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by hyggetrold 2y ago
Ah okay, that makes sense.
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
"He got his bag"
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
> The naysayers are nearly always right. We just only remember the times they were wrong. Wait what?
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
Reminds me of what my first-year econ professor in college once stated after disabusing myself and some other undergrads of our romantic notions about how life should work. "Do I shock you? This is capitalism."
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
Interesting idea and curious - because when I look at that visualization, the first thing it reminds me of is gource.
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
Light Table was getting lift and traction but didn't make it. There was a ton of conversation on it back in the day on HN, including great presentations by the creator (who had been a PM on Visual Studio as MSFT!). Definitely check it
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
Does this project take any inspiration from Light Table? Potential feature request - take the visualization beyond 2D. Really complex systems are usually an intricate graph (polite way of saying ball of yarn) and just visualizing in the 2D
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
Nice article. These stood out to me: > Software architecture matters probably more than anything else. A shitty implementation of a good abstraction causes no net harm to the code base. A bad abstraction or missing layer causes everythi
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
> AI is deepening the previously parasocial relationships we had with our favorite anime characters from passive linear media, into powerful new, interactive relationships. I truly can't believe they had the gall to publish this a
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
Surprised nobody has dropped a monday.com advertisement into this thread yet ;)
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
Did you read what I wrote?
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
No, Pivotal Tracker did not invent this paradigm. For background, I started working around 2005. Before tools like Tracker or JIRA, people who were doing agile development did everything with physical index cards. There was a lot of controv
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
But how much did it pull?
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
For what it's worth, I have family members who are Palestinian, so I am deeply sympathetic to the plight of the innocent people dying in Gaza and the West Bank. I am not of Palestinian ethnic background myself (complex family history).
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
I'm ready to believe you but the impression I have from your comment is that it would take quite a bit to convince you to take a step back from your personal beliefs and re-evaluate. It doesn't even matter what you believe, based
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
From my understanding of the HN guidelines, a technical discussion around the technology in this story is not an issue. Where things break down is when people starting talking about Israel vs Palestine, who is at fault, who should be punish
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
HN tries to really avoid this kind of discussion since it never goes anywhere productive. Folks who have really strong views on Israel/Gaza are not going to change their perspective because of a comment thread on Hacker News.
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
Reading the comments posted thus far makes me wonder how much exposure folks have to Kent Beck and his work and writings? I got started in the industry around 2005 so to me, Kent is a kind of celebrity / thought leader. But it seems th
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Ask HN: Has ChatGPT been unstable for you today?
2 points by hyggetrold 2y ago|0 comments
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
"It seems like nobody wants to work these days" has been a refrain since ancient Mesopotamia!
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Justice Department formally moves to reclassify marijuana(apnews.com)
57 points by hyggetrold 2y ago|76 comments
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
Same - when I saw the carpet book for sale it was over a thousand. Looks like a beautiful book but that is a lot of money. Have you visited any of Alexander's buildings? I still need to get out and see some. I saw a lecture from Kent B
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
I really wanted to read the work about carpets also and even found a copy available online. The price was massive sticker shock however and I couldn't justify buying it. I love that OOPSLA lecture, incidentally. In my view the software
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
I think it's worth it for people to start by reading Alexander's writing themselves first before relying on synthesis. Alexander's aim was not simply "good ways of building things." I also think it's important
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Stop Using Story Points (2012)(industriallogic.com)
3 points by hyggetrold 2y ago|0 comments
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
It's an odd thing - at all the big companies I've worked for, you can usually get all your work for the day done in 4 hours. Between meetings and status waste, that's all anybody expects from you.
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
Posture is huge. I got a lot out of studying Alexander Technique for improving my own posture.
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
Don't say you, say we. https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Behavioral-Deficiencies-
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
> Good database design needs to make a come back (and people need to stop being afraid of sql) Aye - folks should learn third normal form. They should learn SQL as well.
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
You mean JCL?

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