1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

It was encouraged.. Not completely required. That company was founded by seven young and astute people who grew up at IBM back in the glory days.

 

Currently watching my neighbors pretend to act like they know how to fell a tree thats leaning/broke off.

Its hooked at the top to another tree pretty good, and they are pulling on it with their truck...the wrong way. So I guess the plan is to yank two trees down.

 

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/extreme-programming-explained/0321278658/

Ever looked at Extreme Programming? It will not solve all of your problems. It might even make new problems for you. Either way, I think it's a nice bit of perspective. As far as I'm concerned, it's the definitive book on agile software development. Every book written after it is either re-hashing, tweaking, or expanding on the XP ideas.

 

Yeah you really have to adapt to the environment for sure, every company has its own weird way of fixing problems. That seems like a good way to deal with it.


At a previous job we had a scientific instrument that needed a new screen. I selected a new part, designed a pcb, got it to work mechanically, and then went looking for the firmware. I found it in a no longer employed coworkers hard drive image backup, inside a git repo, that had been checked into an svn repo.

After getting the correct compiler stack from behind the shelf in my bosses office, I got it to compile. It was perfect, not a single error. Then I found someone had disabled all error checking on that project.

It didn’t leave my desk till it compiled cleanly and the new screen worked, what a shitshow.

 

I should probably do that, at least so I understand more what they should be trying to accomplish. Right now it feels like they think if they just follow their process to the letter everything will be perfect, and it’s clearly not happening that way.

thanks!

 

I remember studying about that as part of my Scrum Master Certification. I'm from the scrum.org side of Agile. I remember the exam was not trivial.

 

Yea ive never had it happen with one this large either... customer mailed it in because there was "no output" on the 24v side. With as stupid as our customers are i assumed the adjustment screw got fucked with and they turned the output down below what the cooling fan could run on. Imagine my surprise when the fucker went off as soon as i flipped the switch on my test stand turning on the 480.. Scared me alot more than I thought something like that would

Bang was loud enough all the office personal came running out into the shop lol

 

Having completed it, how do you feel about Scrum Master Certification?

You sound like you came out okay, but I'm suspicious of anyone selling agile training and certifications. Too many people end up "doing agile" rather than being agile because they learned a process rather than a mindset.

 

480v input 24VDC out?

Yeah we dont have any that big. Just the single phase input ones. My boss grenaded a capacitor on a small VFD once. Said it was probably the closest thing to a flashbang he'll ever encounter.

 

What are types? We dont know and we don't care !!!!!

 

Yessir 480v AC 3A in, 24VDC 20A out. Used to run a slimline fan for a hydraulic cooler on one of our small powerpacks. When I went through an Eaton "VFD boot camp" (to be certified in both commissioning new VFD installs as well as repairing used units) we got to blow the capacitors on a 500hp SVX9000 as a demonstration, it's probably just because the capacitor bank is so enclosed in that drive compared to this little power supply, but that SVX9000 wasn't as bright or as loud as this little fucker.


Now I wanna experience an actual flashbang just so I can compare



@Kwikvette you got any kicking around?

 

All my floats are stored as arrays of bools.

 

At the time I certified, there was a big agile push without knowing much about what it really meant. I certified both as CSM and PSM to be somewhat method agnostic.

Users: We want agile so we can request more changes on the fly.
Developers: You mean that I need to attend a daily stand-up call and report on my assignment status?
Managers: I'm not changing the way I've been running development with some new deal thing that was developed at a ski lodge in Utah.

Scrum Master: Figures out a creative way to soothe warring factions, remove obstacles, and get something done.

 

Aha https://denver.craigslist.org/cto/d/louviers-2000-nissan-xterra-killer-rock/7448833340.html

 

@JKO1998 family friendly project start?

 

Nailed it.

 

ALLLLL the safety videos i had to sit through about arc flash protection went racing in my brain immediately after i realized i still had all my fingers, hearing and vision. Your meme is a perfect tongue-in-cheek synopsis of that lol


Worst of the worst case scenario but the good stuff starts just after the 0:52 mark https://youtu.be/Qf5ZU8Z5t2Y

 

I've tormented too many souls already with FBs and SGs