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thirstybear

@thirstybear@agilodon.social

Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, mogfather, diver, biker. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts

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jasongorman, to random
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Behind my house there's a patch of lawn the council used to mow. They stopped doing it years ago, and nobody living on that part of the street sees it as their lawn and therefore as their responsibility to mow, even though they all complain about the impact it has on them.

And that, in a nutshell, is the developer training market explained.

thirstybear,
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@sleepyfox @jasongorman That’s the problem-they’re not, and they are (staying, that is)

Edit: dare I mention “expert beginner” syndrome?

🤔

thirstybear, to random
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TL;DR: Pull Requests are a power structure. And they discriminate against women.

An interesting insight that I’d missed. Yet another reason (amongst many) to find ways to drop them
<cough>Trunk Based Development<cough>
https://mastodon.social/@matthewskelton/112461608964260308

thirstybear, to random
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Hmm. “Something wicked this way comes”? 🤔

AI companies could do worse than embed Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/18/openai-putting-shiny-products-above-safety-says-departing-researcher

thirstybear,
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Another depressing read about AI, complete with doublespeak.

This seems to be the level of humanity (or lack of it). Talking about Israel’s massacre of civilians as collateral damage:

‘“Before we get self-righteous,” Milley said, in the second world war, “we, the US, killed 12,000 innocent French civilians. We destroyed 69 Japanese cities. We slaughtered people in massive numbers – men, women and children.”’

The “we did it, so that’s ok“ argument 🤢

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/17/ai-weapons-palantir-war-technology

matthewskelton, to random
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"Surprisingly, our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308716997_Gender_bias_in_open_source_Pull_request_acceptance_of_women_versus_men

🤬

thirstybear,
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@matthewskelton @tdpauw That fits with my subjective experience over my career. Women engineers I have worked with, with a few exceptions, have tended to be highly competent and collaborative.

Arguably the exceptions were showing learned toxic behaviours that they developed working in a system where the odds were heavily stacked against them 🤷‍♂️ (not an excuse, but a possible reason)

jasongorman, to random
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I will not buy the giant telly.
I will not buy the giant telly.
I will not buy the giant telly.
I will not buy the giant telly.

thirstybear,
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@jasongorman Narrator: he bought the giant telly

sleepyfox, to random
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If I see yet another promotion of "thought leadership" drivel from a 27 year old CxO who gets air time because some gullible tech giant bought their startup for "one bee-llion dollars" I'm going to implode, like a mini black hole.
I mean, I wouldn't be complaining if their ideas were actually good, or even original, but they invariably aren't.

thirstybear,
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@sleepyfox Thankfully I seem to have missed that. No point spoiling a Friday prematurely

jasongorman, to random
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Yes, those seem like legit replies.

Take my money!!!

thirstybear,
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@sleepyfox @jasongorman Just the one here, est. 2005. Currently going through the dilemma of whether to dissolve it or to park it on tickover having gone permie (and mostly enjoying it for the first time in around 20+ years)

thirstybear,
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@jasongorman @sleepyfox That’s the direction I’m leaning in - keep it on tickover as a real option

davidallengreen, to random
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How the Good Friday Agreement checks and balances the UK government

With the disapplication of the Rwanda policy in Northern Ireland, we can see how the 1998 treaty practically limits the power of the UK executive

New, by me

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/66236/how-the-good-friday-agreement-checks-and-balances-the-uk-government

thirstybear,
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@davidallengreen That did make me chuckle somewhat. Brexit, the gift that keeps giving to the Law of Unintended Consequences 🙂

thirstybear, to random
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M4 iPad Pro. Just seen one up close.

Must. Resist.

thirstybear, to london
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Own up. Who scared away Summer? 🌧️

thirstybear, to random
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Well that was a cheerful read in today’s political climate…. 💀

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/748264/nuclear-war-by-annie-jacobsen/

thirstybear, (edited ) to random
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1Password: “you must enter your password before you can use FaceID”

Yes, but my password is securely held in…you guessed it…1Password! (Having it in my keychain would mean anyone breaching my phone passcode could get everything)

I’ll sort it later from another copy of the app on my laptop

(Edit: should add I’m not stupid enough to not have a pen-and-ink copies stashed in various secure places 🙂)

GeePawHill, to random
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The "No Regerts" tattoo cracks me up every time, but the actual sentiment seems very odd.

Anyone who gets to my age with no regerts is either a psychopath or a fool.

thirstybear,
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@GeePawHill Or a very bad birdwatcher.

“No egrets”

thirstybear, to random
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Went into the library yesterday to ask about authors who wrote dinosaur novels.

They said try Sarah Topps 🦖

thirstybear, to random
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I seem to be in the minority in hating “hackathons”. IME they encourage entirely the wrong behaviours, and the results have a tendency to escape into the wild untested.

thirstybear, to random
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My favourite term for today: “Agile Kabuki”. ‘An elaborate process where people make extreme gestures but fundamentally they have no impact other than to entertain and give the appearance of action.’

https://theitriskmanager.com/2024/05/12/failureship-and-risk-management-theatre/

thirstybear, to random
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Folks do like to overcomplicate things 🙄
https://techhub.social/@FakeScrumStats/112433113164007689

thirstybear, to random
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Poison the well…

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/stack-overflow-users-sabotage-their-posts-after-openai-deal/

jasongorman, to random
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"They're not called 'scrums' in the Scrum guide".

Really? Is that true?

thirstybear,
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@jasongorman In what context? You get “sprints” and the “daily scrum”

https://scrumguides.org/docs/scrumguide/v2020/2020-Scrum-Guide-US.pdf

thirstybear,
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@jasongorman It is worth keeping tabs on the guide IMO since there have been some useful insightful tweaks, and it shuts down idjits who think they know it but have never read it. But like all frameworks, it is for the guidance of the wise, and blind adherence of fools.

The daily standups are indeed called “scrums”. See Page 9. Also cf. “scrum of scrums”, and the history of why it was called “Scrum” in the first place…

thirstybear,
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@jasongorman Also (as I know you know) it doesn’t matter what TF you call that daily scrum… it’s the purpose that counts: daily course corrections. It doesn’t even have to be a meeting, it just needs to be short, unobtrusive, effective, and identify any tweaks in approach needed by the team to deliver what was promised in the sprint time box.

thirstybear,
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@jasongorman (unless of course you’re doing “pure” Scrum, in which case it’s defined in The Holy Manual….)

jasongorman, to random
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Being schooled in why conversations in dev teams should be time-boxed, by the "Global Head of Agile" at a company with 1 employee. (I'm especially impressed by the certification he's given himself.)

thirstybear,
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@jasongorman
<Best Yorkshire accent>
"When I were a Developer, I used to work 26 hour days in a cardboard box under t’motorway, typing perfect code so we din’t need to write tests, on two keyboards one for each hand and always delivered the project early….. " 🙄🤦‍♂️

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