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Last time, we looked at how Scrum has become the de facto definition of Agile, and how it is uniquely lacking in technical practices compared to the other methodologies that were involved in creating the Agile manifesto. This lack of technical good practices and craft causes some obvious

The Xerox-Fujifilm formula: 1. Tell CEO he’s fired. 2. Have him arrange sale of company. 3. Hope Carl Icahn doesn’t find out.

1/ It's fun (or, more specifically, "therapeutic") to reflect on learnings over the years for businessing.15+ years in to all this, I'm still winging it on just about every level possible, so take these insights/observations for what they're worth.— Josh Pigford (@Shpigford) May 30, 2018

Phages are making a comeback.

The other day, I found myself looking at a blank address bar in a new tab of my web browser. I wanted to waste time, but … I didn’t know how.

@anildash mannnnn yes this very thing exactly

For the advertising industry, ad blocking is an existential crisis. For the Pi-hole community, it’s a sport.

Hands-On The Seiko Prospex SPB077 And SPB079 By James Stacey Recommended Reading More Old, Issued Rolex Watches In One Place Than You Ever Thought Possible By…

As if we needed one more reason to ditch it... The Subtle Sexism Of Your Open Plan Office

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My six-year-old son walked up to me yesterday. “What are you reading?” At the time, I was reading part of Janis Voigtländer’s habilitation thesis. Unsure where to even start, I decided to just ans…

Is it illegal to cheat in a video game?

"Across the road from Happy Valley, 27 floors up, two Americans sat in a plush office, ignoring a live feed of the action that played mutely on a TV screen. The only sound was the hum of a dozen computers. Bill Benter and an associate named Paul Coladonato had their eyes fixed on a bank of three monitors, which displayed a matrix of bets their algorithm had made on the race—51,381 in all. Benter and Coladonato watched as a software script filtered out the losing bets, one at a time, until there were 36 lines left on the screens. Thirty-five of their bets had correctly called the finishers in two of the races, qualifying for a consolation prize. And one wager had correctly predicted all nine horses."

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How do you brief a president who doesn’t distinguish between truth and lies?

There’s this popular idea among developers that when you face a problem with code, you should get out a rubber duck and explain, to the duck, exactly how your code was supposed to work.

Less is exponentially more – Rob Pike Smart phones are useful, but they are also incredibly addictive, and that addiction is at the epicenter of Silicon Valley’s effort to grab an ever-increasing percentage of our minds. If a substance or behavior controls us, it becomes our master, and that just won’t do. For the humor of it, let’s use this webMD post and only slightly modify the key signature behaviors outlined to describe smart phone usage addiction:

Three deaths — all in the same house. The first two were written off as a tragic coincidence, until the third shattered doubts. This is how authorities failed the Harrison family.

A brief list of what Scrum gets wrong

The answer is will-change: transform. Or is it?

Among those involved in David Pokora's so-called Xbox Underground, one would become an informant, one would become a fugitive, and one would end up dead.

On YouTube, there’s a long tail of content that pretty much guarantees the inclusion of every potential human interest. There are skate videos, makeup tutorials, and backyard surgical removals of blackheads. And yet the presentation of a lot of this content — especially when it’s trying to attract a large audience — is remarkably similar. […]

The makers of conversational bots like Alexa and Siri insert unnecessary conversational fillips. "OK, here's what I found..."