If they say god appointed the person, is monarchy. If the person say she is going to stay in power because enemies, then it's a dictatorship.

Monarchy just means "rule by one". Dictatorship means, "because I said so".

A king who gets their power from God and can make rules whether or not the people consent is both a monarch and a dictator.

If they have power, yes.

Yes

> It's interesting how everyone thinks they're "managers" in "agile" teams.

In scrum in particular, teams are supposed to be "self-organizing and self-managing". Perhaps that's why :-)

Well, yes, but "self-managing team" implies the team manages itself, not that one person picks up the slack. As the sibling poster said, this is a sign of a dysfunctional team.

The author of the article writes:

> You’re not the player, you’re the coach. Sometimes that means strategy and big-picture thinking. Sometimes it means shielding your team from dumb shit. Sometimes it means buying someone coffee and saying, “You’re not crazy. This is hard.”

Guess what good agile coaches or scrum masters are expected to do :-)

Very little of that. Agile coaches don’t deal with under performers, promo packets, retention issues, etc.

Agile coaches are also not able to shield the team from dumb shit. They don’t have the power to make priority calls on what the team is doing.

I'd argue it's not my job to "shield the team". It's my job to enable the team to question "dumb shit" and put them in a position where they can discuss these matters constructively with management (or whomever).

Also - I "deal" with underperformers because my team needs to deal with them. It all comes back to "what benefits the team".

I see that there are a lot of different varieties of agile coaches out there.

I really, really, really doubt the "crawled but not indexed" status can have anything to do with page loading speed. Lower ranking, sure; although Google doesn't say how much weight they give to page speed when ranking. But not exclusion from the index.

> Current LLMs might also be wrong

Current humans might as well :-)

> and most players are charging money for a service

The aricle talks about AI overviews. As exemplified by the AI summary at the top of Google search results page. That thing is free.

1. Create free and good product

2. Attract large user base

3. Sell user data and attention to advertisers

4. Extract maximal profit from sponsors

5. Earn billions from shit product

Hey that's like a popular Search engine's search results page!

> But the // TODO: doesn’t need to be a plan to actually do something. Instead, it’s a note about “here’s an edge case that wasn’t handled” or a suggestion for a better structure that the author didn’t make time to implement

Why is it a TODO, and not a NOTE or something?

At least in your example there are some bakers to empathize with. They would have to manually bake the cake.

Now imagine your phone refuses to take a picture of the Nazi flag, because the owners of the phone manufacturing company have a certain moral code.

In that case, I don’t buy a phone from that manufacturing company. Maybe I want that on purpose in a different way, to prevent my kids from taking nudes.

Exactly. With the bakers we have competing interests of the guy who wants the Nazi cake and the baker who doesn't want to make one. Personally, I come down on the side of whether it requires any creative effort on the part of the baker. "Print this .jpeg on a cake"--content doesn't matter. "Draw me a Nazi flag on the cake"--content matters.

There's no human looking at each transaction, there's nobody to be bothered about the content of the game, and no justification for not processing offensive stuff.

> But what about being closer to the top of the Google search results - you might ask? One, search engines crawling websites directly is only one variable in getting a higher search engine ranking. References from other websites will also factor into that.

As far as I remember from google search console, a disallow directive in robots.txt causes google not only to avoid crawling the page, but also to eventually remove the page from its index. It certainly shouldn't add any more pages to its index, external references or not.

Thank you for that note! I didn't know that. It is something I will need to figure out: either I'm ok with not being in the search engine OR I will update the robots.txt. Currently I'm relying on the social media traffic and the word-of-mouth marketing.

Yes; this is what university courses in literature do: they force-feed texts to students at a rate that many struggle to absorb. Instead of reading selected texts slowly and with pleasure, students rush through them with curses. It's been bewildering to me, back when I was going through a similar, though lighter, ordeal, why this was the case.