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Centerist cat dad. Quaker. Consider that I might not be trying to convince you of anything. Tweets unrelated to or their policies. #ActuallyAutistic
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Damn. Environments that don’t prioritize quality are going to implode quickly under the stress of AI infused “velocity”.
I wonder when we will see the first plane accident, plant failure, global outage where the “cause” was “the AI” or “the person using the AI”
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One of the hardest things for people in the US (in Silicon Valley in particular) to understand about the non-industrialized/tools-and-frameworks version of agile....is that it is inherently communitarian. It assumes a desire to work as part of a team for the collective good.
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20 years since the (second!) invasion of Iraq by western forces means 20 years since I first attended Meeting for Worship of one of very few churches—or church-like things—in the U.K. that did not spin up a load of “just war” blather and “double effect” nonsense.
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This #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek seems like a good opportunity to confirm that (per a diagnosis earlier this year) I'm #ActuallyAutistic .
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<tap> <tap> is this thing still on? Anyway: where might I find statements from first-generation Scrum advocates recognising (later) that it was a mistake for the (early) materials not to make clear that technical excellence was a necessary enabler for Scrum to be effective?
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Don't usually gush over products, but this Model 15 emulator is too, too much fun! I'm here Emerson-ing it up with a huge grin on my face. soundcloud.com/user-245989430 (headphones warning)
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This account will be tweeting a new Mastodon server every 10 minutes.
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Hi this week’s Chancellor taking again about the alleged “fiscal black hole” what do Rory and Alastair think about #MMT and the claim that taxes don’t fund spending and that there are few financial constraints on government spending—mostly political ones?
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"Second up is this piece by
about the collective meltdown in the Global North regarding Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter."
Very good thread.
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As many folks leave Twitter for Mastodon, I want to draw attention to thoughts being shared and discussions taking place about Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter beyond white, left leaning accounts
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Hypothesis: the moment a team adds the requirement that each PR/commit should be related to a Jira issue, it will start accumulating even more tech debt than before.
This requirement adds a penalty for making small, unrelated improvements that get the project in a better shape.
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To add a serious point to this great tweet:
The traditional drift rightwards as people age is really a drift towards maintaining the status quo once you feel part of it.
But if you can't buy a house, see a GP, afford childcare or get a stable job you never become the status quo
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“You’ll get more conservative as you get older” I definitely won’t but I am starting to appreciate Bruce Springsteen more
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No. This is false. I helped to create two different billion-user projects at Apple: WebKit and iPhone. I was on these teams from the earliest stages and I never once came close to sleeping at the office. It’s not an essential part of doing great work.
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This is how great new things are built, more often than anyone has been willing to say during the last decade's cultural revolution in Silicon Valley. twitter.com/esthercrawford…
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Today is a reminder of why I tell people who say they love their jobs to not love anything that can’t love you back. A job is a transaction and your employer has all the power in that transaction.
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an underrated factor in our current society-wide collapse of trust is how basically every new commercial enterprise of the last 10-20 years has ultimately proven to be a scam
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My DMs are open. Happy to chat about the role, also feedback of what’s missing to stop you applying!
Sorry agencies. We already have a bunch working on this and I can’t add any more!
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All our policies on colleagues.coop.co.uk
Including parental leave and our pregnancy loss and fertility treatment policies.
Genuinely inclusive employer. Not evil.
Work with awesome people like me, (and more!!!)
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UK remote with our HQ in Manchester - a few get togethers a year.
Salary (and VERY excellent benefits) all on the ad:
Extra hols (I’m up to 33 plus bank hols). Car allowance.
Discounts.
10% company pension contribution.
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Gotta be strong technically to do the technical coaching, and have the xp to do career coaching.
Aligned with one of our businesses, like food, funeralcare, legal services or insurance. Plus some central ones.
Got 80 engineers across 12 teams and 6 business areas.
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We’re hiring for a couple of Engineering Managers. I’d love to hear from people with a background in Quality Coaching/testing and from the networking/infrastructure/platform/devops world
jobs.coop.co.uk/job/manchester
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Please share!
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OK so I need to get off the internet in a minute because this isn't helping anyone. But I'm trying to understand. Lots of people are talking about the cost of all of these 'illegals' (who are not breaking the law). So I looked up who runs the centre (who are breaking the law).
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Fascinating insight into the previous PM’s view of the whole rest of Britain.
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Brexit was about the conservative government pretending the constraints on its ideas were EU imposed.
Post-Brexit, May and Johnson sat paralysed because it turned out those ideas weren't simple or popular.
Truss did them anyway and immediately burned.
Probably a lesson here.
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It's going to be very depressing to watch the UK left take this moment and waste it on the same shitty macro approach they tried with Corbyn, all because of some key personality disputes among people who should know better but never will. Sigh.
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Britain faces a simple and inescapable choice - stability and strong Government with me, or chaos with Ed Miliband: facebook.com/DavidCameronOf
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Something which I wish was better understood by certain folks who’d like my professional domain—computer programming—to be more like a branch of maths.
Statically-typed functional programming advocates: I’m looking at you.
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One of the most misleading things about learning mathematics is that you are seeing the *output* of a great deal of trial, error, sweat, and tears, presented as if it’s obvious, or at best a product of cleverness.
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The time we waste using off the shelf systems with poor UI and UX really needs to be translated into a cost line on a spreadsheet. My assumption is it should be a huge figure and one currently hidden from decision makers/senior leaders 🤔
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Today was day 1 of 3 of our internal conference, and I’m buzzing from the energy of seeing my colleagues up on stage showcasing their talent, skills and insights. And proud of my team for making day 1 run super smoothly 💙
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Heading in to Angel Square for the Technology & Data conference. Will be presenting later with on forecasting.
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1. It is with great sadness that we learn the news of Bruno Latour’s passing today. He was an intellectual giant, a friend, & someone whose work inspired me greatly. A thread for those who want to know more about this extraordinary life.
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Functional programming would make software maintenance way easier if users weren’t tempted into building impossibly fancy abstractions.
There’s some kind of rule: No matter what tools people have, most will create complexity right up to the threshold they can handle.
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If you postpone making a tough decision, you're giving your future self a gift of making an even tougher decision in the future.
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Reporting on missed engineering estimates is like counting how many of your salespeople's phone calls go to voicemail. The figures you get bear absolutely no relation to the return on your investment in the people, so why look at them?
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To hear condemning special interests dressed up as think-tanks is a pure “admit your crimes by accusing your enemies of them” moment.
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preciously holding on to my "laffer curve???? yeah well I bet they're not laffing now" draft, quietly waiting for the perfect moment
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🤔 pay taxes, and let democratically elected Governments decide what best suits the needs of the public?
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