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IMHO, your boss has twofold responsibilities, among others:
- To represent his immediate top management and their objectives, plans to you and team.
- To represent you and your team, along with the difficulties you face in execution, to his immediate top management.
So, he has to convince his management about the feasibility of their plans, from the execution-team standpoint, and make them revise their plans accordingly.
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lol everything is clearly defined on everybody's KRA objectives.
It's just matter of following it 
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Amarnath S wrote: IMHO, your boss has twofold responsibilities, among others:
- Taking the heat from upper management to avoid the cats devs from getting upset.
- Getting blamed for every little thing that the devs think should be better.
At least, sometimes looks that way to me.
Amarnath S wrote: and make them revise their plans accordingly.
Often you can't revise what you promised a client.
Imagine hiring a contractor to build a house. Contractor runs into problems by going over budget due to cement-prices suddenly rising and having some workers getting unexepectedly sick. You planned to move into that house on the promised due-date and have quit your lease based on that promise.
Software is no different. The entrepeneur is there to take the risc (and profit). The rest is just being paid to do what is in their contract.
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In other words...
the boss of the morons
and
the moron of the bosses
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Why not be a gentleman and step up to the task at hand: offer to euthanize him.
If he says no - things aren't that bad, after all; and if he says yes - they won't be for long.
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Nand32 wrote: My (immediate) Boss is so upset
Who'd have guessed? So, I take it you didn't deactivate the nukes? My apologies to your boss.
It may be hard, but it is in everyones interest; if you must fail, fail early. And now you can at least talk about how to improve, instead of watching a train wreck in slow motion.
Nand32 wrote: I AM NOT UPSET.
Yup, very human. Also shows that it is important to him, dammit!
I did the same; I AM CALM, YOU HEAR ME  - which sounds weird in your ears if you hear yourself shout it. Makes you even more angry because you just made it harder for yourself to convince someone that you are, indeed, calm and rational 
They'll roast him until he too turns that table around. Upper management may see it as mutiny, sales can't sell "flexible" deadlines. And how do you place a bid for a project, if the budget and manhours suddenly start moving under your feet? (Easy answer; risc is for the entrepeneur, not the employee)
You're all in the same boat; crew, captain, investors. If the ship don't sail, all loose. Targets need to be realistic and morale high. Buy him a pirate flag and a good bottle of rum 
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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dont make his upset to your problem. He is some "intermediate" ...
I guess he wont last for long
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Since the complexity of web pages increases with time, with different types of dynamical content, web pages take more and more time to load. I find it very disturbing that design elements are jumping around while the page is being loaded. This came recently to such an extent that by loading some pages, you have to wait 3 seconds until everything is stable enough that you can simply click on a link without it having jumped around three times and you end up clicking on something else.
And do not tell me to buy faster internet, I do have fast internet already - Plus I think the browsers need to proceed with the rendering anyway.
Ain't nobody interested in improving user experience on web pages anymore ? Add this to the cookie/newsletter/subscription/notofications bullshit coming up every time you load a page... Browsing the internet is painful. 
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The problem is that each page uses half a dozen frameworks, which depend underlying stuff etc., so each page not only takes a long time to download but also takes a long time to render. These complex frameworks may make things simpler (?) for the developer, but they are a failure at the User Experience level.
Even worse - every developer has their own idea of control positioning, shapes, etc. What happened to the CUA that was supposed to make it easier to use new programs?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: every developer has their own idea of control positioning, shapes, etc.
Then that developer has never read the Ux Guidelines for WinForms.
It has some pretty well-argumented advice, with little room for "creativity". Controls are supposed to behave in a certain predictable way. Can't remember a WinForm app where I had to scroll through a combobox filled with years simply to give a date. Lots of scrolling, and if the mouse is of a bit, the entire screen scrolls.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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This! If you're not in the right spot you're not sure what you're scrolling anymore.
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Rage wrote: Plus I think the browsers need to proceed with the rendering anyway.
..and load/execute a whole lot of JavaScript-"frameworks" and "libraries".
Rage wrote: Ain't nobody interested in improving user experience on web pages anymore ?
Designers, managers and marketing people think that the user-experience is "how they experience it". So, reading a page has to be an experience.
As a programmer, I think of it in terms of usability and accesability. Does your site allow for high-contrast color schemes if set in Windows? Most webpages don't, and think that it is more important that their own colors are used.
I especially like the pages that throw away all the info you entered after 15 minutes.
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Rage wrote: Add this to the cookie/newsletter/subscription/notofications bullshit coming up every time you load a page
Forced on them by the EU.
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Only for cookies; and cookies aren't needed to display a text.
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Yes but how many websites just display text?
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Do I need cookies to use this site?
Does the text-control "require" cookies?
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Do I need cookies to use this site?
No, but the website might use them.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: Does the text-control "require" cookies?
That has nothing to do with the issue.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: No, but the website might use them.
That's their own choice, innit? 
Richard MacCutchan wrote: That has nothing to do with the issue.
It does; cookies aren't required.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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It has nothing to do with whether they are required or not. If a site uses cookies anywhere then they are legally bound to post the warning and invite the user to accept or decline.
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..or simply not use the tracking cookies.
Stalking is legally forbidden, in any form.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Do I need cookies to use this site?
We use cookies, a piece of text stored on a user’s computer by their web browser, to store your viewing preferences on the Site and, at your choosing, to store your login information so that once you have logged in you do not need to repeat the login process. We also use a session cookie, meaning it expires soon after you leave the registration process and is not placed on your hard drive, to store your session information during your visit to the Site. Read our Cookie Policy for more information.
Having the site remember that you logged in is convenient, which for many people trumps privacy.
(CP has also earned our trust by not allowing the user list to be used for marketing purposes)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Having the site remember that you logged in is convenient, which for many people trumps privacy.
It is; even though the browser allows for autologin, I prefer CP's cookies.
Daniel Pfeffer wrote: (CP has also earned our trust by not allowing the user list to be used for marketing purposes)
Also never heard of passwords being stolen from this site.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Is it not true though that GDPR doesn't apply to cookie tokens unless they're used for tracking/behavioural analysis?
Remember-me's, Csrf tokens, and session tokens that are required only for the purpose of enabling a website to operate don't require any special permission.
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WE may understand that, but do (l)users, lawyers, and marketing artists?
And if the site decides to start using tracking cookies later, they are already covered.
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WE - perhaps not, users - even if they do they can feign ignorance and claim they don't in order to have something to moan about, lawyers - if they know their business they will, marketing artists - as for lawyers.
If a site requires tracking cookies further down the line then adding both those and acquiring the users permission should be part and parcel of the same implementation. Besides, as it seems this thread has already established, plonking more complication on the UI than is needed is annoying at the basic level and as is the case with GDPR prompts, misleading if it isn't necessary.
Anyway, it doesn't affect me. I already wrote to my MP and told her that I want as many cookies as I can get.
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