Yes, Home Depot will give a nice discount on 2x4s if you buy enough to build 100,000 houses.

Early web browsers and office suites were not build using scrum and we got IE and Office so yes, those are great examples of why scrum is a good thing. Those projects 'worked' not because smart programmers wrote quality code but because users couldn't easily switch providers (I don't think I have to explain why Word was and is so popular). Maybe where you work you still don't have worry about losing users and can simply deliver 'something that works'. Where I work if you don't deliver the right thing at the right time the competition will and they will take all the money. It is that simple. There's no lock in, users can simply open account on a different website. To compete someone with in depth knowledge about the industry has to decide what features need to be build and when. Anyone who thinks that in scenario like this you can simply tell programmers to 'build it and let me know when it's done' is delusional. But I get it, there's a lot of devs in safe industries with no real competition. For them agile is probably useless. And if you know only this type of projects it's easy to believe that agile is useless in general.

Great, now get some average internet user and tell him to use your compiler and database.... Comments like this show exactly who criticizes scrum the most: people who simply don't understand what it's for. It's not for creating tools for developers. Developers know what they need and how it should work. If someone applies Agile to a purely technical projects they are misusing it. What Agile is for is creating things that programmers don't understand. Most programmers are bad at empathizing with non-technical end users. You can't simply tell them to 'do a nice UI for this flow'. If you do they will do what feels natural to them and if someone can't use it it's their problem. You see this in open source projects all the time. That's were UI/UX, user testing and product research is needed and Agile is a way to put it all together and explain the final requirements to the devs. Devs don't like it because they think they can 'just do it' without all the explaining but the truth is most of them can't. The problem is that if you explain it well they will think it was all obvious from the beginning and a waist of time. If you explain it badly they won't understand and will think it was a waist of time. Either way they will complain about bad Agile.

Actually I just switched back to vim after using Jetbrains for years. With the new LSP plugins it offers all the features I had in Idea but is a lot faster and more ergonomic.

Good to know, thanks.

> Seattle, Baltimore, Cleveland, New York, Chicago, St. Louis, and Columbus

So these cars do have do have immobilizers in Europe?

I thought Poland did it.

Oh, I'm sure then can spend the money. Actually building anything is a different story.

Because there's no corruption in the USA. Sure, sure, sure...

Because of sanctions from capitalist countries.

I guess it is possible to end up with small group of Japanese people running the country and bunch of immigrants doing all the work and not having voting rights, especially in a country as racist as Japan. But my guess is that they will start marrying immigrants at some point and their mixed kids will have citizenship.

Of course they will not go extinct. As the population will grow older they will need to bring a lot of immigrants to take care of people. This will completely change the culture and people will start having children again. Population size will stabilize around some sensible number.

I'm sure your kids will enjoy the world you left them.

Exactly what I'm talking about. You prefer see the world burn than drive less, fly less or drink less coca-cola but expect people in Africa or India to just accept that they will not have air conditioning for the next 100 years. I'm sure they will go for it.

I think the common beat is actually "I'm not going to sacrifice anything to fix it". Developed countries are not going to lower their standard of living, developing countries are not going to slow down development, poor people are not going to sacrifice freedoms, wealthy people are not going to sacrifice their power. So nothing will be done.