Dev, trainer, investor, 15+ y/o experience. 🎓 Masterclass: https://xitter.cf/t.co/CkdPRZ0WAI

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Joined July 2009
– We don't write tests. – Why? – Because we don’t have time for it. – Why? – Because there is too much work and pressure. – Why? – Because we don’t move fast enough. – Why? – Because changing software has become difficult and risky. – Why? – Because we don’t write tests.
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If you ask candidates to invest time and energy to complete a tech assignment — before they've had a conversation with you, you create negative selection:
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Talk to people first. Inspire them. Then they'll invest.
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HackerRank, LeetCode – all that nonsense creates negative selection.
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Strategy 2: Trying to be *replaceable* via knowledge/skills sharing — you’re good for business, they *can* get rid of you, but *don’t want to*. Losing you hurts permanently.
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Attempting to be irreplaceable will eventually get you replaced. Attempting to be replaceable makes you irreplaceable.
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Strategy 1: Trying to be *irreplaceable* via knowledge/skills hoarding — you're bad for business, they *want* to get rid of you, but they can’t because they’re stuck. Losing you hurts temporarily, benefits permanently.
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Whatever you are not changing, you are choosing.
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P.S. I couldn't find a low-noise way to stay up-to-date with frameworks and libraries across the tech stacks I'm interested in, so I built the tool myself : ) You can already discover some rare gems, with more to come. Contributions are welcome!
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You can have a PhD and still be an idiot! Education and intelligence are two different things.
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Refraining from writing code is more challenging than actually writing it.
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a good pro-HTML site/article: html-first.com/ the hypermedia renaissance is building!
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"International Tax Competitiveness Index 2023" is misleading because the world is much bigger than the OECD. It tricks people into thinking that Estonia and Latvia have the best tax code internationally. Among OECD countries – well, maybe. Internationally – hell no. On that list, there is not a single tax-friendly country that I would consider setting up a company: UAE, HK, Singapore, Malaysia (Labuan), Georgia, and the list goes on. taxfoundation.org/research/a…
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Code is cheap. Show me delivered value.
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Next month, Robert C. Martin @unclebobmartin will talk about the values and principles at the heart of Agile and stripe away misunderstandings and distractions that, over the years, have made using Agile difficult. devternity.com
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