br3w5

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by br3w5 12y ago
And just not spending enough time in free outdoor spaces...and I'm not talking about contrived "urban spaces"
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by br3w5 12y ago
Yes but the reality of decisions is that one person needs to drive that decision - a group of people will often struggle to make a clear decision every time
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by br3w5 12y ago
An architect needs to keep learning in much the same way as developers do. I would look to this person to make the decision on the high-level system design/architecture for each solution. I think they should also be pushing the dev tea
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by br3w5 12y ago
It's certainly true that if someone in a an architect position does not know the technologies intimately then how can they make informed decisions about it. They can certainly maintain consistency at a high-level e.g.this next solution
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by br3w5 12y ago
But just because they're paid to do it doesn't mean they care, or that they're any good at it.
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by br3w5 12y ago
I like the irony of the Paul Miller quote from the first article: “I like to dink around in Terminal, accomplishing nothing, but at least knowing that I’m engaging the computer on my own terms, with no buffer."
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by br3w5 12y ago
So if the server side stuff was written in node, that is a js framework and still requires a learning curve for developers if they don't already know node. Also you shouldn't choose your server side language/framework based o
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by br3w5 12y ago
The writer doesn't quite make the link I wanted between product and code. Regardless of the number of features, the product should be understandable and then the application design and tests should be able to be clearly mapped to the p
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by br3w5 12y ago
true...i guess for me it's another potential option for working with git like the prezto git module and git plugins for vim
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by br3w5 12y ago
So is gitless against working with hunks of files because the docs say that having files with parts in multiple states is a problem? But this actually gives more flexibility. Yes it's more complex but that's the trade-off.
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by br3w5 12y ago
Keeping branches up to date can be a pain i.e. pull master into local feature branch then push up to remote feature branch (although gpp command in the preszto git module gets around this a little but you still need to update your working c
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by br3w5 12y ago
I do much prefer the command line (actually because of its simplicity and directness but that's just my perspective). However, having just trained a team on using git (yes they have only just adopted it!) and finding that the most conf
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by br3w5 12y ago
I've been through the Udacity CS101 and progressed well with their programming languages and design of programs courses. These are all in Python but I have covered interpreters, compilers, regex, recursion, types, etc. These all treat