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by jksmith 2y ago
One reason for this is when the big players move their business models over to taking your data and renting it back to you, there's no profit motive in pushing state-of-the-art ux when they just give their apps away to act like honeypo
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by jksmith 2y ago
Yep, I'll have a major rich gui workstation client/server package with basic D365 functionality coming out in I hope about 8 months. Win, Linux, hopefully Mac, and browser. The browser version is definitely legacy gui compared to
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by jksmith 2y ago
In Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities," the main character, a lawyer, described the line of prisoners going into the back of the courthouse as "chow," as in chow for the system. I'll never forget that. Also, for
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by jksmith 2y ago
Yeah that's what blows me away about the fpl/laz open source UI framework, along with the whole library from fpl/laz. Labor of love I guess...it is right up there with sqlite and and linux itself as one of the greatest open s
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by jksmith 2y ago
For Lazarus, use the BGRAImage package for webp.
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by jksmith 2y ago
Yeah, Delphi (and for me now, Lazarus) still provides a substantially richer desktop experience than the web framework of the day. After having written some beautiful, rich apps with this tool, tweaking css makes me want to puke.
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by jksmith 2y ago
Great thread. Love DEC/VAX history. But as soon as I saw a pic of Robert Palmer with his hair product and 2k suits in 1990, I knew then end was near. I mean yeah Ellison at Oracle was similar at the time, but this was DEC!, not just a
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by jksmith 2y ago
I use the Model M for both writing beauty code and as a home defense weapon. Requires a conference table. Drive cubemates nuts.
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by jksmith 2y ago
"There is an huge junkyard of technologies that failed to gain broad acceptance, many of them far more revolutionary than Rust (e.g.: Lisp, Smalltalk). I don't see why those technologies' story can be avoided." Yeah, but
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by jksmith 2y ago
My goto as well.
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by jksmith 2y ago
https://wiki.freepascal.org/Platform_list#Supported_targets_... So with FPC/Lazarus you have a full dev system if works as wiki suggests.
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by jksmith 2y ago
Aside: Downvotes on HN can be an expression of age related, self-righteous sniper pique; Opinions on what contributes to a conversation can be all over the place and are entirely subject to biases, which can be interesting (I guess). Doesn&
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by jksmith 2y ago
For a good levity injection attack, there is no known defense.
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by jksmith 2y ago
# If it compiles, it runs # And when it runs, it’s very stable Modula-2 40 years ago. The ship had strong bones to build upon a long time ago, but alas, C. The tyranny of the masses.
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by jksmith 2y ago
Agree. It's just that well understood scrum is a great process for delivering certainty and stability, as proven by lots of teams (provided they did scrum correctly).Just saves energy to thoroughly vet the process before tossing it. Bu
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by jksmith 2y ago
Well, a rather xor response, but that's ok. Let's go a different route: Someone is using a diet change (fixed), and the elliptical machine to lose weight. This person has no exercise background. The elliptical routine is basic - s
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by jksmith 2y ago
Sure, comes from a prevailing view that estimating is bad. But it's only because estimating is treated like the answer, then we just go with that answer. The best scrum teams I've worked with maintain a very important survival not
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by jksmith 2y ago
Sure, maybe optimize further. Why have managers? The CD pipeline goes throughout the whole value stream, not just at delivery. Just like delivery automation (eliminate intervention of humans), there's also human automation (helping peo
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by jksmith 2y ago
You will not own your digital life and be happy.
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by jksmith 2y ago
Evolution of a manager and scrum team achieving high-performance together: Team: "We are having trouble with Bob." Manager: "Ok I'll talk to him." Team:"We are having trouble with Bob." Manager: "Don&
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by jksmith 2y ago
Good points, and eye-rolling stuff for teams thaqt don't understand the intricacies. For instance: - burn-down / velocity charts: Teams use this at standups to make sure their sprint isn't drifting. That's why a burn-dow
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by jksmith 2y ago
Unfortunately, we aren't understanding the intricacies of high-performance. I've worked with maybe 150 scrum teams. 99% were mediocre. Remaining 1% understood energy usage, how to limit what they took into a sprint backlog, and ho
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by jksmith 2y ago
Dig it. I use Balsamiq all the time. Some challenges when using Wine, so I have to open a cringey Klaus Schwab windows machine. Would be great if this app showed Linux some love.
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by jksmith 2y ago
>- Display PostScript --- to a great degree, NeXT was responsible for this Confirm, got to see a live demo at Comdex ATL back in 1992? Mind blown.
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by jksmith 2y ago
Given a time snapshot and enough computing power, isn't recursion inevitable? It's like running out of known universe given time x. So then we're back creating data without a prior dataset, which is still a human domain.
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by jksmith 2y ago
Just a symptom of what happens to capitalism applied to a fiat system when price and value discovery are lost. So what is this system now like?
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by jksmith 2y ago
Say no to SAFe. It's a middle-management orgy of mediocrity.
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by jksmith 2y ago
Eisenhower. Here's another from the great philosopher Mike Tyson: "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face." Point being, have a continuously ready backlog consumed by short iterations with great telemetry - l
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by jksmith 2y ago
Yes, and WSJF gives you two units of data: priority and sequencing - because everybody's pet is priority 1. Much better than MoSCoW.
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by jksmith 2y ago
Completely missing the point, which often happens with xor thinking. The beauty of story points is that they rely on human ability to compare things quickly. It's almost instinctive. ex. You're being chased by a rhinoceros through

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