bdavis__

i have seen a scrum master code.

     ScrumMaster = NULL;

there you go !

"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.