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by pflenker 4y ago
This advice is also part of the book "Never split the difference" by Christopher Voss, a highly recommended book for anyone looking to improve their negotiation skills.
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by pflenker 6y ago
Thank you! I enjoyed writing this a lot, but I have to admit that having kilo as the predecessor allowed me to focus exclusively on Rust without having to worry about other things. I hope to find the time to write a different tutorial soon.
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AI Camera Mistakes Referee's Bald Head for Ball(iflscience.com)
2 points by pflenker 6y ago|0 comments
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by pflenker 7y ago
I was about to write how there is also a planet trail in Göttingen, Germany - but it turns out that there are a LOT of these trails scattered throughout Germany (List in German only [1]) Back in my youth I did not follow this trail actively
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The FBI lets you now submit your fingerprints at your local post office(twitter.com)
1 points by pflenker 7y ago|0 comments
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by pflenker 7y ago
It might be an unpopular opinion, but in my experience a sizable amount of paper maps is just bad. I have more than once regretted buying hiking maps which where missing trails or roads. These will die first (if they haven’t already), and I
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by pflenker 7y ago
As someone frequently interviewing people, I ask these kinds of questions because I am interested in what people perceived as a significant challenge in their career, how they tackled it and how they remember it. THat having said, I would n
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by pflenker 7y ago
I think you might be missing the point a bit. This is not about two people being otherwise equal, and one being given a million dollars. The point is that someone who has a million dollars is in a position where it will be easier for him to
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by pflenker 7y ago
I think reddit is very obvious about it. They only care enough about their mobile website to add huge, impossible to miss „download our app“ callouts and ignore the rest.
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by pflenker 7y ago
The author of the tweet missed the obvious reason for that performance, even though he even mentioned that this is the mobile behavior: They want you to use the app! The button to open/install the app is clearly visible at an early sta
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by pflenker 7y ago
While I agree with you on that, I encourage you to read on. The author does make some interesting points later in the text which are not related to that statement.
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by pflenker 7y ago
I think with "find my phone", it's possible to display a message on the phone - provided it is switched on and connected.
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by pflenker 7y ago
Another reason why people are doing this is to protect it from getting "even more lost". An item sitting on the road might be picked up by dogs, kicked away by mistake, or get dirty from people stepping on it. Putting it on the ne
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by pflenker 7y ago
If the team struggles, the org does not need to be changed. However, from my point of view, companies should increase support for their teams when transitioning to agile. Training would be a good start. I have taken a few agile trainings,
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by pflenker 7y ago
There are two arguments against grouping as a deliverable: 1) sprints are (supposed to be) predictable. So you know when to expect something and can plan other activities around that date. 2) (the more important reason IMHO) a sprint enforc
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by pflenker 7y ago
That sounds a bit like a complaint about a specific methodology. None of the items at the top can be found in the agile manifesto, IIRC.
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by pflenker 7y ago
Sprints are less about categorizing the incoming work, but partitioning the outgoing work, to establish a quick feedback loop. This should in theory ensure that risks are tackled early.
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by pflenker 7y ago
You could say the same about vim though... Jokes aside, many resources about agile start with explaining how agile is “easy to understand, difficult to master”, and I think that’s true.
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by pflenker 7y ago
If you are already convinced that something is going on, then this will not throw you off, no. But if you are indifferent to the matter, then you will most likely quickly give up, thinking that it can't be that important if it's n
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by pflenker 7y ago
If I committed murder and wanted to hide the body, I would hide it on Page 2 of the search results. No one goes there. After all, if the first x results are not what you were looking for, how likely is it that the next x results will provid
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Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?(twitter.com)
918 points by pflenker 7y ago|280 comments
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by pflenker 7y ago
Did you read the article? Because it makes clear that this is not what RMS said, providing the quote from the mail in question.
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by pflenker 7y ago
I would even argue that the memory of "the album" is some instance of the Survivorship Bias. We fondly remember the great albums, forgetting the large amounts of bad or average albums from the past.
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by pflenker 7y ago
That is very impressive self-advertisement. I watched the whole thing.
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by pflenker 7y ago
Some anecdotal evidence that waterfall is not a straw man: at least 10 years ago, waterfall was taught as waterfall without iterations at some German universities. This was the starting point, and many derived models, like the V-Model, wher
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by pflenker 7y ago
Putting things into production isn't a requirement of agile, it just should be potentially shippable.
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by pflenker 7y ago
I have seen Agile working with pure core infrastructure teams. How does the UI (or lack thereof) change the applicability of agile?
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by pflenker 7y ago
IIRC, some applications use Bluetooth to access beacons, and these beacons in turn can be used for precise location (for example, indoors).
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by pflenker 7y ago
When I left my comment, the others who do know have not yet commented. I wanted to express what you said in your first sentence, that without knowing or providing more context, it's not sensible to say that none of them where real bugs
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by pflenker 7y ago
I disagree. Without knowing the details, there is no way to know for sure if the source of the 5 second delay was an actual bug. And the way programs where written back then, the space invaders issue looks like an unintended bug which was t

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