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CodeWraith wrote: But most men are hopeless optimists who believe that they can easily tame the old dragon if they can tame the younger dragon.
Not being an optimist, I (living in Israel) married a woman whose family lives in South Africa.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I can't believe how a message can get skewed as it goes through different ears & mouths and finally change the context completely.
We have a product in the making.
And we also do a POC that's related to the product.
The big guys - the board of directors were on the call And I asked "What are the ways the POC development could actually contribute to the Product roadmap"
The question is valid and all the CTOs & technical guys in the call understand it well.
One of the non-technical directors says "Don't get distracted by the POC, focus on the product, and you shouldn't point to the POC as a reason for slowing down the product development & goes on to explain about the Product roadmap"
Another director echoes - "Guys, this has been discussed over and over, let's not waste more time on this question again"
Finally, one good empathizing tech boss intervenes & explains the context and which is not against the development of the POC. It was all about correlating the POC effort with the product.
It's been really tough formulating the message clear with the right vocabulary while talking to the non-tech big shots.  It's a tough exercise!
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Nand32 wrote: It's been really tough formulating the message clear with the right vocabulary while talking to the non-tech big shots. It's a tough exercise!
That's why I get paid the big bucks.
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Critical role. Spend justified. lol
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Nand32 wrote: Critical role.
True. Being critical is one of my specialities.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Being critical is one of my specialities.
Hope COVID-19 is not watching over this. 
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There's another case eight kilometres in the other direction from me, now -- that's 8km either side.
The Royal Navy "bracket and bump" gunnery methodology comes to mind...
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The title "Communication"reminded me of a story they used to quote while I was with GE.
While he was Chairman, Jack Welch used to host banquet dinners to employees who had completed more than 30 years of service in GE, and retired. At one such dinner, Jack was giving a speech, and noticed an elderly person having a conversation of his own, towards the last benches. Jack, wanting to have some fun with him, pointed to this elderly employee and asked him - "Hi, what do you think was the problem in what I was just telling?". The elderly employee, was smart, and though he hadn't heard a word of what Jack had just said, replied - "Communication, Jack, communication! Communication was the problem". Which was correct, Jack nodded.
So, everywhere communication is the problem, indeed.
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Communication will always be the number 1 problem companies have to deal with. People are terrible at it.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I had undermined it much. And I realize why there exists a role called "Project Manager". In some teams, PMs could be rendering some useful service, but our case is plain 'lip-service'. Just doing a very lightweight role. If the engineering leads could develop some good domain knowledge, vocabulary & some articulation, I guess the role of a Project Manager could lose relevance, at least in our company.
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ZurdoDev wrote: Communication will always be the number 1 problem companies have to deal with
Not to speak about married couples  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Cows heard herd animal (5)
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MOOSE ?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Yup 
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Michael Martin wrote: Bloody Americans infecting the planet.
Actually, the whole of East Asia is convinced that it did start in the US, because US tourists were among the first detected cases in all Asian countries, and were the furthest along.
Mind you, spotting a new flu-like illness during flu season is akin to the haystack/needle thing, so it's only vaguely short of miraculous that Chinese doctors spotted it within a couple of weeks.
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Here there is a new conspiracy-theory... it seems that there is some kind of "bio-research lab" in the near of Wuhan that many fingers are pointing as ground zero
EDIT: I just googled... as it seems there are more than one biotech companies over there 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Yup!
Never ignore a good conspiracy or hate theory!
They're always more fun than boring, mundane ol' reality.
The reality here is that a disease mutated, someone caught it, and it spread -- but where's the fun in that?
The only people who should care about where it mutated are the people who need to find out if the place where it started is likely to give rise to more nasty mutations.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Actually, the whole of East Asia is convinced that it did start in the US, because US tourists were among the first detected cases in all Asian countries, and were the furthest along.
If it was the case that it started in the US would that not imply that there would be evidence of infected US citizens that show they had it before the first case appeared in other countries? Unless perhaps the tourists created it to fill the boredom on the flight over...
Although I wouldn't rule out the possibility that the US would cover up any evidence that proved they started it, so who knows.
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musefan wrote: Although I wouldn't rule out the possibility that the US would cover up any evidence that proved they started it, so who knows.
That's the problem, and it makes this conspiracy theory more believable than most.
AFAIK, no government official, from any of the East Asian nations, has made such a statement, so it's just more twitter fodder.
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Slacker007 wrote: Typical retarded comment from an alcoholic Aussie.
That is well over the top.
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Probably more down under, than over the top
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