• 0 Posts
  • 26 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: August 5th, 2023

help-circle














  • I think there was some ethical drama in his company a while ago, which might have been recently answered 🤷‍♂️

    I personally didn’t like the very few videos I saw of him, it looked like g@mer consumerist obsessions. The latest I saw was about the last Fairphone release and he was very critical about what I’d call very reasonable design choices, like capping the screen to 60Hz instead of max 90 by default, or having to turn the phone off to swap SD card. This video felt like it was not an honest criticism or intended to a very niche audience (eg. hot swapping SD cards might be critical in the eyes of someone producing video content).


  • Yeah, I think these stats are bs, some people are also debunking the taco bit.

    According to Wikipedia, France is about 40% of the European market and I don’t think Japanese read much western comics, so I don’t think that’s what we talk about.

    In my perception this French anomaly comes from two factors :

    1. There was a French TV segment in the 90s called “club Dorothé” that imported a lot of Japanese animation, initially because it was cheaper that producing or importing other TV shows. This got a whole generation addicted to mangas and now it’s just part of culture.
    2. There is an actual cultural proximity between France and Japan, the most obvious part being the obsession about food.


  • As some others mentioned it depends on context. My project managers do a lot of shit I don’t want to do : handling budgets, discussing project scope with clients, handling authorization request to external APIs (I’m in a big company) and also most PO stuff (writing tickets and handling sprint ceremonies).

    Sometime they are a bit annoying because they freak out about deadlines and ask question every 10min while you try to focus and actually solve the bug, but at least they are self aware that it is because they feel helpless in this kind of situation 😛

    Also, more about the proxy thing, sometime I have to explain technical things that simplifies and then they will probably explain it again to clients with a second layer of simplification. But I usually never hear about this again, which probably means that they manage to reassure client and maybe add a bit of bullshit on parts that don’t really mater, which spares me a lot of time overall.

    I see a lot of people saying that your managers are bad managers, but I think your organization also put them in a badly defined role.