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1:16 AM

@MichaelT sitting on the couch with a steaming cup half Glogg half raspberry wine. The sweet wine goes surprisingly well with it. I usually grab a table red but my wife likes sweeter so I grabbed this instead. Any snow in your neck of the woods today?

user55340

1:53 AM

@JimmyHoffa No snow here. on the cool side, but no snow.

user55340

I picked up a variety pack of Angry Orchard yesterday... angryorchard.com

Jimmy Hoffa

Yeah, that stuffs awesome, that's what got me to try a bunch of ciders last summer

Love the ginger and the elderflower ones

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Jim G.

3:08 PM

Disclosure: I provided my own answer to the following question, and of course I'd like the upvotes ;) , but this is one of the best answers I've ever seen on Programmers.SE: programmers.stackexchange.com/a/213488/1996

A: What are the negatives of Development Managers as Scrum Masters?

I have actually seen what happens when a "technical manager" gets too heavily involved in the day-to-day mechanics of a project, and it isn't pretty. In our case, the manager in question was not the scrum master but was trying to co-opt some of those decisions; if we hadn't actually had a separat...