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by laurentl 8y ago
This. It requires a far wider range of skills to be a really good front-end dev. UI, UX (which are 2 different skills in their own right), design, on top of coding for a set of platforms that, taken together, behave as erratically as a dr
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by laurentl 8y ago
I would recommend The Goal (E. Goldratt) over The Phoenix Project . Although The Goal is not about IT, I feel it’s much more didactic on how to identify problems and deal with them. In The Phoenix Project, things kinda fall into place wi
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by laurentl 8y ago
For me, it was a default choice: it was the only career path that didn’t suck (the alternative was to become an expert which, in that company at that time, meant plateauing after a few years). So it took me a while to become a competent man
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by laurentl 8y ago
Bitbucket’s website is slow as hell. I actually physically cringe when I have to do something through the website (e.g. create a pull request) because I know I’ll be staring at slow-loading pages for the next 5 minutes, even for something
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by laurentl 8y ago
For better or worse, having a Github profile is now a thing that’s expected of developers, so public repos are here to stay. Personally speaking, I’ll still default to public for my side projects. But a free private repo sounds like exact
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by laurentl 8y ago
Ptetty much anything by Arthur C Clarke. Not very recent, granted, but Clarke was a scientist and it shows. IIRC, he came up with the idea of communications satellites and the space elevator... Pretty accurate predictions :D
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by laurentl 8y ago
Well, for truly toxic individuals, warnings or confrontations are useless (I’ve learned this the hard way, and not for lack of trying). It is impossible to get them to understand that they have a problem; anything you say, no matter how cle
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by laurentl 8y ago
Which app are you using? There are quite a few on the Apple store.
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by laurentl 8y ago
I don’t use Instagram so can’t check the code, but I would guess they use something like <input type="file" accept="image/*" capture> Which does what you’d expect on a mobile device (launch the camera
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by laurentl 8y ago
> it might be an almost archetypical example of the "all bugs are security vulnerabilities" hypothesis This article will be my new go-to example when someone handwaves a bug away with a complacent “it’ll never happen” and “it’s
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by laurentl 8y ago
For what it’s worth, I find that the answers to the problems in tAoCP are almost always a good balance between explaining the steps to get to the solution and leaving enough out that the reader still has to work to understand how the proof
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by laurentl 8y ago
A math prof of mine would label insufficient initialization in recursive proofs with i.i. (it also stood for a few other common mistakes, such as “incorrect integration” or whatever). And he would invariably add “i.i = -1”, which was the pe
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by laurentl 8y ago
I believe being deprived of internet access is considered “cruel and unusual punishment” in the SV area ;) <insert follow-on joke about Comcast>
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by laurentl 8y ago
We’re now almost in 2019–is Cryptography engineering still the standard (despite the gaps listed in the article) or is there a newer, better version of it?
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by laurentl 8y ago
I’m partial to the Fulcrum + Lever combo. Played well, it’s powerful enough to move the world. Tangentially related anecdote on the Power 9: a play tester claimed he had a card so powerful, he could win all his games with it. It was the Tim
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by laurentl 8y ago
Thanks for the pointer to Mary Poppendieck, I hadn’t heard of her. Which book of hers would you suggest I pick up first ?
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by laurentl 8y ago
I’ve got a rare, first edition Pointy Stick in mint condition that I’m willing to sell at a very reasonable price ;)
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by laurentl 8y ago
I didn’t know marketing roadmaps were considered realistic scheduling :D
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by laurentl 8y ago
I’ve bought the Critical Chain by E. Goldratt two weeks ago and I’ve been enjoying the anticipation of reading it. The Goal was a real eye opener and I hope that the Critical Chain will bring me new insights on project management specif
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by laurentl 8y ago
Your understanding of the Duplicate rules is correct. It removes any element of chance (all players are judged on how well they manage a given draw) but it also removes any element of strategy. As an aside, it also makes it a lot easier to
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by laurentl 8y ago
I’m in a somewhat similar situation. Started my career 15 years ago as a dev, quickly moved to technical project management. Then I moved to infrastructure in a variety of roles, essentially around management (of project managers, architect
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by laurentl 8y ago
I would suggest cutting your losses and change contractors or internalize the code. Take a look at the contract, there’s probably a reversibility clause to cover this contingency. From what you’re describing, it’s probably the best solution
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by laurentl 8y ago
Noise-canceling headphones + focus at will (www.focusatwill.com) to get into a productive zone and stay in it.
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by laurentl 8y ago
I was thinking of what you can and cannot mail; specifically, that what he did could be construed as a letter bomb. Granted, it’s much much less dangerous, but the mechanism is the same. At a time when public figures get pipe bombs in th
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by laurentl 8y ago
As a former certified Java programmer, moving to Python was a breath of fresh air. More concise syntax, no more braces all over the place, much less boilerplate (think getter, setter, public static void main(String[] args)) and not everythi
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by laurentl 8y ago
Yeah. “Hello officer, I made a booby trapped package and I...” gets tased “argh no you don’t under- “ is handed off to the secret service I doubt the cops would look kindly on what is at best (funny) vigilante justice, at worse a violat
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by laurentl 8y ago
Speaking as a potential hirer (in the sense that I manage a technical team and regularly look at both junior and senior dev resumes): - if your CV only lists 1 language/framework and it’s one I’ve never heard of, I’m not likely to keep
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by laurentl 8y ago
This. Empathy (i.e. the ability to understand what’s going on in someone’s head) is a key leadership trait in my opinion. The good news is that you can develop this skill. First and foremost, listen. Use 1:1 meetings to talk about how the
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by laurentl 8y ago
Surprised that no one mentioned Duplicate Scrabble, which is the most common tournament form in France. Ar each round, everyone gets the same draw and submits their best word. The overall best word is kept and added to the board. This compl
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by laurentl 8y ago
2 factors I think: * the CTO title is the new project manager. It seems as soon as someone is in a position to choose whether to use Postgre or MySql they break out the CTO moniker. You can now be the CTO of just about any organizational un

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