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a-ghost-fart··on Your job is not to tell us how to do our job
It's a direct response to the original post, visit the link at the start. The point is answering the points raised in that product owner's post.

My point is that product owners should stop telling developers how to do their job, especially when the "advice" they offer is without value at best, and at worst insulting.

a-ghost-fart··on Your job is not to tell us how to do our job
I'm not entirely sure what point you're trying to make here.

If you're insinuating that I don't think of the wider business value or the business as a whole then that is just false and what I have written is not meant to be interpreted as such.

Also your examples seem to be non-sequiturs, neither are relevant to the point I've made.

a-ghost-fart··on Your job is not to tell us how to do our job
Which is very true, and as I stated if it's part of the spec, it's part of the spec, but I find it's a duty of the job to raise it as a concern and an area of risk for delivering the product on time, especially when starting out on a new product.
a-ghost-fart··on Your job is not to tell us how to do our job
British English, innit. :)
a-ghost-fart··on Your job is not to tell us how to do our job
I didn't say I assume the right to drop support, I said I will fight tooth and nail to drop it, that does mean following necessary process to do so. If the specification doesn't change because the stakeholders don't go for it, then that's life.

As much as the business doesn't want to be wasting money, I don't want to be wasting my time on something that has a detrimental effect on our ability to get the job done.

a-ghost-fart··on Your job is not to tell us how to do our job
I realised this after the fact then thought, hey, my bugbears with project / product managers are fairly interchangeable.
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killing this one to change link
a-ghost-fart··on Working on this front-end framework, looking for suggestions or feedback
Would be nice if your examples prevented default on click, found myself at the top of the page a whole lot by being too curious. :)
a-ghost-fart··on Cool, but obscure unix tools
Similar to what I thought also with the likes of screen, tmux, curl and the like.
a-ghost-fart··on Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor
A bunch of children who don't know how to use Tor (take a look at the dox from TheFinest) decide to try and compromise Tor.

Colour me surprised.

Given that a bunch affiliated with the group's names, addresses, numbers and the like have been compromised, this doesn't seem like a very smart plan.