My manager once accused me of overinflating my (granted, very conservative) estimates just to be able to pull off a Scotty and be early in 10% of the time.

Teach this to your manager: At the beginning of a task, uncertainty is highest. Under no circumstances should you give an estimate in ‘man-hours’. Even days is too precise. The first estimate should be in months or years (of course depending on the size of the project). Then, as your insight into the project grows, you refine that to months, then weeks, later days. A vague estimate with a lower and a higher bound is way more useful to your manager than a ridiculously ‘precise’ but highly speculative number.

This lesson was brought to you by either “Code Complete 2” or “Rapid Development” by Steve McConnel, and by my former manager who wanted projects estimated in minutes.

A text editor that doesn’t assume that the keys on my keyboard are in the same order as yours.

Are all public clocks in the US digital clocks? Off the top of my head, I can tell you 4 locations within walking distance that have analog clocks, one of them being the train station.

I think we would’ve noticed if they had crashed an entire planet into Texas, right?

While we’re giving advice on good reads, I foudn “Code Complete” to be much more useful than “The Pragmatic Programmer” (also about 10x the size).

You could only not mark a review as helpful. You couldn’t provide context if the reviewer didn’t allow comments.

Firefox has a context menu entry “copy link without tracking” when you right-click in the address bar.

No, it does.

Thanks. I didn’t notice that they were asking about sh.itjust.works.

According to the modlog you are not banned.

They also agreed to fight climate change. We know how well that turned out.

You’re talking as if watching content on YouTube wasn’t a hobby like going to the cinema or theater.

That will only be an option if content creators don’t use it either. And they will look where their audience goes, which will mostly be nowhere.

datev?

Nah, it’s from a blog post that you cannot find via Google, no matter what combination of words you throw at it, that substitutes the documentation for how to link to a specific thing like a customer in SAP ByDesign.

Only this particular entry must’ve come across several redesigns, one of which started rendering ): as that emoji.

Indeed, I got the terminology wrong. „Kebap“ is the meat, „döner” means it turns.

Döner Kebab isn’t even a Turkish specialty. In Turkey, Döner (referring to the meat that turns) is served on a plate with salad and bread. It’s not fast food like the German Döner Kebab, and it’s not meant to be taken to go.

Döner Kebab was invented in Germany by a Turkish immigrant whose traditional Döner didn’t fare well, because Germans were always in a hurry.

Or so the story goes that I heard in a documentary on German TV about 15 years ago.

Now I want to know what the issue was.

And the “solution”.