> This only works when you trust your team members. This means absolutely nobody who can fire me on the spot, not my supervisor, not my skip, not the CEO/CTO/VP should be on the call.
not sure how I'd've ever justified suggesting engineering standup without our engineering manager present
The other side of this is when the EM's presence is actually a negative, so them not turning up means people can relax. If "no blockers" isn't enough, then it's my job to get the information I need without it feeling like a chore. If I have no choice but to run a meeting called "standup" every day, and we're all on the same page already, I'll take "no blockers" and then have a chat for ten minutes over a coffee. Taking it easy once in a while helps everyone feel a little less "cog in the machine".
Not just the dev team but even the "product owner" gets blind sided in "small" and "agile" companies.
The CEO or someone high up the food chain sees a defect and now zomg the sky is falling.
It has to be fixed nao, prioritization be damned.
That's what I meant by nobody from the above list can be a product owner.
The whole point of having sprints is so things can't be added to a sprint mid-sprint.
Maybe there are extenuating circumstances but they should a. really be extenuating circumstances and b. should come through the (clearly nominal) product owner.
my favorite part is how brokerages like morgan stanley don't report the cost basis when they report your sales to the irs, and for no reason I can find.
This means that if you don't report sales from your side so you can note the cost basis, the irs assumes a cost basis of 0 and calculates owed tax on the entire sale value - this applies to stuff like RSU grants as well, and trips up a great many people entering the tech sector ( especially young people who may not have much tax filing experience )
I legitimately don't know why brokerages don't all include the cost basis by default ( or why they aren't required to by law )
Cost basis is not so cut and dry. In fact, the IRS (federal law?) allows you to use almost any reasonable method for determining it as long as you are consistent.
An example of where the brokerage wouldn't know:
You buy 5 shares of stock at $X and then a few months later buy 6 more shares at $Y. Later on you sell 3 shares for $Z. What is your cost basis? It could be $3X or it could be $3Y. Or maybe a blend of the two $(2X + Y)! The IRS thinks that you should be the one to decide, not the brokerage.
Every transaction of stock should be listed. The broker will total the gains. If you want to play with the rules with a little bit more finesse (like trying to leverage the 30 day end of year rule), you will have to do this manually.
Mine hasn't carried it in a couple of years. Maybe they weren't as popular at my store. Next time I'm there, I'll ask them to look in the computer to see which stores carry it.
That's not too unusual. The other day I was looking for a particular shoe at the Shoe Dept. at my mall, they didn't have it. They were short staffed and the clerk was somebody who usually worked at a store an hour and a half away and she looked to see if they had it at the store in her town where she usually worked because if it was she could bring one to me the next day.
As it was they didn't have it and we just ordered it from their online store.
Auto parts stores do the same thing. If you use Best Buy's web site they will tell you what is in stock at your local store and any other store, and they can pick it off the shelf for you and you can get it at the service desk.
I don't believe Costco always does this, but they have occasionally for me in the past year or so. I believe I've also been told that they can't do it.
my guess is that's primarily due to the shift in incentives for social media, but also Svelte's decision being made by the group of maintainers/contributors together, and not impacting end users more or less at all as Svelte didn't stop generating types when they swapped from TS to JS+JSDoc
> Mojo is now available for local download – beginning with Linux systems, and adding Mac and Windows in coming releases.
sure would be nice if this was front and center on the actual website; the download page requires the user create an account in order to even find out that linux is the only supported platform at present.
not sure how I'd've ever justified suggesting engineering standup without our engineering manager present