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by lasereyes136 8y ago
On a trip to India I went to a Zoo where I took a bus to tour the enclosures for the tigers, lions, and bears. Between each species there were a set of gates to make sure the animals didn't mix. There were people who operated the gates
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by lasereyes136 8y ago
I have done this before, more than once. Some companies were in better shape, some this bad. Every one of them failed. Every dollar I spent was wasted. You may get different results. Don't kid yourself into thinking this is a good bet.
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by lasereyes136 8y ago
I suggest: 1. Read - books and articles about what you are doing 2. Go to conferences and meetups and ask questions 3. Make learning and self-mentoring part of your daily flow 4. See mistakes as learning opportunities and get your team to s
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by lasereyes136 8y ago
You could say the same about many things. My car is idle most of the time. I usually only use it for 1-2 hours a day during the week and less on the weekends. I could use Uber or Lyft instead but I don't. I could rent out my car when I
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by lasereyes136 8y ago
Never ask trick questions or intentionally leave critical information out of a question or problem. Let them ask you questions about any problem you give them to solve. If you are going to ask them to code, give them a computer with Interne
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by lasereyes136 8y ago
My experience is more that the change in drinks and snacks is more an indicator than the snacks and drinks themselves. Some companies that are doing very well just have a culture of not having snacks and charging for drinks. It is a change
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by lasereyes136 8y ago
This all remains me of a quote I have recently seen: "Most Programmer wouldn't hire themselves" As long as we keep asking people to do things that aren't like the work that we do, we will continue to get mismatches and p
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by lasereyes136 8y ago
There are a lot of people creating lifestyle businesses. It just isn't getting a lot of attention because fewer people are chasing money from a company that makes it's owner millions so that they can chase companies that are worth
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by lasereyes136 9y ago
Slack is a billion dollar company because they made IRC accessible to the non-technical people. Technical people write a terminal client for it because they like being in a CLI for reasons. Making a popular service look and feel like the ol
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by lasereyes136 9y ago
We reserved the right to not answer certain questions. I answered most of their questions, only 1 or 2 were in areas where I wasn't suppose to give them answers.
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by lasereyes136 9y ago
Well, having worked for a small software startup that did just that, I can tell you what we did. We agreed to letting them audit the code with conditions. 1. The audit happened on our computers with someone from our team in control (me). I
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by lasereyes136 9y ago
He forgot the mumble talker in his list of people that come to the Daily Stand Up.
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by lasereyes136 9y ago
I agree with your statements. But it has nothing to do with Agile or Scrum. It all has to do with company culture. It reminds me of my favorite Henrik Kniberg quote "If your company doesn't like the truth, than maybe Agile isn&#x2
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by lasereyes136 10y ago
Communications skills or ability to learn. Technology will come and go. Best practices evolve all of the time. What technical skills that are best today aren't tomorrow. Learn to communicate and how to learn new things.
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by lasereyes136 10y ago
The inceptive system used to produce the code can be out of wack with producing good code. We all know many "management" teams will tell the development team to get it into production now and we can fix it later. Later never comes