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Re: How Much Cohesion Is Enough?

dennisgorelik — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 09:55:28 -0000

If a class has 100+ lines of code, then it is, probably, time to split it (identify a cohesive group of methods and attributes and extract them into a separate class).
The more lines of code class contains, the stronger the need is to split this class into smaller classes.

Re: One More Recipe Against NULL

dennisgorelik — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 04:23:32 -0000

bool TryFindMax(List<int>, out result) { ... }

Re: Are You a Coder or a Developer?

dennisgorelik — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 12:17:31 -0000

Mario did the right thing by asking you to help, because every hour you spend on Mario - would save Mario a day or more of independent research.
In addition to that, you would better see how to improve your project documentation (and can even ask Mario to update that documentation).
To save your time in the future, Mario can explain your project traditions to the next hire. Assuming you did not fire Mario yet.
And that is another lesson for you (as the project lead): be cautious about firing developers. It takes several months to make them productive due to the nature of knowledge work.

Re: How Micro Is Your Tasking?

dennisgorelik — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 17:33:04 -0000

"Puzzle Driven Development" (PDD) does NOT explain how to identify what tasks (AKA "puzzles") to create. PDD simply assumes that these tasks magically pop up in the head of the writer.
What is also funny, is that PDD example starts with writing code first. So, whoever is creating these puzzles must be a coder too (so, essentially, a full-fledged developer and not just a project manager). Obviously that developer does not solve micro-tasks, because his responsibility is to define these micro-tasks in the first place.
These Micro-Tasks and Puzzle Driven Development theories look inconsistent with the problems that they promise to solve.

Re: How Micro Is Your Tasking?

dennisgorelik — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 14:41:19 -0000

Creating micro-tasks - is, essentially a software design, which is core activity in software development.
Implementing these micro-tasks - is coding, which is relatively easy part of software development.
So, yes - micro-tasks are good solution that makes coding effective.
But how do you solve the much harder problem: how to create effective set of these micro-tasks? Creating/defining micro-tasks is a much harder problem which requires creating thinking, meetings and cannot really be predicted (estimated) well.

Re: How Micro Is Your Tasking?

dennisgorelik — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 14:37:15 -0000

Splitting big task into micro-tasks is one of forms of micromanagement.

Re: US asana

dennisgorelik — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 14:00:14 -0000

I am getting:
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https://app.asana.com/
502 Bad Gateway

nginx
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Or just spinning wheel.

Re: Am I a Sexist?

dennisgorelik — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 12:09:38 -0000

Calling programming a "war" is disingenuous.
Programming could be hard, it could be boring. But programming is not dangerous at all if we compare it to the dangers of waging a war.
So your argument falls apart.

Re: 5 Things That Seem Essential That We Launched Buffer Without

dennisgorelik — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 06:57:52 -0000

@Jarrod Mosen: that one person can to me to court with or without TOS page on my web site. Are these two things even relevant to each other?

Re: The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting

dennisgorelik — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 19:23:15 -0000

"worth nothing" -> "worth noting".

Re: Is Sourcing Technology Against The Law? by @smheadhunter

dennisgorelik — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 06:20:53 -0000

It looks like TalentBin decided to settle:
https://halvorsonsettlement...

Does it mean they were not able to convince the "old judge" that they are not a consumer reporting agency?

Re: Contact

dennisgorelik — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 00:20:10 -0000

Harry,

Could you please not to remove silent pauses and breaks from your interviews?
These up to few seconds pauses are important to understanding of what was said during interview.
In particular, they are important to:
1) Separate one thought from another.
2) To understand the importance of some statements (with longer pauses) over others (without long pauses).

Re: What Selling CareerBuilder Means to the Job Board Industry

dennisgorelik — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 14:11:20 -0000

So far it is only a spin-off. CareerBuilder is not sold yet.

Re: BOOM! It’s here. (And 100% free)

dennisgorelik — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 00:12:11 -0000

I want to see what obvious sales techniques look like.

Re: Master Class:
How to build a location independent team

Taught by Alvaro Oliveira of Toptal

dennisgorelik — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:42:24 -0000

1) "Alvaro isn't an instructor" - he kind of is an instructor, considering his VP position and his role in that interview.
And yes, he has valuable experience and knowledge... but I repeat myself here.
2) Yes, Andrew is a highly skilled interviewer. I never questioned that.
3) I listened to most of Mixergy interviews and know pretty well that Andrew is cautious about getting paid by interviewers.
I do not think it would be a concern ... if Andrew allows himself to critique and challenge his sponsors.

Re: Master Class:
How to build a location independent team

Taught by Alvaro Oliveira of Toptal

dennisgorelik — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 22:12:55 -0000

Alvaro is clearly knowledgeable but is a little too shy (he even holds his arms closed over the course of the whole interview). He talks too little and Andrew is forced to take over too much.

Overall it is a good course and I'd like to see more from TopTal. May be another interview about how they currently do it and manage their customers?

And Andrew, even if TopTal pays for it - it does NOT mean you should restrict yourself in your interview quest.
The more controversial your questions are - the more engaging the interview would be - to the benefit of everybody, including TopTal.

Re: Master Class:
How to build a location independent team

Taught by Alvaro Oliveira of Toptal

dennisgorelik — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 22:05:12 -0000

It looks like your video editor repeated the same segment ("The importance of trusting your team") twice:
1) 39:40
2) 42:10

Re: This Is the Latest on SimplyHired

dennisgorelik — Mon, 30 May 2016 21:15:39 -0000

Could it be that SimplyHired disintegration was hastened by their decision half a year ago to raise min CPC from $0.10 to $0.20?
That probably reduced SimplyHired revenue, because many job boards simply do not want to spend that much on most of their jobs.

Re: Private: How To Legally Own Another Person

dennisgorelik — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 23:06:30 -0000

"it is easier to trust the word an autocrat than a fragile elected official"

Not really.
Putin is an autocrat, and a lying one at that (he claimed in 2014 that it was not Russian troops that invaded Crimea, etc.)

Re: Opportunities at Podio

dennisgorelik — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 17:06:32 -0000

Peter, do you sponsor H1b for that engineering position?

Re: St. Johns County voters pass half-cent sales tax

dennisgorelik — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 02:46:33 -0000

@BuzzB - do you know what politicians were in charge of pushing forward that tax increase?
It would be nice to name them to get prepared for the next elections.

Re: St. Johns County voters pass half-cent sales tax

dennisgorelik — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 04:27:25 -0000

I think we should kick out politicians who manipulated voters into that tax increase. These manipulators do NOT deserve the right to spend that extra tax.

Re: Wingify releases Bayesian A/B tester

dennisgorelik — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 20:44:11 -0000

1) I did not notice video mentioning any "delta posterior".

Did I miss it?

2) Is it correct that when you are talking about "hypothetical opinion" you mean that:
it is possible to feed into your system a probability distribution model that has little to do with real world and as a result get (a prediction that guarantees zero chance of loosing in case of switching to new variation)?

Re: Wingify releases Bayesian A/B tester

dennisgorelik — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 20:08:15 -0000

Your video seems to contradict to your comment.

At 1:40 it says: "since you actually stand to gain something and not lose anything!".

How do you reconcile "not lose anything" with "is always a ... probability that the result you describe happened as a fluke"?

I do not think your paper addresses that question.

Re: Wingify releases Bayesian A/B tester

dennisgorelik — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:39:09 -0000

At how many users would the algorithm conclude that there is 0 probability that variation A would win?
Assuming that all users in the testing set in variation B converted and there were zero conversions in variation A?

Disqus - Latest Comments for dennisgorelik

Re: How Much Cohesion Is Enough?

Re: One More Recipe Against NULL

Re: Are You a Coder or a Developer?

Re: How Micro Is Your Tasking?

Re: How Micro Is Your Tasking?

Re: How Micro Is Your Tasking?

Re: US asana

Re: Am I a Sexist?

Re: 5 Things That Seem Essential That We Launched Buffer Without

Re: The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting

Re: Is Sourcing Technology Against The Law? by @smheadhunter

Re: Contact

Re: What Selling CareerBuilder Means to the Job Board Industry

Re: BOOM! It’s here. (And 100% free)

Re: Master Class: How to build a location independent team Taught by Alvaro Oliveira of Toptal

Re: Master Class: How to build a location independent team Taught by Alvaro Oliveira of Toptal

Re: Master Class: How to build a location independent team Taught by Alvaro Oliveira of Toptal

Re: This Is the Latest on SimplyHired

Re: Private: How To Legally Own Another Person

Re: Opportunities at Podio

Re: St. Johns County voters pass half-cent sales tax

Re: St. Johns County voters pass half-cent sales tax

Re: Wingify releases Bayesian A/B tester

Re: Wingify releases Bayesian A/B tester

Re: Wingify releases Bayesian A/B tester

Re: Master Class:
How to build a location independent team

Taught by Alvaro Oliveira of Toptal

Re: Master Class:
How to build a location independent team

Taught by Alvaro Oliveira of Toptal

Re: Master Class:
How to build a location independent team

Taught by Alvaro Oliveira of Toptal