I feel like any argument that begins by asserting a dichotomy is almost certain to be circular and will proceed as if the dichotomy were a fact rather than an unproven hypothesis. I don't believe there is a dichotomy,…
I'm agnostic, but ... "And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." For a more…
When I was in university I took a lot of courses in management science, which is basically a lot of applied psychology, and learned a lot of stuff like this. Then I went out into industry and watched as all these…
The power of narrative made personal. If we aren't plucked chickens we are storytellers. The venue and media have changed, from oral tradition around a fire to photons sliding down fibers and fingers dancing on…
<rant> Swiping felt like the death of dating apps. Dating has always been a numbers game (the more potential partners one interacts with and dates the higher the chances of forming successful relationships). Modern…
The Internet has become a carrier signal for advertising.
Anyone actually recommend the book from which the article is taken? I also tried to read the wa v. ga blog post on the site to get a further sense of the author's approach, but the server returns an out of memory error…
Emotionally and quite illogically. You can take the kid out of the ghetto but you can't take the ghetto out of the man.
I think it is the feeling that you can't mess up that this references and which persists. My past was a single mother, deadbeat dad, welfare and food banks. Now I have a comfortable six-figure income and have been…
If you have five architects in a room, you'll get six opposing opinions on architecture.
1) Culture must evolve with other elements of the company and at certain stages of growth and transition a company may need to intentionally hire to provoke and shape cultural change. Your change agents will be getting…
Vancouver spends too much time in movies masquerading as an American city to ever be iconic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_filming_locations_in_t... With the current exchange rate we'll have another wave of…
DE has meaning outside of Microsoft. I recognize it, and am not in Microsoft's orbit. Generally it's one step above Senior Principal Engineer and considered an executive position. That said, tech titles have not…
Yes, wear your opponents out, Thunderbolt. It only takes getting up one more time than they knock you down.
The title is provocative (it's a numbered list, and a rant!) but the author would have been better served with "Seven Ways to Make Agile Better", for no other reason than taking a positive slant. Agile can be built on,…
This seems to weaken the captcha for bots, since a simple Google search for (for instance) 'do you know we are going' completes the sentence. No need to defeat the obsfucated OCR test. If the goal is to keep out some…
Large parts of the Internet are simply a media clearinghouse, used to transmit and store information between parties with little value add beyond providing interfaces. Who controls the media and how it is structured,…
My experience is the opposite. The simplest solution is harder and takes longer. I think easiest or quickest is what is really meant in this formulation, but rarely do either of these result in simplest. I start with…
Seattle.
An example from my code: /// - parse an HTTP input stream as XML /// - requires a progressive parser (currently xpat, which is distributed with /// Apache) /// - the XML in turn is mapped to database operations, and the…
In this specific case, the dashboard-page function is actually sequencing operations, not performing them (except for 5, and I'd wonder why that couldn't be moved to a separate function), and can be described as such:…
. . . and one of the plenty of good reasons being producing API documentation automatically via javadoc, doxygen, etc. Having the API documentation source and code live together is a big win. It's easier to maintain the…
At least nobody is making movies and songs about Twitter. Endless references in popular media, yes. Songs and movies, no. "Breaker, breaker, looks like we got ourselves a convoy."
It all depends what books you read -- say if you just read programming books and no theory, which tends to be drier and less interesting because the pseudo-code examples, if the book even has them, won't compile…
"[S]pecifically target candidates rather than to post a job ad. I would suggest targeting a company you think has great people[.]" Like Rapleaf? Or was 'everyone but us' implied?
I feel like any argument that begins by asserting a dichotomy is almost certain to be circular and will proceed as if the dichotomy were a fact rather than an unproven hypothesis. I don't believe there is a dichotomy,…
I'm agnostic, but ... "And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." For a more…
When I was in university I took a lot of courses in management science, which is basically a lot of applied psychology, and learned a lot of stuff like this. Then I went out into industry and watched as all these…
The power of narrative made personal. If we aren't plucked chickens we are storytellers. The venue and media have changed, from oral tradition around a fire to photons sliding down fibers and fingers dancing on…
<rant> Swiping felt like the death of dating apps. Dating has always been a numbers game (the more potential partners one interacts with and dates the higher the chances of forming successful relationships). Modern…
The Internet has become a carrier signal for advertising.
Anyone actually recommend the book from which the article is taken? I also tried to read the wa v. ga blog post on the site to get a further sense of the author's approach, but the server returns an out of memory error…
Emotionally and quite illogically. You can take the kid out of the ghetto but you can't take the ghetto out of the man.
I think it is the feeling that you can't mess up that this references and which persists. My past was a single mother, deadbeat dad, welfare and food banks. Now I have a comfortable six-figure income and have been…
If you have five architects in a room, you'll get six opposing opinions on architecture.
1) Culture must evolve with other elements of the company and at certain stages of growth and transition a company may need to intentionally hire to provoke and shape cultural change. Your change agents will be getting…
Vancouver spends too much time in movies masquerading as an American city to ever be iconic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_filming_locations_in_t... With the current exchange rate we'll have another wave of…
DE has meaning outside of Microsoft. I recognize it, and am not in Microsoft's orbit. Generally it's one step above Senior Principal Engineer and considered an executive position. That said, tech titles have not…
Yes, wear your opponents out, Thunderbolt. It only takes getting up one more time than they knock you down.
The title is provocative (it's a numbered list, and a rant!) but the author would have been better served with "Seven Ways to Make Agile Better", for no other reason than taking a positive slant. Agile can be built on,…
This seems to weaken the captcha for bots, since a simple Google search for (for instance) 'do you know we are going' completes the sentence. No need to defeat the obsfucated OCR test. If the goal is to keep out some…
Large parts of the Internet are simply a media clearinghouse, used to transmit and store information between parties with little value add beyond providing interfaces. Who controls the media and how it is structured,…
My experience is the opposite. The simplest solution is harder and takes longer. I think easiest or quickest is what is really meant in this formulation, but rarely do either of these result in simplest. I start with…
Seattle.
An example from my code: /// - parse an HTTP input stream as XML /// - requires a progressive parser (currently xpat, which is distributed with /// Apache) /// - the XML in turn is mapped to database operations, and the…
In this specific case, the dashboard-page function is actually sequencing operations, not performing them (except for 5, and I'd wonder why that couldn't be moved to a separate function), and can be described as such:…
. . . and one of the plenty of good reasons being producing API documentation automatically via javadoc, doxygen, etc. Having the API documentation source and code live together is a big win. It's easier to maintain the…
At least nobody is making movies and songs about Twitter. Endless references in popular media, yes. Songs and movies, no. "Breaker, breaker, looks like we got ourselves a convoy."
It all depends what books you read -- say if you just read programming books and no theory, which tends to be drier and less interesting because the pseudo-code examples, if the book even has them, won't compile…
"[S]pecifically target candidates rather than to post a job ad. I would suggest targeting a company you think has great people[.]" Like Rapleaf? Or was 'everyone but us' implied?