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  • A typical project manager will get a range, take the lower bound and communicate it as the only relevant number to every other stakeholder. When that inevitably does not work out, all the blame will be passed on to you unfiltered.

    Depending on where you work it may or may not be worth giving someone new the benefit of the doubt, but in general it is safer to only ever talk about the upper bound and add some padding.








  • Biden should give an executive order to lock this guy up for treason.

    When people complain about that, point to the SCOTUS decision that the president can do whatever the fuck he wants without legal repercussions.

    If any of the people who complain even vaguely hint at violence in reaction to this, give an order to lock them up for treason, too.

    Keep this cycle going until the last grunt has understood that this type of behavior will not stand.

    Once all the people willing to call for violence are locked up, use the same reasoning to disband the current SCOTUS and replace it with something that is not an embarrassment for a modern democracy, with a strong recommendation to immediately renounce the ruling that made all of that legal.

    By the time the dust has settled Biden will be too old to be persecuted for any of that anyway.


    I know none of this will happen, writing it out just as a happy little fantasy.


  • The Next Great Thing™ will not make a number of users that is significant to any real world scenario move away from Windows. The only approach that might have a chance to do that is something that looks and feels as close as possible to Windows. Yes even the parts of Windows that are bad. All of it, except the most glaringly obviously horrible stuff (like ads in menus). And that also includes all the programs a significant number of users care about either running there out of the box without having to jump through any hoops or a replacement fulfilling the same “looks, feels and operates almost identical” criteria.

    People care about something feeling familiar and not having to relearn stuff a lot more than about shiny new features.