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“Culture follows structure. And in tiny young orgs, structure follows culture.” <https://www.cra…#
“Culture follows structure. And in tiny young orgs, structure follows culture.”
https://www.craiglarman.com/wiki/index.php?title=Larman%27s_Laws_of_Organizational_Behavior
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“Finally, I will explore what exactly is evil about feature branches, which is not necessarily …#
“Finally, I will explore what exactly is evil about feature branches, which is not necessarily the problems they introduce - but rather, the real reasons why teams are using them.”
https://thinkinglabs.io/articles/2021/04/26/on-the-evilness-of-feature-branching.html
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“As we can see, machine learning systems are already complex. The data-centric nature of ML mea…#
“As we can see, machine learning systems are already complex. The data-centric nature of ML means that, in addition to the usual things that can go wrong, such as service latency, there are a lot of components needed to keep an ML system running.”
https://vickiboykis.com/2024/01/15/whats-new-with-ml-in-production/
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“The security of software depends on two factors - the density of security issues in the source c…#
“The security of software depends on two factors - the density of security issues in the source code, and the sheer amount of exposed code.”
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/a-2024-plea-for-lean-software
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Some humble, more curious alternatives: talk to the person to understand their perspective; quest…#
Some humble, more curious alternatives: talk to the person to understand their perspective; question whether your assumptions were accurate; look for organizational issues that are systemic and magnified by this person’s experience or responsibilities.
“The person you hired isn’t horrible, but they’re definitely not where you had hoped they’d be when you hired them.
Having these people not be horribly incompetent puts us in a tough spot.”
https://avivbenyosef.com/the-mediocrity-limbo/