askyourmother | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: CodeBlimp – Code Interviews Without Limits
A great idea for those who have no idea how to hire people!
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askyourmother | 9 years ago | on: Mob Programming – The Good, the Bad and the Great
Mob programming because they don't trust the individual developers to deliver by themselves, mob programming because no one has a clue there and they hope there is wisdom in the crowd, and mob programming because they had nothing else to do.
askyourmother | 9 years ago | on: Ootside – Weather from a brutally honest Scottish perspective
Ah Scotland, where vegetables is a deep fried battered chocolate bar, fruit is a can of irn bru, good weather is rain and wind, and copper wire was invented by two scots men fighting over a penny.
And a friendly greeting is the 'glesgie kiss'
askyourmother | 9 years ago | on: The Art of Closing
You would think docker would take all the help they can get, given how bad their current code base is.
Maybe they should be "closing" their blog posts, and let real developers step in.
askyourmother | 9 years ago | on: Disruption is not a strategy
But after we disrupted our pivot and enabled a sharing economy, we forgot what we were actually doing and when back to real jobs.
askyourmother | 9 years ago | on: 85 percent of Facebook video is watched without sound
You know why we turn the sound off? Have you heard how whiny and self righteous millennials are?
askyourmother | 9 years ago | on: The Perks Are Great, Just Don’t Ask What We Do
I remember interviewing for a search company, but then found most of the work and business was spent on adverts! No thanks Google!
askyourmother | 9 years ago | on: How do you stop a randomized game from randomly being boring sometimes?
Bugs. Make sure it crashes at random times, then it takes longer to become boring.
askyourmother | 9 years ago | on: There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast
My breakfast was magical - amazing smoked kippers, marmalade and toast, freshly roasted and ground filter coffee, a handful of fresh berries, and that was just the first course!
askyourmother | 9 years ago | on: My time with Rails is up
If you want to rebuild Rails in elixir, go for it. Seems like a wasted opportunity though - to break away from all things Rails.
And yes, phoenix will end up bogged down like Rails, and hex will end up chock full of crap, it is the Rails developer mentality I'm afraid, they just can't help themselves.
askyourmother | 9 years ago | on: My time with Rails is up
Rails is not a religion, it a tech tool (a pretty poor one at that), discussing it's many flaws is not shitting on it.
askyourmother | 9 years ago | on: We Only Hire the Best
The worst are the new "tech companies with internal recruiters, tech tests prior to interview, twenty stages to offer, who moan they can't attract the best. Of course not! The minute you said tech test, I said goodbye, the minute you said internal recruiters, I laughed as I slammed down the phone.
The best companies that can and do attract the best, still keep it simple - direct face to face interviews, max two stages to offer, no fucking around with shitty tech tests, and making the time and effort for the interview.
askyourmother | 9 years ago | on: My time with Rails is up
Better design? In all seriousness Django - they get this right. It seems to hurt rails developers that it means typing a bit more, or is a little less 'magic', but then python did always attract software engineers, whereas Rails always seemed to attract code "ninjas" at best.
askyourmother | 9 years ago | on: My time with Rails is up
Improvements are a strong word, I thought they were still playing whack a mole on the numerous Rails RCE security issues.
askyourmother | 9 years ago | on: My time with Rails is up
I said this before: phoenix is the new Rails, and that is not a good thing. Phoenix will end up bogged down with the same great "ideas", hex will end up chock full of crap like gems.
Elixir ok, phoenix not so much.
askyourmother | 9 years ago | on: Credit-Card Debt Nears $1 Trillion as Banks Push Plastic
Best part is credit card debt is typically unsecured - spend, consume, enjoy, stick up middle finger when repayment is due. Those who do repay will of course sub those who don't over the long course in the variable rates and fees.
askyourmother | 9 years ago | on: Agile is not a Fucking Noun
Agile may be dead, but the books flogging it remain on Dave's website (the so-called pragmatic programmer).
askyourmother | 9 years ago | on: Agile is not a Fucking Noun
For those of us who hate what agile has become, I fully fucking approve the medium post!
askyourmother | 9 years ago | on: Agile is not a Fucking Noun
We have painting by numbers for those that cannot paint, and we have agile for those that cannot program or deliver projects. Oh, and agile (TM) really only exists to sell numerous books, conferences, and basically give useless managers and clients a hope in hell of producing something.
askyourmother | 9 years ago | on: Standard deviation is ready for retirement: Nassim Taleb (2014)
The modern day "professional", they may hold degrees, may sound impressive, probably read a few books on the topic from O'Reilly, but basically are not that good. Same with programmers, most are not that good. Same with decorators, or writers, or any field really. There will be the few who like it, learn it, practise it, aim to get better at it, but the vast majority, no.
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