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Every CTO needs to read that book.
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Agile was originally a [software] development philosophy/methodology which included planning and delivery by the entire development team together. Early on it was adopted by consulting shops for good reasons. Today it seems Agile is us
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Is Agile Over?(jeffgothelf.com)
3 points by jrs235 2y ago|4 comments
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by jrs235 2y ago
Thank you.
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>it's your morality and ethics identifying a gain you made that you feel you shouldn't be comfortable with. What's your definition of guilt then? Just curious. Thanks.
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https://archive.ph/0Itzv
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Remember subscriptions also came about because of corporate limitations on expenses. If the charge was under the corporate limit then an often burdensome and time consuming approval process wasn't neccesary. https://www.joel
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Jetbrains also gives a 2nd year and 3rd year subscription discount if I recall correctly.
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Do you put dates of employment on it then? Or number of years? Or neither?
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I see lots of comments about how awful Scrum is. In the comments it appears they are from people working on projects directly for their employer. Scrum's greatest value is for teams that are not directly employed. For example a contrac
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For example the military: enlisted vs commissioned officers.
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My saying has always been "Bored people are boring people."
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Efficiency reduces resiliency.
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It's still very much a dinosaur industry. I suspect the names (i.e. Tony Jone's Toyota) in dealerships and dealership gorups are typically 70+ years or older by now. Children might be taking over and running things now but dad is
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by jrs235 2y ago
>And I get that some of the walking around is probably a ruse I don't doubt that on a slow day a salesperson and the entire process will be slowed down... nothing like tapping into the sunk cost fallacy (as a buyer I spent 3 hours h
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where the dealership often does maintenance for "free" during the lease FTFY. She's still paying for it!
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>strongly associated with Is that causation or correlation?...
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>Do you think the garbage men picking up your trash had that as their life aspirations? No, but they do it for money. Or the pool cleaners? Or the bus drivers? Or toilet cleaners? Honestly, if I didn't have worry about paying "
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by jrs235 2y ago
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40657933
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by jrs235 2y ago
I used to attempt things like that too (long races or tough mudders with little to no training). After doing my third tough mudder and getting injured I realized it's just stupid and a great way to cause a serious, possibly life enduri
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The future is a mixture of Idiocracy and WALL-E
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Walmart Just Announced a Brand-New Way to Track Customers, & It All Starts Today(inc.com)
43 points by jrs235 2y ago|29 comments
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Reminds me of playing Lunar Lander[1] back in the day. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Lander_(video_game_genre...
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My point being is if you're using email as a key you "have to" treat it as case sensitive even though for most it's not. And yes, I agree it will be a recipe for disaster.
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Also are emails case sensitive or not? In some systems (that you don't control mind you) they are and others they are not...
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Glad to see this is getting attention again. But for those that don't know, this is several years old. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25507942
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by jrs235 2y ago
And I won't know how much I'll have to pay out of pocket for this for a least 6 months... I won't be able to recall or have the knowledge if they billed for things not provided too.
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Wife just went into surgery literally 5 minutes ago. While waiting we had several doctors and nurses check in and ask basically the same questions. While this was happening I was thinking about how we're at the mercy of the hospital an
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It's strange that management becomes even more crucial in order to handle and manage offshoring too...
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What if companies only accepted resumes mailed in with cover letters??? I think the postage expense would reduce the noise.

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