Throw10987

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by Throw10987 3y ago
That seems sane, is there a cohort of engineers pushing for trunk based development?
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by Throw10987 3y ago
I think the point is that the Access, Lotus Notes tooling was in largish corporations somewhat ubiquitous. The experience of this tooling was make a change and it was in production. It was incredibly simple and productive to work with given
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by Throw10987 3y ago
Believe me it is not laughing in a good way, it is more a nervous laughter with a permanent sinking feeling in the stomach kind of way. The collective 'we' developed nations have our own set of problems, but broadly speaking from
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by Throw10987 3y ago
In my part of the world that would be inner sheep.
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by Throw10987 3y ago
Not 100% sure of the rationale in this case. I imagine it might have to do with everyone who runs an instance needs to maintain an additional storage system along with all the associated costs, which is not just storage alone. Databases sto
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by Throw10987 3y ago
Robocopy may be an approximate equivalent for rsync. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrat...
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by Throw10987 3y ago
I am chartering a yacht in two weeks and have been busy re-learning how to tie a core set of knots. This is easily the best resource that I have been using with the rest of the crew(aka family)!
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by Throw10987 3y ago
Sound advice - currently going down the path of try to make the role better. It will however be a long journey, so need to work out whether I am sufficiently committed to the path. Also need to work out what the ejection criteria are, regar
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by Throw10987 3y ago
I am the most senior engineering IC by position and years of experience at my current company in a 100+ person engineering group. The only problems I deal with are non technical and organisational in nature, despite on paper being expected
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by Throw10987 3y ago
And loving it ;)
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by Throw10987 3y ago
I find myself coming back to Data and Reality on a periodic basis to remind me that the model is just the model. https://www.bkent.net/Doc/darxrp.htm
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by Throw10987 3y ago
This by the same team who brought you the DORA metrics and the SPACE framework. I suspect it is really a vehicle to sell books and consulting, despite the article largely making sense. Maybe it is atonement of some sort.
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by Throw10987 3y ago
Leadership, Process and Discipline
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by Throw10987 4y ago
Role is "disestablished"
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by Throw10987 4y ago
I have to add “If you know the way broadly you will see it in all things” from Musashi which conveys a similar sentiment.
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by Throw10987 4y ago
I think the second amendment was probably intentionally not mentioned.
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by Throw10987 4y ago
I have seen teams spending most of their time on working on the highest priority (by a single measure) and not spending any time on overall delivery efficiency. So having a balanced prioritisation approach would seem to be pretty important.
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by Throw10987 4y ago
I think if you rephrase it that they "dragged the whole company out of the particular IT hell that is associated with banks owning, running and procuring infrastructure" it probably makes more sense.
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by Throw10987 4y ago
No, to the point that there is this website - https://safedelusion.com/
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by Throw10987 4y ago
I thought I was the only one old enough to remember that we have been here before. Back in the day I even had an email thread with Ryan Dancy about making software tooling based on the OGL, which was pretty non-committal and discouraged me
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by Throw10987 4y ago
My company is and ayecarumber, it resonates.
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by Throw10987 4y ago
There are a multitude of different ways to bridge from mainframe (IBM Websphere MQ/Host integration server) systems or to make file based systems look mostly online (small, frequent batch files). So technically it is possible and done
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by Throw10987 4y ago
Agree, was super excited when I saw reference to the German tank problem as that is immediately what I thought of in the first post.
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by Throw10987 4y ago
This used to be the way. Now it takes a whole team to put a textbox on a Web app.
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by Throw10987 4y ago
I feel this could be dangerous advice to follow.
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by Throw10987 4y ago
Banks are tech companies, the business leadership just don't know it.
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by Throw10987 4y ago
Case in point, Sydney Au is starting water restrictions despite record rainfall due to quality of water in catchments.. Not that far from boiling water. https://www.nsw.gov.au/environment-land-and-water/water-rest...
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by Throw10987 4y ago
Veterans Affairs is also a big Chunk of change that also goes on in perpetuity. 412k employees and 10+ million on benefits Depending on how you count, defense industry could be 3.5 mil employees. https://siteselection.com/is
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by Throw10987 4y ago
War is a racket - Smedley Butler Major General US Marine Corps https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket#:~:text=War%... .
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by Throw10987 4y ago
I think there is general acceptance that the implementation details in Eric Evans book could almost be completly skipped. The concepts of domain boundaries and the ubiquitous language are the useful if seemingly obvious bits.

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