anthonyb

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Black Start(en.wikipedia.org)
289 points by anthonyb 13y ago|105 comments
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by anthonyb 13y ago
same here. I'm sure playing from Australia doesn't help, either.
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Well, just from skimming some of the pages on Amazon, it seems to back up a lot of the original article's points. eg. on p25 McConnell lists project outcomes by project size: 1000 LOC -> 81% on time, 4% late, 2% cancelled 10,000
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Well, sure - every team starts with 10 people or so, but in pathological organisations you'll get a lot more people who need to give status reports, particularly around crunch time...
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Now you have 50 status emails and 100 responses to those emails (and 50 responses to those responses...) that you MUST!!1! read and digest each day. Plus other people have already made (bad) decisions and started working on stuff that (nega
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Thanks for not adding anything meaningful to the conversation.
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by anthonyb 13y ago
The other thing that a lot of people forget is that a stand up is supposed to be informal. If you're leaving a paper trail that management can go back through (even in theory), then it will get sanitised, and people will try and make themse
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by anthonyb 13y ago
No it's not. Because frequently, the things which are blocking you could be easily fixed by them changing something simple in their workflow, and vice versa. Even just a heads up that something important is coming down the line can save you
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by anthonyb 13y ago
It's not a strawman, it's called argumentum ad absurdum . If we take his premise as true: > If some one is good, they will win anyway. If they are not, they can't and won't. The conclusion from that is that the lack of women in tech
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Pycon this year -> outreach and encouragement -> 20% of attendees were women: http://www.forbes.com/sites/women2/2013/04/09/record-number-...
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by anthonyb 13y ago
You dance around it, but that's what you're saying. What else would explain the < 5% female speaker rate at conferences? Obviously the good women are making it, and the rest... just aren't very good. "Reservations" or whatever you want
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Ah, right. No women in tech because they're not very good at it. Gotcha.
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Also "meritocracy". http://braythwayt.com/2013/04/01/quote-metritocracy-unquote.... http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/comment/columnists/eli...
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Let's try a different tack. Say that you put out a call for conference papers, but due to a bug in your mailing list software, only every other email is sent - 50% of potential participants are excluded. What do you think will happen to the
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by anthonyb 13y ago
I'll ignore the first line, since I'm parsing that as trolling, but the second line bears some thought. The basic answer to that is that they're not - if you know someone who stutters, I would like to think that you'd encourage them to pres
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by anthonyb 13y ago
> You are not a technical conference. You are a person. Well spotted. The point is that the status quo is a choice, just as being more inclusive is a choice. Which is the better choice? And your post has a couple of assumptions that I
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Well I don't exist to facilitate your preferred status quo. That's the context of the article - some speakers are exercising their right not to participate on panels or give talks unless the conference makes more than a lip service effo
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by anthonyb 13y ago
> did they believe they could learn and work in the industry? > did they get encouragement and support along the way? > did the person have a job or interests to give them the opportunity to learn those skills? > did the pe
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Committed into master / dev branches, was what I meant to type. And yes, essentially pull requests, but in person rather than over the internet :)
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by anthonyb 13y ago
In general that'll just make you miserable. If it's that bad, either start actively looking (eg. interviews at lunch time), or quit and fall back on your 3-6 months of savings runway while you look.
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Well, in the places where I've seen it done right, the code reviews happen before the code is committed. Fixing existing code after it's already in the code base is a losing battle (particularly since it usually has to be re-tested), and
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Professional programmers do things in certain ways because it's more efficient. It doesn't necessarily follow that you should change that just because someone is just starting out. Just because they're learning to code, doesn't mean that yo
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by anthonyb 14y ago
You could say the same thing about $10 - the value of a $10 note to (eg.) a millionaire is a lot less than it is to most people. If the employee is hungry, then they'll value lunch more. For accounting purposes though, it's $10.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
I think "savings" is probably the wrong word - "profit" might be better. If I have a car to drive to work, then I should be able to claim some proportion of it as a deduction. Currently that's not allowed (at least in Australia, where I'm f
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by anthonyb 14y ago
I don't know about that, but you do need to at least interact with the code on some level, eg. by cut+pasting, then playing around with the code to make it do different things. Also, I don't know many professional programmers who type every
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by anthonyb 14y ago
No need to inflict it on random passers-by though :P
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by anthonyb 14y ago
...and for good reason too. Go back and read his comment history before you warn him.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
The Law of conservation of complexity in action! :)
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by anthonyb 14y ago
There actually really wasn't any logic in that statement. I'm not saying "I have this message from a recruiter, therefore all recruiters are scum." It's a reminder .
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by anthonyb 14y ago
It's not a hirers' market or a hirer's market :P

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