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by rswail 2y ago
Financial budgets work on financial years, so the money to pay you is driven by that. Of course, the budgeting year could be different to the financial year, but for the execs that are compensated by financial targets, they need to be able
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by rswail 2y ago
Remember Apple Maps? They polish stuff incrementally.
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by rswail 2y ago
.NET is a compelling product, cross platform, open source, well supported, good tooling.
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by rswail 2y ago
DDD is a good way to extract the business logic from the implementation. By modelling the business you raise the business logic up to a 1st class element. By implementing the business objects you encapsulate their functionality in the busin
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by rswail 2y ago
Agreed. Some other heuristics: * Every if statement is a chance of a bug because the code has two or more paths to follow. Keep the choice making at the business/requirements level of the code, not hidden inside lower level decompositi
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by rswail 2y ago
> Yep. Method names make terrible comments. No spaces, hard to visually parse, and that's before acronyms and ambiguity enter the conversation. Which is why snake_case or kebab-case (if the language allows it) is much better than Pa
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by rswail 2y ago
I guess so, I haven't bothered to look as MacPorts fulfills all my requirements.
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by rswail 2y ago
When I moved to OSX from Linux for work, there was the choice of homebrew, which blasted crap all over /usr and screwed around with SIP, vs MacPorts that worked within the constraints of the way OSX works, including frameworks and vers
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by rswail 2y ago
Given the stupid focus on "stories have to be shrunk to fit a sprint" nonsense, you don't need to estimate more than 2 weeks at a time :)
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by rswail 2y ago
When techniques are misused they are misused. The fact that there are bad project managers that don't know how to use a schedule are just as bad as the crappy "scrum masters" and "product managers" that don't k
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by rswail 2y ago
Tell me you don't know how to do a WBS rollup and dependency linking without telling me. And if you don't know how they are dependent on each other, then how the hell are you estimating each of the 16 different things anyway?
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by rswail 2y ago
I have a very old reel-to-reel recording that is sitting in the original recorder that I know has voice of me from over 55 years ago, along with family that have long passed on. I really want to get what's on that tape moved to somethi
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by rswail 2y ago
"Double it and raise it to the next time unit" still works. A 1 hour job will take 2 days. A 1 day job will take 2 weeks. etc.
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by rswail 2y ago
If you're following the bullshit that is SAFe/"Agile" at a startup, you're going to fail. Capital-A Agile is project management for dummies that won't learn about things like GANTT charts, what "slack&quot
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by rswail 2y ago
I really really hate the use of the term "engineer" for "coder" or "programmer". All of the issues in this article are about coders that are cogs in the SAFe/Agile machines that now infest software develop
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by rswail 2y ago
This is incorrect. Companies form for numerous different reasons, including a group of people needing a legal structure for investments, or to protect against liability, or for particular ventures. One of the primary outcomes that people wa
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by rswail 2y ago
Sorry how is this relevant to wanting to have issues and commit hooks as part of a repo that is cloneable and shareable in the same way as the existing commit->treeish->blob and refs?
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by rswail 2y ago
My question is how do I get this stuff into the repo itself so that it is replicated on a clone/fetch/pull? I don't want to have to have 3rd party tools (including things like PRs/issue management) that don't reco
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by rswail 2y ago
Which is exactly the difference between "programming" and "computer science".
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by rswail 2y ago
From the announcement: "This work is made possible with support from the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund." https://fil.org/
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by rswail 2y ago
Sounds like you need a pre-commit hook to check.
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by rswail 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
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by rswail 2y ago
How has MS broken any of Australia's competition laws/regulations here? They put up the price on their product and (theoretically) "added value" to justify it. They didn't/don't have to offer "Classic
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by rswail 2y ago
> No one knows definitively what AGI actually is The current "leaders" in this field are defining it to be whatever they think they can achieve by adding compute. I know I have "general intelligence", but can I prov
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by rswail 2y ago
The hype over AI being somehow the "future" and replacing every/anything of the current generation is completely over the top. A couple of years ago, it was VR/AR (2nd time around for VR, it had been hyped in the '9
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by rswail 2y ago
About 10 years ago, I was working with a much younger team (I'm 61 now), and we had a Sun box that was broken in a co-lo. The guy sent down there had a laptop and a serial cable. I talked him through how to use one of the serial comms
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by rswail 2y ago
Why would the CIA get involved in the financial value of NVidia? The US has been trying to find a "space race" challenge to justify its military spending increases for a while, AI is going to be that, but it's more driven by
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by rswail 2y ago
I've got an original Apple ][ reference manual (red cover) with the hand annotated ROM listing. Also have SMALLTALK-80 book with it's railtrack diagrams of syntax on the inside covers. What's really interesting about the AI m
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by rswail 2y ago
There are a bunch of education users that are really pissed off because they don't want kids learning to read and write to be "assisted" by badly implemented AI "features". But there's (AFAIK) no GPO to turn Co
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by rswail 2y ago
I'm in Australia and didn't get the automatic option to "downgrade" to what I already had. I got on the online chat and they were able to do it. Took an hour of them faffing around to get it to happen.

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