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The previous generations didn’t exactly set a good example for healthy, impersonal and professional argument.

Are there any communities that are really based on merit?

“Do these people not realize how annoying their process is and how talented people don’t have to put up with crap like this?” Easy. They select for compliance, not skill.

“ Qualities like duty, loyalty, initiative and industriousness are deemed weaknesses.” Wherever you look, loyalty is for suckers. Be it as employee, car insurance or cell phone pla…

The current implementation of Agile in most cases is pretty much the opposite of agile as described in the agile manifesto. In my team we have reduced the process to having a simpl…

I have been to New York and I have also seen Paris during a strike of garbage collectors. It gets ugly very quickly once collection stops. The number one thing I have noticed in Ne…

“I used to wonder how on earth nazis and communists and the like were able to seize power and control of a population, and now I've seen it” That’s how the US has worked for a long…

A small hardware store in town went out of business because they were forced to close. Same for a lot of other small stores. I could understand reducing number of people in the sto…

“ That said, companies are often wrong to hire externally as they misattribute their problems to their employees instead of to their own leadership. It is easier for them to blame …

The same happened in CA with some stores being open and others closed. Why was Home Depot open? It made no sense in terms of spreading the disease . It was just arbitrary BS. Closi…

Why do firefighters have no effect on tourism? Without them you can not run a city. Same for many other jobs like garbage collection.

I enjoyed programming in the 90s and early 2000s but I feel it’s turning again into tedious grunt work with scrum, agile, yaml configuration files and needlessly complex systems.

You need to nail one use case really, really, really well and impress people. When they ask about other things you can then state that they are in development.

There was a thing on NPR a while ago. It basically claimed that plastic recycling was invented as PR strategy by the oil/plastic industry. When you look at the facts it makes sense…

CA prefers to lead on insane housing prices, inequality and number of billionaires. They have played a pretty good role in environmental protections though. Not sure how I should t…

The port of VS to WPF was definitely not a showcase for WPF capabilities. Pretty much everything was worse or slower after the port. And a ton of features was missing. Even now the…

I wrote my first web app to track my rebates :). Even had some sign ups. Vbscript with an Access database. Worked pretty well.

I bought a lot of stuff with rebates and I almost always got a check after a very long wait. Sometimes you had to call the number to make them send it out. It was fine when I didn’…

And the offshore team should be large to perform autonomous work. We often get only one or two guys from India or China who need to work closely with the US team . So it ends up wi…

This schedule may work if you have no other obligations. But it won’t work for a lot of people.

The disregard for time zones is really annoying. From the US offshoring to middle and South America works really well. But somehow we often end up with India where it’s basically i…

I do that too. I am not giving into the pressure set up by the company and it’s up to the other people to refuse too. Otherwise the company sets up abusive systems and workers play…

There are plenty of jobs with a regular workday. Stay away from operations/on-call and avoid companies with offshoring in other time zones.

Welcome to health care. We produce a ton of documents that then disappear into a terrible document management system to never be found again.