Today is the day that we must spend in sorrow about the future that did not happen. Back in 1989, when the “Back to the Future II” came out, we all knew that the future of 2015 will be just like what we see in the movie. Or at least similar. Automation, flying cars, holography, hover boards, self-drying and self-adjusting clothes - all of that was ( Read more... )

My blood pressure is apparently 177 over 168… with a pulse rate of 195. And that’s me just sitting. Imagine if I were to stand up! :)


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Sometimes it is just hard to believe news. Reuters reports that the Japanese government seriously blames the weather for the failing economy. To this, the only response I have is “you must be joking”. But, no, they are serious. The Economics Minister Akira Amari announced that “heavy rain has probably pushed the GDP down by 1.6 percentage points on ( Read more... )

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Only because I prefer a positive to a negative. In this game we’re playing, we can’t win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that’s all.

- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

Оригинал: https://tigr.net/1719/2014/02/12/a-game-we-cannot-win/

I am convinced that agile software development methods the way they are used now do not work. They are actually a prescription for failure. The problem is that Agile philosophy fails even before starting.

Agile is described in many different ways but when you think about what it tries to achieve you must come to the unavoidable conclusion that it ( Read more... )