jasonwocky

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by jasonwocky 7y ago
Not really, since the dependencies between them are now explicit. Yes the stitching is its own complexity, but divide-and-conquer is a pretty time-honored approach to effective problem solving.
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
Plus I think there's a big difference in respect a full-stack team / tech leader garners over someone who doesn't really understand the technical challenges of half the team.
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
I don't get your math entirely...if a contract is two months long, wouldn't it be 150x40 or 6000? Sure, I had to tighten my belt during month one, but at the end of month 3 I've got 6k and the person who took the 100 day rate
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
> , the main issue is just making sure to live in the actual city rather than the suburbs, if you want a city lifestyle. Yeah but then your cost of living shoots up. I mean, I've priced Austin real estate. If I want to buy 2BR apart
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
Good list, but as a contractor in the US, the one thing that sticks out that I don't agree with (necessarily) is: -Getting 450 a day is always better than siting idle waiting for that 550-600 a day contract. I'm fine with making a
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
Yeah, when I worked for 5 years as a developer in municipal government, I may have had less total take home pay than some of my peers, but my "hourly rate" was easily comparable. I had 5 weeks of vacation a year to start, and work
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
> Everything I've seen seems so "In my experience..." as opposed to a formal proof. The scientific method is ill-equipped to formally prove a generalized theory of software development. There are too many significant varia
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
Some issues are just 10x others, I guess.
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
> Most people can't begin to program; conversely, most people can begin to run. This is based on what? You really think that most people can't be taught the basics of "Hello World", or a function that multiplies two n
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
I don't think the article is blaming Google. Just har-har'ing with attitude that Google maybe isn't as smart as its cracked up to be.
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
They also received a grade of 'F' in their official Animal Review. https://animalreview.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/pandas/
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
The mindset enshrined in this comment will certainly kill any attempt to be Agile. But while common, thankfully it's not universal.
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
I don't see how this is true. If you're building slack into your cycle there should be regular investment time available that a pure flow-based system wouldn't have. If there's no slack in your sprint schedule, well ther
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
Yeah, I'm a big proponent of the thoughtfulness you describe. I don't like it when people shroud rudeness & cognitive miserliness as "just calling things like they see them." I prefer "See it, think about it, th
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
I thought it was obvious on its face that "vigorous debate" isn't the "only" way that bad ideas end up dying. In fact, plenty of bad ideas have come out of vigorous debate.
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
I dunno. I'm not a big fan of the "be kind" angle on things. Too often that translates to, "Withhold the feedback you have for fear that you'll upset the other person." Or, "Don't tell anyone that you
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
> Some ideas deserve to die and you only discover that through _vigorous_ debate. Patently false.
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
What are you asking for, here? Documented cases...but not anecdotal evidence? Aren't documented cases all individually anecdotes? > Can you share some of them? Do you really want the parent to start listing cases of sexual harassmen
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
> I would find it hard to believe someone goes to a fundraiser to ignore a genuinely great idea/product just because they feel a bit horny. How many times have I heard on these fora that it's the team that matters as much as th
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
> In theory the companies that discriminate should suffer from a lack of talent or have to pay more for their workers, because they're recruiting from a smaller pool. Part of the problem is that if there is a systematic bias in plac
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
Are you seriously comparing the writer to Jessica-freaking-Alba? Could you possibly level the playing field a little less?
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
> Rules & regulations (often in law) have built up over time to protect against corruption & failure Having worked for NYC and become familiar with their vendor selection processes, I often wonder if the costs of corruption prev
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
Can someone tell me what realistic security problems this mode of operation introduces that can't be mitigated/avoided with sensible network and backup configurations?
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
> The difference is that the duties of government are clearly spelled in law, and are financed by everyone So if the government passed a law saying it was ok for them to hack private entities and make their records public, it would be ok
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
Yeah, I don't understand. If the government hacked a private corporation and published 50,000 internal documents online, there would be a shitstorm. But some group of rogue hackers does it and suddenly it might be ok? What's the d
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
That's true insofar as dealing with the Eastern Hemisphere. I don't know of any doctrine that would compel us to aid them in the event of invasion from e.g. anywhere else in Latin America.
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
> Well, replace random accusations and numbers by facts of course What mainstream news do you read?
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
> Are countries (and their citizens) only permitted to be connected to the internet if their culture matches that of your country/federation? Don't be so easily offended. Nobody said anything about their culture. The reason the
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
> Net neutrality is about carriers treating all traffic equally If it was simply "about" that, then that would include DDOS traffic. Which no one in their right mind wants to treat equally.
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by jasonwocky 11y ago
> I have watched this kind of attitude destroy teams and companies and I prefer not to condone it. Funnily enough, I actually knew Zed before he became "Zed" (we were both team leads for related organizations). He came off as o

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