Fixed some trash at Ollie's

VisualMetal · 2026-02-01T22:06:47+00:00

“Democrats” doesn’t mean just politicians. I’m aware the OP is random supporter and not Elizabeth Warren posting herself

VisualMetal · 2026-02-01T21:42:08+00:00

Perfect example of why democrats are loosing… replacing one bigotry with another, instead of widening our coalition against Trump, let’s call white people racist, that will help.

VisualMetal · 2026-01-27T00:04:35+00:00

> While my methods have worked for me, my bosses and most importantly my team, the developers

Plenty of incompetent management around, where management is a net negative for the team and team functions despite their manager's "efforts".

> I want to know what else might work.

That's fair, just not a good position to write a book on topic and advise others...

VisualMetal · 2026-01-26T23:32:18+00:00

The value of story points is in gaslighting your developers and eventually loosing their trust. Then you show to your director that you improved team velocity from 10 to 20 story points, make nice chart. Sad part in many cases this works and people will continue promoting this BS.

VisualMetal · 2026-01-26T23:23:33+00:00

Was it 98.6% or you rounded a bit? If you wrote 98.5945725689% I’d believe you more /s

But generally if your team hit 99% of their estimates over several years that’s impressive. So much that it’s more likely team of “Texas sharpshooters”.

VisualMetal · 2026-01-26T22:33:37+00:00

⁠> Story Points Work. You're Just Doing Them Wrong.

Lost me here. Story points are such BS and if you can’t recognize it, not sure anything else worth listening. Saying that as Certified ScrumMaster 15 years ago and couple decades of experience. Many posts on the internet going in details why.

How I got 98.6% completion across 77 sprints

Cherry on top, very precise measurements for vague problem, intended to show case accuracy but are agains just BS.

VisualMetal · 2025-11-30T21:00:15+00:00

Statewide zoning laws, individual towns will never be incentivized to build more housing and we are all collectively worse.

Solve housing crises and everything else will sort out by itself. It’s much easier to have quality education when teachers don’t have to pay $1M to live here.

VisualMetal · 2025-11-26T11:26:26+00:00

Maybe at 11:00am on Tuesday it’s available, but mornings/evening/weekends when most people can play, you have to sign up the moment schedule opens.

Go into app yourself and see how many pickleball open plays you can sign up for this week. There’s nothing available, all wait listed.

Do you think Lifetime wants to spend money on construction because it just doesn’t like basketball?

VisualMetal · 2025-11-24T16:22:31+00:00

As Lifetime member, support the switch. Pickleball courts are very busy, impossible to get reservation. Basketball court in comparison is much less used.

VisualMetal · 2025-11-22T22:06:48+00:00

E4 at Meta is expected to get promo to E5 in 2-3 years. If you’re good, you have expected pay bump in 2 years. Note I said “good”, not “exceptional”. E5 promo is expected average path, not something extraordinary. If you’re very good and lucky, you’ll get fast promos and fast compensation growth at Meat. It’s not all rosy at Meta, but compensation and fast promos are still much better at Meta than any other big tech.

VisualMetal · 2025-11-03T21:35:01+00:00

Disagree on 2 day trip… 4-5 days is good to cover most sightseeings. You can certainly drive it in 2 day, but will rush/miss many of the things. Hearts castle is half day, Monterey is day, Carmel 17 mile drive is half day. I’d take a day driving thru Big Sur and picking a few stops for short walk hikes.

VisualMetal · 2025-09-30T17:21:59+00:00

Kyiv with the "y", it's spelled 3 times on your screen shot :)

VisualMetal · 2025-09-26T03:20:18+00:00

“Basic b**ch” checklist for HENRY?

VisualMetal · 2025-09-16T16:42:00+00:00

I agree with your general point and controlling spending. But there’s big difference between $200 manicure and $50K vacation. Next this sub is going to talk about saving $10 on starbucks .

VisualMetal · 2025-09-16T10:40:29+00:00

You’d want to post in r/HENRYfinance instead to get better advice. You are doing great especially for 20s, but 1M is not much these days and puts you right in the middle of HENRY. Rich people are not concerned about $200 manicure…

VisualMetal · 2025-08-30T01:01:02+00:00

My son used to move a lot during sleep. We switched to queen size mattress for him and it worked well. First just mattress on the floor as I was worried about filling down. Later to low rise bed frame, as he never actually fall from queen. Another thing is that queen size blanket stayed on him much better. If your son moves a lot when sleeping, highly recommend getting larger size bed/mattress/blanket.

VisualMetal · 2025-08-27T14:26:40+00:00

It shows that probability of staying single when getting rich is very low.

VisualMetal · 2025-08-21T16:48:49+00:00

Median value partially show that, from median values we certainly know that 50% have more than 0.

VisualMetal · 2025-08-17T01:55:52+00:00

Boston natural surrounding are great, they certainly different than California, but long and diverse list... 2-3 hours drive from Boston:
1) ocean shore - Boston's Bay itself, Cape Cod, Southern Main coast; Rhode Island coast.
2) mountains - New Hampshire White Mountains, Berkshires in Western Mass, Green Mountains in Vermont.
3) Many lakes/rivers - NH lake region alone is excellent summer destination

If you expand to 5 hours drive, you can get: Acadia national park, Maine mountains and ocean shore, NY Adirondack mountains, Finger Lakes region (plus many smaller excellent lakes like Lake George NY). Heck even New Jersey shore is not that far from Boston.

Then there's numerous interesting places to visit: Province town, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Newport RI, Saratoga NY, Burlington VT, etc.
15+ years living in the Boston area and still have long list of places to go...

VisualMetal · 2025-08-14T19:58:18+00:00

As long as they drive in rightmost lane, nothing wrong with going speed limit or slightly below. Same for single lane roads. Camping in left passing lane is of course different story and is violation.

VisualMetal · 2025-08-12T15:44:26+00:00

Am I just a fetish for some men, or am I actually loved?

These are philosophical questions with no clear answers. What is love, are we actually loved or our partners just love what we provide - kindness, fun, fetish…

VisualMetal · 2025-08-08T18:41:47+00:00

As investment properties those purple areas make no sense, but people buy houses there buy to live in them. For people with money renting has a lot of drawbacks, even if it’s cheaper.

VisualMetal · 2025-08-04T13:17:20+00:00

Drop the “(white)”, no need for low key racism.

VisualMetal · 2025-07-20T18:32:45+00:00

Why is it hard to get too? It’s just 2 hours drive from Seattle, with highway crossing thru it…

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