I spent a week in Agile training taught by the company that doesn't even practice what it teaches. I wish I could go a day without seeing the word sprint or point, but that's not happening anytime soon.
Although a former employer used Waterfall for big projects. When SHTF during testing, everything got derailed. Management would come up with a fix at the 14th hour and then they would all get promoted. It’s almost like they planned it that way.
Agile is one of the best scams I've ever seen perpetrated in tech. The people who force you to use it don't know a damn thing about computers, programming, development, or quality. When it first came out we all laughed at how shitty it was. But sadly, the people in charge are fucking morons now.
Con artists everywhere speak in hushed tones when they talk of the big one, the one that no one ever thought could be pulled off. A long con that has brought in billions, nay TRILLIONS! of dollars. A scam so big that it has conmen on conman, grifters on grifters, fleas on bigger fleas, all draining the same dog.
(I once wrote a story where one of the bad guys was a SAP expert! And that was how they knew he was evil!)
I haven't seen Brenda mentioning the Cuba tours anywhere for quite a few years now so I don't think she's doing them anymore. I wouldn't mistake her for being a high-end hooker either.
I made some $$ back in the good old days selling spy photos to her. Fellow Arizonian - she would come to my place of employment and pick up my film. Appears that "spy photos" are definitely a thing of the past these days. When I was a kid, it was Jim Dunne in Popular Mechanics (he bought a piece of property next to the Chrysler Proving Grounds here in AZ which helped his cause for a short while). As an adult, it was usually Brenda's photos and then later Brian Williams' stuff - I think he's out of the business now too.
"Appears that "spy photos" are definitely a thing of the past these days."
Because the general public interest in seeing the new cars of the future is roughly equivalent to the general public interest in new all-nude photos from Lizzo. And when you look at the new cars of the past decade, can you blame them?
I doubt the Glassdoor reviews are really anonymous. If I reviewed my company they would have a pretty good idea who it is being there’s only three of us on my team.
What 110 EUR Cohiba were you smoking - a Siglo VI? Honestly, recent Cuban production, particularly after the rather Capitalistic Communists at Habanos “harmonized” global pricing higher, is a very poor value proposition.
A fabulous weekend for the wee Kimi Antonelli who out-qualified and outraced Princess George in China. He’s putting it together and I look forward to seeing great things from him.
I was encouraged by Sir Lewis’ performance this weekend. He’s in a much better place and appears to be much stronger mentally than last season. Unfortunately, the gap from third to first place was even greater than it was in Melbourne at 25+ seconds, so pretty concerned about that. The Ferraris appear to be fast at times, but the Mercedes is a rocket ship.
Ollie B rocked a top 5, and Carlos picked up a couple of points.
Next up is Suzuka in a week and a half. It’s one of my all time favourite tracks that I look forward to every year
Amazon received 10,044 H-1B approvals in 2025, the most of any company in America, while laying off 14,000 American employees. They are the single largest H-1B sponsor in the country.
Google received 4,181 H-1B approvals in 2025 - 71% for Indian nationals, while conducting multiple rounds of layoffs cutting thousands of American employees.
"Antonelli had been given a “rocketship” and that there was no reason to get excited about his win"
same as it ever was
"Lewis called on Africans to “take the continent back,”"
bro from who? he trying to start fights with whites again?
"I don’t even know how it could be resolved"
and they even have newey there so they could very well be hopelessly cooked
"They should have an interim race somewhere with no public participation"
BURGERKINGRING TIME
"To my immense dismay, the cigar was very good"
cigars seem like alcohol in the sense that you have to suffer through them tasting like poison before youre allowed to enjoy them
"Guess I don’t need that pension after all, lol!"
the bad news is that i have nothing to live for but the good news is that i have nothing to lose. anyway your home addresses are public
"He was like a father to me. In the evenings we would stroll through the favelas and help random street children do their homework"
literal lol. i will be using this irl as soon as the opportunity presents itself
"Find a provider that lets you have multiple emails"
i genuinely hate how many different accounts and passwords i need nowadays and how nothing is secure and all your data is bought and sold all the time to anyone
"85-90% of the H1-Bs I’ve met were somewhere between subpar and abysmal"
does that mean the other 15% were mid
"“AI” was just a pretext to fire more on-shore skilled people and bump up the headcount with foreign labor"
everything ive heard basically paints them as being hopelessly incompetent and not just useless but genuinely draining on resources which makes me wonder how much you have to hate americans to want any h1bs at all ever
Do people not remember luigi wacked a ceo and almost everyone cheered. We all got it. Do these fools want to run around with 24/7 security? Bezos can afford it, the dude making 500k can barely afford his mortgae
The conservative op-ed media decried the cheering of Mangione, but these are the same people who think corporations have every right to hollow out the American economy.
unrelated bitch session: today, driving home from work, an out of stater became particularly enraged that i was only going 5 over the speed limit on residential roads and coming almost to full stops at stop signs. after passing on a double yellow at triple the speed limit and kicking up rocks that sure enough chipped up some of the paint on my bumper, and then immediately getting stopped by ANOTHER local driving as i drive, i got a few pictures of the plate, called the non-emergency local PD number to inform them of a woman driving like a lunatic. reader, as a 6'2, 250 pound man with a 3 leading off my flat bench number, i know exactly who the law would side with should i have decided escalate further. annoyed, perhaps even enraged, but perpetually late to my husbandly and fatherly duties, i went home.
upon seeing some damage to the paint i said what the hell, lemme go down to the local PD (very, very small town) and see whats what. i have a plate, i have a video of them driving recklessly, i have damage to my car that is visibly fresh, but still no can do. sorry chief. life aint fair. best i can do is record the complaint and the damage so you can point your insurance company to something should you decide to file a claim. no thanks boss, i already pay enough.
i know we are fallen beings in an unjust and cruel world, and i know this is a first world problem. what could i have done? what should i have done? what can i still do?
The upside to carrying a portable hole puncher is your ability to punch holes at a distance. The downside to carrying a portable hole puncher is that every violent felony is now a violent felony done while in possession of a portable hole puncher even when lawfully in possession of said hole puncher.
This is all hypothetically applicable to someone who isn’t me. I’m a good boy.
I don't really understand the point of LinkedIn. I don't like most of the people I meet in real life, why on earth would I want to connect with people online that I don't care anything about? Add the fact that I am going to assume everything they say is some level of a lie or straight bullshit, what's the point?
I’ve found it useful in networking. Last week I was shown a post by some guy from our company in the EU because a mutual commented on it. I went to that guy’s page and his side project is deploying a sensor suite similar to what I was trying (and failing) to deploy at work. He was eager to value of his project to the company and I was eager to knock off another project.
When I was getting fired in 2022 due to the COVID mandate, I was able to use my connections to job hunt. Some leads some from recruiters unsolicited. The job I ended up with was shown to me by LinkedIn.
It’s also good at feeding you relevant job listings on a weekly basis, most of which have pay scales listed.
All of this is without paying them a dime for premium OR giving myself the #OpenToWork mark of death. All I do is keep my “resume” somewhat up to date and occasionally like a person’s post. For less than 30 minutes per month, I’m happy with what it’s provided.
About those cars in Cuba, they have been kept on the road by shear determination, with engines from the USSR, with hand fabricated mounts and brackets, and quite possibly a level of craftsmanship that many mechanics here would have a hard time matching, I don’t think they would want new cars from America or even Europe with all of the electronics in them that make them almost un repairable, it would be interesting to see new cars taken back to an analog state of operation though, I think it would be interesting to work with those Cuban mechanics.
Skilled trades would likely be the last kind of employment to be touched by AI, for obvious reasons of human anatomy. Many Americans would love to work for what they are paying H1b’s if they are indeed making 130 a year…it seems like the corporations and government are just trying to screw Americans, I am glad I retired, my old position remains unfilled, and it costs the company more to get my old job description done. I envision a future where someone skilled with their hands and mind will be worth a small fortune, just not yet.
On the other hand, a few years back I watched an interesting documentary on those old cuban cars, towards the end vin diesel drove a mangled '49 Chevy two door _SO_ fast the 265C.I.D. V8 briefly glowed bright red before it flew through the air and won a race .
Those wacky 3rd world Mechanics seem to be able to do a lot with very little .
AI is only good for creating never-were 1975 Escalades and 1970 DeSotos, or writing humorous fiction about a T-Rex busting into a GM board meeting and eating...er, certain obvious incompetent execs. Then burping.
Never watched Friends. Never plan to now, or in the future. But still use Seinfeld memes frequently.
New Telluride very insectile and undesirable. I didn't love the original but was 235% more appealing than the new potato shaped projectile. Even their wheels are ugly.
If it's still around at some point ~10-20 years from now, I look forward to making a post on LinkedIn or whatever, similar to Scarface in the movie Half-Baked giving everyone a spicy farewell at his former place of employ. Getting on there is like the worst part of the day (it's still a resource) reading a bunch of drivel that morons like to call 'insight'.
I never watched a minute of Friends. Being descended from a pack of Brooklynites, Seinfeld at least got pretty close to portraying that whole culture except when it didn't - I suspect when that happened it was brought on by Hollywood douchebag meddling.
Deciding whether or not to use separate emails and names on the website where you talk shit about your employer and the website where you look for an employer is an IQ test
I spent a week in Agile training taught by the company that doesn't even practice what it teaches. I wish I could go a day without seeing the word sprint or point, but that's not happening anytime soon.
All aboard the release train.
I'd rather derail it lol!
Prior was spiral process. It worked just fine.
Probably the best way to go.
Although a former employer used Waterfall for big projects. When SHTF during testing, everything got derailed. Management would come up with a fix at the 14th hour and then they would all get promoted. It’s almost like they planned it that way.
Agile is one of the best scams I've ever seen perpetrated in tech. The people who force you to use it don't know a damn thing about computers, programming, development, or quality. When it first came out we all laughed at how shitty it was. But sadly, the people in charge are fucking morons now.
Oh really? You've heard about SAP, right?
SAP is THE best scam!
Con artists everywhere speak in hushed tones when they talk of the big one, the one that no one ever thought could be pulled off. A long con that has brought in billions, nay TRILLIONS! of dollars. A scam so big that it has conmen on conman, grifters on grifters, fleas on bigger fleas, all draining the same dog.
(I once wrote a story where one of the bad guys was a SAP expert! And that was how they knew he was evil!)
when he said sprint and point i thought he was talking about the gp
I haven't seen Brenda mentioning the Cuba tours anywhere for quite a few years now so I don't think she's doing them anymore. I wouldn't mistake her for being a high-end hooker either.
I made some $$ back in the good old days selling spy photos to her. Fellow Arizonian - she would come to my place of employment and pick up my film. Appears that "spy photos" are definitely a thing of the past these days. When I was a kid, it was Jim Dunne in Popular Mechanics (he bought a piece of property next to the Chrysler Proving Grounds here in AZ which helped his cause for a short while). As an adult, it was usually Brenda's photos and then later Brian Williams' stuff - I think he's out of the business now too.
"Appears that "spy photos" are definitely a thing of the past these days."
Because the general public interest in seeing the new cars of the future is roughly equivalent to the general public interest in new all-nude photos from Lizzo. And when you look at the new cars of the past decade, can you blame them?
Good point.
I doubt the Glassdoor reviews are really anonymous. If I reviewed my company they would have a pretty good idea who it is being there’s only three of us on my team.
What 110 EUR Cohiba were you smoking - a Siglo VI? Honestly, recent Cuban production, particularly after the rather Capitalistic Communists at Habanos “harmonized” global pricing higher, is a very poor value proposition.
Jack is slowly merging his “sherman” persona the real Jack baruth. We’ve got cigar posts two weeks in a row
gonna watch jack very closely on how he describes trucks from now on
It’s stolen valor.
Just wait until the “personality” merge so much you get laid
He's gonna gain five inches and three inches.
Don’t disparage GRWM videos. They were the precursor peak 2020s internet: The Honey Birdette Try On Haul.
A fabulous weekend for the wee Kimi Antonelli who out-qualified and outraced Princess George in China. He’s putting it together and I look forward to seeing great things from him.
I was encouraged by Sir Lewis’ performance this weekend. He’s in a much better place and appears to be much stronger mentally than last season. Unfortunately, the gap from third to first place was even greater than it was in Melbourne at 25+ seconds, so pretty concerned about that. The Ferraris appear to be fast at times, but the Mercedes is a rocket ship.
Ollie B rocked a top 5, and Carlos picked up a couple of points.
Next up is Suzuka in a week and a half. It’s one of my all time favourite tracks that I look forward to every year
Amazon received 10,044 H-1B approvals in 2025, the most of any company in America, while laying off 14,000 American employees. They are the single largest H-1B sponsor in the country.
Google received 4,181 H-1B approvals in 2025 - 71% for Indian nationals, while conducting multiple rounds of layoffs cutting thousands of American employees.
No company is entitled to either endless cheap labor or employee loyalty.
We're both 6'2"...
I feel like you are taller. It might just be that you are less depressed.
"but you knew that would happen, right?"
well yeah he doesnt have enough melanin obvs
"Antonelli had been given a “rocketship” and that there was no reason to get excited about his win"
same as it ever was
"Lewis called on Africans to “take the continent back,”"
bro from who? he trying to start fights with whites again?
"I don’t even know how it could be resolved"
and they even have newey there so they could very well be hopelessly cooked
"They should have an interim race somewhere with no public participation"
BURGERKINGRING TIME
"To my immense dismay, the cigar was very good"
cigars seem like alcohol in the sense that you have to suffer through them tasting like poison before youre allowed to enjoy them
"Guess I don’t need that pension after all, lol!"
the bad news is that i have nothing to live for but the good news is that i have nothing to lose. anyway your home addresses are public
"He was like a father to me. In the evenings we would stroll through the favelas and help random street children do their homework"
literal lol. i will be using this irl as soon as the opportunity presents itself
"Find a provider that lets you have multiple emails"
i genuinely hate how many different accounts and passwords i need nowadays and how nothing is secure and all your data is bought and sold all the time to anyone
"85-90% of the H1-Bs I’ve met were somewhere between subpar and abysmal"
does that mean the other 15% were mid
"“AI” was just a pretext to fire more on-shore skilled people and bump up the headcount with foreign labor"
everything ive heard basically paints them as being hopelessly incompetent and not just useless but genuinely draining on resources which makes me wonder how much you have to hate americans to want any h1bs at all ever
Do people not remember luigi wacked a ceo and almost everyone cheered. We all got it. Do these fools want to run around with 24/7 security? Bezos can afford it, the dude making 500k can barely afford his mortgae
some people are stupid and evil
not sure why they continue to tempt fate
Speed ;
Do you know the #1 instinct of Humans ? .
-Nate
The conservative op-ed media decried the cheering of Mangione, but these are the same people who think corporations have every right to hollow out the American economy.
Sir, you misspelled "cuckservative"
My kids are 24 and 26 and absolutely love Seinfeld and probably can’t tell the difference between a Porsche and Corvette.
unrelated bitch session: today, driving home from work, an out of stater became particularly enraged that i was only going 5 over the speed limit on residential roads and coming almost to full stops at stop signs. after passing on a double yellow at triple the speed limit and kicking up rocks that sure enough chipped up some of the paint on my bumper, and then immediately getting stopped by ANOTHER local driving as i drive, i got a few pictures of the plate, called the non-emergency local PD number to inform them of a woman driving like a lunatic. reader, as a 6'2, 250 pound man with a 3 leading off my flat bench number, i know exactly who the law would side with should i have decided escalate further. annoyed, perhaps even enraged, but perpetually late to my husbandly and fatherly duties, i went home.
upon seeing some damage to the paint i said what the hell, lemme go down to the local PD (very, very small town) and see whats what. i have a plate, i have a video of them driving recklessly, i have damage to my car that is visibly fresh, but still no can do. sorry chief. life aint fair. best i can do is record the complaint and the damage so you can point your insurance company to something should you decide to file a claim. no thanks boss, i already pay enough.
i know we are fallen beings in an unjust and cruel world, and i know this is a first world problem. what could i have done? what should i have done? what can i still do?
"a 6'2, 250 pound man with a 3 leading off my flat bench number"
absolute fuckin unit
anyway my vote goes toward either a confrontation at her house or a pit maneuver
The upside to carrying a portable hole puncher is your ability to punch holes at a distance. The downside to carrying a portable hole puncher is that every violent felony is now a violent felony done while in possession of a portable hole puncher even when lawfully in possession of said hole puncher.
This is all hypothetically applicable to someone who isn’t me. I’m a good boy.
utterly nonsensical and unfair
everyone knows the commentors here are all faultlessly law abiding citizens to a man
Uh, yeah sure I am , _now_ .
-Nate
Hood mounted rocket launcher.
In a perfect world it would be shoulder mounted!
Not in my car!
"Backblast area clear" isn't really possible if you're in a vehicle...a truck bed, maybe, but then you should be tripod mounting whatever you've got.
Pay a PI to get her home address.
Go to her home.
Plant fifty bamboo seeds in the dark of night.
If she comes outside, twist her neck off.
Just kidding about that last.
I don't really understand the point of LinkedIn. I don't like most of the people I meet in real life, why on earth would I want to connect with people online that I don't care anything about? Add the fact that I am going to assume everything they say is some level of a lie or straight bullshit, what's the point?
I’ve found it useful in networking. Last week I was shown a post by some guy from our company in the EU because a mutual commented on it. I went to that guy’s page and his side project is deploying a sensor suite similar to what I was trying (and failing) to deploy at work. He was eager to value of his project to the company and I was eager to knock off another project.
When I was getting fired in 2022 due to the COVID mandate, I was able to use my connections to job hunt. Some leads some from recruiters unsolicited. The job I ended up with was shown to me by LinkedIn.
It’s also good at feeding you relevant job listings on a weekly basis, most of which have pay scales listed.
All of this is without paying them a dime for premium OR giving myself the #OpenToWork mark of death. All I do is keep my “resume” somewhat up to date and occasionally like a person’s post. For less than 30 minutes per month, I’m happy with what it’s provided.
Ok, that I can see. I've had the same job for 20 years, so looking for work hasn't been a priority, nor will it be any time before I die.
It’s all virtue signalling to appear correct to the right people. Its awful
In the beginning linkedin was a place for 'professionals' to meet and discuss business etc. .
Then the headhunters found it and I stopped going there .
-Nate
Because people write posts that sound exactly like this piece of fiction that highly amused me this week: https://idiallo.com/blog/the-show-on-the-other-foot-linkedin-stories
Jesus wept.
About those cars in Cuba, they have been kept on the road by shear determination, with engines from the USSR, with hand fabricated mounts and brackets, and quite possibly a level of craftsmanship that many mechanics here would have a hard time matching, I don’t think they would want new cars from America or even Europe with all of the electronics in them that make them almost un repairable, it would be interesting to see new cars taken back to an analog state of operation though, I think it would be interesting to work with those Cuban mechanics.
Skilled trades would likely be the last kind of employment to be touched by AI, for obvious reasons of human anatomy. Many Americans would love to work for what they are paying H1b’s if they are indeed making 130 a year…it seems like the corporations and government are just trying to screw Americans, I am glad I retired, my old position remains unfilled, and it costs the company more to get my old job description done. I envision a future where someone skilled with their hands and mind will be worth a small fortune, just not yet.
On the other hand, a few years back I watched an interesting documentary on those old cuban cars, towards the end vin diesel drove a mangled '49 Chevy two door _SO_ fast the 265C.I.D. V8 briefly glowed bright red before it flew through the air and won a race .
Those wacky 3rd world Mechanics seem to be able to do a lot with very little .
=8-) .
-Nate
In totally random sequence:
AI is only good for creating never-were 1975 Escalades and 1970 DeSotos, or writing humorous fiction about a T-Rex busting into a GM board meeting and eating...er, certain obvious incompetent execs. Then burping.
Never watched Friends. Never plan to now, or in the future. But still use Seinfeld memes frequently.
New Telluride very insectile and undesirable. I didn't love the original but was 235% more appealing than the new potato shaped projectile. Even their wheels are ugly.
These pretzels are making me thirsty.
If it's still around at some point ~10-20 years from now, I look forward to making a post on LinkedIn or whatever, similar to Scarface in the movie Half-Baked giving everyone a spicy farewell at his former place of employ. Getting on there is like the worst part of the day (it's still a resource) reading a bunch of drivel that morons like to call 'insight'.
I never watched a minute of Friends. Being descended from a pack of Brooklynites, Seinfeld at least got pretty close to portraying that whole culture except when it didn't - I suspect when that happened it was brought on by Hollywood douchebag meddling.
Deciding whether or not to use separate emails and names on the website where you talk shit about your employer and the website where you look for an employer is an IQ test