News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

mrhandy

Re:The Fallacy of Multitasking and the Lost Art of 'Singletasking' on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @09:21AM (#21070485)
Multitasking doesn't exist. Distractions do. Deciding which is a task and which is a distraction is the only way to get anything done.
Re:Is Agile Documentation an Oxymoron? on Monday May 20, 2019 @06:29AM (#19958955)
We treat both external documentation and internal documentation as a deliverable in a sprint. Working on documentation iteratively has the same benefits as working on code the same way.

What Agile is against is large up front specifications, not documentation per se.

Re:Open-plan office is the worst. Why can't we kill it? on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @12:07PM (#19502336)
This is painfully relatable... Marketing and sales teams don't seem to mind much but as a developer I once had to quit a job because of this.