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  • I love how bright bulbs have utterly perverted the spirit of agile development into something so horrible that people are memifying ignoring it rather than trying to fix it.

    Repeat after me: If standup takes any more than a minute or two per person you’re really really doing it wrong and it isn’t standup anymore and needs to be staked, buried and the earth salted that it may never rise again.

    For an act of socially immature but oh so satisfying passive aggressive resistance, leave a copy of the Agile Manifesto on your scrum master’s desk :)

    (Or, if you think they’d be receptive, talk to them about moving long form reporting to any other medium so stand-up can be a simple meeting where folks give blocked/not blocked status and, where blocked, resources are directed to help.

    that’s it.

    Stand-ups where Mortimer from the Front End team gives a 30 minute treatise on why react is a horrible fit for your application ARE IN FACT NOT STAND-UPS.

    They’re just poorly run meetings in an agile trench coat.


  • feoh@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlIs Google Maps getting worse?
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    13 days ago

    Here’s some “high quality” (heh heh) anecdata for you: I navigated from my house in Somerville to a restaurant in the Seaport district of Boston last night, in the POURING rain using public transit and walking.

    Google maps literally was leading me around in circles downtown once I got off the train, so I switched to Apple Maps and it was straight shooting from there on in.

    I think GMaps is more susceptible to the tall buildings fouling the GPS. Not sure why?






  • feoh@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.mlUse a password manager
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    2 months ago

    I blame the tinfoil hat infosec crowd for not understanding that the world they inhabit is not the same one Regular Users live in.

    Is there risk in keeping all your passwords in one place, whether it’s on your hardware or someone else’s? hell yes! Is that risk stastically speaking ANYTHING LIKE the risk you take when you use ‘pencil’ for all your passwords because you can’t be arsed to memorize anything more complex? OH HELL YES.

    Sure, if you’re defending against nation state level agressors, maybe using a password manager isn’ the wisest choice, but for easily 99% of computer users, we’re at the level of “keeping people from drooling on their shoes”. So password managers are probably a GREAT idea.







  • Please stop doing web dev, it isn’t real.

    So, let me guess. Web dev isn’t “real” but Linux kernel dev is VERY real?

    I mean, I don’t take issue with what SEEMS like your base case: Capitalism is crap and money is a silly game we all play, but what I’m reading / understanding from your statement is that the millions of people sending E-mail, writing documents, and managing spreasheets using web based applications aren’t doing “real” work as well?

    Not arguing, just desperately struggling to understand where you’re coming from and what you’re trying to say in concrete terms.





  • I don’t love this question.

    I spent a huge chunk of my life putting so much focus into being “nice” that some friends sremovedd about me being “a doormat”.

    Also? The word “nice” has so many soft negative connotations in 2024.

    Subtext: if you’re “nice” you’re fundamentally un-interesting Subtext: if you’re “nice” you’re a push over and ripe to be taken advantage of.

    GOOD person? MORAL person? OK.

    Nice? Asking anyone to attribute this to themselves is a foot gun.



  • feoh@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.mldo you use 4chan?
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    4 months ago

    I won’t moralize because that never stopped anyone from doing anything, ever :)

    What I will say is, with the vastness of the internet available to me, I would not personally choose to sift through the reams of malice and hate to find the useful grains that no doubt exist, buried.

    Plenty of other permissive fora where even somewhat radical ideas can be expressed but without the embrace of genocide, Neo-Nazism and rape.