First of all, during my working years I attended very few conferences, and only a few more 'meetings' with other IT folks outside an employer.  Most of my outside interaction...

Sometimes the lines between my time and work time tend to blur (today's Blursday, right?). What I don't miss is a 90 mile round trip to the office....

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I really had to chuckle about some memories from my stint as a 'manager' for the years 1975 to 1986 when I had a small 24-hour shop of five data...

Not all bugs are created equal nor are the root causes of all bugs nor are all development teams.  Some bugs are trivials, which is why they weren't caught...

"Some use junior developers to do bug work."

And possibly herein lies the problem with bugs.  My personal feeling is that those who create software should be the ones who have...

Steve, you were 'excited about the prospects if sending others'.  There were a number of folks in my career I would have been excited to send also!

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It's also not finished. Early DevOps view, as people tried to find better ways to explain this, was that your code needs to get into production before you as...

From my perspective I think time is the largest factor affecting our code base.  Time to design and develop code, time to maintain code, time to develop a higher level...

Well, my congratulations on having set your retirement date.  I assume it is soon.  I can only hope that...

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Aside from the discussion about the effects of automation on employment and activity focus, I think what really concerns me is that such automation appears to me to dangerously remove...

I found execs moving from secretaries to doing their own email strange. At first, I think it is empowering and is efficient, but often this devolves into a low...

I guess the value of your time is determined by the authority of the person requesting it's use, within reason, of course.

This reminds me of a story related by my...

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Well, this sounds very nice, but was not always my experience.  I did have several bosses who took really good care of me, but not when it came to abrupt...

Both!  I'd describe myself as a student but feel like an imposter just like "fake it until you make it".  I didn't use SQL until I was over 50...