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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Just to be clear, when you use the phrase, "afraid of what technology might bring," you are referring to these people no longer having jobs or being able to take care of their families.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Retros are also for bringing up what went well, discussing why it went well, and how to do that in the future.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Meh. A team with a leader/manager like that isn't going to get much value out of retros because either the leader/manager isn't going to listen to what's being said, or everyone won't feel safe enough to be abl
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Complaining about swearing adds even less to the discussion.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
But they likely haven't actually started anything. I think that's the worst part about standups is they require everyone to get up and say something. If you've got nothing to say, then you end up saying idiotic stuff like &qu
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
I think most times, the individual developers are not the ones that choose to do Agile (or which flavor of Agile), and in many cases, they have no agency to change anything. So when you're in a situation with "hour long standups,&
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
1. Isn't the standup usually the place you're told to initially ask for that help? 2. Aren't most people, at least the developers/designers in the same standup, supposed to be working on the same project?
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Same thing happens in Chrome for OS X.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
So make things more complex for very little gain.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
I'm seeing a whole lot of "whataboutism", but I'm not seeing anything relevant to the current conversation.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Except you don't exist in a vacuum.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"Not really." Yes, really. You're trying to deflect to another subject using extremely shoddy calculations (and don't use the "It's a back of the envelope calculation" excuse) because you have no defense f
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
I've been gathering some inspirations for a personal site. Here are a couple I liked. (Although now that I think about it, these were linked at the end of the article). http://julia.im/ http://joelcalifa.com
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
This is whataboutism that contributes nothing to the current conversation.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
It's not just making people comfortable, it's making sure they don't collapse from heat exhaustion.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"What does the word 'waste' mean to you? Why would you use this word to describe what is done by the proof of work?" Because it's a waste. It's not worth what it costs to do, and it's making our world wors
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Are you sure that your approach would cancel out the higher costs of electricity on the people living there?
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
More like, they'll threaten to leave, and the local government will be pressured into continuing the subsidy to keep them. Or the new location will give more money. All while they don't do what they originally were supposed to be
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
And what about the residents of the area? Do they now just have to suffer with higher bills, or are they going to get a rebate too?
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
As in many things, appearances are everything.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
But now you're punishing those who aren't mining crypto.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Saying that someone should lose all support, as the person I was responding to suggested, just for doing one of the normal human acts is entirely unreasonable.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Then don't use apps that are ad supported? That sounds like the way to make sure that you're controlling what traffic it's using. Not denying apps that you're using revenue.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"Currently as a single mother, you can qualify for more things than you can as a married mother. This puts a financial incentive to stay unmarried. This incentive should be removed." You're completely and utterly ignoring the
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
You're completely ignoring that them doing their job often means promising features that do not exist on a timetable that is nowhere near reasonable, thus forcing me to bail their ass out by working ungodly amounts of overtime, punishi
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
It's not a zero-sum game, but that doesn't mean that a small amount of people can't extract some 99% of of the value created.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
But anything but going closer to the Right is "exacerbating the divide."
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"If we changed government assistance to encourage parents getting married that would help reduce fatherlessness and all of the negatives that come with that." That's not really a good idea. I know my godson's parents, an
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
No. That's just a completely unworkable and unreasonable demand.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"Plus public charter schools typically run less overhead and are more efficient per student." Because they don't have to serve all the students, and they don't have to serve special needs students. Not mentioning that is

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