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Re: Scrum Masters & Agile Coaches, Stop Team Coaching!

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 06:36:01 -0000

Thanks for writing, translating and sharing! I came at this from a different angle, but also arrived at the same metaphor :-) maybe you'll find it interesting: https://blog.tfnico.com/201...

Re: Den falske åpne debatten

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 03:23:14 -0000

Bra innlegg.

Det er ganske interessant hvordan så mye av slike debatter er preget av ren synsing og fordommer. Jeg bor i den regionen i Tyskland med størst innvandringsstrøm (NRW), og folk rundt her er generelt konstruktive og solidariske. Når folk diskuter flyktninger i det lokale rådhuset er tonen "Hvordan kan vi hjelpe?" fremfor "Hvorfor er de her???".

Den delen av Tyskland med *minst* innvandring er Sachsen, hvor det høyrepopulistiske partiet AfD for tiden boomer, og hvor PEGIDA oppsto.

Desverre minner tonen i norske medier og i norske rådhus mer om den i Sachsen enn det vi har her lenger vest. Sachsen er dårlig stilt økonomisk, så jeg kan skjønne at slike politiske forhold oppstår der, men hvordan det går samme retningen i Norge skjønner jeg ikke. Dere har det egentlig for greit til å ha en slik sutrekultur.

Jeg deltar ikke så ofte i kommentarfelt, men her var det merkeligvis himla mye kommentarer fra de "neue rechte", så jeg følte for å legge nok en stemme til i Gunnars favør. Folk flest er nok fortsatt på din side, Gunnar, og godt er det.

Re: Smaller Java images with Alpine Linux

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 06:16:53 -0000

This is awesome stuff, Nicola. Thanks for sharing!

Re: Introducing git fastclone

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 08:26:52 -0000

Interesting. I'll link to this in the next edition of gitrevnews (http://git.github.io/rev_news/ ). Thanks for sharing!

Re: SpaceX Audio Stuff

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 07:42:25 -0000

Here's an iTunes feed for these SpaceX episodes: https://huffduffer.com/tfni...

Re: SpaceX Audio Stuff

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 07:41:41 -0000

I made this one real quick just for these SpaceX episodes, should work in iTunes: https://huffduffer.com/tfni...

Re: SpaceX Audio Stuff

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 12:06:07 -0000

Oh, I was able to make a ready RSS feed for these episodes, with iTunes, RSS and Podcasts links: https://huffduffer.com/tfni...

Re: SpaceX Audio Stuff

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 11:36:55 -0000

For those who want to listen to this using their podcast-client, I recommend https://huffduffer.com - once registered, you can use the Huffduff button to add each Soundcloud page to your own custom feed.

Re: Towards a production quality open source Git LFS server

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 10:25:16 -0000

Haha, you know you've made it when you've got a parody account :D

Re: 1.5M raised in seed funding for GitLab to to accelerate growth and expand operations

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 17:07:42 -0000

Well done, folks! Keep up the good work :)

Re: Release Manager - The invisible hero

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 17:33:11 -0000

And over time, everyone learns about the pains of releasing. Problems like that are better solved when shared by the whole team.

Re: OCSP Stapling in Nginx | Practicing web development

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:04:42 -0000

Thanks! This missing parameter was sending me on a wild goose chase the last hours :)

Re: Jeg kjøpte Amiga i 1991

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen — Mon, 25 May 2015 17:56:29 -0000

Dritfin kvittering :)

Re: Karoline Klever: A speakers (second) worst nightmare

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 17:08:37 -0000

Thanks for writing this. I think everyone who's done a fair share of speaking has had one or more of these, but you don't hear about it a lot because we're embarrassed when it happens, although we shouldn't be! Here's why this can happen:

* Since workshops are so long, they are competing with a lot of parallel things (socializing, late lunch, breaks, or perhaps an early end of the day). I find it hard to commit a whole 3 hours to one thing on an otherwise busy conference.
* Your target audience simply wasn't there, or they flocked to another popular speaker talking at the same time. At first glance, I didn't see any other .Net specific talks on this conf in particular, so perhaps this talk was simply wrong for this conf. The organizers can't predict this 100%.
* Octopus Deploy hasn't yet reached the level of popularity where it can fill a workshop at a big conference - remember: at conferences, average developers are much better represented than in the twitter/blogosphere, and they will go for the mainstream/hyped talks.
* In all my years of conferencing, I've attended only one workshop. I mean, who wants to "work" at a conference (amiright)? Perhaps a lot of people are like me, and workshops are generally unpopular (unless they're about something REALLY popular). Were the other workshops well attended?

Now that the "disaster" happened, what can you do? Well, you got 1.5 hours of interesting talk out of it, but that doesn't really justify your investment. So, onward!

* You've created a great resource that you can exercise many many times before it loses its value (or you go tired of talking about it). Use it! Bring it on to other conferences, user-groups, etc. Compress it to a one-hour talk so you can bring it to more places. Change some aspects/title of it to make it sell more (famous speakers do this all the time, don't feel bad about it).
* Record a screencast version of the short talk, or a whole series. Put it on youtube and you'll make up for the number of visitors over time. I did a Git talk a year ago where there were maybe 12 people attending, but I filmed it myself with a camcorder, uploaded it, and now it has 10k views!
* Approach some of those online learning services, and try selling them a video course on the subject. It's probably gonna be a lot of work to record/edit it, but hey, you've already got all the material at least.

Re: A Git user’s first (and hopefully last) foray into SVN-land

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 08:04:35 -0000

Hey, I predicted this 4 years ago :D

http://blog.tfnico.com/2011...

HTH!

Re: Ten tips for wonderful bash productivity

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 06:01:01 -0000

If you want a bit more feature rich search/replace (with dry-run, ignore patterns, prompting, etc), you can use rpl:

sudo apt-get install rpl

brew install rpl

Re: 10 verktøy jeg ikke hadde brukt for et år siden

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 17:39:02 -0000

Hoppsann: http://crunchbang.org/forum...

Re: 10 verktøy jeg ikke hadde brukt for et år siden

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 17:14:13 -0000

<3 vagrant

Takk for at du deler! Var noen nye for meg her. Skal vurdere Crunchbang for desktop'en, begynner å bli litt lei av Ubuntu :)

Re: Bring your code into the conversation with the HipChat Bitbucket integration

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 05:00:53 -0000

+1 to this. We have a team with nearly a hundred repos. Up until now, I've managed the old HipChat post-hooks by scripting REST API calls across all repositories. It's time-consuming, but bearable. I imagine this is not possible (yet) for the new HipChat integration explained here.

I see that I can manage the Team's HipChat integration under https://bitbucket.org/accou...[]teamname]/hipchat-integration/ - but each repository has to be set up manually. This is still a hassle. Having some sort of team-default would be great.

Re: Kronisk stress for utviklere

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 18:45:04 -0000

Hoi, kjenner igjen noen av dem symptomene der ja :)

Kjører mer og mer GTD her også, men jeg har blitt ganske glad i Google Keep fremfor Trello for private prosjekter og todos. Er hakket mer lightweight, og litt diggere på mobil.

Re: Dødelig Ebola-idioti

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 11:50:07 -0000

Var en fin Radiolab-episode om det for en tid tilbake: http://www.radiolab.org/sto...

Re: Vern om retten til å hate

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 17:21:50 -0000

Hurra, jeg rapporterte også ikke! Hva vinner jeg?

Seriøst, når jeg så oppfordringen til å rapportere, så tenkte jeg på alle gangene Gunnar er blitt blokka av alternativfolk vha. Facebook-rapportering, og fikk litt sånn feil følelse.

Konstruktivt sett, kanskje Facebook kunne vise alt innhold fra "blokkerte" grupper med sånn rød ramme rundt hvor det advares med at man må ta innholdet med en klype salt, ettersom det har blitt rapportert for ditt og datt. Eller kanskje man må trykke på en sånn "Ja, jeg er over 18 og kan håndtere å lese hatefullt/explicit stoff" dialog. Det kunne få dem som er i faregruppen til å kanskje tenke seg om før dem melder seg inn i gruppa.

Re: Auphonic Goes Freemium

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 06:27:36 -0000

Sorry to cut in here, but it sounds like the Auphonic fees would be quite tiny here in relation to your other expenses.

I think you need to put a worth on your own time, say 30$ an hour, measure how much time you would spend doing Auphonic's work yourself, and then judge the price from that perspective. Not just Auphonic, but for every service you're paying for.

If Auphonic saves you 2 hours a month of work, it means you're saving (2x30$-23$=) 37$ a month by using it.

Even if you are doing everything for free at your own expenses, you need to put a value/cost on your own time in order to decide which work you outsource and not, be it to a Wordress plugin, media hosting, or Auphonic.

I don't mean to criticise your criticism of the pricing model, but I think you need to give @Auphonic something more to work with. How much would you be willing to pay for the service exactly? How much value/time does it give to you?

(updated faulty math formula)

Re: Auphonic Goes Freemium

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 06:03:15 -0000

I fall right inside the free category for now, and the one-time credits are great for flexibility! In the future, when/if my production picks up, I'll be glad to pay for the S model, but a 5€/5h tier would be great too (one 1h episode a week model}.

Re: Java Tools and Technologies Landscape for 2014

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 10:17:51 -0000

Would be nice with a TOC for those 18 pages..