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Has Hackernews really devolved into this dogmatic nonsense?

Scrum is really useful for exploration and innovation work, things that may not even involve programming. In general I think sticking to Scrum for Software Engineering is overkill,…

This is a love letter to Ian Hubert for sure, but well done.

UK also has "free schools" which are similar to state schools but unaffiliated with education trusts, normally setup by parents, locals, the community.

Please do, I was pleasantly surprised that I agreed with most and indeed practice quite a bit of it without being able to identify it. It's nice to see these patterns and thoughts …

Says you. Some media companies are experimenting with it right now: https://www.bbc.com/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-dec... It makes sense for media companies to self host.…

This is a refreshingly level headed response to read on the internet, I might quit while I'm ahead

Winston Royce actually did have an iterative process as part of Waterfall, it was in his final model, and the diagram was on the next page of the document that most people fail to …

yes

Microservices are more an organisational thing than a recommended pattern, when a project grows and wants to hire more staff to increase its bandwidth then microservices are a grea…

It's included in the Dependencies section which unfortunately is at the end

PenPot is a well funded open source alternative to Figma. It became quite popular when Figma was bought out by Adobe as users weren't happy with the merger. https://penpot.app/ Oth…

This would be my recommendation too, also Utopia for Realists his earlier book is a great read.

Thats' a shame, and definitely something that the Linux ecosystem needs to address.

I don't see why getting support tickets is a problem, surely you triage and prioritize them anyway, and if fixing that problem is for a small percentage of customers then it's not …

I would not choose any framework, instead creating my own and if possible a component library to support it. Having good standards to create your CSS (naming conventions and file s…

Nice article, I think it's interesting using Gnome as the foundation for a more customised DE, POP OS has brought some really nice features. As an aside, I really like these UI/UX …

agreed, and The Boys has had success exactly because it stands out against the current normal action film/tv

Not really know, but it depends on the size of the company and responsibilities expected. In medium to large companies I've worked at where there is generally a separation of respo…

Learn to use the OS as intended, don't try and wrangle it to your way of working it will always be an uphill struggle and soon an update will make it harder or impossible to contin…

You can now run GFN in the browser on Linux (It might need Chrom(e/ium)). The downside is that if you have a non 16:9 resolution you will have to change your desktop resolution to …

I'm also not a fan of cosmetics because they make the games harder to play, when the silhouettes of characters change it becomes a nightmare. Not to mention that they break immersi…

The world just isn't black and white is it. Epic could certainly be described as anti-linux, for the reasons you've described. On the other hand they have invested quite a bit into…

Maybe the right thing to do is to change your opinions on anti-abortion, and come to understand Sammy better?