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ten blogpost je o niecom uplne inom (mikroformatoch), ale je tam zaujimavy kapitolka o tom, ze sa im email ako nastroj na vymenu informacii a brainstorming neosvedcil: Perhaps the most important is that as a community we are far more efficiently productive using just IRC and the wiki, than any amount of use of email. In fact, the microformats drafts that were developed wtih the most email (e.g. hAudio) turned out to be the hardest to follow and discuss (too many long emails), and sadly ended up lacking the simplicity that real world publishers wanted (e.g. last.fm).

out of 5 dentists agree that multi-threaded programming is hard to get right. At the end of the day, all that the GIL guarantees is that MRI's native C implementations of Ruby methods will be executed atomically (but even this has caveats). ... So the GIL doesn't 'solve' thread-safety issues. ... One way that we work with hard problems is with good abstractions. ... We're seeing more and more abstractions around threads. An approach that's catching on in the Ruby community is the Actor model of concurrency, with the most popular implementation being Celluloid. Celluloid provides a great abstraction that marries concurrency primitives to Ruby's object model. Celluloid can't guarantee that your code will be thread-safe or free from race conditions, but it wraps up best practices. I encourage you give Celluloid a try.

A few years ago, I took on a freelance project to implement an Internet Explorer component in C++. I was billing a healthy hourly rate on other projects at the time, but this particular client insisted on a fixed price. In a bout of temporary insanity, I made an exception.... Every developer knows that accurate software estimation is not possible even when perfect information is available about project requirements (i.e. practically never).....

podobne nazory na estimate trvania taskov som cez vikend cital aj v tomto clanku https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/11/death-to-jira/ , odhady veru nie su easy

Z toho clanku "death to JIRA" vypichujem: For some reason many companies today seem to be terrified of the prospect of writing more than a couple of paragraphs of clear and simple prose. But a well-written 8-page document can define the nuances of a complicated system far better than a whole cumbersome flotilla of interlinked JIRA tickets. ... Feature planning is about communication. JIRA is fundamentally a terrible way to communicate the requirements of a complex system. Words in a row, if written well, will always be better. A v dost vela veciach suhlasim.

volne dostupna knizka. povazujem knizku za prinosnu pre tych ktoria komunikuju so zakaznikmi (tech support). Dealing With Disrespect is a short, simple to read, free book that provides a straight-forward guide for handling this kind of challenging feedback, picking out the legitimate criticism to learn from, and how to not just ignore the haters, but how to manage them. The book helps put all communication, whether on or offline, into perspective and helps you to become a better communicator yourself.

keby niekto k tomu spravil plugin do produktov od Atlassianu, tak by to bolo zaujimave. v kazdom pripade, na chatovanie mi pride cokolvek lepsie nez Skype.

Tiez ma ten Skype nenadchyna... Atlassian ma vlastne riesenie na chat: HipChat.

Do the benefits of practices like Feature Branching outweigh the costs of delayed integration and limiting communication?

It all sounds so straightforward: Put your code up on GitHub or start/join a project at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), build a community of like-minded individuals, start a company, take in some funding, and then IPO. Or maybe not. One thing is certain: Running an open source company has unique challenges and opportunities.

Odhliadnuc od toho, ze ide o PR spravu, mne sa tento pristup komunikacie velmi pozdava. Akurat na nase podmienky by som to robil raz za mesiac. Ako to vidis Ty?

AMERICAN AND BRITISH spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe, according to top-secret documents provided to The Intercept by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. The company targeted by the intelligence agencies, Gemalto, is a multinational firm incorporated in the Netherlands that makes the chips used in mobile phones and next-generation credit cards.