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May the four winds blow you safely home. It was a privilege to see him perform many times.

While I completely agree with the sentiment, there are 100 million reasons why it will never happen. Having dealt with Oracle for over 20 years, I have seen their predatory relatio…

Pretty much, at least at the semantic layer. https://publish.obsidian.md/followtheidea/Content/AI/Ontolog...

Perhaps just me still carrying some latent trauma, but the upside down, legs bent moment reminded me of a picture from 9/11. Not going to link to it.

Based on the title, I was expecting the article to be a lamentation on Jira and Scrum.

And perhaps a sense of civic duty: Those tax rates were created (hopefully) by elected representatives.

Makes Fleabag’s cafe more normal (Guinea Pigs are not Hamsters, I know).

“This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.” Overheard every few sprints…

Me too! I have shared this point with several people over the years and none understood this. I guess I was a WordPerfect nerd.

Or 2 years for Heidegger?

Same. Maybe this thread can lead a resurgence of the word “Panglossian”.

Rather than call the Amazon execs liars and sadists perhaps consider that the senior execs (Andy and his directs) believe that they are responsible for crafting a successful compan…

This makes me think of that show from Japan where parents send their 5-year-olds to go grocery shopping on their own. And reminds me of the many times friends and I rode our bikes …

I am willing to pay to have the physical interface built if anyone with the machinist/electrical engineering skills is interested. My vision is to have the screen and button interf…

https://youtu.be/b2F-DItXtZs?si=rxrMwJVu95WQQt7M

I agree that this is not a move I am happy to see. I hope I am proven wrong. I have been struggling with my love of Twilio. For years they have been one of my favorite tech compani…

On many United flights you can connect to onboard wifi without buying the plan and have internet access on port 22 and apparently unrestricted UDP. This allows me to connect to an …

True. Imagine where we would be if that hadn’t happen. The lost opportunity is immense.

That resume reinforces the argument that the GI Bill is the best legislation every passed in the US.

abxytg made a list of their experiences at Apple, but that list is empty.

In my experience, the “predictable deliveries” delivered by agile are based on behavior changes induced by the methodology. Specifically, focusing on stable point velocity per spri…

It will be interesting to see how these events impact confidence in efforts to rebuild Luna Classic (LUNC).

Reading this comment makes me want to say “OK Boomer” for the first time (I am an old Gen X person). I can’t think of a single time since the 80’s that a Mellencamp song has had an…