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by qznc 7y ago
For a small personal project [0], it was 14 lines after three years continued in a company. [0] http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/tipiwiki.html
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by qznc 7y ago
I completely agree with you. By writing I was thinking about RFCs not emails. Have a face-to-face discussion and have a shared written document. If I have to chose between the two, the I would favor the written document though.
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by qznc 7y ago
Wasn't thinking about email but more about RFCs. I have been in such whiteboard discussions. Then I had the same discussion again one week later because another one needed the information. And again. And again. I have heard from such w
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by qznc 7y ago
To make decisions quickly, I totally agree. If you want to understand the why, it is essential to have it in writing. If the problem is complex, then one guy writing for 30 minutes can provide more clarity than 5 discussing for an hour.
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by qznc 7y ago
Taiwan and Singapur seem to have learned their lessons from SARS-CoV-1 but it did not hit us enough to act back then.
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by qznc 7y ago
The RKI statistics are not complete because the electronic submission is not done by everybody (allegedly NRW is particularly bad and has high numbers). I guess the system is new and the federal organizations are too busy to use it properly
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by qznc 7y ago
Rust has the better ecosystem. Ada has nearly nothing in terms of open source community.
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by qznc 7y ago
The Washington Post has a nice visualization. Not aiming at realism but easy to understand: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-si...
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by qznc 7y ago
I believe it is mostly hindsight. For any outcome you will find someone who predicted it a month ago on Twitter. It does not help you to determine which of the thousand current predictions will be correct.
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by qznc 7y ago
There is also liability as a risk. At least for big companies. There is no money in sueing a startup, but big companies get constantly trialed. Especially, if they work in security/safety/mission-critical field.
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by qznc 7y ago
That would be the good scenario because then we can move the critical ICU equipment from outbreak to outbreak. The bad scenario is if it becomes too much. China sending equipment to Italy now is a good sign.
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by qznc 7y ago
I saw that number as the usual spread of the seasonal flu pandemics. My guess is she generalized it to COVID-19.
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by qznc 7y ago
Can you elaborate? I'm half-way through it. I know most of the general stuff already but my knowledge is from lots of sources I mostly forgot. This books seems to be a good collection for this topic. At least, I don't know any sub
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by qznc 7y ago
As long as old and compact reddit are still there, I'm fine with it. Twitter on other hand has no lightweight version, unfortunately.
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by qznc 7y ago
Doing meaningful work and getting respect for it are important aspects of job satisfaction. The author seems to be offended for not getting that.
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by qznc 7y ago
This is true. Another explanation could be a two stage testing process. The CI test for develop might run quickly in a few minutes, but the test suite for master might run for a day or require manual testing.
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by qznc 7y ago
The only way to be sure: CI checks out master, merges the feature branch, and tests that version. If successful, push to origin. If the push fails (because a parallel pushed happened in between) start from the beginning. The challenge here
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by qznc 7y ago
For many people the difference between a prototype and a product is very small. In this safety critical business, the difference is huge.
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by qznc 7y ago
The growth factor [0] is quite noisy around the critical 1.0. The number of active cases has gone down from 60k at Feb 17 to 40k today. [0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-cases/...
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by qznc 7y ago
Look at the WHO dashboard [0] at "Cases by date of report", I see less than 2k every day since February 16. This is not exponential growth but stagnation. Of course, the virus is spreading and it can explode at random places. That
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by qznc 7y ago
My company division uses Method Park Stages. https://www.methodpark.de/stages.html I'm in a regulated industry, so this is probably overkill for a web shop.
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by qznc 7y ago
Wikipedia is inconsistent for 1918 flu pandemic: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spanish_flu&oldid... "The World Health Organization estimates that 2–3% of those who were infected died (case-fatalit
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by qznc 7y ago
I hope nobody tells them that WhatsApp uses the same protocol. The argument for Signal would not be weaker but more complicated.
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by qznc 7y ago
Depends on your jurisdiction. In the US, probably Facebook Messenger.
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by qznc 7y ago
Systems Thinking is essentially a buzzword for consulting to managers and politicians. It is not for engineers. Well, maybe when engineers try to make a point to managers or politicians.
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by qznc 7y ago
Fully agree. I wrote myself a summary at some point: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/waterfall.html
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by qznc 7y ago
There is no secret. You develop a process, enforce it, and refine it. It becomes bureaucratic, expensive, and boring. Just like the civil engineering people compare against here. The process is nothing surprising. Write tests, document your
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by qznc 7y ago
If you build safety-critical software you certainly have some liability.
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by qznc 7y ago
My understanding of Scrum is that requirement elicitation must happen before the sprint. Otherwise the story does not meet the Definition of Ready and the team should reject it. https://www.scruminc.com/definition-of-ready&#
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by qznc 7y ago
There are plenty of embedded systems which hit 1.0 and stayed there for years and decades.

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