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by michalc 1y ago
Although a follow up… could “Deliver value daily” actually help push _away_ from toxic behaviours like micromanagement? As long as there is some sort of visible/tangible progress most days, and in a justifiable direction, there could b
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by michalc 1y ago
I was actually thinking this is all from the developer point of view (or at the very least mine: a developer). I try to deliver some value every working day, and I have to say I pretty much love it. This principle really pushes me to make s
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"Deliver value daily" – A one-principle manifesto for agile software development(delivervaluedaily.dev)
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by michalc 1y ago
For a while now some colleagues and I have been thinking about how to improve ways of working, and specifically around the limitations of Agile - especially how it's practiced. As has been suggested by others before us, Agile is all to
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"Deliver value daily" – A one-principle manifesto for agile software development(delivervaluedaily.dev)
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OpenTTDLab: A Python framework for reproducible experiments using OpenTTD(joss.theoj.org)
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Show HN: pgarrow – A SQLAlchemy PostgreSQL dialect for ADBC(github.com)
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Fat Thursday(en.wikipedia.org)
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by michalc 2y ago
I made something along these lines a while back too: https://projections.charemza.name/
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by michalc 2y ago
Ah I _think_ I ran this on a MacBook that as far as I know has 8 real cores… But I since found that 4 are “efficiency” cores, so that could be the reason for the poor scaling(?)
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by michalc 2y ago
Ah thanks for the suggestion! Will see if I can add examples or otherwise make things clearer
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by michalc 2y ago
Ah I did! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39254487 (Feels a bit soon to repost somehow…)
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by michalc 2y ago
I have posted this before, but I’ve been working on a wrapper for OpenTTD to turn it from a game to a (slightly!) more serious system for research/experimentation, especially using its AI system: https://github.com/mich
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Elevator Saga(play.elevatorsaga.com)
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Show HN: pg-sync-roles – More easily manage PostgreSQL permissions from Python(github.com)
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by michalc 3y ago
> If you use this, I owe you nothing. Sure the legalese states I owe nothing, but if I’ve shared the code, written some documentation, and encouraged others to use it as I have on a few projects… … I feel as though I do owe something. I
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Show HN: stream-unzip – now with an async interface(github.com)
3 points by michalc 3y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: stream-zip – Now with async support(github.com)
2 points by michalc 3y ago|0 comments
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Historical trends in the usage statistics of Python version 3 for websites(w3techs.com)
1 points by michalc 3y ago|2 comments
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by michalc 3y ago
I was surprised to see that Python 3.6 is still the most popular version, even though it's been over 2 years since the end of security releases for it.
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by michalc 3y ago
I didn't know about this - thanks!!
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by michalc 3y ago
Ah the name - you're not the first to mention it! Do you (or anyone lurking...) have any suggestions as to what it might better be called? On what it does/why it exists, we've kept the README quite light to avoid duplication,
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by michalc 3y ago
I thought it was time I got off my... and starting making an AI ( https://github.com/michalc/SupplyChainLabAI - but it does nothing but log a debug message repeatedly at this point, I feel I have a long journey...) But
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by michalc 3y ago
Short answer: yes, exactly Long answer: trying to make it much easier to do simulation-based research using OpenTTD, and for any results found to be as reproducible as possible. There have been a few papers/dissertations that use OpenT
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Show HN: pg-bulk-ingest – Now with multi-table support(github.com)
18 points by michalc 3y ago|6 comments
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by michalc 3y ago
Related: I recently made OpenTTDLab https://github.com/michalc/OpenTTDLab that can run OpenTTD headlessly from Python and extract data from its savegames in a hopefully fairly straightforward way. (Very recently posted
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Show HN: OpenTTDLab – Run reproducible experiments using OpenTTD(github.com)
11 points by michalc 3y ago|0 comments
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Rules when making data dashboards(charemza.name)
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by michalc 3y ago
Very much on board with practicing this sort of thing and getting to know what works for you. For me, it’s really about deciding about what bit of micro “value” I can do next, doing it, and leaving things in a working “done” state. And inte
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by michalc 3y ago
Have now implemented a version of this at https://github.com/michalc/sqlite-memory-vfs/blob/74a24ce567... I think different to yours in two ways: - If doesn't go via PENDING if it doesn't need to. N

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