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On project managers

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11 months ago
by uncommonguy in

Brain teaser of the day: There are 3 project man­agers on a project. How many of them and how many times do I have to ask each of them a sim­ple ques­tion to get a use­ful answer?

Answer: 6 emails and 1 phone call. 5 total queries is the best expected solu­tion. My analy­sis from expe­ri­ence indi­cates if there are 2 project man­agers, effec­tive knowl­edge is lim­ited but acces­si­ble. At 3 man­agers it is nearly zero. At 4 and above it is actu­ally neg­a­tive because you get between n and 2n answers and the answers get stu­pider the more des­per­ate you are.

Fol­lowup: Think­ing I should escape go join the French For­eign Legion.

Dis­claimer: Of course I know there are good and great project man­agers. I sup­pose the ones I deal with are mostly ade­quate and maybe even sat­is­fac­tory. Some­times I just find the actual project events com­pletely inex­plic­a­ble assum­ing a con­scious human is pay­ing any atten­tion. The past week has just been a night­mare of con­fu­sion and stress.

damn you, Microsoft

2 years ago
by uncommonguy in

AAGH! Win­dows just force-closed all my apps includ­ing "Are you sure you want to close with­out sav­ing?" dialogs to install some damn secu­rity update. Lost an hour of work and my place in 8 pro­grams. Thanks, Microsoft — that's way bet­ter than poten­tially get­ting a virus if I browsed like a newb.

You know what, Microsoft? I post­poned restart for a rea­son — because I have a ton of things open I don't want to close and start over on! I'm not play­ing minesweeper, I'm doing actu­ally freak­ing work!

gluten free again

2 years ago
by uncommonguy in ,

I think I fig­ured out what's been mak­ing me sick for months now. My tooth­paste. My licorice-flavored tooth­paste. Licorice is gluten-toxic for some god­damn rea­son. I have been at the point of eat­ing noth­ing but raw fruit and veg­eta­bles for 2 weeks now. I was begin­ning to sus­pect that Munich water has traces of gluten in it, that's how baf­fled and frus­trated I was.

I hate to think how much dam­age it has caused me inter­nally. All the times I was too sick to go out­side, or made me lazy at work, and it's been affect­ing my con­cen­tra­tion and men­tal focus for ages. I've used that tooth­paste for almost 2 years now.

Tooth­paste. Fuck­ing licorice tooth­paste was killing me.

makeup and fake tans

2 years ago
by uncommonguy in

I just remem­bered one par­tic­u­larly strik­ing thing about watch­ing every­one walk down the hill on Grad­u­a­tion Sun­day: the large num­ber of girls with way too much makeup and a glow­ing orange fake tan. Lots of oth­er­wise pretty young girls look­ing like aged women try­ing to look young. It made me want to retch.

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