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by jasim 7y ago
This conversation is probably moot in teams where programmers are actually empowered to make their own decisions. In that case XP is fine, if you enjoy it, which makes it sort of a tautology. The problem though is the Agile Industrial Compl
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by jasim 7y ago
I'm very excited about this idea and have even asked for an early access invite. These days I don't care about being in full control of my back-end stack - I just want to build something and ship it with least hassle as possible.
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by jasim 7y ago
Taylorism worked -- it decreased costs for companies, but people suffered -- they couldn't find meaning in what they do, their every move was monitored and choreographed, and they were squeezed for the last bit of efficiency possible.
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I've also seen that programmers who're not really good at the job, but don't have qualms about playing politics often end up managing the teams they were unfit to work in in the first place. They were not necessarily better a
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by jasim 7y ago
The Art of Micromanaging Software Engineers! Here's the thing: as programmers we sometimes have a bad day. Sometimes a bad week or two. Sometimes there is unresolved ambiguity in how something needs to be done that we tend to procrasti
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by jasim 7y ago
I agree - it is a bit of over-correction.
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I've come to believe that reading isn't as useful as I previously thought. I still read prolifically, because it is pleasurable, and occasionally inspiring, but not because there are any causal benefits I can point to. "The s
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Beware the Man of One Study(slatestarcodex.com)
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DOS Commercial Screen Shot Gallery(danielsays.com)
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Build a production-ready front end, even if your API's not ready(miragejs.com)
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Utilities for Managing Bash Aliases(logicalpoetry.com)
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Gradual Typing from Theory to Practice(blog.sigplan.org)
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My Journey from Frame Maker to Painter(jamesyu.org)
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by jasim 7y ago
Peak urban real-estate, regions with good weather, clean air and water, natural resources, biodiversity etc. might be counter points. Unless we achieve fundamental breakthroughs in natural and physical sciences as well as improve basic econ
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I wonder whether focussing on strengths would be better than minimizing weaknesses here. There have been companies with their tech in shambles, yet managed to do really well because the market pulled a product out of them. Bad tech made lif
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Nice to hear that!
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Good times indeed!
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by jasim 7y ago
Yeah I used to look longingly at Turbo Vision GUIs, but C++ was scary at the time. Do you think building TUIs with TV was qualitatively better than approaches popular today? Any insights why?
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That was the only programming environment (CA-Clipper) I knew at the time. VB6 was a thing, but I had some GUI-antipathy, coming from the older, "purer?" world of DOS. Also POS terminals needed first-class keyboard accessibility.
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by jasim 7y ago
I've found that systems usually get robust over time - most issues in commonly run code paths get ironed out in production, and if we don't keep modifying the code, and the system's relative external world remains stable, thi
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Teaching Tech Together(teachtogether.tech)
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This is great! Is the optimization applicable in Firefox?
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Defunctionalization at Work [pdf](daimi.au.dk)
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"Today's graduating PhDs use Unix, X, Emacs, and Tex. That's their world. It's often the only computing world they've ever used for technical work. Twenty years ago, a student would have been exposed to a wide varie
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Systems Software Research Is Irrelevant(web.archive.org)
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Exploring the squarified tree map algorithm with ReasonML(huy.dev)
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Programs that program(letoverlambda.com)
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How we totally ignored our customers(martin.kleppmann.com)
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Coding the Art, Continued(blog.jetbrains.com)
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Why bucklescript matters for JavaScript platform(github.com)
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