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hohoemi8 commented on Mourning loss as a remote team   sofuckingagile.com/blog/m... · Posted by u/asyncscrum
supertofu · 3 years ago
This was heartbreaking to read. What disturbs me most is the lack of any face-to-face time for this distributed team. I understand that not everyone likes to use a webcam, but to have gone 7 years without ever seeing your colleague's face seems, in my opinion, a symptom of a big managerial problem. Software engineers are usually humans, and teams composed of humans should make some effort to interact in a human way -- face to face (even just once a year!)

It's also easier to get measure on how people are doing emotionally when you see them in person semi-regularly. (Not always, of course, but when you get to know people in person and learn their body language, you get a sense of their emotional baseline, and it gets easier to notice when something is off. Of course, none of this matters when there is no HR support because an employee is "just a contractor")

hohoemi8 · 3 years ago
I'm probably a minority but I don't care about my company or coworkers or building relationships. I'm just here to do a job to make money. As soon as I find a better offer I will happily quit. So being forced to use a camera to attend unnecessary meetings is just annoying to me.
hohoemi8 commented on ReVanced   github.com/ReVancedTeam... · Posted by u/Gadiguibou
hohoemi8 · 3 years ago
What did Google expect? If they take this one down another will appear to take its place, and so on.
hohoemi8 commented on Doctors who use Google Translate to talk to patients want a better option   statnews.com/2022/03/16/g... · Posted by u/grogu88
hohoemi8 · 3 years ago
I don't know anything about the person in the article but if you still don't speak the language X years after immigrating to a country you have no one but yourself to blame for these kinds of situations.
hohoemi8 commented on It’s almost impossible to lose anything in Japan   twistedsifter.com/videos/... · Posted by u/BayAreaEscapee
brabel · 4 years ago
> “it must have been a Korean.”

Everybody here is basically making the point that Japanese are extremely unlikely to keep items they find, which is basically as racist as saying "other nationalities are more likely to keep stuff", except that in this particular case, the person singled out a particular nationality instead of generalizing - I find generalizing the whole rest of the world even worse than doing that.

hohoemi8 · 4 years ago
>which is basically as racist as saying "other nationalities are more likely to keep stuff"

You can call it racist if you want but it's absolutely true.

hohoemi8 commented on Hidetaka Miyazaki sees death as a feature, not a bug   newyorker.com/culture/per... · Posted by u/evo_9
Osmose · 4 years ago
I think Miyazaki's games are great and I enjoy them myself, but the continued (even in this article, somewhat) framing of accessibility features as ruining the artistic vision of hardship is a little disingenuous at this point. Many disabilities make games several times more difficult than they are for people without them, and a difficulty slider or increased stats help level the playing field so that the games can be of equal relative difficulty for all players.

It's on FromSoft to own the fact that sticking to their stance on accessibility features means they are choosing to exclude players who didn't get to choose what they are and aren't capable of. I think that tarnishes the meaning of their works more than the risk of someone making the game "too easy" does.

hohoemi8 · 4 years ago
What someone with a motor disability needs is a specialized controller, not a difficulty slider.

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