addendum: love the discussion thread under this! Just thought that it might make sense to add that I was originally just referring to Northernlion's bisexual Morpheus joke
My team has moved to a thing we call "ScrumBan" and it's worked pretty well. There still are 15-min Dailies, and a Review and a Retrospective each Sprint, but we cut almost all meetings that are about sitting around and "planning" tasks (aka awful 7-hour meetings where everyone just zones out and guesses random story point numbers). Instead, tasks are planned and moved to the board on demand and never in the presence of the entire team. It gives everyone so much more time to just focus on their work.
It's surprisingly good as a backend language, if you don't really need OOP all that much. The perfect case is probably using it in microservices that only really need to do a bit of data manipulation and some database interfacing.
Sometimes different is even better! When I switched to Linux a few months back I didn't anticipate just how much I would like the Gnome desktop environment. Now I sometimes even try flicking down my mouse to switch tabs on my Win11 work pc and get a pang of disappointment when it doesn't work.
That is sad. Openly showing trust to the people around you (even if you have to take the first step and give someone the benefit of the doubt) creates the safest, most pleasant communities. Plus it's just a massive hassle and mental strain to distrust everyone all the time.
That seems kind of like the standard procedure around here (Germany) too. When you sell something online, the expectation is always that the buyer comes to the sellers house to pick up the item. I've never seen anyone do that "let's meet at this random parking lot" thing americans tend to do.
That "sizing up" thing is one of the dumbest urban legends around. Most Pythons are ambush predators - they sit in the grass, wait for prey to scuttle by and strike. They literally don't have any inherent instinct to wait with eating something. Because in the wild, "sizing up" prey just wouldn't work. The prey would be long gone if the snake waited that long.
I was recently debugging something with the Junior on my team and told him to install Bruno to make a few API calls. He installed it, but then couldn't find an icon for the Program anywhere (and obviously the Win11 Search bar was only delivering useless results). So I told him to just type "bruno" into his terminal and see what happens. It actually opened the program! I have never felt this smart before!
I think I'm out of the loop, which of the thousands of possible things is he referring to?