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by jemmyw 4y ago
Whether they can push Russia out I don't know, that probably depends more on Russia than Ukraine. Russian people aren't exactly signing up in droves to push this invasion - a little probably, but stories coming out from the Russia
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by jemmyw 4y ago
I'm not sure that you're correct. In those examples you state, eventually the majority was on side. It seems that the majority is more often "live and let live" than a minority who seek power to suppress. There's al
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by jemmyw 4y ago
If the war is over next year (I'm not optimistic, but fingers crossed) and Ukraine prevails, which seems to be a certainty, then the US and EU will plough money into Ukraine's recovery. They'll want an institutionally stronge
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Technical debt isn't technically debt(aha.io)
1 points by jemmyw 4y ago|2 comments
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by jemmyw 4y ago
The term "technical debt" has entered the standard lexicon of programming and software project development and has often been called out for being an incorrect metaphor. Yet it persists as a way to talk about the decisions made du
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by jemmyw 4y ago
Thanks, that's a much calmer balanced view. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce5TR-qWCk4&t=3574s this vid has a great and lengthy analysis on the economic situation in Europe. Basically, Europe and Germany will be f
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by jemmyw 4y ago
I get what you're saying but my anecdotal experience is different now that I think about it. I made good friends in both office and remote situations. I'm only in touch with one person from the in office times, and that's by
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by jemmyw 4y ago
I've worked for fully remote companies and fully in office companies and large companies and tiny ones. I've been an IC mostly but also a manger and lead. My observation is: it doesn't make a damn bit of difference. Decisions
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by jemmyw 4y ago
The Discworld books by Terry Pratchett. I love the humour and social commentary in them, and how the characters develop throughout. I also really enjoy how the writing changed - raw and somewhat hard to read but so much chaotic energy with
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by jemmyw 4y ago
An engineering manager I know likes to quote his self named rule: every team will try to leave Jira and will eventually return
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by jemmyw 4y ago
They haven't looked that far then. There's certainly other tools out there with similar aims. I work for Aha! who have a developers tool focusing on teams delivering outcomes, which works in parallel with our product management an
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by jemmyw 4y ago
So Facebook didn't censor anything? He didn't admit censoring and the story wasn't censored. Nobody had their posts about it taken down and nobody was prevented from discussing it. Facebook just didn't disseminate the st
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by jemmyw 5y ago
You don't need devise, so I think it's good it's not included. It used to be that devise was good to use as it had the best practice way to set up the password fields etc. But that has been moved to rails core. It's stil