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The craziest part of this was that it was banking software. Every so often someone would inadvisedly suggest that banking customers weren't waiting on the edge of their seats for n…

There are certainly good reasons to make a team's progress visible. PMs/POs ( I'm never sure of the difference ) will want to know if a project can meet the release date. They will…

My first team, some 14 years ago, had the best experience with Agile. What made this work > During planning, everyone understood that the estimates were _estimates_. Tasks could ta…

Step 1: Write a JetBrains Cobol plugin

LPT: Bring a little unscented lotion in with you and put it on the TP.

I don't mean this to sound skeptical, just curious - would you say that the military gets things done better than your average tech company? I could fill pages with complaints and …

> Management should be punished excessively as a warning to others, though I do not expect them to be punished at all. "Management" is a group of ordinary people who are doing thei…

As much as I would normally get is enough for 4 people who are out of the house from 7am - 6pm every weekday.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/andrew-sullivan-real... This is a really insightful article from Andrew Sullivan where he compares the initial reaction to the Coronavirus t…

Y2038 will be interesting because one wonders how many engineers will be around with the skills to address it. Even now it might be hard to scrape together a team.

Being left out of social events is a significant reduction in my quality of life. I've got enough reasons to stay home all day without deliberately excluding myself from social eve…

I realized last week that I've gotten so used to not checking prices that I put a $70 bottle of melatonin in my amazon shopping cart without noticing. This particular brand is a re…

I use confluence ( you can get a one person license for free) and completely outline everything I'm reading. Sometimes I use bullet points, sometimes I type in code samples using t…

Relating to the article, that quote always makes me sad. I moved at 12, I didn't have friends. I feel like I missed something I can never get back.

"Hello dear, how was work?" "Oh you know, some of my larger coworkers pushed me down to the floor and told me how much they hated me. But I sucked it up" "That's great, get over it…

I put on a happy face when my parents asked if I wanted to move away in the 6th grade. I was a 'good kid' and didn't want to say no. But I didn't want to move, and moving was a com…

> Usenet was full of people like me I recognize you from afu! I only lurked, but I inevitably think of that group when I remember how good usenet used to be.

> On HN maybe, every local forum or town-hall I've seen it's the other way around. You may be right! I spend too much time in HN and reddit, and no time at all in forums and town h…

The bay area is such an outlier that I almost feel like it should be exempt from broader 'housing cost' discussions. Fixing the bay area housing crisis is a whole other set of conc…

> School superintendent: Actually we've run the numbers, we have plenty of capacity and we welcome the additional tax revenue. "we've run the numbers" is a poor response. Our local…

> In 2001 William Fischel of Harvard University proposed his “homevoter hypothesis”. The thinking runs that owner-occupiers have an incentive to resist development in their local a…

As opposed to other school systems? Out-of-the-home-schooling is not something invented in the US.

Our elementary school uses chromebooks from 1st grade on, and I do see a lot of downsides. The most outrageous problem, IMO, is that there are 'modules' that must be completed, and…

On come on, this is nonsensical click-bate. How can you declare with a straight face that Baidu >which controls two-thirds of China’s online search market, appears to have been act…