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For us, an accurate delivery date on a 6 month project was mandatory. CX needed it so they could start onboarding high priority customers. Marketing needed it so they could plan advertising collateral and make promises at conventions. Product needed it to understand what the Q3 roadmap should contain. Sales needed it to close deals. I was fortunate to work in a business where I respected the heads of these departments, which believe it or not, should be the norm.

The challenge wasn't estimation - it's quite doable to break a large project down into a series of sprints (basically a sprint / waterfall hybrid). Delays usually came from unexpected sources, like reacting to a must have interruption or critical bugs. Those you cannot estimate for, but you can collaborate on a solution. Trim features, push date, bring in extra help, or crunch. Whatever the decision, making sure to work with the other departments as colaborators was always beneficial.

Mediaboard hardware is notoriously underpowered, especially with 3D. The touch response times are also questionable, usually designed for tap instead of swipe.

Setting up a game can be tedious as well; Axis and Allies is notorious for taking longer to set up than to play, but it's a lot of fun once you get going.

Knobs work as a tactile interface that require two fingers minimum to rotate predictably. With digital screens we lost the tactile element, and mandated a new one finger (thumb) minimum. Interfaces had to adapt, which is why knobs were replaced with sliders. Changes like this happened all over the place; not because of "gen-Z", but because they were the most effective solution for the platform.

Organizations, and typically lawyers, skew conservative and lazy. A little cookie-consent cottage industry popped up to handle GDPR, so instead of worrying about the regulations most companies pay the small monthly service charge for a third party to handle consent. The consent companies built the most compatible solution, a banner, with the most conservative options as default to prevent any legal quandary.

Most public facing sites do have analytics (usually LOTS of analytics) and ads, so the banner is mandatory for them. If you understand the regulations, and don't violate them, then consent is not necessary.

Second off, tailwinds true power becomes way more obvious if you consider pseudo selectors like lg: and hover:.

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Also the battery life was measured in days, when Apple couldn't go more than 12 hours.

What happened later was also interesting. I rejoined the workforce, matched and then quickly surpassed the level I'd left, and did in part because I'd decided to be who I wanted to be instead of what I thought the role dictated I should be.