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@alan my guess is it isn’t terribly different from ward’s version. Just different words, mostly. I’ve used this for consulting (n=1) up to small teams (n<7). I don’t see why it wouldn’t work great at a larger scale as long as it isn’t sabotaged by execs.

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zenspider 6d ago

@alan https://zenspider.com/ruby/2012/06/expansion-and-contraction-cycles.html I generally split my 2 week cycles into expansion and contraction sub cycles. Depending on the shape of the code base contraction might come first. Generally over time the health comes up, contraction takes less time, and expansion fills fills the void

Expansion & Contraction Cycles | zenspider.com | by ryan davis

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zenspider Mar 12

@rubycentral “…but only if you shill for google AI which we don’t disclose up front and then pile on in the list of demands for granting you a tiny sum of $$$.”

Really poorly done.

zenspider Mar 12

Kerrick Long (code)Mar 12

Have you heard about the recent controversy of copyleft-washing? Some folks are making alternatives to free software and releasing them under a lax, permissive non-copyleft free software license. In order for this to be legal, it must not be a derivative work, so the publishers will often claim it is a "clean room" re-implementation.

By way of example: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327

Now somebody has packaged up that process as a delightful satire website. https://malus.sh

No right to relicense this project · Issue #327 · chardet/chardet

Hi, I'm Mark Pilgrim. You may remember me from such classics as "Dive Into Python" and "Universal Character Encoding Detector." I am the original author of chardet. First off, I would like to thank...

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zenspider Mar 11

Written by squishy human beings.
Software can never be perfect.
We will all eventually die.

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zenspider Mar 9

@alpha to be clear: I’m an absolute fan of this policy.

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zenspider Mar 9

@alpha I believe this was policy of Dellasio’s. Anyone who used that word was volunteering, even if that meant sales wound up coding.

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zenspider Mar 9

@alan I feel you and yet they’re not wrong. Coverage % is an absolutely bullshit metric. You should be talking about that, not about what not to test

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zenspider Mar 3

@esparta I ran the stats once and it totally is. Their downtime is just very bad but Tuesdays were def worse

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