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I’ve lived through waterfall/BDUF (big design up front), structured programming, top-down, bottom-up, modular design, components, agile, Scrum, extreme, TDD, OOP, rapid prototyping, RAD, and probably others I’ve forgotten about. I’m not convinced any of these things work. People
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Spot on, I would say.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Preach it. We're currently going through a stage where SCRUM and DDD are apparently some magic bullet that will solve all the world's problems. At least that's what I'm seeing.
Comments from work:- "Why can't you just do it like everybody else?"
- "Well, we haven't had any complaints yet."
- "I just want to get it into production."
- "It only matters if it’s important to someone who matters."
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Psst... the methodology isn't the problem.
Though after a few decades of this madness I'll say iterative/Agile/Xp hits at the core of working. And TDD is awesome.
The trick is getting people to do it and knock off the "I'm a unique delicate snowflake and like to work my own way" nonsense.
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The only methodology that will work for you is yours.
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In other words: "I'm a unique delicate snowflake..."
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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If you say so.
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Today the most fertile ground for entrepreneurship is shifting from Silicon Valley to San Francisco. And that is where Microsoft must move if it hopes to break free of the yearning for a pension that keeps its people from the kind of thinking and action that spurs innovation that could accelerate Microsoft’s revenue growth. This is what happens when you legalize marijuana
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And that is where Microsoft must move
Why? Is it now illegal for people to cross state borders to get to Silicon Valley?
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It's the innovation trees. They only let native Silicon Valleyfolk (or at least the people living there) pick the sweet, sweet innovation berries.
TTFN - Kent
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They should stay in Redmond. The "innovation grass" should prove much more conducive than innovation trees...
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With popularity, of course, comes insane fans who were not happy at all to learn the app would be removed from app stores. The app’s fans are so insane, in fact, that many of them replied to Dong’s tweet by threatening him with violence. Some people went as far as to threaten to murder the developer or even kill themselves if he pulled the app. I will be starting a collection to get these people a life
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But surely these people already have the app, in order to be fans?
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Yeah.
I'm guessing they think that somehow his removing the app from the various stores will reach down and pull it off of their phones.
Or something.
People.
TTFN - Kent
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Oh, you tease: Quote: The app has been retired from the app store as a decision made by Disney
TTFN - Kent
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Office Online, Microsoft's rebranded Office Web Apps, are inching closer toward launch. That should help Office sales
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I hope that Microsoft will make 'Office Online' better than Office Web Apps...
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If you had to “start over,” what are the technologies, languages, paradigms and platforms I need to be up-to-date and mastering in my new world of 2014? Lisp, Forth, and CGI for web apps of course
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Based on just the subject line:
Woodworking, metalurgy, operation of a miller, metal shaper and blanchard grinder.
Screw programming. BUT I'm good at it so what the hell.
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Definitely those would be more useful for the upcoming zombie apocalypse.
Unless you can pop a zombie in the head with your l33t C++ 5k1llz, of course.
TTFN - Kent
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Imana take the 5th.
I've finally realized that making things in meatspace is what I really want to do. Moved to the country, set up a metal shop and a woodshop, making lots of sawdust and swarf. But making progress. Hopefully in a year or two I'll only have a computer for browsing the innert00bz every once in a while.
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The bad news is that in addition to the direct matter of users not being able to withdraw bitcoins, they say the technical issue that they're dealing with is something that pertains to the broader Bitcoin community. >Pop<</xml>
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Maybe I'm old fashioned but nothing will convince me to buy or use Bitcoins or anything else that comes along. Things I like about hard cash are that (a) you can negotiate with it, (b) you can turn the penny over several times before you spend it, (c) I like having some cash on me to call upon.
Virtual or real; a fool and his money are soon parted.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Bitcoin should've been a bit more careful.
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