Well, often they know it´s hard to estimate, but the entire corporate system is built around having things done by a certain date, your time costs money and payments are usually linked to those dates. They don´t really have a choice but to make a planning based on the estimates you give and monitor the progress so they can give the proper level of panic to their bosses. Of course, software has always been a disaster with estimates and attempts to tame the chaos haven´t been that successful.

I usually make a ridiculously detailed list of all tasks. ¨Add button A on screen. Discuss details: 2 hours. Interface work: 0.5 hour. Code work: 2 hours. Database work: 2 hours. Testing: 2 hours. FAT: 2 hours. Changes after FAT: 1 hour. SAT: 2 hour. Test script: 1 hour. Update documentation: 2 hours. Add button B … ¨ Put it all in an excel sheet and summarize. Most PMs don´t even want to start arguing a list like that, and it seems to make a reasonably good estimate for me.

Sorry, you are cursed to live in interesting times.

Unless USA does become a hereditary monarchy and the whole circus continues with Queen Ivanka.

And if everyone is moving to the USA at the same time, the existing supply lines get overburdened immediately, causing prices of all raw materials to explode until new supply can be developed.

It’s an attempt to get a handle on things and trying to avoid situations such as:

“Oh, I was struck on that point for the last 3 months. I reinvented the wheel 2 times and now it works.”

“And now we’re 3 months behind schedule. Why didn’t you ask anybody?”

“Yeah, I didn’t want to bother anyone. But I did put in on the timesheets.”

“It says ‘working on project’.”

And that’s how regular project update meetings get scheduled, and a bunch of messages asking for updates.

That’s the same psychological effect like 9.95 for a product versus 10.00 I guess.

Seems cops think they’re MaxTac already.

Trump will of course say that this is not fair and he was supposed to divide and conquer, not get them to unite and retaliate.

And it will say people of lower economic classes and foreign origin are the biggest risk. Will action be taken to help these people? Nah. This is just going to be a technological excuse for some good ol’ repression.

Idiots with bone spurs didn’t make it through the first challenge for leadership.

No, but the plan is floating around to tax EU used data for foreign companies right into unprofitablily.

Freude, schöner Götterfunken!

(Joy, thou shining spark of God)

And see him do the angry accordion

And a flyover with a crop duster.

“This is the carrot. Take it. You really won’t like the stick.”

Rumour going around the tariffs would be delayed 90 days gave positive vibes. That rumour is already discredited though.

Yep. It’s giving some flashbacks to 2008 financial crisis. It’ll take some time, maybe years, before everything recovers. And that’s if Trump isn’t doing his best to make it worse.

A number of places have a time limit. It’s all you can eat in 3 hours. There can be rules that you have to eat what you take, and when you take entire plates but barely touch them, the restaurant gets a bit annoyed.

From a European perspective, USA only had a right and far right party. Anything on the left side was killed long time ago.

Anybody tried a steam deck with dock? Gaming and casual desktop should be doable with that.