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I wish more software updated itself. I don't want to navigate to the download page and run the installer every time it updates. That's busywork.
This is already a solved problem with package managers. You shouldn't ever have to "run the installer" each time you need to update a program.
Am I the only one that really hates the carpenter analogy? As someone who does woodworking on the side of my programming, there's a million reasons why it's a terrible way to think about software development. The chair doesn't have supported platforms, new security issues, or the need to be updated so that people keep buying the same chair. Someone else isn't going to have to come along later to maintain the chair an…
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Nice idea. Call it a "FinishUp Weekend" as opposed to a "StartUp Weekend"?
I searched my old emails and indeed we called it "Finish Up Weekend." It was held May 10, 2013 at Work In Progress (in Las Vegas). I'll credit John Hawkins (9seeds.com) with the name.
Even though we'd never met and did everything via email, I still found it effective and built a site that made several hundred dollars and then sold down the track. Nothing lucrative, more than my hourly rate by hours spent.
What never works is when I start building an eternal software edifice. My name is Ozymandias, king of kings...
There's a great list of project management advice by Jerry Madden of NASA that gets posted here occasionally[1]. One of the points is; "Rule #30: It is mainly the incompetent that don't like to show off their work." Madden's remark is based on the specific environment he was involved in (NASA engineering); if you're surrounded by people who are good at their jobs and who know how to criticise constructively then ther…
Or, they don't show it off for fear of the ungrateful comments that projects tend to get because they don't implement some feature, or there's some obscure bug that the author doesn't consider important, or haven't updated it in a while, and so on.
There's a great list of project management advice by Jerry Madden of NASA that gets posted here occasionally[1]. One of the points is; "Rule #30: It is mainly the incompetent that don't like to show off their work." Madden's remark is based on the specific environment he was involved in (NASA engineering); if you're surrounded by people who are good at their jobs and who know how to criticise constructively then ther…
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I searched my old emails and indeed we called it "Finish Up Weekend." It was held May 10, 2013 at Work In Progress (in Las Vegas). I'll credit John Hawkins (9seeds.com) with the name.
I did something remotely similar with a guy online - we set a schedule to each launch a monetised microsite within five days and 'keep each other honest' (e.g., not get lazy and do nothing each night). The plan was that each morning we'd check in and show progress - only allocated an hour each night. The pressure would motivate us to see it through. Even though we'd never met and did everything via email, I still fou…