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"Who knows, maybe they use them to store all the extra forks."
That's funny!
Commented Feb 14, 2012 on Meetings: Where Work Goes to Die at Coding Horror
Meetings: Where Work Goes to Die
How many meetings did you have today? This week? This month? Now ask yourself how many of those meetings were worthwhile, versus the work that you could have accomplished in that same time. This might lead one to wonder why we even have meetings at all. At GitHub we don't have meetings...
Shouldn't this post be on meta.codinghorror.com ? :-)
Commented Feb 6, 2012 on Farewell Stack Exchange at Coding Horror
Farewell Stack Exchange
I am no longer a part of Stack Exchange. I still have much literal and figurative stock in the success of Stack Exchange, of course, but as of March 1st I will no longer be part of the day to day operations of the company, or the Stack Exchange sites, in any way. It's been almost exactly 4 ...
While the reaction to Steve Job's death was understandable considering the impact he had on a lot of people, we should be under no illusion that Apple is any more altruist that any other big company. They look after bottom line first and second.
Commented Oct 16, 2011 on Serving at the Pleasure of the King at Coding Horror
Serving at the Pleasure of the King
I enjoy my iPhone tremendously; I think it's the most important product Apple has ever created and one they were born to make. As a consumer who has waited far too long for the phone industry to get the swift kick in the ass it so richly deserved, I'm entirely on Apple's side here. But as a so...
Alkampfer, you are dead right. The only reason developers need access to production is when they want to hack in last minute changes that weren't found during testing and QA. If you have a proper process then these situations won't arise.
Commented Aug 28, 2010 on Vampires (Programmers) versus Werewolves (Sysadmins) at Coding Horror
Vampires (Programmers) versus Werewolves (Sysadmins)
Kyle Brandt, a system administrator, asks Should Developers have Access to Production? A question that comes up again and again in web development companies is: "Should the developers have access to the production environment, and if they do, to what extent?" My view on this is that as a wh...
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