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I suspect that engineers who work in enterprise software would strongly disagree with you. I've done consumer stuff for the last 8 years, but I started in enterprise software, with 2 different jobs and a few internships over the first couple years of my career.

The big challenge in enterprise software engineering is that your "customer" is the person who forks over money, not the person who uses the software. Pretty much all engineering effort is devoted to pleasing them. Engineering requirements for enterprise software are often insanely complex and sometimes even conflicting, and most of the engineering effort is devoted to satisfying them.

If you look at product/UX debacles like Taleo or Lotus Notes from the perspective of a department head buying them (rather than from the recruiter, job applicant, or ordinary worker who will be using them), a lot of enterprise software makes sense. There's a lot of effort devoted to reporting requirements, to making sure the buyer has visibility on what all of his department is doing and conversely can make that "productivity" visible to his boss, to covering one's ass with regulatory requirements, and not much effort devoted to making things pretty or productive for the end-users. That's because the end-users are not the buyer of the software.

Indeed, a lot of the investment thesis in consumer/smallbiz Internet is this idea that software should replace middle managers entirely, and so the end-users should be the actual buyer of the software who need it to make money, basically replacing management with markets.
This is crazy :D I have never heard tools and workflows like this.
I hope this gets fixed, although I don't believe it. I care about the noise emissions. AFAIK they are measured on a real road, but only up to 50 km/h and in a ridiculous narrow test.

Harley Davidson and other are known to optimise for this test with movable parts in the exhaust pipes so these get much louder when the bikes goes faster than 50 Km/h.
It's okay they've been robbing you for a while now.
There's no need to make up dark motives on Marco's side, his blogpost on blocking The Deck (http://www.marco.org/2015/09/17/why-peace-blocks-deck-ads) pretty clearly showed where the cracks were. A lot of people and business will get hurt in this, plenty of them not at fault or at least with no better way to monetize.

Now to be clear, I use ad blockers on the web myself, and intend to install the Android ones once I root my phone. But it's getting tiring reading people standing on some moral high ground to justify their use of ad blockers. There is no scenario where this leads to better-behaving ad networks, or to better monetization models for the web. The final winner of this ad blocker war is a no-frills ad blocker that blocks as much ads as possible, regardless of the quality of the ad network and its ads. The majority won't go and fiddle with the settings to approve ads on sites they like, or from ad networks that are cool. Give people a chance to block all ads and they will, even if some "innocent bystanders" get hurt. And I think Marco saw that scenario unfolding in real life with Peace's success.

One example, Daring Fireball is proud of how his monetization strategy is working out for him, and justly so, he hand picks his promotions and packages them into little promotional posts. But that's basically a native ad. So let's say the next big idea from everyone hurt by blocking is that native ads are the big thing now (not that it isn't already being used heavily), and everyone should hide them among the real content, undetectable to current ad blockers. So ad blockers will evolve, and people will build filters that hide the content of these native ads in smart ways. And they might build a filter that hides posts on Daring Fireball that contain the words "my thanks" or "sponsoring this week". Will Gruber still be so supportive of content blockers then? And where's the line? Who decides what the right types of ads are?

It's not that I have any smart answers about this, but I think it's disingenuous to pretend this "culling" of the shitty ads will lead into a brave new world with fair ad networks where everyone decides to turn off ad blocking on The Verge, because gosh, they've really improved, or into some kind of fairytale where people pay for The Verge's content through subscriptions. But they will keep visiting The Verge en masse, and expecting fresh content served in miliseconds. Who will pay for it and who will write it, I sincerely don't know.
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What do you use to transfer links and files between devices/computers/tablets/phones/etc? Email? FTP? NAS? I'm looking for a good, seamless solution for this.
ahahah and slowly bittorrent takes over http :D
I guess the word might've been used in a facetious way, so to speak, the way Mr. Cobb in Inception tells Ariadne (can also be seen in the trailer), "Well, it's not strictly speaking legal" when it's clearly illegal.

But I agree, the word is very misleading in the article's context.
If you arrange your game just right, you can legally have up to ten rooks (or bishops or knights, or nine queens) of the same color on the board at once. (This will probably not be possible without the cooperation of the other player.)
The world needs a Fuse adapter for reddit.

The security implications are mind-boggling, though.
I just heard the author on Philosophy Bites (a podcast). Absolutely marvelous episode, I was genuinely surprised by her findings:

http://philosophybites.com/2013/09/alison-gopnik-on-hume-and...
I'm going to keep repeating this because everyone seems to frame the debate in the wrong terms. Ad blocking for me is not about speed or security. Those are just nice side effects. It is also not because I do not want to pay. I don't mind paying.

It is because when I'm in the middle of something I do not want to be told to pay someone else for goods I do not need. I don't care how unobtrusive it is (well, if it's only in the HTML comments it may be ok). There has to be a better way to finance the web, because I refuse to accept websites trying to convince me to give my money to irrelevant third parties.

More extremely, I flat out refuse consumerist society whenever possible. None of us needs to be manipulated into buying most of the things ads try to manipulate us to buy.
They are, in particular the higher the in cylinder combustion temperature the higher the efficiency, and the higher the NOx production. This caused heavy diesels to get less efficient for a few years when NOx stringencies were tightened. Then they were tightened far enough to require catalytic reduction, and manufactures went back to high efficiency high NOx combustion and removed the NOx downstream.
That is my experience as well. I would love to run an adblocker in blacklist mode and only punish the sites that annoy me, but I haven't found one that works that way. If anyone knows of one let me know.
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No, it was a very good point. Not everyone adds hashes to filenames, and to me it seems that you're right in that weird caching can break pages that way.

If indeed this is the case, subresource integrity needs a big warning sign about that. For me, your comment was that warning sign, so please keep posting while you're not awake yet.
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Oh, in my perfect world, while end-users would be able to modify the list, it would ship with one by default. 99% of users wouldn't know or care it was even there.
Kernel stacks are allocated by Linux in alloc_thread_info_node; user stacks by glibc in allocate_stack, which does have some sort of cache. Overall there's a fair bit of work going on that could be skipped...

But yeah, certainly userland context switches are faster; it's just that your comment seemed to postulate "scheduling in response to IO events" as a benefit of coroutines over threads, as if the kernel had no way to distinguish between threads waiting for IO and threads needing to be woken up. I presumably misinterpreted it.

Interesting paper. It seems like it could be a useful step toward my ideal imagined environment where the distinction between coroutines and threads would be meaningless - because scheduling would be a job shared between userland and the kernel, so userland could do fast thread switches, batch system calls, etc., while the kernel would still give them PIDs and let them take signals or be ptraced, and native tools (debuggers) would treat them as threads.

Though the paper is from 2010; do you know if anyone has tried to implement anything along similar lines in production?

And no, I didn't take that course.
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Correct, although I usually suggest inexperienced agile teams to start by sticking to the "rules" for a few iterations before "hacking" the process.

There are way too many teams out there rolling their own "flavor" of scrum and unfortunately, doing it wrong, because they didn't evolve it from the basics.
Oh but it is. The publishers went to the networks because they paid better, and never wondered where they were getting their advantages from.
>UI that encourages more serious / intellectual people. This is a signaling / filtering issue, but it works.

Is there actual evidence to support this, because I suspect it's confirmation bias more than anything. I can see how certain behaviors are limited, for instance by not being able to post images, memes aren't really going to become a thing, but I don't see a lot in the UI that could encourage or discourage serious behavior. Evidence to the contrary abounds in the comments throughout the site (even some of my own, if I have to be honest.)
I use Adblock and I don't mind disabling it for sites that provide quality content or reading materials. There has to be a balance which is sometimes abused by the sites.

For example if you go to nfl.com to watch a 30 second play most likely you will end up watching a commercial right before that like as if they don't make enough money with Superbowl commercials. On other hand I don't mind watching a small commercial if it was 5-10 minutes highlight of a game. If the balance was reasonable I am sure Adblock would not have been this popular.
It's probably the secondary air pump (sometimes nicknamed the "Good Morning Pump" by VW owners) that operates when the engine is cold, to reduce pollution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_air_injection
Why is that my problem? There are a hundred thousand shitty games on the App Store that all have in app purchases. Should I go and pay for them because I don't want them to die? It's the job of someone who wants money to convince me to part with it. To this end, they probably shouldn't slap me after asking for it.
I appreciate the very well-thought-out comment. It seems to be fashionable to dislike SSRIs but I've been on an SSRI for a severe anxiety / panic disorder for around six years. and it's the _only_ thing that ever eliminated panic attacks by 100%.

> Perhaps the biggest problem with SSRI treatment is the delayed onset of action. Unlike short-term rewarding drugs such as stimulants or opioids that may boost one's mood in the short term but quickly develop tolerance, SSRIs work through long-term adaptive changes.

I see this more as a godsend than a problem. Other meds I've taken, such as mirtazapine, work fast but poop out as soon as I develop a tolerance. Citalopram seems to work indefinitely once those adaptive changes take place.

My psychiatrist a few years back took this into account and prescribed both, and it worked brilliantly. As soon as the mirtazapine's effects were wearing off, the citalopram started kicking in.
How is that dangerous?
I certainly can't speak for The Public At Large <tm>. In my case, though, I agree with the fundamental argument for advertising -- writers gotta be paid somehow, and if you're going to read stuff on the web for free, it's either ads or PBS-style pledge drives -- but I've slowly come around to the ad-blocking camp anyway. The problem to my mind isn't web advertising as a concept, it's web advertising as it's frequently implemented. Reading a web page is conceptually more like a magazine than a television, yet web ads increasingly make even the most intrusive television ads seem pleasant by comparison.

I suspect that a fundamental part of the problem with web ads stems, paradoxically, from web pages having zero marginal cost. There's effectively an infinite amount of advertising space to sell, which has quickly driven the value of ads toward zero. I don't think advertising as it exists now is going to be a sustainable business model for the web; Facebook Instant Articles and Apple News may do better, because they impose a scarcity on ad space -- which will both make the UX better and make the ads more valuable. But I doubt that's a long-term solution, either.
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One option: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_research_organization
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And completely different emission and OBD requirements. I don't know how much hardware they share, but they definitely use different software.
I think there's a third interpretation: "Agile has failed to spread the spirit of its message to its followers without being corrupted in the process."

'Agile' has achieved widespread adoption. Agile techniques have not. Thus, if 'Agile' were a person—the founder and namesake of a religion, say—they would be ashamed at what their followers were doing in their name.
You have so little basis (beyond your emotional reaction) for even an implication of such a psychiatric diagnosis that I have to call you out on it. The hyperbole serves no one.
Or maybe they know precisely that you aren't worth the effort?
> demanding that we finish another module because someone opened their mouth and over delivered, now it's time to save someone's hide.

Question: Did you mean over-promised (vice over-delivered)? If the latter, could you please explain what you meant? Sorry if I'm missing the obvious; I'm not a dev.
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Agile methodologies can work, but it often requires a feature-centric deployment model, not deadline-centric. Having a fixed N-week deployment cycle can't simply be applied to all products and expect it to work.

I've found that an "Agile" approach can work quite well as long as you apply a healthy does of common sense to it.

I think to often people forget that product management frameworks are there to create a common language and set exceptions, not blindly dictate exactly how one should operate.
Yes, however if they can change the contents of the HTML they can probably modify CSP headers, which means they can just deliver whatever payload they want directly and wouldn't need to modify the integrity hashes.
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It is not cancerous, it is just infectious. And not by accident, it is by design.

I used to like GPL, so nobody would "steal" my code adding it to a closed source product. I don't care anymore, just use BSD or other credit-where-credit-is-due license: my code was included in a high profile closed source product? Lots of bragging points and free publicity!
Yes but that's not what's being discussed in this thread. However, I did mention it in another comment because I think it's terribly disingenuous of people to post in here saying "BUT HOW ELSE WILL THESE POOR POOR BLOGGERS SURVIVE" while we give them huge amounts of behavioral data, often unwillingly. Just because they're not clever enough to monetize their content doesn't mean I should have to suffer. But the reality is that I wont. Before you could ad block on iOS I just stopped going to bad websites. So clearly they prefer this to me even seeing their content at all.
Not the founding team. Some guys who contributed 10-20 hours one time.

The guys who built the MVP.
My issue is with advertisements that break web pages, or slow them down dramatically. Or even worse, take up real estate on my phone, and just plain break my mobile experience further. Sometimes I forget to install an adblocker whenever I do a fresh OS install and forget just how bad things can be without an adblocker (well really my biggest peeve is pop ups, just why are they still around?) and they get worse when someone buys ads to distribute an exploit to Java or something (was once in my lifetime a victim to a Java 0-day through advertisements - never again will I enable Java as a browser plugin).
Yeah I would be disappointed too if, for example, I'm asked to find out how to avoid a clear checkmate and I spend a lot of time thinking and fail, and then I'm told "you flip the board over and run away".
Should we listen to a 'public intellectual' who doesn't make testable predictions?
I think ArsTechnica is also an example of where publishing needs to go because they don't show ads to subscribers. That's a great balance for casual and regular readers: if you visit enough to find it reasonable to pay you get faster page loads, less distraction, etc. and they get far more money from a subscription than a single user's ad revenue would have generated.

It'd be really interesting to see if someone, maybe one of the conscientious networks like The Deck, seizes the opportunity to setup something like an indie-web network where you see decent ads with a link to subscribe and not see ads on any participating site. Google Contributor could turn into something like that but it seems like they're afraid to commit to that as a serious effort.
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The problem is that management has to do "something". When the developers are off designing and coding, what are the managers supposed to do? They have no clue, so they adopt "agile" so that they can appear to be busy collecting data on how well the team is doing.
If you prefer not to trust a single company with all your traffic, you can simply use the AdBlock or uBlock addons with Firefox for Android.
WAMP has been a thing since 2003, with over 12 years of history.

It is the predominant Windows PHP development environment and Apache stack - that has millions of users worldwide.
Being the edge case of internet users with a different default language than what my geolocation would result in, I know how frustrating it is to expect one language, and get another one "tailored" to you in order to "improve" user experience.

However, in this specific case I agree with the parent commenter. While the preferred language should affect the UI so you can interact with the map, I feel like in this case translating the content right away could take away from the experience and is not necessarily what the language flag should mean. It shouldn't be more than a click away, though.
>> People would go because they understand that their weekend of work is not worth 10% equity in a 10M company.

10 percent of the effort is worth 10 percent of the equity, no matter how few days that effort is provided.

>> If you really think a weekend of coding is worth something then why would you go now? It allows complete strangers to join your team and pollute the IP ownership.

Strangers yes. But they self selected into groups.

At the end of the weekend, the code is owned by someone. If there's someone interested in it, the author should be as well.

I would agree that one should not have high expectations going to such and event, but one should expect not to be exploited, and if something does emerge that has legs one should be entitled to his share - and if fact (s)he is entitled to it by law unless someone cons them out of it. Copyright goes to the author.
No worries! "Internal combustion engines" might be the best phrase to use, then.
How is that a solution? I worked for a CRO and contractually, all we did belonged to the client, including all publishing rights on all results.
Huh. This is an interesting consideration, that by pulling casual gamers out of the AAA market, your dollar/vote has more weight wherever you put it, which means a much more selective and competitive market for those titles.
> If the content that best informs our thinking is increasingly only available to those willing to pay then it has troubling impacts for those living in poverty or countries for whom a $9.95 monthly subscription is out of reach.

...including children and teenagers, who are unlikely to want to get approval from their parents for everything they read
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If you're saying to use things like "140.2 pounds plus or minus 4 pounds" to try and differentiate among the many, many people in a casino... no, that's not really going to work.
He isn't even making a morality argument. He's just saying the app, and decisions he makes with the app, will affect far too many livelihoods and since he is fortunate to be in a position to say no to the revenues produced by the app he is choosing not to make those far reaching decisions.
Well, that's the thing: Nobody actually likes ads. At best, people like what ads allow (e.g. free content, services, etc), but they're a necessary evil even there. If given the choice between two universes, one involving ads and one not, which were equal in all other respects, there would be no line to get into the ad-ful one.

And I think the ad industry is going to need to give up on tracking as a concept. No matter how they do it, it's basically the same concept as the massive data collection the NSA is working towards which everybody hates, except ad companies don't even have the illusion of protective and pure motives.
BuzzFeed is known for having a lot of its tech teams working remotely.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/benronne/how-buzzfeed-tech-never-los...
yes, and "Pyglet" shows that the Py preface does not always follow the hard Y sound of Python.

so we can get pretty close, we might be able to pronounce it "pinnis".
I actually work on aeroacoustics! My specialty is turbomachinery but regarding combustion noise, let me say that it is a very tricky subject... even slight variations on the fuel injection settings and valve openings can have a high impact on noise!
I think another subtle exploit is you can potentially track if a user has visited a website. E.g., site1 uses SRI on their unique resource, site2 uploads the same resource and SRI on theirs. so now site2 knows if a user has been to site1.
Very happy to hear CARB is working!
QubesOS would have saved that Bitpay executive $2mln who fell for an old phishing trick http://www.americanbanker.com/news/bank-technology/bitcoin-p...

Just logically separating administrative VMs with credentials from email VMs would have been good enough to thwart this. We can always fork Qubes and play around with whatever other VM templates such as OpenBSD, seL4 x86/genode port or experimental encrypted overlay kernel.org kernels
Mandatory release is useful. At least Phase 3 and 4 trials conclusions should probably require publication. Phase 2 is less essential, drug will never go for sale without a Phase 3. Just saying "nope, won't continue with drug" in a press release doesn't really explain why.

However, I think Phase 2 trials for new use of already approved compound should have a minimum publication requirement if they don't follow on to a phase 3. The safety (side effects and adverse events) should at least get aired.
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