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by g051051 5y ago
OP assumed that Stripe would get it right exactly as they wished it would work, and wasn't verifying it. The problem literally started as soon as they enabled it: "I deployed it on November 6, 2021, the same day that Stripe stopp
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by g051051 5y ago
The apartment mentioned in the article stirred up some memories. Back in the early 90's, I worked for a company that had a long term contract for software development and support in another city. The team that worked on that project w
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by g051051 5y ago
Yeah, most of the "senior" positions I see state that they want 5 or so years experience.
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For some bizarre reason, at one particular health care provider my blood pressure always read high. At my current and previous primary care doctor, as well as with my personal BP monitoring deice, my BP was always in the "normal"
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by g051051 5y ago
Are they going to print "Don't take my blood pressure" cards, too?
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All too common. I've had several devices (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch) killed because Apple stopped providing any sort of software support until practically everything I used them for bitrotted away. The only old Apple device I have tha
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by g051051 5y ago
The reason he's still there is because this deal has probably been in the works for a while, and they weren't going to cut him loose until it settled. I'm sure that as soon as it's possible after the acquisition that he
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> I'm almost 50 years old. I started my master's at 50 and finished it 2 1/2 years later. > Your brain has slowed down by a factor of at least 2. My brain has never been better. I had decades of experience to lean on,
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by g051051 5y ago
I hate signing up for trials. And they committed a cardinal sin...adding me to a mailing list, even though I specifically left that box unchecked.
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And as I said, if OP wants to hang out and work with other people, I'm fine with it. Medical reasons aside, I wouldn't force someone to WFH any more than I'd want someone to force me into an office. However, work culture (u
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> ultimately I think/hope most people understand the social benefits of working in an office. As far as I'm concerned, there aren't any. But you know what? At the end of the day I don't care where someone works, as l
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by g051051 5y ago
One of the worst, most difficult projects I ever worked on was where I was forced into direct interaction with a "customer". She was a nice enough lady in general, and knew her subject area, but she had no technical skills at all
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Ooof...not in my view. The last thing I need as a developer is to deal with non-technical people.
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> The term was originally intended as “Agile Systems Administration” That explains why it's such a terrible idea.
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Great to see someone else saying this for a change. "Dev" and "Ops" are different skill sets with some potential overlap, but not 100%. Organizations I've been in have never done the "throw it over the wall
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by g051051 5y ago
"Deathworld 2" by Harry Harrison has a plot along those lines. Apparently the original name was "The Ethical Engineer".
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by g051051 5y ago
> What if you never take that promotion? Flawed premise. Why does everyone assume it's a promotion? > For example, people often assume that any talented developer will end up becoming a manager. I assume the opposite (and it&#x2
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> Many (most?) of the early Agile promoters were owners or partners in a consultancy doing work for clients. This is a huge point that people who weren't in the industry back then completely miss: The people behind the Agile manifes
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> Your comment is implying that somehow 1000s of people around the world don't realise they are doing something stupid. Agile and scrum have now been around long enough that large numbers of devs have never known anything else. So
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> In my few years working as a dev, I am absolutely convinced that scrum and agile are the worst possible development practices you can have from the perspective of a developer, even though they are sold as 'developer centric'
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> I've never quite understood, over 30 years of experience in software development, what problems Waterfall presented that warranted a complete refactor of software development processes such that things are now very much in cult-&#
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> I'd extend this to the very existence of rigid roles such as 'project manager', 'qa', etc. I don't go that far. Project management, qa, ops, and programming are largely disjoint skillsets.
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I lack sufficient football knowledge to carry the analogy much further. My understanding is that there's no real discussion...the play is called by the coach, the QB (I expect) relays the play to the team in the huddle, and they execu
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> Asynchronous communication is a decent way to replace synchronous standups if (and only if) everyone involved can respond in a timely manner and is willing to schedule a synchronous discussion when necessary. This is the true measure o
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> On the other hand people are far too over the top acting as if it's the most awful thing they've ever had to deal with (it's 15 minutes It's awful when it's interrupting valuable flow time. > in most cases t
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"Shitty standups" happen because in anything like a healthy team, they're a complete waste of time. Things like "I am having a problem solving X" should not be deferred until the next standup, they should be commun
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> It’s for ICs to also communicate their needs, obstacles, concerns, or even just give everyone a heads up that a certain task is more difficult than expected. If the only time ICs communicate any of that stuff is at a set time each morn
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The huddle is play selection, not design. It's also often dictated by the coach. TBH, I wonder what point a huddle serves in modern football anyway. Just how much control to the players on the field have, anyway?
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> The daily standup may have done more than any other ritual to improve developer productivity. In what universe did this happen? Certainly not ours.
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I love parts of it (the small single occupancy rooms), but I'd hate having those common areas right outside every door (especially that TV), one bathroom for 8 people, etc. The odds of at least one inconsiderate jerk (not cleaning, st

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