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It's a creative tool. And it's not comparable to music production, because film has a huge influence on the end result, whereas in music you must have a very well trained ear to appreciate the difference.

I sometimes shoot medium format film and the artistic results are often better, albeit with lower fidelity. The reasons as far as I can tell are due to both technical constraints that force you to be more mindful of what you are doing, the unique way light is interpreted by film, and mechanically superior vintage optics.

Could I achieve the same results in post processing? Yeah, if I calibrate exactly to colour rendering of my sensor, figure out the correct white balance, colour space, and the necessary adjustments. Although, given that even DxO Optics with their FilmPack addon doesn't give me the exact results I get from say Fujichrome Provia 100F film, I doubt that it's that easy.

Telling everyone you're vegan is hipster bullshit. This is just an artistic tool.
Thing is that everyone have things to hide.
I think there should be extensive list of what you have to hide and reasons why.

I would start with two:

-salary : thieves, kidnappers (do you really trust that everyone in law enforcement is trustworthy they can cooperate with thieves)

check your contract, you might get even fired because you leaked your salary, and it is your duty to keep it secret and explaining that some hacker did that does not matter

-contacts : maybe someone will be stalking your friend and he might get access to your friend because you were hacked. You also should not share your friends mails and numbers without their consent.

They might be at least angry at you because you shared their contact info.
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Maybe you guys have better or more ideas.

But nothing to hide applies to hermit on top of the mountain.
If someone thinks otherwise he is an as*le because he does not think about people around him.
As someone in similar circumstances a couple of things jump out which trouble me:

Project Managers - That this role is mentioned, but not that of Scrum Master, is odd but unsurprising. PMs aren't mentioned in Scrum at all and often the way they want to do things clashes with the Scrum way of doing things. In the given example of the PM moaning about estimation Scrum at least forces that realisation quickly, something which Kanban lacks.
There may well have been a Scrum Master, one of the things I've experienced them doing is guiding my team down from 1 month sprints through 2 week ones down to a single week. "It's really hard to plan for 2 weeks work" is a classic moment for the Scrum Master to say "what about..."

"We tossed out the retrospectives" - Despite acknowledging them as a good thing? For me retrospectives are the most powerful part of Scrum. Stopping retrospectives might save you a few hours and some awkward conversations but is likely to hamper your continued development. Scrum is really good about moving a team to the "conscious incompetent" phase - i.e. you are forced to be aware you are bad at something and really need to work on it. Retrospectives are the way to improve and grow.

"We kept our deadlines" - That you had deadlines (again the sign of a PM somewhere), and view them as important enough to mention again is interesting. It hints at quality not being the most import factor, which is one of the keys to doing Scrum well.

For me moving to Kanban was a fix for a Scrum team that wasn't working well. I've worked on a good Scrum team, that took a while to get going, but got there by being able to be open and honest about poor morale and then dealing with it. The new team didn't get there, we moved to Kanban and while everyone is happier our productivity is much, much lower.
I do feel there is a place for switching to Kanban - when the scope of the project has moved into "we know how to do this" space, often close to a major release (if you do infrequent releases) where 3rd party involvement plays havoc with planning. If you're dealing with points high on the "the business don't know what they want" or "we don't know how to do this" chart then, for me, Scrum is still king. If you're high on both axes then you might want to switch projects / companies...
Yes but either you don't know what they're talking about (different part of the project), or already know what they're talking about (because you are a tight team). So, zone out. Who's the Punch and Judy show for?
>Specially when he burns alive a cat while laughing.

Covered in episode the first episode. Maybe you weren't paying attention!
What about this part?

"Just outside Oslo, a savvy entrepreneur named Ola Moe recently rented a vacant hospital for $10,000 a month, did minimal upgrades, and began charging the government $460,000 a month to house and feed 200 refugees."

It looks to me that Ola is making a killing here.
Well, nonsense in the article aside, sure you can, but only for isolated personal use.

As for myself, I've actively been avoiding all of them. Not because "everything FOSS is better", but because none of them are someone I like. Personally, I have never owned or used an Apple device or service (for my own need), the only Google thing I use is Youtube. As for MS, that's "worse". I need Windows with DirectX for entertainment and I need MS Office for some work, as much as I'd love to use LibreOffice if just because of the UX...
Wow this is incredible! Super fun :)
Sorry for the late reply, but whenever I stream from Netflix, Amazon, or Youtube, I just let it stream at whatever their site determines as the max my connection can handle and it never looks choppy in fullscreen. The only time there's any issue is when bandwidth is limited for whatever reason and the site needs to drop down to a lower quality stream.

I assume you've already covered this but just in case, do you have the most recent drivers and software for your GPU? I know in the past that (on Windows systems at least) using the default "mostly works" driver that comes with the OS, I'll notice issues with performance because I'm missing any hardware acceleration that the Intel/nVidia/AMD GPU can do.

Typically I notice it on work machines that just got reimaged with a generic OS image and don't have the relevant GPU drivers installed yet. Moving windows around, resizing, and other windowing tasks are a bit choppy until I download the appropriate package.

Again, I assume you already thought of this if you're specifically buying a higher resolution display than the average cheap PC comes with. Still, it's the only thing that I've had affect framerate/refresh in fullscreen video in the past.
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Nothing to do with the function, but the form...

I really struggle with white on black text. Most of the internet is black on white, so, when switching back to a light screen I see black line after images. I really dislike it.
I think you're being downvoted for being aggressive and having a political agenda, but you do have a good point. Of course, we want to spend money to help people in need — but what happens when the people we hire with this money start to charge us a premium for excessive, and completely unnecessary expensive care? $31 to $75 per person per night seems a little bit costly, yes.

But at the same time, I'm can imagine that they can have actual need for that. May be they need to live near all the official organizations and embassies because they will spend a lot of time there? This would explain "exclusive parts of city", for example. May be not. But anyway, it's always better to be more open to opposite point of view and imagine arguments for it.
> well until you wear your phone on your wrist why would we want to go back to small phones and end up with a two or worse three device world?

Because I can't fit a phablet in my trousers.

Or is this the trouser manufacturers fault?
thats' a very interesting blog on strategy. Thanks for that - the only problem I see is that the "settlers" analogy has no real life mapping (unlike Pioneers <-> scrum and TownPlanners <-> six sigma).
You might want to check out Reacji:
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It's possible, but you'll get an enormous amount of value from working alongside an experienced developer. If you start out remote, I highly recommend saving up your money, looking for on-site jobs, and moving when you find one. Teaching yourself is a pretty slow way to get better, because you don't always know what you need to learn about. Having a mentor drastically speeds up the learning process.
If you can't keep a backlog stable for a few weeks then you aren't doing project work you're on support or firefighting. Scrum is all about IT project work, Kanban is a more general "efficiently get a pile of tasks done" process which can apply to small IT tasks or building a car.
The team I was previously on tried to use Scrum and seemed to naturally fall into a similar model to Kanban; we got rid of what helped, and stopped doing what didn't. It was an amazing relief, especially since Scrum sprints and the numbers just weren't working.

Sadly, our Scrumlessness was found out and it was implemented again shortly before I left. Morale was dropping steadily on the team already (unrelated reasons), reimplementing the parts we already knew didn't work was a bummer, and the Scrum leader talked down to me when I tried to advocate for the team.
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> The ancients had it as 'power corrupts'

Well, then logical thing would be not to give anyone any power, ever.

My point is, if you take general principles and blindly apply it with "no analysis involved", you're likely to get to a pretty ridiculous state.
To counterweight defenders of small phones. My wife, her mom, and my mom switched to the 6 plus (from 5s) the minute their contract was up. They didn't even ask about smaller phones. For a big chunk of the population (people who carry purses) the upper limit on cell phone size is not bounded by pocketability. That probably has a significant impact on the market.
Sure, if you overlook the part that he is housing and feeding 200 refugees.
Wow. Just how former is this director? Article quotes William Binney I know him. Just as a point of reference wikipedia says that he resigned on October 31, 2001.
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What those numbers tell me is that most retirees are considered "poor" as we currently measure such things. Also that they tend to own homes and not work. None of that is surprising.

Citing any sort of statistics like that without at least breaking it down by age band is pretty pointless, in my experience.
You can get rid of Safari though. In Settings > General > Restrictions you can enable / disable Safari, Camera, iTunes Store etc. You can also block certain sites in Restrictions > Websites.

I use this feature to block news sites, forums, hn etc. It will prompt you for the restrictions pass, but I've found it's still enough for me to close the tab and do something else.
As do most of the US allies:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/114003
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OK, so in your comment you reviewed only the bad possible outcomes of some thing X, and came to a conclusion that thing X is bad.

Don't you see any logical problems with this line of reasoning?
I'm always suspicious of that specific dystopy.

It's not that they aren't trying, or that we are not letting them. The problem is that technology is very "stubborn", "subordinating" only to those it chooses to, and those are always almost impossible to predict. No elite was ever successful on that kind of coup.
Well, mithril requires a LOT of array literals and object literals in your function calls. http://mithril.js.org/getting-started.html shows todomvc in mithril. That template would be much more compact, uniform, and readable with a lispy syntax.
This read changed my mind. Even I don't have nothing to hide, I need to care about my privacy.
There are things you can cut out because much of the internet is self-perpetuated and relies on an odd combination of societal inclusion and apathy to continue to grow. Do you need to peruse others cat pictures endlessly everyday...no. TV is put there to placate people and much of the social internet is equally useful. But here I am posting this to HN but I can say that as a person without a facebook account so it is a matter of priority. I think Neal is right on!
Exactly. The government was going to spend money on refugee housing and services anyway. If the brothers can provide suitable accommodations cheaper than anyone else can they deserve the profits.
Construction works in Japan are fascinating. I've been in Tokyo some years ago and while strolling along the palace we came by an construction site for a new skyscraper there.

We had to take break to watch this perfection. http://imgur.com/a/IFMDl Those workers open the gate just in time for the next truck to come in and open as well as direct the traffic on the 3-lane road for the time the truck needs to get out. All this takes few minutes. There is no jamming up of traffic. The frequency of trucks coming in and leaving was astonishing. There must have been dozens of trucks on the roads of Tokyo at every moment.

I would have loved to see how that works inside.

I live in Germany. A country that is know for their efficiency, accuracy, etc. but if what Germans do is efficiency then what those workers did was something completely different and superior.
I think the issue there for most is that you mentioned three different programming languages.
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They were never asked by Google to make a language, and as far as I've always known (feel free to provide a link that says otherwise) Google employees are allowed to spend some of their work time to work on side projects, I've never heard of Google only paying them to work on Go and only Go, please feel free to correct me on this as it's news to me.
> Not only contradicts the "ditching Google" credo, but is also a useless move in this context. If he really wants to follow through with his FOSS approach he should be using Sailfish OS, Tizen, Ubuntu Touch or Firefox OS.

I kind of disagree, though those are all worthwhile projects. Running an AOSP or CM ROM with no GApps is a reasonable choice for mobile if you want to avoid Apple/Google/Microsoft services.
Lots of people consider both to be bad.
NK also murders lots of innocents, I honestly fail to see your point.
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"nuh uh" "yuh huh" "nuh uh" "yuh huh"

It's not going to be Oculus Rift style boxes on faces. There are already AR systems in final product development that are more the size of ski goggles. I personally know of one system in R&D that is the size of aviator sunglasses.

The fashion industry 100% tells people what they will want to wear. If Facebook is smart, they'll be partnering with major fashion designers in a year, and you'll start seeing AR headsets incorporated into fashion shows in 2 years.
I've got a bunch of friends who have worked on this at some point, and I know some of the people cited in that PhD thesis. I can still hear the difference, even with state-of-the art current virtual analog emulations, like Diva.

Have to say the gap is narrowing though.

One approach I haven't seen used yet is using the latest AI/neural networks to learn and model the inherent nonlinearities in analog audio
This argument doesn't seem to have made much difference to the national DNA database[1]. Innocent people have had to go to court to get the rules changed and to have their DNA taken off the database.

"They" want everyone's dna on the database. And police have said that there's no reason to take a person's DNA off the database.

Your DNA is taken and added to the database if you're arrested. You don't have to accept a caution; nor be tried, nor convicted, of a crime for them to keep it. Some people can apply to have it taken off, but it stays on their for two years for everyone.

With the current climate I can easily see "all immigrants need to go on the database" being populist bit of legislation.

[1] typing that name, about my country, feels weird and wrong.
Do people really think AWS got to be a 10 billion dollar business by hosting node.js to garage door opener gateways?

When situations like this come up I always suggest people read the history of Western Electric. Talk about scale!
That's because they have two non-breaking spaces between images. I will note that as a future annoyance I will try.
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Just imagine how much smugglers made off the boats or lifejackets in greece.

Have you seen the piles of lifejackets in greece? They are HUGE. Thousands upon thousands of them across the entire shore. Where are they all coming from and who bought all of them?
My only concern at the moment is to get people to realize that privacy is not good. Only when people understand that our goal is transparency can we come up with a strategy to make the switch.

Considering that we need to get to a transparent society, contributions to the privacy movement only ensures that the transition will be even more difficult and violent.
I think analog synths are in a different category because they generate sound vs capturing it. When it comes to instruments like that you can't make an argument that digital does it better because that is subjective. Similarly I don't think a synth with guitar sampled mod can replace the guitar because it would be impossible (or very hard) to capture all quirks/permutations of strings together. You could make a case that capturing guitar sound digitally is better than on analog, which is more in line with what's Kodak is doing
At least where I work (Pivotal) where we are often rotating between pairs, and changing tracks of work in the order of every day to every few days, being kept up to date on the state of the rest of the work is useful.

Additionally, we use it as a chance to bring up anything we need help with, or anything we found interesting in the last day, which wasn't important enough to interrupt the rest of the team with.
If Twitter's revenue is based on clicks, longer form content truncated with a "click for more" link seems like a sure fire way to generate more clicks.
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Well, that is the same company that put Gary "JavaScript rendering engine" Kovacs at the helm as CEO.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis

That's one of my favorite author quotes. The greatest evil in this world is done by those who can see their own work and tell themselves that it is good.
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Here in Florida leaf blowers are a very important yard tool.

But do the leaves actually change and drop in Florida?!? Yes, yes they do but leaf blowers aren't really for leaves here...

They're used to blow grass clippings and dirt back on to your yard!

You see, if you don't use a leaf blower all those grass clippings will end up washing down into the storm drains (Note: Not the sewers) or pile up at the end of your driveway where they ultimately decay into dirt. This causes two problems:

* The dirt that slowly builds over time will completely screw up drainage and create flooding problems.

* The fertilizer-enriched grass clippings will ultimately make their way to our ridiculously important fresh water systems (rivers, lakes, streams, etc) resulting in nasty algae blooms and similar environmental problems.
"Almost a decade"

About 5 years tbh: https://blog.risingstack.com/history-of-node-js/

"hardly find any large, well-known website being powered by node"

* Netflix - https://www.talentbuddy.co/blog/building-with-node-js-at-net...

* New York Times - https://www.talentbuddy.co/blog/building-with-node-js-at-the...

* PayPal - https://www.talentbuddy.co/blog/building-with-node-js/

* Medium - https://www.talentbuddy.co/blog/on-building-with-node-js-at-...

* LinkedIn - https://www.talentbuddy.co/blog/building-with-node-js-at-lin...

* Uber - https://www.joyent.com/developers/videos/node-js-office-hour...

It's a tool, and like every other tool comes with its pros and cons. I am not saying Node is the perfect fit for any project, because it isn't. However stating it isn't used and almost a decade is just wrong.
The problem is that Bluetooth headsets are universally shitty devices. You only wear them to be conspicuous, and by now everyone knows the emperor has no clothes.

There is a lot more money going in to HMDs than Bluetooth earpieces. I would not be surprised to see an AR headset, about the size of large pair of aviator sunglasses, on a model on a fashion runway in 2 years.
The crunch approach to sprints is the killer. If you know you can't complete all the work in a sprint the answer should not be to bust yourself to try and complete it. Have a conversation with yourselves and the product owner to readdress what you can realistically achieve in the time remaining and then do that.

It's a really hard thing to do, we all want to be the hero that saves the sprint. It also encourages you to end up with lots of discrete chunks of work in a sprint so you can complete 80% of your initial commitment and salvage a sense of achievement rather than getting 80% through a few big tasks but none of them actually done.

A sprint with 4 developers and 4 tasks each estimated to take 2 weeks will almost never succeed. A sprint with 4 developers and 20 tasks each estimated to take a day or two stands a much better chance of success. Combine that with some metrics around "complexity per developer per available day" and you quickly end up with some charts showing productivity that is hopefully improving which will hopefully improve morale.
Let me play the devil's advocate:

Why should I as a user be forced to upgrade from a system which does it's job just fine only because the system's manufacturer decides that they don't want to spend any more resources on patching up errors in this system? Having bought the system, shouldn't I have gotten a product that is reasonably secure in the first place? How do I know that the new shiny replacement system doesn't introduce new problems which take years until they are discovered and could be much worse than the old system where already a lot of work has gone into fixing bugs?

I bet the real reasons are much more mundane. I've seen several times where updating a single tool in game production teams takes years, because the 'time is never right', the update can't be done incrementally, and the production can't afford to switch the whole team over and risk weeks of instability and bug-hunting because unexpected bugs crop up that didn't manifest in small-scale tests.

Basically: never change a running system :)
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I think the internet has a wonderful side - I've learned a tremendous amount on it. It also has a side similar to TV. You have to choose but sometimes the edges blur (as in my post TBH).
except that he's now also responsible for feeding n refugees at a food cost of y per day. (it looks like n in this case is 250)

Include also the cost of x beds, water, toilet facilities, general staff, operating costs of kitchen facilities, cutlery, dishwashers.

The profit on the difference between $10k and $460k is not $450k.

$460k / 30 days in a month = $15k per day.

$15k / 250 refugees & asylum seekers = $60 / refugee per day. (fed, watered, sheltered, & safe)

From the article, the profit is likely 3.5% of $460k or roughly $16k/month.
It's refreshing to hear soundbites about Japan opening up to foreigners as opposed to the narrative that Japan is building robots so they don't have to let foreigners in.
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