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bjohnson225
6y ago
Soft skills engineering - because it takes more than great code to be a great engineer No such thing as a fish - Comedy podcast talking about unusual facts produced by the QI researchers (QI is a popular BBC comedic quiz show) The Economist
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bjohnson225
6y ago
I never really understood the amount of criticism aimed at agile by developers until I switched to a large enterprise. I feel like I’ve gone from a company focused on delivering working software which was supported by the common agile pract
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7y ago
Blaming testing feels like a cop-out - it's easier to say 'if we tested a little more everything would have been fine' rather than 'our leadership was too incompotent to recognise that the plan was fundamentally flawed f
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bjohnson225
9y ago
In that case, I do suspect being a game dev may have led to a lower than average software developer salary. I got back from Copenhagen recently and while food and drink are both insanely expensive, the rent was considerably less than where
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9y ago
The “living comfortably” part is a bit vague, but by any reasonable definition someone who is earning an average salary in a country which frequently appears in the top 5 of the various human development/quality of life indices is very
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9y ago
Developer salaries are significantly lower in the whole of Europe than the US, but they’re still extremely well paid positions that’ll give you way over what an average person earns. Describing it as unaffordable sounds a bit off to me when