helmet91

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helmet91 ,

I'm not from the US, so I don't know how accurate this is, and I also don't know if this thing has ever been updated (I found it a long time ago), but there's this tool that might help with deciding: https://www.whereshouldilive.co/

helmet91 ,

You can do just that. Before you begin the quiz, there's a link to skip the quiz and directly enter your preferences.

helmet91 ,

I mean, if the words "Israel" and "interrogation" are in it, it pretty clearly conveys what you just described.

helmet91 ,

Oh there's a lot.

  • When I was a kid, parents and teachers used to teach, if you have sore muscles a day after an extensive workout, you need to work out even more in order to reduce the soreness. In fact, however, you need to rest those muscles.
  • I thought, pepperoni was pepper. (Like bell pepper, just smaller; similar to chilli). Then my girlfriend enlightened me after a confusing conversation, that pepperoni was a kind of salami. And then recently, at a company event before ordering pizza and after a very confusing discussion of what toppings we order, it turned out pepperoni was actually a kind of a salami, but not everyone agreed. So by now I've learned that pepperoni is neither of them. It doesn't exist. It's listed on pizza menus, and when you order it, you'll get something for sure, but you won't know in advance what it would be.
  • This isn't new, the realization was several years ago, but fits this list nicely: I thought, perfume was something for women. It turned out, there was perfume for men too.
  • Parents used to teach, if you read in the dark (on paper, not on a screen, I must add), you're ruining your eyes. But if you think about it: wtf does low light do to your eyes? By that logic, you're constantly ruining your eyes while sleeping.
  • For some reason I used to think, you could simply delete related entities bound by foreign key constraints in postgres, if you ran the query in a transaction. Once when I finally needed to do this, I learned the hard way I was wrong.

There's a lot more than this, probably I'll update this comment in the future. Or not.

Denmark urged its allies to increase arms supplies to Ukraine and decided to donate all the artillery it had in stock to the fighting forces ( rubryka.com )

Denmark's PM Mette Frederiksen added that during the COVID-19 pandemic, Europe and the United States quickly invented a vaccine and produced it in the right quantities. In her opinion, this can be done with weapons....

helmet91 ,

Nope, Orcban is still blocking it.

helmet91 ,

Exactly.

Also, besides the fact that over this time PHP transformed into a whole different language, most of the concepts the author is dissatisfied with, are just nuances.

There are a few valid points as well.

Overall, if I were to use a scripting language for web development, I would 100% pick PHP, as that's the best suited language for the job. Nowadays, however, I go with Rust because I wanna squeeze out as much performance as I reasonably can.

For single use scripts and smaller tools on my desktop, I used Python in the past, and then I learned Ruby. I'm sticking with Ruby for these use cases.

helmet91 , (edited )

Buying HP products is bad investment.

I only had the chance to two of their inkjet printers and one of their office laser printers, plus an elitebook laptop. In short, all of them suck.

Much better (to me, the best) alternatives, that I can safely say are good investments: Canon for inkjet printers, ThinkPad T and P series for laptops. Those are quality products. Unfortunately I don't have any experience with other office laser printers, so I cannot recommend one.

Edit: specified which series of ThankPads are still good.

helmet91 ,

I know. Still, that's the best hardware out there for laptops. I have to add though, only the T and P series are worth buying, the rest are trash.

helmet91 ,

Well, I guess it depends on the use case. For me, mine was a damn good investment for sure.

helmet91 ,

Check again.

At least the T580 I worked on was the best quality laptop I've laid my hands on. My current M1 MacBook Pro is close, to some extent. It's a great machine too, and obviously better in performance as it's newer, but in laptop keyboards, ThinkPad's is still no.1, not to talk about the track point that, to this day, no other manufacturer could properly reproduce. I worked with a Dell Latitude (a couple of years ago they were great), but the track point is shit on it.

Regarding maintenance, Lenovo provides detailed disassembly and repair guides, plus you can get replacement parts anytime.

Of course there are shit decisions on the ThinkPad line as well, but I still only can recommend them.

helmet91 ,

Hmm that's unfortunate. Wherever I worked so far, ThinkPads didn't break, even after the warranty expired.

Well, I wish you better luck with your Framework laptop(s) then.

helmet91 ,

I feel sorry for the author of the article for working at such a company.

This person happens to be working at a company, where they're not even taking Scrum seriously. What they're doing, is in fact, not Scrum.

When it's done correctly, it does make the team very productive and even enthusiastic, but - since it's a teamwork - a great team is needed for that.

It's true that it isn't easy to do Scrum right. It is in the Scrum guide too: easy to understand, but hard to master.

I did have a chance to work in an amazing team at a great company, where the leadership, as well as our Scrum master were determined to stick to the Scrum guide as much as possible (way too many "Scrum" teams make an alternate "Scrum" for themselves, with which they're essentially ruining it).

In our case, we didn't start out perfect either! We failed most of our sprints, but the management still believed in Scrum, and sent the whole team to a Scrum elevation training each year. Even as an introverted person, I have to say, they were really fun and they were good as team building events too, besides the training itself. We always returned to the office with greater enthusiasm after each training, and our enthusiasm always lasted longer and longer. At the end our team was like a "rock star" team at the company, the management, the leadership, our scrum master, all of them were proud of our achievements. We never failed a sprint again, and we also put the necessary overtime in when it was needed.

Those were the good times. Unfortunately I haven't managed to work in such a Scrum team again, and everywhere where I had an interview, they always had their own version of "Scrum".

Most likely the author of the article won't read this, but my message is, if you think, Scrum sucks, then in reality, your team (and maybe your company too) sucks.

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