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What about "achieving failure" that is the outcome of many non-agile projects?
What else will we see? More bowel obstructions?
As someone who recently moved back to Canada I echo this.

This is an existential issue.

I own two houses, both mortgages paid, make 150k as a family and would need to save for decades to put a down payment on a detached home in a far away suburb of Ottawa.

People who didn't own a house a few years ago bought too much house for fear of being priced out of the market and now their mortgages are coming up for renewal...can't pay it so the banks are doing 50-90 year mortgages!!

I made the same misassumption when I moved back to Ottawa.

Got laid off in 2020 during Corona. Jumped ship from private to government. Went from 185k US to 120K CAD.

Substantial drop in purchasing power and ability to buy a house. I love my country but it feels like it has become openly hostile to staying in middle class. Scary stuff. I can provide more details if anyone is interested.

Re:System76 AMD-Only Laptop Returns on Thursday January 12, 2023 @12:24PM (#34357196)
I own a LemurPro 9. Love it but the arrow keys are a crime against humanity. It appears they have fixed this (maybe even sooner) with the Pangolin.

System76 if you here can you switch chassis :) ?

Re:Ask HN: CNN+ Software Engineers on Friday April 22, 2022 @10:08AM (#31121712)
So Fox News' business model :)
Re:Famicom Party: Making NES Games in Assembly on Monday November 01, 2021 @01:09PM (#29069674)
This has been posted a few times but a cool resource nonetheless. I played around with NES/assembly last year and just about got a scrolling engine fully working. Couldn't get the last 2 tiles to render before the NMI interrupt ended.

Some other cool resources for NES:

https://wiki.nesdev.org/w/index.php/Nesdev_Wiki

https://fuzzytek.ml/tutorials/nerdynights/

Re:Defense against the dark art of estimation bargaining (2014) on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @02:08PM (#28224964)
Right. That's required velocity to make equation balance. Much different than actual velocity.
Re:Defense against the dark art of estimation bargaining (2014) on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @09:19AM (#28220594)
Agreed. Identifying what is fixed and what is negotiable is key. Most often I see that scope is the only one that is not fixed when it comes down to it.

Even more important is not letting your team get boxed into fixed scope and fixed time as you can increase velocity some but increases to velocity are usually the most over-estimated in my experience.

Re:Defense against the dark art of estimation bargaining (2014) on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @07:46AM (#28219912)
Another way to look at it is that there are three variables. Time, scope and velocity. If time and velocity are fixed variables then it follows that only scope can be changed to make a project fit into the time box.