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by swagtricker 9y ago
So in other words, "You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." :)
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by swagtricker 9y ago
This is pretty exciting. I've seen a number of failed attempts years ago to do this sort of thing with the Eclipse IDE. As someone who does a lot of pair programming (XP), this looks like a compelling way to support occasional remote
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by swagtricker 9y ago
Good point. Washington State is also suffering from a cultural divide. It almost felt nerve wracking and threatening to drive outside of King county last year before the election and see Trump signs literally everywhere. You're eith
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by swagtricker 9y ago
Hopefully it's largely the family I left behind then;)
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by swagtricker 9y ago
They have another problem to address as well: Detroit. Or, culturally speaking, the high-strung midwest attitude. I say this having spent the first 15 years of my life about 30 miles outside of Detroit and then moved to the Seattle area to
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by swagtricker 9y ago
At first glance, I read this as 'uninformed men': taking it as a reference to the classic stereotyping of 'real men' being all blue-collar style male machismo, brutish willful ignorance, and general lack of intellect and
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by swagtricker 9y ago
"There’s no accountability. All I get is excuses." Clearly they didn't change everything. Given that statement, they failed to change the CEO's understanding of his role to becoming a servant leader vs. 'managing&#
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by swagtricker 9y ago
Yeah. I'm sure Field Marshall Slim would have been just fine without the help of a handful of cryptography breakers (some homosexuals, some women) in little huts at Bletchley Park cracking the Enigma machine. No difference in being a
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by swagtricker 9y ago
Not to mention those $35 bags of saline...
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by swagtricker 9y ago
Right on! Total agreement here. Since I was pretty addicted (as of about a year ago), not only did I delete the app from my phone, I changed my passsword to one generated by LastPass (e.g. totally freaking hard to memorize). This re-enfo
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by swagtricker 9y ago
Yes. An compared to AWS it's been immature, buggy, unreliable, and caters to the admin acting like a button mashing monkey that tries to solve problems by turning things on/off in the Web UI instead of using a programmable repeat
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by swagtricker 9y ago
> As a former scout who dropped out well before becoming an Eagle Scout in large part because my religious beliefs were unambiguously unwelcome locally, and IMO also nationally, I disagree. Sorry to hear that was your experience. I star
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by swagtricker 9y ago
You conflated written scouting leadership position requirements with merit badge counselor requirements. They're different requirement sets as cited.
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by swagtricker 9y ago
There's a reason for stupidity starting to show: Dunbar's number - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number I 100% agree with the application of this. I've become a bit more flexible however - I
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by swagtricker 9y ago
As a backer, I'm slightly disappointed, but not surprised given the constant delays. The whole potential for Plastc was to have access to a number of cards w/o physically carrying them. Even after putting my wallet on a severe d
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by swagtricker 10y ago
The initial qualifications expected of the typical manufacturing worker: has high school diploma or GED, passes piss test, and can handle 8 hours of 'put nut A on bolt B', and will be trained on the job. The typical qualification
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by swagtricker 10y ago
Time files like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. Wake me up when they can match human recognition of context.
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by swagtricker 10y ago
My team doesn't have too much of a problem with DevOps. Of course, there are 2 significant mitigating factors: 1) we have a large team of about 8 developers thus we do on-call for one week every other month, 2) we're a moderately
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by swagtricker 10y ago
Wow. Tough room (like I'm the only one who thought that...).
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by swagtricker 10y ago
OMG - Those poor cam girl customers...
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by swagtricker 10y ago
From my nasty 2002/.COM era experience with a startup would have said the 3 questions were: 1.) Do you like Kool-Aid, psychotic office politics & megalomania? 2.) Can you handle bizarre CXO behavior & feature requests designed
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by swagtricker 10y ago
Screw 'em. Take the opportunity now to learn that a career in software development is far more than cranking out code on bullshit deadlines where you're just another numbered drone in the hive. It can also be making colossal mis
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by swagtricker 10y ago
+1 to this.
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by swagtricker 10y ago
Let's face the facts of the last 50 years - democracy didn't eventually "destroy" communism: capitalism did. How did we think capitalism wouldn't eventually turn on democracy as well?
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by swagtricker 10y ago
I believe part of the problem for Ron there is a.) speed of the community & lack of communication, b.) lack of consistent tool isolation. You notice he's using RVM (while most of the Ruby developers I know have moved to rbenv due
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by swagtricker 10y ago
Yep. There's a reason after 20+ years that I bought this T-Shirt: https://teespring.com/maksesoftwarebetter2
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by swagtricker 10y ago
Sorry, but no. No decent religion sets a date for the apocalypse. Try again, great AI worshiper! ;)
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by swagtricker 10y ago
Oh, look. Another PMP proponent who didn't _WANT_ any agile practice success rushing to quote everyone who has reflected on the fact that it isn't perfect. This guy kills his credibility with the "let's hold a rave on
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by swagtricker 11y ago
It's a ballpark feel for the org. An admitted problem with my theory is that I've only seen behemoths (massive, nasty publicly traded beasties) and start-up to mid/small orgs with only 1-200 ppl having access to source contr
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by swagtricker 11y ago
My #1 goes to my personal experiences on group communication, trust, learning opportunities, transparency & "evolution of technology". I've ALWAYS had horrible experiences just even trying to do my job or make a small im

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