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The idea that TDD damages design and architecture is not new. DHH suggested as much several years ago with his notion of Test Induced Design Damage ; in which he compares the design he prefers to a de
President Trump’s announcement that he would appoint Oklahoma attorney general Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency set off alarm bells among those who track climate science. Pruit
4 min read · Mar 9, 2017 -- A Twitter thread has gotten some attention recently, where my former-coworker / current-best friend, Marty, recounted the day he realized just how bad, and insidious, workp
J ust over a week ago, Donald Trump gathered members of the world’s press before him and told them they were liars . “The press, honestly, is out of control,” he said. “The public doesn’t believe you
In 2011, I was hired, straight out of college, to work at the White House and eventually the National Security Council. My job there was to promote and protect the best of what my country stands for.
Click the image above for a larger version of the illustration . This is Part 3 of a 5-part series on 5 Disruptions to Marketing (you can start with Part 1 and Part 2 if you haven’t already): Digital
点击这里阅读中文版本 It’s 2021, and President Donald Trump will shortly be sworn in for his second term. The 45th president has visibly aged over the past four years. He rests heavily on his daughter Ivanka’s a
Seemingly inconsequential decisions can open the door to significant organizational and operational complexity Lately we’ve been on a bit of a tear internally working to eliminate operational complexi
Gregory Brown's book about the non-code aspects of software development, Programming Beyond Practices , is now available. Software development often reminds me of the “peanut butter and jelly sandwich
Ever since Donald Trump handed down his executive order temporarily halting all immigration from seven majority-Muslim nations for three months and barring refugees from Syria indefinitely, the social
The Ten Rules of Schema Growth 25 December 2016 Data outlives code, and a valuable database supports many applications over time. These ten rules will help grow your database schema without breaking y
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T he eternal human struggle to live meaningfully in the face of inevitable death entered its newest phase one Monday in the summer of 2007, when employees of Google gathered to hear a talk by a writer
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Wielding Claims of ‘Fake News,’ Conservatives Take Aim at Mainstream Media Rush Limbaugh in 2012. On his radio show, Mr. Limbaugh accused the mainstream media of spreading fake news, saying, “They jus
Published in Mission.org · 10 min read · Dec 8, 2016 -- At the beginning of last year, I inadvertently found myself listening to an interview with self-help guru Tony Robbins. That interview made me c
A secret question hovers over us, a sense of disappointment, a broken promise we were given as children about what our adult world was supposed to be like. I am referring not to the standard false pro
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In phone calls, meetings and cables, America's European allies have expressed alarm to one another about Donald Trump's public statements denying Moscow's role in cyberattacks designed to interfere wi
Update (30 Oct 2016): since I wrote this post, a bug was found in the benchmark which caused Rollup to appear slightly better than it would otherwise. However, the overall results are not substantiall
Right now, many of us are grappling with how to use our skills and influence to resist the upcoming Trump administration and the hatred and violence that it inspires. We are preparing for a crucial part of the next few months or years: changing the minds of people who support the Trump…
Question for graphic designers: When’s the last time you used an X-Acto knife and glue to create a physical paste-up that you presented to a client in person? For today’s pros, getting down to business means tons of time spent at the computer, then sending files back and forth; but it wasn’t all…
For over a year, critics within and around the established wing of the Democratic Party have painted Bernie Sanders as a misogynistic, racist, heteronormative, cis, male, pseudo-anti-establishment, ac
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Written By: Alice Goldfuss ( @alicegoldfuss ) Edited By: Justin Garrison ( @rothgar ) Ops and on-call go together like peanut butter and jelly. It folds into the batter of our personalities and gives
By Marc Hedlund 3 min read · Aug 25, 2013 -- When developers consider moving into a management role, I often encourage them — very strongly — to stop coding at work. You’ll be a better manager if you’
The Bin-Laden raid, the Boston Marathon bombing, Scully’s life-saving landing on the Hudson. News often hits Twitter well before the mainstream media has a chance to catch up. In fact, according to Re
Credit: Pixabay / IraEm Processes: Daily 123 in slack: 1 – what definitely will happen today, 2 – what will hopefully happen, 3 – what I’m filling in the gaps with. Daily standup: this is separate fro
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Credit: Flickr / Kai Lehmann Last week marked my six-month anniversary at Ride, which also marks six months of being a manager. It coincided with my team being in Medellin all together for our offsite
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5 min read · Oct 9, 2016 -- Cleveland, OH We are a divided country , split along race and class. We are also divided by education. Front row kids, many with post graduate degrees, versus the rest. The
S oftware development teams often make decisions about software architecture or technological stack based on inaccurate opinions, social media, and in general on what is considered to be “hot”, rather
EDUARDO MUNOZ/Reuters Protesters march through Times Square against Republican president-elect Donald Trump in the neighborhood of Manhattan in New York on Nov. 9, 2016. Joshua Roberts/Reuters Demonst
Latest Articles Let the systems and your team do the work. October 3, 2016 Line in the sand. (source: Pixabay ) The problem: Where’s the line between managing and meddling? I have been managing people
One way to think of the job journalism does is telling a community about itself, and on those terms the American media failed spectacularly this election cycle. That Donald Trump’s victory came as suc
if consequences of decisions are unpredictable, henry ford said minimize decisions. facebook engineering says maximize reversible decisions. — Kent Beck 🌻 (@KentBeck) July 27, 2015 If you choose not t
I first witnessed this early in my career when “the architect” would fly into town for two days every few weeks and diagram the architecture for the upcoming application on a whiteboard. Then the arch