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New comment by lisbbb in "The Death of Scrum – Built for a slower world, performed by those who left"

lisbbb — Mon, 04 May 2026 01:04:37 +0000

See? Nobody agrees with me here, even. The whole software dev business is a joke, really. You know, I believed harder than anyone for years and years. But the lack of true intellect on here and in the working world is an eye-opener. You all live in the Matrix, I can't help you. Am logging off and never logging back in.

New comment by lisbbb in "The Death of Scrum – Built for a slower world, performed by those who left"

lisbbb — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:20:17 +0000

Nearly 100% of the scrum processes I was involved with at Fortune 500 companies were top-down mandates that could not be deviated from.

New comment by lisbbb in "The Death of Scrum – Built for a slower world, performed by those who left"

lisbbb — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:18:50 +0000

I've been hoping for a paradigm shift away from scrum for years! It was good for like 5 minutes after it replaced Waterfall and then it morphed into a freaking hellscape of grifters and non-techies invading the business space. It's never worked out, never! Some of the ceremonies are fine, but overall, it's crap. And people live it like a religion and become angry if you complain about it. It's a freaking work process, not a religion! All it did in large enterprises was become another way to bludgeon developers and take away their agency. Hmm, I recall it was supposed to be ABOUT the developers, not about JIRA and filling out all the idiotic fields in the JIRA tickets. Story points, t-shirt size estimates, RETROSPECTIVES--that never, ever, not even once, led to a positive change. All so a bunch of r/e/t/a/r/d/s who say things like "I'm not very technical, but here's what I think..." to which I always responded--"If you're not very technical, then what makes you think you can lead a technical process?" Idiots and scammers.

New comment by lisbbb in "27M Fewer Car Trips: Life After a Year of Congestion Pricing"

lisbbb — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:38:01 +0000

Let me tell you something about Magic Kingdom: Everything between the parking lot and the rides exists the way it does in order to SLOW YOU DOWN so you spend more money. All of it! Okay, maybe not the parking lot trams, but all their other gimmicks are just part of a funnel to keep you away from the rides as long as possible and once you're inside, to keep you from leaving.

New comment by lisbbb in "The skill of the future is not 'AI', but 'Focus' (2025)"

lisbbb — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:35:22 +0000

The skill of the future is behaving ethically.

New comment by lisbbb in "A prediction market user made $436k betting on Maduro's downfall"

lisbbb — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 06:20:30 +0000

Don't gamble on this crap. Just...don't.

New comment by lisbbb in "I changed my personality in six weeks"

lisbbb — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 21:11:56 +0000

It's highly questionable whether she changed her personality at all. Why is being extraverted so highly praised, anyways?

New comment by lisbbb in "Using Hinge as a Command and Control Server"

lisbbb — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 21:08:58 +0000

But the malware was encoded as an image, how is it runnable on the target's smartphone?

New comment by lisbbb in "IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world"

lisbbb — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:22:08 +0000

I spent an excruciating 3 months or so learning about IPV6 in a college networking class circa 1994 so that I could be "current" in order to land a job right out of college.

New comment by lisbbb in "A website to destroy all websites"

lisbbb — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 23:03:19 +0000

The site that is really, insufferably toxic is LinkedIn.

New comment by lisbbb in "A website to destroy all websites"

lisbbb — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 23:01:22 +0000

Delusion. The only thing that will make dead Internet come back alive is another technological leap forward. Big Tech has total control.

New comment by lisbbb in "Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades"

lisbbb — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 18:54:44 +0000

How many days a year did Buffet live in that house, though? I suspect he was always on the move such that the home base never actually mattered. Same as Musk.

New comment by lisbbb in "I rebooted my social life"

lisbbb — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 18:44:53 +0000

You wouldn't need the long blog post or any other efforts if you didn't work remotely (remote work is poison). Having kids is a personal choice, but so many of you are failing to understand why family is so important that maybe you should revisit that choice, too. What are so afraid of? Was your home life as a kid that painful and awful? Even so, you can do a better job of it!

New comment by lisbbb in "Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM"

lisbbb — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:15:12 +0000

I get it, but the quality of headphones with cords has gotten so bad that the male jacks wouldn't last more than a few months. My son has gone through an untold number of corded headphones because his school iPad is too locked down to use bluetooth ones.

New comment by lisbbb in "Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM"

lisbbb — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:11:47 +0000

There must be some axiom about how corporations will eliminate every form of useful removable media, making customers more beholden and enslaved.

New comment by lisbbb in "Software engineers should be a little bit cynical"

lisbbb — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:41:04 +0000

I spent nearly 2 years at a major pharmacy chain trying to implement various solutions for them and going in circles. Meanwhile, the entire construction of Epic Universe in Orlando took place. I've moved from realist to cynic. In fact, I'm not even working and may just be retired at this point. I just couldn't get past certain things about how these gigs have gone for the most part--so much waste.

New comment by lisbbb in "Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after ten years"

lisbbb — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:38:14 +0000

I know!!!!!! I've been yelling about this for years how impossible to uplift JVM versions is because of how products were built! It's so crazy. Lots of obfuscated jars went unsupported after like Java 7.

New comment by lisbbb in "Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after ten years"

lisbbb — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:56:55 +0000

Had my fill of both until I could not stand it anymore. So tired of the grifters--agile was sometimes good, but mostly a grift.

New comment by lisbbb in "Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after ten years"

lisbbb — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:08:14 +0000

Wasn't it a riff on "Mojito" which was a popular drink at the time?

New comment by lisbbb in "Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after ten years"

lisbbb — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 02:52:31 +0000

I used it mainly because the code I inherited was untestable as written. I made it testable via those methods. Then it got refactored.