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That's not a squash or not problem, that's a your tickets are too large problem. If you normally end up with 3000 line feature commits, you're trying to do too much with individual…

Make a status for blocked, create a column for that status

That was the fogbugz approach, I hated fogbugz as it was too prescriptive

It sure would be "unfortunate" if they replaced autocratic rule with a representative democracy.

Is there not value to be gained when someone is struggling to get past a problem? I've seen what happens when people too quickly phone a friend whenever they hit a problem, the end…

The Ecobee has been great, simple and just works. I received it for free from some in-home energy program, but I will buy another when I move.

Not sure why you're being downvoted, the switch has done wonders for my cardio

If that were true (I have no info either way), wouldn't that mean most drivers have no clue the true cost of working for Lyft/Uber? All they see if free money, but aren't factoring…

I'm curious to find out what people define as fizzbuzz, do you have a good example of something you've asked in the past?

That may be true on windows or some flavours of desktop Linux where simple windows management have existed for some time (windows 10 being a real champ of multiple frame management…

Those of us living in the frozen wasteland that is winter in the rest of Canada can definitely not relate!

If I get a marked as spam notification, I'll strip anything after the '+' (and really any special characters that distract from the raw email address) to make sure I never send an …

Most math is useless to 95% of the population. I can't remember the last time I used any of the teachings of my calculus heavy undergrad.

I'm 15 years into my career and have yet to be destroyed for not taking the time to learn the details of every abstraction I utilize. That seems like a massive wasted effort when I…

As a landlord, I don't want my tenants renting to people I haven't had a chance to vet. At least if I'm taking on the risks or ABnB I'm also reaping the rewards. Good luck collecti…

Refactor, with the right IDE this should take minutes. OOP witbout something like intellij or VS.NET is not fun.

Create an assessment that aims to gauge those traits in an unbiased way, but that would not be a cheap process.

That's the craziest thing ive ever heard, Easter egg to disable bad security options. What is this a video game?

The slavery of foreign workers looking to employers to sponsor them on their path to citizenship. We have a similar program in Canada, and it's really sad to see talented people st…

You should be able to record the deletion request for the life of the backup and purge those records once the backups are deleted (all tied to the same rolling dates)

With an ever expanding world population, possibly on the verge of unsustainable, would a plummeting birth rate necessary be a bad thing? Sure it would mean redesigning how we see t…

Are you more in-line with Confluence, as a place to build a database of knowledge in the organization? This is purely my opinion, so please take it with a large grain of salt. I'm …

If they were worried about the underlying problem of merge conflicts, the easiest solution would be the creation of a private notes field for any event shared with you. That way an…