FYI: At Microsoft, in Windows, the job might be PM or TPM, but the people aren't. A person is expected to be able to switch their focus from one to the other.
At least, that's what we PMs were told when Microsoft Windows rejiggered their PM roles
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At least, that's what we PMs were told when Microsoft Windows rejiggered their PM roles
No, you aren't doing that kind of high-level design. For example, I was the PM for the "connect to Wi-Fi via a QR code" feature in Windows (you're welcome!). As PM, my job was to :
- demonstrate that this was "thing" people would want to do - demonstrate that it slotted into the existing feature set (the existing Windows camera already reads QR codes, so we just had to use their existing hoooks) - do a quick evaluation of the WIFI: protocol (which, BTW, sucks; it's one of the worst standards I've ever seen) - do an evaluation of the overall market (like, what do other operating systems do)
There was also some discussions with the Windows Wi-Fi team for how to store the connection data since it wasn't a perfect fit for the our existing connection store, plus a security evaluation. You won't do anything about caches or streaming except that they will naturally fall out of your spec.
You'll learn a ton about writing convincing documents, how to find users and partners, tracking schedules, and stuff
The simplest example of this: as a programmer, when your boss says to code a feature, you code it. But as a PM, you have to get a team to make it.
A PM's job is to figure out what the feature really is, and how complex or configurable it should be, and what the target audience is, and how you'll measure success. It also involves making sure that you feature works well with other features, and that your team is moving in the same direction as the rest of your company.
Be prepared, BTW, for the constant assumption that you became a PM because you couldn't hack it :-)
Depending on the time of year, Eastern Time will either match "Eastern Standard Time" or "Eastern Daylight Time". Forcing the time to always be "Eastern Standard Time" means that the times will be offset by an hour from the user's expectation about half of the year.
Arizona Exception: if you're in the boundaries of Arizona, you might need to correctly specify whether you mean a "Standard" time or a time which switches based on Daylight Savings. Different places in the boundaries of Arizona work differently.
The blog post presents exactly one side of the issue, "what happens if a lawyer alleges child abuse knowing it to be untrue in order to extract a settlement". But it doesn't even hint that there's another side: what is one parent is actually engaged in child abuse, and the other parent is trying to protect their kids from it".
Phrased differently: Ivermectin was picked up by the republican hype machine, pretty much at random. The medical community, seeing a lot of absolute hucksters pitch a whacky treatment, fought back with mockery and derision. As it turns out, the medical community was right.
Given that, survivorship bias is 100% the right answer. If you have a "gut feel" that something else is going on, chances are your gut feel is wrong.
A classic terminal only has a screen full of memory: it does have extra memory that would allow it to scroll backwards.
The ESC [ S command (CSI itself can only be used if you are sure the line to the terminal is 8-bit clean, and as a third-party developer, I could not guarantee that) scrolls the scrolling region. The scrolling region is either the entire screen, or it's just a couple of line at the bottom. A scrolling region is used so the use can have a scrolling place to type commands and Aldo have a non-scrolling area to display data.
We also all need to know what the current blockers are and whether they are being dealt with effectively and whether we need to drop to plan B.
SEC type stuff is guaranteed to be pricy because it's bound to be complicated, and require specialists.
The only difference is that the experts at the SEC that you have to go through are called "administrative judges". It's kind of like a cop being called an "officer" even though they aren't like an armed forces officer at all.
Wow, the presenter really likes the "dump a bazillion facts" style of punditry, even when the reality is more nuanced. As a single example, at 11:36, the presenter talks about lockdowns and compares the US "lockdown" (1 year) against the Chinese one (3+ years) and also compares the covid payouts (6k/person US, $500/person China). Not mentioned, though, is that China had a sort of "split" lockdown: if your city had no covid, you just got plenty of tests but no particular restrictions. If your city was locked down, you had to stay in place, but would be fed. Also not mentioned is that the US also had a multi-level covid relief: we paid companies to continue to hire people (my own company did that, paying our support staff 100% of their regular earnings even though they mostly weren't coming in), making the actual compares more difficult. And of course, the cost of living in China is substantially less than America.
So, lots of rambling bullshit, ending up with a pretty lame conclusion.
Without a proper citation, climate change denier is denying climate change in a way that doesn't have enough data to challenge. Given that Bjorn is supposed to be an actual scientist, they should know better.
No answer, and it won't even try. That's because there's only one Huntertown.
Is it ever news that a more expensive computer is also more powerful?
Are there any takes on the gross energy inefficiency of mega-churches? The political downsides to allowing single corporations to own mulitple radio and TV stations? The waste of super-profiling internet users in order to (slowly) serve ads?
Nope, never. It's always an "analysis" showing that some generally liberal-oriented thing is bad.
That means zero time at gas stations, and also zero time with oil changes. The car's been in for a quick firmware update once and the tires have also been replaced.
That said, might be cool, but good luck getting most apps to accept something without an @ as an email address
Phone as in, "the OTP requires a cell phone with yet another buggy authenticatoin app"? Or phone as in "can support SMS"? Or phone as in "phone must support touch-tone"? Phone as in "the user must be able to hear and speak?"
"Refuse" as in, "I'm in the unpopulated area of Washington state and I have no phone signal"? Or refuse as in "I'm not using my personal device for work"? Or rfuse as in "I don't use smart phones because I want to live in the moment"?
That way climbing K2 will be as easy as a car ride!