VengefulCynic

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by VengefulCynic 16y ago
As someone who has done both Enterprise .NET and startup work, I have to say that the reason we didn't use .NET is much the same as the reason you don't rent a 2-ton backhoe to dig up a flower bed: cost and overkill. Yes, the backhoe might
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by VengefulCynic 16y ago
In my mind the biggest question is "do your managers see this and understand it to be a problem?" If your managers think that a meeting culture is a good/desireable thing, no amount of lobbying by a single engineer (or even a small group of
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by VengefulCynic 16y ago
Exactly! While pointing out that the emperor has no clothes may be a trivially simple exercise, so long as people are willing to support the emperor, we need to keep shouting about his choice of apparel. All the more when (at least in the U
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by VengefulCynic 16y ago
Am I the only one who is questioning the quality of the conclusions in an article whose sole factual basis is a survey of college students from a single university and a couple of anecdotes from the CEO of a vitamin water business?
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by VengefulCynic 16y ago
I know in the grocery store (in the US) where I worked in high school, this was incorrect. The store was responsible for sticking the change, the armored truck was responsible for collecting the receipts, and the vendor was responsible for
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by VengefulCynic 16y ago
The design for the change dispenser is predicated on the same design principle as the soda dispenser: maximize the storage for items to be dispensed and utilize gravity to do the dispensing. If you move the slot up, you either change the di