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by 0x445442 7y ago
He probably still thinks of linux as punk as he happily spends his days configuring Sales Force.
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by 0x445442 7y ago
But even your example can be viewed as an unavoidable cost of doing business where the alternative is to not be in business. In other words there's a distinction to be made between regulatory compliance where you have no choice and aut
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by 0x445442 7y ago
> orgs who view software engineering purely as a cost center This is spot on! I've heard this phrase before and it's never made any sense to me. Any business concerned about profit should never have a "cost" center. I
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by 0x445442 7y ago
> Another example is the push for 'DevOps' and 'Cloud' It's been my experience that delivering business value is taking longer because of this, not less. It's hubris to believe that a single person can be co
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by 0x445442 7y ago
You know, I've seen a number of Uncle Bob talks where he emphasizes professionalism and every time he does I envision interactions like you've described. But every time I hear this I think to myself, well he's in a unique pos
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by 0x445442 7y ago
> that the government can create for "free" One of the very smart things the U.S. has done is take a good portion of those printed dollars and invest in weapons which allow us to force the world to accept the same printed dolla
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by 0x445442 7y ago
This! To me the only upside to the whole architecture (from a devs perspective) is that you can deploy these things to production independently of other parts of the system. If you can't do that with confidence because you're atte
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by 0x445442 7y ago
MyBatis
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by 0x445442 7y ago
I can't recall if it was in Prag Prog but it's one of my favorite Andy Hunt quotes... "Change your team or change your team"
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by 0x445442 7y ago
Given there's so much of this ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs ) right now, I'm not convinced #1 would have a such a negative impact. If we broaden are thinking it could have an awesome impact long
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by 0x445442 7y ago
That and when running a business you get to keep profits but someone else pays for your losses.
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by 0x445442 7y ago
Agree with you and parent. "Agile", in it's current form, is managements holy grail pursuit of commoditizing software development. It's the latest management fad to circumvent the law of fast, good and cheap. Quality sof
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by 0x445442 7y ago
While I don't agree with everything RMS said I'm not bothered by it either. However, I tend to have the same effect on people when I think I'm just being honest but it comes off as offensive. It's a hard balancing act, o
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by 0x445442 7y ago
Real money would be any instrument that's based on work already performed instead of work promised to be performed in the future, i.e. not debt based.
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by 0x445442 7y ago
> What do you do if you have 20 years of software development experience? Move to a market where your skills are in high demand and focus on middle/business and back end development. Or better yet, embedded systems development. I&#x
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Ask HN: How big should an AWS Lambda be?
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by 0x445442 7y ago
> I was hired as a contractor/consultant by a major media company earlier this year to help the team develop some cloud based software. I was hired to improve their testing karate. When I started, I was constantly being blocked; I&#
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by 0x445442 7y ago
You've touched on some very key problems here. It's seems like at some point around five years ago the three tier architecture with it's division of labor vanished over night. I'm not saying things were perfect back then
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by 0x445442 7y ago
I don't view the term "collectivized micromanagement" as a bastardized term for what's going on at most places touting themselves as "Agile". In fact, I think it's a much more honest and accurate term for
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by 0x445442 7y ago
I agree with you. This "Agile" cancer that has infected the industry needs to die now. Someone here called it collectivized micromanagement and that's the best term I have heard for what's become of "Agile".
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by 0x445442 7y ago
I think 6 to 10 is even be too large for most projects depending on how those people are allocated. If the project has go to people for certain areas of the project like configuration management, CI/CD, BDD test implementation or front
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by 0x445442 7y ago
I've done quite a bit and have never had any difficulty sniffing out "gloss" with just a few minutes of questions over the phone using the applicant's resume as a starting point for the conversation. When you're foc
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by 0x445442 7y ago
At this point in my career I won’t do coding tests or problems at home or over the phone. I’ve done my fair share of hiring and I’ve never needed to resort to such things. Being asked to perform these tasks is actually a pretty good litmus
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by 0x445442 7y ago
Agreed but it leads me to wonder if they couldn’t do a lot more hiring using this mode. The mode based on reputation, voucher and referral; you know, the way almost every other field does it.
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by 0x445442 7y ago
> Would you hire Linus for your bog standard dev role? Of course not. He'd be bored in days. I've often wondered if Rob Pike or Guido Van Rossum went through the same interview process at Google that we all hear stories about.
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by 0x445442 7y ago
> But the sad reality of programmers' lives is the disconnect between the required cognitive capabilities of workers and the actual (domain) task at hand. Yeah, I just don't understand the less lines of code argument. This is n
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by 0x445442 7y ago
Right out of the chute the Containers 101 video assumes a huge amount of contextual knowledge by the viewer, an existing in-depth knowledge of docker. If the course is "101" they should, at the very least, mention this upfront and
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by 0x445442 7y ago
If by rabbit hole you mean taking the time to know how the system their responsible for maintaining, updating and troubleshooting in production works, I'd say give them as much time as they need. If you think that's taking too lon
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by 0x445442 7y ago
‘dirs -v’ shows an enumerated list of directories. If I follow that up with pushd +11 I will be taken to the 11th path listed in the prior dirs command. As far as I know this isn’t implemented out of the box in PS
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by 0x445442 7y ago
> It's not clear to me why I commented on this earlier but the defectiveness of PS as a shell hit me almost immediately when I tried to recreate my workflow of 'dirs -v', pushd and popd with a large number of paths on the

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