@romanfell's 275k post celebration thread

[Hammettf2b]

Post count celebration threads. I'm bringing it back

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[Hammettf2b]

Gratzky!!!

 

[irunthepeg]

who

 

[Kim Gordon]

I don’t think we should be celebrating a human being wasting his life so badly.

 

[John Price]

Don't care

Busy

 

[LarryFisherman]

Don't care

Busy

good stuff

no screenshots of python compile failures or anything to share?

did you try golang? might be an even easier place for you to start.

 

[PanthersPens62]

Gratzky to a true HF legend!

 

[Bones Malone]

I don’t think we should be celebrating a human being wasting his life so badly.

I think I agree with this post more than I agree with anything I've ever found on the site

 

[John Price]

good stuff

no screenshots of python compile failures or anything to share?

did you try golang? might be an even easier place for you to start.

no I was at the hockey game, something you don't do anymore for some reason

 

[Bones Malone]

no I was at the hockey game, something you don't do anymore for some reason

Preseason hockey

 

[member 157595]

good stuff

no screenshots of python compile failures or anything to share?

did you try golang? might be an even easier place for you to start.

dude programming is stupid, remember?

 

[LarryFisherman]

dude programming is stupid, remember?

I've had a very slow week. We're transition to scrum after 3 years of using kanban. We're in a "planning scrum sprint 0" at the moment so there's literally no work for me. We're just planning the transition, then after wednesday next week we'll start a real sprint 0 and start planning the sprint.

it's so boring all i've been doing is talking to roman. getting stupider by the day.

 

[member 157595]

I've had a very slow week. We're transition to scrum after 3 years of using kanban. We're in a "planning scrum sprint 0" at the moment so there's literally no work for me. We're just planning the transition, then after wednesday next week we'll start a real sprint 0 and start planning the sprint.

it's so boring all i've been doing is talking to roman. getting stupider by the day.

Never used kanban, always thought it was a bit less structured than I like but maybe my experience with it is not typical.

I went from a company that undervalued and underpaid me to one that expects me to build a software engineering team from nearly the ground up, so I've had to really drill them on version control, agile development, workflow management, CICD, AWS, etc...it's still new to them. It's a work in progress since most of them are more MechE-types than programmers, and I know little to nothing about the former.

I'm getting to take the lead on a bunch of interviews coming up, and that means filtering through an assload of unqualified people who found the description on Indeed. That said, it sure feels good to be given too much responsibility over too little. Definitely not complaining.

 

[Fixed to Ruin]

@Roman Fell

 

[LarryFisherman]

Never used kanban, always thought it was a bit less structured than I like but maybe my experience with it is not typical.

I went from a company that undervalued and underpaid me to one that expects me to build a software engineering team from nearly the ground up, so I've had to really drill them on version control, agile development, workflow management, CICD, AWS, etc...it's still new to them. It's a work in progress since most of them are more MechE-types than programmers, and I know little to nothing about the former.

I'm getting to take the lead on a bunch of interviews coming up, and that means filtering through an assload of unqualified people who found the description on Indeed. That said, it sure feels good to be given too much responsibility over too little. Definitely not complaining.

kanban is super loose. It was really good when we started "vNext" work which was our beta project starting in 2017. Now that we're out in the wild with it, we've been missing on features and things due to the lack of structure. A lot of guys just pick up work that they're good at, and disregard the priority order.

in theory, you can't "miss" on stuff using kanban, you just pull whatever is at the top of TODO and when it's time to release, you cut with what you have - but we definitely have had C-level pressure/expectations that have been missed. Our code base is crazy complex, and our architect is a literal genius so things get pretty messy in there. We had a TON of bugs over the first few iterations of this product, and had to spend a few releases cleaning things up, which really hampered things down as we weren't creating new features.

so, hopefully scum is helpful for the team overall. I really don't like some things of scrum - like point sizing and pass/fail commitments (sometimes things just happen). But it is established for a reason and I'm sure it will help us after we get past the painful transition.

To your last point - it's definitely better to be needed and chosen vs. unneeded and forgotten. However, I'd be fine never doing another interview again

 

[HanSolo]

Gosh bless

 

[ucanthanzalthetruth]

I don’t think we should be celebrating a human being wasting his life so badly.

 

[Bones Malone]