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by danjac 6y ago
I'm not accusing the OP of inaction: on the contrary, they are attempting to rectify the problem with Scrum, so they are trying to do something . What I am saying is that using Scrum to paper over a dysfunctional organization merely a
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by danjac 6y ago
> We have fast changing application and we use scrum and sprints to fend off business people. Because one day they want one thing, next day 10 things more. Then you are using Scrum to obfuscate a core communications problem in your compa
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by danjac 6y ago
Scrum is basically warmed-up Taylorism[1] for the 21st century, couched in buzzwords like "sprints" and "retros". It's an attempt to make software development an industrial process, stripping developers of autonomy
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by danjac 6y ago
Supporters of Scrum remind me of the people who say Communism really works, it's just been implemented poorly.
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Snap
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> Customer needs should be driving what gets added. In enterprise, the "customer" is going to be someone who will almost never touch the product once they've signed off on it. Building something that's a pleasure to u
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by danjac 6y ago
I wonder if this isn't so much about the tech itself, but rather the expectation that the best realistic outcome for a startup is an aquihire. Following the current "industry best practice", even if it's more expensive a
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by danjac 6y ago
Regular Joe learns complex stuff at your expense. He then leaves for greener pastures and higher pay thanks to the boost to his resume. You are then left with complex stuff you need to maintain and so you have to hire another Regular Joe fo
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by danjac 6y ago
Putting on my tinfoil hat: it suits FAANG to have potential competitors burn their runways on baroque tech fads like Kubernetes or <insert-react-state-management-architecture-of-the-month-here>. Extra credit if they end up hosting the
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by danjac 6y ago
Without context, I could guess that quote could have been written at any time in the past couple decades. It's the "nuclear fusion" of our industry: one day someone will make it happen, but not as soon as you think.
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There's dollar cost, and then there's political cost. A pilot shot down and killed or captured is a political liability and military planners have to take that into account when deploying manned aircraft vs drones.
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by danjac 6y ago
> But I can't really see much benefit to that Look at the recent Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to see how much UAVs are a game-changer: https://www.csis.org/analysis/air-and-missile-war-nagorno-ka...
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by danjac 6y ago
Could it be that Angular was the tool of choice of enterprise , and enterprise UX notoriously sucks for all kinds of reasons tangential to technology?
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The "opportunity" is often a dangling carrot from a big enterprise customer. It's very hard for a cash-strapped startup looking to make bank and reputation to turn these opportunities down, and they don't look at the TCO
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Not having touched this stack in a while: what is best current practice for wiring together sqlalchemy and flask (including unit tests)?
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It's not about the cost of the end-user bloat (although that's a problem), but the cost of development and maintenance required by complex front-end frameworks and architectures.
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> I think that's why people will, like the author, ultimately drop out. When writing code for a living turns into this obligatory, rote exercise of juggling this mass of dependencies and complexity, with little to no time or authori
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by danjac 6y ago
It's a combination of whimsical requirements from PMs and designers, plus FOMO and resume-driven development among developers. None of which have anything to do with actual end-user needs.
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by danjac 6y ago
Turbolinks came out around 2012, Hotwire is just the latest iteration of that. Phoenix didn't exist until 2014.
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Good to know! Didn't see it in the attribute reference list.
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And nothing to stop you from breaking out specific services into Go/Rust where you actually need high performance.
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The libraries cover a similar ground, but there are some fundamental differences. With Turbo, by default all your links/forms will use XHR to fetch new pages which do a full body swap (unless you want to use frames/streams or opt
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That's because at every turn short-term political calculus and keeping the rabid British right-wing press onside took precedence over trifling matters like the country's economy.
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That's because developers see early-stage startups in the same way musicians see dingy pubs: a badly-paid and generally unpleasant venue to learn your craft and make all your beginner mistakes with minimum responsibility and damage to
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by danjac 6y ago
The thing is you need to pay back the debt before the management culture coagulates and everything has to be broken down into dozens of Jira tickets each requiring hour-long grooming meetings. You won't have the freedom then to do the
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by danjac 6y ago
After playing for some hours with the new Turbo on a side project (with Django as backend), it mostly works fine. One thing that is kind of broken out of the box is form submissions: so a common pattern with server side rendering is to re-r
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by danjac 6y ago
I've used Turbolinks/Stimulus with Django. I can't speak to the new hotwire stuff, other than the relatviely minor Stimulus2 changes. Honestly it's pretty straightforward and the API is tiny. It's great for that gre
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by danjac 6y ago
I use Turbolinks for some Django projects, so took a look at how much work it would be to port these over to Hotwire/Turbo. Very little in the way of docs to go on right now and what little there is in the way of examples is buried in
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by danjac 6y ago
So far, this looks very much tied to some Rails gems : documentation for installing outside of Rails is pretty much non-existent, I guess to be expected for a beta. My issue with Turbolinks/Stimulus is really that it's developed p
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by danjac 6y ago
I get the feeling some older VCs are playing out their mid-life crises by vicariously enjoying the lifestyles of their "crazier" founders. Perhaps it would be better for the world if they just bought that motorbike or sports car i

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