John Scott

The pain of low quality far outlasts the joy of low price.

[John Scott @JohnScottUK]

@itvMLshow can I crystallise (sell &buy at the same time) my shares each year to reduce the capital gains over the long term?

[John Scott @JohnScottUK]

@MartinSLewis Just xfer 2 of 4 nos. 2 to go. @o2 messing around. Text for PAC and get told to call for PAC (1 acct >1 num). o2 from app said I can SMS 🤦. Eventually got PAC for 2 nos. One failed to transfer on the day. @giffgaff sorted it and gave me £5credit. 👍

[John Scott @JohnScottUK]

@MartinSLewis @Ofcom I’m leaving @O2 now. If you have an account with multiple numbers and you SMS for a PAC I get a response saying they can’t do it via SMS. MyO2 chat has lengthy wait times so I’m guessing lots are jumping ship. 2 of 4 PAC codes down 2 more to go.

[John Scott @JohnScottUK]

@tottinge “Student heats pop-tart before school to have a hot lunch” is a completely different story.

(Now I’m hungry 😋)

[John Scott @JohnScottUK]

@t3dotgg @itsquibloo @Kraft_der_Natur @tinrab Agreed. IMHO TDD never mean’t literally “write tests first”. That stmt probably aims to steer ppl away from writing volumes of code without any tests. Write a little code then some tests then write more code using prev tests to check if u broke existing code. Thats still TDD.

[John Scott @JohnScottUK]

@allenholub How should a company decide on the most valuable thing? As soon as you have >1 department (eg sales, marketing, supply chain) How should they decide that feature x is more valuable than feature y?

[John Scott @JohnScottUK]

@Grady_Booch @kimmonismus I think that over time programming will change. I’m reminded of how they “program” the holodecks and other computers on Star Trek. They describe what they want and the computer gives them exactly that. Isn’t that a bit like prompts?

[John Scott @JohnScottUK]

@Grady_Booch @matthewclifford I’m thinking: understand the user’s story - a description of the users work not our work (credit @allenholub for my “ah ha” moment on user stories) - then identify ways AI can help the user achieve their work.

[John Scott @JohnScottUK]

@allenholub This has descended into playground passive aggressive attacks. That’s disappointing. All I offered initially was an opinion as to why people asked for estimates. In the words of the dragons “I’m out”. Have a great weekend.

[John Scott @JohnScottUK]

@allenholub @vveloso @StooCrock Ppl have changed the scope of my original analogy. So it’s no longer my analogy. Mine is limited to software and meals are delivered in increments and ppl want predictable time and cost for both. Anything else - Kitchens etc - are out of scope of my analogy.

[John Scott @JohnScottUK]

@stylewarning I think it needs a good understanding of what my_list=[] means.

What do ppl think would happen with

surprise()
surprise([])
surprise()

[John Scott @JohnScottUK]

@hot_girl_spring After the second call the default array will contain two ‘x’ elements which are never seen. Try swapping the print and append of surprise to see the final default array contents.

[John Scott @JohnScottUK]

@hot_girl_spring I can see that if no parameter is passed then my_list refers to the (unnamed) default array [] which surprise prints and then appends ‘x’ to. On the second surprise call my_list refers to the same (unnamed) array which now has a single ‘x’ which surprise prints and appends to.

[John Scott @JohnScottUK]

@mattbarcomb @cjm4189 @allenholub I’ll risk going down another rabbit hole by suggesting training an AI model to come up with estimates based on what we have to estimate against and the actual cost/time spent. Maybe it can spot patterns we mere humans find difficult to predict…

[John Scott @JohnScottUK]

@thefunkyhermit @phillip @allenholub More often inaccurate or accurate only within a range. But they are often required to secure scarce resource like time and money.

[John Scott @JohnScottUK]

@allenholub @mattbarcomb Ageeed. I hate giving guesstimates and have them taken as accurate quotes. However for many it’s the order of the day.

[John Scott @JohnScottUK]

@mattbarcomb @allenholub You are right. I offered an opinion why people ask for estimates. Now we’re here.