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by postfacto 5y ago
Start with one thing at a time. Do that one thing excellently until it becomes part of your soul, and you could never imagine not doing it. Then move onto the next thing.
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by postfacto 5y ago
Someone on the Internet summed it up well https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README....
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by postfacto 5y ago
Yes, Agile does produce more buggy, less stable software. There is heavy bias towards doing only simplistic, user-visible things that fit in the span of two weeks. So all the foundational stuff you need to put in at the start of the project
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by postfacto 5y ago
Dovetails nicely with the whole Right To Repair shit that farmers are currently having to go through with John Deere.
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by postfacto 5y ago
> they were demanding something in a timeframe that I couldn't deliver it without ensuring that there wouldn't be any unintended side effects - and then blaming me for the side effects when they came up. Far too few developers
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by postfacto 5y ago
Example #4 A CTO of an American company, to get a bonus of $7 million, lays off a ton-load of the company’s CRM people who knew how 20 years of architecture duct tape that ran the company was strung together. CTO then proceeds to hir
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by postfacto 5y ago
Deming’s First Theorem: “Nobody gives a hoot about profit”.
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by postfacto 5y ago
Apparently you’re in good company https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README....
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by postfacto 5y ago
Truest comment I’ve read so far. If simplicity is always the right solution, then why do so many programming languages have dedicated parsing libraries for .csv, which has to be the world’s most simplest data format ever?
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by postfacto 5y ago
Scrum allows for granular micro-tracking of developers at a daily level while sanctifying the ideas of developers as interchangeable cogs and that leaderships should be able to move the goalposts at the last minute. What’s for an enterprise
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I Have No Mouth and I Must Scrum(metafilter.com)
2 points by postfacto 5y ago|0 comments
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by postfacto 5y ago
One possible hypothesis is that spacetime itself is being warped in such a way that no significant forces caused by interaction with the atmosphere are being generated. Kinda like how because you ride an escalator people no one ever hears y
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by postfacto 5y ago
A truly worthy book of Software Engineer Dark Arts that’s come in handy multiple times. The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (Expert's Voice) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1590596242/ref=
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by postfacto 5y ago
Agile destroys any software project it’s allowed to touch by sabotaging development of early architecture through the “it must fit into two weeks” mandate and other assorted short-termist practices. But the F-35 was already a shitshow, beca
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by postfacto 6y ago
Why the downvotes? This comment’s dead accurate.
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by postfacto 6y ago
For those transitioning from programming to woodworking, if you don’t understand how to use your table saw, you’re not supposed to design and build your own table saw because you think you can build a better one.
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by postfacto 6y ago
I thought Transformers were “Robots in disguise”.
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I Hate Agile Development(reddit.com)
2 points by postfacto 6y ago|0 comments
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by postfacto 6y ago
I’ve found the two codebases approach, one for iOS and one for Android, is simpler and cheaper because native development tools are just so better.
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by postfacto 6y ago
So in 2003, before the iPhone came out, I was a mac developer doing Cocoa/Objective-C development. I then tried to learn Symbian and I found the IDE hard to setup, the API was hard to learn, and I believe it only ran on windows. At the
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by postfacto 6y ago
Anything is capable of not sucking if you go out of your way to spend several man-decades optimizing it.
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by postfacto 6y ago
Fezzes are cool.
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by postfacto 6y ago
Agile In Their Own Words https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README....
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by postfacto 6y ago
This is brilliant!
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by postfacto 7y ago
Perhaps agile doesn’t actually work (despite the hype) and your team having this quandry is actually your team starting to be awakened to the truth of why agile tends to cripple any project it touches. Dump agile, write the backend first, i
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by postfacto 7y ago
Narcissists are very charming initially and very good at hiding it. Some tells: - Very attuned to their own fashion attire. Very well/trendy dressed. - Use the words/phrases “value”, “add value” - Brag about themselves a lot. Talk
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by postfacto 7y ago
^^ This. Also, your real job is making your manager look good to his manager, not actually the nominal job of writing reliable, stable, flexible code that you signed up for in your employment agreement.
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by postfacto 7y ago
Many businesses go with Xamarin because some guy in a management mandates it because he feels it will be a silver bullet that will let them get around having to hire skilled native mobile developers. The reality is that to do Xamarin well y
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by postfacto 7y ago
That will just lead to stories to change something simple the color of a button taking 3 days because you hit a tech debt minefield refactoring. You don’t want someone looking at JIRA and seeing it took you 3 days to change a simple button
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by postfacto 7y ago
absolutely. If you ever see a group afraid to produce a prototype, it's because they're afraid management will try to ship it as a final product. I once had a manager who, on the subject of upper management wanting to ship the p

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