kittin [he/him]

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Cake day: August 13th, 2024

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  • Probably the UN just wouldn’t exist. The first time a major power wanted to do something the general assembly didn’t want, the major power would have done it anyway and the UN ceases.

    The veto power is a recognition of reality. Actually you cannot stop a great power from doing what it wants except via a great war with another great power. If this fact of reality is acknowledged and made part of the process, then at least the General Assembly can voice their objections and deny legitimacy via protest without destroying the entire edifice.

    The mistake was really to have no mechanism to remove someone from the security council. The fact that India and Brazil aren’t there while the UK and France both get seats is silly, and including France as one of the “victors of WW2” is also silly.


  • There’s a 2:3 ratio of time-estimators to doers at my current company and the devs have to spend about 20-25% of their time estimating their time.

    I had enough pull to make a “hit squad” unit that “just executed” and everyone was stunned at how we managed to pull off a from scratch release in “just” 8 months, honestly compared to previous companies that was slow but I also had to train up 5 junior/mids who had never worked with Go or Kubernetes at the same time, saving the company potentially millions in expenses and making a product they are already selling to clients.

    Now they’ve assigned a product owner and have asked us to start doing daily’s so I’m going to quit.

    SCRUM is middle-management capture and all the middle-managers know they are not necessary.