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Of course, he left out the fact that the $40,000.00 USD worth of computer time was stolen from a US government owned computer on loan to one of his professors. He didn't actually P…

Here's 2min & 57 seconds that sums it up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nfgRf2A0Tc Bill & Balmer didn't even have an agreement with Seattle Computer Products when they pitched i…

1 - Correction: writing late, typo - BASIC should have been property of the US tax payers. 2 - It was still pretty novel back then, but "borrowing" computer time w/o paying for it …

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The general guideline isn't actually an amount: it's 3 - 6 months worth of living expenses. That is, what it takes to cover housing, transportation, food & utilities. If you're "li…

Seattle area is blessed with a wealth of all ages and 21+ barcades. There's a great one less than 5 miles from my house. I've been a pinball fan for years and still play weekly, pl…

Scrum is training wheels. The time boxes are supposed to make you reflect and improve. Ditch Scrum. Go to Kanban, scope your stories smaller and prioritize bug fixes over all new w…

No, no. Go right ahead and sink time and money into this sort of crap. Just like every attempt before, it'll generate a pile of garbage that's unmaintainable yet will still manage …

Don't forget the classic parody of SAFe which shows it as the overblown "waterfall in agile clothing" that it is: LAFABLE. https://www.lafable.com/

You can skip the tar pit of the Scrum Industrial complex (e.g. "here! you MUST take our certificate program!") and the drag setting pointless sprint boundaries and focus on just re…

Yes! This is exactly my point. Having included something as fluff as "Essential Scrum" on TOP of skipping Beck's "TDD by Example" or Feathers' "Working Effectively with Legacy Code…

Not only why is there a garbage book like "Essential Scrum", why is there no mention of any unit testing or TDD books? If the author is seriously going to plug Martin Fowler's Refa…

I feel like the concern here is that we're quickly moving from open ended, content and _capability_ creation era(e.g. I can program anything I want for my PC _WITH_ my PC) to a mer…

People can go ahead mod me down for this, but I honestly don't care at this point. Here's the best ways to avoid this: 1.) Quit doing PRs for feedback. Start doing pair or mob prog…

Define "slightly older". The US Equal Opportunity Employment considers you part of the protected class against age discrimination if you're over 40 (see https://www.eeoc.gov/age-di…

Yes. This bullshit you describe was real. I remember having managers in 1998 using Microsoft Project and HUGE plotters that were used for nothing but printing out massive Gantt cha…

If you want pacing & support for Nand2Tetris, Coursera has it split into two courses. I've done the first from NAND gates to a working CUP & assembler and can testify it's worthy. …

Grab one of these: The C64 https://www.amazon.com/C64-not-machine-specific/dp/B08GMTJYX... Games pre-installed (and you can add your own) plus you can boot into BASIC.

Don't bother working for a large company. If you haven't seen it already, just watch the movie Office Space ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/ ) and you can see everything you…

I've gotten hired due to LinkedIn exactly once, and it was helpful. However, that's not how I "use" it. LinkedIn's best use is what it was intended for: a professional networking s…

+1 for Suits. I didn't do all the seasons, but I was pretty solid for the first five. Also, every guy could use a "Donna" in his life.

So competitive for status - just had to show up Springfield by being larger, eh?( https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Springfield_Tire_Yard ).

Never start a business without OPM*. Also, in too many cases, the term applied should be 'entremanure', as the people in question are full of... You get the idea. *Other People's M…

If you think you have an idea worth pursuing, work on it on the side while keeping your "day job". If it takes off, quit your job once you can replace your income with the side wor…

I highly doubt that could be done profitably. The water infrastructure support alone (increased water usage for showering, laundry, dishwashers) might kill it when you consider the…