Oh damn maybe we’re related. Wing?

Termites will too. https://photos.app.goo.gl/N46wazw6nUnFKBXF7

This was extruded foam insulation

Coffee has more caffeine than tea, but tea has more caffeine than coffee .

This is true because we speak of the ingredient and the drink using the same word each.

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.

Really? I find them using a map app

I said stop it I’m not taking your picture!

Yes yes single threaded execution etc but now we just build a crap ton more and keep increasing the computational throughput per watt etc.

We’ve moved massive calculations into GPUs and thus in terms computational capabilities it holds up.

I mean check this out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS

The geometric growth is real. Moore’s law was just one way to explain it.

Moore’s law predicts that compared to 1980, computers in 2040 would be a BILLION times faster.

Also that compared to 1994 computers, the ones rolling out now are a MILLION times faster.

A cheap Raspberry PI would easily be able to handle the computational workload of a room full of equipment in 1984.

What would have taken a million years to calculate in 1984 would theoretically take 131 hours today and 29 seconds in 2044…

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.

Oof ouch owie

You have to build a training plan for fresh. Measure at the macro, not micro.

Did the important things get done over the year? Great.

Coach for impact, end to end problem ownership, initiative, efficient communication, follow and follow through.

Delegate mentoring to those who you see as good examples. Credit the mentors for excellence in mentoring. Credit the rookies for improvement.

Micromanaging is not a scalable or effective approach

As if that even works.

If you are in any kind of knowing+ problem solving role, a bunch of tasks doesn’t explain having ownership or responsibilities.

That sucks that you are being subjected to that as part of the enshitification.

Shine the light!

Yep you can definitely build lots of skyscrapers, then just demolish them without any financial repercussion.

You’re late for your bus to Disney!

Bus dumps you in Dallas

Gonna cry?