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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Saying "MATLAB is for other people" isn't the sign of a poor candidate. Saying "you will need to use MATLAB for this job" on the other hand is overwhelmingly a sign of a bad job, in the same way that any usage of Ex
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
> How would you define agile? It's defined by whatever practices emerge through its usage. Which ends up being a big stew of political dysfunction, time-wasting meetings, and pointless metrics. I feel it is a classic No True Scotsma
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
> Great! Then these are appropriate places to not use Agile. This is incorrect. You can use Agile for these problems, some organizations already do, and they do not violate any principle regarding continuous delivery by using Agile in th
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
> In everything I've seen, heard, and experienced re: Agile, the core of it is "lots of small, fast waterfalls." Not every problem is decomposable that way, and one of the major failure modes of Agile is when you see peopl
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
See my other comment [0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12088793 It's amusing to me that the first thing people thought to do was go look up the letter of the Agile law, as if that could possibly have any be
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
This comment makes no sense to me. What if the client asks you to give them a product once per year. Does Agile recommend telling them no, turning down their money, and reply, "Sorry, but Agile says I have to delivery the product conti
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Doesn't this mean, full stop, that good developers should not even consider working for such start-ups? You know from day one that your contribution is not valued, and that if you are hired it's because management viewed you as a
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Might be more useful to adjust the title to mention the alleged use of Pokemon Go in determining a target's future location, to highlight what is presumably the main point.
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Ask HN: Do companies ever request test solutions to build solution benchmarks?
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Sometimes you need to spec requirements out carefully. Other times you need to dive in, prototype, make mistakes, and revise. Sometimes you need to research design tradeoffs for a month before beginning a single item of implementation, and
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I think the point is that people should not start life by constraining their choice to some menu "Agile or Waterfall or ..." -- once you do that you're already dead. Instead, do whatever works organically for your situation.
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
> This phenomenon can be confusing because outsiders might conclude that the process led to success when in fact it was the presence of people who knew how to build software successfully that led to success and the perception of process
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Continuous delivery is orthogonal to any particular management ideology. There's nothing inherent to Agile that relates it to continuous delivery. You could interpret the Agile principles for the sake of delivering once a year releases
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Why are "really happens" and "disasters" associated together? I assume by "really happens" you mean the ways reality departs from what's in the book -- but when process varies over time, adapts to differen
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
+1 million for pointing out that process/workflow can and should vary according to many factors. Watching an organization stress in vain to assert a one-size-fits-all approach, such as letter-of-the-law Agile, is unpleasant, especially
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Some businesses extract value from an employee based on how impressive-seeming that person is on paper. This happens a lot in consulting, finance, law, arts, academia, corporate business administration and politics. In these domains, status
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I have not found this to be true at all. The highest wage I've ever earned was from a rank and file big box corporate firm doing incredibly boring parochial line of business work as an intermediate developer smack in the middle of the
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
My comment was solely about the desire or ability to pay top non-Bay Area devs far less than Bay Area devs. I agree about the hubris. And for as much hubris as there is about the coveted "SV developer" it's at least 10x worse
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Not really. Developers who are good enough to command that wage in the Bay Area, but who live elsewhere, also know how good they are. They might be willing to take a slight pay cut from what the lives-in-Bay-Area person would be paid, but w
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
For me, the ritual of measuring progress or adherence to a desired habit is a huge help, but I find that the presentation and availability of this measurement in app form is not helpful and generally is actively harmful for progress. Here i
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Yes they do. Companies value organizational fealty above all else, and genuinely care little about productivity or talent. Sure, they talk and talk about caring for talent -- lip service necessary for various political pursuits -- but they
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I agree with you. I think I am saying that I don't mind if discussions about "is tech hiring down 40%" also include discussions about "tech hiring sure feels like it's down because here's my experience ...&quot
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Data, even if only qualitative, about the psychological experience of technology workers seeking employment is very interesting to me. It may have fewer direct applications to policy adjustments, but provides insight into the overall mood a
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
The ability to customize the IPython launch sequence and configure things is something I make heavy use of. For example, here is my IPython launch script [0]. I started out adding to the launch script so that I would have data and helper fu
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
One way in which liquidation preference could be constrained is if potential employees of start-ups began actually inspecting the expected value of their job offers, or at least some heuristics that approximate such a thing. For example, I&
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I feel that in many of these discussions, it's beneficial to see NIMBYism as a response to an incomplete insurance market, as described in [0]. This is not to say it is a complete or normative defense of NIMBYism, but rather that a lot
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I agree. And these same folks also like their jobs at FB despite the politics ... they see it as one of the cons but are still happy with all of the pros. I only commented because it's frustrating to see any company painted as if it&#x
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Have only heard negative things about FB office politics from the folks I know who work there.
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
As I mentioned in the other comment, given the full-time duties I have to care for my current family situation, there simply is no physical possibility for doing anything that remotely resembles work. Devoting the time necessary to create p
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Yes, I do say this. Obviously you can't just vaguely say "I've been working" -- they will ask exactly what "work" you have been doing, which is when I explain just the bare minimum details of my family situatio

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