For _years_ now I've been trying to figure out if I can DIY this. And the answer is that I think I've gone as far as I can, and the result is now online, and I guess I'll find out. Eviscerati Theater Presents The Points Between, Episode One:
https://eviscerati.libsyn.com/the-points-between-episode-one-arrival
It's probably not audiobook quality. But for a podcast? It might do. 12/fin
So the thing about the old Punk DIY ethos is that the punks didn't start Doing It Themselves out of a sense of artistic purity . They did so because they were, for the most part, poor, and record labels weren't interested in publishing them... so they scraped together what they could, and did what they could with what they had.
Later it became a source of pride, and rightly so! But in the beginning it was simply a matter of deciding to Do The Thing the best way they could manage. 1/?
I made the mistake when I was younger of reading everything I could on software engineering. Now I am stuck with knowing the best development path while watching the software development turn away every time they come to it in their continuous running in circles.
Here's the two points of failure in the software community:
1. Failing to raise the level of abstraction at which the software is written.
2. Failing to measure development using common metrics. FPA isn't perfect, but it beats nothing.
Turned on NPR the other day to hear them interviewing an economist who told listeners that inflation experienced during the (official) height of the pandemic was caused by supply shortages and fiscal stimulus (i.e. one of the only good things the Trump admin did) - completely unmentioned by the silken voices on every liberal's favorite radio station, however, was corporate greed. NPR wants you to think prices went up because we gave poor people money, not because the rich are greedy.
"The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it."
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/turning-everyday-gadgets-into-bombs-is-a-bad-idea/
@dangillmor the US' federal electoral system is fundamentally broken - any candidate without a plan to completely replace the current electoral college, overturn Citizens United, kill duopoly campaign co-funding, and replace the first-past-the-post model is just rearranging the deck chairs... and has probably benefited from the brokenness to get into office. How can we fix that?
@ludicity That was probably a bit out of line, because I don't know anything about your line of work. XP might work for you. However, your dismissal of data as simply a sales pitch, says, "TL;DR. I'd rather remain ignorant." You can claim, "sales pitch", for any author of software development that has both book and company, e.g., Kent Beck, and it would sound just as ignorant.
Classic American story: A growing community of immigrants, legal and hard-working, revitalizes a city that was dying. They are welcomed by the local leaders as part of their program of economic redevelopment. They put down roots, create new businesses, and reverse a long, slow decline in population and property value.
THAT’S the story in Springfield, Ohio, and even now most of the press is getting it wrong. Here’s Josh Marshall (gift link):
Every time I think my impression of Microsoft has hit rock-bottom, I find myself having to dig a new sub-basement. If I already have neither respect nor admiration for a group of people (that's what a corporation is), where to from there?
@ludicity Well...you're going down the path of XP, which I'm sure would want to avoid measurement like the plague. You'll probably make your money; ignorance is very popular in software these days. "Perfection is the enemy of good!"
@ludicity What source do you have that says the "Black Team" wasn't real? Peopleware isn't the only book to talk about them.
Surprise? https://developers.slashdot.org/story/24/09/18/0210233 Now Microsoft has received a patent for something people have been doing, routinely, for many years. It just goes to show how a) completely broken the patent process is, and b) how assholic Microsoft is. His involvement with Microsoft does nothing to enhance von Rossum's reputation. Hope the money's good. I guess.
This is quite the sentence from the AP:
"The second wave also deepens concern over the potentially indiscriminate casualties caused in the attacks, in which hundreds of blasts went off wherever the holder of the pager happened to be — in homes, cars, at grocery stores and in cafes, often with family or bystanders nearby."
That's some chutzpah, using the word "potentially" right before describing exactly why the attacks were indiscriminate by definition. That takes some real mental flexibility.
More info on GtkInspector in #gnome's developer documentation: https://developer.gnome.org/documentation/tools/inspector.html and here's how to use it in a nested phosh session: https://phosh.mobi/posts/phosh-dev-part-0/
Revealed: Far higher #pesticide residues allowed on food since #Brexit | #Pesticides | The Guardian
Brexit: the grift that keeps on poisoning
#UK #Agriculture #Farming #Neonicotinoids #Wildlife #Environment #Politics
@ludicity Your diagrams reminded me of another excellent book by DeMarco and Lister, Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects.
@ludicity Highly enjoyable read until I read this #FacePalm, "I like the principles enough that our consultancy is current leaning heavily towards adopting Extreme Programming practices." You're heading away from silly nouns toward cutesy acronyms, again with very little supporting evidence behind them.
A good book on exploring process is Applied Software Measurement by Capers Jones to see how much choice is based upon type of development and size of project.
Good news everyone! My magnum opus on Scrum just dropped, clocking in at almost 9K words! Prepare a drink, strap yourselves in, and enter the Torment Nexus.
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/tossed-salads-and-scrumbled-eggs/
Oh look, Starlink is continuing to screw up the sky in every way possible.
"Second-Generation Starlink Satellites Leak 30 Times More Radio Interference, Threatening Astronomical Observations"
https://www.astron.nl/starlink-satellites/
It's going to be "hilarious" when Starlink messes up the radio sky so badly that radio astronomers can't even use quasars to calibrate GPS anymore. There are so many consequences from all these stupid, cheaply built, disposable satellites. https://www.universetoday.com/105160/navigating-the-cosmos-by-quasar/
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa