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by bguthrie 13y ago
There has never been an official XP certification. There is a ScrumMaster certification. I'd suggest that you avoid anyone who claims certified expertise in XP. And no, people didn't "just do their jobs." Management meth
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by bguthrie 13y ago
The closest solution I've seen to measuring programmer productivity is pairing, followed by peer evaluation. There is no hiding from a pair.
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by bguthrie 13y ago
I live close enough to my workplace and the basic necessities that I could walk to them if I so choose. Most people who own cars now live so far away from these things that they can no longer live without their four-wheeler. That doesn&#x27
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by bguthrie 13y ago
I hope this works as something of a second launch for them, because it seems like a great product.
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by bguthrie 13y ago
Yegge's right––specifically, he's right about Java, whose object-orientation many longtime Smalltalkers would frankly dispute. And yet, nouns still exist. If the problem domain you're trying to grapple with is dominated by al
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by bguthrie 13y ago
And in the world I live in, I sometimes have to make choices between attending social events and having some work availability. More mobile access means not having to make that choice as often. That's the point that Microsoft is tryi
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by bguthrie 13y ago
After hand-crafting CSS with semantic markup for years, using the techniques suggested here, I've started liberally sprinkling Bootstrap classes in my markup. It's not clear to me that it's any less maintainable than the alte
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by bguthrie 13y ago
Less documentation isn't always a bad thing. If you can't appeal to a written authority, you have to rely on your own judgment in the face of ambiguity.
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by bguthrie 13y ago
Indeed, the article makes the point that most interesting data is relational, or at any rate contains valuable relations. Discarding efficient relationship management may be a mistake.
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by bguthrie 13y ago
That article does not appear to be making the argument that helmets are worthless, only that they don't protect against concussions. The $40 helmet is one of the great success stories of the past half-century. Like seat belt
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by bguthrie 13y ago
I think this is a great analogy. The reason why it works is that we tend to relate progress in one intuitive metric (distance travelled) to a less intuitive one: time. Why shouldn't 80% of the trip be done when 80% of the distance is c
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by bguthrie 13y ago
If consumers want Windows tablets then they have a funny way of showing it.
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by bguthrie 13y ago
Ola's a super-smart dude and the language is well worth exploring––I learned a lot from playing with Ioke. One of the coolest parts of it is his experiments with translations––in a language with zero keywords and a very small core, cre
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by bguthrie 13y ago
I've had the same experience with Clojure in vim, and that's great to hear. Thanks!
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by bguthrie 13y ago
Anyone out there spending any substantial part of their workflow in LT? Which languages? Would be curious to hear an experience report. I check in every once in a while to see how it's coming along. The 0.5 series seems nice and I was
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Turn any CLI into a websocket with websocketd(github.com)
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by bguthrie 13y ago
The linked article makes the point that these sentences are used as a tool of intimidation but don't generally reflect actual sentences. I'm not convinced that's a reason to ignore them: it seems to me that the correct respon
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by bguthrie 13y ago
I won't claim to be an expert, but here's how I'd suggest you get involved. * The last thing most social-good organizations need out of their software is flakey, drive-by charity hack jobs. They need the same things most orga
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by bguthrie 13y ago
If you absolutely must rewrite, consider isolating and replacing components piecemeal rather than scrapping the whole thing and starting over. You don't eat the whole cost at once, you can keep moving forward with new features if neede
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by bguthrie 13y ago
I could be wrong, but from where I'm standing, it's just you. Most major web applications built today thrive on a large, active ecosystem of open-source tools. Rails, Django, Play and Compojure all require the active participation
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by bguthrie 13y ago
There are two things driving policies like this. First, personal interviews can be poor predictors of future hire performance. People will often hire someone who resonates on a personal level, or who is otherwise charismatic, rather than fo
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by bguthrie 13y ago
The only thing that matters about your coworkers––the only thing––is if, after the year's over or the project's done, you'd work with them again. If a team is doing good work and everyone on it enjoys working with each other,
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by bguthrie 13y ago
An experienced developer does not lack for job offers. You can spend your entire life taking people up on those offers and never get around to doing your own thing. For most people on Earth, historically, that's not a bad place to be:
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by bguthrie 13y ago
One of the great things about leaving a job you dislike to bootstrap a company making something you do like is not having too care too much about what other people think of your employment history.
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by bguthrie 13y ago
Depression is a complicated disease with many causes, and no one knows exactly what was going through Aaron's mind. But I believe his depression was in large part situational, and that yes, MIT is at least partly to blame for that situ
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by bguthrie 13y ago
I'm skimming quickly for the gist, and certainly didn't intend to misrepresent its contents. That being said, I'm not going to change what I wrote; that quote presents a value judgment, one that I'm skeptical of, and sin
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by bguthrie 13y ago
Those of us who believe MIT deserves some blame for subsequent events do so because they could have asked the prosecution to desist, as JSTOR did, or at least downgrade the charges to a misdemeanor, but chose not to. That amounted to an imp
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MIT releases report on its actions in the Aaron Swartz case(web.mit.edu)
227 points by bguthrie 13y ago|94 comments
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by bguthrie 13y ago
At the ripe age of 22, you'll like undergo a number of pivots in your career between embracing frameworks and tossing them out. There is no right answer; sometimes they help, and sometimes they hurt. We can't always predict what t
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Privacy Protects Bothersome People (and healthy democracies need bothering)
5 points by bguthrie 13y ago|0 comments

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