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A movie from 1929 that shows the launch of a three stage rocket to fly to the moon. Earlier in the movie they even showed the flight path of the rocket through the Lagrangian point[^]. And the movie uses a countdown for the first time.
Rollout[^]
Launch[^]
It's more a self fulfilling prophecy. The advisor for the movie was Hermann Oberth, rocket scientist and Wernher von Braun's teacher.
Here we have the decoration on an A4 rocket from 1942, which references the title of the movie: Woman in the moon[^]
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modified 24-Feb-20 12:46pm.
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Sure he did, but he shot them there with a cannon. What was his plan to get back home, assuming there was no cannon conveniently parked on the moon?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Well, I never read the book, but it seems the plan was to land on the moon but instead they got into an orbit around the moon and landed in the Pacific Ocean.
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This seems apropos to the day, since we learned that Katherine Johnson, one of the NASA mathematicians depicted in "Hidden Figures" passed away today at age 101![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
NY Times Obit for Katherine Johnson
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What, there are people who have a clue what they're talking about, when they write Sci-Fi?
That's just cheating!
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It featured a mouse travelling to the moon. There wouldn't be a movie about that in English until 1963!
I don't remember the part about using a divining rod to search for water on the moon. Now I'll need to watch it again. 
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One of my childhood books was the 1963 vintage "The NEW Junior Book" from the Readers Diggable. It might be something published by the Norwegian publishers of the Diggable, but I assume that it was published all over the US dominated world, in different translations (like most books in this class were, in those days).
One of the digests in this book is "Summary of 'First Men to the Moon', (c) Werner von Braun 1958, 1959, 1960", filling no less than 14 large-format pages. I was immensely disappointed when I first discovered that this was a made up history - noone had ever been on the moon! And then, people did land on the moon, but it wasn't at all like the story from Readers Diggable! ...
Then, with Apollo 13, history took revenge! The Werner von Braun story of the meteorite punctuatinhg the space ship created a drama not that different from Apollo 13!
The Diggable book says nothing about where the Werner von Braun story had been published earlier. Maybe it was created for this book alone, 3-5 years earlier, and never published anywhere else.
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Smells spammy to me.
(Ah, so it's site-driving then?)
modified 24-Feb-20 14:28pm.
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Did you read it, or just sniff the link on the screen? 😆
The OP is serious question, with a reference to a specific observation. Agree or disagree is fine, but why one comes to that conclusion makes for good discussion.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Smells spammy to me.
It did a bit to me, too, but the OP has a few CP articles under his belt, so I temporarily unblocked linkedin and had a look.
Nothing for sale, just an article about what it says on the tin.
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I prefer to continue to use the traditional way: Go to the harbor, fill up some developers and drag them aboard.
What? Sailors? That could actually be the reason why all my ships sank and all software projects ended in chaos...
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I can see the overall point. It would be nice to have more technically-minded people in what are traditionally considered non-technical roles since the duties of those roles are inextricably linked to some degree with technical details, but I disagree with shoving PM+BA duties entirely onto lead devs in all but the smallest of projects. There are only 24 hours in a day.
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Good point. If a lead who is a software engineer cannot distill the PM and BA duties down to about 30% of their time, then they are not right for a “Soup to nuts” lead.
I know this approach is feasible because I have done it and known others who did it, and did it well. But many, perhaps more than half of, software engineers just do not have (or want) the multidisciplinary knowledge, skills, and abilities to do it well.
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MSBassSinger wrote: perhaps more than half of, software engineers just do not have (or want) the multidisciplinary knowledge, skills, and abilities to do it well.
Which is fine, and they should be paid less. 
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ZurdoDev wrote: Which is fine, and they should be paid less.
Seriously? The entire march of history is about economic specialization. If someone is great at software, why saddle them with product management, project management, or other things suggested in this article? Those roles should be filled by people who are also good at those roles, but they don't make someone a software team lead from a technical standpoint.
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Greg Utas wrote: If someone is great at software, why saddle them with product management, project management, or other things suggested in this article?
Because it's a small team.
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Sure, but I saw nothing in the article about team size. It seemed to be a general prescription.
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Greg Utas wrote: I saw nothing in the article about team size. I
I didn't read the article and was not limiting my comments to whatever it said. Just a general observation.
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Not a general prescription. General principles that can be applied to teams of various sizes. If teams grow large, then other considerations have to be applied. Should a team of twenty be broken into four teams of five? If so, how is leadership delegated effectively? Those are topics for another day.
I have successfully applied the principles I wrote about to teams from three to twelve. I think that covers the size of most functional teams.
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ZurdoDev wrote: and they should be paid less
Rubbish - you want to take 30% of the time of a highly productive developer and devote it to other duties, bloody silly idea. I don't know about others but as a senior developer I was paid dramatically more than a PM or BA.
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: I was paid dramatically more than a PM or BA.
Precisely. So imagine being a good developer and doing project management stuff.
Or, just a developer only. Clearly you should get paid more the more that you do.
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You seem to assume that a developer can have the same quality of skill as a PM/BA, that is highly unlikely if he is highly skilled in one. You have heard of the saying "jack of all trades is a master of none". Seems appropriate.
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Your experiences and mine are different. Nothing wrong with that.
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