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i have seen a scrum master code.

     ScrumMaster = NULL;

"individuals and interactions" is how you make great things happen. "processes and tools" is how you make boring things happen at scale and with high quality.

very few teams are willing to admit that they need to be making boring things happen.

agile is not a universal tonic.

Easier but not better. If you have a performance problem, there is a process in place to to deal with it. Not easy, but it gives the employee notice and the opportunity to improve. Vs. Gone.

Then repeat until you are proud of the work.

The moral compass points to the money

12K? What is that 5 to 7% of the total employment. Just don't hire for 120 days. Accomplish the same results and you don't even need to make a press release.

dallas / ft worth you pay about $125 an hour for shop labor.

lot's of places have a placard with a $200 rate, but they never charge that much. (replaced headlights, they broke a wire, spent all morning on the car, cost was $250 in labor).

at least my experience, dealing with independents. i am sure a dealer has no shame on the rate and the hours.

There are no fat POW's.

I know that you are trying to make a point, but I think meth would be a viable treatment option for some people. Medically supervised and monitored. If you need to lose 100 lbs, it might be worth the other tradeoffs. For a short period of time.

optimization. every human activity has been optimized to make more money. there is no capacity to deal with exceptions.

someone has to fill the right side of the bell curve. except in Wobegon, Minnesota. of course.

someone should calculate this.

"Dieing from covid is like winning $1000 in the lottery"

// It sure isn't like winning $1 Million. // And it sure isn't a $2 winner // Somewhere in between.

engineering

It was a DS-20

ssh'd to a live alpha server at work last year. there were some files on there I wanted to look at.

the machine has to be at least 20 years old at this point. but it feels fast. bash. find. xargs grep. command line stuff very responsive.

it felt fast back then. i do remember that.

How about proprietary "non unix's"?

Anyone running VMS? RSTS/E ? Or on rare hardware, OS-32 on a PE 8/32, or MPX on any SEL 32 family? MPE on Harris ?

if you work for a defense contractor, it's every 6 minutes (tenths of an hour)

I think he missed the cloud revolution. Linux / containers and the browser is where the action is in 2020. windows is just a truck that holds a web browser.

Starting about 5 years ago, I noticed that when i type letters show up out of order.

seems to be more prevalent on newer keyboards.

also, the interaction with automatic spelling correction / word completion can make mistakes show up that were not from the typist.

voluntary, i think this is a great idea.

whenever a new hire starts, and they have any kind of military training (enlisted, officer, drop out from service academy, JROTC, ROTC, or CAP) there are a couple of things that are never problems.

#1. They show up on time. Properly dressed.

#2. When given a task they do not understand, they ask for clarification.

#3. Given a directive from above, they express themselves, and then do what they are told.

I am sure these are not universal positives for every situation, but almost so.

My experience in the USAF. The tech school I was in lasted about 7 months. Every week we had tests. Drop 2 tests, and you moved over to "Bakery Operations School" two buildings over. It was a 2 week class and they always had openings.

Some people got lucky, it was always "convenience of the AF", and the list changed every week. You could wash into loadmaster or DLI, if your scores were good and there was an opening. But they wouldn't keep you on casual status very long, only a couple of weeks. Due to numbers, security police was common. Low score required, lots of demand, short tech school.

Now to casual status. We called it "AFI, Awaiting Further Instruction". The NCO supervising was always old and or bitter about the USAF. He was being forced to supervise a bunch of young airman against his will. The goal was to do a little smidgen of work, then hide until 4pm when the duty day was done. Don't get caught so the NCO had to really supervise.

People wash out of training all the time.

You don't join to be a SEAL, you join to be a Sailor.

The AF is full of Security Police that though they were going to be Para-Rescue, and washed out of the training pipeline.

Don't buy the ticket, you won't have to take the ride.

Lubbock. Tyler. El Paso. Places where real estate is cheap, and there are no democrats to have work rules.

Meta is down. Maybe a time to buy. The sheep still are spending every waking hour on facebook.

That is business insight.

You can generalize that to say the average HN reader knows how to run anything better.

90% of management is equal to or worse than calling random() to make decisions. If the margins are large enough, and the competition is asleep, anyone can be a successful CEO.

That's called a Tony Soprano layoff. HR comes to the employees cubicle at lunch, two silenced shots to the head, and they drag out the body. Nobody sees nothing.

But everyone talks about it, and says "why isn't management honest with us?"

fortran works fine. it has a compilation model very similar to C. (Note this comment is based upon F77 / F90. Fortran modules may be different).

ada support in cmake is terrible. in the end you have to call gnatmake several times, if you want a build that always work. terrible.

But you still have to deal with it. It exists!!

From memory.

(The original) VAX 11/780 was a 1 MIPS machine. 32 Bit.

pdp 11 was a slower machine. plus it was 16 bit. slow clock, a relatively cheap o'scope could be used to snoop the buses.

The same issue comes up when trying to sell (high fidelity) aircraft simulators for general aviation aircraft.

Simulator for an A380? It's a bargain. For a Cessna 172, umm not so much.