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Start with one thing at a time. Do that one thing excellently until it becomes part of your soul, and you could never imagine not doing it. Then move onto the next thing.

Someone on the Internet summed it up well https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README....

Yes, Agile does produce more buggy, less stable software. There is heavy bias towards doing only simplistic, user-visible things that fit in the span of two weeks. So all the found…

Dovetails nicely with the whole Right To Repair shit that farmers are currently having to go through with John Deere.

> they were demanding something in a timeframe that I couldn't deliver it without ensuring that there wouldn't be any unintended side effects - and then blaming me for the side eff…

Example #4 A CTO of an American company, to get a bonus of $7 million, lays off a ton-load of the company’s CRM people who knew how 20 years of architecture duct tape that ran the …

Deming’s First Theorem: “Nobody gives a hoot about profit”.

Apparently you’re in good company https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README....

Truest comment I’ve read so far. If simplicity is always the right solution, then why do so many programming languages have dedicated parsing libraries for .csv, which has to be th…

Scrum allows for granular micro-tracking of developers at a daily level while sanctifying the ideas of developers as interchangeable cogs and that leaderships should be able to mov…

One possible hypothesis is that spacetime itself is being warped in such a way that no significant forces caused by interaction with the atmosphere are being generated. Kinda like …

A truly worthy book of Software Engineer Dark Arts that’s come in handy multiple times. The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (Expert's Voice) https://www.…

Agile destroys any software project it’s allowed to touch by sabotaging development of early architecture through the “it must fit into two weeks” mandate and other assorted short-…

Why the downvotes? This comment’s dead accurate.

I think moving forward that anyone who proposes a change to any kind of data format spec should be required to implement that new part of the spec in the six most popular programmi…

For those transitioning from programming to woodworking, if you don’t understand how to use your table saw, you’re not supposed to design and build your own table saw because you t…

I thought Transformers were “Robots in disguise”.

“Agile BS” is a redundant term.

The hard part is dealing with the people (some in management) saying “you’re thinking too far ahead. This is just an MVP. We don’t need Thing X” and who will do everything in their…

I’ve found the two codebases approach, one for iOS and one for Android, is simpler and cheaper because native development tools are just so better.

So in 2003, before the iPhone came out, I was a mac developer doing Cocoa/Objective-C development. I then tried to learn Symbian and I found the IDE hard to setup, the API was hard…

Anything is capable of not sucking if you go out of your way to spend several man-decades optimizing it.

Fezzes are cool.