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by plughs 6y ago
The craziest part of this was that it was banking software. Every so often someone would inadvisedly suggest that banking customers weren't waiting on the edge of their seats for new features and really really really disliked bugs. Pe
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by plughs 6y ago
There are certainly good reasons to make a team's progress visible. PMs/POs ( I'm never sure of the difference ) will want to know if a project can meet the release date. They will want to know that the need-to-have feature
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by plughs 6y ago
My first team, some 14 years ago, had the best experience with Agile. What made this work > During planning, everyone understood that the estimates were _estimates_. Tasks could take longer or shorter, that was OK and even expected. T
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by plughs 6y ago
Step 1: Write a JetBrains Cobol plugin
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by plughs 6y ago
LPT: Bring a little unscented lotion in with you and put it on the TP.
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by plughs 6y ago
I don't mean this to sound skeptical, just curious - would you say that the military gets things done better than your average tech company? I could fill pages with complaints and criticisms of the way companies do business, but someti
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by plughs 7y ago
> Management should be punished excessively as a warning to others, though I do not expect them to be punished at all. "Management" is a group of ordinary people who are doing their jobs - trying to maximize profits for their
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by plughs 7y ago
As much as I would normally get is enough for 4 people who are out of the house from 7am - 6pm every weekday.
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by plughs 7y ago
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/andrew-sullivan-real... This is a really insightful article from Andrew Sullivan where he compares the initial reaction to the Coronavirus to the initial reactions to A
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by plughs 7y ago
Y2038 will be interesting because one wonders how many engineers will be around with the skills to address it. Even now it might be hard to scrape together a team.
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by plughs 7y ago
Being left out of social events is a significant reduction in my quality of life. I've got enough reasons to stay home all day without deliberately excluding myself from social events. Organizers of these events have enough to manage
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by plughs 7y ago
I realized last week that I've gotten so used to not checking prices that I put a $70 bottle of melatonin in my amazon shopping cart without noticing. This particular brand is a regular purchase for me and it's always been about
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by plughs 7y ago
I use confluence ( you can get a one person license for free) and completely outline everything I'm reading. Sometimes I use bullet points, sometimes I type in code samples using the code-block plugin. I use headers to divide cha
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by plughs 7y ago
Relating to the article, that quote always makes me sad. I moved at 12, I didn't have friends. I feel like I missed something I can never get back.
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by plughs 7y ago
"Hello dear, how was work?" "Oh you know, some of my larger coworkers pushed me down to the floor and told me how much they hated me. But I sucked it up" "That's great, get over it!" "I will - until
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by plughs 7y ago
I put on a happy face when my parents asked if I wanted to move away in the 6th grade. I was a 'good kid' and didn't want to say no. But I didn't want to move, and moving was a complete wreck emotionally for me. So be
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by plughs 7y ago
> Usenet was full of people like me I recognize you from afu! I only lurked, but I inevitably think of that group when I remember how good usenet used to be.
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by plughs 7y ago
> On HN maybe, every local forum or town-hall I've seen it's the other way around. You may be right! I spend too much time in HN and reddit, and no time at all in forums and town halls. Perhaps my view is warped.
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by plughs 7y ago
The bay area is such an outlier that I almost feel like it should be exempt from broader 'housing cost' discussions. Fixing the bay area housing crisis is a whole other set of concerns. No one in our area wants more office space.
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by plughs 7y ago
> School superintendent: Actually we've run the numbers, we have plenty of capacity and we welcome the additional tax revenue. "we've run the numbers" is a poor response. Our local school has a playground covered wit
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by plughs 7y ago
> In 2001 William Fischel of Harvard University proposed his “homevoter hypothesis”. The thinking runs that owner-occupiers have an incentive to resist development in their local area, since doing so helps preserve the value of their pro
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by plughs 7y ago
As opposed to other school systems? Out-of-the-home-schooling is not something invented in the US.
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by plughs 7y ago
Our elementary school uses chromebooks from 1st grade on, and I do see a lot of downsides. The most outrageous problem, IMO, is that there are 'modules' that must be completed, and kids with computer access at home can work on the
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by plughs 7y ago
On come on, this is nonsensical click-bate. How can you declare with a straight face that Baidu >which controls two-thirds of China’s online search market, appears to have been active in suppressing information about the 2019 pro-democr
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by plughs 7y ago
I found these helpful. The first one has a link to a video which is pretty ELI5 https://flashdba.com/2015/01/09/understanding-flash-floating... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7JLXs5es7I
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by plughs 7y ago
> The cost of just washing something can be relatively and unreasonably high, environmentally speaking. We have a break room with a sink, reusable dinnerware, and disposable dinnerware. I cringed when I saw people washing a reusable pl
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by plughs 7y ago
I agree broadly but I think the real cause is overlooked. When I was young, everyone in our town read the <Town Name> Times. They may have passionately disagreed with it, they may have thought it was too right or left, but they all r
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by plughs 7y ago
I had a 2 hour coding project in a language I'm familiar with - entirely based around a sub module that I've never used before. Maybe 2 hours should have been enough? I don't know - with the stress of writing under time pres
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by plughs 7y ago
> Other methods, whether they involve quantity of free time or already-available money, are intrinsically tied to the quality of your job or, failing that, the quality of your parents' or partner's jobs. For a lot of educated
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by plughs 7y ago
I find it strange to associate OSS contributions with 'shipping software'. I've shipped plenty of software. I've dealt with drop dead release dates, 5 nines HA requirements, production war rooms, and a product paid for

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