swagtricker

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by swagtricker 8mo ago
Of course, he left out the fact that the $40,000.00 USD worth of computer time was stolen from a US government owned computer on loan to one of his professors. He didn't actually PAY $40k USD or even raise funds to cover the equivalen
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by swagtricker 3y ago
Here's 2min & 57 seconds that sums it up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nfgRf2A0Tc Bill & Balmer didn't even have an agreement with Seattle Computer Products when they pitched it to IBM. They waltzed i
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by swagtricker 3y ago
1 - Correction: writing late, typo - BASIC should have been property of the US tax payers. 2 - It was still pretty novel back then, but "borrowing" computer time w/o paying for it is (and was) theft of services. Like sneaking
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by swagtricker 3y ago
The general guideline isn't actually an amount: it's 3 - 6 months worth of living expenses. That is, what it takes to cover housing, transportation, food & utilities. If you're "living paycheck to paycheck" t
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by swagtricker 3y ago
Seattle area is blessed with a wealth of all ages and 21+ barcades. There's a great one less than 5 miles from my house. I've been a pinball fan for years and still play weekly, playing in a local league pre-COVID. About 2 year
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by swagtricker 4y ago
Scrum is training wheels. The time boxes are supposed to make you reflect and improve. Ditch Scrum. Go to Kanban, scope your stories smaller and prioritize bug fixes over all new work until you're not writing bugs. Can't ship
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by swagtricker 4y ago
No, no. Go right ahead and sink time and money into this sort of crap. Just like every attempt before, it'll generate a pile of garbage that's unmaintainable yet will still manage to poop out ONE single nugget of value: determin
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by swagtricker 4y ago
Don't forget the classic parody of SAFe which shows it as the overblown "waterfall in agile clothing" that it is: LAFABLE. https://www.lafable.com/
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by swagtricker 4y ago
You can skip the tar pit of the Scrum Industrial complex (e.g. "here! you MUST take our certificate program!") and the drag setting pointless sprint boundaries and focus on just repeatedly, successfully, ship high quality software
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by swagtricker 4y ago
Yes! This is exactly my point. Having included something as fluff as "Essential Scrum" on TOP of skipping Beck's "TDD by Example" or Feathers' "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" is very regretta
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by swagtricker 4y ago
Not only why is there a garbage book like "Essential Scrum", why is there no mention of any unit testing or TDD books? If the author is seriously going to plug Martin Fowler's Refactoring book but make no effort to call out
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by swagtricker 4y ago
I feel like the concern here is that we're quickly moving from open ended, content and _capability_ creation era(e.g. I can program anything I want for my PC _WITH_ my PC) to a mere _content_ creation at best and preferably _consumptio
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by swagtricker 4y ago
People can go ahead mod me down for this, but I honestly don't care at this point. Here's the best ways to avoid this: 1.) Quit doing PRs for feedback. Start doing pair or mob programming. Bonus points if you ditch PRs completely
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by swagtricker 4y ago
Define "slightly older". The US Equal Opportunity Employment considers you part of the protected class against age discrimination if you're over 40 (see https://www.eeoc.gov/age-discrimination ). Let's
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by swagtricker 4y ago
Yes. This bullshit you describe was real. I remember having managers in 1998 using Microsoft Project and HUGE plotters that were used for nothing but printing out massive Gantt charts. And, of course, having DAILY meeting when we were be
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by swagtricker 4y ago
If you want pacing & support for Nand2Tetris, Coursera has it split into two courses. I've done the first from NAND gates to a working CUP & assembler and can testify it's worthy. Coursera loves to have content sales, so
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by swagtricker 5y ago
Grab one of these: The C64 https://www.amazon.com/C64-not-machine-specific/dp/B08GMTJYX... Games pre-installed (and you can add your own) plus you can boot into BASIC.
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by swagtricker 5y ago
Don't bother working for a large company. If you haven't seen it already, just watch the movie Office Space ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/ ) and you can see everything you need to know about doin
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by swagtricker 5y ago
I've gotten hired due to LinkedIn exactly once, and it was helpful. However, that's not how I "use" it. LinkedIn's best use is what it was intended for: a professional networking social media space. Here's h
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by swagtricker 5y ago
+1 for Suits. I didn't do all the seasons, but I was pretty solid for the first five. Also, every guy could use a "Donna" in his life.
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by swagtricker 5y ago
So competitive for status - just had to show up Springfield by being larger, eh?( https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Springfield_Tire_Yard ).
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by swagtricker 5y ago
Never start a business without OPM*. Also, in too many cases, the term applied should be 'entremanure', as the people in question are full of... You get the idea. *Other People's Money
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by swagtricker 5y ago
If you think you have an idea worth pursuing, work on it on the side while keeping your "day job". If it takes off, quit your job once you can replace your income with the side work. Also, as a warning - double check your intell
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by swagtricker 5y ago
I highly doubt that could be done profitably. The water infrastructure support alone (increased water usage for showering, laundry, dishwashers) might kill it when you consider the sparse "office" kitchenette on every other floor
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by swagtricker 5y ago
One other point of praise for this approach: being able to run in a web browser via Repl.it is a huge win given the combination of the rise of tablets, as well as the popularity of locked down Windows/Chromebook laptops for students.
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by swagtricker 5y ago
This is a great idea, but does need some more hand-holding and fine points. For example, chapter 3 goes into turtle graphics. Great. However, the book doesn't tell students they need to use the Repl.it Python-Turtle repl rather than
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by swagtricker 5y ago
“But I was going into Tosche Station to pick up some power converters!”
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by swagtricker 5y ago
Fair enough. And I'll admit the above statement is exactly why I'm not a business person:)
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by swagtricker 5y ago
Yeah. I remember looking at the Slack IPO and saying to myself, "Your F'ing kidding me. They went public for doing IRC channels in a web browser with emojis?!?!"
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by swagtricker 5y ago
Joke answer: "Because like an adult asking a child, 'What do you want to be when they grow up?', they're actually looking for ideas because they don't know what the hell they're doing":)

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