andrewdutton

Re:Stop Blaming QA and Start Diagnosing the Hidden Inefficiencies on Monday July 20, 2026 @06:31PM (#48985700)

Full title: Stop Blaming QA and Start Diagnosing the Hidden Inefficiencies Behind Delivery Delays: Five Drivers that Slow Releases And Erode Developer Productivity

Stop Blaming QA and Start Diagnosing the Hidden Inefficiencies

Posted by andrewdutton on Monday July 20, 2026 @06:31PM
from the dl.acm.org dept.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3800646.3800650

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Identifying Factors Contributing to "Bad Days" for Software Developers

Posted by andrewdutton on Saturday October 26, 2024 @12:01PM
from the arxiv.org dept.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18379

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State of DevOps 2023 [pdf]

Posted by andrewdutton on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @12:32PM
from the services.google.com dept.

https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/2023_final_report_sodr.pdf

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Re:The X220 ThinkPad Is the Best Laptop in the World on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @08:45AM (#37673816)

I've been following (and tempted by) someone on faceboock (lcdfans / Jackyzhang - http://www.cnmod.cn/ ) who has a business of rebuilding x220 / x200 series laptops with modern hardware - the latest I've seen is a "X2100" - an x210 with I7-10710U and 13 inch 3000X2000 IPS...

One day if I have and extra few $k that I'm willing to risk I may ordering one...

The system is rigged and hard work is no predictor of success

Posted by andrewdutton on Sunday September 17, 2023 @10:50PM
from the fortune.com dept.

https://fortune.com/2023/09/15/how-racism-meritocracy-broke-economy-book-excerpt-myth-jeff-fuhrer/

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Shopify to cut 20% of its workforce, beats quarterly revenue estimates

Posted by andrewdutton on Thursday May 04, 2023 @07:57AM
from the reuters.com dept.

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/shopify-reports-first-quarter-revenue-above-estimates-2023-05-04/

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1Password Has Raised $620M

Posted by andrewdutton on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @09:28AM
from the blog.1password.com dept.

https://blog.1password.com/future-of-1password/

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Retiring Tucows Downloads

Posted by andrewdutton on Thursday January 21, 2021 @01:36PM
from the tucows.com dept.

https://tucows.com/retired/

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Wattpad to be sold to South Korean internet giant for $600M US

Posted by andrewdutton on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @08:08PM
from the cbc.ca dept.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/wattpad-sold-south-korean-giant-1.5879865

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How to build teams without bullshit

Posted by andrewdutton on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @10:56AM
from the vas3k.com dept.

https://vas3k.com/blog/team/

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Montefiore Investment aquires domain name registrar Gandi

Posted by andrewdutton on Friday March 01, 2019 @09:49AM
from the news.gandi.net dept.

https://news.gandi.net/en/2019/02/futureofgandi-the-adventure-continues/

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An open letter about the Synergy team from the CEO

Posted by andrewdutton on Saturday June 16, 2018 @08:40AM
from the symless.com dept.

https://symless.com/blog/open-letter-synergy-team

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Re:Tell HN: "[GitHub Security] Please reset your password" on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @06:17PM (#16972237)

Just recieved the notice as well.

Re:COBOL on Wheelchair on Monday December 23, 2013 @11:56PM (#6958293)

I don't think it's a case of passing judgement, but of an expression of discomfort around how the source is presented.

Like some jokes from a few decades ago, there is still value (they can be/are humorous) but at the same time the re-telling of the joke today would need to be done with some tact.