lasereyes136

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by lasereyes136 2mo ago
I met Vint twice where I spent about an hour each time talking to him in a group. It was years apart and he spoke about the social changes the Internet was bringing about. Always well spoken and thoughtful. It was impressive and I really ap
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by lasereyes136 10mo ago
Any experience can alter your perception of reality, it doens't change reality. That doesn't mean it can't be a problem that needs to be addressed. It can also be a benefit and help people experience situations that would be
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by lasereyes136 2y ago
No, it doesn't have to be a meeting. It can be any method communication.
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by lasereyes136 2y ago
I agree that this is needed. It doesn't stop the person requesting the feature from asking for a meeting to explain why and just whining that they need it the whole time and saying they shouldn't have pay anything to get it addres
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by lasereyes136 2y ago
Great article, I have I seen this situation too many times to count. It isn't just consultants that generate haunted graveyards. Any person will skills more advanced than their peers will do so. To make matters worse it isn't just
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by lasereyes136 2y ago
Reminds me of a dev team I once encountered where they stated they wanted to be expert C programmers and that they didn't understand pointers, so they avoided them. I told them it was hard to become a C expert without understanding and
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by lasereyes136 2y ago
Interesting article and I have observed all of the situation described in it. I would like to point out that when agile, and even Scrum to some degree, was introduced it was a way for people creating software to take back control of a runaw
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by lasereyes136 2y ago
Makes sense for desktop software, less so for webapps and web services. I agree with the point that developers should profile their apps and for some apps having a bad computer is an implicit way of doing that. It doesn't mean it is a
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by lasereyes136 2y ago
They had that rule, every 24-hour room checks, for a few years after the Mandalay Bay mass shooting in 2017. Since Covid they removed that rule and don't do the room checks every 24 hours, unless, I guess, they really want to do it. Ro
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by lasereyes136 2y ago
I see your point but disagree. Sun was the last holdout of the propriety Unix vendors to support Linux because they had underpriced the other Unix vendors like Linux was underpricing them. Sun's whole idea was to create cheap Unix work
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by lasereyes136 2y ago
2 features here really mean 2 development tasks however a task is defined for your team. The idea is to have one to work on while the other is in the background (maybe being worked on by your subscience) and to take a new one once one is do
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by lasereyes136 2y ago
TDD is a design technique you can apply to low level or tactical coding design. Strongly typed isn't the same as a knowing and testing your inputs and outputs based on a plan or design of methods or functions. Sure, strongly typed can
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by lasereyes136 2y ago
Only in that the growth of cloud migrations might slow. The cloud is a great option for a lot of workloads and companies. Cloud native applications and services can be cost effective. Lift and shift is the most expensive way to go and can e
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by lasereyes136 2y ago
Linux was a corporate-level operating system as far back as the mid-90s. It was the late 90s when it started getting enterprise software for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Database released Oracle 8 was r
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by lasereyes136 2y ago
> Companies are not going to entrust their business to a black box that sometimes says no. Companies entrust their business to a black box that sometimes says no now. AI will not change that, and I agree it will get worse. It is the iron
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by lasereyes136 2y ago
Starbucks has grown to the point where it can't grow more, at least in the USA. So it has to raise prices to continue to "grow" revenue. I stopped going to Starbucks on a regular basis because the coffee is just fine so I pre
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by lasereyes136 2y ago
> just because insurance says its "totaled" doesn't mean it isnt fixable and safe to drive. "Totaled" to an insurance company means they think the cost of repair at their contracted rates is more than the cost o
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by lasereyes136 2y ago
All work has a cost including documentation. You either make updated documentation an explicit work item or it will, at best, get done ad hoc, at worst, it will not be done. If you allow urgency of code requests to bypass a documentation re
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by lasereyes136 2y ago
I prefer the set of trade-offs in shopping at Costco vs. a lot of other places. I also prefer the trade-off of getting stuff quickly without leaving home when buying from Amazon. I can see why some people would prefer other trade-offs, that
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by lasereyes136 2y ago
I think part of the point of the article is that LLMs don't lie because they are designed to just give you the next work based on making a credible sounding sentence or sequence of sentences. Expecting it to do more is an expectations
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by lasereyes136 2y ago
Ask a tax lawyer. My understanding, which is not legal or tax advice, is that, as a private person, you pay taxes in the state you have your primary residence in. There are a lot of rules around what it means to have a primary residence, so
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by lasereyes136 2y ago
> “Limit WIP” is a well-known recommendation in agile circles. It’s great except for the situations where it doesn’t work, eg. you have multiple customers with must-do features, you have support commitments and bugs to fix, your work doe
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by lasereyes136 3y ago
> People who have worked in the second type of environment (deadlines are real and have consequences) become quite good at estimating and managing progress toward deadlines without crunch mode at the end. They become good at communicatin
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by lasereyes136 3y ago
That is weird, people taking a body of work out of context to advance their agenda.
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by lasereyes136 3y ago
I see we worked at the same place.
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by lasereyes136 3y ago
True story, I was around in the 1990s so I was aware of those practices. Really advanced people would have a scheduled job running every hour (or on some basis) to keep an old copy just in case it was needed, usually a zip or tar file. So,
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by lasereyes136 3y ago
History teaches us that "business people" want to "reduce cost" so they will try anything to achieve cost savings. They see the people in the software creation process as necessary evils, or uh, costs, instead of integra
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by lasereyes136 3y ago
The point isn't that disruption can't happen, as we know it can. The point is that is can take a lot to dislodge an entrenched product, usually more than just new features, especially rarely used new features. As pointed out, the
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by lasereyes136 3y ago
The mall kiosk where you can get a broken iPhone screen replaced is a business model predicated on right to repair. Independent computer repair people are as well but I am not sure how may of those are left.
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by lasereyes136 3y ago
Build software isn't like building physical things. Software and physical things operate under different constraints. All analogies are are wrong or off but some are insightful. The insight here is that people expect things not based o

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