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by zephen 4mo ago
On the one hand, I agree. On the other hand, like a lot of other good ideas, the agile community has claimed this. A quick google will show that many claim it is a "core agile idea."
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by zephen 4mo ago
> You've typically got to be a big customer, of course. Yes, if you're a big enough customer, you might essentially be part of the design team. > Sharing simulations and prototypes and engineering samples can and does happen
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by zephen 4mo ago
> Well he makes software and writes about software development doesn’t he? Hardware has some hard limitations. Right. > The reason software was even invented at all was precisely to escape those limitations. But the methods which are
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by zephen 4mo ago
(Some) chip companies have jumped on the agile bandwagon for (some) tasks. It's always interesting to read about some chip company or another making some agile move, when the reality is that they were already doing about as many agile
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by zephen 4mo ago
Nothing I have read by Kent Beck has ever suggested that he would be useful in a chip company, where lots of people toil for a long period of time in order to produce something that no customer can possibly see until it's finished, and
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by zephen 4mo ago
> There's something incredibly peaceful about being in the hands of an expert you trust. I want to know if this is a religious thing, or is related to never having had multiple doctors so bad it seemed like they were actively trying
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by zephen 4mo ago
Yeah, the distributed responsibility might make this difficult, but maybe not impossible. Is the disc defective because it doesn't play in a labeled player, or is the player defective because it doesn't play a labeled disc? Can th
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by zephen 4mo ago
> the biggest question for me is how robust are these designs. Maybe it doesn't matter? I mean, of course it matters. But most of this sort of design space is effectively NP-complete, where the creation starts with a blank schemati
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by zephen 4mo ago
Yes. An example of a species so specialized and optimized that it can no longer adapt. Also, an example of POSIWID.
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by zephen 4mo ago
> When your device sees that it is revoked by any disc, it bricks itself. Do you have a citation for that? I don't believe it, partly because I can imagine the sort of class action it would engender. There are reports of bricked pl
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by zephen 4mo ago
Key revocation only affects future disc releases.
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by zephen 4mo ago
> “detailed information about specific retractions is usually confidential and can only be shared with the relevant authors.” Time for a séance.
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by zephen 4mo ago
What if you get swept away by an unforeseen surge of water, and want to lower a window to get out? https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/public-safety/1-yea...
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by zephen 4mo ago
I think they increased the base battery range and ditched the extended battery option.
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by zephen 4mo ago
But what problem would keeping the infotainment system solve?
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by zephen 4mo ago
I don't think there is any paint.
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by zephen 4mo ago
The second statement could, standing by itself , certainly be a reference to Dunning-Kruger. In which case, I'm not sure how you read the first statement other than "I'm at the high end of capability on the Dunning-Kruger cu
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by zephen 4mo ago
> Not sure how you mean "style," You essentially coupled "I used to do this thing, and now I'm really credentialed but I don't do this thing any more" with "the ones most capable of elucidating exist
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by zephen 4mo ago
> it is fair to say no one ever has any original thoughts, and the ones most capable of elucidating existing ideas can be the ones least motivated to do so. This statement, combined with the previous one, is interesting, to say the least
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by zephen 4mo ago
Interesting business model. Sell verification services to one set of clients, and use the harvested email addresses to sell spam delivery to another set of clients. It's like having a space in a big building downtown with storefronts o
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by zephen 4mo ago
Poe's Law FTW!
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by zephen 4mo ago
But wait! There's more! For $19.95, you can replace your single single point of failure with multiple single points of failure!
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by zephen 4mo ago
When you use regular expressions, you now have two problems. When you use git submodules, you now have five or six problems.
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by zephen 4mo ago
> Reality: embedded systems are a thing. I've worked in embedded, and chips, and embedded chips for most of my career. > There's maaaany applications where some (fixed) amount of compute does the job, and the simplest/c
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by zephen 4mo ago
> PG missed her point to an astounding degree. To be frank, this seems unlikely. > I’m sort of dumbfounded at this level of misinterpretation. It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not
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by zephen 4mo ago
The dictionary definition of the word empathy does not conflate it with sympathy, at all. It is simply "the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experien
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by zephen 4mo ago
I admit I also don't understand the characterization of perl as a write-only language, although I can make a guess about how it's because a lot of perl programs have many embedded regular expressions, and, like many programmers, I
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by zephen 4mo ago
On the one hand, the list isn't wrong. On the other hand, more fortunes have been made by assuming that physics will catch up (closely enough, anyway) to computational needs, than by assuming that every byte and every cycle and every
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by zephen 4mo ago
Technically, I suppose, nightmares are dreams.
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by zephen 4mo ago
> Food stamps are very generous Certainly not in Texas. A single person, who makes $910/month before taxes, rent, transportation, clothes, and insurance, could spend a lot of time and energy on paperwork, and then net $24/month

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