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You could rewrite Plato’s Cave for some companies, especially the insular ones where there’s some culture shock when you get into “the real world”.
Plato’s cave needs to be rewritten anyway time to just acknowledge that its an overly long arduous convoluted setup that can be vastly simplified for the message it creates
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Would fossil fit this bill? Somewhat git-compatible, based on sqlite3.
What does "somewhat git-compatible" mean? Can it sometimes use existing git repos, or is the mental model close enough to pick up without learning much?
I would say git core concepts are pretty similar to fossil concepts, but actual plumbing implementation details are pretty distinct.
The major difference that I remember from a day-to-day "git porcelain" perspective is that rebases and other types of history rewriting are very discouraged.
For a Rosetta stone of somewhat comparable commands: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/gitusers.md
> Can it sometimes use existing git repos
You can, but it's kinda a lot of really slow busywork. And you lose some of the not-file-dvcs features of Fossil, but it is possible.
This page explains how: https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/mirrortogithub...
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In company Slack? Private != personal. At least I never ever imagined one could even assume DMs on work IM are personal private conversations . They're organizationally grouped as chat between to accounts, as opposed to group chat, but they're at work, for work, using work-provided tools... Or put another way: why would anyone consider work Slack to be different in this regard than company e-mail? Much like with e-ma…
I guess the cognitive dissonance is that I used to be able to say things to a coworker in-person which wasn’t recorded and tracked, using my voice. This was always a normal part of work, and I didn’t give it a second thought until it was gone. Nowadays it feels like someone is constantly standing over your shoulder whenever you’re at work, and there’s never a private moment. This is especially strange during holidays…
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Dolt is really close and yet just doesn't feel right; I don't want to "commit" between transactions, I want every transaction to be a commit.
You can do this with a setting: https://docs.dolthub.com/sql-reference/version-control/dolt-...
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I had some DM’s which were of personal nature that were rifled through after a contract ended. How do you "clearly mark a DM as personal"? It was creepy, and further illustrated that anything you say in Slack can and will be viewed by the whole company. If not literally, then that’s how you should treat it. You might be right that it’s not illegal, but it would be nice to have those kinds of protections. Trying to ta…
> anything you say in Slack can and will be viewed by the whole company. If not literally, then that’s how you should treat it. Anyone thought otherwise?
1) people think that anything sent on an employer system isn’t visible to the employer
2) people send private DMs from work accounts
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This really highly depends on the people that you work with. At a previous employment (a 100% WFH position) I had most of my colleagues in India, roughly 4 time zones away from my own so we almost never met in person, and we'd have personal chit chat sessions while working. Then I've worked with people who weren't present even when you were sitting right next to them. They'd come into the office, say "morning", put o…
That's of course true, but then there's a large group of (I assume) introverts with whom it's kinda difficult to get close with, but once you do, you can have a great relationship with them. It's an order of magnitude harder problem to break ice remotely with such people.
In-person I tend to be a little more no-nonsense, whereas over video calls I'm sitting comfortably at home with a cat in my lap, already relaxed and much less uptight as an emotional starting point.
I made epitaphs! AMA
The blog post mentions "Someone else who knew you had to add it", but this is not exact (or no longer exact). An employee can send an email to a special address with the content, and it will show up when they leave the company. That's what I did. That said, I can't double-check to see if it worked. :) Thanks for the tool, Evan!
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Where is this? Sounds like a great place!
Speechmatics.com in London and Cambridge, UK. We build audio and language models that perform the most accurate speech recognition available. https://www.speechmatics.com/company/careers/roles
I was young, with nothing to lose (or rather just no self-preservation), and so I spoke up that the policy of saying nothing was silly and potentially very dangerous. If that VP, who I saw around regularly, had emailed me for a list of our clients I would have sent it to him, if he had been waiting at a door telling me he had forgot his keycard I would have let him in, etc. You could argue "You should have always asked up the chain before doing that or refused to let him in on your keycard", but then I'd just shake my head at you. When a VP tells you to do something it's not a great career move to throw up roadblocks, even if it's company policy, in my experience.
Going forward the company agreed to send out bland, generic "X is no longer with the company" for "legal" reasons (as in they couldn't say "was fired", "left of their own accord", etc). Which was better for sure. I never thought to scrape our company directory, that's a clever way to do that for sure.