dave1999x

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by dave1999x 5y ago
I arrived in Seattle yesterday, staying in Ballard. Wow, it's bad here. Worse than it used to be pre-pandemic.
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by dave1999x 5y ago
London really cleaned up in the 90s. There is still visible homeless, but nothing like US cities with homeless camps. Officially, there are a lot of "homeless" but far fewer "unsheltered"
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by dave1999x 5y ago
s/Scrum/Kanban in most of these critical responses and it would still be pretty accurate of the state of most applications of it. I can't help but feel that people say Kanban because Scrum is so uncool. You can see that from
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by dave1999x 5y ago
> Dogma > Nonsense You may think Scrum is dogma, but my statements are factually true by reasonable definitions of the terms. >Why would you continue to follow a process you don't find value in? If you didn't like a proce
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by dave1999x 5y ago
If you aren't following the Scrum practices, then you aren't doing Scrum. For better or worse. It's like baking a cake without adding sugar; it's not really a cake anymore. Sometimes teams don't understand practices
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by dave1999x 5y ago
in TFA they claim they did in 2014 and hint that it's a reason they provide an onion site
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by dave1999x 5y ago
No seriously, no. Dive straight into debunking #noestimates but don't get to the fact that no one ever really knows what they want.
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by dave1999x 5y ago
It's not about delayed gratification - it's about predictability. I know what I'm doing tomorrow if I can afford to wait for a delivery. What will I be doing on a random day next week? next month? Less so!
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by dave1999x 5y ago
If you're being encouraged to take up management, then they've probably already identified that you're already doing some of the right things. I hate it when I promote a team lead, and they change what they've been doing
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by dave1999x 5y ago
> How to indulge a senior manager who wants to talk about technical stuff that they don’t really understand, without rolling your eyes or making them feel stupid > How to explain a technical concept behind closed doors to a senior per
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by dave1999x 5y ago
People who recognise technology as core to their business.
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by dave1999x 6y ago
No one believes you. Everyone sees this for what it is; a barrier to exit
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by dave1999x 7y ago
I joined Stack Overflow on day 1 and I've found it very useful. You could argue that despite its flaws it has successfully achieved its goals. Stack Overflow is a great example of gamification. The reason for fatigue is not because of
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by dave1999x 8y ago
Did you know in .Net strings are immutable? Neither did the guy at Google when he asked me to do some "in place" string fiddling algorithm or that guy at Amazon who wanted to reverse the strings in a sentence (yes there's a t
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by dave1999x 8y ago
I've never counted but I must have done way more than 300 interviews. I have interviewed at 3/5 of the FAANG. Coding: on a whiteboard or with someone watching over you has no correlation with performance on the job. Data structure