That pretty much happened to me. Too much gamification plus time equals the speed runners taking over.

I was thinking the same thing.

What do you think contact tracing is? Some sort of people tracking? Like the state puts little tracking devices on everyone so they know where people are at all time? That's not what contact tracing is.

Contact tracing is asking someone who has the infection to remember who they came into contact so that these people can be warned they have the infection.

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I remember when IBM did the same thing in 2001! Slashdot carried the story.

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They claim their ad campaign is done in "bio degradable chalk" but that, even after a rain storm, "the penguins were still there ... smiling broadly."

An IBM employee got 30 days community service in Chicago.

> I'd hate to become one of those angry od guys, pissed off that there is a GUI, or whatever they are mad about.

For the record, I am not mad there's a GUI. GUIs are good. :-)

There's that European(?) bill that legislated a cooking confirmation dialog so I'd say the US and EU are now competing for the world's stupid web design legislation.

I'd like a Firefox checkbox for blocking bad government please.

While there maybe people who avoid hurting others by avoiding conflict, we can both agree that is stupid.

But that's not how it works! You have to have that conflict *and* not hurt their feelings. This is much harder to do. That is why there are books on how to do this. That's why people take classes on how to do this. If you can master this the project goes along much smoother because people communicate openly. There's less chance of a bitter argument developing. More contributors. More diversity of opinions are considered leading to innovative solutions. Better code. It's also a ton of fun.

If you can master giving feedback without hurting feelings you'll get both better code and a more harmonious project.

It's hard but so is programming. Why is all the good stuff so hard :-) ?

You were very fortunate. In my own 20+ year career it's been a very common problem. The first time I was involved with a code review with a new person there would always be some amount of defensiveness present. It's true that it varied from person to person and sometimes I felt like I was doing all the work but with bridge building there's either a bridge built or not. When there's a bridge built and you can get high quality communication going it's worth it.

Over the course of my career, I've had one guy I really couldn't work with over my career. If I put an enormous amount of effort into it I could get it to work but it was consuming my life so I just refused in the end. Sigh.

I think this is great. Doing the whole leader thing is quite difficult and it's worth spending time to learn how to do it better. With any luck this will also make it more socially acceptable for hardcore geeks to spend time honing their soft skills. It would certainly help with programming's reputation for being full of eccentric and prickly personalities - because there's certainly lots of good people out there. Getting them all to work together is the challenge. :-)

What happens if you don't give notice?

Do they fire you?
Do they sue you for the money they would have given you?
Do they sue you for the value you would have added and they didn't pay you for yet?
Do they write an angry letter to your mother?

In all seriousness, what is the "or else" in these case?

Some Guy: We had 3 switchers!

Bill: Really? That's more than we have ever had before.

We could have traded some productivity for leisure time. Europe does it more than the English speaking world. I mean, how hard have you tried to make it happen? :-)

I walk to work. 40 minutes both ways. It's 6.6km round trip. Decent exercise for the day and I get some reflection time and fresh air as a bonus.

You think it was good in your day! Ha! In my day it was a shining beacon of concentrated awesomeness. We used to have a commander who was also a taco and there was this cowboy fella who used to do all the polls. It all went downhill after they came up with the concept of adding login credentials.