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by abernard1 8y ago
Ad hominems aside, do you think spending $100K a year per homeless person--and having a dramatically increasing homeless population--is reasonable? Might there be some logic to that article?
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by abernard1 8y ago
I don't think these problems are related to tech. Metro areas that engage in these policies--tech or no--have had the same problems. NYC in the 70s to 80s was the same boat and had dramatic turnarounds during the Giuliani tenure. An
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by abernard1 8y ago
> Story points translate to cost. Customers determine the value. They examine the cost. And they determine whether the value is worth the cost. Is that 5 cent nail worth 5 cents or is it the nail that'll save the project? There is a
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by abernard1 8y ago
> Story points are supposed be a tool to help management with realistic scheduling, not a way to push developers to work as fast as possible. There is no empirical evidence that story points are more effective than other forms of estimat
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Because now "real" velocity goes down. There's a negative Pavlovian reaction developers have every sprint when 1) "commitment" was not achieved, or 2) story points decreased. To avoid that pain, developers will pad
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by abernard1 8y ago
> Story points are a way for your teams to improve themselves. These points have nothing to do with actual value produced to the business, or the developer's worth / skill. It's also very easy for a developer to begin to
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by abernard1 8y ago
> If you don’t include story points or some equivalent, this might be the most misleading metric you could use. I'm sorry, but if you think "story points" is something useful, your organization is already doomed. Story poi
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by abernard1 8y ago
> If you have different players who use different hit strategies how do you handle that with just a pure function? Lots of if statements in the function? Passing in lambdas in every case you call the function? I'll list a few strate
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by abernard1 8y ago
SOLID still doesn't accomplish what the author is criticizing in my opinion. If I have a SOLID codebase, how do I unroll the object graph to get, say, a hydrated JSON representation of that? (this is the data focus the author is talkin
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by abernard1 8y ago
Here would be my honest response to that: are you building a Facebook/Twitter scale app? I've watched quite a few companies waste a lot of time with static IDL systems for performance reasons (going back to CORBA in the 90s) and h
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by abernard1 8y ago
Indeed. 50K records in a single request is a highly abnormal situation, and we're still talking about only shaving 125ms off of the sum total time of that request. In most apps where something that crazy is happening, this is not a pr
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by abernard1 8y ago
My problem with current "Agile" beyond the complaints in that talk is it can mean absolutely anything. Nothing is falsifiable, and the snake oil industry views that as a feature. Most of that revolves around the way retrospective
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It was estimated at 210 million gallons, not barrels. The natural oil seeps are larger than Deepwater Horizon, every year.
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by abernard1 8y ago
Transit: https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format Transit has the following features: - self-describing - allows extension types on top of base types - strong value types + dynamic serialization - can transparently
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by abernard1 8y ago
> Reminder: $250t debt is $250t assets on someone else's balance sheet. The money is not owed to aliens but to other humans. The problem is there is no guarantee that those assets on the balance sheet are actually real. This is a g