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Yes, I strongly prefer waterfall. Back in the good old days we had a biz. quarter to deliver a set of features. This allowed time for a spec., thinking about how it would all work, doing a design doc, working with QA on how they'd effectively test the features etc. Weekly status updates were adequate and an appropriate "polling frequency".

All of that is now thrown out the window in the mad hacking frenzy to make progress on the stupid "points" and try and show progress at the dreaded daily standup meeting (even though it's not supposed to be a progress meeting).

Then to make it worse, various team's progress are compared by looking at "points completed" without any kind of normalization of difficulty or risk for the different teams.

Then the final insult is the whole debacle is deemed a "success" because we've "switched to Agile", thereby checking off a box that some CTO with too much time on his hands read about in some MIT technology review.

I would actively refuse any job offering "Agile development" unless they had a very practical & pragmatic way of implementing it. The only one getting any benefits from this crap are the Agile consultants and the PMs.

100% this. I also find it extremely annoying to have to give daily status updates on highly complex, time consuming problem. It shows a complete lack of understanding of the work being done.

The sooner we move om from this Agile garbage the better.

Just ordered "Show Stopper" now and started reading it, looks like a great read so far.

Did anyone see any mention of the networking tech. their using in each light, e.g. 4G or something else?

Do you have any more details on the re-programming that would be occurring on non SLC flash cells, even if mounted in read only mode? This is something I was always concerned about too.

Hi @bhhaskin, what practical advantages do you see to running IPv6 at home? I think my ISP (Xfinity) provides it, but have not tried enabling it yet.

Thanks for the response. Do you have any recommendations for tax software, or do you have your accountant handle tax payments? I'm a sole proprietor now but am going to upgrade to an LLC soon.

Thanks for posting, looks quite interesting.

Quite good performance from that antenna for it's size and cost yes. I wonder what tools they used to design it?

+1, those guides are excellent!

Thanks @vibrolax, that does look ideal. I was going to muck around and design the circuit myself (hopefully based off a solid reference design), but the COTS setup you listed above looks just like what I need, so I think I'll go ahead and get it once funds allow :) Thanks again for the tip.

Thank you sir! I'll do some part searching this week.

Does anyone know what kind of circuit would be able to convert 12VDC (e.g. from a small lead acid gel. cell battery) to 20VDC (which my Lenovo E470's DC charging voltage)? The E470 is my work computer and does not have an easily swappable battery, so I wanted to experiment with some kind of external charging system I can use when working remote at sites without accessible outlets.