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by abbadadda 2y ago
> [In fact most companies have such opaque issue boards that as a customer I get so frustrated when I find a small issue or bug and have to spend like 50 hours back and forth to prove it’s a bug and actually get a ticket put in the track
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by abbadadda 2y ago
Probably there should be an independent body that oversees postmortems on tech issues, with the ability to suggest changes. This is what airlines face during crash investigations and often new rules are put in place (e.g., don’t let the shi
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by abbadadda 2y ago
This is greyed out, but I tend to agree with the sentiment that there’s a right way and a wrong way to approach these “EV” questions. OP was a bit harsh with the stupid comment, and for SWEs EV understanding is not usually a critical thing,
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by abbadadda 2y ago
Let’s see the Forbes 100 under 100 list!!
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by abbadadda 2y ago
This friction is often invisible. This cost is not measurable. Hard work needs to go into measuring developer productivity, helping business people understand, and then make that number go up. The second part is perhaps the hardest as if yo
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by abbadadda 2y ago
Boeing enters the chat
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by abbadadda 2y ago
Surely this is an erosion in public trust, but if you’ve ever been in a busy public toilet that smells horrendous, you know from experience that maintaining these public toilets is no easy feat. At the same time, I agree with the thrust of
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by abbadadda 2y ago
Source?
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by abbadadda 2y ago
We can punish those who make egregious errors, like saving passwords in plain text, either literally or figuratively during code reviews (i.e., if a senior developer rejects a PR because it is too insecure)
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by abbadadda 2y ago
Cool game. “7 +” is the start of a valid equation so making it error out can be confusing for 7 year olds that you need to “jump” over the operator. Great otherwise!
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by abbadadda 2y ago
I don’t think you understood. The mother’s illness was not generalized to the collapse of global civilization. The author’s experience with the former is being generalized to the experience of others as it relates to the “collapse” of globa
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by abbadadda 2y ago
Nice. What game is that card from? And I like the idea of meeting folks in London Mensa, my IQ is probably not high enough to be a member AFIAK, I’m perhaps top 10%-20% IQ, but that’s not all bad either. But I’ve met some people in Mensa th
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by abbadadda 2y ago
> I can't think of much to add to that; good luck! Sorry, I was trying to point out the difference in what I’m after regarding the comment above re: “counter-culture.” That is, of course, I am interested in interacting with others a
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by abbadadda 2y ago
I could perhaps find some of what I’m looking for in a counter-culture community, but I don’t think that’s what I’m describing necessarily (see more thoughts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40029893 )
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by abbadadda 2y ago
Wow! That is really well said and I think quite profound. I’ll check out the video later… I’ve been chipping away at understanding myself but I suppose I’ve not been very proactive about becoming myself. Recent years have been better but I’
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Activation Energy: Where Can I Find Fellow Weirdos?
3 points by abbadadda 2y ago|10 comments
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The golden age for CEO whisperers may be coming to an end(economist.com)
2 points by abbadadda 3y ago|1 comments
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London Overground split into 6 lines with new names(madeby.tfl.gov.uk)
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by abbadadda 3y ago
> Did you think just the audiobook wasn't better or in general it wasn't as good as The Phoenix Project? I listened to both audiobooks. Something about the paperbacks I couldn’t get in to. Now that I think about it, I don’t wan
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by abbadadda 3y ago
I started listening to "The Unicorn Project" on audiobook. It is not as good as "The Phoenix Project" audiobook, but it does a decent job of describing problems from the software engineer's perspective. The problem
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by abbadadda 3y ago
Does Scrum help with this WFH predicament?
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by abbadadda 3y ago
95%, 6 perfect cuts (cut the 2nd one really terribly)
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by abbadadda 3y ago
“Microservices” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
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Ask HN: Any alternatives to Duolingo without gamification?
56 points by abbadadda 3y ago|62 comments
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by abbadadda 3y ago
Did Steve Jobs have psychopathic traits? I don’t know. This answer on Quora has more to say about him being a perfectionist: https://www.quora.com/Was-Steve-Jobs-a-psychopath?share=1 I don’t disagree with you that having ps
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by abbadadda 3y ago
I think you missed the point re: bikeshedding
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The world’s biggest problem? Powerful psychopaths [video](youtube.com)
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by abbadadda 3y ago
The Phoenix Project was in fact inspired by The Goal: > “The Phoenix Project”, a popular business fable about DevOps, is an adaptation of “The Goal” by Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt. They are virtually the same book. The twist it takes on “The G
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by abbadadda 3y ago
This is a bad, and incorrect, definition of what unit tests are: > Unit testing (the process of checking small pieces of code to deliver information early and often)
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Ask HN: Need a DevOps Revolution, how to enforce code quality?
2 points by abbadadda 3y ago|1 comments

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