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by philpem 7y ago
I'd be very interested in some research backing up (2). Not because I don't believe you (actually I very much do). More that I'm curious and want to find out more about this phenomena.
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by philpem 7y ago
The other point worth making is one from the article -- people have varying levels of tolerance and recovery ability. A comment which bounces off one person may well cause serious damage to another.
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by philpem 7y ago
What is with this fetish of putting everything in systemd? Soon it'll have an X-server and a word processor built in...
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by philpem 7y ago
The problem with OVH is their appallingly bad rep for hosting "troublesome" content... In practical terms that means you can send emails but there's a 70% chance they'll land in the other party's spam bin.
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by philpem 7y ago
If they begin to offer payroll services directly to some of the affected companies, I imagine the shareholders would be quite happy. They might be out the money until the insurance pays up, but ongoing fees and goodwill could well cover tha
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by philpem 7y ago
I've seen this in a 50-person volunteer group. The devs turned up every year with a proposal to throw away and completely rewrite what they'd done the previous year. No incremental upgrades -- a complete rewrite every time. This w
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by philpem 7y ago
And provide a big stick to whack the unfortunate employee. "You ticked box AX-two-alpha-seven. Do you know what that means? And you didn't complete the P12a checklist. That's gross misconduct. You're fired."
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by philpem 7y ago
It's not just software -- manufacturing sees a new "methodology" every other year. Sometimes two or three in one year.
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by philpem 7y ago
"Lean" and "Lean Six Sigma" seem to be following the same path -- and to some degree "Agile" too. Big companies like buzzwords and "processes" that'll fix all their woes... except for the elephan
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by philpem 7y ago
Maybe the tyranny of the fiefdoms will drive us back towards HTTPS. Certainly I've heard the question "why don't we do an iOS app and an Android app?" in respect of conference schedules. Usually after people saw the Goog
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by philpem 7y ago
From my experience with bug bounties, if it's not on the OWASP TOP10, they'll kick, stamp, scream and fight -- even if you say "I don't want the bounty, I just want this bug fixed". (backstory: found a bug in Twitte
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by philpem 7y ago
I actually tried to get Phabricator up and running not long ago -- the main issue I have with it is that it seems to need a server (at least a database server) all to itself. It's probably a resolvable issue using some kind of containe
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by philpem 7y ago
At the last place I worked -- and at a volunteer-run event I'm involved with -- we use DokuWiki. The most difficult problem is getting people to use the damn thing, whatever you choose. WYSIWYG editing might help for less-experienced u
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by philpem 7y ago
Thanks for the link to that -- I've been looking for something like this too!
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by philpem 7y ago
I've noticed a lot of people mentioning Taiga in the comments, and it looks like it's got everything we'd need. I'll have a dig and see if there's a Docker script to run up a test/eval installation. I might hav
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by philpem 7y ago
I absolutely love Youtrack from a feature perspective but it still has the same dealbreaker problem as JIRA -- it's Java-based and needs a fair amount of CPU/RAM resources. Sadly that's one of the big reasons we're movin
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by philpem 7y ago
I absolutely love Github Issues, and if I could get the budget I'd get us a Teams subscription and run with it. The problem is that the main projects I work on are for non-profit volunteer groups, so anything without a direct attendee
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by philpem 7y ago
I agree with you. A better solution would be to use CI to check the branches (so you know what state you're in) and enforce a test and style pass before a branch can be merged to master. I don't know why there's such a fear o
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Ask HN: Looking for an Alternative to Jira
60 points by philpem 7y ago|78 comments
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by philpem 7y ago
I was thinking more along the lines that I was expecting something about the station itself, engineering challenges and so forth -- not a thinly-veiled puff piece for HS2.
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by philpem 7y ago
Can't see why this has hit the front page. It's not really a look at Old Oak Common so much as a long spiel about why HS2 is Gonna Be Great (tm).
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by philpem 7y ago
Interesting that the top stories are related to a former cabinet minister being jailed for perverting the course of justice. Part of me says that there's a public good argument for a search engine consisting solely of news stories whic
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by philpem 7y ago
I've never worked at a company with protected branches... even though it's best-practice. "Because some day someone might need to push to master to do a hotfix". So I have a local git push hook which blocks master pushes
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by philpem 7y ago
No, we lost it after he tried to "fix" it when the commits disappeared...
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by philpem 7y ago
This was years ago, when Git was relatively new (around the time Mercurial was at v0.8-0.9). Our "Git expert" was the one who blew away a month of work.
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by philpem 7y ago
It's a problem that only gets worse at scale, too. At least with decentralisation, the problem is distributed among multiple instances and moderation teams.
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by philpem 7y ago
When all the advertisers and investors care about is clicks...
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by philpem 7y ago
What about a variant of shadowbanning? You can't see your real scores, but everyone else can.
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by philpem 7y ago
I would absolutely love it if Git had this feature. Having it on Hg has saved me so many times.
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by philpem 7y ago
Another happy user of Kallithea here! I used to run Rhodecode some years ago, and switched to Kal when they forked. At this point I wouldn't be without it.

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