bobm_kite9

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by bobm_kite9 6y ago
You might want to put these on nounproject.com, where people can find them and you'll get royalties for their use.
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by bobm_kite9 6y ago
This wasn't the summer I was expecting: although we've managed to melt a huge amount of the arctic ice cap, temperatures in the northern hemisphere were still bearable, even though this was one of the hottest summers on record, a
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Exploring Rulial Space: The Case of Turing Machines(writings.stephenwolfram.com)
20 points by bobm_kite9 6y ago|10 comments
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Electric truck startup Nikola takes on car giants(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by bobm_kite9 6y ago|0 comments
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by bobm_kite9 6y ago
How about FANAMA?
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by bobm_kite9 7y ago
Can I mention Risk-First? All about applying risk to software development. https://riskfirst.org
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by bobm_kite9 7y ago
Author here. Yes, the overall feeling I'm getting from the responses is a disappointment that I didn't get to this. Initially that had been my intent, but as I wrote it I realised I was trying to crowbar too much into a single
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by bobm_kite9 7y ago
Author here: nice comment. Absolutely the way to success isn't about avoiding all risk. As you point out, this is the way to mediocrity and tedium. Life (and software) should be about taking risks - I've written a bunch of art
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by bobm_kite9 7y ago
Thanks for letting me know - some Jekyll weirdness going on there, will look into it when there's less traffic.
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by bobm_kite9 7y ago
Isn't it still the wrong thing, even if you built exactly what was asked for?
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by bobm_kite9 7y ago
> ended with a cliffhanger! OP eloquently picked apart the predominant system without a clear alternative :) Author here. Yes, another comment made the same point. But I'm glad you feel what I covered was eloquent. Often, diagnos
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by bobm_kite9 7y ago
Author here. Sorry you think that. I see the article title has been changed, although I wrote this about 3 weeks ago so I'm not sure why it's been labelled as (2019). This article focuses on the Timebox issue. I'll be post
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Fixing Scrum (2019)(riskfirst.org)
59 points by bobm_kite9 7y ago|70 comments
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Fixing Scrum #1: The timebox problem(riskfirst.org)
1 points by bobm_kite9 7y ago|0 comments
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by bobm_kite9 7y ago
Can you point us to some code that demonstrates how you do this?
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by bobm_kite9 7y ago
I like the idea of statistical samples. this makes a lot of intuitive sense. However, I'm unaware of any methodology that obviates the need for unit testing. I presume you're talking about proofs, or maybe something like Idris?
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by bobm_kite9 7y ago
I have the opposite problem - a lot of the code I think carefully about, factor correctly and ensure is thoroughly unit-tested spends about six months circling the plug-hole of tech demos and PoC before being sent to the bit-sewer and forgo
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by bobm_kite9 7y ago
Well I’m not going to disagree, obviously. The hard part is figuring out what these distributions look like. For example, in the summer I got an intern to build an app. It demoed well and people naturally asked when it would be in product
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by bobm_kite9 7y ago
I think I understand Little's Law, but I'm struggling to see how it works here - are you saying the backlog size would be predictable?
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by bobm_kite9 7y ago
I guess alchemy eventually grew up and turned into chemistry. I really hope the same happens to dev but I’m not expecting it in my lifetime
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Thinking Journeys rather than Estimates(riskfirst.org)
38 points by bobm_kite9 7y ago|15 comments
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by bobm_kite9 7y ago
It's almost an article of faith ob HN that things like scrum and stand-ups are broken. Some of us forced into sub-optimal patterns of behaviour now because the power structures of the organisations we work in prescribe following certai
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The Post-Agile Movement(riskfirst.org)
2 points by bobm_kite9 7y ago|1 comments
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Growing Information Systems and Crystals(riskfirst.org)
2 points by bobm_kite9 7y ago|1 comments
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by bobm_kite9 7y ago
Exactly. I talk about this at https://riskfirst.org/Estimates Knowing the way is 10x over finding the way. But I think this is still an interesting piece of research, backing up a lot of what we expect empirically.
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by bobm_kite9 7y ago
This is something of a riff on Sun Tzu ‘Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. ‘. I hope people find the imagery useful.
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Visualising “Anti Goals” in Software Projects and Startups(riskfirst.org)
2 points by bobm_kite9 7y ago|1 comments
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by bobm_kite9 7y ago
Hierarchies are just a sub-case if directed graphs, which computers handle through pointers (Easily)
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Hierarchies are the wheel we’re happy to re-invent over and over and over again(riskfirst.org)
3 points by bobm_kite9 7y ago|2 comments
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by bobm_kite9 7y ago
I wrote something similar several years ago: https://riskfirst.org/Silver-Bullets Even if you aren’t on-board with the ones this article mentions, there are a bunch more in this list.. and it could probably do with a refres

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