The Sextagon!

I was about to say, "What about Tasha Yar," but then I remembered she wore ochre. But she was Chief Security Officer. Why wasn't she wearing red???? SOMEONE HELP ME.

It's absolutely fair to collapse Ext like that; after all, Ext, at least, kept a chain of compatibility over the same period NTFS did (both began in '93). But it has had, over the last 15 years, plenty of large-share competition with which it was incompatible (this is what I was addressing about GGP's gripe about Microsoft introducing system incompatibility), such as ReiserFS, XFS, JFS, etc.

Again, not trying to put NTFS on a pedestal; just addressing the notion that is was MS who fragmented the FS ecosystem.

You're faulting the folks who picked an FS and stuck with it for 26 years, during which time Linux has at least 5 (that I can think of and used, at least) different file-systems that were the "new standard" all new installs should be on. Look, MS made a lot of boneheaded architectural decisions, but consistent backwards compatibility in their file system (regardless of how awful it is [and it is]) is not one of them.

It's over-reactionary anti-skeuomorphism. Designers collectively woke up, realized wood grain and 3D-contoured buttons have no place in UI, and proceeded to lose their collective minds.

No, designers are already all-in on green text. Users track green "calls to action" faster than any other color, and feel better about the action being the right one. You ever notice how those fake download sites all have big, green, "Download Now" buttons? It's psychology. (disclaimer: I have run too many of these damn UI/UX user trials)

He did in fact misspell "complement." Nevertheless, you understood and received his intended meaning; therefore, communication was successful. Anything beyond that is useless pedantry.

Well, it's been 20 years so far, so....

As someone from the deep south: there is zero level of courtesy in "bless your heart." It is an open-palm slap in the face.

I just changed my mind on marijuana. I am now 100% for it if it will get you to chill the fuck out.

Your team would be being dogmatic about areas where the methodology itself is accommodating. You should use whichever of the two approaches that you think works.

Oh, I get it. So the big yellow box will convince the company to hire more quality testers where the hundreds of little yellow boxes on every single product backlog item did not.

Don't be naive.

Yes! This is why I hate holy wars about methodology. If you have a solid team, a competent manager, and that manager trusts his team, than any methodology can work. I prefer scrum. But I'd rather have a trusting manager without scrum, than a micro-manager who distrusts me with scrum (been there, done that, got the heart attack to prove it).

If they won't pay for proper QA under agile, what makes you think they'll do it under waterfall?

My old scrum team of 10 years had a policy of only considering half the available work hours when placing hours on tasks. More often than not, it was spot on. After 6 months our velocity projections were spot on, every sprint. After that I worked on a "scrum" team that packed everyone's sprint board with 40 hours/week of work.... but sprint "planning" ate one of those days.

Underestimating work availability and overestimating needed work was pejoratively called "sandbagging" on that team, and yet the former delivered project on the estimated date, and the latter never did, even once.