smithco

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	1,253 reputation	bio	website	zkwarl.blogspot.com	visits	member for	2 years, 3 months
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Feb 20	comment	Salary / compensation data on the web, but with a slant towards international jobs The taxation rates are also relevant. When I moved from Alberta to California, I did some research and noted that the cost of living was similar, but I made the mistake of not checking the difference in taxes. Unfortunately, that meant that a good portion of my salary increase was unexpectedly lost to California's steep taxation rates.
Feb 19	comment	Long term planning and agile? Well, I guess you win the "I love Agile" badge. Though, given your last comment, I'm still confused as to why you were trying to defend it by the continued references to scrum. I like scrum too; one of the things I like about it is that avoids some of the problems that come with the agile values.
Feb 19	comment	Long term planning and agile? True, but your arguments are about scrum, not to the agile manifesto. The agile manifesto makes no reference to such constraints.
Feb 19	comment	Long term planning and agile? Matin, I think you may be confusing Scrum with Agile, they are not the same thing. The Scrum method is compatible with the upfront design that I advocate. A lot of good Scrum-driven projects will start with an initial design SCrum with design as the deliverable.
Feb 19	comment	Long term planning and agile? The agile manifesto makes no reference to "definition of done" (see agilemanifesto.org). The actual agile principle is to value "working software over comprehensive documentation". In this case, the system was working at the time without the dynamic loading. Having the future, non-functional hooks for the future dynamic loading is actually contrary to that agile value.
Feb 19	answered	Need ideas for an innovation week
Feb 19	answered	Long term planning and agile?
Feb 19	answered	What are the duties of a software control management (SCM) engineer in a large company?
Feb 19	answered	Computer science curriculum for non-CS major?
Feb 19	comment	Do we need use case levels or not? When a person uses an ATM, the uses cases would be to withdraw money, cash a cheque, check an account balance &c, the security is a technical detail of how to achieve the aforementioned goals. That's not to say security is unimportant to the user, but it is not what the user wants to get done.
Feb 18	answered	Why does F. Wagner consider “NOT (AI_LARGER_THAN_8.1)” to be ambiguous?
Feb 18	answered	Tool for teachers of informatics
Feb 18	comment	Tool for teachers of informatics Small nitpick, in English, 'computer science' is the preferred term over 'informatics'. It's a common error when translating from European languages (particularly from French).
Feb 18	comment	Programming curricula @Phobia I think that may just be a difference in regional naming. I think the term 'community college' may be particular to parts of the USA, but it is likely largely similar to the sort of institution to which I refer.
Feb 18	comment	Programming curricula @davidk01 I'm not familiar with what's available globally, but in my home town of Calgary, SAIT is an excellent tech school.
Feb 18	answered	Programming curricula
Feb 18	answered	What to do as a new team lead on a project with maintainability problems?
Feb 18	comment	Do we need use case levels or not? I consider authentication and authorisation to be the sort of technical details that are normally not interesting to build use cases. Authentication and authorisation are not things the user wants to do, but a technical detail in the way of the user's final goal.
Feb 18	answered	What is a good one-stop-shop for understanding software licensing information?
Feb 18	comment	GoF Design Patterns - which ones do you actually use? @CraigS I've used many of them. The authors of Design Patterns have a set of good examples with each pattern they describe. The best suggest I can give is to spend the time to read the book thoroughly.