Duncan Ham
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Which British TV show needs to make a comeback?
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Every time someone complains that your software project is late, remember that the ASCII character set was in development for 3800 years, starting with the Canaanites.
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@AlanKohler What's the difference between a bubble and a misaligned housing market?
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There certainly was a bubble last year, but perhaps not before that. Hard to say. But definitely "misaligned", though, as the IMF says, and as I've written and broadcast many times.
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@AlanKohler Tell us again there is no Australian Housing Bubble - the International Monetary Fund said Australia’s property and rental markets are some of the most “misaligned” in the developed world. watoday.com.au/politics/feder…
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Kinda funny how we have a state election close to Halloween. Walking the streets and you see spiders, ghosts and monsters next to posters for your local MP.
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A rocket engine is extremely complex and contains hundreds of components. Can you identify this one?
#ArianeGroup #Ariane6
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...so they had to make the server distributed. They succeeded, but the product didn't. It was a lovely concept showing Andrew's UI creativity.
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Early personal lessons:
heed.melconway.com/HEED/History.h…
The latest incarnation (March 2020):
twitter.com/conways_law/st…
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Mel Conway@conways_law
An Application Development/Execution Platform for the Rest of Us This is about engaging almost everybody in the process of building real-world applications. It develops the rationale for, and will end with, a product concept. 0:1/2
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Something for you personal-computer history buffs out there.
And here's a postscript:
After we had a contract with Apple in 1982 we met periodically with the Mac development team.
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Mel Conway@conways_law
The Connection Between Watergate and Mac Pascal This is a story of a long-shot software startup. In the early 1970s I had several consulting gigs with Monroe Calculator in which I built three things for them: ... 1/20
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@ArvindHarinder @alirobe Is the ability to query AD group membership something on the roadmap? I'd be super keen to beta test.
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@DunkhamHam @alirobe Hey we don't support querying groups to determine what attributes to provision, with the exception of appRoleAssignments. Feel free to DM me.
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Hey @ArvindHarinder, can I DM you about Azure Provisioning - want to see if AD group membership lookup can be in the attribute mapping as an expression? @alirobe FYI
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@allenholub Scrum predates the Agile manifesto, along with xp and dsdm. The agile uprising podcast has interviewed most of the signatories of you want to listen to the stories: podcast.agileuprising.com/manifesto-auth…
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Curious why people keep insisting that Scrum is an Agile framework when the word "Agile" (or agile—lower case—or agility, or flexible, &c.) appears nowhere in the Scrum Guide. I have to assume that's deliberate.
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I mean, there are times when London is very beautiful.
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@chaser did these guys just apply for a role with you? google.com/amp/s/amp.theg…
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@JohnWSeddon @VanguardMethod Do you mind sharing the systems-thinking stuff you've been reading?
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Been surfing systems-thinking stuff. Shocked at how often organisations are described as complex systems. Organisations are invented by humankind. They are not complex systems, they are unnecessarily complicated. We create the complications and kid ourselves they are complex.
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@johncutlefish @RealGeneKim Age of Agile by @stevedenning simplifies the message and makes much of the transformation less scary.
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If you don't want to be part of the solution, you can always find an online community that denies the existence of the problem
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I'm reading 'ask your developer' by @jeffiel and worry that perhaps all the arguments seem sound because of confirmation bias, it seems so obvious to me.
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The term "hybrid work" is still poorly defined, says @rajivayyangar. But since it will inevitably be part of our future, we need a deeper understanding of its benefits and challenges. future.a16z.com/hybrid-anxiety…
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