153 posts tagged with "icymi"

Hey 2010, I know that 140 character microblogging website seems pretty cool to some people and pretty useless and stupid to others. But here’s a sneak peak of a future news article about that website before you make your mind up.:

“As president and convicted felon Donald Trump’s administration draws up plans for invading and annexing part of a NATO country, having previously invaded and declared himself acting president of Venezuela… and as federal agents are murdering innocent US citizens in the street without repercussions… and as federal law enforcement agencies continue to do warrantless door to door armed raids on US citizens, all in an effort to distract from Trump’s involvement as a prime suspect as a key member of a global paedophile cabal… Trump’s department of justice, meanwhile, signals its intent to incorporate an artificial intelligence chat bot into its military software, a bot which is under pressure from numerous international governments for repeatedly generating child pornography. The chat bot was developed as an integral tool for all users on the website formally known as Twitter, which is owned by the wealthiest person on the planet, Elon Musk, a man who twice did a Nazi salute on stage at Trump’s inauguration. Despite the fact that Trump has discussed bypassing the constitution to allow for his third presidential term, most of Congress enthusiastically supports this regime, and has blocked articles of impeachment against President Trump.”

I wish I was exaggerating, but this is as objective and impartial a summary of what is going on so far in 2026

What a time to be alive...

Scrum imo has a laser-focus on a very particular niche type of work - short to mid term projects with requirements changing often where you hire a group of top notch developers that need to do the work.

Why it's not working long term?

• you'll need to cut OPEX costs at some points in time as a manager
• if you hire juniors/mediors to cut costs then in turn you actually raise costs as people would need more time to learn the domain, the product, so on
• if you hire cheap programmers then they may treat this project as a trampoline of sorts, to get more EXP to jump off to a better paying job - bye bye team stability
• you don't want to end up with mediocre people who are "just doing their work"
• if development is eating most money, then maintenance will need to go towards cheaper paid operations personnel
• anyways the team stability is a problem and can influence your work in a bad way due to budgetary constraints - let's say that fishing for seniors who price themselves as mediors is not a pleasant thing to do and what you get is mostly people who could not find a work for a higher pay-grade
• be prepared for a situation where people say they are happy with the job, but they have been sending their resumes for other higher paying jobs since day 1 just in case

Also from my POV Scrum is a nightmare of never-ending sprints, with no time to take a breath due to an overarching project being managed in a push-mode way so push new features to production, withouth really thinking about stability of the solution.

No thanks, I'll pass if I have a say as a manager.

Is my team too small for scrum?

Great article. One of the hardest things I've had to learn in my 25+ years in the business is that you should always strive to make yourself redundant in your job. Teach others, document, improve processes and finish what you started. Once you're done, leave and go do other better and more challenging things.

20 Things I’ve Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer

Hell, they don't even see their customers as human beings. They see them as an obstacle to the real money, the price of their stock. This was made pretty clear by Wizards of the Coast and the recent kerfuffle over their IP and the changes they made to the T&C of D&D Beyond. I quote u/mr_indigo and what they said on r/DnD

IMO, it's not something unique to WotC, it's the mindset of every major corporation these days.

I think it's because with the internet and global markets, the competition between firms isn't about fighting for customers - the customer base is essentially infinite, or at least much bigger than the firms need, so the goal isn't to serve your customers better so they come to you instead of your competitors. What's scarce is investment capital - more and more of the equity markets are consolidated into fewer and fewer players, and since the modern share market is much more speculative (i.e. investors buy not on the expected value of the share of the profits they get as dividends, but on the ability to flip their shares to someone else at a higher price later, who in turn is only buying because they anticipate flipping the shares, there's no regard to the fundamentals of the business), the goal is to compete with other firms by showing the capital investors that you can offer the best return on investment.

Under this mindset, you don't have customers to serve, you have assets to monetise, you've gotta show the moneymen that you're getting faster and faster growth with lots of new revenue streams - you don't actually need for these to pan out, because noone cares about whether you're actually making profits so much as whether you look like you're growing so you can be flipped to another speculator. And in that mindset, customers are an obstacle - they're preventing you from monetising your assets by standing between you and their money.

TL;DR: businesses and executives no longer see people, they see numbers. They don't have customers to serve, they have assets to monetize.

My larger point is, if companies no longer care about consumers, no way in hell do they give a shit about employees.

An engineer laid off after over 16 years at Google said 'faceless' tech giants see staff as '100% disposable'

Here are all of the Epstein Files that have either been leaked or released.

https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1320.0-combined.pdf (verified court documents)

https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/black-book-unredacted.pdf (verified pre-Bondi) Trump is on page 85, or pdf pg. 80

Here's the flight logs https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21165424-epstein-flight-logs-released-in-usa-vs-maxwell/

Trump’s name is circled. The circled individuals are the ones involved in the trafficking ring according to the person who originally released the book. These people would be “The List “ Here is the story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsiKUXrlcac

—————————other Epstein Information

https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Calif_Lawsuit.pdf here’s a court doc of Epstein and Trump raping a 13 yr old together.

Some people think this claim is a hoax. Here is Katies testimony on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo

Jeffrey Epstein’s Ex Says He Boasted About Being a Mossad Agent https://share.google/jLMGahKlCzfV1RHZq Jeffrey Epstein and Israel have both have the same lawyer Alan Dershowitz Dershowitz says he's building 'legal dream team' to defend Israel in court and on international stage | The Times of Israel https://share.google/Lb9hDOduBWG4Elpid

—————————other Trump information:

Here's trump admitting to peeping on 14-15 year old girls at around 1:40 on the Howard Stern Radio Show: https://youtu.be/iFaQL_kv_QY?si=vBs75kaxPjJJThka

Trump's promise to his daughter: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-dating-promise_n_57ee98cbe4b024a52d2ead02 “I have a deal with her. She’s 17 and doing great ― Ivanka. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her,” Trump said. “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.”

Trump's modeling agency was probably part of Jeffreys pipeline: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/

Trump puts up AI video of Obama being arrested by the FBI in the Oval Office

Bad management takes longer to notice and plays out on a longer timescale then IC work does. The manager is likely banking on being moved to a different team, promoted, etc. before anyone above him notices the fallout of his decisions. This is why IC see the same problems over and over with management. Bad Management succeeds by selling an idea and not staying around long enough to deal with the consequences .

Manager will not address underperforming colleague

Elon Musk is now and has always been desperate to be cool and it is simply out of his reach no matter how much money he has. He's the kind of guy who wears a cowboy hat backwards because he just doesn't know enough to pick one up correctly let alone check the hat band.

He is an awkward empty vessel who was well funded and willing to use others.

He's unloved, uncool, And unsmart. He just has business acumen and the kind of weasley personality that makes a good salesman.

I think Elon is getting a little testy.

Fred Brooks famously wrote in The Mythical Man Month that the customer can wait for their omelet to cook, or eat it raw. And Richard Feynman said “For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."

There’s nothing the front office people can do after they announce unreasonable ship dates, except explain why they didn’t hit those deadlines. And they have to explain that, not you. You have given them the information they need. If they choose to misrepresent it, it’s on them, not you. After a few cycles of this nonsense, nobody will believe their BS any more.

So, while this kind of foolishness is annoying, it’s not terribly important. Do good work and your team will be proud.

Project deadlines and bad management: Impacts?

100%. Effective leaders are always looking for reasons to delegate more and work less because that's the only way to stay ahead of the burnout curve. The "curse of complexity" means that a growing organization is always going to be generating new ways to tie up the time of its leaders with more leadership responsibilities, so unless you're actively shedding non-leadership work at every possible opportunity then you're dooming your company by turning your personal time and energy into a growth bottleneck. Glorifying "work for the sake of work" is toxic and fundamentally bad business. Entrepreneurship is a lot of work (at least in the early and middle innings) and nobody should sugar coat, that but nobody should be glorifying poor work-life balance either.

My entrepreneur group called me lazy today because I wasn't killing myself for my business

All political donations should be banned.

The AEC should hold a treasury which is distributed evenly amongst registered parties based on running candidates. Advertising on billboards, commercials, flyers etc should be banned. All party policies should be registered centrally for public consumption and comparison, in the same format, and fact checked for any claims on current statistics. Candidates should reside in their electorate for a minimum number of years before they can run, and continue to reside there for the duration of their tenure. Appointed department ministers should be appropriately qualified and experienced with their portfolio.

Lastly, any deviation from the policies/promises they were elected on, without sufficient cause, should trigger an immediate by-election.

U-fucking-topia.

Crime and Corruption Commission issues warns the LNP government on rolling back ban on developer donations to political parties