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by bmj 10y ago
That's a reasonable point, but how do you (as a product owner) justify the cost of making those fixes (and doing the regression testing necessary to ensure the system still works properly)? My group supports several legacy applications
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by bmj 10y ago
It seems like the code review policy should accommodate for scary legacy code. What happens if the findings are fixed later in the week? Are they promoted, too? Are large swaths of the system regressed because of the changes? The process
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by bmj 10y ago
If you want to get a sense of what this was like in the "old days," read about Charlie Porter spending nine days, alone, climbing a new, difficult route on Mount Asgard [0], in the Baffin Mountains. [0] https://en.wikip
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by bmj 10y ago
I highly recommend reading Matthew Crawford's The World Beyond Your Head. He spends a chapter examining how the casino industry games gamblers and addicts, and the sad effects that has on people.
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by bmj 10y ago
We had to purchase a new vehicle at the beginning of the year (it was becoming too expensive to maintain our VW camper van), and we purposefully chose a vehicle that did not have a touch screen for any of the controls. We drove several m
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by bmj 10y ago
Uber as an experience is nothing new, IIRC eastern Europe had this model for ages Where I live, we've had something similar for a long time: jitneys[0]. [0] http://www.post-gazette.com/news/transportation/20
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by bmj 10y ago
The anti-war voices of both the Right and the Left have been marginalized by the Center for a very long time. Do you really believe that Mrs. Clinton is anti-war? Or even Mr. Obama (Nobel Peace Prize notwithstanding)? You are correct, how
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by bmj 10y ago
Or opinions can be presented as facts, or at least presented in a way that makes it hard to tell if it is reporting or analysis.
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by bmj 10y ago
You seem to be approaching this as if every human that has been trafficked is doing so willingly. Are you suggesting that people should be empowered by the law to take young people and rent them out to people as sex toys? And that such a
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by bmj 10y ago
Except the article goes on to say that people are spending more money at bars and restaurants than at grocery stores. There is no indication that millennials are spending less money on food overall (in fact, wouldn't eating out ever
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by bmj 10y ago
That said... will this taint the instagram experience? Youtube feels increasingly optimized for profit-making and seems be crowding out some of the more "just-for-fun" type projects. If too much of a social media site focus on pr
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by bmj 10y ago
The latter. Are you pre-judging a candidate because you can look at an open source repo instead of spending your day trudging through a tech interview?
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by bmj 10y ago
Question for you: is your judgement of the applicant affected by whether or not they have an active GitHub repo?
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by bmj 10y ago
I'd upvote this many time if I could. I am in the same boat--my team helps maintain a ten year old web application that is used by the largest companies in our domain. The application is literally the backbone of data used by these c
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by bmj 10y ago
if you hiring a house builder u would not ask him what a brick looks like right? The problem with this is that a home builder/contractor will have a long list of references, and possibly examples of her work available for examinatio
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by bmj 10y ago
If you aren't passionate enough about this work to continue learning and advancing on your own time get out. I understand that many other domains value this sort of thing, but perhaps not to the same degree as the software industry.
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by bmj 10y ago
There are several flavors of "purists" in alpine climbing. Some are curmudgeons who draw lines in the sand about what is and is not acceptable. But other purists fit into the category of minimalists--how much can equipment be pa
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by bmj 10y ago
Do you know what sort of project/product the team produced? I find that to be a key indicator of what sort of work management expects. If are building something that will be sold, particularly in a competitive market, management will
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by bmj 10y ago
Social media and the internet has made it incredibly easy to see the various people out there who are in the top of their league at any particular hobby, vocation or activity, and made it seem like that's the 'norm'. Or, be
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by bmj 10y ago
But that's a short view, right? As Uber moves into more and more places, that means more and more drivers that will eventually be replaced. You're absolutely correct that it will not affect people driving for Uber right now , b
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by bmj 10y ago
I would only consume the archive of tumblr blog that is primarily photos that way. Trying to read a mostly print blog that way would be difficult.
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by bmj 10y ago
From TFA: (Attempting to construct a concrete pool to any tighter a tolerance is nearly impossible; the effective length of a pool can change depending on the ambient temperature, the water temperature, and even whether or not there are pe
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by bmj 10y ago
Also, touch plates get installed after the pool is constructed. I would expect those could easily be made to compensate for any size differences. That would leave a size difference at the start, but that's easily fixed, too. Maybe I
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by bmj 10y ago
In fact, you pretty much have to program in your free time in order to keep up with all the new paradigms and frameworks. And this is problem with our industry. I have friends that are mechanical or electrical engineers, very good ones,
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by bmj 10y ago
Almost any crafting profession involves practice outside of work; for example: painting, photography, sculpting, etc. Well, if I'm an artist, there's probably not a clear line between "work" and "hobby" unles
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by bmj 10y ago
How did you handle regression testing of the refactored functionality? That's our biggest hurdle. QC is swamped with "regular" sprint work, so there's no way they manage any additional load during the sprint.
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by bmj 10y ago
There's also a potential cultural issue, where someone may feel like asking for help, or pointing out an obstacle, but thinks it may reflect poorly on them.
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by bmj 10y ago
It depends entirely on your domain. I've been in the software industry for 15 years or so in the U.S., and aside from a couple of stints at start-ups during the first internet bubble/boom, I've rarely worked much overtime.
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by bmj 10y ago
I think the article misses a crucial component of this tendency--working parents who have to fill the time left by summer vacation from school. If you don't have a high school aged child, you really can't leave them completely to
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by bmj 10y ago
This squares with my experience. The folks I know that travel by small plane do so because they enjoy flying, not because it offers any real benefits over driving. These folks are also not lacking for disposable income.

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