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FWIW I feel for the OP in most of what s/he says.

Luckily there's a lot of hybrid arrangements now where you can have your cake and eat it so to speak.

1. A few friends of mine had kids with woman being over 40. Not unusual.

2. You can adopt.

3. Do not be too sad about it. I for one look at the state of the world around me and feel guilty for having kids. Guilty about bringing them in this mess.

Good luck

>> gets too risky when trying to deliver use value at every sprint.

I disagree. To me, being afraid of new code or refactoring code means you're working with a code base that has a lot of tech debt and also no serious continuous integration infra.

Thanks for sharing.

Agree 100% btw.

That's the foot at the door. Third parties is some steps down that road.

Ubuntu/Canonical has been erratic for quite some time now. Time to get back to a non-company backed up distro.

So it seems that the entrenched powers in IBM are winning over. Sad but expected TBH.

IMHO remote desktops (cloud or DaaS) is a terrible idea with even more terrible executions. I never tried one that could measure up to a local environment.

Nope. Last company I were where it was followed was a trainwreck of productivity. SAFe was a contributor to that. Excruciating long and boring procedures that made the bureaucrats and busy-talkers happy and everyone else miserable.

The problem with that is that it finds you (if ever) too late to be of any use.

Not the OP but in a similar situation.

>> I have no doubt whoever launched [project name] got promoted and then bounced to a different product and didn't care about whether [project name] was a success long term.

Same story in every company I've worked in. It's like the time horizon only goes as far as the next quarter.

You'd expect so (and I'd hope so) but nope. Drivers become even more reckless. Driving huge, noise-insulated cars seems to put them in the mindset of total control, detachment from actual speed and "I'm not gonna hurt myself anyways". Depending on the country you can add a less than perfect driver education (if any) to the mix.

European here. We mostly get what you guys have in terms of cars and politics lagging just a few years or months back. Usually with narrower roads and worse infrastructure.

wow