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Agile projects get the most out of people, with huge payoffs in productivity and effectiveness. But you have to choose those people carefully to avoid blow-ups. Bonus #5: Your 'downward-facing dog' looks more like 'leaning moose'
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Developers who… Are unwilling to pursue rough-cut solutions
So a good developer not accepts (when no immediate alternatives left) a rough solution, but pursues it?!
Or a good agile developer is the antithesis of good developer?!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The biggest risk with agile is when the process becomes more important that the task at hand. Like anything, you should pick the bits that fit around your culture and use them without slavishly adhering to a process that may end up being detrimental to the development process. If you have a good team, learn to trust them.
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Agreed: it is particularly ironic for agile. Quite amusing.
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Agile projects get the most out of people, with huge payoffs in productivity and effectiveness.
Oh man, what is he smoking?
I guess we're in the "mature methodology" stage now, which is defined as "a methodology, having no proven track record, but which has been a fad for long enough that people no longer question its use but instead claim extravagant benefits."
[edit] By the way, those warning signs are not signs that Agile is broken, those are warning signs that the project is broken, whether you use Agile or a Ouija board as your methodology. [/edit]
Marc
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GitHub platform has become the world's source code repository. But with success come security and privacy concerns. I find it strange that's the first time I've heard "GitHub" and "dork" in the same sentence.
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Makes me wonder why github can't build some of those functions in directly. ex if it detects that you've uploaded what looks like a private key, it initially blocks visibility of the commit to anyone else and sends an "Are you Elephanting sure you wanted to do that?" email to the guilty party and/or the repo owner (for business users).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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If you don’t have anything security-related on your resume, begin today by asking the CSO or CIO where you can help as far as researching and testing a service. Ever change your password? Put, "Security Avoidance Expert" on your resume!
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Shortly after the release of an AP report asserting that Google's self-driving cars have been involved in four accidents since last September, the company published a post on Backchannel today — the Medium-based publication from former Wired writer Steven Levy — to dive into more detail on all the accidents it has experienced with the project since it first took to the streets six years ago. Who do you share license details with after the crash?
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With Microsoft Edge, we want to fundamentally improve security over existing browsers and enable users to confidently experience the web from Windows. We have designed Microsoft Edge to defend users from increasingly sophisticated and prevalent attacks. Pwahahaha! They kill me.
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How about first building one that works well?
Marc
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The one thing in that article that I found most interesting is that MS is, at least partially, garbage collecting memory in IE instead of doing deallocation the conventional C++ way. I really hope MS expands on that announcement with information about how much of the app has been retrofitted.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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This week, the Telerik development team made the JustDecompile decompilation engine source code is available on GitHub. Yes, we are making the code open source under the Apache 2.0 license. Thus saving you from just decompiling it
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Thus saving you from just decompiling it
Two great minds, a single thought between them!
Marc
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When I saw the thread title (but before opening the post) I thought the same thing. So make that three great minds.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Sometimes a fixed path is beneficial, and sometimes you need room to maneuver. "Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one."
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Sometimes a fixed path is beneficial, and sometimes you need room to maneuver.
Yeah, when the girlfriend says "I need space", it's time to refactor the relationship. 
Marc
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Talk of Windows 10 being the 'last version' of Windows has been circulating for a year. What does this really mean? The answer: Not much. Patches are coming
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Is your internet connection that important to you? Hmmm. Which finger?
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Another third of people would rather do some chopping on their ISP.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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I managed to live a full and rich life without internet, cellphone or Starbucks. I think I could go back to that. Might take a while to get used to it, but I'd be fine. As for giving up a finger, try this one... 
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Not my middle finger!
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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