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by corpMaverick 5y ago
The current president is the same as the PRI presidents that governed Mexico for 70 years. He just has a new label in a party that he owns.
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
I looked up to Miguel in the 1990s. But him and his father ended up supporting the current president of Mexico. Who is a demagogue with kleptomaniac tendencies.
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
Agile is much more than Scrum. There many different ways to do Agile. Just as an example Scott McConnell has a great book called Rapid Application Development (1996) where he documents many best practices and approaches that are essentially
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
Interesting idea. I would change it like this. #developers / #non-developers Where non-developers are people involved in the project who don't actually write code. (e.g. resource managers, analysts, project managers, QA, product o
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
May be you are right. The moment that you have a non-technical person leading the effort you are not doing agile anymore.
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
I think both things can be true. - People try agile but they don't do it right. Then they fail. - There are A LOT of consultants and managers pushing Agile (Mostly some Scrum practices) but they have absolutely no idea how software eng
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
Anyone care to comment on the Netflix documentary "Kiss the Ground" ?
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
I had to google this one. "Tacit knowledge is the intelligence we have that is gained through the personal and professional experience you've learned both in your current role and previous jobs. It's the knowledge that's
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
We did a project in college as part of a Management class. We interviewed employees in a local enterprise and built a Graph describing the relationships between Employees(Nodes). We asked questions like Who do you like the most/the lea
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
Some of the them were practitioners and very technical. Kent Beck, Alistair Cockburn, Ward Cunningham, Dave Thomas, Robert C. Martin, Martin Fowler. In general there was a movement about better ways to develop software (beyond waterfall) a
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
I find it amusing that AWK is coming back. I used it extensively back on the day, but let it go when I picked up Perl 4 and then Perl 5. So Perl is no longer king for unix scripting. It was replaced by other languages; but it seems like the
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
To be a good Technical Manager, you have to be good a the technical stuff and also good at the management stuff. You can also be mediocre at the technical stuff if you are really good at the management stuff or viceversa.
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
Agree. At the very least. Companies should buy support contracts for the free software they use. But there is not an easy way to do this either.
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
> Yes: taxation. I agree. But then, how do you decide where the money goes ?
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
We need better ways to fund Open Source projects. We all benefit tremendously by them. I think, this is one way it can work. Companies pledge to donate $X USD amount per year per software engineer (SE) to a foundation (or whatever legal en
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
I have been a proponent of Agile for many years. But it bothers me that it has been used to take power way from Senior Developers. We really need to bring back the Tech Leads.
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
Ah. Nice reference. The fact that Aikido is notoriously ineffective made me chuckle.
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
> This is exactly the ambiguous advice that you are rallying against. How do you know when to break down a context? This is a very important question. I will bite and give a guidance because no one is willing to give advice here. If you
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
Parent poster also mentions in another post that they are also using Microservices. I can see how excessive detail division into Microservices can create a nightmare. I have seen it over and over. We need better guidance on how to breakdown
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
Don't do comprehensive E2E tests. Have a small set of E2E tests to verify the most critical functionality is working. Don't verify every single business rule. There are other techniques that help you reduce risk: - Good unit an
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
> And that severely reduced the amount of learning-from-others that went on in your company during that era. I was not talking just about my self. I was talking about the whole industry. PRs became popular when github became popular; abo
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
A 10x Software Engineer is not somebody that can write programs 10 times faster. A 10x SE can solve problems that are 10x more complex. Because a 10x SE has a higher understanding and is able make design simplications and create better abs
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
I am surprised by the reactions. The author is just proposing a workflow where PRs are optional. For many years we worked without PRs at all. It bothers me that it seems like developers no longer do "Continuous Integration" which
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
I might be naive. But I think high property taxes help keep house prices down. Either you pay for a mortgage or you pay property taxes. The speculators may still buy property, but at least the taxes go to the community.
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
This happens to us. We bought a property and it took us a month to move in. A family squatter in. If you tried to get them out with a judge order and the police, they will call their association and would have 50 people on call to resist. I
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
Software Engineer with 30 years of experience here. I am the new guy in a team working on a critical app in a large company which also aspires to be tech company. The application that I am working on has been touched by many people. Mostly
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
We are better of if we vaccinate every 6-12 months. We are better of if we keep some social distance measures. So we should keep doing this as long as it is the better option. The goal is continue with our lives with the least damage from
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
Seems like on of those cases where "what is good for the individual is bad for the whole population if every body follows the advice" I remember seeing this when I took economics but I can't remember how it is called.
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
Surely this happened in some third world country. right ? No. It happened in Hawaii. And the actual person was already in prison in Alaska.
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by corpMaverick 5y ago
If I remember correctly the name of the file is not in the inode. That allows you to have a file with different names. (links)

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