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Agile by name, but not by nature

FuzzyDunlop — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 14:14:55 +0000

Article URL: http://new-bamboo.co.uk/blog/2014/04/04/agile-by-name-but-not-by-nature

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7531511

Points: 1

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New comment by FuzzyDunlop in "David Cameron's Internet porn filter is the start of censorship creep"

FuzzyDunlop — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 11:53:24 +0000

This already happens on Giff-Gaff (a mobile network) and is opt-out only. It's not uncommon to find out a security-related blog on the front page of HN is blocked by the filter, and sites for projects like Metasploit are also blocked.

It's silly.

New comment by FuzzyDunlop in "Sexism and Tech and Love"

FuzzyDunlop — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 19:12:52 +0000

There's a startling lack of empathy here. Overcoming feelings of isolation and trying to get more involved is easier said than done for some, and the whole concept of taking something by the horns and just fucking dealing with it, or offering advice by 'telling it like it is' is astonishingly unhelpful to anyone who feels upset or down because of something. Not just sexism, or isolation, but depression, anxiety, loneliness, and all manner of things which will cause a person to feel like they're on the outside looking in, or beyond reproach.

The entire post cries out for such an empathetic response and I'm not surprised in the slightest that none is forthcoming in this thread.

I've had experiences myself relating to this attitude to things, and know that posts like this are incredibly difficult to write, and the emotions are difficult to discuss. I'm glad the author found the courage to publish it.

New comment by FuzzyDunlop in "Dark Matter Developers != Bad Developers"

FuzzyDunlop — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 22:32:03 +0000

Sounds elitist. The only crime the author would have committed there is choosing a linkbaity title for their post, because something like that could cover any amount of interesting topics.

"Understanding Go and Coroutines as a PHP developer" for example might be useful, and it wouldn't suffer from being written by someone who hadn't absorbed the living spirit of Rob Pike before they wrote it.

New comment by FuzzyDunlop in "Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly"

FuzzyDunlop — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 18:48:47 +0000

It's handy unless you accidentally start searching for anything that could be mistaken for an IP address or domain. Typing in `0x10c` to find the site for the game, or `minimal-library.js`, or whatever, won't take you to a search results page.

Works alright for most things though, and I think it's still better than Google's default to Google approach, which is frustrating when you're working on a locally hosted site and keep getting sent to a search page.

New comment by FuzzyDunlop in "A crossword based on the Adobe password leak"

FuzzyDunlop — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 12:33:40 +0000

Since Adobe requires you to register before you can download one of their trials, I'd wager that a lot of them are completely throwaway, or just lifted from bugmenot or whatever.

New comment by FuzzyDunlop in "Dart 1.0 Is Out"

FuzzyDunlop — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 22:32:14 +0000

You can do Rails to a fair extent without really knowing Ruby, and just fumbling through it with a bunch of gems and messy code. In some ways it can be the gateway to learning Ruby itself, if you were so inclined to do so.

For things like CoffeeScript, which are fairly thin layers over another language, I'd always advise to just learn JS first. Dart and Clojurescript though are so far removed from their compilation target that you don't really need to know the JS, as long as there's good library support for what you want to do. In the case of clojurescript the interop is so seamless that it puts the focus on learning the APIs, which is where the true complexity lies. Of course, and even more so with typing, you also have the compiler to back you up.

New comment by FuzzyDunlop in "Crap to stop doing on startup websites"

FuzzyDunlop — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 16:04:17 +0000

Anecdotal, but there have been a number of times I've clicked a result on Google, and have been unable to get back to the results page without either double clicking the back button or finding it in the history. You'd just go to the original page that redirects you to the actual content and get stuck in a loop.

New comment by FuzzyDunlop in "There's a coffeeshop called java.update() in GTA V"

FuzzyDunlop — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 18:13:51 +0000

I'm probably young enough to have experienced Enterprise PHP, which by all accounts (at least when Symfony2 was just released) seemed like the love-child of Enterprise C++ and Enterprise Java.

New comment by FuzzyDunlop in "There's a coffeeshop called java.update() in GTA V"

FuzzyDunlop — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 18:05:57 +0000

This is much more inspired. I sort of feel sympathetic, because of the potential mental anguish you were likely to have incurred while writing it.

New comment by FuzzyDunlop in "There's a coffeeshop called java.update() in GTA V"

FuzzyDunlop — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:38:17 +0000

It doesn't feel like it's enterprise enough to be realistic.

    class TwoBaconRashersInsideTwoSlicesOfBreadFactory {
      
      /* Make a sandwich
       * 
       * Construct a foodstuff consisting of two slices 
       * of bread with two slices of bacon.
       * @return TwoBaconRashersInsideTwoSlicesOfBread a sandwich
       */
      Public TwoBaconRashersInsideTwoSlicesOfBread getSandwich () {
       BaconRasherFactory pig = new BaconRasherFactory();

       BaconRasherInstance bacon1 = pig.getBaconRasher();
       BaconRasherInstance bacon2 = pig.getBaconRasher();


       SliceOfBreadFactory loaf = new SliceOfBreadFactory();
       
       SliceOfBread bread1 = loaf.getSliceOfBread();
       SliceOfBread bread2 = loaf.getSliceOfBread();

       return new TwoBaconRashersInsideTwoSlicesOfBread(bread1, bacon1, bacon2, bread2); 
    }

Or something... trying to do Enterprise Java is hard.

New comment by FuzzyDunlop in "Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID"

FuzzyDunlop — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 19:42:25 +0000

You can't renew your fingerprint, though.

New comment by FuzzyDunlop in "Auto-Brewery Syndrome: Apparently, You Can Make Beer In Your Gut"

FuzzyDunlop — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 22:14:10 +0000

There are many 'beers' in existence which, for all that they taste like, might as well be the product of a human civet.

New comment by FuzzyDunlop in "Mario Party N64 dice is predetermined"

FuzzyDunlop — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 23:32:33 +0000

Considering that Mario Kart has the rubber-banding effect to give less skilled players a chance, it doesn't seem unreasonable to assume that all their other multiplayer games have similar mechanisms to make the game fair for everyone.

New comment by FuzzyDunlop in "FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack"

FuzzyDunlop — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 22:41:53 +0000

Notice how the usage of 'Anonymous' as a proper noun means it has an identifiable name.

Node_module: Run (Some) Ruby Methods as JavaScript under Node.js

FuzzyDunlop — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 08:54:17 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/leemachin/node_module

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6262409

Points: 1

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New comment by FuzzyDunlop in "Authy: Faster Two-Factor Authentication"

FuzzyDunlop — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 22:51:09 +0000

Google Authenticator doesn't see much love on iOS, and anyone using it while testing iOS7 will struggle to actually use it properly.

New comment by FuzzyDunlop in "Psd.rb"

FuzzyDunlop — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:28:54 +0000

To be fair, if you wanted to convert a PSD to HTML the last thing you'd need is Bootstrap.

New comment by FuzzyDunlop in "MIT Report is a whitewash. My Statement in Response"

FuzzyDunlop — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:24:31 +0000

And also by the same token, pinning it squarely on the condition can equally downplay the situation such a person might find themselves in.

It's an incredibly difficult topic to discuss.

New comment by FuzzyDunlop in "MIT Report is a whitewash. My Statement in Response"

FuzzyDunlop — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 19:02:06 +0000

> Why do some people survive terrible hardships, and others don't?

> Aaron suffered from [...] depression for many years.

This answers the question, although I would prefer not to use the term 'suicidal depression', which is not a medical term.

As someone who's attempted suicide, I also believe your choice of quote is both wrong and unfair. Surviving the holocaust is in no way comparable to surviving the things your mind can convince you to do when you suffer from anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder or any other such condition.