Teeboo

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by Teeboo 10y ago
Perfectly calm. Just eating my popcorn and watching the downvotes on Hacker Reddit. The same people down voting each comment rather than apply discretion shrug
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by Teeboo 10y ago
You are correct, it's just that we wrote down those behaviours and practices used by successful teams and they became the agile values. It's not self-fulfilling. It's fulfilling. The same way Doctors wrote down the treatment
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by Teeboo 10y ago
That's a fair challenge and I can accept I might be over-effusive in my praise.
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by Teeboo 10y ago
I am not blindly following it. I think it is sound practical advice given by a titan of engineering. I have yet to read anything of yours which says why I shouldn't listen to Kent Beck. For every well respected opinion or technology
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by Teeboo 10y ago
I simply searched for the people you referenced and the word Agile. I had no idea your blog would be ranking first page for anti-agile rants. You find it creepy that you list your twitter profile and you publish an online blog and people t
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by Teeboo 10y ago
You understand Booch did not write the master programming list referenced by the OP. (No doubt you will edit to remove that erroneous reference but shrug ) Saying Kent Beck, Ken Schwaber, Jeff Sutherland etc has not led successful compan
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by Teeboo 10y ago
Not borderline stalker; was just interested in your experience. Was hoping you would blow me away with cutting edge engineering you speak about. shrug Agile vendors don't tell you how to do your job. They tell you how your job fit
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by Teeboo 10y ago
EDIT: Just reviewed your Twitter. It's 2000 tweets of snark and criticism of everything you come across - GoT, other coders, Agile, politics. I doubt we will get anywhere constructive on this thread but my original post remains bel
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Need/Want selling their emoji mask business for $75K(needwant.com)
1 points by Teeboo 10y ago|0 comments
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by Teeboo 10y ago
What? Seriously, what? What argument are you making here? Boxing / Ali was an analogy to demonstrate the widespread respect of the engineering community that KB has earned. /awkward To be clear; my post was not about you being bo
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by Teeboo 10y ago
Well luckily there is a book for that ;-) 1996. Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns. Prentice Hall. (ISBN 978-0134769042) 1996. Kent Beck's Guide to Better Smalltalk : A Sorted Collection. Cambridge University Press. (ISBN 978-0521644372)
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by Teeboo 10y ago
All spoken brilliantly as someone who has not seen the nuance beyond the post. The Facebook note was written by Kent Beck, father of eXtreme Programming (XP) and original Agile manifesto signatory. He is not saying follow this methodology
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by Teeboo 10y ago
The average IT hire for a permanent role costs nearly $8,000.* This includes the use of temp workers, recruitment fees and management time. If lost productivity is included the figure can be $50K or more. The reason you think the price of t
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by Teeboo 10y ago
Space is only at a premium because it costs more to have more space. The real question is "how much space are you willing to sacrifice for energy self-sufficiency?" In the UK, electric bills hover around $1200 a year for electric&
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by Teeboo 10y ago
This is one of the most optimistic and best things I have read in weeks. +1
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by Teeboo 10y ago
Insightful observation. The quality of the network is eroded by non-human automation.
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by Teeboo 10y ago
Elaborate please. Why is it different?
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Electronic Vehicle Tax system returns less revenue(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by Teeboo 10y ago|0 comments
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by Teeboo 10y ago
Great looking landing page, the clarity on the images is particularly good and and it loaded super-fast here in the UK. The service looks really good too. Good luck gaining traction :-)
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by Teeboo 10y ago
But not in this case, the first thing that came to mind was a sufficient rebuttal. Since you are constantly referencing the legal system you should remember it is the prosecutors role to prove the hypothesis. It is not on the defence to di
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by Teeboo 10y ago
...and yet soldiers in WW1 and WW2 were subjected to stressful situations lasting years, some of which manifested in mental trauma but many of which actually behaved in the manner required. My point is; you are neither psychologist nor prof
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by Teeboo 10y ago
As as we know, engineers are never in stressful situations so no point testing it. Production never goes down, critical errors don't arise and time-pressure tasks are rare.
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Silicon Valley has a 'problem' problem(medium.com)
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by Teeboo 10y ago
No. I freelance and don't have to do any of that. However, when I was seeking permanent employment I understood that it was not my circus and not my monkey's. I had to jump through the hoops. The same for coding as it was prod
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by Teeboo 10y ago
I have met some people with degrees, from extremely respected institutions, who I would not let organise the coffee in a startup let alone be involved in serious business tasks. Likewise, some of the best engineers I have met were self-taug
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by Teeboo 10y ago
Lawyers do not investigate crimes; solving a whodunnit is a terrible comparison. Plumbers, unlike computer programmers, are typically hired purely by referral or a small amount of marketing. Again, you make a terrible analogy. A plumber go
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by Teeboo 10y ago
Then yeh...HN is not really that kind of space.
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by Teeboo 10y ago
Then I apologise for the snark. I thought it was sarcasm. Here is a look into FB without ad blocker https://imgur.com/gallery/d10Cb
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by Teeboo 10y ago
What? Not sure what has inspired your sarcasm. I and another poster are discussing the UX experience which differs between browser with ad-blocker and other versions. Thy kind of sarcasm is not really meant for HN. Do you have an opinion
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by Teeboo 10y ago
You don't see ads on Facebook? It must be the ad blocker. 70% of the real estate via browser is ad based. Those ads don't include promoted posts from pages you elected to follow. The majority of content on FB is promotional.

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