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vikascoder··on Victory for Net Neutrality in Europe
How about Clothing neutrality? :)
vikascoder··on Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters
Or that a Doner Kebab in Zurich is 20 dollars and up. That's US salary alright bit US price of living? Hell no
vikascoder··on Abandon Your DVCS and Return to Sanity (2015)
Just for the learning part, I moved from CVS to Perforce 10 years ago in a new job and it took me perhaps all of 4 hours to completely understand the work flow and the GUI. Until now when I started to see what Git is all about and after a couple of days and lots of different clients and articles, I am still not sure about my Git skills. It's certainly isn't as straightforward to learn and use.
vikascoder··on Why Scrum Is the Wrong Way to Build Software
Why <insert any philosophy> is a bad way to build software when you use it in <insert a bad way/abuse of the philosophy>. SDLC procedures have to interpreted correctly, their philosophy understood and its application to your organization investigated (e.g. Is your scrum team really cross functional?, can your work be divided into meaningful chunks? etc.). Agile practices are hard to understand and grasp, even harder to implement in a clockwork fashion unless you invest a huge amount of discipline and at the same time flexibility.

Scrum is even harder to do correctly and there is no one size-fit all recipe for it. Scrum should promote testing of features so better integration of a test team inside a scrum cycle should be possible, it invokes good discussions under pre-planning to come up with backlog tasks, Scrum master role is meant to be transferable if the designated person is not available, Scrum also focuses a lot on metrics and the idea is to gather that data, understand what process improvements are needed and do the next Scrum incrementally better.

Now all of this may not work in your organization, something else will maybe. It's not the fault of this particular SDLC.

vikascoder··on Daydream Is Google’s Android-Powered VR Platform
Augmented Reality headsets will be the "every day use" thing. After trying out Microsoft Hololens, I am very very impressed with what these kind of headsets can bring to the table.
vikascoder··on Daydream Is Google’s Android-Powered VR Platform
Let us also not forget Google funded company Magic Leap going head to head with MS Hololens in the Augmented Reality space.
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