Comments by "Michael Lenczewski" (@kayakMike1000) on "Continuous Delivery" channel.

  1. Yup. If you make 50 devs just 10% more efficient, that's like adding five new heads to the worker pool. It's a great feeling. They can stay better focused on the app rather than all the periphery stuff.
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  2. Totally buying your book. It's currently #4 on Amazon in the software category, right behind some O'Reilly titles. Maybe someday you could sign it for me.
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  3. OMG... I love Kevlin Henney, he's funny and smart.
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  4. I would be willing to seriously debate against the position and all the points brought up here. There is so much misinformation about climate, it makes me sad that smart people such as yourselves have been fooled by this.
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  5. This is a good review of the central ideas to create a successful software development team.
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  6. Why would you believe there's catastrophic climate change occuring now? There's no trend in droughts or floods, hurricane and cyclone strength is relatively flat, it really seems like weather has been within normal variations. Even the IPCC expressed that there is "low confidence" that any climate change signal can be inferred from extreme weather events. I will find the source in the IPCC.
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  7. Oh if this could be a reality in firmware motor controllers...
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  8. It could be.
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  9. I kinda saw it like the smart devs are taking over ops because ops wasn't really doing a great job. Ops needed to get better. Devs needed to understand ops a little better.
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  10. Then again... I was doing DevOps before it was called DevOps. I was called a Technical Analyst.
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  11. It's my belief you have been seriously mislead. The models are wrong. The change in climate is not catastrophic I am positively convinced that the current set of doomsday propaganda will not come true.
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  12. Well, lets see this example. Lets take revision control for source code as a talking point. There was RCS, then CVS, and SVN, ClearCase, Perforce, BitKeeper, to name a few. (ClearCase was always described as "CVS you had to pay for"). Then the git source control software and it was written by the linux developers FOR the linux developers, they knew their own functional requirements and had to switch for licensing arguments with bitkeeper... They needed something reliable, scalable... they solved their complex needs so well, it became the defacto source control standard for the modern age and it has TONS of features that are amazing. Secure features like PGP signed commits and quality of life features like rerere. I think we could all agree that GIT looks like a quality piece of software that is definitely not "over engineered"
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  13. Well then... There's on target testing.... But I suppose you could emulate your code on target. But I agree with you, testing the code is really important.
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  14. This would be an OTA for a computer system that is actually OTA. (Over The Air). Nice!
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  15. The underlying components in a CPU have state and side effects ... So... It's like you could do stuff in polar coordinates, but you just have a compiler that always translates this into Cartesian for you...
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  16. I need some of this Kent Beck in my attitude.
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  17. TRON!!!
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  18. You could pair up with Bob and work together on that file, bruh.
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  19. Yeah so... You always know exactly what you want your code base to do next... So write atest.
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  20. Would you expect the same result between a craftsman and an engineer if you built, say... A work desk? An engineer would likely give you something extremely plain according to exact specifications... A craftsman would produce something far more visually appealing with extras beyond specs that may include, drawers, organizers, stained wood, and all sorts of features largely based on his experience with desks he has built before. Engineering stays exact to specifications, while craftsmanship lends towards coloring outside the lines.
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  21. Gallileo wasn't executed, just put under house arrest. He was condemned by the church for heresy for the support for the Copernicus science.
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  22. Here is a fun fact, many geologists believe that earth is in a CO2 drought. The real crisis is a lack of CO2, and as the CO2 has increased, so has the amount of green increased on earth, especially in arid environments
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  23. Do you have dishonest opinions?
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  24. I have a library of my own implementations of lists, queues, stacks in plain ol' C. I have dually linked lists, singly linked lists, xor linked lists (pretty clever, IMO)... You can inject your own malloc/free and also your own CAS (compare and swap) to ensure other threads don't step on the pointers... Stacks and Queues are built on top of a generic linked list. Stacks are just a software LIFO and a Queue is just a software FIFO. Most of this is for tiny MCUs with limited SRAM, I generally stick to 32KB or more, but I still consider anything more than 128kB "a freaking ocean of RAM". Modern MCUs are coming out with MB of sRAM....
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  25. Hmm... Little program that fits in your head with a reasonable API always seemed like the core idea of the object in object oriented programming.
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  26. Intuition is my strong suit, i usually figure stuff out long before i can 'splain it. I have a strong suspicion that there is a lot of value just reasoning through stuff directly.
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  27. I would consider TDD to be excellent example of a "best practice"
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  28. ChatGPT is a tool, not a stand in.
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  29. I might call this the Right way.
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  30. There have been doomsday predictions made since the late 80s. None have come true. Why would I believe that any new doomsday predictions will come true? Why is climate change always bad?
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  31. Why do you believe humans are causing climate change? Are you taking this on some kind of faith in some experts or scientists? I would really recommend you read the reports yourself. Climate science is a really hard chaotic system, I really don't believe we have the ability to sort out all the inputs and outputs effectively to say that humans are the main cause.
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  32. Most languages have copy paste built-in. It's called libraries and linkers.
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  33. Just going to feed the algorithm. And you know, Linode is pretty durn good cloud provider. I will click those links after the show! Hmmm... i think i am more of an imperative programmer...
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  34. Yes but... My master is not your master...
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  35. Functional programming is NOT the way the underlying machine works. CPU cores are complex machines with state and side effects. Sure, functional programming is a cool way to approach programming, but there's mismatches the machinery. Its a reasonable way to approach mathematics, but... There are some functions that are unsolvable in functions, these are transcendental functions...
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  36. Everyone has an ego. You're obviously comfortable with your job title.
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  37. Songletons!
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  38. Apple is not an environmentally friendly company. They use companies in China that don't pay their workers. Apple is well aware that revolts in China will be met with tanks rolling over the workers that don't get paid.
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  39. ​ @QmunkE  then you need to communicate that up the chain. If they can't nail down what they want ... Well then... You can't give them anything.
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  40. You're right, it doesn't matter what version control you use, it's that you use version control. You could just do vc by hand if you want to, but that won't really scale.
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  41. Ooh.. now imagine the original specs did not mention, say any drawer features... The engineer finished way faster than the craftsman, that extra feature takes the craftsman some extra time. Now imagine the specs mention something around drawers or storage space. Maybe after revision, the craftsman finds his drawers are adequate and the client is happy. The engineer has to update his design, but he turns it around fast by plugging in a cheap filing cabinet under the right side of the desk. If the craftsman discovered that his drawers didn't meet the expectations... He would have to redesign the whole desk, perhaps even use different materials ...
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  42. C++. I can't stand C++.
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  43. Oh come on... Climate change is always happening and while humans might have an impact, it's NOT catastrophic.
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  44. Well... Just thinking about my wood working, I am quite good at mitered spline joints and I enjoy making them. They're really strong and I use them all the time... I use 'em even when it makes no real difference...
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  45. Man... this channel is great!!! You're the professional I hope to be!
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  46. Oh come on... people have been trying to measure performance of dev teams before the Mythical Man Month.
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  47. Yeah, that's what they should do!
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  48. Well... I have only read two books on the actual list but several of the honorable mentions...
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  49. Isn't moajority of human understanding matching patterns? So much stuff I have learned in science and engineering is regurgitating the right pattern at the right time. For example, need to move a bunch of water up hill? Use an appropriate pump with reasonable pipes... Pump and pipes are a good pattern to solve a problem.
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  50. ​ @albirtarsha5370 how do I know you have a mammalian brain that has objective experiences? You could be a very good simulation of a human that just behaves like you have objective experiences. I guess I could do a brain scan, but that could be part of the deception...
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