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  • nyankas@lemmy.worldtoBuy European@feddit.ukPick European Chocolate
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    7 days ago

    I see what you mean, but your belief that making chocolate from cocoa is „extremely trivial“ is simply wrong. For example, conching was invented in Europe and without it, chocolate would taste and feel totally different. The process is so important and difficult to get right, it often makes the biggest difference in chocolate quality to this day.




  • I can‘t find the specific video where it came up, but I remember Chet Faliszek, who worked at Valve from 2005 to 2017, mentioning, that Gaben‘s death is something that has been planned for and won‘t be as much of an issue for Valve as people might think.

    It‘s of course in no way guaranteed to work out in the end, I don‘t know the specifics of the plans or if everyone‘s going to go along with them. But seeing how well Valve is doing and also how little Gaben actually seems to steer the company, I‘m somewhat optimistic that it‘ll be fine after his passing. Not optimistic enough not to have my most beloved Steam games backed up somewhere, of course, but still somewhat optimistic.


  • I think this really depends on the company’s culture and size. From my experience, having only worked in smaller teams, I’d say trying to partake in management duties proactively has probably been most successful for colleagues who wanted to lead.

    So when your boss or supervisor has a meeting about your product, ask if you can join. If you have a well thought-out idea on how to improve things, like introducing better processes, fixing recurring issues, introducing better tools or something like that, talk about it. Being visible as someone who genuinely cares about the success of your team, product and company is, in my experience, probably the most important thing.

    Just make sure this is actually what you want. Depending on the company, you might end up doing very little programming and lots of spreadsheets and misery instead. Find out what’s keeping your current team lead busy and ask yourself if that’s really what you want to do.




  • I believe it‘s even more strict than that (insert obligatory I am not a lawyer here).

    For military commands, German soldiers must not obey orders that would constitute a criminal offense (§11(2) SG). Outside of that, the respective laws for civil servants are applicable (§11(3) SG). These laws, specifically §63 BBG, contain an obligation to object to illegal orders (Remonstrationspflicht). If a civil servant doesn‘t object, they are personally responsible for their actions.

    So it‘s not just an option to object to unlawful orders, it‘s an obligation.




  • Ich glaube, drei Punkte sind am wichtigsten:

    1. Sei vorbereitet, wenn du Alternativen vorstellst. Schau vorher, ob die gewünschten Use-Cases abgedeckt sind, wie eure Abläufe in der Praxis aussähen und was man ggf. ändern müsste. Umstellungen machen die Managementebene erfahrungsgemäß immer nervös, da ist es schlecht, wenn du auf eventuelle Nachfragen nur mit „Muss ich mal gucken…“ oder „Ich glaube das müsste gehen…“ antworten kannst, vor allem, wenn‘s am Ende doch nicht geht.

    2. Demonstriere die Alternative. Den Entscheidungsträgern lange Featurelisten zu zeigen, ist schön und gut, aber ihnen zu zeigen, wie gut das Ganze in der Realität funktioniert, ist noch viel besser. Setz dir beispielsweise den Nextcloud All-In-One Container auf und zeige darin, je nachdem was ihr braucht, die Möglichkeiten der Software. Das ist in der Regel nicht viel Arbeit, räumt aber zuverlässig Zweifel aus.

    3. Fokussiere dich darauf, welche Vorteile das Unternehmen durch eine Umstellung hätte. Vermeide übermäßigen Open Source-Enthusiasmus. Besonders wenn du „der Neue“ bist, kann es sonst schnell passieren, dass dir unterstellt wird, dem Unternehmen einfach nur deine Hippie-Open-Source-Agenda aufdrücken zu wollen. Und wenn man erstmal als Open-Source-Hippie abgestempelt ist, wird man das nicht so schnell wieder los, egal wie gut die eigenen Argumente sind. Du solltest natürlich Vorteile von OSS nicht verschweigen, das Management freut sich immer, wenn etwas gratis ist. Aber klinge nicht wie ein Prophet, der den armen Sündern das Licht zeigt.



  • While that might be true on the surface, I just don‘t think it‘s worth it.

    Anthem has had many problems and being a live service game was just one of them. Converting it to a single player game wouldn‘t solve the myriads of other issues like boring mission design, a very samey and needlessly huge world, loading screens everywhere or the complete disconnect between story and gameplay where you get too much story within the main hub having to listen to NPCs babbling for hours, while getting practically no story at all while actually playing the game.

    Making the game playable again would be a good thing for preservation, but I really can‘t imagine a lot of people actually having fun with it. I think it would be a better use of the developers’ time to analyze the many reasons for the game‘s failure objectively and learn from that for future projects. I don’t think this former exec has really done that, if he still thinks Anthem is salvageable as a game.