My understanding was that they were often available for rental before they were available for sale, and the inflated price reflects that the item was not actually commercially available.

I defined it as "a phone I've replaced", regardless of the reason it was replaced.

Is that yours or are you quoting someone? I'd like to do the attribution properly when I use that.

Using classic, had mod points yesterday. Used em all up.

What do you blame for missing that he obviously did that on purpose? Subject line was kind of a big hint there.

Exactly. And that's what makes historical life expectancy numbers so wacky looking. If you made it to about 5 years old you had a decent numbers of years ahead of you, but the child mortality rate was horrific by modern standards.

This guy seems to be complaining about that too.

But what about the other -6.98% ?

I think the 'either' that the grandparent was saying the majority of us do not do is 'think a bit' and 'practice'.

Access?

Fair enough. I think of him as non-technical because he did not contribute at all to our code base. Neither he nor I thought that would be a good idea, and his manager didn't expect it either. But yes, it probably did help that he wasn't totally clueless.

Depends on the manager. I had one recently (re-org. He's still around but I don't report to him anymore) who was excellent at exactly what the summary stated: shielding us from red tape and political BS. He was mildly technical - he could code if he had to, but it wasn't his strength, and (this is probably what made him good) *he knew it*. He would do requirements gathering, secure resources when necessary, and stay out of the way on technical stuff. He'd also take my estimates and grossly inflate them, which generally made them more accurate. Good managers exist, but it's an odd niche sometimes. If we swapped jobs, we'd probably both be much worse at it.

Yeah, I'm thinking the people who hold air licenses and nothing for a car or other ground vehicle are very rare.

... at once.

Wow. There are lots of things the US might get wrong, but this ain't one of them.

Also, quoting from your link: