jpswade

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by jpswade 9d ago
If this were true, there would be a large market for artisan code. There isn't. That doesn't take anything away from the knowledge work that happens when you develop software, but the code itself is not the art. The solution is th
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by jpswade 1y ago
When reviewing PRs, I would always ask about TODOs: How will this TODO get to TO DONE?
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by jpswade 2y ago
I've experimented with a two-crew type system before (Red Team for feature development, Blue Team for stability and bug fixes). Rather than treating these as fixed teams, we treated them as workstreams that people rotated between every
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by jpswade 2y ago
This sounds like flash all over again.
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by jpswade 2y ago
Feels more and more like we're entering a post-"disruption" era.
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by jpswade 2y ago
Here we go again. The golden rule I've come to realise is that people don't like what they don't understand. It's made very clear this person doesn't like methodologies. I don't get the use of midwit meme here.
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by jpswade 2y ago
Nothing should redirect ever. However, it happens.
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by jpswade 3y ago
I don’t think this is exactly what it means, but I recommend if you want some quiet in a busy city, go into a library or a book store. Typically they are quiet and calm places, offering a break from the sensory overload that is a city.
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by jpswade 3y ago
No doubt now archived forever and available in ChatGPT.
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by jpswade 3y ago
Historically software engineering was part of the IT function, which historically was born out of accounting, a computer literally was someone’s job, before a machine could do it. Today, for many businesses accounts is still the main driver
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by jpswade 3y ago
Official yes, common perhaps not. I believe this is why meat from a cow served at a table is beef, because it here it was served to French aristocracy, while cow is the common English, the language used by the servants.
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by jpswade 3y ago
I like the idea of “Spike and Stabilise”. Which means, prototyping in this way, but at the point it is actually delivering value, stabilise. Of course, it’s never as simple as that, but there’s certainly a place for this technique.
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by jpswade 3y ago
> Interruptions and unforeseen tasks will occur. In a highly interrupted team, sprints don't work. Try lean/Kanban. You've not mentioned retrospectives, which are an important part of improving your processes, without that
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Erlang at Bet365(bet365techblog.com)
4 points by jpswade 3y ago|0 comments
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by jpswade 3y ago
A bad worker blames his tools right?
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by jpswade 3y ago
Alternatively, you can downgrade to a version before the license changed, ie: JDK 8u202 and earlier.
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by jpswade 3y ago
What? The URL hasn’t changed, the content has.
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by jpswade 3y ago
This isn’t a RedHat problem, it’s an IBM problem.
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by jpswade 3y ago
Trademark law requires you to defend your trademark, otherwise you risk loosing it, therefore by law, to ensure you remain owners of the trademark, you MUST pursue any possible infringements.
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by jpswade 3y ago
“In keeping with our efforts to sharpen our focus, we have entered into a definitive agreement with Squarespace for the acquisition of customer accounts of the Google Domains registrar business,” said Matt Madrigal, Vice President and Gener
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by jpswade 3y ago
Estimation, especially story points are just a tool to help you communicate and talk about the size of work. Most of the time it’s likely to average just under a 5, so you round up, as most work will fit within a week, which is the underlyi
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by jpswade 3y ago
The beatings will continue until morale improves
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by jpswade 3y ago
"perfection is the enemy of progress"
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by jpswade 3y ago
Government money would risk making them dependent on it, which would reduce their ability to be self sustainable and independent, which risks becoming political. Best avoided if possible.
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by jpswade 3y ago
Why do Python libraries have such unusual names?
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by jpswade 3y ago
I migrated from Wordpress to Github pages for this exact reason: https://wade.be/2016/01/30/welcome-to-jekyll.html
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by jpswade 3y ago
Comes across as awfully defensive... Is this a satire website? I can't tell.
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by jpswade 3y ago
It's because Google actively celebrates and encourages failure - if the evidence is there, they will kill it and actively reward this behaviour. At Google, this is how you get promoted and bonused.
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by jpswade 3y ago
*shower thought
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by jpswade 4y ago
Interesting that Microsoft is prepared to take some of the Publisher market to go after Canva.

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