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Agile software development. Death March projects. And now: Agile software development and Death March projects in the same sentence. Pretty scary, eh? It's like a regular death march, but every sprint
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The timelines are always unrealistic, and the business team always says "yes, we can do 6 months of work in one month." --> thus the death march.
This has nothing to do with Agile. Everything to do with project negotiations and unrealistic RFP's.
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Ah, memories...
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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Researchers at the University of Nottingham's Institute for Aerospace Technology (IAT), together with academic staff from the Bioengineering and Human Factors Research Groups, have demonstrated that facial temperatures, which can be easily measured using a non-invasive thermal camera, are strongly correlated to mental workload. Cold nose, warm heart?
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Linux guru complains about approach to patching the chip flaw. "Old Man Yells at Cloud"
But in this case, he's not wrong.
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Intel has a patching problem. All last week, users reported computers spontaneously rebooting after installing Intel’s Spectre/Meltdown patch. Now, Intel seems to be giving up on those patches entirely. Quailty is Job None
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Digital Music News reports that Apple, the company that was key in legitimizing downloaded music with its iTunes service, is set to kill it off. "Just take those old records off the shelf"
It's not as silly as the headline makes it sound. Kind of.
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I haven't bought a CD in at least 8 years or so; I don't have anything to play them anyway; and most of the time I only put them in the CD player of my PC to rip them up to MP3.
I haven't bought a digital download in at least 2 years (since I registered Apple Music).
One good thing is that I listen to a lot of new music every week; and since I can download them, I can listen to them without network.
One bad thing is that I cannot use the downloaded files in Traktor (DJ software).
I'd rather be phishing!
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"When was the last time you downloaded an MP3?"
Last week. Since then, I've queued up another four or five on Amazon, which I'll buy and download in the next week or so.
At Christmas, I downloaded three obscure albums for my youngest daughter's Christmas present. I had to install iTunes for one since I couldn't find it anywhere else.
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Meh, I still like buying a CD, ripping it MP3. The streaming services are awesome, but decent WIFI isn't always practical.
In my truck or the garage, I never have to listen to a DJ! 
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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As the Sun ages and sheds mass, the gravitational pull it exerts on its planets weakens. The sky isn't falling, but we are
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Further from the Sun is cooler. Shouldn't we be worrying about global cooling? 
(Yes I know we're talking about millions of years, not decades.)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Well, we have to clear the distance that the sun will swell to when it turns into a red giant
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- How is this distance measured? Is it center to center or from the edge of heliosphere edge to the edge of atmosphere? The sun is expanding so it is relevant.
- The earth is putting on weight. Even though we lose weight from radioactive decay and loss of atmosphere, once the addition of interplanetary dust and meteorites is factored are weight change is a net gain. As we gain weight, the earths gravity increases which does affect the sun.
All in all.... I don't know the end result, as the scientific community is only giving us a glimpse of the big picture. As per usual
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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And the moon and earth are moving further apart. Oh, the humanity!
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As discovered by Malwarebytes researcher Pieter Arntz, a new pair of extensions plaguing Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox can hijack the browsers in order to push technical support scams at you and potentially even spy on your browsing activities. Let's hear it for plugin technology?
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And for the sake of security of the users, I am sure Firefox checked that the extension was properly signed.
In contrast to older extensions whose certificates are expired meanwhile: they are just disabled.
Browser security measures are so great and useful.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai, speaking at a taped television event hosted by MSNBC and The Verge’s sister site Recode, said artificial intelligence is one of the most profound things that humanity is working on right now and compared it to basic utilities in terms of its importance. It's shocking and it burns!
or:
But try to make a grilled cheese sandwich at 2am with just AI
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Only strengthens my view that Pichai is an idiot.
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When seeking a new job, it's important that software engineers have diverse skills in multiple coding languages, a new survey concludes. "Gotta catch 'em all"
OK, at least they didn't include HTML in the list
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That's based on the premise that a software engineer is willing to take just any job. I find web and database front-end development loathsome, so have no desire to learn Javascript, Ruby or whatever. Yes, this severely limits my job searches, but it's been worth it.
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Physicists have experimentally demonstrated an information engine—a device that converts information into work—with an efficiency that exceeds the conventional second law of thermodynamics. "In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
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1+1=2. 1+1=2. 1+1=2. 1+1=2. 1+1=2. 1+1=2. 1+1=2. 1+1=2. 1+1=2. 1+1=2. 1+1=2. 1+1=2. 1+1=2. 1+1=2. 1+1=2. 1+1=2. 1+1=2. 1+1=2. 1+1=2. 1+1=2. 1+1=2. 1+1=2. 1+1=2. 1+1=2. 1+1=2. 1+1=2. 1+1=2. 1+1=2. 1+1=2....
So much repetitious information! Does that work? 
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A newly developed electronic skin lets the wearer manipulate virtual objects without touching them — like typing on a keypad, or adjusting a dimmer just by moving your wrist. Nothing up this sleeve, and nothing up that sleeve
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A survey of 1,700 bug bounty hunters registered on the HackerOne platform reveals that top white-hat hackers make on average 2.7 times more money than the average salary of a software engineer in the same country. My next get rich scheme: quit and come back as a bug hunter to fix my bugs
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