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No way I’m taking bribes from “Big Antifa”!

We’re supposed to believe Ukraine gave away weapons to Hamas in the midst of being attacked? They kind of need those right now.

Ours would say:

Party 1

• Round up all minorities and immigrants into camps. Create jobs ‘digging the death pits’.
• Replace ‘Separation of church and state’ in the Constitution with a copy of the ‘Right to bare arms’ amendment, but this time in all caps.
• Repeal all environmental protection laws. The “free market” will ensure companies don’t pollute. Even if they did, climate change is a hoax so it doesn’t matter.
• Eliminate all healthcare plans. If God wants you dead, and you’re poor, so be it.
• Eliminate term limits for conservative politicians. Implement term limits for liberal supreme court judges.

Party 2

• Laws that aren’t just a toddler’s power fantasy

I got Green first and Liberal democrats second. Did I win?

As an American, I have no idea if that really fits what I believe my ideology to be.

I don’t know man. Nothing in the Agile Manifesto talks about not focusing on one project.

In addition, I think most people (and studies) would agree that “focus” is key to building almost anything of quality. Not flittering about working on shiny pennies of the day. I mean, a key tenant of sprints is “Don’t interrupt the sprint”. The whole concept is about letting developers focus.

Agree to disagree I guess.

I don’t disagree with you (on giving devs some creative freedom), but “Agile” as a process methodology isn’t about developers working on multiple things to keep their interests up.

I’ve read about this many times but the articles never address dreaming. Do aphants not dream?

If they do, why does that ability disappear when they are awake?

Something isn’t right with this article. I’m suspect:

• Type 1 is where your islet cells die off and you lose insulin production. Type 2 means your insulin production is fine, but your cells are resistant to the insulin. A Type 2 should have plenty of islet cells so adding more doesn’t seem like it would do anything. Your body should regulate those cells to output the same amount of insulin as before.

• This same treatment has been done in Type 1s already. It’s not new. The problem is their body eventually kills off the transplanted cells and you have to do it again. Plus, you have to take immune suppressing drugs forever.

• “Despite a kidney transplant, his pancreas still doesn’t produce insulin.” - This is just nonsense.

Hear me out: Nuclear airplanes.

It works for the submarines. Think of the pros:

• Full power electric outlets at every seat instead of that bullcrap they have today
• Flight attendants can easily be trained as Nuclear Physicists
• If a meltdown does occur, it might very well recreate the entire plot of Donnie Darko.

Fucking Microsoft, with their fully featured toolsets, libraries for everything, fantastic IDE, second fantastic IDE, and cloud infrastructure that actually delivers on the promise of cloud, and isn’t just “bare metal bullshit in the sky”. Hate those fucking pricks.

It’s clearly there in the first lines of the play:

Two households, both alike in dignity and whiteness, In fair Verona where we lay our scene,

He said that, then put Trump first. What did he do for America besides racist rhetoric, a few miles of border wall that apparently doesn’t work, and fast tracked a COVID vaccine you won’t take?

I wonder if anyone found it yet.

The idea of agile is great, and easy to sell at a company in my experience. The problem is that the ideas in the manifesto can only be attained if the business stakeholders feet are in the fire as much as IT. That HAS to have top down support from leaders that understand software. But, in every agile company I’ve ever seen (I was a consultant for 15 years, so I saw a bunch), eventually a project goes south, and the business stakeholders throw tech under the bus by saying: “We’re not in IT. We didn’t know we should be thinking about what we want (and not just waiting until the end to demand more and more and more)!”, and they fucking get away with it. Boomers in senior leadership, who don’t know how to work their car stereo, say “Yea, that makes sense. IT, why do you suck!?”. And then “agile” is dead. Tech learns to cover their ass, and demand clear requirements up front and get signoff.

It’s fallen out of popularity over the years, but reading programming books. The big ones. There is an expectation that a book will contain every bit of info about a technology, and you can learn it, in depth, in one place. Online articles, videos, etc., often just skim the surface. You don’t get that deep learning and facts that the books would have. I find even “Official documentation” online is sparse and often doesn’t include examples to gain understanding.

Unfortunately, the pace of change, especially in cloud services, cause books to be out of date too quickly, so I don’t see it making a comeback.

In this situation, we are both management level. I don’t think anyone has tried to just flat out tell him he’s making a mess of things and distracting people. Maybe being upfront about it could help avoid repeating history.

Thanks, good advice. The context is technology. I’m on the tech side. The other person is outside of tech (“the business”).

Saw this post on ‘All’. I do not have ADHD, but I believe I work with someone who does. I don’t want to take over ops question, but perhaps add an additional question/angle that could be helpful:

• This individual is notorious at the company for overwhelming people with work requests and long list of “thoughts” about how to do things at the company that tend to spider web into every problem the company has.
• People who have tried to fulfill his requests in the past always try to start small and solve a chunk at a time, but he gets upset and says they all need to be worked on simultaneously or we’ll have nothing in the end.
• He has alot of industry knowledge so our executives love him. But he ends up getting people fired because they can’t help him complete his list of demands.
• I just got promoted to a position where I’m now next in line to deal with him.

How should I work with him? It’s just not feasible to work on everything he wants at once. And he overwhelms me daily with long documents and emails full of random thoughts. I worry I’ll be next on the chopping block if I don’t figure out a way to work with him.