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That is very likely an option, but probably not used a lot. I have worked with several people that had a similar schedule, but they did not start at the company with that schedule …

Roman concrete is not like modern concrete. The process in modern concrete does not stop and eventually makes it too brittle and falls apart, Roman concrete does not do this and ca…

Stand ups are not for top down management or managers. Daily Scrum Meeting aims to support the self-organization of the Scrum Team and identify impediments systematically.

Well, the manager is not supposed to be there. A scrum master is supposed to keep it organized and time boxed, but the team is supposed to self police/organize themselves. It's sup…

Agreed, views against stand ups are either team members hiding issues or the team is not doing stand ups like best practices suggest. Most of my teams problems with Agile/SCRUM com…

"Show up for 15 minutes, and then it’s safe to hide for the rest of the day." Lack of stand ups makes it safe to hide for multiple days. Short of reading the Shape Up book (which I…

Since this is not a public service, then no rationing is not bad. In the US, a lot of the homeless shelter are faith based and each only have so many beds to go around each night. …

You have to pass a driving test at age 16 (in US), after that you never need to test again (sometimes eye checks when you are old), cause um... nothing changes about driving or car…

Telsa is only a level 2 self driving car, but it has been sold as something way more advanced (Telsa has since pulled back some of the hype). A lot of people don't understand that …

The purpose of entertainment is to keep the masses from revolting during idle times.

They will sunset it without something new to replace it.

You have to first fight the battle that you do not own the software, but that you only have a license to use the software. If you win that, then you can fight for repair.

They are a consultant, so they just move on to the next client and let the perms deal with the politics.

InfoPath is end of life and PowerApps is their replacement.

Yes since it is describing more what you want and less how to do it, but SQL is not an end-to-end solution.

No difference than Excel Macro apps today. When Excel Macro wiz kid leaves the department or the company and it either breaks or needs new features then it goes to IT and they don'…

It was also an issue of the speed of capture. Paintings and old Cameras had long exposure times so you needed a pose that you could hold for a long time. https://time.com/4568032/s…

Dependency weight is more a factor for maintenance than initial development. The apps I write I have to support for many years, so this dependency weight does concern me. By depend…

5G Arm with a 4G Phone

"Whatever limitations you plan for, plan for how to bypass them too. This will happen." The world is not straightforward, allow an admin to fix/change anything and when they get ti…

I try to use the rule of after three levels of inheritance or abstraction then it needs to be a black box and then you can reset your count.

That is only a concern for medical grade masks. Most masks that people wear are to slow down the air, not filter the air.

One of the big issues for these kinds of things is that the United States has 51+ governments. The Federal Government has limited power and for a lot of stuff the 50 states can do …

For non-tech people they think the exact opposite. Facebook is a name they know and understand.

The Accounting department is usually backwards facing. The Finance department is usually forwards facing.