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Geekbot mentions (13)

• Automating standups using GPT4 and Github APIs

  We think GitReport could replace standup apps like Geekbot. So we're making it into a product. More Git features are coming, like tracking issues and pull requests. Source: 9 months ago

• Agile / Scrum

  We run standups every day, however only 2x of them are a Teams call. The other 3 are run using a tool called Geekbot (Yes scrum masters do hate this) which is basically just a chatbot that sends you the standard standup questions and you can answer whenever you feel like it. This has helped our team heaps due to having such a huge mix of people in our team (Cloud Eng, Database Eng, Software Eng, Network Eng) that... Source: 12 months ago

• What do you really think of your daily standup?

  My new job recently pulled in https://geekbot.com/ to handle stand ups. Answer a couple basic questions when you login, and they’re all sent to a central channel. I’m not big on that type of communication in general, but it takes maybe 30 seconds each morning. Source: about 1 year ago

• As an IC, is there anything I can do about super cheerful team members using up meetings time?

  We use Geekbot to help standups. The feedback from each dev goes into a channel, then we talk about things that need to be addressed or things we're working on. Source: over 1 year ago

• Scrum Has Failed the Developers

  Back in 2005, I remember working on startups running on Scrum principles. It worked well at the time, we where able to ship, grow the team, and move forward with a nice few-features-per-week cadence, working remotely, on a small team; less than 10. Tt always worked fine, but very slow, as all-dev-things were at the time. I worked with ActiveColab in 2007, Skype 2007, Yammer 2009, Trello 2011, Pivotal Tracker 2013,... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Quorum mentions (6)

• What would an ideal language for teaching new programmers be like?

  Someone else in a comment mentioned Quorum language, which I've watched a video/conference talk about before and seems to be a language designed around an evidence-based approach to teaching programming. The video I watched (can't find it right now) was mostly focused on syntax, such as which keywords are easiest for beginners to pick up. That doesn't seem like the biggest deal to me (people learn and re-learn... Source: about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Alternatives to Scratch for a Blind Child?

  The Quorum programming language was originally designed for blind children. The language scope has expanded to appeal to all children. https://quorumlanguage.com/ Although the language is not widely known, the language creator posted to Hacker News in 2018: > Hi all, this is Andreas Stefik (I invented Quorum)....First, people saying Quorum was originally designed for blind children are correct. Originally, we were... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Kids don't need tools for kids

  > I can't deny that there's something there that makes [Scratch] more accessible than other platforms Not for blind kids. Yes, maybe I bring up that kind of accessibility too often, but using the word "accessible" was just asking for it. :) And seriously, that matters in a public school environment. Fortunately, using a haphazardly designed mainstream language like JavaScript isn't the only alternative. Check out... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Features of a dream programming language: 2nd draft.

  Names: No alias names in the language or standard library, except for in documentation. Inspired by Python ("explicit over implicit", "one way over multiple ways"). Counter-inspired by Perl (postmodern plurality) and aliasing in the Ramda library. All things tend toward disorder, as programmers it is our job to Fight Entropy. The language should favor one consistent vocabulary, since it increases predictability... - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Which is the best language for learning programming?

  Arguably neither of them is any better, if you’re just trying to understand the basic concepts of imperative programming. There’s languages out there specifically designed for learners that probably do a better job of introducing those concepts to complete neophytes. Sadly this is not a well studied area with a lot of quantification, so universities tend to make the decision based more on political and economic... Source: almost 3 years ago