brianmcc

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by brianmcc 8y ago
Curious about why you ask for feedback with friends? Do you mean to get a rating of a movie or restaurant or something - or are you looking for feedback on your friendship performance! :-)
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Appears to be written by a female named Heather - unless I'm missing something?
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I'm also old and crotchety, and also prefer books to videos. I don't know why. Give me an in-person training course, brilliant, I'll happily watch and learn from an expert. But I just don't like video courses for some re
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Don't get me wrong, I know a good allegory when I see one. This... isn't. Suspension of disbelief is when you put your doubts on hold to enjoy, say, a good zombie movie. As per your link "a willingness to suspend one's
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Sounds a sensitive one :-) Technically I meant making them not fitting them, but mea culpa, the whole horseshoe area is not my domain so I'll watch my step!
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Indeed :-) I just wrote up some reflections of hitting 21 years in my career , feel free to take a read -> https://mcconnellsoftware.github.io/success-criteria-21-year...
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Yeah I thought that too - 30 years of fine tuning one's horseshoe shaping skills is admirable, but it's wildly different to the "constantly learning new things" narrative. It's a shame, I did quite enjoy the "o
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I can't help feel that this is quite misleading - let's take a bunch of concepts we happen to like about our software team and project them onto a 17th century craftsperson. I mean, you can construct a picture of such a blacksmith
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Interesting - which devices have you found to be good and bad, and how does the difference manifest? I tend to notice drop offs for sampling bit rate, and can hear the difference with Bluetooth, but I've personally never connected to a
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Rather than getting into the ins and outs of why they did it, who misses the jack, who doesn't, why can't we just agree based on the wealth of commentary here and elsewhere that for a significant minority - possibly even a very l
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by brianmcc 8y ago
Exactly my point! That's an excellent technique in fact, tell a team upfront this will not be allowed to evolve into production and, freed from unease about future plans, they'll explore and experiment much more openly.
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I remember hearing of this before - I think it tells us a huge amount about how best to achieve our goals, or to coach others in that regard. For example: ask a team to build a software project with excellent design and best practices and
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Classics like that "everyone knows about" are still new to many thousands engineers every year and definitely worth bringing out for an airing every now and again! Thoughts on that topic -> https://mcconnellsoftware.
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Build Better Teams(mcconnellsoftware.github.io)
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Reply to myself - found it interesting to revisit this stuff again so I put a quick post together on it -> https://mcconnellsoftware.github.io/build-better-teams/
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Agree 100% - if you as an individual decide you're clearly a "Plant" and so don't need to take care of details, that's bad. Or if you decide you're an "Implementer" and will never do well in a more
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by brianmcc 8y ago
Read about Belbin team roles if you've never done so. If you're someone that thrives on finding new things and learning them, revel in it, don't beat yourself up - that's valuable. Others thrive on crossing 't'
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Success Criteria: 21 Years of Software Engineering(mcconnellsoftware.github.io)
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"Software engineer" is a common title - I'm UK based, not even US - and that perhaps helps to differentiate practical development work from more academic computer science work: the two activities truly are quite different. &q
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Glib answer: centralize! Honestly this seems to be a cycle. New management comes in, everything is centralized, big, slow, etc. The eggs-in-one-basket state. They need to do something to make a mark so why not decentralize! Big project, p
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You're not the first to make the link: https://www.somarecords.com/ Here in the UK in the 90s the Govt tried really quite hard to shut down "raves": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimin
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Exactly: "normal" and "simulated" should be indistinguishable - and often, for me having reg/green deficiency, that's the case. I'll often look to confirm that images truly are different before using them
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True. And honestly I'd say it's even worse than that, people are somehow finding ways to travel backwards in terms of knowledge, and other - truly despicable - people are profiting from pushing them in that direction. Movements
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1984 and BNW remain the two real standouts of dystopian fiction. 1984 always felt the more powerful of the two to me: it's starker, more overtly shocking. BNW is subtler, but for probably most cultures it rings more true to real life a
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Cool - I'm quite severely colour blind, I'll give it a go when I get home and see if it passes my own "looks identical to me so it's probably a good simulation" test! Some reading on colour blindness for anyone unaf
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"folks with power but not context" is a great phrase!
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It's vital to have a "safe space" channel where people can ask questions without judgement, or worries about looking bad to management or people who have some say in their promotions, bonus, project assignments, etc. Also imp
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Thanks for this - been to Portugal a few times on holiday and love it, seems a perfect place too from which to work remotely given decent internet speeds etc. Not familiar with the towns and cities so good to have Braga now as somewhere to
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by brianmcc 8y ago
Well - good luck whichever path you take. Re your future pieces they all sound interesting. Out of interest are you a natural intuitive "people person"? I am not - which is maybe why this stuff is so interesting to me. But when it
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by brianmcc 8y ago
Ha ha it wasn't intended that way but I can't argue with you right now, I need to clean the mess one of my horses just made beside my new Porsche. Honestly, servants can't get anything right these days...

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