APPropriate Behaviour
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Monthly Archives: July 2018
On study-only licences
In my previous post, I mused on the value of Freedom Zero and of a non-free licence that allows for study but not for use: I think it would have to be a licence that enabled studying, sharing and modification … Continue reading
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Is Freedom Zero such a hot idea?
I’ve been thinking lately that if we don’t want to work on the databases that extremist governments use to detain immigrants they have separated from their children, or on the operating systems that well-equipped militaries used to rain autonomous death … Continue reading
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Story points: there’s no right way to do it
Story points as described represent an attempt to abstract estimation away from “amount of stuff done per unit time”, because we’re bad at doing that and people were traditionally using that to make us look bad. So we introduce an … Continue reading
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OOP the Easy Way
It’s still very much a work in progress, but OOP the Easy Way is now available to purchase from Leanpub (a free sample is also available from the book’s Leanpub page). Following the theme of my conference talks and blog … Continue reading
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