pgfarley
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Sometimes a colleague or client will complain of thirst as they run, fast as they can, towards a cliff. Fetching them water is a cop out.
11:55 AM Oct 9th
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Mike DeCleene: Your main job at stand-up is to listen. If you give a CYA report and tune out, of course you will find it to be low value.
11:33 PM Sep 2nd
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It's never a good idea to DRY your code with a blowtorch
1:02 AM Aug 26th
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The point of bespoke SW is that it's specific to a firm. Buy package SW if you can, but if you can't, don't build it as if it's for sale.
2:19 AM Aug 14th
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YAGNI isn't "you're always wrong". It's "A few incorrect speculations can be costly. Many correct speculations tend to save just a bit."
2:01 AM Aug 14th
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Ever notice that programmers and GoF patterns are a little like Pygmalion and Galatea?
4:10 PM Jul 30th
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Not every test worth writing is worth keeping
7:52 PM Jul 14th
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With re: to performance issue debugging, hunches seem mostly to be a false friend, out to screw me. Evidence, now there's my real pal.
10:28 AM Jul 3rd
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Programmers program. Supporting production will intervene. If programming isn't what most of the team does all day your project is broken.
2:37 AM Jun 27th
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If you spend more than 60 min a week, configuring, copying, refreshing data, or just plain waiting, your project is broken.
1:23 AM Jun 27th
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shane harvie says: "generally... If you aren't using the class polymorphically today, don't write an interface today." damn straight.
9:13 PM Jun 8th
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When the little index card TODO list I carry around with me starts to feel too precious, it means I'm irresponsibly hoarding responsibility.
10:19 PM Jun 3rd
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Seems like SW would be a lot better if we paid more hypothetical runtime costs and fewer real design time costs.
11:41 AM May 16th
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post-mature optimization...
9:22 AM May 12th, 2008
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I'm now a twit.
7:50 AM May 9th, 2008
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