mjfisher

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by mjfisher 2y ago
There's a difference between asking someone to invert a binary tree, and asking someone to sum up a list of numbers. The latter finds the people who can't code much more quickly!
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by mjfisher 2y ago
That's often not true. Testing more, earlier, tends to surface problems whe they require less work to fix. Easier context switching, less dealing with extra added complexity between coding the issue and fixing it etc.
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by mjfisher 2y ago
I'm surprised no one yet - either in the comments or the article - has talked about the most important and powerful part of Scrum: having a singular sprint goal aligned with a higher level product goal that the entire team is dedicated
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by mjfisher 2y ago
I kind of do, but the lack of sleep has killed my short term, long term and working memory. The time before is hazy.
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by mjfisher 3y ago
> One time I reduced something from a 15 minute execution time to running hundreds of times per second That's too good a story not to have just a little more detail. Are you willing to share more?
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by mjfisher 3y ago
I used to wonder if imaginary numbers were "real" (in the common sense, rather than the mathematical one). This only intensified after I learnt that they're required in quantum mechanics to explain any physical behaviour at a
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by mjfisher 3y ago
I'd agree with Gimp - it's UI makes several departures from other similar software. But Inkscape's UI seems pretty intuitive?
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by mjfisher 3y ago
I take your point about familiarity with GPT4 making this less immediately impressive - but just as an end to end demo it's absolutely mind-blowing how far we've come. Can you imagine seeing this ten years ago? Moving so far in su
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by mjfisher 3y ago
There's a difference between input and output metrics to be considered too. Attempting to manage the output metrics directly rather than addressing the underlying causes is almost always the wrong thing to do.
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by mjfisher 3y ago
If you assume a starting point that writing is to communicate clearly (as in delivering a thesis or argument) and your writing does not do that, then it's bad writing. You might not want to assume that. There are other reasons to write
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by mjfisher 3y ago
"Once you describe something, people tend to believe the description is complete in all cases over time" Just bad writing.
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by mjfisher 3y ago
> The whole process today exists to support a big class of managerial people (including scrum masters, PO's and PM's) whose salary depends on not understanding that the process is completely broken. I think it's even worse
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by mjfisher 3y ago
The other reason the answer to this is "no" is that we don't even really understand how an atom even works its entirety yet. We don't know fundamentally know what makes the potential energy of an atomic nuclear be struct
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by mjfisher 3y ago
I remember that from a while back, and getting annoyed - it doesn't appear to be something that annoys me at the moment so it might have been fixed, but on reflection I tend to just use the default rich text editor now. It takes markdo
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by mjfisher 3y ago
No, Jira loading is relatively OK and on par with other SPAs. It's got a CTRL+SHIFT+P style actions menu for tickets which helps cut down on point and click pain (especially for linking issues etc). Setting up statues and workflows and
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by mjfisher 3y ago
The difference is that lowering the estimate for a given amount of work doesn't actually get it done quicker - it just means you have a more unrealistic understanding of the timelines. You can absolutely work to find other creative sol
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by mjfisher 3y ago
That's a useful tip. I need access to several Microsoft live/AD/teams accounts, and they just don't work well in the same browser session. I've been using chrome profiles to separate these because the Firefox ones w
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by mjfisher 3y ago
I think some of the comments that are writing this off as not very useful are missing a point. Almost all businesses prioritising finite resource should be using some form of CD3/WSJF; but it's very hard to communicate why to st
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by mjfisher 3y ago
Yeesh. I don't envy you there. Did they turn around in the end?
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by mjfisher 3y ago
Did the enforcement of state transitions actually make a difference to the underlying work there? In my experience, if there's a problem with the engineers then all of the process in the world won't fix it.
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by mjfisher 3y ago
Kanban is more than just a board. To have effective Kanban your process needs to: 1. Be pull based - someone only picks something new up when they have the capacity to do so. There's no "finish this set of tasks by the end of the
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by mjfisher 3y ago
How long do we think it will be before a lot of the recent negative sentiment about Scrum bubbles up to exec-level consciousness? I've seen (and managed) plenty of Scrum, good and bad. In general I prefer Kanban approaches, but I don&#
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by mjfisher 3y ago
Yeah - start with a monolith as Martin Fowler (the guy who popularized microservices) suggests. Split out services as you understand more about how the business is developing and stabilising.
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by mjfisher 3y ago
Sorry, but that blanket statement is just wrong. That is _exactly_ how it's done when I run a scrum team. If it stops being a good fit or working well for any number of reasons, we stop and look at the process. It works because your st
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by mjfisher 3y ago
The rational purpose is this: sprints should be a way of trading off lower utilisation for more predictable delivery. However, your example is unrealistic - you wouldn't split that task into two. If it won't fit comfortably in the
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by mjfisher 3y ago
Nice, thank you! I've read The Egg before, but working my way through the others now as I have the opportunity. Have you come across The Last Question? Another favourite: https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelast
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by mjfisher 3y ago
Seems a good time to link to the well-loved short sci-fi story "They're Made out of Meat" by Terry Bisson: https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
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by mjfisher 3y ago
So is it just a fancy way of saying "every transformation has an axis or origin"?
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by mjfisher 3y ago
Absolutely fantastic write up - thank you so much. I will go away and do some further reading!
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by mjfisher 3y ago
That's really cool. Managing ports is something I've done in elixir yet, but managing ffmpeg through elixir could be very useful for a few things in my current area of focus. Can you share any details of how that works? E.g. do yo

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