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Cake day: June 13th, 2024

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  • The program goes through the collection of numbers and prints each one after a delay of milliseconds equal to that number: “Print the number 20 after a 20 millisecond delay. Print the number 5 after a 5 millisecond delay. Print the number 100 after a 100 millisecond delay… etc…” effectively sorting the collection because the numbers will be printed in order from smallest to largest.

    This is a clever (but impractical) way to sort a collection, because it does not require comparing any of the elements of the collection.








  • Worse than 1 hour standup and 4 hour planning:

    1 hour daily standups and 30 minute planning meetings.

    I’ve been on a team that consistently congratulated themselves on how fast and smooth planning is, when none of the stories would have acceptance criteria or real descriptions at the end of the meeting, and then we’d have to spend tons of extra time during daily standup actually figuring out wtf the work was