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Show HN: My weekend project find words that sound similar to other words(whatsoundslike.com)
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LoC READ as proxy for programming skill
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by arthurjj 11y ago
This sound's like an application of Conway's law. Sometimes you make a bad technical decision because the "right" way involves to many political fights http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
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by arthurjj 11y ago
"Long stretch of imperative code however does not separate well and probably should remain a very large function." As someone who uses Resharper's Extract Method a lot this is a nice counterexample to where it's probably
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by arthurjj 11y ago
Doing that for each "specialty" would be amazing, but necessarily a team effort. Moving from desktop development to web development a few years ago was an interesting experience for me. I actually wrote up a list for "college
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Why MVP Should Stand for “Manually Verified Product”(arthur-johnston.com)
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by arthurjj 12y ago
"Cui bono" is a popular phrase for a reason
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by arthurjj 12y ago
That only works in situations with a competitive free market without any barriers to entry. So pretty much never
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Rubber Duckies and a 7-Pack: ZocDoc Engineering Awards(engineering.zocdoc.com)
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by arthurjj 12y ago
"The grass is always greener" is a cliche for a reason.
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Etsy-not good for crafters(wired.com)
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by arthurjj 12y ago
I can second this. If you can't fix the underlying reason that you were paged at 3AM it gets old fast
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by arthurjj 12y ago
Got to write some F# professionally. Wrote up an article about getting F# adopted in the work place. It got ~1k views https://medium.com/@the_ajohnston/how-to-get-pragmatists-to-... Wrote up a very domain specific arti
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Counterfactual Thinking, Rules, and the Knight Capital Accident(kitchensoap.com)
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One of the neat things my company does is give out a monthly award for person who (net) deleted the most code that month. It's in the form of a little rubber duck called the deletion-ducky. Competition can get pretty fierce for it. The
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by arthurjj 12y ago
I agree with you that "unhedged call option" is not a phrase most people will get, on the other hand software engineering needs a better vocabulary around tech debt. There is a very specific type of tech debt that I think this des
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by arthurjj 12y ago
Having a 30 minute subway commute I'm looking forward to seeing what suggestions come out of this thread. My two suggestions: 1. Thinking fast and slow - Understanding how we actually think as opposed to how we think we think is a crit
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by arthurjj 12y ago
If you want to harness your own habitual behavior you should check out Minihabits. Using some of the techniques in the book got me writing every day http://www.amazon.com/Mini-Habits-Smaller-Bigger-Results-ebo...
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by arthurjj 12y ago
Agreed. That's why I like to start with a process and then build a tool. If people find the process valuable enough to follow it then you know the tool will be providing real business value
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As someone who has been a product engineer and internal tool engineer I really appreciated that they made the distinction. Some other points to think about. 1.In the first version of the tool don't have the tool make a decision, just h
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by arthurjj 12y ago
The Kindle e-reader is conspicuously absent from your list. When most people think of Amazon hardware they think of the Kindle, which most people consider a success
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Modeling Development Teams(sixty-north.com)
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Questions about the debt in tech debt(medium.com)
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by arthurjj 12y ago
How did you end up dealing with the issue? My first idea would be to remove all the spaces and parse that
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Reading a Classic:Rapid Development(medium.com)
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by arthurjj 12y ago
The argument he makes about increasing your chances of having one successful project by funding lots of projects is similar to the VC idea of investing in many companies in the hope that one pays off. While interesting Mythical Man Month&#x
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by arthurjj 12y ago
Being more familiar with screen scraping than has haskell I'm surprised you chose it for that task. What made you choose it?
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Four words programmers should know(medium.com)
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As someone who wasn't a huge fan of working with UI I have to say over the past decade it's become arguably the most important part of most apps. It's a bit outdated but reading "Don't Make Me Think" http:&#
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I think it's a cultural osmosis thing. If the older developers mention stuff like "We're a 9 on the Joel test"[1] or "Obviously we shouldn't do a rewrite, what are we Netscape"[2] or "Are code base is

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