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by cam- 11y ago
iirc there was one guy for a long time who handed out the au domains. I think he was at USNW or USyd?
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by cam- 11y ago
Yeh way cool, you don't need a driveway or garage then. It would be good to reclaim that space.
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by cam- 11y ago
Can't wait until self driving cars become the norm; I don't need a drive way, a garage and the suburb I can live in can have smaller roads with the space for cars given over to walking paths and bicycles. Maybe in 2050.
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by cam- 11y ago
We have one instance where we update an account, that goes out to potentially 11 service calls which are not transactional. We are having to maintain state in our app because the micro services have split this up so much.
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by cam- 11y ago
We do hackathons at a local craft coffee/beer cafe. I usually turn up with between 4 to 12 engineers and they all get coffee, beer, food on an expensed credit card. The guy that manages the place told me we could reserve tables like co
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by cam- 11y ago
Software development has become a social activity. The way we organize work is all social; scrum, kanban, swarms, hackathons, etc. No real way around it these days.
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by cam- 11y ago
We did a hackathon today. Several things made it a successful hackathon. First; a Product Owner ran the early brainstorming and problem setting. This made a big difference. The engineers were coming up with new products but with the discipl
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by cam- 11y ago
Integrating lots of points is a pain in the ass. Integrating a new service was a 13 in a sprint. Adding a field to an existing service is 3. Often the aggregation gets pushed into the front end layer as well so the customer workflows get mi
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by cam- 11y ago
I have clicked on most of the landing pages that have been linked in the comments and they all look the same.
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by cam- 12y ago
Unit testing is a leading indicator. The higher the coverage the better the quality of the product is a good broad rule. Engineers hate unit testing to 100% until they do, and then they don't go back, it becomes the norm for their deve
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by cam- 12y ago
I agree. Politics is how people negotiate power without violence. So it is everywhere. It always helps to understand politics even if you don't want to engage in it as it can help make seemingly irrational behaviors appear concretely r
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by cam- 12y ago
Front End teams tend not like micro services, there is too much overhead in getting too little data. As an example we integrate with one micro service where get back a boolean and and a date. We have the overhead of an http call and all the
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by cam- 12y ago
If we get several bugs or the team recognizes that an area is becoming brittle we make a bug that one/two team members work on for the sprint to clean that entire area up. The PO has become used to these kinds of bugs/user-stories
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by cam- 12y ago
Java has been round long enough to have been influenced by whatever was the coding fashion of the time. You can see it in the core java libraries and the supporting frameworks. OO and GoF where probably the biggest fashions and you can docu
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by cam- 12y ago
fwiw in one on ones I go over all the tasks/responsibilities of the next position above them, and we see if they did any of those kind of tasks in the last sprint. If they did we record them. We also look if there are any opportunities
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by cam- 14y ago
Ungraciously it could be argued that atlassian's tools fall in the time waster category as well.
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by cam- 14y ago
Everyone just 'knows' what is in Sarbanes Oxley but when you ask them to point it out to you in the legislation they cannot find what they were so certain about 2 minutes prior. We have compliance people and auditors are always coming in, b
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by cam- 15y ago
fwiw we make people who are interviewing do unit tests on our production code. We have enough old gnarly code that we can always find something that doesn't have coverage. It is a great way to see how they code, how they interact with unfam
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by cam- 15y ago
When compressing javascript down, missing a semi-colon can cause broken js, especially in older IE browsers. Trailing commas on js object literals would also freeze an entire page in IE. When that happened it would often take several days i