This is an interesting and common point of view, but you can have predictability at least in some areas, and that’s a good thing. Average cycle time for example, is a good predictor of how long it will take to implement an average story (assuming that the team applies techniques for things like story narrowing to all stories consistently). It tells you nothing about the value of those stories though--whether those stories are worth implementing. For example using cycle time to predict a delivery date for a long backlog is futile waterfall thinking because most of the things in that backlog won’t be worth building. Average cycle time is a valuable number for the team to know, even when that number does not escape to management, however. Usually, when I bring up lean metrics of this sort, people scream about feature factories, but the rate at which you can implement stories on average is not particularly related to feature-factory thinking, or at least doesn’t have to be. It’s a number that a team can use internally in order to get better. Nothing wrong with improvement.

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The more I program, the more I realize that the implementation language doesn’t matter much. As long as you’re not fighting the language to get simple stuff done, pick whatever language you like best. I’ve written a lot of code in Java, and don’t think there’s anything particularly wrong with that. I don’t really understand where all the hate comes from. That said, if I was doing a new project with a lot of logic on the back end, I'd probably go with Kotlin instead. I’m not at all a fan of the thinking that programs are just big piles of functions. We tried that 30+ years ago, and it didn’t work out very well. Consequently, I would probably pick a language that allowed for some kind of structure in the source code at the language level.

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Interesting observation from a Big Tech hiring manager recruiting in Central Europe who told me:

"The 'top' new grads from Poland, Hungary, Romania are harder to recruit, because many of them would rather move to Germany or the Netherlands, taking an offer in those countries."

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In the last two months I've lost 20 lbs. I've gone from 226 to 206, and I'm still losing.

How? I just stoped eating carbs of any kind. I eat meats and fats. Nuts and cheese. That's all. No white bread. No buns. No tortillas. No chips.

I eat as much as I want, and I often eat a lot. I'm very happy to eat a butter soaked steak, or a wad of garlic buttered shrimp. Or wings, wings, wings. Just no carbs.

For snacks I eat jerky.

I wear a dexcom and I monitor my glucose. I do spot exercises if it spikes. I do 2-4 long bike rides per week.

Upon occasion (every two weeks or so) I'll have a carby meal like a Culver's burger, a hot dog, or a pizza. My glucose spikes and stays high for 12-16 hours in an oscillating pattern that gradually damps out and returns to normal. I don't gain any weight after those meals.

A beer will spike my glucose for an hour but it rapidly falls back to normal. The area under the curve is minimal. Whisky and wine have no effect on the glucose at all.

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This is a pretty good explanation of the complexity of DNA replication.

Your Unstoppable Copy Machine｜DNA Replication https://youtu.be/lv89fSt5jBY?si=J7TE02CEsXok7jwp… via @YouTube

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This looks great

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BREAKING: Call Of Duty Black Ops 6 leaks reveal the new game will have guns and the ability to move around while holding them

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Alright TPOT, which one of you nerds made this

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I love vastai, but the H100s I get from @LambdaAPI run significantly faster. You have to be very careful of host quality on vastai.

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Elon Musk before/after posting on X !

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Binged his channel last night and subbed to his Patreon because I needed more. Hate all you want, this is great novel content and he’s killing it

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I don’t even use Instagram that much?? What are they doing omg

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Server Islands are a fascinating new rendering method. Took the time to break down why they're so exciting to me in a new video

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Video games peaked in 1991.

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...I mean, I was trying to make a tongue in cheek joke about gender fluidity, and now I'm fighting the green wars. Fascinating.

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Does it feel to you like the world is on a knife edge, and that major conflict is right around the corner? Would you like to know why?

1. Biden's Afghanistan disaster making the US look weak and incompetent.

2. Biden telling Russia that a small invasion wouldn't be a big deal.

3. Biden giving hundreds of billions of dollars to Iran allowing them to fund their proxies and attack Israel.

Oh. Did I neglect to mention Harris? Yeah, her too.

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Predictability is valuable to the business, but estimates do not give you predictability. What does is a smooth product-development flow, and to get that you need things like measured throughput and cycle time. Those metrics are not estimates. They come from measuring the work as you work. At no point do you need to analyze a specification and make guesses about how long it will take to implement.

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Lots of people have the impression that the EU’s AI regulation is reducing innovation.

Read the details: it does this: in *critical areas* at a societal level where an AI system hallucinating would have major implications.

Law enforcement, employment decisions , border control.

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