lairdpop

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by lairdpop 9y ago
Actually, agile was first invented for writing mission critical enterprise software more effectively - thus the emphasis on test-drive-development and a very tight confirmation loop with the users. The fact that it also works well for web s
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by lairdpop 9y ago
Daily standups aren't for tracking progress, they're for keeping the team in sync, and in particular are a forum for raising blockers/dependencies so that they an be addressed. Tracking progress goes on a Kanban board (or dig
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by lairdpop 9y ago
When developers pull tasks, their name goes on it. If one dev keeps pulling tasks that don't get done, or take far too long, that becomes obvious to the whole team quite rapidly. That doesn't "disrupt" the team at all.
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by lairdpop 9y ago
No, standups should not be for project tracking, it's a quick synch up and opportunity to raise issues. (e.g. My task is blocked until X is done). Then you resolve the blockage outside of the standup, in a longer, deeper discussion wit
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by lairdpop 9y ago
Agile only works for certain kinds of developers. In particular, it works well for people who are team oriented and communicate well, able to talk to the rest of the team to coordinate for at least 10 minutes a day, and responsible enough t
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by lairdpop 10y ago
The point was that it's lower friction to use the AWS services, and RDS is a great example of this - you can certainly run your own database in EC2, but if you use RDS it's far less work as many things are provided automatically o
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by lairdpop 10y ago
That's certainly true. Useful Lambda code (i.e. lots of functions cooperating to do something, likely using a variety of AWS services) can only run in the Lambda context. So it's not appropriate if you need to develop offline.
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by lairdpop 11y ago
I am not sure that this would be the case. If all the firmware has to do is process G code, that's oh well understood problem, and runs on Arduino's, and whatever is grilling this printer has to be at least as powerful as we oh w
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by lairdpop 11y ago
The things that they show (running a web site with lots of UX, slicing, image processing, materials data, catalog of customizable designs, etc.) fit pretty well into a powerful web site/service with a small CPU in the laser cutter. Add