greghinch

American living in the UK. Go back to visit family in Northern California ever year or two. On the way out (Heathrow) we can get a Pret or similar for more or less the same price as in central London, say £5-7 per person for a medium sized meal. And there are well over a dozen options of similar restaurants.

On the way back (SFO), it’s basically Burger King or one of the airport sandwich shops, and $20+ per person.

I don’t know the details of why it’s one way or the other, but clearly it doesn’t have to be like this!

Geek - obsessive consumer

Nerd - obsessive creator

I must have heard this somewhere but I can’t recall where. In any event, I think most of us are a bit of both but personally I strive to be more of the latter.

1. I don't understand how you can merge/deploy quickly without good test coverage. Unless you don't mind breaking things in production.

2. Feature flagging is pretty key to make the described process possible, and about halfway down it turns out of course this post is really an ad for a feature flagging SaaS product. Nothing wrong with that necessarily, but worth knowing that the motive behind this is to sell you a product.

I was sort of hoping this was someone using Stable Diffusion to render actual Street View content in a BotW style… next project?!

Economic growth does seem to track population growth (globally). Once population decline begins, will be interesting to see what happens.

That page never shows outages. I think it's hardcoded.

A dumb TV. Please someone make a dumb TV that otherwise is high spec

Things my son (2 and a half) likes to watch on YT:

- Lorry trucks (semis/big rigs) driving on the road/motorway

- The tube/trains/subways coming in and out of stations

- Large excavators digging in quarries and loading dump trucks

The videos are usually pretty slow paced and calm, and we're happy to let him watch in small blocks (5-10 mins max) from time to time. He's shown no interest in typical cartoons, kids shows, etc. I'd love to cut off YT completely, but are there other places to get this type of content for him?

I lost some but not most of my movies. Same for apps. Music was the worst, but on Apple Music so not purchases (just had to re-add a lot of things to my library).

It has to do with how the individual content (film, app, song) is licensed. If the same content has a separate license in the new country, it won’t carry over.

Also note this means it will depend on the two countries you are moving between (ie. I went US > UK, and I would guess there is a lot more licensing crossover between these two countries, whereas two others may not have so much).

It’s funny that he wrote this now living in the UK. As an American living in England for the better part of a decade now, it still shocks me how much grades matter in the hiring process for professionals with many years of experience. If you don’t get a first or at least a 2:1 in uni, and/or do poorly on your A-levels, it will hold you back for the rest of your life here

“Enter the Zoom world, leave reality for a while” should be the subject line for most meeting invites

> I'm guessing most people who do either have not worked in waterfall IT projects that preceded widespread Agile or they're part of "Agile" teams that do waterfall development in two-week chunks with daily standups.

I haven’t come into an organization in the past 15 or so years which wasn’t using _some_ form of Agile (generally Scrum). It’s fairly likely anyone who has started their career in software within that timeframe may never have experienced how things were done in the past.

That said, there is certainly always room to improve, which is a critical piece I see teams often miss in Scrum. The two-week cycle isn’t just about planning and doing whatever it takes to hit the commitment. It’s about a) the business having a cycle they can plan to if priorities change and b) the team having a regular feedback loop they can use to help understand where they are doing well and where they aren’t.

Missing a sprint commitment is fine. Missing the commitment for multiple sprints in a row means something is going wrong. This is an opportunity to learn and improve, and the sprint retrospective at the end is as important if not more so than the planning meetings.

And then make time in the sprint to implement improvements in the process, tech, whatever is needed. We use 20% of the sprint time as a rule on this, and move that up and down periodically as needed.