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i have seen a scrum master code. ScrumMaster = NULL; there you go !

"individuals and interactions" is how you make great things happen. "processes and tools" is how you make boring things happen at scale and with high quality. very few teams are wi…

Easier but not better. If you have a performance problem, there is a process in place to to deal with it. Not easy, but it gives the employee notice and the opportunity to improve.…

Then repeat until you are proud of the work.

The moral compass points to the money

12K? What is that 5 to 7% of the total employment. Just don't hire for 120 days. Accomplish the same results and you don't even need to make a press release.

dallas / ft worth you pay about $125 an hour for shop labor. lot's of places have a placard with a $200 rate, but they never charge that much. (replaced headlights, they broke a wi…

There are no fat POW's.

I know that you are trying to make a point, but I think meth would be a viable treatment option for some people. Medically supervised and monitored. If you need to lose 100 lbs, it…

optimization. every human activity has been optimized to make more money. there is no capacity to deal with exceptions.

someone has to fill the right side of the bell curve. except in Wobegon, Minnesota. of course.

someone should calculate this. "Dieing from covid is like winning $1000 in the lottery" // It sure isn't like winning $1 Million. // And it sure isn't a $2 winner // Somewhere in b…

engineering

It was a DS-20

ssh'd to a live alpha server at work last year. there were some files on there I wanted to look at. the machine has to be at least 20 years old at this point. but it feels fast. ba…

How about proprietary "non unix's"? Anyone running VMS? RSTS/E ? Or on rare hardware, OS-32 on a PE 8/32, or MPX on any SEL 32 family? MPE on Harris ?

if you work for a defense contractor, it's every 6 minutes (tenths of an hour)

I think he missed the cloud revolution. Linux / containers and the browser is where the action is in 2020. windows is just a truck that holds a web browser.

Starting about 5 years ago, I noticed that when i type letters show up out of order. seems to be more prevalent on newer keyboards. also, the interaction with automatic spelling co…

voluntary, i think this is a great idea. whenever a new hire starts, and they have any kind of military training (enlisted, officer, drop out from service academy, JROTC, ROTC, or …

My experience in the USAF. The tech school I was in lasted about 7 months. Every week we had tests. Drop 2 tests, and you moved over to "Bakery Operations School" two buildings ove…

People wash out of training all the time. You don't join to be a SEAL, you join to be a Sailor. The AF is full of Security Police that though they were going to be Para-Rescue, and…

Lubbock. Tyler. El Paso. Places where real estate is cheap, and there are no democrats to have work rules.

Meta is down. Maybe a time to buy. The sheep still are spending every waking hour on facebook.

That is business insight. You can generalize that to say the average HN reader knows how to run anything better. 90% of management is equal to or worse than calling random() to mak…