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500$ is a quite average price for the country I live in. Of course I don't mean cheap airlines, only the national ones.

One big point which hasn't been resolved by scrum in many companies. Manual testing - until it's tested by the QA tested you shouldn't mark it done. However, it is very seldom to finish testing and implementing in one take in exactly 2 weeks. Also business analysts, together with QA testers there is virtually no control in most companies what they do and how they do. All the blame is shifted always on developers because they are at the bottom of SDLC chain but business analysts and QA testers take never responsibility for all inaccuracies and omissions of their work.

My observations are than "agility" in most corporations mean "agile" approach to requirements, hard fixed approach to deadlines and environment or sdlc. Once I got blamed from system admins that I am late and they have extra work because client asked for change few hours before the release deadline. I implemented this but I got blamed for being late. Also in SCRUM the zealous approach to the holy 2 weeks, it cannot last 13 days, nor 15 days. It's super important to last exactly 14 days. In holy ticketing environment where you have to issue a ticket to wipe glasses. In my opinion the best and simplest methodology is an incremental waterfall with releases every 3 months ( more or less ). 3 month long "milestones" because every company does quarter reports. Additionally for status reporting Kanban boards. No damn red tape driven "agile" Scrums, safs and so on.

I come from the soviet block and I like to see when westerners keep flagging my post for laughing out communist advocates ( they are growing as you see ). My country ( Poland ) was an example for this unregulated capitalism transformation in 90s and I can say, I am glad somebody has tried it. Regarding regulations please see mifid 2 regulation and see how efficient and concise it is ( tousands of pages ). So to all westerners please come to eastern Europe and see these "efficient regulations" - they never are

That's right. We should all go back to the original, never tried out utopian communism.

Frauds are very often hidden or disguised as "bad investments" (yeah banks do mistakes as any other human beings) and covered with money from "slush funds". When they are on vacations, rogue traders cannot cover their intentional bad investments, losses, close warning notifications and so on. More kn this topic here https://www.fdic.gov/news/financial-institution-letters/1995...

I don't deny frauds in credit agencies. However, somebody was buying banks' CDOs? Who, ancient aliens? No, they weren't called surprime because credit agencies cheated on their rating, they were called so because they were inherently risky more than a normal mortgage ( so called ninja loans, no income, no job ). That's the people were buying this shit with the all time low rate loans. Human greed huh? That's less convenient than blaming banks for all the evil in this world

I worked once for an investment bank and there it was mandatory to take once in year min 2 week vacation minimum. It wasn't because of their sympathy, it was due to the fraud prevention :-) Forced 2 week long vacation, locked out access to the systems for that period of time.

That's the convenient myth to think banks caused crisis. Money printing and credit rates lowering by government caused this. Free money? Sure, why not. Please watch princes of yen documentary where they speak about "credit window guidance" conducted by Japanese national bank for more than decades

My thesis was "you can't take Wikipedia quality for granted" it fails to be objective on many topics. And your thesis is? Your counter thesis?

And this is cherry picking. As studies show the quality varies strongly for historical, politically controversial and highly scientifical topics ( only few wikipedia editors ). Link https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3178876.3186132#BibP... So nothing "easily disproven"

Most wikipedia citations are linked to some news articles (this is not too bad, still newspapers are being archived) and some random internet blog articles of some random people which show up and disappear. Source creditworthness analysis? Good joke Wikipedia says :-) At best you can get some people's opinion about something.

The owner of the site can remove content even from the web archive. It's far harder to remove books with isbns from national libraries.

There is a in memory database H2. Anyways, I have never used h2 as short form of http/2

Nope with an exception for CS academic theory. One year for CS is like a decade for human life and thus almost every IT book gets obsolete after a relase. That's why I read official docs or getting started, they are far more accurate and up to date. In rare occasions where doc is not too good, I check source code - it never lies.

The biggest spam I get from Facebook ads itself. I live in Switzerland and I am BOMBARDED with financial frauds, scams and ponzi like schemes served directly from their ads. I checked why in their system and got answer "primary location: Switzerland and male 25 - 35 years old". I tried to report, block them all but facebook support always if replied at all, it was saying all in line with their policies. So, I deactivated facebook account and now using only messanger

Surely, nobody in Dachau knew what what have been happening in one of the very first nearby concentration camp on the daily basis. It originated few years before the second world war. Buchenwald, matthausen, gross rosen ( typical work camp but not less lethal than the concentration camp - it was German before 2 world War), all German, on the German soil constructed by the German people

Understanding that you don't really need to understand it all and you need to understand only part of them. If you do try otherwise, you run into overhours :-)

Most popular technique to 'just do the thing' is using 'if my case do #1, else do #2'. Mostly because nobody really understand the business logic. Many reasons, no real one single document with spec, only wikipedia called confluence where you have half truths, barely truths and contradicting each other statements.

In such situation you almost never will understand the logic because there are even no use cases and thus all you can get are regression tests (because there are no use cases list). It gets accumulated over years, many externals / consultants with half-life time 1 year and so continues - chaos in specs (sometimes even transfering from one tool to another one with losing info) and big rotation in companies too dependent on externals.

So instead doing simple if-else, it's better to use wrapper / decorator or even better proxy of chain if more complicated.

It all depends and this textbox is too short to explain the fun facts :-)

Still you do have some requirements. Many legacy systems are 'as-is'. Just more or less working source code with huge label 'don't touch it'.

So stop mining damn coal!!! You didn't answer the damn question - how it looks like when German and Czech coal mines keep mining without any issues? Please, explain me this. Germans keep restoring coal mines because of lack of gas and you damn say that's there is some opinion? I've lived more than 18 years less than kilometer to the czech border and my father had to install the early warning system on the river flowing from Czech side because it was being constantly polluted. https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C4%9Bl%C3%A1_(p%C5%99%C3%ADt...

So please anwer the damn question and stop saying idiotic statements until you answer it.

Czech people hate Polish and that's fact. However, regarding this brown coal mine, czech coal mines are very nearby and these ones are not toxic / dangerous to the environment? Sure, they are and my father took part in installing early warning system on many rivers coming from czech as they are being constantly polluted by them. Of course, when czech do it, it's completely fine

No she doesn't make millions. It's not her fault that now her house is 10x more valuable ( on the paper ). As long as she doesn't sell, rent somebody else she has no income. No income, no tax.

Simple as fuck logic. She bought the property, not a license there for living up to her ends.

The thing you are here presenting is a tax of not realized potential income. It's diabolical insane idea.

If we can do it for real estate, why not for cars, and any idea property?

You basically want people buy a license for living in their flats.

About basically nor useful, she earned the money, paid multiple taxes for this and she bought this from the real property dealer / construction company which hired many people for this.

Isn't this tangible contribution for society?

All because people like you flocked to her location for work what used to be peaceful, quite suburbs

Yeah, nobody should have vacation cabin. It's very bad for the sake of society.

I will paraphrase wrongly attributed to Bill Gates quote.

15m should be enough for each worker in this world.

Marx would be very happy hearing this.

Ah sure. Old lady living in the house she bought 50 years ago will have to pay insanely high land tax because now it's red hot city location, what 50 years ago used to be suburbs.

Very clever idea.

Taxation was never a solution to any problem. It was a way to mask the problem in a very populist way. Taxation purpose was a redistribution from 'evil crooks' to poor, unlucky people.

The problem with Taxation always was that the middle class was paying this because the rich ones had plenty of solutions not to pay including with moving to an another country

'Lifetime' one time payments end up being converted into monthly subscriptions. Always... Best example is Couchsurfing.

They broke the contract. The contract is the contract.