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Pit stop analysis shows ancient travelers were often thousands of miles from home. Admit it - weren't you curious how they went about it pre-2-ply?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Admit it - weren't you curious how they went about it pre-2-ply?
I wasn't, until now.
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Perhaps it was just a fluke?
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The newest version of OpenBSD closes potential security loopholes -- such as its Linux compatibility layer It's the Year of (no) Linux
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You can’t expect good performance from your employees if you are practicing bad management. Other mind-blowing facts: kittens are cute, bacon is tasty
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If the bullshit bandwagon named "agile" gets ostracised, many people will automatically become more productive.
A whole industry has been built around the agile nonsense (agile coach, anyone?). No? How about agile-doombastic master level 2 certification? No? How about a $1800 training for becoming a corporate-agile-project-scrum-enabler? F***ING NO.
PHBs have taken a liking for agile because it lets them interrupt everyone on a daily basis to ask "are we there yet?", and conduct like a million weekly meetings, which probably gives them a sense of importance and lets them prepare different kinds of reports to show it to their bosses as something they've done.
Sure, agile may be suitable for certain types of projects. But then there are also only a number of people who understand agile well and could practice it effectively. When you end up with an agile-tard type PHB who thinks that agile is the only way to build software, it could get quite asphyxiating.
modified 26-Jul-16 3:26am.
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I'm not entirely sure how cultural fit/misfit comes into picture here. It is highly irrelevant to weather agile is being followed in a place because I may (or may not) be able to fit into a given workplace's culture with no regards to what methodology they're practising to build software.
The two points I wanted to highlight in my previous post are:
- Few projects are actually suitable to be executed with agile
- Even fewer people have a good understanding of how to practise agile
Put these two together, and you could get yourselves into a messy place easily where projects may be run solely by playing blame games and politics producing crap quality code (are we there yet?) that's non-maintainable.
The only place I worked at who followed agile very well (and I enjoyed it) was Intel.
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You're entitled to your opinion.
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N_tro_P wrote: Sorry but you are simply dead wrong here
Nope, not wrong at all. Leave alone "dead".
N_tro_P wrote: You can not have a process that does not agree with the culture.
Thanks for making my point for me.
Unfortunately, the shots are called by a small number of people who neither understand agile, nor software development and they thrust this down upon everyone to execute every kind of project. So, in practice, we end up having the agile way of doing things, no matter whether the culture sees it as fit. How many times are the developers being consulted with before this is being shoved down their throats? In majority of the cases: Zero.
N_tro_P wrote: You may be correct on the second one, but you are dead wrong on the first. The only type of projects that should be using Waterfall type approaches are those that require massive analysis of requirement documents, e.g. certified systems.
You're making a very good point here, but you've also unfortunately contradicted yourselves (culture fit, remember?).
For those projects that are suitable to be executed in an agile way, the culture may or may not make it effective. And this isn't considered in most workplaces which results in conflicts between the team.
I hope you're not one of those certified-agile-scrummy-project-executioner-level-4 dude. Because if you were, you'd read the text but won't infer a thing.
You've to be a developer (with experience working in multiple places) to feel my pain. For all good reasons, I assume you are. 
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Mate, if you respond to a post weeks later, it makes it kinda hard to follow-up.
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Quantum computers may promise a giant leap forward in performance and efficiency, but none of that can happen until we figure out a practical way to build them. Russian scientists just announced what they say is a major advance. I still think Q*bert is the way to go
@!#?@! quantum computers!
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If that's pronounced how I think it's pronounced, I can see it annoying/confusing a lot of Harry Potter fans. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Glassdoor, a site founded on the idea of anonymity, mistakenly exposed the email addresses of hundreds of thousands of users. This is not the 'radical transparency' you're looking for
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Why don't companies just use a one-way hash of email address?
Oh yes - because spamming you is part of their business strategy...
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Quote: But he was even more upset that when he tried to contact the company about the problem, no one picked up the phone or quickly responded to his message.
Well there's elephanting surprise. I can't imagine any reason why their support channels might've been too swamped to even reply with a copypasta email in 15 minutes or less. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Competence means having enough experience and knowledge to get stuff done; proficiency involves knowing why you are doing something in a certain way, and how it fits into the big picture. Yet another list to either check off, or write off
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Build 14393 will be what used to be dubbed 'release to manufacturing' Incoming!
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Final semiconductor industry roadmap says the future is 3D packaging and cooling. "Do not screw with the regulator. If that regulator is compromised you would go sub-atomic."
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Security experts have always assumed that ransomware hackers are in it for the ransom. But a shocking claim made by one ransomware agent suggests there may be another motive: corporate sabotage. 'Burning Chrome' was a documentary?
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If this is true....
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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should have contact to say so. paper proof
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