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From the article:
...organizations can adopt scrum in a few days.
I'd say that is a flat-out lie. However the consultants that peddle it are doing very well for themselves and are disinclined to say "You know what? Software development is actually a hard problem and requires some professionalism and effort to do well". The slides[^] that accompany his talk do pick that point up.
The "scrum gauntlet of debt" does seem like an odd exercise but its purpose is to explain the costs of indiscipline to children managers. I would imagine most companies and development team are at the stage described in slide # 40 ... the code is more "slum" than "scrum".
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The claims are absurd, but then again you can get any increase by applying some project management to a company which otherwise had little or none.
I've personally found SCRUM in it's entirely to be very counter-productive.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: I've personally found SCRUM in it's entirely to be very counter-productive.
can't agree! How can you say it VERY counter-productive!
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What is a hyper-productive state? Oh, you mean being able to work without interruptions from the phone, the boss, the coworker, the random fire drill, the network changes IT makes, etc...
You mean that when I have to interface to someone else's code, they've already properly tested and documented it so I know exactly what to do and am guaranteed that it'll do what it's supposed to do?
You mean the client has done enough homework on their own so that they have a thorough spec, have budgeted for testing, and changes to the spec are only going to be minimal and usually cosmetic?
You mean the company gives me the proper software tools, decent equipment, and even pays for the training in new technologies so I can get my job done better?
Not sure how scrum and XP would help me be "hyper" productive.
Marc
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A researcher found remote code execution flaw in WinRAR, but the real question is why are you opening unknown RAR files. People still use RAR files?
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Simple: if the product is MS, it is a feature
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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WinRAR has nothing to do with Microsoft except it runs on their OS.
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I know, my answer is not an attack against winRAR.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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The real question is, why are you using a shareware product when 7-Zip[^] is free?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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After years of intellectual property lawsuit battles, the two tech giants are declaring a ceasefire in the courtroom. It's like there's someone new in charge there, or something
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The TIOBE Index has gone ahead and fixed its algorithm to make sure its results are more accurate, which has been a bugbear for many in the past. Now Math.random()% more accurate!
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A couple of observations:
Java and C are 1 and 2, but there is a massive drop off from 2nd place to 3rd (C++) (something which some people don't pick up on)
TIOBE does not measure the actual usage of the language, only the amount search hits on the internet.
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The purpose of this library is to make command line tools first class by providing a command line parser. We've already made an attempt in 2009 but that wasn't a design we (or the community) was happy with. Just in case you need to code to that forgotten country
modified 1-Oct-15 10:15am.
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I'm not sure but I believe you have put a wrong link, shouldn't it be this[^] one?
(That "terrajobst" branch no longer exists)
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It was there yesterday.
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 Brisingr said, but thank you, I'll fix it
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: that wasn't a design we (or the community) was happy with. Their grammar failure makes me cringe and wonder just how good the library would be. Details, details, details.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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
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The library itself seems to be fine. Although I am having issues trying to build the repo (something about a portable class library not having a profile set), I simply put the sources into a new project and built it from there.
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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Security Firm Discovers Linux Botnet[^]
Quote: Akamai announced on Tuesday that its Security Intelligence Response Team has discovered a massive Linux-based botnet that's reportedly capable of downing websites under a torrent of DDoS traffic exceeding 150 Gbps.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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The easy is already done.
Richard Andrew x64 wrote: The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Microsoft said a highly suspicious Windows update that was delivered to customers around the world was the result of a test that wasn't correctly implemented. Nothing to see here folks, move along, move along
Reported only in case you saw the initial scare post
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And they wonder why we don't want automatic updates in Windows 10!
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dexterama wrote: And they wonder why we don't want automatic updates in upgrade to Windows 10!
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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You got that patch that keep crashing on boot while asking to upgrade to W10.
I am glad the crash safety measure worked so well
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Why you don't let engineers or testers near production servers.
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