AlecSadler

Hmm, good point. I have an astigmatism and slightly different vision in both eyes so now I'm questioning if it would even work for me.

Really? Despite how much of a flop it was, if I owned one I feel like I'd find it fun?

Though now that I think about it...did it even have many games?

Are you self hosting?

It gets better.

Turns out to be an insurance phone salesperson job 9/10.

I knew a guy in college who had to do this, he had a degenerative eye disease or something that no amount of glasses, hard contacts, or whatever could fix. It seemed like it royally sucked, but he always seemed in good spirits.

Except I vaguely recall he impaled his own leg on a sharp branch while jogging because he couldn't see it. That would suck.

How's it working? I was going to switch over today solely for linked tablet support.

Oh my god Superman 64 has to be, to this day, one of the worst, most disappointing games I ever rented from Blockbuster.

Are there ways to design a room or things to put in a room (or the walls?) that would inhibit this ability?

I suppose lead shields or something...

I've just had some unlucky jobs, I think. Think 30-45 minute stand-ups for a team of 4, because the team lead or PM or "Scrum Master" feel like they have to prove their worth or something when ultimately the standup provides little to no value after the first 4 minutes (if any).

For jobs with a single ADO or Jira board, just look at our ticket status and comments.

I had one job that had daily stand-ups, a single ADO board, a requirement to send EOD status update emails, and a requirement to copy those updates to individual ticket comments EOD as well. I rage quit that job after 2 months because, frankly, that's absurd (it had other issues too).

My favorite standup at a job was one with 12-16 people and it took no more than ~6 minutes. It was no BS. The manager got his quick update notes across all supported clients (and separate ADO/Jira boards) and everyone got to go about their day. If you talked too long you'd get cut off.

But generally, daily stand-ups are just an interruption and a thing where I end up having to make up some BS to appease management. If my update is too long, team members hate it. If it's too short, management thinks I'm not doing any work.

As for retrospectives, of 15+ jobs in my life, only 2-3 of them ever even did anything with the feedback. Thus, it typically felt like a waste of 1-3 hours (yes one job had 3 hour retrospectives every two weeks, it was brutal). If none of the bads or nexts are ever going to happen, then don't pretend like we even have a voice.

If your stand-ups and retrospectives aren't BS, provide understood value, and don't waste time then I'm fine. But if all they exist for is to check a "we're agile!" box and allow management to flex, then I'd say it's doing the exact opposite of agile and merely annoying the engineers.

I have to login every 8 hours...I'd kill for every two weeks.