> I've never experienced a situation where a software design document meaningfully improved the overall process. If you don't have a document, then how do you make sure that internal team A and internal team B and…
Reminds me of SNL Happy Fun Ball: "Announcer: Yes, it’s Happy Fun Ball! The toy sensation that’ssweeping the nation! Only $14.95 at participating stores! Get one today! Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly, and children…
I've reverted to an actual paper notepad.
> nothing was fixed The issue was determined to be a documentation issue and was assigned to that group to add a knowledge base article with additional information.
> like literally too, 20k films at let's say 30m average is 400+ continuous, unbroken days worth of content You could run them in parallel, like a Zoom or Teams mtg, but with each square a different movie. Would be more…
I don't think you can learn without doing the actual work where normal constraints apply so you can test and see the pros and cons of different approaches to different aspects of the problem(s). You need a limited…
I built a little front end that allows me to group stuff easily so I can visit the site for short durations during the day without having to repeat sorting through items. I have some checkboxes on articles and a couple…
> In which countries are Software Engineers not allowed to call themselves engineers unless they are professionally qualified engineers? I think a better question is: what is the criteria those countries use to…
> It’s well known that the moat of system of record is how difficult it is to extract your data into another system. I think that is one aspect but not the biggest issue. The specific shape of data and shape of…
> See also: DB table normalization. Pragmatic approach: generally end up with an average of around 2.72 normalization across all tables.
Re-route all phone traffic to Comcast Customer Service.
I worked on as400's for about 15 years so I can give you some thoughts: 1-Stability: The as400 is the most robust/stable environment I've ever worked on for business applications. Many of our customers had no IT staff,…
> I discovered I could count and sing at the same time by visualising the number in my head, instead of using my inner monologue. But it requires more focus to maintain. Funny timing for this comment, just last week I…
> Uncle Bob is a snake oil salesman I think it's not as bad as a snake oil salesman that knew their product was not good. In reality, most software design and dev advice is well intentioned but is just based on personal…
> I'm very reluctant to believe people when they say they don't have an internal monologue. Why would you choose internal monologue as the default position and no internal monologue needs to be proved? It seems the…
> I recently encountered a query that deadlocked on itself because it used a parallel execution plan and updated multiple indexes in a manner that the different threads could conflict with each other. MS SQL? We've had…
> A biological synapse's weight takes effect whenever its input changes. I don't think it makes sense to try to compare our brains to ANN's, they are apples and oranges. A synapse's weight is dynamically modulated by…
Ya, I just started using them in File Explorer recently and I really like them because I frequently had multiple windows open within the same tree, this is much cleaner. I can't believe it took me so long to actually…
Those example are exactly the problem that has not been solved yet. They are the best we can do so far but are pretty inadequate to communicate complex designs in a way that a person can easily absorb all of that info…
This comment brings back memories of a project. We were working through many complex business flows and running into exactly what you describe in many areas. Some of the project people with less experience complained…
> But I don’t think we should be calling these people “domain experts”. I think we should reserve that name for the other group, for the people who truly and deeply understand the domain, the whys and whats and why…
> It's very difficult to define a specification that works as intended, even with tools. Agree, we are in the stone age in software design and dev. We have not figured out a good way to communicate the design of complex…
> What I'm saying is that this is incorrect. An "idea" exists within a model before it generates tokens. If that were the case, then the systems would generate words based on the fully resolved idea, but that is not how…
> I've seen proposals for Product Managers to define those conditions themselves by speaking with the LLM. But the LLM is not aware of how the business works and why, so someone needs to work with the business to…
> And then, a follow-up: what is actually the bottleneck at most companies? What causes "requirements gathering" to take long? Complexity. In my experience (medium size businesses, i.e. 200 million to 2 billion annual…
> I've never experienced a situation where a software design document meaningfully improved the overall process. If you don't have a document, then how do you make sure that internal team A and internal team B and…
Reminds me of SNL Happy Fun Ball: "Announcer: Yes, it’s Happy Fun Ball! The toy sensation that’ssweeping the nation! Only $14.95 at participating stores! Get one today! Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly, and children…
I've reverted to an actual paper notepad.
> nothing was fixed The issue was determined to be a documentation issue and was assigned to that group to add a knowledge base article with additional information.
> like literally too, 20k films at let's say 30m average is 400+ continuous, unbroken days worth of content You could run them in parallel, like a Zoom or Teams mtg, but with each square a different movie. Would be more…
I don't think you can learn without doing the actual work where normal constraints apply so you can test and see the pros and cons of different approaches to different aspects of the problem(s). You need a limited…
I built a little front end that allows me to group stuff easily so I can visit the site for short durations during the day without having to repeat sorting through items. I have some checkboxes on articles and a couple…
> In which countries are Software Engineers not allowed to call themselves engineers unless they are professionally qualified engineers? I think a better question is: what is the criteria those countries use to…
> It’s well known that the moat of system of record is how difficult it is to extract your data into another system. I think that is one aspect but not the biggest issue. The specific shape of data and shape of…
> See also: DB table normalization. Pragmatic approach: generally end up with an average of around 2.72 normalization across all tables.
Re-route all phone traffic to Comcast Customer Service.
I worked on as400's for about 15 years so I can give you some thoughts: 1-Stability: The as400 is the most robust/stable environment I've ever worked on for business applications. Many of our customers had no IT staff,…
> I discovered I could count and sing at the same time by visualising the number in my head, instead of using my inner monologue. But it requires more focus to maintain. Funny timing for this comment, just last week I…
> Uncle Bob is a snake oil salesman I think it's not as bad as a snake oil salesman that knew their product was not good. In reality, most software design and dev advice is well intentioned but is just based on personal…
> I'm very reluctant to believe people when they say they don't have an internal monologue. Why would you choose internal monologue as the default position and no internal monologue needs to be proved? It seems the…
> I recently encountered a query that deadlocked on itself because it used a parallel execution plan and updated multiple indexes in a manner that the different threads could conflict with each other. MS SQL? We've had…
> A biological synapse's weight takes effect whenever its input changes. I don't think it makes sense to try to compare our brains to ANN's, they are apples and oranges. A synapse's weight is dynamically modulated by…
Ya, I just started using them in File Explorer recently and I really like them because I frequently had multiple windows open within the same tree, this is much cleaner. I can't believe it took me so long to actually…
Those example are exactly the problem that has not been solved yet. They are the best we can do so far but are pretty inadequate to communicate complex designs in a way that a person can easily absorb all of that info…
This comment brings back memories of a project. We were working through many complex business flows and running into exactly what you describe in many areas. Some of the project people with less experience complained…
> But I don’t think we should be calling these people “domain experts”. I think we should reserve that name for the other group, for the people who truly and deeply understand the domain, the whys and whats and why…
> It's very difficult to define a specification that works as intended, even with tools. Agree, we are in the stone age in software design and dev. We have not figured out a good way to communicate the design of complex…
> What I'm saying is that this is incorrect. An "idea" exists within a model before it generates tokens. If that were the case, then the systems would generate words based on the fully resolved idea, but that is not how…
> I've seen proposals for Product Managers to define those conditions themselves by speaking with the LLM. But the LLM is not aware of how the business works and why, so someone needs to work with the business to…
> And then, a follow-up: what is actually the bottleneck at most companies? What causes "requirements gathering" to take long? Complexity. In my experience (medium size businesses, i.e. 200 million to 2 billion annual…