious about how productivity was measured here. For a (successful) softw…

> For reasons that should be obvious to anyone with a bank account, you really really want both updates to happen, or neither. This is what atomicity guarantees - that the entire t…

Would be great to have a feed that was only dogs, tho.

We humans are a bizarre lot. We build complex systems and environments that alienate and marginalize massive groups of people and then, rather than recognizing that as a failure of…

Very large household-name companies often own or otherwise control significant amounts of commercial real estate, which sit on the company's balance sheet. If commercial real estat…

Hence my choice of phrasing: "benefits to results". There are certainly perceived benefits to management and/or related to real estate interests, including but not limited to: easi…

If RTO drove actual, material benefits to results, companies would be explaining RTO policies by connecting those dots. At this point, I haven't seen a single attempt from any comp…

It's almost as if the typical contemporary "knowledge work" shop has completely discarded ergonomics, industrial engineering, and library science as potential sources of wisdom abo…

> The levels “Very little of the time”, “Some of the time”, and “Most of the time” were collapsed into a single level—“Hybrid”. “Not at all” was recoded as “Do Not Work from Home” …

I'm not sure if this qualifies, but I found it interesting at the time I solved it (Spring 2011?): https://cameronwatters.com/writing/2017/08/01/take-the-time-... TL;DR (of the pro…

Sure. Anyone working on a sponsored visa has a very short period to find a new job, or they have to leave the country. Unemployment insurance maximums is below minimum wage in some…

Yes. Yes. Yes. Biggest challenge I've seen is with stalled advancement, particularly for people with 10+ years of experience. That said, those impacts are less severe (for ppl like…

The title is a fairly harmless form of click-bait. What the author describes is the effect on a solid senior engineer working in a terrible organizational system for a not very ski…

When/if I leave tech, I intend to become a union electrician. Pay and benefits are reasonable. They seem to be in high demand in my area (Pacific NW) and the work is physical witho…

There is a shortage of workers that the companies desire to hire. That's not necessarily the same thing as a shortage of workers who have a particular set of skills. The difference…

Most organizations use a widespread corrupted form of Scrum, the most important features of which are the two-week sprint and task estimates expressed in "ideal developer days" but…

My current commute to the office is 2.5 hours each way, minimum, so more often than once or twice a week is impractical. So, yes, if required to be in the office 3+ days per week, …

While some reasons may be more compelling than others, there are no wrong reasons for quitting a particular job. A manager saying you lack courage is despicable and reinforces the …

I get it. That they're willing to sacrifice effectiveness for an illusory sense of control is precisely what I'm characterizing as bizarre ;-).