영훈 (d$)

Also if everyone hates me maybe not

If I have haters I’m going the right way

America will have a female president within the next 2-4 cycles. The cultural momentum with women is undeniable, there is no class more universally supported and protected right now than women

@elonmusk Virtually every boomer led institution is a scam

60 Mins is just fully a scam

Women don’t even start to grow up until their looks stop getting them whatever they want

Never talk to me irl ever about how great the female gender is. It won’t go well

If I ever have to hear more retardation about how women are so wonderful I’m going to lose my shit. They’re people just like men, people are pretty awful, and when we pretend like women are so perfect you’re just giving them license to be the biggest bitch ever

@yegordb @publicoffix @deedydas It's actually easier to do. You only think Software Engineers were easier to analyze because you incorrectly equated quantity of commits or number of lines of code written to their productivity. Go ahead, measure executives' productivity by number of changes made.

@publicoffix @deedydas That's a bit harder to do - hopefully someday soon!

I’m at Stanford and I research software engineering productivity. We have data on the performance of >50k engineers from 100s of companies. Inspired by @deedydas, our research shows: ~9.5% of software engineers do virtually nothing: Ghost Engineers (0.1x-ers)

Unification

@defcon_run Can I get an invite code?

Alright, folks, listen up! This isn't just a fun run—this is defcon.run! The website is up! A full-tilt, hair-on-fire sprint straight into the heart of Def Con 32. Get the full post over on @run/112883790665424756" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">defcon.social/@run/112883790… because reasons.

@CitronResearch imagine being this privileged but stupid

Citron is no longer short $GME. It's not because we believe in a turnaround for the company fundamentals will ever happen, but with $4 billion in the bank, they have enough runway to appease their cult like shareholders. Despite Wedbush setting an $11 target today, we respect the market's irrationality. After all, Dogecoin remains a $20 billion entity. While the increased share count might temper the mob mentality, Citron will be watching from the sidelines for now. BTW....the Kitty livestream was still an insult to the capital markets.

Political correctness never went away and now it’s called tone policing but the people doing it are exactly as annoying

@MattWallace888 Who gives a fuck and why are you posting creepy ass pics like this

What was Michelle Obama doing hanging out on a Yacht with Tom Hanks?

I love how the most common strategy for office work in management I've seen is: ask someone else to do this for me It makes sense when it's stuff that's supposed to be delegated, but they obviously do this with their own work too and its tiresome that these people stay employed

Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and thou shalt see that it is barren.

Next stock market crash is going to be blamed on AI

Doing errands in the morning if you work remote makes so much sense bc there’s no traffic

Sad It's a bitch that this feels more normal than happy

If the company can afford expensive ass overpriced marketing, I don’t want it. They don’t invest in the product.

@George_YTG @Mortdog You can always say "the team is investigating the issue and will announce when a fix is in progress" - there are medium-term, non-committal ways to acknowledge without promising

@Mortdog I've always been an advocate for devs communicating as much as possible, but the "actions speak louder than words" paragraph made me think. If you don't say anything, people say you're ignoring the issue, but if you say anything and it goes wrong, you're making false promises.

This is going to be a long post...not really directly about TFT, but about leadership and how we should approach mistakes and failures. If you're looking for a solid promise about the future of TFT, this isn't that post. But if you're interested in my thought process, let's go. When mistakes happen, the first thing to consider if it was an honest mistake, or something malicious. Often even the most severe mishaps are honest mistakes, and people do not need to be punished or put down when these happen, no matter the severity. I was around when League accidentally set all loot to 1 RP, which was a VERY bad mistake, but it was still just an accident. It's important to follow up of course, but these aren't career ending or anything. If the mistake was due to malicious intent or negligence, then it becomes a much bigger deal as it shows something will likely be a long term problem and needs to be taken care of with much more severity. The other thing to consider is the frequency. Even the greatest employees will not have a 100% hit rate, and mistakes will be made. An amazing employee, when they make that first big mistake, honestly the worst thing you can do is come down on them hard. They are going to be their own worst critic and enemy in these situations, and adding onto the pile is a quick way to burn them out or make them distrust you, as you don't have their back. These mistakes are the learning process that shapes their experience and makes them better as time goes on. All you can do is help them back up and encourage them to learn and keep going. It's super important to not overreact to a single mistake also and call it some sort of failing of the entire system. Sometimes a human error is an error, and trying to rewrite entire processes and systems to prevent that error is a productivity killer. Sometimes it really is as simple as "do better next time". Double check the code, run the sim better, etc is really all we're talking about. I've seen too often in retros these blow up into larger reworks. Don't fall for that trap if it was something small. However, if the frequency isn't just a one off or an understandable accident, this is where things get more complex. If you continue to see error after error in a situation, it's time to evaluate all pieces of the process to see if there is something that can improve. An example of this in TFT was our process of Set creation in the Set 4 to 7 era, where it was clear we were consistently shipping good sets, but burning out devs and shipping with tons of bugs and reworks and more. This wasn't just "one set went rough, do better next time", this was "We need to change how we develop sets". When you get to this point, you have to consider all aspects of development. Is it the people? The process? The timelines? What's going on? Next, you have to formulate a plan on how to address the systemic issue. When it gets to this point, "just do better" or just assuming more people will solve the problem is pretty pointless. Instead you need a plan that is possible with the resources you have or can get. In the case of Set Development as the example all the way back in Set 6 we begun the plan to swap to 3 sets a year with clear goals to try to improve set development to combat these repeated issues. Now here is where things get extra tricky. When you are working on a live service game with high communication, players want to see results and change and information now. But development doesn't work like that, and in the case of swapping to three sets a year, it took us 10 months from the time the plan was originally conceived before we even announced it to players, and another 8 months before the first set with no midset would ship (Set 10). During this time while things are happening in the background, you still have to operate as is. You can't just stop making sets until you're ready even though you know this improvement is coming. And then in terms of talking to players, those 10 months where we can't talk about it are rough. You want to tell players "Yup, we're aware set development has to get better and here's our 5 point plan to get it there.", but if anything goes wrong (you can't find the people, you don't get the budget, etc) you would be giving players false promises which is always awful. So you have to keep silent until you are truly ready to deliver because actions speak louder than words and all that really matters to players is results. Give them a good game! A good example of this was Spectator Mode for TFT. Someone promised it too early, and then priorities and situations changed, it fell off the roadmap, and became this thing we promised players but never delivered on, which is a feels bad and burns trust. So as a leader, all of this has to be taken into account when considering what action and path to go down next. Is it a simple mistake that will happen less and less often as experience grows? Or is it a larger failing, be it the people or the system or something else? And if it's the latter, what is the path to improvement? You also have to take into consideration other factors like hiring capacity, team morale, player trust, and so much more. It's often not as simple as "Just do X". Even the swap to 3 sets a year had a LOT of hurdles we had to overcome internally in these areas before we could make it a reality. Alignment on the solution, staffing, processes for things like the ability to playtest more than one set at a time, etc, all had to be considered before we could lock it in. Now if you've made it this far, you're wondering "What's all this yapping for and how does it affect TFT?" The reality is we as devs have the "Creators Curse" where all we see are the flaws in what we make, what could be better, what could be different. There are a LOT of things in TFT, despite how freaking amazing the game is, that can use improvement. Maybe it's our in game matchmaking formula, maybe it's our in client experience, maybe it's our item balance, maybe it's our bug testing, the list goes on and on. And for everything in this space we have to apply this sort of thought of "How are we going to improve this?" So, all of this to get to this. When things are not going well, trust us, we know. We take it very hard. Even a simple bug that may have slipped through the crack for any number of reasons in the process, the whole team feels it and it sucks. It sucks for players, and we all want to bring the best experience to players. Any time something goes wrong, especially if it's repeated, actions are being taken. But the reality and unsatisfactory part is that we often can't share these with players until they are ready, because again, actions speak louder than words and results are what matter. Again, if you were expecting some grand reveal, I'm sorry to disappoint. When results happen, we can talk about the process that got us there through articles and Q&A and more. Until then, we keep moving forward trying to make TFT the best game it can be. Apologies if this was too long or jumbled. It's early and now it's time for work!