I’ve had at least one code reviewer ask me to put all the logic in the if ... line rather than use a variable or two in order to “simplify code by reducing the number of variables.”
At the very least, this article helped me confirm my own bias of “that guy is a moron” and I can send this article to him the next time he reviews my code.
In a former workplace, we had a process that was close enough to what’s recommended in the blog, and it worked well. Really well even, there were hardly any ego clashes, everyone would negotiate a consensus and we had “spike” tasks in our sprints so that we can take the time to think about and research complex problems.
And then the fire nation attacked…
A director left the firm and they hired someone from Amazon. He said that we should have a “bias for action”, and got rid of this process, and a lot of other stuff we had going for ourselves using other such catch phrases.
Getting him as a director was probably the worst thing to happen as we were under pressure to deliver stuff quickly all the time, and we’d then have to rework most of the shit because of missed requirements, or tools used not being insufficient for the task at hand etc. He was okay with it though, because “we delivered (shit) quickly”, and “our efficiency went up as indicated by the team velocity charts”.
Pretty much the entire team had left the company in ~1.5 years, and customer satisfaction metrics were in the gutter when I left.
I don’t know if he misunderstood “bias for action” and implemented it badly or if that’s genuinely how people at Amazon operate, but I won’t even think of joining AWS. Fuck that noise.
Played “That Time You Killed Me” for the first time.
I was in search of a good time travel game and settled on this. I’ve only played the first scenario so far, I’ll post again once I’ve finished the other three scenarios. So far, it’s been a little lacking in the time travel department and feels like I’m playing chess/checkers on three different boards. It’s still a good game, just not enough time traveling.
Does anyone have other recommendations for a game that uses enough time travel to make Nolan blush?
Akropolis - my first city building board game. It was a gift and I went in not knowing anything about the game.
I wish there was some interaction between players instead of each of us just building our own cities. Pretty fun game nonetheless for occasional play.
“it actually depends”
Yes, it depends. But in this scenario we’re not discussing if statements with one or two conditions. We’re exclusively discussing multiple complicated conditions. :)