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The FFs were literally bourgeois, the american revolution was a bourgeois revolution. They were the big private enterprises, and they wanted to stop giving a cut of their winnings to king george.

Surprise - capitalism has always been top down planning. The bosses are the planners, my friend.

Absolutely matching the gut feel I've had lately. We've always been pretty good at producing bad code very fast. All of the other stuff - dependency management, learning what's valuable, ownership & boundaries, context switching costs, etc... have always been the bottlenecks and it's just more obvious now.

I assume Gitlab/Github will add these sort of features to their products within the next few months

Steph Curry

Best thing a doctor ever told me was "you CAN get imaging done, but I'd like to warn you that there is a near-certainty we'd find something wrong with your shoulder and your back".

This has been happening for over a decade

I'm assuming there was a directive from comms or someone else requiring each cost center write up examples/demos of what they use Claude Code for. Then dogfooded and turned into what you see here.

Funny.

It's weird to me that people have emotional feelings about Story Points as a concept. It's just another way to measure how hard something might be. I think what people should really be annoyed with is when these measurements are used as some sort of productivity metric, or if the team spends too much time debating a particular measurement value and not enough time actually working on it.

Agile isn't a framework, it's just a set of principles. Scrum is a loose framework theoretically based off of those principles with some ground rules that can be broken depending on what works for your team. Same with Kanban.

Das Kapital isn't "Marxism" is just a book about economics my guy. "Marxism" didn't exist when Marx was alive. Here to help

You think the seminal work of the founding father of social sciences is a fairy tale? Says more about you, I'm afraid

Marx wrote a gigantic book called Capital and it provides a thorough analysis of investment and risk. He wrote a great deal of words describing how investment relates to surplus value (hint: investment is simply a capitalist's way of generating surplus value - profit, which is then used to generate more surplus value, which is... you understand the systemic contradiction here, I hope). You should probably read it if you want to discuss it!

This isn't the ringing endorsement of global capitalism that you think it is

"communist" countries are simply countries that are still operating within Global Capitalism that happen to be run by parties that are made up of communists. They would also freely admit that. There are no communist countries because communism isn't here yet.

I'm from here and still live in the mountains. The 60s spirit has waned. I wouldn't say SC has hippy vibes anymore. Just take a walk down pacific avenue and look around, compared to 20 years ago.

or getting engineers to communicate properly with each other :)

i see plenty of patagonia uniforms in SF :)

whoa, that existed? sheesh

"Major open source projects, particularly the Linux kernel, are done entirely over email to great success."

This is a good model of how to collaborate, but it's also a bit self selecting don't you think? Unfortunately the reality at most day jobs is that a lot of people you work with are simply trying to get by.

doesn't every HRIS have this? workday, et al... all have some sort of "Leave Reason" field which can be reported on & aggregated

always has been :)

may help to read the article, redis is mentioned

but they aren't tracking when an employee leaves the office. go in, make yourself visible for 15 minutes, then head back home. easy peazy!

If I was born yesterday I might believe this.

Offshoring labor has been around for a long time, and the problems associated with it haven't magically disappeared because people know how to use Zoom.

Bingo.

If a large majority of your income comes from selling your labor for a wage, you are working class.

Lower/middle/upper are mostly arbitrary definitions to divide and conquer the working class as a whole. And it works.

I'm sure the people making decisions about interest rates did :)

wait a second, is this why i typically send 10 messages per 1 coherent thought? i learned how to type too well?

I'd wager this is the case for most American cities if you are coming here from Seoul