danabrams

What’s so funny to me is what you’re describing is the nightmare that’s become scrum as opposed to actual agility. Agile is about ditching managers, bureaucracy, and estimates in favor of empowering the team itself.

Agility is just what it says: a philosophy of flexibility and adaptiveness.

Heirarchies, heavy processes, etc are by definition inflexible. They are not agile. You do not do agile. You are agile. You are agile because your company has a culture that is agile and you cannot achieve that unless the company is structured to be flexible.

I think actual agility is really, really a great way to build software efficiently... but unfortunately most programmers will only experience the cargo cult forced upon them by certified scrum masters... and this is just as bad, perhaps worse, than old fashioned waterfall.

More than anything, working in an agile environment is a very pleasant thing to do from a human standpoint. But most companies are incapable of the kind of equality and empowerment necessary to achieve agility, so they will force the terrible cargo cult version upon us.

Over and over again I hear from friends who work at companies that chose exciting technology that a major benefit is that it makes it easy to hire talented engineers who are exceptionally good, because that’s who’s interested in learning the exciting tech—and for startups this can mean being able to afford a top-notch engineer when they otherwise might not.

And over and over again I hear from companies that use boring tech that it’s extremely hard to hire top people and so they hire junior people and hope to turn them into senior people.

Technically Clojure is a commonwealth, not a state.

Couldn't market-traded options be rolled back in the event of a hack, though?

90 minutes is a megacommute? I need to move.

Interesting that the list is so heavy in education.

Isn’t it obvious? Have you seen what we eat?

Can't say I got him hysterical, but yes, felt like a major life achievement.

He was a generous laugh, and that's a really admirable trait from a comedy legend.

I got to take a writing workshop with him once and I’m proud to say I made him laugh. He was very kind, and obviously had great stories.

Python was very much a group effort, but I think he made an enormous difference behind the scenes.

The allegations against him (and there is evidence to support this) is that he didn’t just coordinate to publish, but provided instructions and technical training to Manning on how to steal them.

Competing with high earning professionals AND using the levers of local government to slow the construction of new housing far below demand.

The first part would not be an issue except in the short term without the second.

So the company that was bullied away from building an office building in NYC is going to convince the public it should acquire a beloved 250-year-old American institution?

Beyond all that, good filmmakers often use edits to manipulate or confound expectations about time and space.

However, there are scenes in the narrative sense, but also scene main the way an AD making a schedule will see them, that is, scene headings (sluglines), which would be easier to differentiate and detect.

I've used Elm for frontend pretty much exclusively since 2016. In the last two months I changed jobs and now write a bunch of typescript, and it's fine, but would much prefer to be writing elm...I mean, I'm only working on backend right now, but still...

I don’t think it’s just an implementation problem. I think there are patent issues preventing this.

Newtek should really bite the bullet and just open source, and make their money on the hardware.

Can't say I blame them for the removal of libndi-newtek, given the situation, but I wish FFMpeg (and gstreamer) had ndi support.

Would love to see an open source NDI, but I know newtek will never allow it.

I just “never graduated” from an RC batch. It’s also a mid-career shift, and my experience was very similar. I also spent the day of the interview dejected assuming I didn’t get in.

About all that’s changed is the name and borough!

I highly recommend this program.

If you really really really can’t live without a statefull component, you can always build a custom element (which can be a wrapper around an elm app). But reusable views with fairly complex state are used; they require a little bit of wiring up, but it means you know exactly where to look when there’s a big/problem.

Yes. The deeply nested components thing isn’t an issue at all. You build “components” as stateless views. It’s fundamentally the same as building an application out of all stateless components in redux.

Your model (the central state) becomes larger and more complex, but the size of your update function doesn’t expand as much as you’d think.

Meanwhile, the benefits from type-safety, pure functions, and extremely well-designed libraries like elm/parser & elm-UI are really terrific.

really awesome.

Overheard during the 2012 campaign in florida, between some octagenerians: I’m voting for that Mitt Romney because he’s a nice Protestant boy, not like the others. (Not that it matters, but Obama was the only Protestant in that race, Biden and Ryan are catholic, Romney is like the most famous Mormon).

Same question, but for 33 yo. I’m consider making the switch from a commercial video producer to coder.

I’ve taken this course and it’s excellent, all three parts.

It makes me wish there were a modern standard ML, without laziness, typeclasses or Object Oriented-ness.

The real monad was the friends we made along the way.

You know it’s definitely not a cult when the leader gets asked to reassure the crowd that it’s not a cult and has a well-prepared answer describing the differences between this and a cult. In that case, definitely not a cult.