PankajGhosh

I am curious where is this data sourced from! Thank you for putting this together

How would I divide a day in metric time into 3 shifts?

Understood that you dont; But before Beyond/Impossible came, there used to be veggie patty that vegetarians enjoyed. And many of them have never tasted meat, and don't want to eat something that tastes like meat.

OP's point is that Beyond/Impossible replaced the veggie patty with a non-meat version of meat patty, instead of adding a new item in the menu.

Possible name collission. “alpaca” is a ycombinator backed startup: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/alpaca

Yes, because Ukraine is not a NATO member. If it was, then as per treaty, the alliance would respond.

How is that not clear?

The possibility of side projects to create future value or wealth is rather low.

Instead, I have started shifting my focus to "side-gigs" rather, with the goal that they create future value for me in some sense.

On behalf of a technology team, looking to incorporate a messaging platform to our landscape: I am curious to understand the motivation behind implementing a messaging system on top of a database technology. There are robust offerings both for small scale and large throughput systems. What are the benefits of this project over other implementations(RabbitMQ, Kafka, Celery, ActiveMQ, ZeroMQ, SNS/SQS)?

I think the sentiment here is not acknowledging the full picture of shift in car ownership in US.

While it is true that more families are opting for SUVs, but that is because more families are opting to share a car (preferably an SUV from utility perspective) rather than owning two or more cars/sedans. The increase in availability of rideshare (Uber/Lyft) is also playing a part in this gradual shift.

(I can't seem to find the study which stated above, but will keep looking and update this comment when I find it)

Interesting idea. It would be a learning opportunity for all of us to know what libraries/frameworks are being used to create these website. Maybe this is something you can add to the aggregated feed.

Also, quite a few of them seem to be down. I would suggest marking them as inactive.

My first impression is that I am more receptive to ideas related to Fitness (and eyes), but not so much about Diet.

That maybe specific to my own lifestyle choice, but I find dietary plans too intrusive and lacking in context(my health, dietary needs, food availability etc).

In the case, where answer is No to both the questions, I have come to terms with being comfortable with procrastinating on that task. If I cannot convince myself of value added vs effort required today vs in future, it is okay to delay the task.

Also, choosing not to do a task now and procrastinate can be a powerful and useful tactic.

Below are two questions that I ask myself, when I need to do a task I do not feel like. My experience has always been that the impedance is higher at only start of the task, and if the answer to any of below two questions is Yes, then the value of outcome would supersede my initial uneasiness.

1. Would the value created by this task reduce over time? In other words, is it better to do this task today than in future?

2. Does the effort required by the task increase (or remain same), if delayed? In other words, is it easier for me to do this task today than in future?

One of the points being discussed here is the impact on velocity due to tests not being functional and tests validating implementation details. This slows down refactoring or re-design exercises, which is quite inevitable in any customer driven project.

I suggest looking at BDD (http://guide.agilealliance.org/guide/bdd.html) which results in tests that validate scenarios/specification/behavior and are not coupled too closely with the implementation details.