Dan Oxlade
@doxla
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Principal Engineer, Dad, climbing frame, trampoline, tired.
London
Joined February 2009
Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I
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Apple, I gotta be honest with you. I respect how difficult it is to ship products & I genuinely don’t mean to put too much negativity out into the world… But you need to revert the changes to the ‘Photo’ app… > Difficult & unintuitive to navigate > No way to distinguish
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this is an absolutely bananas complaint to have about the Vice President of the United States
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Oppenheimer in a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt in 1950.
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I can’t be the only one that thinks spark dependencies are a complete 💩show. How do people work with this?
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It’s a bit late but maybe this could be the year for Linux on the desktop! #Linux #Ubuntu #st_pauls_cathedral
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Seeing a lot of this recently: We’ve made your service much worse but please raise a ticket to let us know about it so we can fix it. How about you just don’t make my service worse in the first place thanks 🤬🤬🤬
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iOS 16.6.1 has broken integration with @Bose soundsport headphone controls @AppleSupport 😡
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Devs in their 8th meeting of the day when management asks how can they help the dev team be more productive?
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Isn’t the biggest takeaway here that (like so many other cult decision points) it doesn’t _really_ matter. Both work, so do what works for you!
Do you believe that Google, Meta, Uber, Twitter, and Airbnb put almost all of their code in one repository? This practice is called a monorepo. Monorepo vs. Microrepo. Which is the best? Why do different companies choose different options? Monorepo isn't new; Linux and Windows
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Amidst all the Generative AI hype, it's important to remember that it's all about good data. In the words of @SwamiSivasubram, "Your data is the differentiator and key ingredient in creating remarkable products". #AWS #Bedrock
https://t.co/LNhIkr6TRv
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And for those of us who aren’t data scientists, how generative AI works.
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Company: "We're agile." 5 minutes later... Company: "It's time for quarterly PI planning, so all teams need to agree on what they'll do in the next 3 months."
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On Code Smells... "Sometimes code works but it will be hard to understand and safely change later. The code makes money by working but loses (future) money by being hard or unsafe to change." -@KentBeck
https://t.co/86xqqeq23Z
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