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Having experienced a miscarriage personally, I can tell you it is not the same as losing a child. On the other hand, being a parent, I firmly believe that if my child needed to terminate a pregnancy, it is nobody’s business. If your child needed to get it done, would you seek my permission? The way I see it, you lack empathy for women’s issues

please stop using the phrase unborn child. We don’t call eggs unborn chickens. This whole pro life concept is bull$h!t.By that definition, every miscarriage should have a funeral and proper burial of the remains - and whatever went down a drain should be recovered with the help of law enforcement and first responders. And why stop there? Every spermatozoa is a potential life!

Thanks for the clarification. I have indeed misinterpreted your previous comment

That is far a better use of resources than to actively promote hate against transgender, gay, women, and other marginalized groups, and now doctors and nurses too - a sad trend in some of the other parts of the country

I’m afraid I disagree… 30 pages for mortgage, and then all the terms of service for the software services that you use, plus the credit cards, websites visited and so on… this becomes a full time job for a legally illiterate person and is the definition of “setup to fail”… hence the term “fine print”

That’s part of the problem… everything can’t be reduced to if-then-else; situational awareness, perspective, nuance and understanding are completely missing. In this case, how helpful is it to the child to remove the mother from the child, to teach her a lesson not to remove herself from the child?

Sadly humanity is susceptible to hate - it is so easy to vilify a marginalized group for cynical power grabbing

People are idolized, their accomplishments embellished, and their shortcomings overlooked when they are in positions of power and prestige. Often times the role of sheer luck, cronyism and connections are completely downplayed

Fired due to clerical error! That’s a new one, and quite motivating for the employee who is no longer fired.

> commentator on twitter put it well saying "It felt like we all lost our Grandmother"

This is a nice, soft and mushy comment that will gather likes and retweets. It also influences one into suspending critical thinking and follow a narrative of reverence

Some folks are born into riches and royalty - why put them on a pedestal simply because they sit on a throne?

Why? I don't get it

This is exactly what I would not want my team to suffer. They need to feel inspired, and those who are not inspired will know it themselves, and so will everyone they work with. I don't need a spreadsheet to tell somebody's commitment

In my experience, metrics are a giant waste of time for engineers and engineering managers. Project managers and folks who depend on the fruits of engineering labor on the other hand love these metrics. It is simpler (and wrongheaded) because who wants complications after all? Look at the trivialization in this article for instance - "tasks come in, and software comes out". Oh really? I had no idea!

Tasks vary drastically from project to project,including due to varying requirements, ambient software environment, technological changes and a host of other factors. Metrics are a way for project managers to pass the buck on to the engineering teams and nothing more.

Indeed. This is the best description of the conundrum of Agile I have read so far

What is a scrum master expected to do? Not being sarcastic here, I am genuinely curious

When it comes to money, the person footing the bill will get pushy rather fast. So I am curious how such a process works closer to the business side of the project, even in a big org

I understand that 30 years of experience has to count for something, and maybe some people are fortunate enough to be able to work in an environment that is devoid of all the politics that "Agile" leaves in its wake.

My own years of experience have taught me that estimates will always be sought by the customer. They may even shop around for a better price with a different software vendor/low code solution etc.

If the development team doesn't know the estimate, how is management expected to know? Simply put, management will be held to whatever number (of person hours) they provide, and are also expected to keep it low enough to close the deal. Deadlines are part of doing business, no matter how much we try to dance around that fact. This is why management will immediately turn around and convert story points into hours. These guesstimates will then become deadlines. I hate having deadlines for creative work, and would rather not be bothered by them, but they exist nonetheless.

Until you convince your customers to accept "NFC" and still do business with you, Agile will remain a quixotic idea for the corporate world

Can we please not fool the next generation of software developers into believing all this bs?

Software used to be built before Agile...

Let's at least keep solution design and also get senior engineers to help estimate

And do away with daily stand up and bs rituals.. a meeting is needed when it is needed, not for the sake of "following the process"

This is not how it works in real life. Contracts are made to the lowest bidder, there are promises to keep or heads will roll. By iteration 10, your customer is fuming that the half baked idea has more exceptions than handled scenarios and the finger pointing begins. Also, forget about architecture, performance, security and other pesky little problems. I have never seen it play out differently.

The biggest problem is that the person footing the bill does not care about your story points or retrospective- and I don't blame them for that

Agile is bogus nonsense - there I said it.

I look at the outcome, and can certainly say that the tools I use find issues than I didn't know existed

Is your own code free of security vulnerabilities?

Will you be able to identify and avoid issues with 3rd party libraries by reading their code, and the code of all the other libraries that they depend on?

Do you know what all vulnerabilities exist in cyberspace?

I mean that a static code analysis tool can take you much further than reading 3rd party code manually... and that is still going to fall short, but that is as good as it gets

Agile does not take reality into account. Estimates become deadlines and turn into death marches. The watering hole is poisoned and culture dies a painful death. That is because customers and business owners footing the bill don't do Agile.

Everyone is excited during sprint#1; by sprint#10 the finger pointing and scapegoating begins

Umm… no. I really don’t like the subtext of this question

Why is this a thing?? Seriously, every language has its rules...just follow the rules and build something useful

There are some good videos on YouTube- charisma on demand, Vanessa van Edwards, school of life, Jordan Peterson

IMO, it can be difficult to overcome this all by yourself. Having someone in your life who is willing to help goes a long way

Often, you think it is a car, and then when you start to work, you realize it is actually an octopus

Umm... the article refers to Asian Americans. Do they need a visa to work in their own country?