swagtricker

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by swagtricker 8y ago
Clearly DHH wasn't around when AOL dumped it's user base onto a community that was previously gated by having to actually learn something about computing in order to get connected. P.S. - Get off my lawn;)
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by swagtricker 8y ago
>The great architect has the foresight on how the code will be used in five years and design it accordingly. Isn't he better off taking that crystal ball that gives him the foresight, using it to pick the correct lottery numbers an
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by swagtricker 8y ago
What the hell?! Isn't this what we pay the CIA for? I mean seriously, what are my black-ops tax dollars funding these days?
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by swagtricker 8y ago
Sorry, parent poster: Gotta agree w/ above comment here. With the minor warning that the unit tests are included in this. In a good environment, I should be able to go to the tests to understand not only WHAT the code is doing but W
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by swagtricker 8y ago
Sadly, after more than 20 years building software, _NEVER_ trust a business person. My faith in humanity had to have me bitten by this the hard way more than once.
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by swagtricker 8y ago
I wish adults were organized enough to a.) call it programming and not Computer Science b.) shift the conversation to STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Art & Math) instead of pushing Art out of the discussion and c.) start exposing
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by swagtricker 8y ago
Gah! You beat me to it:) Well played.
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by swagtricker 8y ago
+1 Hear, hear!
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by swagtricker 8y ago
I've had a habit over the last 10 years of gifting (I've learned to never 'loan' books to people anymore) used hardback 1971 editions of The Psychology of Computer Programming (some bought as cheap as $0.13 + $3.99 S&amp
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by swagtricker 8y ago
Some flavors of class dysfunction as well as culture make this the preferred way to get advice in the US. The so-called middle class in the US likes to be self identified by what seems like 70% of the nation. Anyone from the working poor
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by swagtricker 8y ago
>Do people still think about "starter" homes? Yeah. With fond memories of 20+ years ago when they actually existed in competitive markets. Unfortunately, house flippers have killed the "slow growth, sweat equity" pa
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by swagtricker 8y ago
Written from scratch? Maybe. But they sure as hell didn't get it done without stealing some key "recipe ideas" from VMS.
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by swagtricker 8y ago
They didn't copy directly, they just re-implemented from memory. I worked for Digital right out of college at the "DEC West" site off 520. A number of my co-workers REALLY hated Microsoft. Swore up & down they had coll
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by swagtricker 8y ago
Taken from http://manifesto.softwarecraftsmanship.org/ "Not only working software, but also well-crafted software Not only responding to change, but also steadily adding value Not only individuals and interactions, but
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by swagtricker 8y ago
Be prepared to get a bullet any moment. When it comes to company sales, no technical person is untouchable. Even if you "know" things couldn't be done w/o you, they don't. That equity that is 'nearly fully v
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by swagtricker 8y ago
Thank you for sharing this. I still have the copy on my bookshelf in my office. I know that I'm a different person now from when tried to read it 10 years ago. I'll pick it up again.
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by swagtricker 8y ago
I tried. Twice. As a privileged white man in America trying to understand the black experience. However, I could only get about 2/3 of the way through before giving up. I empathized with his early agony and injustice, but the fact
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by swagtricker 8y ago
Apple has already announced that they'll start using their own chips by 2020 - Intel's problems may be part of the reason why: https://9to5mac.com/2018/04/02/report-apple-to-begin-switch-...
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by swagtricker 9y ago
The best response to people calling individual contributors "resources" is to politely correct them. If the abusive terminology continues, then the "resources" have the right to "return the favor" by setting t
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by swagtricker 9y ago
There's a definite "corporate culture" bias there in your F50 tech company skewing the other direction. How many of that 50-75% are H1b? If not H1b, how "yes man" is your corporate culture? I've worked in lar
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by swagtricker 9y ago
Those number are way off for the greater Seattle area. $70k is what university students make their first year if they interview well and have had an internship/summer job before graduating. You factor in contracting rates for folks w
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by swagtricker 9y ago
Addresses that old joke: Emacs is a great operating system, but it lacks a good editor; like Vi :)
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Kent Beck quits Facebook(linkedin.com)
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by swagtricker 9y ago
Yes. Pair programming as the default for me since 2004. I've done it full time for 8 years at an XP shop (Scrum was added later) w/ 3 teams of 20+ total on 3 different continents. Worked for an Agile consultancy and trained peo
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by swagtricker 9y ago
So... the "cola wars" of the 1980's that Billy Joel sings about could have actually taken a much darker turn?
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by swagtricker 9y ago
This: closely followed by "people have heard of your torturous interview process and assume developers willing to both submit to it AND continue to administer it to others must be a bunch of egotistical assholes (who they'd rather
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by swagtricker 9y ago
They tried - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor... . The findings were 110% correct. The ultimate settled "remedy" was a joke.
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by swagtricker 9y ago
Well then, surely academics will have been replaced by 2030, right?
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by swagtricker 9y ago
Given those examples, I think you're actually strengthening his argument that they're a 'religious cult' - even if you didn't say it...
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by swagtricker 9y ago
Yep. OneBusAway rocks!

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