Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 5]

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Apparently they are currently touring as a theatre show, but I don't think there are any plans to re-launch the TV show. Unless I missed that.

[98elise]

hidetheelephants said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Abbott said:

Thanks for your insight. So is it only in the developer environment?

Yes, as far as I am aware. That's what it was created for anyway, although it's conceivable that it has been applied elsewhere too, I guess.

Some tosser will have decided to use the jargon to help market garden variety management/teambuilding courses run in dingy hotel conference rooms by grey-looking people in polyester officewear.

Not really. It's a specific project management method. If you don'' t understand it you will not have a clue what's happening if you end up working on an agile project.

Think of the way SpaceX vs NASA develop rockets. It's agile vs waterfall in project management terms. Two very different approaches to achieving the same outcome. Both would seem alien to the other if you only knew your way.

I'm sure whatever you do has it's own terminology which everyone inside the industry understands, but seems pointless to people outside.

[hidetheelephants]

98elise said:

hidetheelephants said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Abbott said:

Thanks for your insight. So is it only in the developer environment?

Yes, as far as I am aware. That's what it was created for anyway, although it's conceivable that it has been applied elsewhere too, I guess.

Some tosser will have decided to use the jargon to help market garden variety management/teambuilding courses run in dingy hotel conference rooms by grey-looking people in polyester officewear.

Not really. It's a specific project management method. If you don'' t understand it you will not have a clue what's happening if you end up working on an agile project.

Think of the way SpaceX vs NASA develop rockets. It's agile vs waterfall in project management terms. Two very different approaches to achieving the same outcome. Both would seem alien to the other if you only knew your way.

I'm sure whatever you do has it's own terminology which everyone inside the industry understands, but seems pointless to people outside.

That's fine, but it's not fine(or Pointless perhaps) to use it in a context where the audience hasn't a fking scooby what they're on about.

[Abbott]

hidetheelephants said:

98elise said:

hidetheelephants said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Abbott said:

Thanks for your insight. So is it only in the developer environment?

Yes, as far as I am aware. That's what it was created for anyway, although it's conceivable that it has been applied elsewhere too, I guess.

Some tosser will have decided to use the jargon to help market garden variety management/teambuilding courses run in dingy hotel conference rooms by grey-looking people in polyester officewear.

Not really. It's a specific project management method. If you don'' t understand it you will not have a clue what's happening if you end up working on an agile project.

Think of the way SpaceX vs NASA develop rockets. It's agile vs waterfall in project management terms. Two very different approaches to achieving the same outcome. Both would seem alien to the other if you only knew your way.

I'm sure whatever you do has it's own terminology which everyone inside the industry understands, but seems pointless to people outside.

That's fine, but it's not fine(or Pointless perhaps) to use it in a context where the audience hasn't a fking scooby what they're on about.

In fairness to her she was asked what she does for work so a valid answer. Just me that didn't have a scooby.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Abbott said:

In fairness to her she was asked what she does for work so a valid answer. Just me that didn't have a scooby.

Although, also in fairness, she could have generalised and said she was a project management coach. That was probably all the detail that was required.

I suspect she was hoping for a little bit of free marketing.

[Nethybridge]

Fastchas said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

So some bloke has married those conjoined twins, is that technically always having a threesome?

https://metro.co.uk/2024/03/28/conjoined-twin-abby...

Whose (which?) name will be on the marriage certificate?

And if he has an affair with the other and has sex when his partner is asleep but his mistress isn't, is that un-consensual sex?

So many questions...!

The Hilton Twins, Daisy and Violet were co-joined at the hip,
in 1936 Violet married actor James Moore, at the time
of the wedding Daisy was obviously pregnant,
not sure what happened there.
Daisy did find a husband but it lasted all of 10 days,
he said they never could be really alone, no st Sherlock.

Really sad part was that in 1969 they were found dead, Daisy has died
first of the flu and Violet had survived for 2-4 days before death overcame her.

Edited by Nethybridge on Thursday 28th March 19:29

[xx99xx]

Question:

Why do people (mostly in the NPE thread) post a link to a breaking news story without adding any other comment? Do they think people rely solely on PH to find out what's going on in the world?

I get it if there is a comment or opinion added but just posting link....why?

[dukeboy749r]

xx99xx said:

Question:

Why do people (mostly in the NPE thread) post a link to a breaking news story without adding any other comment? Do they think people rely solely on PH to find out what's going on in the world?

I get it if there is a comment or opinion added but just posting link....why?

Surely it is just bringing something noteworthy to others attention?

And if you can add a comment or opinion, then you add in a bias that others may disagree with and that might not have been the intention?

[Kowalski655]

Nethybridge said:

paua said:

Fess up Nethy, what's your pin?

At my age I have trouble recalling it sometimes, so as an easy aide memoire it's the total number of chess positions after 7 moves divided by the distance to the moon in cubits

so 3801, assuming you remove the decimal point?

[popeyewhite]

How much has the number of regular posters decreased on PH since the advent of being unlawfully interned lockdown.?

[nessiemac]

I was showing someone directions on Google maps the other day and the route took them near Heathrow Airport.

Looking closer at the satellite view and the oddest thing ever struck me.

There are literally no aircraft at any stands at all at any terminal. Totally deserted apart from one Qantas and one Saudi aircraft on the taxiways.

Apart from that, Heathrow is completely deserted and that is impossible so why on earth have google removed hundreds of aircraft from the images?



In fact, even our staff car park image has been manipulated.

There are normally only a handful of spaces left at any one time. it is never ever this empty and in the image there are multiple cars that look as if they have been placed there and copied and pasted at random!

Edited by nessiemac on Saturday 30th March 15:14

[hidetheelephants]

Satellite picture from 2nd quarter in 2020 seems like the most probable answer.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

nessiemac said:

I was showing someone directions on Google maps the other day and the route took them near Heathrow Airport.

Looking closer at the satellite view and the oddest thing ever struck me.

There are literally no aircraft at any stands at all at any terminal. Totally deserted apart from one Qantas and one Saudi aircraft on the taxiways.

Apart from that, Heathrow is completely deserted and that is impossible so why on earth have google removed hundreds of aircraft from the images?

Was the satellite photo taken during a Covid lockdown perhaps?

[Clockwork Cupcake]

popeyewhite said:

How much has the number of regular posters decreased on PH since the advent of being unlawfully interned lockdown.?

I would have thought post counts would have gone up during Covid lockdown. Or are you referring to something else.

[nessiemac]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

nessiemac said:

I was showing someone directions on Google maps the other day and the route took them near Heathrow Airport.

Looking closer at the satellite view and the oddest thing ever struck me.

There are literally no aircraft at any stands at all at any terminal. Totally deserted apart from one Qantas and one Saudi aircraft on the taxiways.

Apart from that, Heathrow is completely deserted and that is impossible so why on earth have google removed hundreds of aircraft from the images?

Was the satellite photo taken during a Covid lockdown perhaps?

Can't have been. There were more aircraft parked up at every stand than usual and all round the engineering base for months during 2020.

[nessiemac]

hidetheelephants said:

Satellite picture from 2nd quarter in 2020 seems like the most probable answer.

Nope, LHR was even busier than normal then and we had dozens of aircraft in long term parking all round the engineering base.

Nothing at all on these images

[hidetheelephants]

nessiemac said:

Can't have been. There were more aircraft parked up at every stand than usual and all round the engineering base for months during 2020.

Going from the google maps ticker thing it's from April 2020; oddly there's two sets of images from April, the empty one is the second of the two.

[nessiemac]

This image here shows part of the engineering base.

During lockdown we had roughly 30 aircraft squeezed into every available parking slot for months on end.

[hidetheelephants]

Either they got the intern to spend a lot of time doing it by hand or have a fancy AI "delete all" function.

[nessiemac]

hidetheelephants said:

Either they got the intern to spend a lot of time doing it by hand or have a fancy AI "delete all" function.

Someone has been busy for sure!