Colin Pear

Go on YouTube and look up Chris Voss, he is a former FBI negotiator and now teaches business negotiation. 1. Early on you should be asking a proof of life question to see if there really is a deal to be made with you. Search YouTube: Chris voss proof of life. 2. If there really is a deal to be made, then there are two other reasons why they would ghost you. Search YT: Chris voss ghosted.

Had a client call. We agreed on budget. They sounded excited. I sent the proposal with three pricing options. Then nothing. No yes. No no. No answer. It's a small % of clients, but it keeps happening and I can't figure out why. What turns people off after a call goes well? 🤔

@devops_prashant Because AI is not deterministic, it's probabilistic.

Genuine question: If most AI models are trained on internet data, why don’t they all generate the exact same answers?

How "big" your user stories or work items are is of little consequence. What does matter is your historical throughput and cycle time for completing them. If you have that you can determine the probability of completing them within a certain amount of time.

@IamAroke Im not sure I follow. If I am the employer and my system is built on .NET then I care that "your stack" is .NET, not Ruby on Rails.

Your employer does not care about your stack.

Let's put this in software terms. It sounds like you have really weak test coverage for what is obviously a complex system. And instead of investigating the defect you jumped to a conclusion or created a "patch" to solve the problem. There a lot of variables to consider and you need better test coverage. Sorry about your LDL issue. Maybe you're right and it's genetic, but it is possible there is more at play that maybe you haven't considered? All the best to you.

@ColinPear I don't. The point is that the amount of cholesterol coming from the eggs isn't enough to account for the high LDL. It's not even close. Nothing in my diet is enough. That means it's not dietary. It's genetic. My body creates more LDL.

I eat 8 eggs per day. My LDL is high. If I cut that down to four eggs, it will still be high. If I eliminate the eggs, it will still be almost the same. The rest of my diet is powder. There's nothing else I can remove.

@ExtinguishedEng When you quit eggs, how long do you do it for? And how do you check your levels?

@ColinPear You're correct, but the post was about whether or not eggs alone determine the LDL. I exercise a lot and I'm at a healthy weight, getting healthier. I'll take meds if it turns out that the LDL is having some harmful effect. The number by itself means nothing.

Want to know what production messaging looks like? ✅ Multiple endpoints ✅ Distributed workflows ✅ Cloud-native architecture ✅ Observability ✅ Failure handling ✅ Different messaging patterns The Loan Broker Showcase demonstrates how real distributed systems are built, not toy examples. #dotnet #messaging docs.particular.net/samples/showca…

@colemike Oh lordy. I hope not. LOL

Do you ever think we’ll get to the point where instead of the 40 hour work week we get to a token based system, and instead of employees being judged by how effective they are within that 40 hours, we’re instead judged by how effective we are with those tokens?

@codemullins The better question is how often do people stand up physical web servers? That's the only time you would be thinking about IIS. Cloud platforms abstract that away. Give me an Azure Web App. I care little about the Web server under the hood.

@ColinPear I'm referring to the statement about chasing new and shiny things. I also don't think IIS should be used for any new project in most organizations, because, well, why would you?

For everyone insisting “no they don’t say that” and “I’m making this up” this is just the latest that I’ve heard this from a .NET developer

@slawek @allenholub If you story point you are trying to make a deterministic estimation and end up like you described. Use flow metrics and get a probabilistic estimation of when it will be done.

@allenholub The estimation game seems to devolve into a negotistion between a fixed or resource constrained mindset and one that grapples with the unknown, uncertain and often would love nothing better than to explore.

You can't estimate an unknown. A plan based on estimates assumes that you can determine exactly what you'll build in advance. That precludes changing what you're building based on what you learn as you build. Choosing not to learn (i.e., don't release anything to customers for feedback for a year) never yields optimal results in my experience. So, estimate-based plans either get thrown out or, if you stick to them, lead to building the wrong thing. Your choice. Estimatable projects do exist, but they're very few and very far between.

@alm0stk00l @allenholub If you use JIRA or Azure DevOps and create the work items, you can the use flow metrics for probabilistic estimations. Look at the ActionableAgile plug-in. These estimations are like this: "based on the defined work, there's an 80% chance we will be done by X date."

@allenholub How do you build a marketing campaign and plan a release for something like a video game if you can't plan based on estimates? Just wait until you've finished everything and then start your marketing? Build the hype after the finished product is ready and just let it sit?

@jerrynixon @audible_com I agree. Otherwise I rarely have a reason to buy more credits or move up to a higher plan. We don't earn credits, we PURCHASE them. When I buy something it's mine! You can't take it back! 🤬

I think @audible_com credits should never expire.

@tanujDE3180 Im not a database guy. Is this situation plausible for every version of every type of database that currently exists? Cloud and on-prem?

Backend interview question: The primary database was healthy. Your application suddenly became read-only. No code deployment. Why might this happen?

@l_anceM @MVPAward What is that?!? Just reading the title twisted my mind! 😆

@ColinPear @MVPAward Feel free to ping me if you're ever stuck on something, or maybe we can collaborate on a project. I love doing wacky things that combine technologies. For example dvlup.com/blog/2020.02.1…

My favorite time of year. Thank you @MVPAward

@ColinPear I wish that were true

.NET devs: “Why doesn’t anyone build anything cool with .NET?” and “Why does everyone think .NET is old?” Also .NET devs: “Containers are too new and shiny.”

@l_anceM @MVPAward Wow! Thank you for responding and providing links to these resources.

@ColinPear @MVPAward It looks like you're off to a good start with the blog confidenceengineering.com/blog/software-… and based on your profile your activities would fit under Azure/Developer Tech award categories. I don't have enough profile room to show everything, but I've pinned 5 recent mvp.microsoft.com/en-US/mvp/prof…

@elgat1to @Storylinexplore @DiscussingFilm That means this scene was the ultimate movie spoiler. Dr. Doom defeated, the end. 😀

@Storylinexplore @DiscussingFilm but this would mean he survives doomsday because he made it to be old man cap so then canonically, old man cap from endgame already went thru doomsday as well

The first trailer for ‘AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY’ has been released. In theaters on December 18.