https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Hustle I remember this, this was good, lots of social engineering before I knew what it was called.

Rust project 'dust' (du-in-rust) has hit version 1.0.0

Didn't Russia make a habbit of killing journalists who criticized either the old or new regimes from 1990 to present day? Pretty sure that was prevalent. Maybe they weren't tracking online much in the early days though.

I believe he joined as a late founder, he wasn't on the original team.

This sounds horrendous. It doesn't really feal like it would achieve much either except making standups even harder.

This is a terrible approach for the fact that instead of addressing the problem of people not listening because of stuff not relevant to them said from others, it ensures you must listen to that irrelevant stuff.

So instead of wasting some people time, you are now wasting 2x that time.

Make the meeting relevant to everyone, make it tight (time-wise). Hiding the problem under a tarp ensures it doesn't get any improvements.

Why is this voted down? Stand-ups are supposed to be about increased team cohesiveness and this helped their team achieve that.

wow this would suck in a 20 person standup

Literally everything would suck in a 20 person standup.

can confirm

Why would you have 20 person standups?

because government project? although I imagine this happens in non-gov settings too, this is just my experience.

Here's the reason: managers are so spread thin that they don't want to be in 5-10 standups all morning, so they combine around organizational structures rather than product(s)/deliverable(s). Another case of the software delivery matching org structure...

Of course the next question in line is "why is a manager involved in the standup?"

> because government project? although I imagine this happens in non-gov settings too, this is just my experience.

Why not split into smaller work groups? What's the advantage of 20 person teams?

organically this is what happens to actually get things done. but mind you, these small work groups are successful despite the large standups. life finds a way...

Well, yes, a 20 person standup is a little more than twice the maximum size conventional wisdom holds is appropriate, so it is going to suck to start with and much advice for normal 5-9 person stand-ups will be counterproductive and make it worse.

I know we tend to have little control over this as ICs, but I think the party line here is that 20 is too many people to effectively make use of most agile/scrum ceremonies. Do you actually need to know all 19 other persons’ updates?

Individuals don't, but the managers, who may be well meaning, feel the need to.

That's why I wrote this: https://github.com/bootandy/dust Because it was frustrating to track down what had used disk space.

I've taken 2 sabbaticals from work. In the UK at least most companies are totally fine with you doing this.

I don't see why water used for cooling can't later be used as irrigation water

It evaporates in the chiller towers.

https://intra.ece.ucr.edu/~sren/project/water/img/water_cool...

...and then comes down as rain somewhere else, eventually.

> somewhere else

Typically the ocean.

So it is being reused for irrigation!

If that somewhere else is too far away it won't help refill South Carolina's aquifers.

Charleston is over the Florida aquifer system, which is one of the largest aquifer systems in the world since the peninsula is essentially a huge sedimentary filter that's saturated by really aggressive storms on a seasonal basis

It might need chemicals so it doesn't rust or freeze pipes

Or even put through a system to dissipate heat and reused

Do they have or are they building the infrastructure to do that?

I'm quite relieved that the higher ups were able to successfully de-escalate the situation. It is so easy to read about situations where some pompous military officer trys to escalate and kick start a conflict. But fortunately a situation that has gotten out of hand is de-escalated smoothly.

Personally, I agree with your summary of the Fountainhead.

If you choose to read Atlas Shrugged, however, her opinions start to get more extreme and unsettling.

I actually managed to read _The Fountainhead_, and found it enjoyable enough, without realizing it was supposed to be a libertarian manifesto.

I usually bring this up to give people a baseline in explaining how loud the preaching eventually got in the _Sword of Truth_ series.

_Atlas Shrugged_ is one of the few books I couldn't finish once started; the characters were just too obnoxiously stupid.

I read fountainhead years ago (and I couldn’t finish atlas shrugged also) but I recall reading about architects was way more enjoyable than about some railroad tycoons.