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When I was in India (1975-1976) on an academic fellowship, driving and traffic was nightmarish. It took me only a month of living in Thailand to realize that traffic could even more dangerous.
Perhaps where you live in India drivers practice ahimsa ?
cheers, Bill
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
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It is worse now. I live very close to office so it is fine. I would mostly use it for weekend rides very early in morning and to near by towns. That is OK. In city, it is nightmare and that is one of the factors that my wife and I both use Uber. It is just so easy.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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I find riding a motorcycle makes me a much better driver. I'm constantly aware of the other drivers around me on matter if I'm riding or driving. I spot the texters and cell phone users quickly and avoid them. Take cues from wheels turning from parked cars on the curb to know who is a threat.
Yes, its dangerous, but there are no guarantees in life.
Hogan
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Absolutely agree!
My driving skills improved immensely after riding a bike - to the extent where I am usually correct, based on how someone is driving, if they are going to cut in front of me(erratic road position, drifting slowly to the left without indicating).
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Go ahead an buy it, the world needs another target.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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What's the range on that thing? With a 10 liter tank, reserve included (!) you're not going to get far  . Looks awesome though.
correction, the looks don't match the power (44 hp) apparently  . So my guess is that it will only use up about 3-4 liter / 100km. Why would you buy something with that low power? I own a 66hp machine (honda transalp 2008) and find that already somewhat lacking power on occasion. (despite it being a very nice motorcycle on all accounts)
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I didn't look at the specs but 44 is way underpowered for a bike looking like that 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I live in India. That is way too much power here. Also, 1000cc motorcycles are mostly imported which means I need to pay a lot of import duty. I can't afford that. even f I could, I will not since there is no infrastructure or any kind of driving sense here to enjoy those machines.
It is very light, it has great looks and gives me enough acceleration to enjoy and feel safe at the same time.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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As long as you can enjoy it 
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Different types of people in my team.
1. The one that works like terminator, without any kind of distractions, Focuses on the tasks for 8 continuous hours. Reports a perfect list of items completed in daily meeting. These are HIGHLY productive but not much creative thinking.
2. The one that slacks a bit & never come to work on time, but suggests something surprisingly new. Also gets the work done in top most perfection, but with a marginal slip of deadline, occasionally.
3. There were very few, who got the ability to focus, be productive & at the same time come up with new creative ideas. And they don't stay in the organization for long.
Now the abuse called stand up meeting everyday, It puts No.2 people in shame. Because they don't have a concrete work-log to showcase everyday, but on alternative days, they show the right progress balancing the previous day. And mostly done with better design/code etc.
Sometimes they spend most of the time on social networks & Whenever they don't have something to show, they feel a bit shrunken. I'm thinking why should we put them to shame everyday in the name of meeting, when they are completing them all, every alternative day. But my directors insist to have this practice everyday. I'm just thinking.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Stand up is just a team sync up, to let the team know if one of them needs to help another or if some unexpected problem hit. It's that simple, shouldn't be some form of report to managers or somewhere where anyone should feel ashamed. A good team appreciates what each and every person brings to the table because we are all different.
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Yeah this looks healthy!
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Stickies must be seen to be moving!! Process over people!!
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A daily progress meeting of any kind is a sign that you have a team with trust issues.
A team with trust issues can never reach the top of Cog's ladder[^] - in fact it is a daily reinforcement of the "Why we're here stage".. which is also why the type 3's that want to be more effective are having to leave.
IMO - You need a virtual and asynchronous stand-up which is a progress dashboard and a wiki, and stewards to keep any non players off the pitch.
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Yeah there's some kind of "hybrid" work management evolving in companies around here. They pick up all the buzz words like Scrum/Standup/Agile etc and mix it with traditional work-bullying techniques.
They want to squeeze work out every hour.
We work across different locations. Some of team members are in other location. When these people spend multiple hours in social networks , or over phone with family. The directors there pings me and verifies with me if all these guys are properly "loaded".
I'm really getting pissed off with these terminologies.
Thanks for the link. It's wonderful! Never came across this one.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Sounds like your scrum master and/or agile coach need to help the management along - you know understanding servant leadership, supporting the team, reading information radiators (especially if you use tfs teach them what cuflow does as well as burn down).
modified 24-Mar-16 9:36am.
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Vunic wrote: They want to squeeze work out every hour.
Which is death to a productive creative developer.
Liking to think that I am a number 3(in your list) - if you looked at me at work you might think that I am not doing very much sometimes, but I am thinking.
Then when my hands hit the keyboard I am very productive on the non-neuronal physical plane - I have never been late on a project yet(at least not for any reasons based on decisions I have made).
So when the boss sometimes wants to know what the team has been up to on a daily basis, there is the sound of a collective sight from everyone. Explaining that all the projects have been delivered on time and that we have provided more than has been asked for is not enough - we have to to seen to be busy all the time too.
Did I say that I was leaving my current job on Thursday next week?
In my experience of IT work, I have come to the conclusion that the vast majority of people who manage IT teams who do not have 10+years of developer/Ops experience are not fit for the job(there is a minority who are just gifted, empathetic and intelligent people who can pull it off).
This said if everything is very structured and the team is really using an agile methodology then there is no reason why the creative thinkers should not be able to factor this in as part of the daily report in - it's fine to say ' I am still investigating the possibilities of xyz framework'.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 24-Mar-16 10:23am.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: A daily progress meeting of any kind is a sign that you have a team with trust issues.
Not at all. In my last job we had a team in India that was working on a project. Our daily meeting is the reason we had such a successful offshore experience. Most people think I'm lying when I say that we did offshore successfully because no one has been able to do it. It wasn't anything special, just a daily meeting to see where they are at and what issues they might have.
But, as SCRUM teaches, it's important to keep your tasks to at most 1 days worth of work.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I agree there is definite value in stand up when a team is location split. We all know that isn't ideal, but sometimes it's necessary and a quick sync between the team just lets everyone share where we need to go.
I would note it's very easy for these things to morph to being out of team control, sounds like Vunic is having this issue.
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GStrad wrote: I would note it's very easy for these things to morph to being out of team control, sounds like Vunic is having this issue.
You're right. You need a good Scrum Master or someone who can make sure meetings stay on task. It isn't that hard.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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The only issue I see is the directors' attitude. I have not complained about any other things here.
And stand up meetings also, Im against doing it mechanically at a specific time daily. Forcing someone to come on time implicitly. And to see if all are always loaded. No matter its short or long meetings, I'm for all these on need basis.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Apologies if I read to much into some of your comments about directors behaviour I read it that the daily is being used a space to monitor the teams 'loading'.
It does sound like the directors attitude is stinky and I would expect scrum master or agile coach to be pushing back on the directors. BTW, To me the stand up doesn't have to be at start of day so it doesn't police timeliness, I've worked in a few teams where it has middle of the day or last thing - whatever suits the team it's their meeting (and as such is as valuable, long / short or existent as the team needs).
As for loading - I would expect any decent manager to understand how loading / overloading and creative thinking work - that is part of what they are paid for. Although (again) they will need some tutoring if they don't understand it.
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No worries.
The background of the directors matters. They all come from big Indian companies , and the way they get the job done is totally different there. They try to apply all the out dated management techniques in the name of Agile/Scrum.
There are different teams operating, I in couple of LT meeting, leads have raised the productivity levels of few people, who apparently slacked way too much and nothing could be done out of them. Eventually all of them were shown the door. These incidents trigger panic in the minds of directors, who also happens to be Founders/investors. So tend to go in this 'take no chance' mode and try to grip everyone through the same law. But I'm the shield for my team. I set them free as much as possible and make everything by need basis. Only this "thorough" daily meeting , for the moment I'm doing as it was insisted routinely. But I'm putting my case clear on these things. And basically these big guys are not so bad, they listen to me and many times they go with what I'm suggesting. I think it's a matter of proving the productivity levels , with my customized dev-ops model. I'll be there !
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Don't you hate having to drop everything for a "pointless" meeting when you are in full creative flow?
Sadly, that is part of the game.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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Seriously that's so disgusting. And I've freed my team from so many of these nonsense.
There were even some kind of implicit rules to force people to log into work on time, quite early in the morning, No matter if his/hers presence in the office is required so early in the office or not. They were trying to establish a kind of "Best practices". I've stopped them from doing what is not exactly , required.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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