brianmcc

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by brianmcc 4y ago
Don't mix up "enjoys work life balance and has evening and weekend plans" with "slacks off at work and drops the ball" though, they really are not the same. The latter can and should be challenged. I 100% agree some
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by brianmcc 4y ago
>> It’s unfortunate but true that the ICM, adderall-abusing, 20hrs/day people just fucking crush the folks who kayak on the weekend. Not at kayaking. And I'm only being slightly facetious. "Winning at coding/tech c
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by brianmcc 4y ago
I still think of albums released in 2006 as "recent" :-D
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by brianmcc 4y ago
An interesting series from the same site: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/are-we-really-engineers/
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by brianmcc 4y ago
These are my thoughts, 20+ years in to a software development career (25 now! Jeez!), you might find it of interest? https://mcconnellsoftware.github.io/success-criteria-21-year...
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by brianmcc 4y ago
There's an undercurrent of subversive genius here, which is awesome. Great read!
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by brianmcc 4y ago
This is an interesting short series of articles from 2021, interviewing 17 "real" engineers (the proper build-a-bridge type) who transitioned to software engineering to explore whether they consider software work really engineer
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by brianmcc 4y ago
What works for me: prototyping tables in Excel. Which is a grandiose way of saying: sketching them! Show a few rows for Table A, and how they connect to rows in Table B. Connect keys using colour coding, e.g. Table A's PK, and its FK i
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by brianmcc 4y ago
Absolutely this - pick out the top 5 or something. Don't be overwhelmed by 83, just identify the highest impacts.
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by brianmcc 4y ago
Individual parenting styles and quality obviously have a huge part to play. But when there's a huge toxic elephant rampaging around the room, saying "avoid the elephant" is a less systemic fix that helps way fewer people than
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by brianmcc 4y ago
Enjoyed the story but I am dreading "the group test" becoming the new why-are-manhole-covers-round cargo cult nonsense :-)
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by brianmcc 4y ago
"You're massively underperforming and we can never contact you - have a substantial pay rise" isn't really how these things work...
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by brianmcc 5y ago
Agreed. My go-to example is: J2EE and EJBs in particular -> Spring.
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by brianmcc 5y ago
Building the thing right - takes just a few years of experience. Building the right thing - that's the real challenge :-)
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by brianmcc 5y ago
Sort of. The premise "rewards shall pass unto those who solve difficult problems" isn't neutralized by "rewards shall also pass unto the barely competent who can wing an interview in the correct trendy tech stack"
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by brianmcc 5y ago
Yeah I suppose it comes down to what people are expected to actually do with the information. It's one thing to have a message "if you get covid, and come out OK, the silver lining is some ongoing immunity". I'm not su
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by brianmcc 5y ago
From the comments elsewhere in the thread there are plainly some edge cases where it's actively useful. Personally though I'm still on ~60Mbps download at home FWIW and feel simply no need to upgrade. Whole family can watch - inde
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by brianmcc 5y ago
It's not being ignored. It's long been a valid legal "immunity indicator" here in the UK where this is published. I don't know what end game is being sought here tbh, given that England has abolished all legal restr
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by brianmcc 5y ago
You're not alone, and there's nothing wrong with that kind of response, so don't give yourself a hard time for it. These are shocking events with global ramifications as well as obviously the awful localised impact within Ukr
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by brianmcc 5y ago
I recommend "Managing Humans" by Michael Lopp aka "Rands". https://randsinrepose.com/ It's a bit tongue in cheek rather than "management theory" but no less worthwhile for it.
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by brianmcc 5y ago
I'm pair programming ambivalent. A lot folks like it. I mostly don't, but I enjoy collaborating more broadly, and sometimes a pairing session can be truly invaluable when the task at hand is right. I think it has many benefits in
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by brianmcc 5y ago
That's what I mean - surely this is grounds for criminal prosecution? I expect it's almost certainly up for grabs in terms of civil action, but IMO there must be some level of outright illegality here?
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by brianmcc 5y ago
As others have noted this is 100% about disastrous management decisions around a software flaw. These decisions, made over and over again, must surely come close to criminal negligence. This will be a case study in the future, it's jus
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by brianmcc 5y ago
Yeah I was unconvinced by this one. It seems to me any individual lucky enough to be born with good genes and raised in a nurturing environment is likely to score well in a number of health, intelligence and "well roundedness" dim
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by brianmcc 5y ago
>> It is simple, not clever. Effortless to follow. This is the crux of it for me. I want to read code not solve code. If I have to "figure out what's going on" then it's not great code.
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by brianmcc 5y ago
Yep I agree, that's my point!
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by brianmcc 5y ago
I remember writing the following about the AstraZeneca vaccine in Nov 2020 when concerns were raised with it. Two things can be both be true: - the vaccine is safe and effective - parts of approach in running studies weren't as good as
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by brianmcc 5y ago
The best advice I can give is that you can think of your app and its data store as either: #1 code is of prime importance, data store is simply a "bucket" for its data #2 data is of prime importance, code is simply the means to re
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by brianmcc 5y ago
None of these are personality traits IMO, they're more rules/guidelines. I don't think psychology has ever ruled on personality being immutable either. I mean, if you're reluctant to change, you probably won't do. B
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by brianmcc 5y ago
> the industry needs to learn to treat amateurs as amateurs regardless of their age Out of interest what do you mean by "amateurs" here, I'm not sure it's the right word for what you're expressing?

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