WorkerBee

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by WorkerBee 16y ago
What big companies use it primarily? Banks - their back-end processing is often in Java.
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
Laying off people who weren't and aren't contributing anything productive Saying that UK public services are inefficient is one thing, probably true. Saying that the layoffs can be confined to people who "aren't contributing anything prod
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
I totally agree with your analysis of how the UK got into the current mess. That doesn't really say anything about the best way out of it.
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
Well, the UK is currently testing the opposite ridiculous notion - that by laying off lots of government workers (when there already lots of people looking for jobs), reducing benefits to everyone (which hits the poor far harder, of course)
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
You'd have to know all the other frameworks in order to know that yours is simpler.
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
How many frameworks is the right number? One is too few. One hundred is too many, it will just fragment people's skills. Experimentation and inventing your own wheel is good for learning. But most of the time those wheels shouldn't see a wi
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
One unanswered question: What specifically does this project bring that isn't present in ASP.NET MVC, OpenRasta, FubuMVC or MonoRail? Or that couldn't have been achieved by porting one of those to Mono (if they aren't there already)?
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
So, when Gates bought 150M of Apple stock in 97, was he betting against himself? Pretty much, yes. It made him seem like less of a monopolist. Worked out to be a winning bet for Gates. That's what happens when you bet on every horse in
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
Are you in the business of writing software that never gets used? I have, and I hated it. Quick feedback means quickly finding out if you're building the right thing.
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
there is a lot of anger towards the agile movement because it was sold as a tool to pointy haired bosses to impose, rather than a grassroots movement among engineers that embraced flexibility. the interesting thing is that the agile movem
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
Looks like in cases like that the bug tracker is making the underlying problems more visible. In that case, removing the bug tracker is not the way forward.
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
A bet on Gates is not a bet against Jobs. Yes it was. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh "The first Macintosh was introduced on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a gr
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
You can't successfully own code that you don't control. I believe that the best outcome for both of you would be 20% of time set aside for refactoring and increasing test coverage. Sure you'd want more but features have to roll out too. Man
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
Could you sit down with one of his books and read it on an iPad or kindle?
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
It takes a lot more that just http. I'd need to know the URL schema if you're restful, or the method names if you're SOAPy. Then there's the format of the data (SOAP, JSON, XML ..) and the expected data fields in the data sent and received,
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
It looks like Appleseed has at least being doing the "Release early, release often" thing, which is very important. I really can't say that Diaspora has been doing that better. Or at all.
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
Then give me open protocols and endpoints so that I can write C# code to talk to it.
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
I think you lost the typical user at "whoever wants to download the source". Facebook users don't want to do that Typical facebook users are not early adopters. None of these projects are even close to targeting typical facebook users yet
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
All words are cool if you don't know what they mean. If the reader knows what it means but the writer doesn't, the effects are less predictable and desirable.
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
He mentioned in passing that writing a typical README requires just the right amount of planning upfront "just the right amount of planning upfront" is exactly what Scrum should do. It's not full-circle at all, it's another approach to cu
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
SCRUM ... all irrelevant unless the software we're building meets the needs of those that are using it. That statement misses the entire point of Scrum. What are those short iterations for, if not to get feedback from those using the sof
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
Fusion works (in that it successfully fuses atoms) and has since the 1960s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor You don't get more energy out than you put in, but if your goal is to make helium, that's hardly the point - just about every
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
You're getting your midlife crisis in early. Damn over-achiever. http://twitter.com/#search?q=middleclassproblems
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
but if it has some level of transaction log trail (however asynchronous) "All transactions are settled between the card and reader alone. Readers transmit the transactions to the back office in batches but there is no need for this to be
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
topic is a dud link - it takes me to a login page.
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
I'm still not seeing "10 years late".
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
It is, but scratch the surface and you're in a world of macro syntax ugliness. Conventional programming languages are better than that. "NO code" yeah right. And that's not even the "hard stuff" that can't be done in excel.
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
Yep. The headline is absolutely no surprise considering how much development and promotion effort is going into Azure.
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
Making apps is programming - you can make it more accessible, but "programming" is still a good definition of the activity. Making programs with no programming knowledge sounds about as useful as driving forklift trucks with no forklift-tru
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
the london-stock-exchange fiasco Are you referring to this? http://blogs.computerworld.com/london_stock_exchange_to_aban... Despite the ignorant and inflammatory commentary that I linked to, I doubt that Accenture's failure to write a s

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