FTFA: a little pain was just part of the “Agile” way of doing things

Agile is now infecting the open-source world? Fuck it, I'm out. It's bad enough having to put up with all the "agile" bullshit at work, from their utterly pointless daily stand-up meetings to their fucking little cards on the wall everywhere (managers of the world: WE USE ELECTRONIC TRACKING SYSTEMS NOW). Add to that the unbearable Friday "retrospective" meetings (yeah, the last fucking thing I want to do on a Friday is sit in another pointless meeting talking about our problems) and then the Monday three hour meetings where we waste time voting on how long it should take other people to do their job instead of just fucking doing it.

Agile has killed any enjoyment there was in the IT field. If people are trying to pollute the open-source world with it, they can fuck off.

It's ridiculous. Why should people who aren't members of a party be allowed to have a say in who that party selects as candidates?

Even if this were true, there is no recording of serial numbers on banknotes from shop cash registers, so the moment you spend a large banknote, there is no way that they can track that you're holding the banknotes that you get as change, nor of what you spent the original banknote on.

Clearly, the best path for people to take is to start feeding misinformation into the system. Periodically do searches for things you're not remotely interested in. Make them think you're a completely different age, sex, race, and socio-economic group. A database full of incorrect marketing information is worthless to anyone.

...these people are confusing astrology with astronomy, then it indicates that they are as stupid as they would be if they thought astrology was scientific.

What sort of a country, whose politicians are always going on about how much they believe in freedom, would even countenance introducing such legislation?

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You conveniently forgot to mention that the military is still being paid.

You could save a fortune if you defunded them and brought them all home.

I'm a contractor. If you want me to work eighty hours a week, you will be paying me for eighty hours a week.

Would be nice if employers adhered to this mantra, too. But no, they make people work in demeaning open-plan offices, require them to attend purile team building sessions and generally treat their workforce like children. It's no wonder employees have contempt for them.

Yeah, I was wondering that myself. I think they mean "preventing outside researchers from getting in to research the outbreak".

...is not middle fucking class.

That'll be an England of several hundred years ago. Anyone who has been to England in the last thirty years will know that the general population is far from puritan.

...would you work weekends without getting paid?

Employers don't say to computer manufacturers, "We want seven PCs, but we're only going to pay you for five", so why would you let them do this with your labour?

Weekends are your free time. You never get this back. If your employer wants you to work on a weekend, tell them to pay you.

Why would anyone want a "start" button that completely changes their context and covers up what they were doing?

Windows is barely functional enough as it is for getting real work done, with its insane raise-on-focus making it almost impossible to look at two applications simultaneously (try reading from one large window while typing into another one, without two screens) - but Metro makes it fucking unusable. Nobody asked for it, and clearly, from the sales, nobody wants it.