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jpswade··on One common behavior seen in “mature” software engineers
This is the classic Boy Scout principle - leave it better than you found it.
jpswade··on Modules, not microservices
A tail as old as time…

https://martinfowler.com/ieeeSoftware/coupling.pdf

jpswade··on 2022: A Retrospective
People don’t buy code.
jpswade··on 2022: A Retrospective
The code is not the value.
jpswade··on Dinner for one: A little-known British comedy famous in Germany
As a Brit, I’ve never heard of it.
jpswade··on The 5% Rule
Surely it’s more time based too, the ebb and flow of people sucking at different times has to be a factor. Not even 5% suck 100% of the time. There’s no way that 95% of people don’t suck 100% of the time either.

Are we saying that 5 in 100 people will suck. If so think that’s an underestimate.

jpswade··on UK government ban for Chinese Hikvision CCTV cameras
Anything is easy to do once, but maintaining that going forward is a business.
jpswade··on Humans.txt
I know this is a play on robots.txt, but I always thought this should be people.txt.
jpswade··on Amazon’s already greenlit an FTX miniseries
God, this will be so dull.
jpswade··on Is our definition of burnout all wrong?
Burnout is the loss of momentum.
jpswade··on PayPal inactivity fee
Mandatory under what terms?
jpswade··on Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch
That doesn’t seem that many, how many people use Fitbit or Apple Watch?
jpswade··on Staging Is a Trap
Best staging is live. I knew when I saw this title that Charity Majors would be mentioned somewhere.

Practically, having no staging is such a hard concept for people to get their heads around.

It’s one more safety net gone, but it’s a good one.

Maturity of the business, team and product play a big part in this decision.

jpswade··on DontBuyDell.com
I used to always buy enterprise machines from Dell outlets as they were so great and reliable, with a great warranty.

I’d never buy their general consumer stuff though, it’s stack high, sell cheap.

jpswade··on Ask HN: How to deal with markets down turn? Feeling down
There’s only two prices to worry about, the price you buy and the price you sell.

In times of economic downturn there’s opportunity. That’s exciting.

jpswade··on I don’t believe in sprints
If you have a high performing team, great, do what the fuck you want.

If not, then chances are the team will need some guardrails, that’s what agile and scrum offers. It’s a place to start.

Just because you don’t believe in having a system to break down work doesn’t mean it isn’t useful.

Personally, I’ve seen the alternative in action and it always leads to burnout.

jpswade··on PayPal’s updated acceptable use policy [pdf]
PayPal are basically a law unto themselves.
jpswade··on Ask HN: Just received spam to an address only used at Amazon?
This has been going on for years, wired covered it a while back…

https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-failed-to-protect-your-da...

jpswade··on Have I reached the Douglas Adams Inflection point?
> downloading old music

What?

jpswade··on The energy historian who says rapid decarbonization is a fantasy
50% of energy produced in the UK is from renewables now.
jpswade··on Dear Oracle, Please Release the JavaScript Trademark
There’s absolutely no way that Oracle would release a trademark.
jpswade··on Ask HN: Why don't we have 3 day weekends yet?
You really have to understand why weekends were created in the first place.

How would an increase in leisure time increase GDP?

jpswade··on Why don’t we do email verification in reverse?
The obvious reason might be that email verification might be done on a different device.
jpswade··on The story of the first “computer bug” is a pile of lies
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story right?
jpswade··on Old jokes
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThatsWhatSheSaid
jpswade··on Microsoft researched what made employees happy
It says “five fewer collaboration hours”. It’s not clear how many hours of collaboration we’re talking.

It’d be interesting to see the actual figures before drawing a conclusion.

On one hand I can imagine if you’re spending all your time in meetings it would be frustrating, meanwhile I’ve what happens when teams don’t collaborate, it’s not a pleasant experience, it just causes tension to build up.

jpswade··on Trolley.co.uk is shutting down – pricing data is apparently owned by a company
Sounds like extortion…
jpswade··on Minikube now supports rootless podman driver for running Kubernetes
Does this mean it’ll be faster?
jpswade··on Why is Apache clinging to OpenOffice?
I imagine that part of this is due to the nature in which it was donated by Oracle to Apache. Legally obligating it’s continued distribution
jpswade··on The Documentation Triangle, or, why code isn't self documenting
Code should explain the what, tests should explain the why.

Done correctly comments should be redundant.

That doesn’t mean actual documentation isn’t useful, but it only captures a point in time, rather than the actual living code.

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