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Post by machomaster »

lostlogin wrote: post #354
jcims wrote: post #257

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a gent with some years under his belt, I have to humbly admit that it was quite late in my career before I realized how much culture influences how people operate. Two separate incidents with two different cultural contexts brought it to the fore about ten years ago. I sought some advice from a senior exec that I was close with and he just laid it out in very unflinching way. It was just one conversation but it ha…

Any chance you could expand that story?

If you are interested in this cultural topic and how to practically modify your communication, check The Culture Map book.

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Post by cjblomqvist »

burningChrome wrote: post #567
mixedbit wrote: post #156

Long time ago Sourceforge and then GitHub promoted into the current default the model of open source distribution which is not sustainable and I doubt it is something that the founding fathers of Free Software/Open Source had in mind. Open source licenses are about freedom of using and modifying software. The movement grew out of frustration that commercial software cannot be freely improved and fixed by the user to…

Years ago, I built what I thought was a pretty basic static site generator using HapiJS. I was using it for personal projects and after some convincing by friends, put it up on Github. My friends went on Reddit and posted it and then told me about it afterwards. It initially got some decent traction and then all of a sudden, all the pull requests came, all the feature requests and then all the bug reports. I kept tel…

Far from all OSS projects are like this. Eg. https://www.viblo.se/talks/

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Post by pepperball »

dotancohen wrote: post #17
mgaunard wrote: post #5

The new era of AI.

Everybody saw it coming. Frankly I'm surprised it took this long.

Not everybody. Some very mentally ill individuals thought we’d all be living in some start-trek post scarcity TV show.

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Post by sinnsro »

nmz wrote: post #490
mixedbit wrote: post #156

Long time ago Sourceforge and then GitHub promoted into the current default the model of open source distribution which is not sustainable and I doubt it is something that the founding fathers of Free Software/Open Source had in mind. Open source licenses are about freedom of using and modifying software. The movement grew out of frustration that commercial software cannot be freely improved and fixed by the user to…

I've often dreamed of a system where normal users, give money as a promotion for a certain issue to be fixed or even created, if the user wants feature X then he should be able to give an incentive towards that feature to be added into the software that they use, developers do bounties instead, the user doesn't have to give much only a dollar, but if many users want feature X, then the money/donations pool creating h…

You know what would be nice? For these billionaires to start sponsoring people instead of sitting on the obscene heaps of money they have—a patronage system. Everyone wins.

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Post by flakeoil »

koliber wrote: post #212
freakynit wrote: post #126

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Indian here (~15+ years in tech). I've seen this behavior a lot, and unfortunately, I did some of this myself earlier in my career. Based on my own experience, here are a few reasons (could be a lot more): 1. Unlike most developed countries, in India (and many other develping countries), people in authority are expected to be respected unconditinally(almost). Questioning a manager, teacher, or senior is often seen as…

I've seen an interesting behavior in India. If I ask someone on the street for directions, they will always give me an answer, even if they don't know. If they don't know, they'll make something up. This was strange. I asked a lot of Indian people about it and they said that it has to do with "saving face". Saying "I don't know" is a disgraceful thing. So if someone does not know the answer, they make something up in…

It's the same in the UK (when it comes to giving directions). Maybe for completely different reasons. I guess they just want to be nice and helpful.

And always with a cheerful: "...you can't miss it."

Yeah, sure.

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Post by Izikiel43 »

koliber wrote: post #212
freakynit wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indian here (~15+ years in tech). I've seen this behavior a lot, and unfortunately, I did some of this myself earlier in my career. Based on my own experience, here are a few reasons (could be a lot more): 1. Unlike most developed countries, in India (and many other develping countries), people in authority are expected to be respected unconditinally(almost). Questioning a manager, teacher, or senior is often seen as…

I've seen an interesting behavior in India. If I ask someone on the street for directions, they will always give me an answer, even if they don't know. If they don't know, they'll make something up. This was strange. I asked a lot of Indian people about it and they said that it has to do with "saving face". Saying "I don't know" is a disgraceful thing. So if someone does not know the answer, they make something up in…

So it's like an LLM?

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Post by lokar »

PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #510
lokar wrote: post #397

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I sometimes answer “each day better then the next”, no one seems to notice.

I use "about the same", thanks to a friend. I love the reactions (from Americans, where everyone is expected is to say "Great" or "Good" or something similarly positive).

That's good as well.

I think I actually gave my line in a 1:1 to my manager at a job, they did not pick up on it. I was gone not long after.

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Post by dgabriel »

munk-a wrote: post #562
chowells wrote: post #540

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Users matter a ton to windows. Specifically, the users with a hundred thousand or more licenses. Their unhappiness threatens Windows' profits in a meaningful way. Why do you think all the new secure boot and TPM features were added to Windows 11? All that work wasn't free to implement. But big businesses really want that degree of secure fleet management, and they're the customers who matter. So going back to the GP…

I genuinely doubt the users with a hundred thousand or more licenses asked for Copilot 365 Suite.

It's the easiest possible way for large entities to jump on the AI bandwagon. They're definitely asking for it.

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Post by Marazan »

ectospheno wrote: post #356
amiga386 wrote: post #235

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That is sad, sorry to hear it. But at the same time, sometimes you have to really persevere to get a bug fixed. Consider the perspective of the maintainer of a popular project: to them, you're one person in a big queue of people all reporting problems. Most issues turn out to be "I need free technical support, which you don't offer, so I'll phrase it in the form of a bug", and it saps their time to look into the deta…

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It's not their job to fix your bug.

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Post by perching_aix »

smsm42 wrote: post #441
perching_aix wrote: post #317

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> (...) that's a you thing. You have to be tougher than that. They really don't, lol If a community is full of assholes, unwilling to change, walk away! Don't contribute to what you don't want to support. It's just like voting with your wallet. All contingent on whether you can actually afford to do so though, as usual, but I have a hard time believing that interacting on Reddit would be so essential, especially thes…

One guy says "I was lambasted on Reddit", no link, no proof, no hearing the other side, no any substantiation anything actually happened even. Immediate conclusion: "community is full of assholes, unwilling to change". This escalated quickly, didn't it?

I see @latexr pretty much addressed this, but see this other comment of mine also (and note the timestamps!): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719667

I was speaking in general terms. No such conclusions were drawn.

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