The lye concentration used to make soap is rather nasty if it gets on your skin and you don’t deal with it immediately. Source: I’ve made a lot of soap from scratch.

Thanks for pointing that out so I didn’t have to.

What’s the alternative? Waterfail?

Yeah because business requirements and technology is changing at an ever slower rate…

My ICQ ID was a rather low number…

No one, it just makes sense.

You must be one of those “Throw your mother downstairs, the box of tissues” types.

Yoda sounded normal to you I bet.

This is no joke.

2 kids were killed in Forest Grove, Oregon hiding in a leaf pile on the edge of the road to surprise dad when Dad came back outside but instead were run over by teens deciding to drive the the leaf piles…

Tragic AF

https://www.oregonlive.com/forest-grove/2017/05/driver_who_ran_over_girls_play.html

My sarcasm detector is failing…

Quotes from Ingrid Newkirk. The PETA “shelters” have frequently been found to euthanasia oriented with little effort put into re-homing.

“Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.”

https://quotefancy.com/ingrid-newkirk-quotes#:~:text=“Pet ownership is an absolutely,brought about by human manipulation.”&text=17.

What PETA has said, and what they have done, are often not the same.

People who support the ethical treatment of animals and veganism often don’t know and even more often don’t want to know about the skeletons in the closet, and would usually be unsupportive of such acts.

Extremism happens.

No no no look not regular vegans. PETA vegans.

You know, the ones that think cats and dogs would be better off dead than as pets. If you’re feeling too upbeat go ahead and Bing it.

I hope they copy his example by the thousands.

And pain Sunshine and the rain

You know? I literally figured that out a minute before I saw your reply. And I rolled my eyes at myself.

That makes sense. Silly me

Cheers

Ideally your estimates would just be complexity points. And those estimates would go on on the stories in Jira/Azure Dev Ops / wherever

And honestly the team should meet up and discuss the estimates

I don’t understand your statement. The Mythical Man Month teaches exactly that lesson of more bodies != Faster in many cases.

How long to build the site with 1 full stack dev? 1.5 years.

How long with an existing high performance team of 5? 2 months.

How long if you hire 4 plus the one original (all qualified)? 1 to 1.5 years.

How long if we hire 30 full stack devs? Maybe never.

Good ones are pretty rare and good program managers are even rarer.

What they should do, and what most actually do, are different things.

Project managers must be great with humans and communication. If they are not, then they just can’t be effective.

If the timing is critical then the only reasonable solution is to cut scope and features until it fits.

The triangle isn’t a rubbery floppy thing, it is iron!

Geez… Project managers are forbidden from making work estimates- they only get to collect them.

They don’t get to argue estimates either. They can ask questions to gain understanding but the estimates are the estimates.

Wearing an architect or chief engineer hat is sometimes more fun because you get to call bullshit on dumb estimates like “4 to 5 weeks to model a table with 7 fields, with 2 of them being PK, FK” like GTFO we can model it in the next 5 minutes if I talk slowly.

Sad but true. Been working a long time? Well in that case it will be a whole new hobby because you’ve, like, done stuff.

Some of y’all are look to ask Steve the Miller about this when your answers would be easier to find on Baker Street

I wonder if that sheep is look for the wheel that thief took?

The NSA knows absolutely anything about absolutely anyone it wants to know.

Do you use a cellphone? Use a smart TV? Roku? Android play? Apple anything?

I mean…the question now is what specifically do you want to protect and from whom?

I’m not judging the want, just pointing out the reality of the want.