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Re:Agile Is Dead, Long Live Continuous Delivery on Thursday May 05, 2016 @07:27PM (#11640496)
If Agile is dead, why is there a new article about Agile on HN everyday. I think Agile is dying, not dead.
Re:Google CEO: 'Devices' will be things of the past on Friday April 29, 2016 @01:55PM (#11597443)
Great Questions. This is a huge paradigm shift that will cause a ton of growing pains for the tech industry and governments. A simple case study would that of Uber and their adoption of non-government based background checks. Is it in our best interest for the government to perform the background checks for drivers? Who knows...but problems like these need answers.
Re:Microsoft has created its own IFTTT tool called Flow on Friday April 29, 2016 @01:51PM (#11597408)
When people say IFTTT, are they referring to the company or to the verbs which they actually represent? (just curious) I feel like the 'If This Then That' paradigm has been around for a long time, while the company which adopted the phrase has not been around so long.
Re:Things we learned by visualizing our work hours on Friday April 29, 2016 @12:42PM (#11596891)
Good intentions, but the visualizations don't work for me (I get Invalid Date errors) and I find the analysis to be shallow. If the amount of data which they say was collected, was actually collected, I think that this dataset deserves a much deeper dive.