desbo
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Comment · 1 month ago
Took me a year. Loved it! Planning to go back when I have the energy.
The Pale King was also really good and a little easier going.
Comment · 2 months ago
“agentic coding has measurably improved every velocity metric we track and, in some teams, driven an order-of-magnitude gains in output”
Of course it has. But is that a good enough measure of value? What about the business and customer outcomes from all the extra lines of code and closed JIRA tickets? Was it worth it?
Comment · 10 months ago
Yeah, it’s called “Reflections”.
Comment · 1 year ago
Thank you.
Comment · 1 year ago
I think that is what you want. From Wikipedia:
> In 2016, the IEEE Computer Society kicked off the SWEBOK Evolution effort to develop future iterations of the body of knowledge. The SWEBOK Evolution project resulted in the publication of SWEBOK Guide version 4 in October 2024.
So the thing called "SWEBOK Guide" is actually the reference text for SWEBOK.
Comment · 2 years ago
The idea that someone's response to being fired should be the same as a manager's response to one of their reports quitting is hilariously out of touch.
Comment · 2 years ago
Good advice! A rule of thumb I use is that the sentence should make sense if it was read outside of a browser, which results in roughly the same thing.
Comment · 2 years ago
Would’ve been easy with fastmod: https://github.com/facebookincubator/fastmod
Comment · 3 years ago
And if there’s pairing on a sub-task…?
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
If I’m a Boltzmann brain that can only survive for an instant, why do I experience existing for a whole lifetime?
Comment · 4 years ago
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Comment · 4 years ago
This is great. But it seems to fail with words containing repeat letters, for example, with my word as BOOKS, not on hard mode:
SOARE JUMBY BOOST (at this point, it claimed to have won!)