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How did this climber get away with so much for so long?
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EBay will pay $59 million settlement over pill presses sold online as US undergoes overdose epidemic
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I'm looking for a project management tool similar to gantt but... different
I'm wondering if this type of tool exists. Basically, I am senior dev of a 3 man dev team at a non-tech company. I maintain 60 or so web apps for our 300-400 users (all internal apps) as well as...
I'm wondering if this type of tool exists. Basically, I am senior dev of a 3 man dev team at a non-tech company. I maintain 60 or so web apps for our 300-400 users (all internal apps) as well as act as jack of all trades when it comes to SQL, IIS, self hosted and cloud hosted windows server boxes, VMware, etc. Basically, I have a lot of spinning plates.
We are in active development but we get interrupted a lot. Like, a lot a lot. Because of this, we don't really work based on deadlines but more on timelines. Upper management knows that things get priority over other things and we have to move things around and pivot a lot, so as long as we can explain why a project took 6 more months than we projected, it's fine.
So having said all that, I'm looking for a timeline system similar to gantt but I want the ability to have more than one "timespan" per task/row.
So for example let's say I'm building a to-do app and one of the tasks is to figure out the theme/color scheme of the app. I think this will take 3 days, and I don't really need to be more specific than that, they aren't trying to micro manage. However, I got interrupted and pulled off the project in the middle of that task, so I worked on it for 1 day, I had other things for 3 days, and I came back to finish the last two days.
In this case, in a gantt chart, your task can only be one "timespan" per "row" and in order for me to chart what actually happened, I need to add multiple subtasks to that task and the task ends up taking 3 rows of space.
This is rough to read and annoying to have to rearrange and insert new subtasks and rearrange subsequent tasks along the timeline.
Is there a tool out there that handles this more "ad-hoc" scheduling that I'm looking for?
Ideally what I would like is for me to be able to put together a full estimate of time for the project (say 3 months) with the ability to cascade schedule changes down when a task in the middle goes on longer than expected or gets interrupted.
I would like to have categories or color mapping so we can see which timespans are interruptions and which are tasks done and tasks to do.
Am I asking too much? Does gantt have this ability and I've not found the right vendor?
Right now my temporary solution is excel but it's a beating to have to go shift things every time I have an interruption, I feel like I spend more time explaining what happened than I do actually programming, haha
Edit: I've seen things like Monday.com and Microsoft project, but these are really heavy and too specific for my needs, I don't want a lot of context or setting up a kanban board or anything like that, I just want effectively an interactive timeline with simple "I'm doing this for x days" and not much else in terms of percent complete, details of the task, sprint integration, etc.
Think trello in complexity, just time-based and sideways đ
I don't want to be a project manager, I don't have time for that - I just need the ability to quickly track interruptions and be able to use it as backup if upper management comes poking around
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shÄ« shĂŹ shĂ shÄ« shÇ - Story of Stone Grotto Poet
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The man in room 117 â Andrey Shevelyov would rather live on the street than take antipsychotic medication. Should it be his decision to make?
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The decline of username and password on the same page
Web devs: what's up with this trend? For enterprise apps, I get itâŠsingle sign-on needs to detect what your email domain is to send you to your identity provider. For consumers, I feel like it's...
Web devs: what's up with this trend? For enterprise apps, I get itâŠsingle sign-on needs to detect what your email domain is to send you to your identity provider. For consumers, I feel like it's gotta be one of these reasons:
- Users don't know about the tab key being able to move to other fields on a page
- Mobile users don't really have a tab key, despite there being "previous/next field" arrows on the stock iOS keyboard since its inception (Android users, help me out please)
- Users tend to hit Enter after typing in their username, leading to a form submission with a blank password
- Security, maybe? In the past I have sent a link and a password in separate emails or separate communication methods entirely. Are you hashing/salting these separately for better MITM mitigation?
Did your UX team make a decision? Are my password managers forever doomed to need a "keyboard combo" value for every entry from now on?
Non-devs: do you prefer one method over the other? If so, why?
Tildes maintainers: selfishly, thanks for keeping these together :)
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A shift towards a more sustainable global food system could create up to $10 trillion of benefits a year, improve human health, and ease the climate crisis
17 votes -
Lewis Hamilton set to join Ferrari
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Older folks: Do you feel like work ethic has changed? Better or worse? Do you notice any generalizations? Have the times changed that much?
Just wondering what the sense is from others. Is it even a thing that you notice if you are in a more detached, work from home setting? Were âthings different in my day, harumph!â This isnât...
Just wondering what the sense is from others. Is it even a thing that you notice if you are in a more detached, work from home setting? Were âthings different in my day, harumph!â
This isnât intended to be a ranting thread on millennials or such. But Iâm rather genuinely curious what is considered ânormalâ in terms of work ethic and work attitudes.
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Why it's called gluten, glutamate, gelatin, gelato, etc
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Pace of electric car adoption has markedly slowed in the US
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Zombie sequel â28 Years Laterâ lands at Sony
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Why flying insects gather at artificial light
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An AI-generated image of a Victorian MP raises wider questions on digital ethics
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Tests show that guardrails possibly do little to stop EVs and other heavier vehicles. And US transportation officials are concerned.
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Popular AI chatbots found to give error-ridden legal answers
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Congoâs least bad elections: How a fragile democracy inched forwardâand how it can consolidate the gains
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The $2.6 billion experiment to cover up Europe's dirty habit â Norwegian project to bury carbon waste under the sea is getting backing from Germany
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Why Spec Ops: The Line mattered
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Rebecca Solnit: How to comment on social media
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Bruce Schneier on the CFPBâs proposed data rules
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Security crises from Red Sea to Black Sea pose a troubling question: How much has freedom of navigation been an anomaly?
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A start-up secret: Executives' '11th-hour' pay bumps
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Poor Thingsâ intimacy coordinator on consent, orgies and Emma Stone
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Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce and a MAGA meltdown
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EU leaders approve âŹ50 billion deal for Ukraine after Viktor OrbĂĄn lifts his veto
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Finnish unions have called for industrial action to protest government proposals on labour law reforms which they say would adversely impact low-wage earners
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Oil firms forced to consider full climate effects of new drilling, following landmark Norwegian court ruling
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The Ukrainian marines hit the Russian marines so hard, they blew the Russians back to 1980
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For the first time: system roms, data dumps, scans and photographs, and a MAME driver for the little-known Sega AI
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Recruited to play sports, and win a culture war
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What it takes to manufacture 3D printers in Europe
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Inside the decades-long fight over Yahoo's misdeeds in China
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Rise of the Ronin | Gameplay overview
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The Messenger shuts down amid journalism industry-wide layoffs
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Epitaph: idle game about existential risks and the death of civilizations
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The war on âwoke capitalâ is backfiring
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Denis Villeneuve refuses to let Hollywood shrink him down to size
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Baltimore Orioles agree to be sold to a group led by [Baltimore native] David Rubenstein for $1.7 billion
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Death Stranding 2: On the Beach | State of Play announce trailer
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Over 5,000 games industry workers have already lost their jobs in 2024
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Showgirls | re:View
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Judas | Story trailer
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Silent Hill: The Short Message | Launch trailer
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Rob Pardo on World of Warcraft (2006)
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23andMeâs fall from $6 billion to nearly $0
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A wolf killed EU president Ursula von der Leyenâs family pony, it ignited a high-stakes battle
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I got a spam call and the automated voice that requests their reasoning for calling was my voice AI generated
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Has anyone else noticed a difference in their winters?
I moved to a place with an "actual" winter just over a decade ago -- snow, freezing temperatures, etc. In the first couple of years, I got what felt like a genuinely solid winter. Lots of...
I moved to a place with an "actual" winter just over a decade ago -- snow, freezing temperatures, etc. In the first couple of years, I got what felt like a genuinely solid winter. Lots of blisteringly cold days. Snow that fell in large amounts and stuck around for most of the season. I love winter, so this was great for me.
In recent years, however, the winters have been milder and milder. When we do get snow, it's only around for a bit because days above freezing are now frequent enough that it's able to melt between snowfalls. Also, the snowfalls themselves are more intermittent. This year specifically we've actually had more rain than snow. I don't remember getting rain in January when I first moved here.
It irks me a bit because the shift has been so stark and noticeable in such a short period of time. There's a part of me that thinks that it's not a big deal and maybe my first years here were unnaturally cold and snowy for the area, so what I'm seeing now is simply the other side of the mean, but then there's another part of me that feels like that's simply a comforting lie I can tell myself in the face of the obvious effects of climate change.
Is there anyone else here that feels like they're missing their winters?
56 votes