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by edw519 3y ago
LinkedIn's "only useful function" is insufficient to overcome its "deal killer": it's a farce. I have never met an I.T. manager whose LinkedIn profile was remotely close to reality. They all claim the same B.S.
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Woman ghosted by a recruiter after 9 interviews following a slow down in hiring(businessinsider.com)
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by edw519 3y ago
society doesn't just shove them aside as some goods past their expiration date You mean like how I.T. management treats programmers over 50?
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by edw519 4y ago
So isn't the real problem that we have 800 billion lines of legacy code that needs to be understood and maintained; it just happens to be written in COBOL? No. 800 billion lines of COBOL = 1 million lines of BASIC A gross exaggeratio
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by edw519 4y ago
Thanks for the great question, weatherlite. I mostly write applications for large enterprises and SMBs. Stuff most people think is boring but is really cool and runs the world: order processing, supply chain, operations, ecommerce, etc. I t
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by edw519 4y ago
Good point. The irony is this https://agilemanifesto.org/display/index.html All these programmers agreeing to IMO the worst culprit to programmer burnout. I still struggle understanding who these people are and why the
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by edw519 4y ago
I've been programming for 53 years and have never been burnt out from the act of actually building software. In fact it's been the opposite for me. Every time I've ever had a significant challenge, alone or in a small compete
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by edw519 4y ago
Cool! I love it! I made one of these years ago in alphabetical order (yea I know stupid). Yours is way better. I can make great use of it. I use these colors 95% of the time. I call them my "FU colors" (except I user the NSFW pron
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by edw519 4y ago
When I'm working for someone else, I'm usually around Level 4. Most difficulties are details I know don't really matter like dealing with others, especially meetings and calls. I stay on top of them, but I'd prefer to ne
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by edw519 4y ago
Too bad Abbot and Costello aren't around to attend a standup with a bunch of people using your app. - Robert Robert what did you do yesterday End Robert - Robert I met with Robert in accounting to finish Jira 12392 story on the R
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by edw519 4y ago
Interesting question. Thanks 100011_100001. I always had a positive mental attitude. Not really sure why. Difficult childhood? Last kid picked in kickball? Couldn't get a date? Knew nobody was ever going to give me a thing so I would h
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by edw519 4y ago
Is there something that just generates the html for you? Exactly. I rolled my own CMS just for this. No images, just html and superfast svg built from database parameters. I'll be launching a full webcomic only site by the end of the
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by edw519 4y ago
Thank you 100011_100001! I got so excited by your response, I figured what the heck and turned my original response into a code-generated, html-driven, svg-drawn comic strip and put in on the front page of my portfolio here: edweissman.com.
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by edw519 4y ago
As a general rule, successful programmers have been doing this forever: - It works. You added 2 things. It doesn't work. Which thing broke it? - It doesn't work. You changed 2 things. It works. Which thing fixed it? - It w
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by edw519 4y ago
OK, you trio of rabble-rousers are now an Architecture Board. Fuck you. Pay me. (I was going to add a whole bunch of pithy wisdom after this, but I think this is always a good stopping point because nothing good for anyone comes from bein
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by edw519 4y ago
shows a complete lack of empathy for "the other side" I must have misspoke or I'm just not the writer I used to be because this is exactly the opposite of what hundreds of warehouse and shop people have said about me for ov
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by edw519 4y ago
I can’t go so far as to change how the warehouse operates. Why not? That's what differentiates those who sling code from those who do real Digital Transformation (not the crap our bosses spout off.) it wouldn’t hurt to answer my que
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by edw519 4y ago
what is the warehouse actually trying to pencil in? Wow! Great question! This tells me that the root problem here is that development was done before analysis. Broken process. Often broken results. And most certainly broken management. OP
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by edw519 4y ago
In college, I lived in a 17 bedroom house (2 quads, 4 triples, 6 doubles, and 4 singles) with 35 fraternity brothers. It was glorious! Of course we had schedules but there was very little "planning". Everyone was just there almost
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by edw519 4y ago
It is because the nature of work/programming had changed. I got sucked into "leadership/managerial" a few times but quickly escaped. I just want to build fricking software! It's the coolest thing ever and I was born
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by edw519 4y ago
FOR ME, 30 YEARS AGO: - 1 language (DATABASIC) Then it did everything. I still use it now, mostly to connect to other things. - 1 DBMS (PICK) Then it did everything. I still use it now, mostly as a system of record feeding 50 other sy
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by edw519 4y ago
Personally I am very surprised you think some of these held up: pos mental attitude, writing things down, value of mba, and - most especially - almost anyone can do anything. OK then please allow me to give you a recent example of ALL 4 O
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by edw519 4y ago
Yes, that's part of it. It has to speak deep (sometimes elusive) truth. People will be engaged. They will learn. They will use it. And you can use the slides forever. Kinda like stand-up comedy. Ever notice that there are 2 kinds of co
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by edw519 4y ago
Thanks for the feedback, gbro3n. I'm too lazy to write a blog post about this at the moment, so here's a quickie reply: 1. An estimate is better than a guess. An measurement is better than an estimate. Feedback from my men
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by edw519 4y ago
Mentor advice: 1. An estimate is better than a guess. An measurement is better than an estimate. 2. It's never the money. (They will always say it is, but it's not.) 3. Never let anyone eat your lunch. 4. The best ti
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by edw519 4y ago
Former consultancy managing partner here. (My conscience would only allow me to be in that industry for 3 years.) Consultancies exist for one reason only: to maximize the delta between what we charge customers and what we pay employees&#x2F
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by edw519 4y ago
Translation: If you're an organ transplant candidate on a waiting list, move to an area with more Pedal Me riders.
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by edw519 5y ago
We must return to an economy fueled by innovation, rather than disruption, 1920 - 1970: Technology = Solution for a Problem At Hand 1970 - present: Technology = Solution looking for a Problem to Solve
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by edw519 5y ago
Hardly. OP is complaining about inconveniences that are standard everywhere I've worked for years. I noticed it immediately and pointed it out. Open your mind a little and you too may notice interesting parallels between the lines of c
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by edw519 5y ago
Wow, it looks like this is the closest our schools have ever been at preparing students for life in the real working world. I could have written this myself about work (with a few changes noted below): Classes that I did attend were quiet

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