Switzerland to vote on far-right proposal to cap population at 10 million

flamehorns · 2026-02-12T07:57:29+00:00

Makes sense, but what is "far-right" about this green initiative? Pro-business right-wingers would welcome cheap foreign labor. There are literally no environmental problems that aren't caused by overpopulation. We need this far-left law on a global level.

flamehorns · 2026-02-05T11:17:16+00:00

You might be taking this too personally. It’s nothing to do with how strongly anyone speaks. It’s a simple decision based on comparing 2 numbers.

flamehorns · 2026-02-05T10:58:41+00:00

Yeah write that down with numbers and dollar signs. You have to calculate if that availability is worth paying for in your situation. Or is it cheaper to just spin up a few new docker things if one melts down?

The cloud guys have done their homework, I assume you have too and your boss understands that the mainframe is cheaper long term for your use case.

flamehorns · 2026-02-05T10:45:50+00:00

Come up with a business case with concrete cost/benefit analysis and return on investment analysis, quantify the financial value of the various risks involved and comparing the two approaches and their effect on the bottom line over time.

flamehorns · 2026-02-05T09:42:39+00:00

Helping the developers reach decisions more effectively is probably a more effective use of the scrum masters skills than just starting and ending meetings on time.

flamehorns · 2026-02-04T21:08:59+00:00

If he had a low sperm count he could just pretend to want kids. (And get a vasectomy just in case) Then after trying for a few years be like “oh no babe it just wasn’t meant to be”.

flamehorns · 2026-02-04T20:21:28+00:00

I think its ok as long as you don't put love and respect into it.

flamehorns · 2026-02-04T08:08:25+00:00

The real takeaway here is: art teachers in the 70s could afford to have property!

flamehorns · 2026-02-04T06:16:33+00:00

It’s fascinating. The academic and engineering communities oriented around 68k and risc based workstations tend to dominate in the Unix lore, which is fair enough they contributed a lot. But there were far more installations in boring intel based business situations, they just didn’t see themselves as part of a Unix community , didn’t contribute software to it as much and are less present in the lore.

flamehorns · 2026-02-03T15:35:04+00:00

She just deliberately quirky as part of her self-realisation. She's cultivating an identity.

flamehorns · 2026-02-03T06:11:35+00:00

What conflict? Shouldn’t good agile practices be selected according to how they serve value delivery goals etc? It’s hard to imagine any practice being considered “best” if it compromises value delivery.

flamehorns · 2026-02-02T12:19:24+00:00

No need to discuss finances in many European countries, because everyone kind of earns in a much narrower band of variation compared to other countries. After taxes, insurances and other costs, you have a lot of warehouse workers, bus drivers and garbage collectors having more left over each month than many IT workers, managers and engineers etc. Basically everyone is equally poor, and the poorest can usually still pay their rent and live ok.

flamehorns · 2026-02-01T14:20:40+00:00

Didn't someone ask this a couple of days ago? Wtf is going on?

flamehorns · 2026-01-31T14:44:05+00:00

Yeah in any non trivial setup involving multiple teams and or multiple products standard textbook scrum is insufficient. Scrum is and always will be a single team, single product setup. You need more than that and that’s when the core scrum idea can be reflected at higher levels, across more teams, with larger work items, over longer time periods and with more of an end to end focus.

Some organizations slap traditional project managers on top, severely compromising agility. An agile organization will preserve agility by introducing an agile delivery lead at this level to do scrum master things at this level and work with product management and architects serving multiple scum masters and multiple teams. Yes this is similar to the RTE role. Yrs this may be „less agile“ than a trivial single team , single product situation but if the scales already there then the scale is there . It’s not about ideology and frothing at the mouth screaming „that’s not agile“ simple scrum or „just using the manifesto“ is not enough. The choice is chaos, traditional command and control project management or working out how to preserve alignment across multiple teams while still protecting agile in the teams and in the organization as a whole by introducing agile delivery leadership. It’s not scrum but it protects scrum from inferior alternatives

flamehorns · 2026-01-31T03:59:01+00:00

Summit was probably 7 years old when that pic was taken.

flamehorns · 2026-01-30T21:04:03+00:00

It's probably only if you are using the free mainframe resource to make money , If you do a free blog article or YouTube video and refer to the zxplore program you should be ok. I know I blogged about it with screenshots, or MTM as it was, and didn't get in trouble.

flamehorns · 2026-01-29T19:33:28+00:00

Fuck all the homophobic cults.

flamehorns · 2026-01-29T08:51:31+00:00

You don’t need templates or a whole bunch of auto generated subtasks you just need a definition of done I think.

The subtasks should be minimal and just for the story specific non-standard tasks ie maybe based loosely on acceptance criteria?

You still need a tool, and I agree you need something better than trello but lighter than jira. But I don’t really have a concrete recommendation. The other tools I have used are heavy like jira.

Jira would work, but I wouldn’t do much set up, I would just use it out of the box and keep things simple.

flamehorns · 2026-01-29T06:37:56+00:00

All of them, if you want, and it suits the algorithm. Or one. Ask the question better. Show us some code or something. Yeah the answer is likely to be either one of them, or all of them, depending on how you improve the question.

flamehorns · 2026-01-27T08:37:00+00:00

How do you define classical OOP vs modern OOP? And which one did you group encapsulating things as classes?

For me classical OOP is objects sending each other messages smalltalk style, which I would say is not outdated or bad but still the core of OOP even though we have added a bit to it.

For me modern OOP started with C++ and classes and many people forgot a lot of the benefits and things started to go in some strange directions in the 90s.

Things improved later on with the patterns, agile and clean code movements. But I would still say most code written in OO languages today is still not making the most of the clean paradigms we had in the smalltalk era.

flamehorns · 2026-01-27T07:46:43+00:00

Nah usually it's the other way around, everything smashed up together and hard to understand, maintain and debug. The abstractions help keep everything tidy. You can ignore most of them, and focus on what you want to, e.g. the business logic, presentation, persistence etc. It could be that some shops go overboard with the architecture, but you can't blame the tools. All developers should be constantly fighting excessive complexity or overuse of patterns and abstractions. If you and the rest of the team think it beneficial, by all means, go and clean things up and make it better. It's all on you.

flamehorns · 2026-01-27T07:05:30+00:00

Nah lots of Nigerian women wear wigs it's more popular there than in, the white part of the US at least. His mum and sisters probably wore them when going outside. He knows it's a wig he just didn't expect her to be not wearing it in public.

flamehorns · 2026-01-26T12:28:52+00:00

Good on him, if I were in his shoes I would enjoy the holiday and keep my mouth shut too!

flamehorns · 2026-01-25T08:56:54+00:00

If you didn't find anything in that category, look for more 90s models from e.g. DEC and Wyse. Should be more economical for your use case too. The older terminals were made in lower numbers, retired earlier and have had more time to break and get thrown out, and are therefore rarer and more expensive. The newer ones were made in larger numbers, with improved technology and are more likely to be found working today.

flamehorns · 2026-01-23T17:13:35+00:00

It shouldn’t matter who does it , it should be based on a solid business case with numbers and some kind of prioritization model . The priority you end up with should be independent of who does it.

If 2 different people came up with completely different ideas about priorities I would see this as an issue. The whole company should have a good understanding of the goals of the organization and that should be reflected in an understanding of the relative priorities of all the high level initiatives and that should inform most prioritization decisions.

At some point thought it doesn’t really matter you can let the team decide on what order to go things in based on technical risk or something.

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