I've been looking at a few financial companies lately, and I wanted to talk about some clauses I consider unreasonable that are found in the legal agreements they expect you to click through. I mean, I'm sure that nearly everyone clicks through these sorts of things without reading them (much …
For some time now, I have been interested in journalism, especially journalistic ethics. And today I find myself encountering such an issue.
There is a conflict between two sources of information I have respect for. One is the New York Times. The other is a blogger who goes by Scott …
Posted Tue 23 June 2020 by mcherm in Journalism
I am building a system to store records about businesses (within the US). As with most systems these days, it will be highly distributed: it runs in three different data centers, each running multiple machines each of which runs numerous threads. One of the things that this distributed system needs …
Posted Sun 15 September 2019 by mcherm in Programming
Question: Do you feel that daily standups add value?
Only a couple of times in my life have I been involved in a project where a single highly-motivated developer worked independently on a project without a need to communicate about changing requirements, share development and code-review effort with others, or …
Posted Tue 16 April 2019 by mcherm in Software Development
Twice recently I have heard Mark Mathewson (MVP for International and Small Business Tech at Capital One, where I work) give a talk in his capacity as executive responsible for inspiring our diversity programs within Tech. I have also heard the subject raised by 
Jenn Flynn who runs the Small …