@mattjcurry I don’t know. Ask this guy. twitter.com/mattjcurry/sta…
Matthew Curry@mattjcurry
What could possibly go wrong?!?!?!?
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Andy Lowe
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Photographers, share your best Black & White Photos! 📸⚫️⚪️
Re-tweeting all!
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@CodingEtudes @maniacallemon @TiloJacs @clairevo You’re right. Even companies that are known for engineering excellence are know for the value they deliver first and foremost. That’s what CEOs talk about on stage. It’s a question of conveying to them how building engineering excellence drives more value.
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An engineer one lamented to me: “we’ll never fix things, because a PM won’t ever prioritize tech debt over a feature.
My response? “You’re right.” 🧵
Cindy Sridharan@copyconstruct
Tech Debt is one of those things that make sense to engineering, but to leadership it sounds like “we’ve created a mess over the years that slowed the product, we did nothing to fix it, and now we need to spend *even more* time and people on fixing it”. Not a winning argument.
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@merrill_lines Is there your way of saying you forgot to set you alarm?
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“The early bird gets the worm” 🪱 ah but the second mouse gets the cheese 🧀
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@CodingEtudes @TiloJacs @clairevo Said another way, make sure resolving the tech debt can be framed as a feature the team is delivering. twitter.com/polotek/status…
Marco Rogers@polotek
Whenever I raise these issues, what people like to say is "managers want to prioritize features". And I've tried to acknowledge in many different ways. Yes they do. For better or worse, we live under this assumption that something called "features" is what drives business.
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@CodingEtudes @TiloJacs @clairevo Ship now is frequently the right answer, if you understand the trade offs. Otherwise, it’s a dangerous answer. Whether or not you can quantify tech debt (usually easiest if you’ve lived with it for a time), you still have to explain the trade off in not resolving it.
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@clairevo I do think debt tech should be articulated and defined by eng. A PM is getting requests from every to do everything. You can't compete by just saying something would help in a passing conversation.
Define the debt
Articulate, with numbers, the benefit of giving it attention
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@hugoraphy Got one a month or so ago. Loving it for landscapes. Much more compact than a 150-600, so more likely to take it hiking. Not as good for wildlife, but I’m finding plenty of landscapes in the 200-400 range where a 70-200 wouldn’t do it.
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Anyone got experience with around 100-400mm lens?
Thinking whether to get one
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@mstine @allenholub Doesn’t it depend on the exact wording of the control? Many are phrased so you can make a case that the on-the-fly review you get during mobbing meets the wording and spirit of the control. If your control is too rigid though, you may be out of luck.
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Was asked "what are the challenges when doing code review." I see no value in code review. They add context swaps, delay and bottlenecks, damage your feedback loop, and don't usually find much of value to fix. 1/3
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Andy Lowe retweetet
Two years, tens of thousands of miles and almost eighty days chasing monsoon storms across Arizona. Hope you enjoy! @CanonUSA @CanonUSAimaging youtu.be/ZniBKmSNGmQ
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@gnuconsulting Happy birthday, or congrats on figuring out how to get Siri to lie, whichever you prefer.
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@shanselman Those test scripts that make sure you have a clean database at startup so your test runs are all reproducible? Yeah, so you should make really really sure those aren’t run from a system where the environment is configured to connect to a prod database…
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A good friend of mine had a person on their team drop the production database this week. They are back up, but it was a scary 24 hours for them.
Please quote tweet or reply to this thread with YOUR tales of #DroppingProduction so they know they aren't alone!
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@gnuconsulting Screens for uncommonly used controls are okay. Physical controls for common controls are far superior. Ten years ago, I didn’t think the UX of a car’s a/c and music would be a deciding factor for a purchase decision, but it will be next time I’m in the market.
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