gchucky

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by gchucky 17y ago
> if you have a incoherent project owner whose priorities drift from sprint to sprint, you will end up with a beautifully executed, disciplined execution of an incoherent product. Could not agree more with that. And I think that's one o
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by gchucky 17y ago
Way more often than you think. When I did my Scrum certification, there were people from lots of the financial corporations in NYC. I know Verizon is slowly starting to have its people get certified. My biggest problem with that is that I t
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by gchucky 17y ago
My company's big project right now is built in CodeIgniter. We picked a framework for a number of reasons, but mostly as a way of standardizing the code. Rather than everyone having some arbitrary way of doing something, we found it easier
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by gchucky 17y ago
First, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_pneumatic_post , the Prague system ended in 2002 when it flooded. Second, the New York City post offices used to send packages to each other via pneumatic tubes. The system stopped in
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by gchucky 17y ago
Um, you sure about that? I just looked at it and it seems just fine. Firefox is rendering it as UTF8. I'm running FF 3.5 on Windows. (I'm not Japanese, but I can read the language.)
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by gchucky 17y ago
They're probably not. Twitter is a DDoS according to its status page; whereas http://status.livejournal.org/ says that their problems were "due to some database problems." No idea about Facebook.
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by gchucky 17y ago
My current team is facing the exact same problem. We're doing Scrum, but our team isn't nearly as interchangeable as the Scrum dogma would like. Example: some of us are better at UI, some of us are better at IA, and so on. So while we're al
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by gchucky 17y ago
> And yes, they even use Windows in North Korea. Though one doubts Microsoft ever sees their cut! > Oddly enough the students were using the English version of Windows 98 rather than the Korean one. Heh, interesting. I was trying to
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New Pirate Bay will be a pay site(torrentfreak.com)
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by gchucky 17y ago
But these are three companies that are doing well enough that they can afford to take on failures. So something doesn't work at Google; the company's got enough revenue that they can absorb the failure without a huge problem. If you're runn
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by gchucky 17y ago
Haha, that's great. Clever idea. Wish there was some kind of interface for those of us without smartphones who just want to look stuff up online, but that sort of defeats the point of having it as an app. Still, good idea.
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by gchucky 17y ago
Neither, actually; according to http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-closes-its-tracker-re... , Pirate Bay is closing its tracker and will some kind of third party tracker in place.
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by gchucky 17y ago
That's a misleading title for the listing here. The article says that he "wants to shut down the internet for a day." The title seems to suggest way, way longer.
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by gchucky 17y ago
That's not what he's saying. He's saying that the market suffers because of a lack of competition - and I tend to agree with that. And as a side note, this article seems to sort of be leading towards that sentiment: "there’s very little rea
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by gchucky 17y ago
Just to rub it in Nintendo's face a bit more, during the demonstration at E3, the guy explaining the system said "This isn't a game where you end up on the sofa just kind of using some preset waggle commands." Ow.
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by gchucky 17y ago
Related question: what do people use for active remote collaboration, where you want to interact with someone else's screen? I was on a team with people located in several places around the US, and my boss wanted us to try pair programming.
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by gchucky 17y ago
I've worked in CodeIgniter, but these days I find myself using the Zend Framework ( http://framework.zend.com/ ). They're actively developing it, and it has so much built-in functionality that I've been able to get stuff done much faster th