Or declare ourselves the Brotherhood of Mann and somehow get all the trade benefits of the EU without actually being a member of anything at all.
]]>DON'T ask for an individually typed report on what people have been working on every day if there is a perfectly functioning JIRA system (or similar) that you could just run a sodding query against.
]]>Unfortunately for him, some of us worked 7-3:30 (because they had kids), and others 10:30-7:00 (because they, er, didn't) so he ended up with a twelve hour shift.
]]>2) Have a coding standard for all variable, function and class names. Then have another one.
3) Strict Agile methods demand that if your current task is not finished and checked in at the end of the day then you must wipe everything and start from scratch tomorrow. Seriously.
]]>Seriously, you (and everyone else) have to blast your way through about 50 billion credits worth of space pirate hardware to deliver your 20 tonnes of crisps?
Every? Single? Run?
Just play the game and don't think about it too much.
]]>You could equally go for 'only free' instead, but from experience as an 80s playground games pirate, I value things I've paid for more than things I haven't irrespective of the quality of the thing itself.
Related to Robert Prior's comment above, gatekeepers (or heuristics) may keep some good stories from being published, but in a system where there is an overload of good stories this is a feature, not a bug.
]]>I try to cope via heuristics, mostly.
'Avoid if free' works pretty well on the consumption side, 'Do it for fun' on the production side.
Ironically, as I'm not charging for what I produce I'm banned from playing my own stuff.
]]>It's not a new problem though. I tried reading A Tale Of Two Cities earlier this year and couldn't get past the first four pages. I think Dickens was paid by the comma. Each one felt like stubbing my toe, hard, on a brick.
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