mattchamb

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by mattchamb 5y ago
It also allows you to produce some colors of glaze that are hard otherwise.
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by mattchamb 5y ago
Not very well known, but not new. http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d...
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by mattchamb 5y ago
I see this happening in places too. I have seen it described as the Dead Sea effect. http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d...
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by mattchamb 5y ago
Testers absolutely still have a role to play, but not as manual test execution robots. That stuff can be automated. I find value in skilled testers in exploratory testing, sanity checks on if product flows make sense and helping define scop
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by mattchamb 5y ago
I would interested in a way to automatically edit real photos of people in such a way that it looks the same but now tests positive for being a deepfake.
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by mattchamb 5y ago
Waterfall development is still pervasive in a lot of industries and companies.
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by mattchamb 5y ago
We gave our people the option of working 4 10 hour days instead of the usual 5 day week. Remote or in office, we dont care. Several people tried it, but all except one went back to the usual schedule. The feedback was that 10 hours is just
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by mattchamb 5y ago
Exactly, and sometimes to fix the issues with the spec you'll have to go far enough off script that it gets very obvious to people you dont want attention from.
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by mattchamb 5y ago
Enterprise developer here. Exactly this. If you reject the spec, you won't get another one before the deadline that was committed before you got the spec you want to reject.
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by mattchamb 6y ago
I've seen the "we cant take credit cards and just start charging" fight play out on the other end. The reason was that the sales teams objected to their commissions being bypassed, so everything had to funnel through the sale
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by mattchamb 6y ago
Writing docs is also important for working asynchronously so people were happy when writing and commenting on docs meant meetings started disappearing from their calendars and any remaining calls were more focused
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by mattchamb 6y ago
We started by building a culture of documentation within our team. A good place to start is with ADRs (architecture decision records). We also identified barriers for people to write docs on random topics. People thought writing docs would
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by mattchamb 6y ago
I like it. I've also taken to doing something similar with other interactions - when weighing in on decisions I try to say up front how much I care about the feedback I'm giving. Same with messaging people on slack - if something
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by mattchamb 6y ago
Personally it has been a really mixed bag. I tend to wear my heart on my sleeve and have a high sense of ownership of the things in working on. That can get really difficult when I personally am not happy with a high level decision, but hav
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by mattchamb 6y ago
I've changed to the management track about a year ago, and this post resonates a lot with me. It has been one of the hardest jobs I've done. On top of all this, the thing that gets me is that the feedback cycles get much longer, a
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by mattchamb 6y ago
Also check out https://mokuhankan.com/ for the woodblock printer
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by mattchamb 6y ago
I agree. Part of their argument is that China cannot beat the US militarily... well it sounds like China's main rival is preparing for war, so China is taking a different route.
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by mattchamb 6y ago
I know of one situation where self service signup was actively argued against because sales wouldn't get a commission on those signups.
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by mattchamb 7y ago
I use variable, function and class names as a rough guide on whether I need to refactor. If I name it accurately and the name gets too long, its probably doing too much.
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by mattchamb 7y ago
My thoughts exactly as a non-american. I just find this amusing and all I can say is welcome to the club of being spied on with impunity.
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by mattchamb 7y ago
view the page source and there is a "position: absolute; left: -5294px; top: 0;" to hide the paragraph
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by mattchamb 7y ago
I read it as something like はなせいません which doesn't match 話せません or 話しません
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by mattchamb 7y ago
I do pottery - it can be a lot of things for a lot of people; all the way from just playing with mud to complex glaze and clay chemistry
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by mattchamb 7y ago
What if a world leader said something along the lines of.. "Just ordered a strike xxxcountry. This is war." That would probably trigger war.
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by mattchamb 7y ago
I actually believe part of it is that they rely on this editor[1] for the messenger and anyone who tries to use it on any device that supports IME (like phones) will find that it does not work at all. [1] https://github.com/
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by mattchamb 7y ago
Hours of debugging can save minutes of reading the documentation
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OpenLI – open-source ETSI-compliant Lawful Intercept software(openli.nz)
1 points by mattchamb 7y ago|0 comments
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by mattchamb 8y ago
Assume all users are not technically capable
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by mattchamb 8y ago
I don't have a link atm, but the whole site is available as a github repo if you are interested in a local copy.
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by mattchamb 8y ago
As someone who is trying to use Aozora Bunko to get practice material for learning japanese, this saddens me. https://www.aozora.gr.jp

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