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davenicolette

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I have little to say and most of it isn't worth listening to.

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davidaugust, to random
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🦴📎

davenicolette,
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@davidaugust It's a dog's world.

luckytran, to random
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when a picture says a thousand words

davenicolette,
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@luckytran Reminds me of police and national guard responses to student protests against the Vietnam war in the 1960s-70s.

mekkaokereke, to random
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Some of y'all are still confused as to why it seems that Silicon Valley billionaires are "turning to Trump." That's because you don't listen to Black people, you disrespect poor white people, and you ignore obvious statistics that have been staring you in the face for decades.

Silicon. Valley. Billionaires. Have. Always. Supported. Trump.

Not because they like the tax breaks. Because they are more likely to be racist, and racism is the greatest predictor of Trump support.

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davenicolette,
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@Kierkegaanks @mekkaokereke Maybe. Not sure. I'm resistant to the idea of a military force deployed against the general civilian population of the country. Civilian law enforcement is not thee same job and ordinary Americans going about their own business are not enemy combatants.

davenicolette,
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@Kierkegaanks @mekkaokereke Sure, if you want the police to be militarized then they should have a military background. I'd prefer scaling back active policing of the general public and having law enforcement show up when called.

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React, Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/

davenicolette,
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@baldur The tone is fine.

skinnylatte, to UX
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How design fails older people

https://www.fastcompany.com/90338379/i-wrote-the-book-on-user-friendly-design-what-i-see-today-horrifies-me

davenicolette,
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@skinnylatte Good article. Tiny text is definitely a problem, especially in the context of warning labels on health-related product packaging.
Speaking of packaging, anyone who labels a hard-to-open package "easy to open" needs a stern talking-to.

CindyWeinstein, to animals
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Attention !

davenicolette,
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@CindyWeinstein That's nothing. I routinely break treats in half and pass them off as two whole treats.

davenicolette, to random
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As the headlines fill with news from Gaza, let's not forget Ukraine. The Russians have a history of stepping up their atrocities the moment the world's attention becomes diverted by another matter (e.g. as soon as the Nazis invaded Poland, the USSR invaded Karelia, because everyone was looking elsewhere). Unfortunately there are several hot spots around the world and we have to keep an eye on all of them simultaneously.

davenicolette, to random
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Blog post: They don't pay us to write tests.
https://neopragma.com/2023/10/they-dont-pay-us-to-write-tests/

davenicolette, to random
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Recent joke toots about SAFe reminded me of this old blog post from 2015. It was a time when multiple agile scaling frameworks plus the Kanban Method were competing for the same customers. I wrote this practical guide to clarify the key differences among the various products.
https://davenicolette.wordpress.com/2015/09/09/every-agile-scaling-framework-in-the-world/

davenicolette, to random
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So I guess massive deforestation and global warming aren't enough. We can do worse, right?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-junk-is-polluting-earths-stratosphere-with-vaporized-metal/

davenicolette, to random
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After checking out the micro-breweries in Peachtree Corners and a quick lunch at Peachtree Center, I was driving around the south side of Atlanta near Peachtree City, where Peachtree St. NW crosses Peachtree Ave SE, close to where Peachtree Drive turns into Peachtree Lane - you know the place - across from Peachtree Circle - and I couldn't help admiring the impressive examples of the official state tree of Georgia, the Southern Live Oak.

davenicolette, to random
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Does anyone know of a book (or a source based on any other media) that examines ancient Mesopotamian civilization from the perspective of the "low end" of the population - manual laborers and slaves?

davenicolette, to random
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We got a canine mental challenge toy for our puppies. A cube consisting of tubes and balls, the toy can be filled with dog treats. The challenge for the dog is to roll the toy around so the treats fall out of holes. Our puppies discovered an alternative approach. The toy lasted less than one hour.

davenicolette, to random
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In the 1980s I had one gig involving Tandem NonStop systems. Haven't touched that platform since. Today, recruiters seem to think I'd be interested in supporting HP NonStop applications, and willing to relocate to places I don't like for a small salary. How did they ever find out I worked on a NonStop in the past? I don't put it on my resume. Do other people get this kind of stuff from recruiters, too?

davenicolette, to random
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Has anyone I know here worked with a company called "Innovation in Software"?. Thanks in advance.

davenicolette, to random
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I tried this game, Trust and Safety Tycoon, and found it compelling. Couldn't stop (for a while). It gave me a bit of a feeling for what people have to deal with when they manage a social media platform.
https://trustandsafety.fun/
cc mmasnick@mastodon.social

davenicolette, to random
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When people complained that software development tools and methods didn't automatically do the right things for them, I used to say they sounded as if they wanted their tools to do the thinking for them. Tools can't do that, I said. They're just tools, I said. You have to do your own thinking, I said.

Now we have LLMs. They also can't do the thinking for us, but try telling that to a developer who can't get through a day's work without them.

davenicolette, to random
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Is anyone out there using Waste Management for trash/recycling pickup (US only)?

jamesshore, to random
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I'm happy to announce that my Testing Without Mocks training course has returned! This is an in-person course that's ideal for people in Europe. It's taking place in Budapest, just prior to the Craft Conference, on May 28th and 29th.

I'm not sure when I'll have a chance to deliver the course again, so if you're interested, this is a rare opportunity.

https://www.jamesshore.com/s/nullables-training?mastodon

davenicolette,
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@jasongorman @RonJeffries @jamesshore The idea of modifying production code to accommodate test code bothers me a little because it might increase the threat surface of the code. The existence of methods that are visible to test code but ostensibly not to production code "feels" a little like the old practice of having a patch area in object programs to facilitate hot fixes in production. I guess it's no worse than other approaches with OO languages.

davenicolette,
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@jasongorman @RonJeffries @jamesshore I think I'd like to do some sort of small project using this technique to see how it goes. Maybe one of the refactoring katas or something. Reading is fine but I think the best way to get a feel for something like this is to put it into practice. Thanks for publishing it!

davenicolette,
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@jasongorman @RonJeffries @jamesshore I started exploring Nullables with Java. I plan to continue to try it with other languages. So far, I've seen few advantages over using mocks. That leads me to suspect I don't properly understand the approach. Please let me know where I've gone astray. https://github.com/neopragma/sociabletests

davenicolette,
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@jamesshore @RonJeffries @jasongorman Thanks for the detailed feedback. I'll adjust the code accordingly. The stubs were separate originally and I factored them out to reduce duplication, as you surmised. The only difference of opinion is about names. The kata provides two files, but the input data source needn't be a file, so I would avoid using the word File in a class name. A minor thing, I guess.

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davenicolette,
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@jamesshore @RonJeffries @jasongorman I'll make the changes in the form of further progressions in development and modify the notes as well, so others can see me make the initial mistakes and how I corrected them based on your guidance. That might make the project more useful to people who want to get started with this.
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davenicolette,
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@jamesshore @RonJeffries @jasongorman Then I suggest the following: I'll use the naming convention you recommend, and at a future stage of the exploration (maybe when we're trying another language) we can introduce a different type of data store, and see how that affects the existing code at that point. That might help make the project useful, as well.

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