@mattly minesweeper pay to win now? i'm outta that loop.
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I thought for a second this was an attempt to push in on the lucrative “desktop games people play when they’re not actually productive” market now that Minesweeper has gone pay-to-win, but then I remembered Microsoft owns LinkedIn too -
thinking on this a bit more, that my terminal renders the zero-width unicode space as zero-width and therefore invisible is perhaps the smallest microcosm of everything that sucks about computers https://hachyderm.io/@mattly/112685003067744722@mattly And what happens when that character is inserted multiple times in a row? What if it were 20 times? What if it were 50 times? I'm honestly wondering what the use case for a zero-width character even is.
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I think the quoted toot is funny coz I’ve shared https://web.archive.org/web/20220601143735/https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff (from 1996) w/a lot with PMs. It’s very much worth a read@kneath @mattly I think it's also not necessarily about dealing with knowable, objective things (there's a lot we don't know about the places we send our spacecraft).
The whole delineation between project structure and management approach is rooted in something that, generally, non-aerospace tech people probably talk way too little about: risk tolerance. An honest, forthright discussion of the failure modes of each approach often doesn't happen enough because people get dogmatic.
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I think the quoted toot is funny coz I’ve shared https://web.archive.org/web/20220601143735/https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff (from 1996) w/a lot with PMs. It’s very much worth a read -
Nothing quite like kids’ sports to remind me why I’m a misanthrope@mattly The kids are alright. The parents are fucking horrible.