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by postfacto 7y ago
I’ve noticed this, too. For some reason a junior developer on my team 2 years our of school was made into scrum master, and if we so much as sneeze there’s no JIRA ticket for it he starts whining.
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by postfacto 8y ago
It’s been my experience that most programmers who have worked on many different projects across many different employers for many years can intuit whether something will be needed with a very high degree of accuracy.
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by postfacto 8y ago
Product Ogre
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by postfacto 8y ago
The huge myth about cross-platform mobile development using web technologies isnthat it gives you a faster time-to-market. The reality I’ve seen, developing both hybrid and native, is that native has the faster time-to-market because all of
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by postfacto 8y ago
Hence my belief that at the end of the day CSV is actually more considerably more complicated than XML.
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by postfacto 9y ago
It also reminds me of stories I had heard from inside Microsoft in the pre-Nadella era. Tales of power brokers and entrenched lifers who could make things easy or impossible on a whim. What is the nature of the organisations that allow peo
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by postfacto 9y ago
I’ve found it faster.
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by postfacto 9y ago
The native platforms backed by real money also have lots of official documentation, real GUI builders, high quality debuggers built into their IDE’s and one cardinal way/library to do something. The importance of all this stuff in spee
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by postfacto 9y ago
> I do think that developers who have previously only worked with web tech have a distorted idea about native platforms though. There’s an irony that people who will drop whatever they’re doing to learn this week’s hot crazy brain-bendin
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by postfacto 9y ago
A competant iOS or OS X developer can use Interface Builder to create great native UI’s in minutes .
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by postfacto 9y ago
When I hear “this company is family” I think “Manson Family” Or “mafia family” Or “Addams Family”.
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by postfacto 9y ago
“Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?”—Brian Kernighan.
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by postfacto 9y ago
That photo from 1978 is quite possibly the most explicit portrait of nerdom ever. It makes Comicon look like a frat party. I have never seen anything so completely nerdy.
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by postfacto 9y ago
What about treating his employees decently?
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by postfacto 9y ago
Agile protects the C-level from being fired for poor planning by blame-shifting to developers who get fired for not reacting to poor planning from above fast enough. Agile is Executive Armor.
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by postfacto 9y ago
If you're going to violate a noncompete, don't tell anyone you're going to work for a competitor. Keep yourself as small of a target as possible for your former competitor's legal team. - When you quit, tell your now for
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by postfacto 9y ago
For me the cause for burnout was having to deal with a combination of politics, the fact that those determined my lack of technical input, that I wasn't allowed to perform at my best because I lacked input, and then getting beaten with