Needs to be the Eye of Sauron Microsoft

When did computer science turn into pop psaichology? Calling this research is blasphemy to the scientific discipline.

Translation: Trump is ready to go nuclear and his fascist panel only want to play military ops to enrich themselves.

I don’t remember this scenario from Model UN.

Then I would absolutely share your concerns. If you can’t share the value proposition clearly with the owner in your own words, then it will reflect poorly on you when this goes sideways with negative results. IMO you don’t even need to say no. Just say, “there’s no way I can explain this clearly to <owner> with what you’ve told me so far. I can’t sell a plan I don’t understand and I don’t have enough details to understand the steps here. Let’s write this down in a document that we can go back and forth on to get the details right that I can share with others.” Then make some suggestions for them to do the leg work.

Before any hardware or software gets built or acquired it can be helpful to go through some exercises. Probably the most helpful here:

1. Business Requirements Document (BRD) - stakeholders, business constraints, goals. Should sell the idea “we need to do something here because it’s important to the business for XYZ reasons”.

2. Product Requirements Document (PRD) - Critical User Journies (CUJ), user stories, use case analysis. Should iron out how a solution should look like to achieve the stated goals of the business doc. Specify success criteria, what metrics are important for this to be a success “we saved staff X hours, we cut costs Y dollars, we brought in Z new clients”.

3. Technical Specification or Technical Design Doc (TDD). Should explain how to achieve CUJs through a technical design. Focus should be both “why” to do it this way AND “why not” do it some other way. Tradeoff analysis.

Then there are a dozen related drill-downs exercises: legal review, security/privacy/compliance review, internationalization, launch review, UX review, on and on.

I’m not saying adopt all of the above, but if you don’t have the technical knowledge then your role is closer to a project manager and that is its own set of skills. It’s very helpful when PMs have some technical background (so absolutely continue enjoying Homelab hobbies), but (from a random internet stranger’s POV) here you need to wear a project manager hat.

Good luck!

Pretty solid take down. It could have been cut in half or a third, but all good criticisms.

Mathias Döpfner looks like an aged Chris Diamantopoulos from the show “Episodes”. I wouldn’t be surprised if they behaved the same too heh.

I had heard of them before but thought it had some bandwidth limits. A brief search right now makes me think I had the wrong impression. I will consider giving them a try. Thanks!

I’m interested in running ipv6 for my home but my ISP doesn’t support ipv6 yet heh. Maybe I’ll send them this graph.

In what way are you getting ripped off? What’s your role in this? Are you paying these people money out of your pocket? Then yes. Are you supposed to approve their expenses for the business? Then also yes. So, yes.

I’d demand a full business plan and technical design for review and approval with stakeholders. Are you going to buy this hardware and they will thumb with it for 5 months with zero product for the firm? What’s the expected outcome and value to the business? I’d get more eyes on this and ask tough questions, and get it documented. Maybe let them use a public AI first to make the design doc, and then stakeholders can use a public AI to review said doc, and then you all can confuse each other and shelve this project to Neverland.

Glad to hear it, but now do the murderers.

I used to tell my students, “putting down anything is better than leaving an answer blank”. Still got a lot of blank answers. Anna doesn’t have anywhere near the amount for any kind of damages, so makes sense they wouldn’t show up. Hope their ops is solid, but it’s probably just a matter of time now.

Well a bunch of Christians literally want to live through the rapture. Not like, “maybe in 30 years”. They want it asap and look for every possibility through that lens. Why not choose the antichrist to speedrun it?

the legally binding “Signed-off-by” tag, requiring instead a new “Assisted-by” tag

… is there something legal about signed off by tags? I thought it was just a chain of trust.

I want Iranians to be a strong sovereign people. NO! NOT LIKE THAT!

Can someone tell him Iran is also fighting climate change? Maybe he’ll be willing to fight it too.

Who had Strait of Hormuz as the trigger event of ww3? Bumbling Donald needs to be removed, yesterday.

The idea that removing Trump makes this guy the president… fucking fuck. But it needs to happen heh.

Lmfao, the guy knows a thing or two about illegal taxation extortion.

Americans acting unamerican as usual.