adamconroy

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by adamconroy 10y ago
Yes, also it takes a pro to know one I would suggest. Reminds me of an amusing email I saw recently, where a recent grad, wanna be business analyst, was evaluating a vendor and declared after meeting some of their team that they were '
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by adamconroy 10y ago
I guess its a subjective thing, depending on where you have worked and with whom. I'm pretty picky where I work these days, so maybe I haven't witnessed what you are talking about. However I think these days, at the higher end of
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by adamconroy 10y ago
Quietly unfolding? This has been going on for decades. In fact I think it's prevalence is less these days. Not that I think the avg quality is constantly improving.
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by adamconroy 10y ago
no, often you don't have to pay for technical debt. the code may never be refactored, and / or the whole system / module replaced before lots of code is touched.
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by adamconroy 10y ago
i agree and on top of that I've always thought 'technical debt' was a bad analogy (like most analogies). my reasoning is that real world debt is inescapable, whereas if someone writes some crap code, which is hard to read&#x2
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by adamconroy 10y ago
I was about to say the same thing as your parent. I recently had a nice feature toggle experience using a strategy pattern with DI. Basically there was one 'if' statement in the DI container configuration code that looked up a co
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by adamconroy 10y ago
Is that code?
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by adamconroy 10y ago
2000. VB6. Manufacturing workflow / management system, BOM..... I did some consulting work at the same company a year ago and that system was still chugging along. They had pretty much rewritten / replaced everything else arou
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by adamconroy 10y ago
I guess my ideal alternative would be simple diversity. But if everyone is going to wear the same thing then I would prefer it if the fabric was more aesthetically pleasing. But of course its none of my business, everyone can do what they
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by adamconroy 10y ago
Jeans are a weird phenomenon. Ugly, heavy, unflattering fabric. They only look good on people who would look good no matter what they wore. Worse still, they are like a disease. I was in a bar/restaurant recently, and I couldn'
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by adamconroy 10y ago
Interesting article for me as I just rolled out an app for a client and a lot of this feels familiar. Firstly I was lucky I didn't have a PSD driven design, but my client demanded a fixed price quote, so I insisted they pay me to do fa
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by adamconroy 11y ago
Microsoft's WCF Data Services is HATEOAS, and works beautifully from that point of view. Unfortunately it is a little slow and verbose because your payload becomes bloated, and has fallen out of favor with both MS and developers much
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by adamconroy 11y ago
It depends what you are trying to achieve, but acquiring a cms of some variety, then hacking on that is not a bad way to learn. I'm not a web UI programmer, although have been at times over the years and still do some professional work
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by adamconroy 11y ago
Welcome to life. The only thing that matters is what is perceived.
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by adamconroy 11y ago
On the other hand, getting a perfect soft boiled egg so that the whites are cooked but the yolk is completely runny is something I struggle with. I probably get about 1 in 3 perfect. I use a timer of course, but then the size of the egg s
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by adamconroy 11y ago
Strange. Maybe I don't do it that often, but I don't recall having much trouble peeling hard boiled eggs. My method is to boil them for desired time, run cold water over them for a bit, then drop them gently on the bench probabl
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by adamconroy 11y ago
Some people simply lack the capability to challenge their own opinions and beliefs. I find it very unattractive. On the other hand other people like myself are too objective and open minded, and as a result never form a strong opinion on
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by adamconroy 11y ago
Its the expectation / perspective he had. He is talking like someone who had to report the problem, who had to have his issue resolved and was really pleased with the service. Its not like he just bought an iPhone which had a flaw and
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by adamconroy 11y ago
Interesting. As an aside, I find this phrase strange, given the context: "The SO team was absolutely incredible to deal with during this. They were fast, responsive and reasonable."
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by adamconroy 11y ago
Junk article. The important vendors are ACID. Just because the default isolation level isn't serializable doesn't warrant the conclusion. One amusing thing is that every now and then there is an article stating that certain rela
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by adamconroy 11y ago
I agree totally. I almost fell over laughing recently when I saw a new headline about Dropbox and business customers. It might have changed, but the one thing that summed up how useless it is for business is that you can't effectively
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by adamconroy 11y ago
I said he should ignore his boss's interactions with others. Do you really think it is healthy for op to be stressing over the fact his boss flirts and is married? I repeat, he should mind his own business.
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by adamconroy 11y ago
Sounds like you need to laugh at his jokes and follow his orders. Ignore anything relating to others, its not your business and not something to stress about. Think about the adage "keep your friends close and your enemies closer&quot
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by adamconroy 11y ago
I've been contracting since 1997 and I haven't had a single day without employment. Except when I've chosen to have a holiday. My secret has been to do such a good job that the client finds me indispensable and then leave on
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by adamconroy 12y ago
What about a design that uses kinect energy accumulated when you are going downhill?
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by adamconroy 12y ago
I don't agree with the term anti-pattern in this case, but I find standups boring and a chore. I also think standups drive a culture of velocity instead of progress, which can be a little maddening.
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by adamconroy 12y ago
Shouldn't Elon be concerned that the car might decide the human is superfluous, open a door and swerve wildly until the body is ejected
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by adamconroy 12y ago
A smart, meticulous, better than other people person like myself can't get past the hubris, sorry.
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by adamconroy 12y ago
Hawkings and Musk should stick to making comments on topics they understand.
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by adamconroy 12y ago
For me it should be careful not to forget about reading books. From ages 10 to 24 I would have averaged at least one book a week. Then my internet addiction surfaced. Since then I have probably averaged 2 books a year, but at the same ti

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