MortenK

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by MortenK 13y ago
"The reason for this is because a business needs to avoid having emergencies " Exactly what I wrote in my post, if you'd actually bothered to read the lower half. "If there is an emergency and an employee does need to st
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by MortenK 13y ago
1) Of course, but if you do not care at all for the business, the product or your team, your not exactly a paragon of the model employee are you? 2) Leaving at 17 under ordinary circumstances is not flaking out. If there is a major crisis w
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by MortenK 13y ago
Certainly. Is there anything in my post that suggests flexibility should not be two ways?
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by MortenK 13y ago
Where did that come from... Did you read the post in it's entirety?
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by MortenK 13y ago
Yeah I might not have been entirely clear in my post, but I write: "The other side of the coin is that lots of software companies, really has little to no control over software development... This is a company where crisis' occurs
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by MortenK 13y ago
I think I have not formulated myself very well. A bad company is "a company where crisis' occurs daily or weekly instead of maybe once every couple of months." In such a company, crisis is the standard, not the deviation. In
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by MortenK 13y ago
This is my personal opinion as a software development manager, so take it as just that. A developer that always leave at exactly 17.00 and adamantly refuse to come in on a Saturday, gives a very clear signal that they don't give a shit
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by MortenK 13y ago
Can anybody with practical experience developing with Wit.ai comment on how accurate and consistent it works? Is there any new and better working software behind this, compared to the current breed of frankly abysmal voice recognition softw
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by MortenK 13y ago
Nothing of substance can fit in a tweet.
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by MortenK 13y ago
Some of the differences between trading card games, shareware etc and pay-to-play: 1) The older models have transparent pricing, whereas pay-to-play have opaque pricing. You can tell the price of a deck or full version of a shareware game,
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by MortenK 13y ago
You are the one here acting like a troll. You come off as argumentative to the point of combative. You nitpick and swear, all in a highly unpleasant tone. If you really are done, great, the discussion will be better off.
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by MortenK 13y ago
Like the author mentions, he subscribes to the "no silver bullet" thought. Methodologies doesn't ensure project success because it's insignificant compared to the individuals involved and the scope of the product. The fo
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by MortenK 13y ago
I might be speaking blasphemy here, but is the advantages of unit testing worth the increased code complexity? In quite a few codebases I've seen, the amount of tests was entirely unrelated to how stable and maintainable the system was
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by MortenK 13y ago
A big question in this is what constitutes a vendor. People who are experienced enough to price the risk into contracts, manage cashflow and not put all eggs into one basket won't get burned from a customers' insolvency. But that
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by MortenK 13y ago
I'm surprised that both you and tptacek seem to think it's much less of a deal to pay back vendors. Say the vendor is a startup or otherwise small company who's survival is hinged on getting paid what you owe. It's okay
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by MortenK 13y ago
Well written code covers the what and the how. The why is what you need to be covering with code comments. This is for the inevitable time when the "simply not so smart" developers has to fix errors in the absentee guru's cod
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by MortenK 13y ago
Agree. Notch turned his code into hundreds of millions of dollars, so not much attention should be paid to people calling him a bad programmer.
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by MortenK 13y ago
You consider striking up a conversation to a person behind you in the food/drinks line as "bum-rushing by a random creep"? Jesus Christ, I really don't think you should be dishing out conversation / networking advic
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by MortenK 13y ago
Dropbox is probably one of the more sustainable companies mentioned in the article, since they have a very large amount of actual paying users and revenue.
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by MortenK 13y ago
Many if not most developers have the same feeling, that "bad code" is objectively bad. And how nice it would be if code quality could be graded on a scale. But it really can't - one mans "elegant" is another's
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by MortenK 13y ago
I don't do many cold calls, but sometimes I reach out to people on email based on their online reputation, blog posts or similar if I feel I can help them or they can help me. A lot of these people are busy but many actually give a rep
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by MortenK 13y ago
Project went bad? It's just a matter of fixing the process. That's a reasoning that's simple, easy to understand and entirely wrong. Contrary to what the evangelists' tell us, process has small (I'd almost say minim
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by MortenK 13y ago
Wow, that's faster than Barbara Blackburn who holds the Guinness world record. You should compete :)
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by MortenK 13y ago
I don't think there's much commercial potential in that one I'm afraid. Personally I just look out the window before deciding what to wear.
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by MortenK 13y ago
Well if not an IT bubble, surely there's a housing bubble. "Home prices in San Francisco and surrounding counties rose more than 15% in the past year". That's the kind of increase we saw year after year just a year or tw
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by MortenK 13y ago
I don't entirely understand. Is it wrong of them to run a startup news site while having their own startup? If so, why? Or is that unrelated, and it's just that these particular guys are not very nice?
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by MortenK 13y ago
Ishikawa diagrams and the 5 whys are quality control tools, specifically root cause analysis tools. What OP mentions is taking notes of his though process as he goes along, so he can jump back in after an interruption.
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by MortenK 13y ago
Yes the majority of positions are never listed publicly, so numbers from Monster is only the tip of the iceberg. But that goes for all positions regardless of language. If you have 5 times the listed positions for one tech over the other, i
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by MortenK 13y ago
Who is talking about quality? OP posted that the majority of development jobs are within .NET and PHP. Some guy gave the low-brow dismissal "was this in India by any chance?". I just supplied position numbers from one of the large
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by MortenK 13y ago
You mean tech companies like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Nvidia, Intel and IBM? Yes they do have positions listed at Monster. If by tech companies you mean week-over-week growth companies like fart.io and sfnavelgazer.com then no I don't

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