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by pflenker 7y ago
Also, the conference was not cancelled because the speakers withdrew - it was cancelled because ticket sales plummeted after the speakers withdrew. One could argue that people where following the discussions and voted with their feet.
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Using the Web on a 50Mb Budget(smashingmagazine.com)
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by pflenker 7y ago
I haven't been gaming for a while now, but on my Xbox 360 I could download a demo, test the game for a bit and then decide to buy it or not. I have used that quite a lot.
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by pflenker 7y ago
I am missing one thing from the article: Your subject should be a clear, concise summary of your mail! People will be looking at the subject of your message MUCH more often than at the actual body.
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by pflenker 7y ago
As an Engineering Manager I had Engineers showing me graphs and charts, but I also know how to look up things on my own. But I don't think either case is wide spread.
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by pflenker 7y ago
I know it's comparing Apples and Oranges, but: "War and Peace" by Tolstoi is 1.9 MB. A Twitter profile page is 2.5 MB, and that is already optimized (Posts below the fold are not loaded). Websites are bloated - so I am glad t
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by pflenker 7y ago
Oh, I am very bad at Chess. Still, beating around 10 kids at the same time while facing a brick wall was very impressive.
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by pflenker 7y ago
That's hard to answer, because it depends on the prices in the area where you are. The number needs to be high enough so that if you have paid for rent, food, clothes and so on, you still have a tiny amount left over to save for emerg
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by pflenker 7y ago
As someone who has been very poor for quite some time, and is now doing quite well, I can tell you first-hand that my patience has improved a lot. The most obvious reason is that I am now at the liberty to not do certain things, not accept
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by pflenker 7y ago
You are definitely right - Google (News) provides a huge benefit to news publishers, it is responsible for most of their traffic, and still German Lawmakers tried making a law against that so that on top of all what Google does for the pub
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by pflenker 7y ago
There is not much that I remember from 5th grade, but what I do remember is that after half a year of teaching us chess during Chess Club, our teacher has beaten all of us simultaniously while facing the wall and announcing his moves after
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by pflenker 7y ago
In my experience, that is not an acceptable solution for everyone. I have worked with people who despise these kinds of scheduled short meeting, because "we are sitting in the same office and can always talk to each other". That h
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by pflenker 7y ago
I just wanted to make the point that waiting for someone to return from a break before talking to them can be considered polite, instead of an impolite ambush as indicated in the previous comment. Of course, there is no one-size-fits-it-all
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Not necessarily, and it really depends on the customer and on the software. You feed the learnings from one iteration into the next - it's not intended to change the code completely every week, but to allow maximum flexibility in the b
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by pflenker 7y ago
The way I see it, Captchas are an approach to fend off _untargeted_ spam bots. If someone specifically targets your website and tailors his spam bot accordingly, then you have a problem, but that is not inherent to Slider Captchas. On the o
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by pflenker 7y ago
Not necessarily. The idea here is that the customer has an idea about what he wants, but has only a vague idea about what he actually _needs_, and no idea about what is technologically possible. Methods like XP embrace that by allowing requ
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by pflenker 7y ago
I am a huge fan of attaching a "business value" to everything the team does. I also see the value (for everyone involved) to frequently collaborate and think about these things. But where the article proposes to ask all the devel
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by pflenker 7y ago
> So surveill and/or eavesdrop and/or ambush. Nice. It's common courtesy or some kind of "office ettiquette" that if Alice wants something from Bob, but doesn't want to interrupt, she waits until there is an
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by pflenker 7y ago
As someone who has never worked with XP, does XP really encourage proactively _pushing_ business context and customer POV all the time?
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by pflenker 7y ago
I think two core ideas of sprints are to 1) combat Parkinson's Law by creating an artificial deadline (the team should try to solve things within the sprint) and 2) protecting the team from changes (avoiding that requirements change al