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PaulRivers
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PaulRivers
8y ago
No, theen who don't consider it get laid while the men who do consider don't get anywhere. You'll notice these themes are always repetively "sex bad!" with no "sex good" elements ever.
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8y ago
The agile methodolgy claimed we needed to switch to it to increase quality. Quality got worse. In this scenario it's the fault of agile, as the reason for doing agile was to increase quality.
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8y ago
No it's not lost. It gets the same though longer winded results of saying "no". The b.a. product owner complains to your manager that you're not a team player and you get into trouble with your boss. Even if that didn&#x
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8y ago
I'm highly suspicious that every time there is one of these threads, agile-consulting companies simply monitor the web for them and send a bunch of posters over to make up fictional srories about how agile is going great where they wor
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8y ago
> Trust your engineers to do the right thing on their own and they might just surprise you. I mean - trust but verify. While I largely agree with you it's always demotivating for the team to realize one dev is doing no actual work a
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PaulRivers
9y ago
Manipulative people copy commonly know (often stereotypical) stories as cover to whatever they're really doing. Real stories, and manipulative fake stories , would be almost exactly the same, because one is copying the other. The manip
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9y ago
Yeah, this article was very "See if you're a good person like me you'd never go nazi". If the SJW's taught me anything it's that the people loudest yelling that they're the good people would be the first p
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10y ago
Ha, that's great!
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10y ago
"Whenever I've had a whiteboard programming interview, it's always been a trivial problem" I've had a few, and it's never trivial problems. Here's a trivial problem: - Write a method that takes 2 parame
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10y ago
"I think that the perception that it's just a hazing process comes from a failure to look at it from the company's perspective." Actually, speaking of looking at it from the companies perspective, in 2010 google and seve
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10y ago
Yeah, that happened in 2010, they got sued for agreeing to not try to recruit programmers from rival companies. Right after that we saw these long tortuous white board interviews introduced which serve the same function but without them ge