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That makes sense yes, thanks!

Representatives in the UK parliament are elected to represent a constituency, mostly the size of a town. In this case the constituency of Clanton is having a by-election (special election), because the representative resigned. With reading up on why this happened.

I wonder if they'll show the director's cut?

I was in high school when the movie came out, and we were on a 6 week road trip all over the USA that summer, so I couldn't see the movie. Those days they also published books for a lot of the popular movies (sold at gas stations), so I bought and read the book. I only got to see the movie a month or 2 after release when we were back home in Baton Rouge. The book was the director's cut, and to this day I seem to remember that the version of the movie I saw also had that ending (my brain playing tricks on me). There's also the scene where they cut open his skull to put his cpu in learning mode in the gas station. I don't know why they cut that, it works so well with John asking "are we learning yet" in a next scene.

That's more expensive than I expected. In South Africa you can do a 3 year degree at a top university (in SA terms, top 300 in the world) for about that, including lodging, food and other expenses. Mind, not foreigners, that's the tax subsidised cost for locals.

Yo Dawg...

Many very interesting stories here of people that took similar paths. As the parent of a teenager that used to be an absolute model student, but recently (last year) started rebellious behaviour, tanking their academics with it, I'm curious how many with similar stories think they would have or could have taken a different path with better or different parental support?

We're trying our very best to support and guide without shaming. The difficult part is the influence of friends, specifically a boyfriend, that were convinced led to much of this. Forbidding the relationship is not going to have the right effect. So we're trying to manage it with rules to try and prevent the opportunity to make bad decisions. And talking a lot about honesty, values and respect. There's still respect in our relationship, and I feel that's the key for us to be able to support her.

How much easier can this make it to gain unauthorised access to buildings using remotes or RFID for access control? How dangerous is this?

Sub 1GHz radio, RFID and IR

How dangerous can this be in the wrong hands? Seems like it can significantly lower the barrier to entry for someone wanting to gain unauthorised access to many buildings that use remotes or RFID for access control.

He also doesn't seem to know quite what "delusional" means. He uses it to describe people that don't agree with him.

I greatly admire many if his achievements. My comment is that I'm surprised that he was able to be so successful while many times taking a position so at odds with a sentiment held by most of society. My opinion is that "picking your battles" seems to be a more successful strategy in general. I'm also not commenting on the ethics of being flexible about your convictions and how you express them.

I looked up a definition of "tone deaf" to see if I misunderstood in my interpretation of the term and how I used it above.

having or showing an obtuse insensitivity or lack of perception particularly in matters of public sentiment, opinion, or taste

Having read that I stand by what I said. In my opinion he has shown "an obtuse insensitivity or lack of perception of public sentiment" on more than one occasion. The Minsky message being a very good example. Whether you agree with the sentiment or not is seperate from clearly being obtusely insensitive about the public sentiment I think.

If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be very very glad. If you can find someone who has a friendly parrot I can visit with, that will be nice too.

I'm actually baffled that someone so tone deaf about so many things was able to create such a success.

felt physically dizzy

Seriously?

Do you have a link? I have many birthday duplicates on my Google Calendar for example.

I agree Agile is the way to address many of these issues. I think Agile is a way of working that doesn't try to estimate everything up front. Rather one or 2 short iterations at a time. If you're trying to estimate your whole backlog up front when you do Agile, you're back to waterfall realy.

"To avoid schedule slippage, game developers need to spend more time to plan out all the work that needs to be done so that no tasks are overlooked when giving estimates. By planning out tasks, you can also estimate each task individually, and give a more accurate prediction, instead of an optimistic one."

When things don't work out according to the schedule, there are generally two reactions :

1. We didn't estimate well enough, we need to estimate better next time.

2. Maybe this estimation thing is impossible to get right, let's not put too much trust in being able to estimate accurately, but rather find ways of working that don't require estimating all work up front.

I've seen that 1 gradually becomes 2 with experience (the experience of getting the estimates wrong every time).

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The impact on battery life alone would be insane if this wee true I'm guessing.

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I don't think working fixed price quote would have given you a different outcome though? The team produced bad quality product, fixed cost or agile won't change that.

Selecting the team to build the product on price is often a bad idea, and that's all fixed cost gives you above agile (the ability to select on price).

I used to as well, until I started to refuse to do it. It truly is in the best interest of the customer to work this way, and I explain it to them. The ones that understand it and buy into this way of working are the ones I work with.

Ask them to give you a guaranteed schedule of sales that you will hold them to. They'll say it's absurd, you can't predict that. Turns out it's the same with software dev.

If you find yourself arguing about this with management or sales, they're not trusting you to be the expert at what you do. Tell them that.

Almost at the end : "Yes, all this sounds like a lot of work". Exactly. And it will most probably still turn out to be wrong, because you will forget to ask some questions, and there will be things that you simply cannot foresee that will influence the time.

Turns out it's pointless to even try to do this. So why waste valuable time to do all this, if you know it's not the truth anyway? The answer is to accept that you will learn things as you go along, and that things take as long as they take, and to rather deal with that. Marketing wants a product by Christmas. Fine, we can do that. They just cannot say what needs to be in that product by Christmas. They can have whatever the last production quality release is at that stage. Instead of taking many weeks or months to try and answer all these estimation questions, we start and tackle the high risk items first. We learn from them, readjust, and as we get closer to the deadline, we keep communicating with all the other stakeholders what we think will be delivered on that date. It's a narrowing cone of uncertainty. One sprint before the deadline we'll be pretty accurate in predicting what it will be. 2 or 3 sprints before, accurate enough to be able to do marketing. At the start : the best we can predict is simply whether we feel we can have something useful at the deadline.

Also from Cape Town, we build mobile products (apps are part of what we do). One of our first products was a mobile game (don't want to spam it here, PM me if you want a link), and we've built many products for both local and international markets since. We learnt a few things from it: - The SA market is much too small to make a return on the investment. - The international market is difficult to get into from South Africa. Marketing a game to the point where it makes a good return is expensive, even more so from SA.

There are many people in Cape Town building games though, have a look at http://makegamessa.com/

If working with us sounds more interesting than a typical fintech job, let me know and we can chat.

"No problem"?

No wucking furries cunts!

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My view is a project is only a success if all stakeholders are happy at the end. To succeed, you therefore need to: 1. Know who all the stakeholders are 2. Know what they expect 3. Come up with a plan to satisfy 2 4. As you go along, and you see reality differs from 3, you must either change 2 or change 3, or a bit of both.

A PM's job is expectation management. Delivering on expectation will most of the time include having to change the expectation to match the reality at the end of the project. It's usually easier to change expectations earlier rather than later, and also by not saying "no", but rather by saying "let's rather do this".

I didn't know at that stage. I don't know if it would have influenced me to not have children.