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I met Vint twice where I spent about an hour each time talking to him in a group. It was years apart and he spoke about the social changes the Internet was bringing about. Always w…

Any experience can alter your perception of reality, it doens't change reality. That doesn't mean it can't be a problem that needs to be addressed. It can also be a benefit and hel…

No, it doesn't have to be a meeting. It can be any method communication.

I agree that this is needed. It doesn't stop the person requesting the feature from asking for a meeting to explain why and just whining that they need it the whole time and saying…

Great article, I have I seen this situation too many times to count. It isn't just consultants that generate haunted graveyards. Any person will skills more advanced than their pee…

Reminds me of a dev team I once encountered where they stated they wanted to be expert C programmers and that they didn't understand pointers, so they avoided them. I told them it …

Interesting article and I have observed all of the situation described in it. I would like to point out that when agile, and even Scrum to some degree, was introduced it was a way …

Makes sense for desktop software, less so for webapps and web services. I agree with the point that developers should profile their apps and for some apps having a bad computer is …

They had that rule, every 24-hour room checks, for a few years after the Mandalay Bay mass shooting in 2017. Since Covid they removed that rule and don't do the room checks every 2…

I see your point but disagree. Sun was the last holdout of the propriety Unix vendors to support Linux because they had underpriced the other Unix vendors like Linux was underprici…

2 features here really mean 2 development tasks however a task is defined for your team. The idea is to have one to work on while the other is in the background (maybe being worked…

TDD is a design technique you can apply to low level or tactical coding design. Strongly typed isn't the same as a knowing and testing your inputs and outputs based on a plan or de…

Only in that the growth of cloud migrations might slow. The cloud is a great option for a lot of workloads and companies. Cloud native applications and services can be cost effecti…

Linux was a corporate-level operating system as far back as the mid-90s. It was the late 90s when it started getting enterprise software for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O…

> Companies are not going to entrust their business to a black box that sometimes says no. Companies entrust their business to a black box that sometimes says no now. AI will not c…

Starbucks has grown to the point where it can't grow more, at least in the USA. So it has to raise prices to continue to "grow" revenue. I stopped going to Starbucks on a regular b…

> just because insurance says its "totaled" doesn't mean it isnt fixable and safe to drive. "Totaled" to an insurance company means they think the cost of repair at their contracte…

All work has a cost including documentation. You either make updated documentation an explicit work item or it will, at best, get done ad hoc, at worst, it will not be done. If you…

I prefer the set of trade-offs in shopping at Costco vs. a lot of other places. I also prefer the trade-off of getting stuff quickly without leaving home when buying from Amazon. I…

I think part of the point of the article is that LLMs don't lie because they are designed to just give you the next work based on making a credible sounding sentence or sequence of…

Ask a tax lawyer. My understanding, which is not legal or tax advice, is that, as a private person, you pay taxes in the state you have your primary residence in. There are a lot o…

> “Limit WIP” is a well-known recommendation in agile circles. It’s great except for the situations where it doesn’t work, eg. you have multiple customers with must-do features, yo…

> People who have worked in the second type of environment (deadlines are real and have consequences) become quite good at estimating and managing progress toward deadlines without…

That is weird, people taking a body of work out of context to advance their agenda.

I see we worked at the same place.