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When we first started doing sprints in my old piecemeal agile org we realized we were all filthy liars about our estimates and that some people would never admit that their "90%" done feature was really 30%.
SniperGuy the problem is everyone plays removal and you’re leaving just that as a target. It won’t live long. You could SB it assuming they’ll board out removal... would that be okay? I just don’t see it working main.
-quit my awful job, of course
-buy a really nice place in a few locations I love- Manhattan, Cambridge, Chicago... but really nice like a couple million, not a 70 million gawdy monstrosity
-buy a really nice car or two (Tesla, BMW coupe... not 2 million dollar Bugattis)
-deck out the places with great tech, gigabit internet, pro kitchens etc
-regularly travel in luxury, first class
-conservatively invest enough to give me a few hundred thousand a year for the rest of my life
I could probably very comfortably do all that with 25m. The other 575m I use for charity, political acts, helping friends and family etc.
It’s a barely conceivable fortune. It’s staggering that Jeff Bezos has 266 of these mountains of lone you.
I am not sure a couple million would get you a really nice place in Manhattan.
Nah you can get some incredible places for that amount - with more space the further you go from an in demand area
I mean you’re still spending 2 million on apartment though
When we first started doing sprints in my old piecemeal agile org we realized we were all filthy liars about our estimates and that some people would never admit that their "90%" done feature was really 30%.
How did sprints make you realize that
People hadn't been estimating how long features would take before, we just had an endless list, so once we did sprints it was "oh I can definitely do these two features in two weeks" and just continuously...couldn't.
But I assume my understanding of sprints is warped. We just went from no process to having one, I suppose.
if i won an insane powerball jackpot, like approaching a billion, i would buy property, eat fancy but healthy fine food every day, and devote at least 80% of my money to ending homelessness, food insecurity, unstable housing etc in my city + funding studies and experts to figure out how to export our successful strategies to other cities. fully fund the programs that just give the homeless a home and a support network to help them learn how to live there, that kind of thing.
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BeNarwhalThe Work Left UnfinishedRegistered Userregular
At this point in our world, if you win: start building a fortified biodome in northern canada because good god the world is being irreversibly destroyed and it's impossible to solve in time
Establish a sustainable scaleable farm within, develop a weird culty community, ruthlessly quash anarchocommunist revolts, the usual
Eddy on
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
If I had a million dollars,
I would buy you a fur coat
But not a real fur coat, that's cruel
A coat made out of human hair
Ethically sourced
same
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
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BeNarwhalThe Work Left UnfinishedRegistered Userregular
I’d buy a house on a lake or river, but it would have to be at a high enough elevation that flooding would not be a problem. It would have a sunroom where I could sit and do crafts or read with my seven cats.
I’d probably set up scholarships at my high school and college.
Definitely donate to political campaigns
And then I’d give Chu enough to pay off his debt and some extra
I’d pay transition costs for people in need
I’d get jake a pair of new eyes no questions asked
I’d buy up the six counties and kick the English out
I’d get scarecrow a heart, and courage for the tin man, and a brain for the lion
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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Powerpuppiesdrinking coffee in themountain cabinRegistered Userregular
At this point in our world, if you win: start building a fortified biodome in northern canada because good god the world is being irreversibly destroyed and it's impossible to solve in time
Establish a sustainable scaleable farm within, develop a weird culty community, ruthlessly quash anarchocommunist revolts, the usual
the problem is that, say, an enormous infrastructure project to accommodate refugees would still be hopelessly beyond your resources financially and politically
At this point in our world, if you win: start building a fortified biodome in northern canada because good god the world is being irreversibly destroyed and it's impossible to solve in time
Establish a sustainable scaleable farm within, develop a weird culty community, ruthlessly quash anarchocommunist revolts, the usual
the problem is that, say, an enormous infrastructure project to accommodate refugees would still be hopelessly beyond your resources financially and politically
What if he bribed politicians? Most of them are cheap.
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How did sprints make you realize that
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Yeah sideboard seems like a good idea.
Nah you can get some incredible places for that amount - with more space the further you go from an in demand area
I mean you’re still spending 2 million on apartment though
I can imagine my news channel’s nightly program, “Fascist of the Day” might get some blowback
Manhattan isn’t exactly flush with nice neighborhoods
The really wealthy people all live out on West Egg with the Buchanans
Buy a few nice places
But then you could also be like
I wanna live in this place and rent a dank place for a year
I’ve stayed in rich people’s rental apartments before, and also that would make your life easier to rent
Summer house in the Philippines for all the storms, winter house in northern Alaska?
People hadn't been estimating how long features would take before, we just had an endless list, so once we did sprints it was "oh I can definitely do these two features in two weeks" and just continuously...couldn't.
But I assume my understanding of sprints is warped. We just went from no process to having one, I suppose.
Oh yeah, I would totally self finance some insane vanity project film.
Or maybe just find some people with good scripts and do that instead.
Be all "Hey, guys, you know we could just write good scripts?".
Yeah, lots of people posting about cars, but that ain't me
Transit passes 4 lyfe tho
don't do this to the guy who made pepe and had his chill character stolen by nazis.
fund his pepe rescue campaign and blast the internet with positive, antifascist, rare pepes
I'd change my name to George Soros and just start paying americans to vote Democrat.
Straight up, like $100, get your ass in that line and vote, check clears when the D candidate gets declared the winner.
Come at me america.
Agile, scrum, whatever
Let's just start by defining scope and goals instead of just throwing people at projects before the goals of the project are defined
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
But sometimes I’d want to drive around my vast country estate
Don’t need to live in a nice neighbourhood just need to live high up above all the plebs
Make Frodo Pepe.
i would give you just enough that you would feel obsequiously grateful but not enough to actually let you quit your job or pursue your dreams
Downticket, competitive races and work up from there
My vast country estate would also not be my scene :P
I'd let my brother buy one of those if he wanted to - with my money, naturally
Establish a sustainable scaleable farm within, develop a weird culty community, ruthlessly quash anarchocommunist revolts, the usual
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
same
I am coming to cherish your ability to casually quote BNL lyrics
I’d probably set up scholarships at my high school and college.
Definitely donate to political campaigns
And then I’d give Chu enough to pay off his debt and some extra
I’d pay transition costs for people in need
I’d get jake a pair of new eyes no questions asked
I’d buy up the six counties and kick the English out
I’d get scarecrow a heart, and courage for the tin man, and a brain for the lion
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I already told you I'd give you thirty grand in quarters
the problem is that, say, an enormous infrastructure project to accommodate refugees would still be hopelessly beyond your resources financially and politically
What if he bribed politicians? Most of them are cheap.