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by twh270 5y ago
It's more "don't try to force change on them". If you think you're going to 'make' your SO stop smoking, watch movies with you, or wash the dishes, you're approaching it the wrong way. Communicate. Ex
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by twh270 5y ago
"Money is cheap" yes, also "you can buy a house if you can fog a mirror". (Buy as in acquire a piece of paper that says you'll pay $$$$ per month to whoever holds the note.)
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by twh270 5y ago
Access to many viewpoints and sources of information does not mean much, as we see here in the U.S. The idea that we just need to shower Russia with the "right" information to get them to turn against Putin is simply a fantasy. Ho
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by twh270 5y ago
I haven't thought about either of those in a long time, thanks for the little detour down memory lane!
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by twh270 5y ago
I don't know the first thing about him, but maybe we could honor his contributions while not giving a blanket approval of everything he ever said and did? Or is that, like, too subtle and nuanced a concept nowadays.
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by twh270 5y ago
Medium is dead simple. Create an account and click the icon to write an article. Publish and share.
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by twh270 5y ago
> what was ... so appealing or inviting to new users? Back in the early '90s, if you had an "IBM-compatible personal computer" in your home, it almost certainly was running either DOS or Windows as its operating system. An
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by twh270 5y ago
Absent a real situation with real people, I agree. In practice, however, many developers work in a low trust environment where management is quick to bring out the stick for any (perceived) mistake or error. In that scenario, it's unde
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by twh270 5y ago
Due to the lack of police enforcement and prosecution by the courts, a segment of the populace has figured out that they can do things like this and get away with it, with no consequences. There's a segment of the population that seems
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by twh270 5y ago
I'm mostly in agreement with that, as I follow a "live and let live" philosophy. Where I part ways with that binary choice is when the person is actively a menace to themselves or others; their behavior has a 'high'
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by twh270 5y ago
Six months from now you'll find him in the basement, caressing his red Swingline stapler. :)
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by twh270 5y ago
Look up the Object Mother pattern. The idea is to have 'baked' objects which you can use repeatedly in tests, which fulfill a certain scenario. For example a hotel reservation system needs to be able to handle a single person up t
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by twh270 5y ago
Usually, yes -- your tests should be decoupled from the implementation. Usually however, what I see (in Java and Spring Boot land) is test methods which use mocks that are set up to expect certain method calls, e.g. when(accountService.getA
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by twh270 5y ago
Today, today it's culturally acceptable to ridicule, scorn, and otherwise attack men and manhood; to portray men as arrogant, abusive, and controlling. The word 'masculine' is now a derogatory term that means the same thing a
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by twh270 5y ago
Taking a victim stance isn't helpful. Whoever you are and whatever you do, there's always going to be some group that doesn't like you or "your kind". Running away doesn't teach your kids how to face this; it j
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by twh270 5y ago
Are you kidding?? I've had numerous conversations about this with my son, starting when he told me he didn't want to grow up to be a "man". Because of what he had absorbed from culture/society. Today, men are told t
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by twh270 5y ago
Yup. I've had many conversations about this topic with my son (and on occasion some of his friends -- both male and female), since he was in middle school (a decade ago). They're well aware of how men are portrayed versus women. W
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by twh270 5y ago
I envy you... my client has a horrible process with lots of manual steps and prod deployment every two weeks. Can you describe at a high level your development toolset, CI/CD toolchain and workflow, and deployment environment?
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by twh270 5y ago
Incompatible with "open plan" offices, one or the other will win. Guess which one I'm rooting for. :-)
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by twh270 5y ago
Yep. Regardless of which party has more of the "reigns of government", this is not a good path to go down. Modern McCarthyism.
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by twh270 5y ago
The unfortunate situation is that continued employability in this industry almost requires a certain amount of resume-driven-development. It's much harder to get $newJob when your resume is full of stale tech from $currentJob.
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by twh270 5y ago
QEdit on DOS... now that brings back some memories! I went in for their flagship TSE (The Semware Editor) when it came out and was duly impressed. I have used Notepad++ as my regular non-IDE editor for probably 15 years; there are a handful
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by twh270 5y ago
Hah, this is me right now. Architects sold the business on a pie-in-the-sky grand vision, and teams are now busy implementing it even though its value is almost certainly a net negative. (Replacing something currently working with a highly
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by twh270 5y ago
For me, it's when I am consciously paying attention to more than one thing either "at the same time" (watching YouTube while cooking) or in rapid succession (run unit tests in the IDE, check email, look at story in JIRA, look
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by twh270 5y ago
I strongly encourage you to do something about it now, not later. It gets harder to fix the longer you let it go.
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by twh270 5y ago
I know this sounds like evangelism, but I absolutely hated writing unit tests until I learned TDD. Now, I don't always write tests first, but I usually do. I'll also say that I have seen a lot of time wasted writing useless unit t
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by twh270 5y ago
From the thread you link it looks like they're getting close, there's been activity in the past few days. (I'm guessing from your comment that this is important to you (i.e. WSL/Docker is not a solution).)
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by twh270 6y ago
Right now I don't think microservice management is 'viable' even at larger companies. The custom deployment scripts & yaml to manage building, package/artifact repository, versioning, and deployment tends to be Too D
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by twh270 6y ago
This is similar to what $myclient is doing. Parent comment doesn't mention whether identification of versions is done manually or whether they just grab master. If the latter, it's probably reasonable. At $myclient, every release
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by twh270 6y ago
I don't think the problem is "user stories" vs "tasks" vs "issues". I think people have taken the (relatively simple) concepts from agile (as described in the Manifesto) and surrounded it with a lot of (of

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