swagtricker

9 ms·

31.
by swagtricker 6y ago
You mean, like a Brother Shamus?
32.
by swagtricker 6y ago
The achilles heel of Scrum is that it sold out the prescriptive XP practices that enforce sustainable software engineering discipline as well as communication with business concerns in order to sugar coat the fast feedback cycles. Scrum&#x
33.
by swagtricker 6y ago
Yep. We wanted XP. We got Scrum instead.
34.
by swagtricker 6y ago
The UHK is great. I have a V1 with a V2 on order. My only complaint is that my 2 year old ABS key caps have started to show some wear, but I’ve got the new set of PBTs that are for both versions on order as well. I’m going to give my V1
35.
by swagtricker 6y ago
Wow! That almost sounds as bad as when they ramped down their Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) team when they figured out the logging example was the best thing you could do with it:) Seems like blockchain is a technology that's bee
36.
by swagtricker 6y ago
Standard Disclaimer: This is from my own personal experience. YMMV. This looks like the same type of Gold Rush that happened 20 years ago in the dot.com boom/bust. Same advice I learned the hard way applies today as I wish I'd l
37.
by swagtricker 6y ago
None invalidation taken:) It's a strange experience to go through - hard to describe. This strange loop where I didn't feel hungry and didn't feel that I should eat "because I was supposed to".
38.
by swagtricker 6y ago
I'm no expert, but from personal experience, when you only manage to eat toast and a hot dog at lunch, or a granola bar + yogurt and some pasta at dinner along with multiple liters of water for a day because "you just don't f
39.
by swagtricker 6y ago
Nobody knows me on here, so I'll have to keep it that way after I post this. Get professional help. A combination of COVID-19, a high paying/high stress consulting job, and a history OCD related stress & paranoia pushed me i
40.
by swagtricker 6y ago
Quick to anger is the 1st thing that comes to mind. "The Detroit 10" - (e.g. if you're not doing 10 over the speed limit some are happy to run you off the road). Lot's of focus on your family history defining your dest
41.
by swagtricker 6y ago
Also, please ignore the fact that local militias occupied the state legislature, and some were recently arrested by the FBI for a plot to kidnap the governor and overthrow the state government. Come to Michigan!;) Personal disclaimer: I gr
42.
by swagtricker 6y ago
This.
43.
by swagtricker 6y ago
Scrum should at best be viewed as training wheels for agile teams. Not the end state. Good teams abandon scrum for Kanban / Lean concepts once they start building good collaboration structures, better communication with business, ear
44.
by swagtricker 6y ago
I fully agree. In general, any flavor of agile for software development that doesn't include the engineering focus that Extreme Programming's technical practices bring in (fast feedback, refactoring, good testing & design, CI
45.
by swagtricker 7y ago
Wow. What the fuck ever happened to forbearance for hardship in federal student loans?! When my wife and I were at university ('94-97, transfer from paying our way through community college) we both had Stafford government subsidized
46.
by swagtricker 7y ago
Absolutely true. In my experience, some people use "bashing pair programming" to hide their insecurity and incompetence.
47.
by swagtricker 7y ago
Agreed. This has been my experience as well. I've mostly pair programmed over the last 15 years. Very similar schedule. Same pros & cons. There's a counter intuitive key element to Pair Programming - you're slowing dow
48.
by swagtricker 7y ago
Absolutely. So much so, while they dodged getting broken up, the settle the anti-trust suit with the DOJ and regarding their predatory defense of their monopoly - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft
49.
by swagtricker 7y ago
Please just take it out back and shoot it.
50.
by swagtricker 7y ago
Perhaps the biases around the home PC and video games from the 80's is still embedded today? It's my personal favorite theory: the girls were told they couldn't play in our forts 30+ years ago. This became part of modern we
51.
by swagtricker 7y ago
ADDENDUM: This decision is if you're like me & my wife: born into a middle to lower-middle class family. Have made it to where you are in life via hard work & dumb luck. Have no "glass floor" below you. Have no fam
52.
by swagtricker 7y ago
Here's ALL you need to know about your company stock options: ask yourself - if I had ($PRICE_PER_SHARE * $NUMBER_OF_SHARES) in cash sitting in my checking account RIGHT NOW, would I dump ALL of it into my company's stock? If th
53.
by swagtricker 7y ago
Are you sure? I read that as being incredibly demeaning to men.
54.
by swagtricker 7y ago
Here's the short list: Round 1: Dot.com era - 4 years out of college, out of work for 6 months along with a lot of the industry on the West coast of the US. Depressed as hell, never thought I'd work as a programmer again. In des
55.
by swagtricker 7y ago
Note to my own comment: Take a look at the "What they do tab" for both titles. You'll think that you've been transported back to 1969 in the punch card room where yes - the lowly Computer Programmers simply write code w
56.
by swagtricker 7y ago
If you look at the description, I believe part of the problem is that the Bureau of Labor Statistics has always been under the delusion that "Computer Programmers" were little more than typists who understood programming syntax.
57.
by swagtricker 7y ago
Depending on your lifestyle, some areas are just a waste of space. It's just my wife, me, and two cats (children weren't in the cards) in a ~1000 sq/ft 2br/2ba condo. It's open concept built in the late 90's
58.
by swagtricker 7y ago
Poor kid. No, literally. He must be a poor kid. Otherwise, his parents would have just bought his way in, right?
59.
by swagtricker 8y ago
Now the interesting question is - what's the churn rate for those same programmers? Be it into seat-warming work like management, fluff work like "sales engineering", or exiting the software world completely?
60.
by swagtricker 8y ago
Your idea about ending school sooner is spot on. My wife has almost 2 decades experience teaching High School English. Your Junior & Senior years are fluff - they're not tracked with standardized testing of any sort in those last

More ›