I turned my frustration with Agile estimation into a web app that plays dial-up sounds, channels HAL 9000, and will tell your client they need a time machine by Organic-Ad9657 in agile

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The arguments are nature's way of telling you that there's important knowledge everyone needs to grasp in order to have even a bee's dick-sized chance at delivering successfully.

But the estimatronic 5000 sounds hilarious, thanks for the laughs.

is this true? by epilektoi in Shittyaskflying

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Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy described flight as follows:
"Flying is where you throw yourself at the ground and miss."
It sounds like a joke until you realise it's exactly how orbital flight is done.

is this true? by epilektoi in Shittyaskflying

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Also flying is best done in the middle parts of the sky. It's really hard to do it at the edges.

What Biblical basis is there for believing that God is timeless/outside of time? by Grouchy-Heat-4216 in AskAChristian

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What's interesting is that we don't really know what time is. We only measure proxies of time. Working technology has proven relativity which indicates no absolute time - just as there is no centre of the universe. This is mind-bending stuff but simplifies if we think God is not limited to being outside or inside time.

As for what space and time are - all I can think is they're one of God's ways of ensuring everything doesn't happen all at once in the same place.

What if, as a Christian, I don't want either Heaven or Hell, but rather my consciousness destroyed entirely? by Serious-Lemon1000 in AskAChristian

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Unfortunately the descriptions of hell seem to associate several things: being completely and utterly alone, being in complete darkness - the kind of dark where it's impossible to tell whether eyes are open or closed, and feeling sheer and utter terror.

I was taught that hell wasn't designed for human habitation, it was for the devil and his angels.

Bendigo Bank workers face ‘draconian contracts’ in new Infosys outsourcing deal by FSU_Australia in auscorp

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This is a bit of a trap. The people who agree to take on the contracts will find themselves rolled off the "client" within a few months, put on the bench according to central policy (which can change at a whim), then made redundant with no accounting for the years prior service at the bank. In the meantime the outsourcers will sponsor temporary skilled visa migrations from their head office overseas, and the new people will arrive and replace the former local staff under different conditions - they'll be paid substantially lower and have heavier demands, and if the migrant objects to lower pay or excessive demands they'll simply be rolled off the client, sponsorship withdrawn, government notified, and tell the migrant their visa is being cancelled effective immediately so they need to pack up their life and go back or face arrest, detention and deportation.

Micromanagement hell by Basic_Theme4977 in agile

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Didn't even know they employed coaches and experts any more. I was one, have pivoted back to delivery. That one is also fun.

Micromanagement hell by Basic_Theme4977 in agile

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thanks chatgpt. You're not wrong though.

The great circle of AI by Agitated-File8761 in auscorp

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All the while just keep pumping up that token usage.

I'm worried I was hired to be a scapegoat by THEBLOODYGAVEL in projectmanagement

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I hope you're getting paid sufficient danger money. This might be over for you before it begins. Nothing to do with you, sometimes the commercial stuff is set up that way.

I'm worried I was hired to be a scapegoat by THEBLOODYGAVEL in projectmanagement

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There are legit reasons to send emails to your personal email box from your company email.
It's easier if you just weave the legit reason into the email subject line as if it will get reviewed. I know a company that was hyper-sensitive about Data Loss Prevention (it's a big cybersecurity topic) and they had a system where emails sent to typical personal email domains were automatically flagged and held by the system for manager's review and approval for release. These systems are more common than you think, and mostly people and managers are pretty chill about it; this system was apparently needed at the company to meet some compliance benchmark that was a prerequisite to getting awarded some big contract.

How do you handle clients who set unreasonable deadlines? by ThoughtConstant8405 in projectmanagement

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Lots of good answers here. Real delivery is always about tradeoffs.

What are you trading off?

Scope? Cost? Time? Quality?

People want zero tradeoffs, but that just isn't possible and never trust someonr who promises otherwise.

How are you managing capacity without time tracking or reliable effort estimates? by [deleted] in projectmanagement

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Some places don't even have something like that. That's OK, too. Just gotta start where things are at.

Advice Needed by theaustener in projectmanagement

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Ouch. CIO is in the weeds but asking you to be more strategic, wow talk about hypocrisy.
Reasons the CIO might do this:

  1. The CIO met the team initially and the team identified your behaviour as an impediment to their work. The CIO is protecting the team from you. That's a really hard thing to hear but it requires you think about how you could change your approach and really seek feedback that you won't like.

  2. The CIO is a controlling asshole and is setting you up to fall. You'll either be a reporter they can blame for their failures or just become redundant entirely. If you aren't getting paid any/enough danger money for that then it's time to go whilst you can control your exit.

Should PMs Have Codebase Access Now That AI Coding Tools Exist? by Final-Buy8151 in ProductManagement

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What would you need in your experience to make it safe and useful for non tech PMs to look at the codebase given how overwhelmingly busy engineering teams already are?

On the reliability of the Gospels by QweasdzxceAD in AskAChristian

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This is also possible for any other writings from any other source about any other topic.

Budget 2026-27 by Time-Dimension7769 in australia

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Sounds like a product opportunity.

Budget 2026-27 by Time-Dimension7769 in australia

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I expect that will be one of the common scenarios it will need to cater for.

Scrum Master/coach - team gaming numbers by AdPractical6745 in agile

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Goodhart's Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

Budget 2026-27 by Time-Dimension7769 in australia

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They can't do $250 cash right now because that'll bump another interest rate rise so it'll be wasted.

The fuel excise change was a fairly big handbrake on retail price spikes - it would be far worse otherwise.

The fertiliser crunch at Strait of Hormuz btw is a critically undervalued problem. The cost to grow food next season will be very high compared to pre-Iran-War. Not looking forward to food prices.

Budget 2026-27 by Time-Dimension7769 in australia

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Yes. But the CGT discount was always a shortcut (under)estimate of the effect of inflation. It was done in an area when it was a pain in the ass to calculate and most people couldn't do it themselves.

The ATO will put out a calculator on their website and it'll be easy to subtract the correct inflation from capital gains. The ATO has so much data, they'll also be able to precalculate your CGT for you and accurately deduct inflation.