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Hmm. Evidently all the cool kids are using the word 'velocity' a lot.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Quote: Some of the design decisions are geared towards corporate, always-online, single-master, rebase-instead-of-merge, monorepo environments.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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It also intends to source chips from Europe in the future. They don't even have Ketchup-flavoured ones. How good could they be?
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Smart move. Right now, far too much chip making on the planet is found in South Korea and Taiwan. A natural catastrophe (typhoon, earthquake, etc.) or foreign power invasion (North Korea, China) could cripple the entire western economy by eliminating computer chips production.
We need other chip manufacturers to do the same, spreading out the production of this critical component to modern civilization to as many places on the globe as possible.
modified 17-Nov-22 20:02pm.
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Microsoft has a new Games for Work app for Teams. It’s designed to let co-workers go head-to-head in casual games during meetings. I guess I will show up for the next team meeting after all
"Productivity". You keep using that word...
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Will they then make the rankings visible for the bosses so they can check who was paying attention and who wasn't?
(After seeing a couple of things in Office 365, it would not surprise me at all)
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Productivity". You keep using that word...
Exactly. Nothing exemplifies productivity like playing video games during work hours.
Next on the list, Netflix. I know I code my best when Netflix is playing on one monitor and I am coding in the other. What could go wrong? 
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I say it's a trap (Star Wars: Return of the Jedi - It's a Trap !!! - YouTube[^])
Now management *knows* when you aren't paying attention. Worse, I suspect their are backdoors to allow management to cheat. 
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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More amenities than most cars, with 360-degree collision avoidance sensors, party lights, a guided backup cam, heated seat, touchscreen display, USB charger, and tow hitch. "The low rider is a little higher"
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My former company will be evacuating masonry. They did a hefty split to build basically the same thing but with obnoxious Amazon interaction, less comforts and the dumbest AI ever saw.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Intel claims it has developed an AI model that can detect in real time whether a video is using deepfake technology by looking for subtle changes in color that would be evident if the subject were a live human being. To be defeated by new deepfakes in...
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I really was expecting that subject line to end with "...from the dead ones."
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Only 30% of respondents from other industries are as concerned about the risks associated with their IT staff. Maybe it's time for a few more of those trust exercises?
Get the bank CEO to fall backwards into the arms of their IT team or something. You know, beside a pit. With spikes at the bottom.
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Given the idiocy I've seen surrounding bank cyber security, I'd say it's closer to 100%.
- Things like passwords can't be more than x (where x is a single digit) characters.
- Requiring you zip and password protect the zip file before you upload it - sounds to me like they're using a non-secure upload back end (FTP over SSH comes to mind).
- Requiring you install their software to use their services - this is very common in the business side of the bank.
- etc.
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The strength of the software development team is each individual developer. The strength of each developer is the team. How else are managers going to figure out how many whips to buy next year?
If recent history is any guide, the CEO knows everything about the platform. So, they can judge how worthwhile each dev automagically.
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I have yet to see any way to measure this quantitatively, let alone qualitatively. Maybe it could be done by giving two developers the same assignment, but who's going to fund that? And if you chose a different assignment, the outcome could be rather different.
Most of my career was spent designing and developing in-house application frameworks that improved other people's productivity. How much of the increase (or decrease  ) in their productivity would then be imputed to me?
The article suggests measuring team performance. I don't see how that's any easier. It says that individual developers are only as strong as their teams, which in my experience is a false platitude.
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I wonder why I never see articles about measuring manager productivity.
I guess because the answer is, what's there to measure?
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Managers are supporting roles. A good manager does not produce, improves the productivity of their underlings. Facing the various customers / agencies / validators, managing licenses and supplies, setting tasks' priority under his own responsibility.
I had very few good managers but they do exist.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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The dilapidated Birkenstocks were worn by Steve Jobs during the early days of Apple and were initially expected to fetch $60,000 to $80,000. *Foot spray available separately
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That's a steal! 
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Can't wait to see the going rate for a new ISandal...
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You can find GitHub Codespaces in 50+ LinkedIn Learning tech courses to get real-world software development environments for today’s six most popular programming languages, as well as key topics like data science, AI, and machine learning. Again surprising me that LinkedIn is for something other than telling your coworkers that you're looking for a new job
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This keyword forces the caller to initialize the required field and property in the object initializer scope. Required reading (for some)
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A Bank for International Settlements working paper also notes that people dive into crypto not because of decentralized ideals, but because of rising prices. Today in news you already knows
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