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  • boonhet@lemm.eetoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldSelect a tip
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    1 hour ago

    Man I’d leave a 1% tip just in case someone sees it and realizes that it was on purpose because I’m annoyed with the UX

    Also, holy hell, am I glad to live in a country that doesn’t do tipping*. It was a bit weird going to the US and not knowing when to tip and when not to, but I doubt I’ll be revisiting y’all in the next 4 years anyway :(

    *At restaurants with table service, it’s considered polite, but not necessary, to tip, if you enjoyed the experience.


  • I’m more of a social democrat tbh. But also an engineer who works with a lot of other engineers.

    How am I the one who doesn’t consider people though? You’re the one who says that being able to save millions of people from gruesome deaths and ending a war sooner rather than later would not in any way motivate you to work harder or more efficiently.






  • I can barely see how they were so popular up to now anyway. I, too, thought they were cool like 10 years ago, when they were the only real electric car (Leaf and I-Miev don’t count and we didn’t get the Bolt or Volt here, only Opel Ampera and Ampera-E, which are ultra rare). Then a couple of years later, I realized some things, in this order: 1) Tesla interiors are THE BLANDEST THING EVER, 2) Elon Musk’s been seeming increasingly weird starting with the cave diving incident, 3) Tesla quality control is absolute shite

    Tesla changed the world by proving you CAN have good range and performance in an EV, but now they’re way past their prime. The Germans, Swedes, Koreans and now I believe EVEN THE CHINESE make better EVs. I have no experience with non-Tesla American EVs to comment on those, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they surpass Tesla in overall quality of vehicle in a few years too.



  • Which is what they do in many companies : putting pressure on people to extract more productivity. And it does not work.

    It does, they’re called start ups. Ever wondered, how a team of like 5 or 10 can build a completely sufficient product and then later on the same company has 10,000 employees and the overall quality seems to have gone down?

    But that, again, works not just because communication is easier within a smaller team, but also because there’s proper motivation: Stock options. Which goes with my point that having something to fight for is what makes people more productive. Deadlines or “Stock price go up” is not something to fight for unless you have a decent holding of stock or at least stock options. It’s someone else’s money and it doesn’t help you in any way.


  • boonhet@lemm.eetoComic Strips@lemmy.worldMay 28, 2016
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    3 days ago

    It’s a mental condition. It’s been researched plenty. I didn’t say much about deadlines. I said most people who might have a hard time focusing more than 3 or 4 hours of their 8 workhours a day otherwise, could probably focus 16 hours a day knowing they’re saving millions of lives. Is it sustainable? Hell no, but it gets you rapid innovation.

    At the same time what I’m gathering is that you personally would never be motivated to work harder just because other people’s lives are at stake.








  • Where’d totalitarianism come in now?

    I like how you’re downvoting each of my comments as if that makes your arguments more valid. I’ll go ahead and do the same to you now.

    Look, a relatively massive chunk of research is done by people who aren’t neurotypicals. In particular, nearly every good software engineer has ADHD and so do a LOT of scientists, etc.

    Without deadlines, nothing would ever get done because we’d all be working on 50 other projects instead of what needs to be done