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Eh, Rare was putting out multiple games in a short timespan of larger size in programming teams fairly small in the 90s. The tools themselves don't seem specific to inducing incred…

That still doesn't solve the prerequisites being exceedingly rare in most teams. A system solving an issue under rare circumstances is barely worth considering, doubly so if it doe…

You might be a decade behind, but there's still diminishing returns kicking in hard even just a few years in. That's disregarding inefficient learning and what else which may close…

>but this is the issue addressed with planning poker. It isn't. Having a team which is both intimately familiar enough with the set of features as a whole, and understands how to u…

>We go through life making a lot of guesses and utilizing a lot of prior probabilities. Work history is, in my experience, one of the stronger signals available to us. Research con…

>(and it is mostly boys) I'd really like to see on what basis you're writing this when many other things point to either the opposite or the numbers being equal. >because society's…

> Code where the project manager didn't believe in encapsulation, or refactoring, or none of that "architectural nonsense" If anything I find the largest proponents to have drunk t…

>Suddenly this is the thread that has snapped for you and said this is wrong? How about we take our own advice, stop making assumptions and "be nice" as you put it, hm? >The cops s…

>not to do business with a likely sex offender And if you are wrong, are you also willing to apologize for hasty decision making? Or will you hide behind the crowd and say 'well ev…

Consoles aren't going to be obsolete anytime soon while the alternatives, PCs and laptops, are more expensive, worse at the same price range, and provide worse handheld experience.…

>And should mediocre CEOs that fail or otherwise perform poorly get golden parachutes? No, of course not So start there instead of making it seem like your few specific examples sp…

Only Japan would remotely apply unless you're cheating the system by checking only hotspot cities and trying to claim they are the entirety of their country. Suffice to say, most p…

>but how is that too much otherwise? Because people lack discipline, will powder Scrum meetings on top of existing meetings, create more meetings from stand-ups because Scrum doesn…

>If you burn out your employees Burn out in Europe is still omnipresent and rising these days. This includes Germany, the 'chosen child' every proponent points at in these discussi…

Free healthcare is not a given even in well-off EU countries. Besides a 'strong social system' (too vague given the dozen ways each country's system is leaking), the remaining poin…

Counterpoint, most places do not teach individuals how to check in often and make their stuff smaller. Some of them don't even realize merging side branche into side branch is a va…

Cool. Real question, and truly think about it deep and hard: are you okay with being the martyr who ends up jailed, prosecuted, dead or what-have-you before we self correct? These …

What nuance would you want? YouTube is the most similar to Google Search of all Google products in regards to 'doing things people hate about Google', beyond maybe Android. The pro…

>I generally avoid Google products, but I do not understand the animosity towards YouTube It's still a Google product that does Google things. If you hate Google things, making an …

You're seriously arguing that someone with general knowledge of programming is going to get hard-stuck not knowing specifics of a language you and thousands of others have blogpost…

>men feel like they paid and should therefore receive Way to simplify something very complex. What do you expect men to do, quit trying everything and leave it up to fate? Keep up …

Just say what you want to say instead of hiding behind your snide comments. Those methods already exist, albeit weak, and business management still routinely favors theatrics over …

Sincerely, who gives a flying ** as long as things get done? All I can tell you, having 2 loud conversations going on in an open office almost the entire day is going to mess my pe…

2 hours? It takes a few minutes to bake most lean meats and eggs. Potatoes aren't too difficult to cut and cook. Same for rice. Many vegetables can be eaten raw. All of it can be d…

This was a webapp to be used internally in an enclosed system, so yes, modifying the keyboards. Company's own hardware.