I find the publisher morally reprehensible, i understand that he had a dream a wanted to pursuit, but he gambled on unwilling parties money.

Hope he solves it, not for his sake but that of the people he owes money.

"Still, my over-confidence that a merger was around the corner prompted me to over-promise, continually, when payments would be made"

This sounds very similar to trading while insolvent to me. It happens a lot in small businesses and it's a major pain to freelancers who have to wait for payment.

From what I've gathered in this thread, people support the writers, not John Steele, but he ends up with most of the money they give.

The question is to know how much it costs, sometimes they also want to know if they'll meet some external deadline.

I think what the GP is getting at is that an estimate in absence of a context is meaningless. The organization may just be trying to get a handle on the rough scope of a job to make strategic decisions. They may also be in the middle of a discussion with a customer about delivering a feature.

The best thing for both the company and yourself is to try to be as high bandwidth as possible and discuss all the potential risks and tradeoffs. Find out what the real goals are so you can optimize a solution to provide for them. Many managers and customers get stuck early on with a particular approach, but if you apply some creative engineering you can come up with a solution which is easier, or folds in with some other goal you were already working on, leverages existing functionality etc.

its on you to express it in terms they can understand from their own position: risk, cost, headcount, schedule, dropping existing features.

if your organization doesn't want to engage in that kind of semantically meaningful discussion, or comes back and says 'I know you said 3 months, but get in don't in 2 weeks' then you need to start managing upward and looking for a new job. or you can just overestimate, and enjoy your free 2 hour lunches for as long as the money lasts.

Because bottom line, the only thing it improves is that there is no longer need to move the money around in armored cars, and that is not high impact in the bottomline of the economy

You lose the following: 1 - Ability control monetary policy 2 - Reduction in theft via cost in effort (same thing as with e-voting and rigging elections)

Because of that you have seen that blockchain stuff works on countries where 1 is badly handled. everywhere else nobody really cares except for the hype.

I think for the libertarian crowd (which seems to be a big chunk of the bitcoin enthusiasts out there as far as I can tell) the fact that a government can't easily enforce any kind of monetary policy on bitcoin is a feature, not a bug.

It's also convenient for purchasing illegal stuff instead of having to go trough stuff like western union (if you think BTC fees are huge I have a surprise for you). Surprisingly acquiring bitcoin was the hardest part of acquiring controlled substances (coinbase transaction failed twice with my credit card and had a tedious registration process requiring photo, scan of ID, etc. etc. - ended up buying from localbitcoin using bank transfer but it felt risky and the markup was considerable) - the rest was as simple as using a online shop and it shipping to home address - even got free shipping for a bigger order :)

You are right of course, i would argue though that that use case is a deterrent of mainstream adoption rather than an incentive.

Edit: proper english.

The additional advantage of Geotermal from an operations standpoint it has 0 marginal cost which guarantees it will be producing on most economically dispatched power grids.

Good work, looks great!

I have the following comments, hope you find them useful: * I find counter intuitive that the animation goes up, i think it should go down, but that probably just me. * Would recommend using something different than fruit which is probably one of the last things that comes to mind when thinking of ordered sets, also the picture keeps getting in the way of me sorting lexicographically in my mind. * A per step mode would also come in handy.

Appreciate the feedback!

Be good at learning

I don't mean technical stuff only, but the entire process of software development is to automate knowledge.

You can't automate knowledge that you do not have.

THe issue of agile is people do not understand how to properly apply it.

If you do a Product you want fixed budget, fixed releases and flexible scope, scrum/agile is the best fit.

If you do Projects you want fixed release and fixed scope and flexible budget. Use waterfall and don't close the budget until the end of the design phase.