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by qznc 6y ago
UML is a language or notation. It isn't dead and I consider it still useful because a standardized notation means you don't have to explain your notation again and again. Or worse you forget to explain the notation and people are
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by qznc 6y ago
Value creation is only one part. The next question is how much of the value you create, you can capture for yourself. Nurses create a lot of value, especially during a pandemic, but they receive only a tiny part of it. Competition can force
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by qznc 6y ago
Intel is already producing for automotive with the Denverton chip.
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by qznc 6y ago
Deploy "Sort by Controversial"? https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
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by qznc 6y ago
Maybe this happens because the inefficiency is resilience/anti-fragility? The implication is that highly efficient businesses exist for a short time but they get wiped out quickly when their environment changes. Sometimes a CEO thinks
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by qznc 6y ago
I worked in an automotive project where we switched from "subsystem teams" to "feature teams" organization structure in the middle. On the requirements and system test level, it was a clear advantage. For the implementa
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by qznc 6y ago
SAP told me their framework is a billion LoC of Java and 30k tables in the database. That was years ago so it has probably grown further. It is only the framework, so no useful application yet.
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These are just roles and we have those in software as well. For example, Scrum defines "product owner" and "scrum master". In Hollywood they call the "project manager" a "producer" but the job is very
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by qznc 6y ago
Programming is creating a "Hello World" program. The rest is debugging and maintenance. ;)
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Not all programming is craftsmanship. Code like the Obfuscated C Contest is art. The code that orchestrates your cloud servers is more like engineering. Prototypes in language research is science. Coding competitions are sport.
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One question which is open for me: Should groups be stable? Scrum and other methodologies assume stable teams. It takes a few sprints for a team to assign somewhat accurate story points to stories. It takes time for people to find their rol
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by qznc 6y ago
I'm working on driver assistance stuff. In terms of raw functionality the software is not that complex. The complexity comes from other aspects: Safety-critical, hardware-software-codesign, commercial, resource constrained. Then, of co
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Since Open Source software drops liability by definition, a huge complexity factor disappears.
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I'd say manufacturing plants are easily as complex as Blender.
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As long as our resources are limited we always need to consider the tradeoffs. This is not specific to software.
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Building up the tooling is how we advanced over the last decades. It is a very slow process though because one tool has to become stable before tools on top of it can progress instead of adapting to changes. Large software projects do not h
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by qznc 6y ago
Software allows incredible leverage by reusing stuff. I would never consider four developers a large software project though.
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I agree with the post that software at scale is a big open question. What gives me hope is that there were successful mega projects though not about software. Für example, I read about the Manhattan Project over Project Atlas to the Apollo
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by qznc 6y ago
It depends on how deep you want to go. Sometimes a shallow blog post is fine (e.g. privileges for vaccinated people?) and sometimes you need more.
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You could pair exercises to save some time. See RRR: https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/kb/recommend...
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How does Bazel deal with different platforms? For example, run tests on Windows, BSD, Android, Raspberry Pi, RISCv5, or even custom hardware?
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What is Open Source about it? Could not find license or anything.
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With hardware the lead times are longer and there are no updates after delivery. Thus, a waterfall approach is more suitable. Customers can actually provide useful and comprehensive requirements.
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NAS fails for smartphone integration. Photos should auto upload. Calendar, todos, and contacts need to show up in the usual apps. It needs to be available from remote.
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by qznc 6y ago
A company culture is great if it fits the company strategy. In other words, the company should value internally what the customers like about the company. It might high quality or agility or efficiency or whatever. If a company changes its
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More sources: https://hnblogs.substack.com/ https://www.dannysalzman.com/2020/04/08/analyzing-hn-readers...
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My manager, who is American, once made a comparison that completely blew my mind: we laugh at native Americans handing over their land without really understanding that they're getting screwed in the transaction, and yet we just hand o
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by qznc 6y ago
It believe it is a question of maturity. If the subcomponent is mature enough, then turning it into a package is fine. The cost is that patching the subcomponent and testing the main component takes more effort (though you can script it).
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From the book: > dynamic checks (such as array bounds checks) provide verification that could not be done at compile time. Dynamic checks are performed at runtime, similar to what is done in Java.
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One reason against the CMakeLists.txt at the root: When you generate a Visual Studio "solution", every target becomes a "project". At work this results in a few hundred projects and VS gets slow. Someone build a Python s

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