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by sghill 2y ago
Up to what scale? This works well for a couple dozen repos per team in my experience. It’s also my preferred way to work. It doesn’t scale so well to hundreds of repos per team without significant tooling. At some point anything cross-cutti
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by sghill 3y ago
Definitely - we recently moved issue tracking to another system after 15+ years and found there were too many links to abandon, so we run a service that just redirects old URLs.
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by sghill 3y ago
Breaking down work so it can be delivered incrementally is an underrated skill. Simplifies communication about progress, builds confidence in ability to deliver, and makes it easier to avoid getting lost in rabbit holes. Especially in situa
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by sghill 3y ago
The old URLs aren’t kept around to redirect to the new location?
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by sghill 3y ago
I’d like to see better centralized support generally from CI systems. Six months of steady migration and a custom DSL seems alarmingly common. CI Wishlist: * testable outside of CI * required steps based on repo characteristics (ex: securit
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Declarative Confidence(sghill.net)
1 points by sghill 3y ago|0 comments
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De-Risking Jenkins Rollouts (2022)(sghill.net)
1 points by sghill 3y ago|0 comments
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Mockito 5: prepare for future JDK versions(github.com)
3 points by sghill 4y ago|0 comments
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The Notecard System: Remembering, Organizing Everything You Read (2013)(ryanholiday.net)
1 points by sghill 4y ago|0 comments
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by sghill 4y ago
Guided runs in Nike Run Club are great for this. There are several coaches with different styles. My favorite have been the Headspace mindful runs[1]. [1]: https://www.headspace.com/meditation/running-meditation
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Herb Kelleher: Manage in Good Times So You'll Do Well in the Bad Times (2006)(gsb.stanford.edu)
96 points by sghill 4y ago|36 comments
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by sghill 4y ago
This 2006 Stanford interview[1] with Kelleher sounds like taking ideas seriously was an important part of the culture. Tragic it was lost, as it always stuck out in my mind as an example of great leadership. > Southwest continues to enco
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by sghill 6y ago
> Does this new language save you that much over using a more generic and widly known language in the org? This is a great question to ask. It’s worth extending beyond language to frameworks and libraries as well. It’s important to optim
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Maximum Wage(howwegettonext.com)
2 points by sghill 11y ago|0 comments
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by sghill 12y ago
I've been a subscriber to NHL Gamecenter for two years. If you're very far from your home team, it can be a good deal. In California, I can catch most of Detroit's games. In a major hockey market like Toronto, however, Detroi
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by sghill 12y ago
It does sound like they were debating this for quite a while. Eric Lippert used to work on the C# compiler and published a blog post[1] immediately after the announcement: Since I always knew that open sourcing was a possibility I tri
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by sghill 13y ago
I found the IntelliJ docs[1] handy for discovering predetermined variables like $END$ and $SELECTION$. [1]: http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/webhelp/live-templates.html
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by sghill 13y ago
When 90% of your "students" fail to complete the courses, you have an epic failure on your hands. MOOCs are not working. I completed every course I signed up for when I was going to university. Completion percentage was
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by sghill 13y ago
I haven't used a serious app in production on OpenShift, but I have been playing around with a Java project recently. Assuming I get it to production, I'm going to stick with OpenShift. I think the blogs, forums, and docs are grea
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by sghill 13y ago
Flask and Rails have different focuses. I've used both and like them both quite a bit, but I've found there is often a clear winner depending on the task at hand. Flask is a microframework that often fits within one file and is pr
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by sghill 13y ago
Fair enough, I'd be reacting similarly I'm sure. I get that two years is too short, but how long do you expect a device like this to be supported? I think I recall three major updates for my original iPhone, but by the last update
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by sghill 13y ago
> Buying whatever Nexus is out there when I needed a new phone has always been a no-brainer. Not so anymore. Interesting, I would not have expected so much importance to be placed on unspecified rolling updates. My current phone is the o
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by sghill 13y ago
It's even possible to ride a driverless train in the US, and has been at least since the Detroit People Mover[1] opened in 1987. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_People_Mover
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[Java] Project Avatar is Open Source (The Aquarium)(blogs.oracle.com)
2 points by sghill 13y ago|0 comments
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by sghill 13y ago
I've always found it a lot more effective to sit down with someone and find the answer together, no matter how simple the question. If our technique works well, I've found they'll generally try it again the next time they hav
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by sghill 13y ago
> Hyperloop is all about passengers (something the rail industry has never cared out) This is disingenuous. In the 150+ years of North American rail, many of America's most intricate architectural structures[1] are train stations, a
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by sghill 13y ago
Yes. As an industry, we're not very good at recognizing the great things people do. We tend to focus solely on mistakes. It's not easy to admit failure, and if we want it to continue we should recognize the effort it takes.
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by sghill 13y ago
> There even exist situations (in the case of some positions) where you will be talking to a client of the company you're working for, effectively interviewing with the client, representing the company. What positions would require
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Volkswagen ends Kombi production [after 56 years] with Last Edition(ranwhenparked.net)
2 points by sghill 13y ago|0 comments
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by sghill 13y ago
> Screw going to amazon et al to buy anything that changes as constantly as a car. or a cellphone. You've made it clear you're a person who requires extensive test-driving. Amazon's cell phone business doesn't seem to

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