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    Q:  How many Pentium designers does it take to screw in a light
        bulb?
    A:  1.99904274017, but that's close enough for non-technical
        people.

    Q:  What do you get when you cross a Pentium PC with a  research
        grant?
    A:  A mad scientist.

    Q:  What's another name for the "Intel Inside" sticker they put 
        on Pentiums?
    A:  The warning label.

    Q:  What do you call a series of FDIV instructions on a Pentium?
    A:  Successive approximations.

    Q:  Complete the following word analogy:  Add is to Subtract as 
        Multiply is to:

                    1)  Divide
                    2)  ROUND
                    3)  RANDOM
                    4)  On a Pentium, all of the above
    A:  Number 4.

    Q:  Why didn't Intel call the Pentium the 586?
    A:  Because they added 486 and 100 on the first Pentium and got
        585.999983605.

    Q:  According to Intel, the Pentium conforms to the IEEE 
        standards 754 and 854 for floating point arithmetic. 
        If you fly in aircraft designed using a Pentium, what is the
        correct pronunciation of "IEEE"?
    A:  Aaaaaaaiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeee!

    TOP TEN NEW INTEL SLOGANS FOR THE PENTIUM
    -------------------------------------------

    9.9999973251   It's a FLAW, Dammit, not a Bug
    8.9999163362   It's Close Enough, We Say So
    7.9999414610   Nearly 300 Correct Opcodes
    6.9999831538   You Don't Need to Know What's Inside
    5.9999835137   Redefining the PC -- and Mathematics As Well
    4.9999999021   We Fixed It, Really
    3.9998245917   Division Considered Harmful - No Life-
                    Maintenance Devices Should Be Used With This
                    Processor
    2.9991523619   Why Do You Think They Call It *Floating* Point?
    1.9999103517   We're Looking for a Few Good Flaws

    And the 0.9999999998th Slogan Is...
                                    The Errata Inside

Comment · 2 years ago

I contribute to NodeGui, Qt on Nodejs. It doesn't try to emulate the C++ API by allowing subclassing. Instead it exposes most methods on QWidget classes/subclasses which process QEvent objects (and their subclasses) in the form of events which you can subscribe to as an application. You can listen to signals and also QEvent related traffic in much the same way. So, if you want to subclass a QWidget to do your own custom rendering/painting, you would create an instance of QWidget and then listen to/hook into, the incoming requests to repaint. Qt sees a normal QWidget instance, but you can customise it do act like the subclass you desire. This avoids any attempt to do a real C++ subclass at runtime. Internally, NodeGui subclasses almost every QWidget (and more) to hook into them to allow this. This works far better than you might expect and saves a ton of complexity.

Comment · 2 years ago

Is it possible to extend/subclass an existing QWidget and customise it?

Comment · 2 years ago

garbage in, garbage out

Comment · 2 years ago

There is no company size threshold here. This is GDPR related. You and Gruber are both mixing up GDPR with the EU's Digital Markets Act. Digital Markets is the one which has a "gatekeeper" concept tied to company size and market power.

Comment · 2 years ago

That's right. It can't be pushed down from above. The team has to want to do this and take the power.

A manager can start work on this kind of culture shift without even saying the word "agile". They need to give their teams more trust and room to govern themselves. i.e. managers need to get out of the way. When a team is open to the idea of Agile or scrum, then the manager could ask the team if they would like training or coaching. But the ground has to be made fertile first.

Comment · 2 years ago

The rarely discussed cornerstone of Agile is trusting the team and letting them organise themselves. For most organisation this represents a huge internal change in power structure.

The Agile industrial complex can't really sell a message to their customers (i.e. managers) that the development teams should have the power and run themselves how they feel fit. This message amounts to "if this works, we can fire the managers". Not a popular message for managers.

So, instead of building on an agile foundation, companies just add some story points and funny sounding meetings on top of the old structure and nothing really changes. It is Agile cosplay.

Comment · 2 years ago

Yes, it kind of is. But the whole article talks about the extremes but spends zero time describing what the desirable middle ground looks like.

Comment · 2 years ago

23% did, just to be clear.

Comment · 2 years ago

I prefer desktops because is something breaks I have a chance of working around it immediately (e.g. screen), and if not then I can have a replacement part sent to me in about 24 hours or less which I can install myself.