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The author is simply describing a transformation from a system driven mostly by intrinsic motivation to a system driven by an extrinsic one.

Typically complex tasks are solved better in an environment with emphasis on intrinsic motivators.

It's not wissful thinking. It's a keen observation.

Basically management offloads the responsibility of actually managing to a process of accounting. It's a less skillfull, less productive, but a much more predictable form of management.

The problem was not the Jira. It was the new PM who instituted the cultural change. Jira can be used just a well to document work done by intrinsic motivators.
Probably not. Hell I've never even read the book. Instead I learned through experience and observation then later learning about the book and a summation of it :)
I've met Oliver (Ironholds), Martin (who wrote the code with the dodgy variable name), and Duncan (who banned Oliver and others from the bug tracker for "shit-stirring"). All three of them are smart, delightful people in my experience.

This strikes me as a bit of a storm in a tea-cup, but there is some background context worth noting. R's academic roots have created some interesting cultural aspects within the community. For example, in academia you spend a fair amount of time critiquing other people's work and trying to find flaws. It's perfectly acceptable to trash someone's argument, even to their face when they give a presentation. Once you accept that it's not personal but necessary for research to progress, it's OK, but to begin with its a horrible experience. Outside of academia, this is mostly just awful impolite behaviour.

That attitude of being allowed to correct people's arguments without bothering with any formalities has been a feature of the many aspects of the R community since its inception. In particular, the R-help mailing list and the R bug tracker can be scary places for new users. As the R community has grown beyond the confines of academia, this has led to tensions within the community. These sorts of cultural issues have long worried a lot of R users, and I can only guess that Oliver's position on the R Foundation Task Force on Women led him to worry about diversity issues more than most.

The other relevant aspect of the R community is that R is developed and managed by the R Core Team (https://www.r-project.org/contributors.html), which consists of 20 guys, about half of whom are actively working on R, and all of whom have day jobs beside being in R Core. They do a great job, but the R community is now several million people, which means that managing the mailing lists and the bug tracker - dreadfully tedious tasks at the best of times - must now be rather overwhelming. I've personally been (mildly) scolded a few times when submitting bugs that I thought were reasonable but members of R Core thought differently. While I think that Duncan's response was a big overreaction, in the context of him trying to optimize not having to spend time dealing with the bug tracker, I can understand why he chose to ban Oliver.

My opinion is that a lot of strife could be avoided if R Core delegated a lot more of the admin work - I'm sure there are plenty of grad students who could be persuaded into acting as first line support on the bug tracker, or moderators on a mailing list.
If it needs to run in the browser you'll have to compile the libraries to JS so that all code runs in the security sandbox. With node.js, it is possible to directly call out into native code. Google has a native messaging feature which allows it to communicate with native applications but these need to have been installed traditionally.
About processes:
You add a process when you want repeatable results.
Adding blocking, synchronous steps involving people slows things down. Adding non-blocking, asynchronous, tool assisted steps are less intrusive in people's work.

About hierarchies:
You add hierarchies in your organization when your quorum involves too many people and things slow down. Hierarchies exist to make consensus building simpler at the cost of representing fewer people and all the associated consequences. Hierarchy must not be abused. People need to be respectful towards others regardless of hierarchy. Each contributor is important.

About quality and technical debt:
If you are always reacting to defects, you lost control of your product. You can no longer plan because you are too busy reacting to ad-hoc unplanned work. This is unprefessional and unnecessary. Keep things under control by being preventive, proactive and professional.
If someone tries to convince you that non-functional requirements cannot be sold, remember that person that person to focus on functional requirements and leave the non-functional requirements to the engineers.
Kind of like what China is trying to do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHcTKWiZ8sI
Bizarrely, I get identical results to yours, both when hitting the center option over and over, and when going back and forth sequentially.

Have we both opted out of using our personal data to train our keyboard leaving only the global defaults or some such thing? I am sure that I don't type "please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns" particularly often.
So cool but good Lord that's gotta leave the eyes sore for a while afterward.
>they have incentive to have a device last as long as our 4S as the business model is predicated on the AppStore ultimately

The incentive your touting doesn't really match reality. At the start of 2015, Apple made $7.5B in revenue from the App Store cumulatively ($3B in 2014). Apple made $10B from the iPhone in Q1 2011, and has only been growing from there.

The AppStore, like Apple's many other software departments, contributes a fraction of what the high-margin hardware business brings in.

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You guys have posted this 7 times in the last 3 weeks. A small number of reposts is ok, but this is on the other side of the line, and users have complained, so please stop.
We would declare it intelligent? Certainly the people of today would call it intelligent. What I suspect you are claiming is that the people of that future would not call it intelligent, and this is the basis for arguing why that objection is not valid today. But that extrapolation to the future is just your speculation.
Sounds like a great way to get hacked and loose propriatory rights to intellectual Property.. you'd have to be insane to sign up for this!
Disabling a broken feature, or not fixing it?

The latter is easily explained: Webkit (especially on Linux) is woefully short of manpower now that Google et. al. have pulled out of it.

I'll call myself lucky if WebkitGTK doesn't crash on any of the Alexa top 100 any more.
That doesn't scale to large or multiple teams.
The biggest risk to traditional watchmakers isn't the Apple Watch per se, it's the wealth created by the whole tech ecosystem.

Luxury good makers have spent decades getting to know their customers, who are largely wealthy, cultured individuals. It is unlikely those individuals will suddenly switch their preferences to the Apple Watch. It is more likely that those individuals will no longer be wealthy. Over the last 15 years, we've seen a level of wealth instability that's been unprecedented since the Gilded Age, with whole industries disappearing and new fortunes being made.

I don't see the nouveau rich being a big fan of traditional Swiss watches. Most of the millionaires/billionaires I know tend to own Pebbles, actually.
Overfitting concerns itself with generalization to out of training data on the same task.

I think the term you are looking for is that it's too domain-specific. Or "it uses too much feature engineering and domain-specific engineering."
The common food pathogens can survive surprisingly high temperatures, beyond 70C. Eg here they found that the most common food poisoning microbes on chicken fillets survived ~2 minutes in boiling water even though surface temperature reached 85C in 1 minute. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3282150/

More resilient bugs and spores are another thing. Hospital autoclaves use 30 minutes at 120C/250F.

Steak surface obviously heats to 100C pretty quick on a hot pan, but it's going to be pretty hard to consistently ensure that all spots on the sides etc have been hot enough for long enough.
When it sorts remotely similiar to original Facebook. I would miss 90% of the important posts and end up with the cat pics from the secretary. I dont think Facebook works for that at all.
Successful software is software that implements its functional and non-functional requirements at a reasonable cost. There.
The gender bias HN people see — bias against men! You go into a tech workplace all you see is black/latina women... I started wearing makeup and dresses to job interviews. Tanning salon beforehand. The interviewers perk up and ask if I identify as a woman. I sob and admit I'm cismale — but I read everything on Hacker News so I'm probably very qualified! I'm entitled to your company employing me!!

They lower their heads and thank me for my time.
I've recently switched from a Windows Phone back to an Android one, and from my experience WP keyboard suggestions are usually more on point compared to the Android ones. Only thing I miss about the old phone, really :-) I will be trying SwiftKey now.
I appreciate your perspective however right now, due to personal circumstances/ bureaucratic reasons, I need a full-time job. I have run my own businesses previously and enjoyed it immensely however they also burnt me out. I learnt a lot from this that I will take with me. My experiences since then have made me realise I should apply the approach from your 1st paragraph more in future.
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The assertion of this article could be proven with a test. That's the good thing about this.
If you want to trace to original OO, I believe you should go back to Simula.
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Dude, most most shows and movies are already in the product-placement business. Bond movies are feature-long multi-ads. Sitcoms live on beer shots. Any sf/fantasy feature post-StarWars gets made by selling merchandise contracts before production even starts.

I don't think Amazon or Netflix will change anything there, it has been a reality for more than 20 years now.
Hilarious! This tells a lot about me :)
From my SwiftKey middle fi^H^Hbutton:

I just got me an email to a friend of mine and I will be a good address is being used to be a new pilgrimage site in the office at around 10 the same time not managing to deliver the best way to get the maximum out of it and to avoid too much hassle in organization and I will be a good address is being used to...
You need to check out Dr. Mae-Wan Ho's track record. Her credibility is questionable.
This. Please rename the project.
Finally and extension that seems to work for me: it doesn't open external window and doesn't force me to save to make sure changes are populated back to the browser (i have easily multiple tabs with half written texts opened simultaneously). I would love for this to be available for Thunderbird as well. :wq :)
Hahahahaha - "some people" - I'll have you know I've more experience with psychoactive drugs than you'll ever be able to understand. I've even been "in the K-hole" - TFA presented Ketamine as an erstwhile party drug, which it is, and in that context the saying goes "Only Fools and Horses" which refers to the fact that it is a horse tranquilizer and the level of wisdom involved in its use in a recreational setting. "Only Fools and Horses" is also a popular British sitcom (and turn of phrase) hence the Atlantic reference you humourless self-agrandising twit.
I am glad is going well!
I will buy it the moment a finish Dark Souls 2...
The metric is bullshit, those business analysts would get punished even if the delay was not their direct fault. If you go crazy with KPI's, people will find ways to avoid getting bit by them.

Show me a metric and I'll show you a game.
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Granted thatthey can do tests with single drop of blood sample more than 240 tests did they check with standard controls with known reagent concentrations even if u dilute sample to get with in standered deviations established a million dollar question?
LOL! - I think if that were the case, and said replicants had been emancipated then you would have to be a little more careful with those terms. Not worth getting your fingers broken for.
Thanks for the insight.

FWIW we use Angular where I work, without any JavaScript build tooling (only for SASS), and it's actually fine. So taking proven solutions that have been around for a couple of years in the front end world is not a bad idea, if you want to just Get Things Done.

At my last place we used React with all the latest hotness, and had ongoing issues with complexity and devs having to keep up with all the new tech.
Simple fix: apply inner platform effect to your benefit. Either highlight a 'high level feature management tool' (trello/wrike/etc) different to your development workflow, or abuse the current tool by requesting very generalised tickets like 'standing outage prevention' (maintenance!).
No one will reject that because the consequences are lots of revenue.
I'm using SwiftKey constantly for normal typing, and it's got a great autocorrect feature. Not using the AI (word suggestion/prediction) at all. Yet it drives me regularly insane, especially when typing technical terms, abbreviations and http addresses, because it just refuses to accept that there sometimes just has to be NO space after a dot. Also writing uppercase seems to be a hard task for SwiftKey. I'd like them to enhance the AI this way: if SwiftKey recognizes permanent violations of their built in rules, just ask the user if he wants SwiftKey to ignore certain rules. I assume something can be configured, but I didn't even bother searching for it (because lazy and afraid to get lost in the huge settings menu).
What is the best site for following existing, funded startups?
Not really product hunt, I would like to read how startups funded in last 2-3 years by various VCs and startup schools are doing.
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Just uncheck Autocorrect. Makes it so much more useful (for Scandinavian languages and multi-language modes), even though it requires a bit more mental presence when typing.
Something like this (auto-summarize) for each HN link would be interesting. Right below the link or otherwise while hoovering on the link.
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Correctly configured/tagged text input fields usually don't have these issues (Android) and makes SwiftKey behave correctly.

But in Chrome (for example), the address bar is not only for URLs, so your mileage may vary.
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Sure - shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.

Surely Europe between, say 1760 and 1900 looks different than China in the same period. Perhaps 100 years from now, it will be decided that the Chinese Mandarins were right after all , but that's not consistent with how we look at the world today.

And given some of the posts I've seen here, maybe it will be like that. You didn't have to explain why growth was of value 20 years ago - outside a few odd cases, it was assumed.
.. sure because random "theoh" says with no links to support the claim and under an "ad-feed" link of discoverymagazine "elegantly" 'debunking' a redditor. Are you serious??
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Upvoted for the positioning part: brand extension is almost always a mistake. In this case maybe they want to leverage the fact that almost everyone has fb, but in the mind of users fb is not associated with "work". And it's likely to hurt their main brand because it will drain more "coolness" out of it.
If I were facebook, I would have hid this page for a month or two. I sure hope this causes the most traditional of French mobilizations against finalizing a new data safe harbor given that the ramifications for workers who are essentially unable to object have never been dealt with.

I've found general software contracts to be a questionable thing to involve normal status employees in, cloud services (especially online tests and training) have muddied the water, and with social tool usage in the workplace, I have to wonder if there still is any water.
> Now obviously the new PM and his buddies (I've seen this before) only make everything worse. "Jira" or "Scrum" or "Agile" wasn't really appreciated by the old team used to doing whatever they wanted to do.

Everything I have read about agile is that if you do it right, everyone is happy. The customer, the developers, and the managers. Agile itself is supposed to be development-centric.

Tonight, I realized that Agile does not handle politics very well. I mean, how can it? It's just a software development methodology.
Well aware that swatch is not premium. They are however higher end when compared to Casio. Market have different segments. Timex and Casio make up 30% of the market. ~50% of buyers care about value and another 30% care about watches as a symbol. Swatch falls in that 50%. That's a big market segment. That's where smartwatches compete.
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> US National laws are restricted to US Nationals, and the territory of the USA.

No, they aren't (unless you are using "US National laws" as a label you've made up for laws that are restricted to US Nationals and the territory of the US.)
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If computers/tablets finally actually "mature" as a technology, apple might have done the best possible thing ever. That used to be the Mercedes tactic. Make sturdy cars for the first half a century of your existence. Then coast with that reputation for the next five decades.

(It's curious I'm defending Apple on something. Usually I'm anti-fanboy.)
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Not really, the pacing is completely different from modern movies.

And there still is an audience which watches it in cinema in 2015, so there's no need to vandalize it for mass appeal.
> These are the wonders of globalization. USA consumer protection laws don't apply to foreign manufacturers using noname brands.

That's false if you buy stuff on Amazon. That's true if you buy goods on a chinese website. USA consumer protection laws certainly apply since Amazon is a US corporation. Otherwise Amazon would be selling controlled substances like it's an Rx.
This is definitely part of it. JavaScript tooling encompasses back end, front end (progressive enhancement inside server generated web pages), front end (large single page apps), and a bunch of language flavours (ES5, ES6, ES7, TypeScript, JSX, to name a few). So it's understandable the tooling ecosystem is large and diverse, and that plumbing it all together can result in premature hair loss.

We're using ES5 with AngularJS at work, and it's like a breath of fresh air ;)
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Those things still exist, they're just reserved for completionists now. The optional content in any current era Mario game is arguably more awkwardly designed than anything from similar games in the NES era, with the assumption being that anyone attempting it is the kind of person who liked the 'Nintendo Hard' titles of the 80s.

Presumably, designers now often see the 'main' adventure or campaign as for everyone, the multiplayer mode as a way to keep most people playing instead of fake difficulty and the 100% completion 'optional' content as for the masochists.
I've been using cVim for page navigation and Wasavi for editing text boxes for a while now and have been really happy with the combination. I still use an external editor for more involved edits/when I'm feeling paranoid, but Wasavi is great for just about everything else.
> I found it easy enough. I learn new things for fun. I don't consider it taxing at all

I have no doubts that you find learning fun and find it easy, but the last sentence I'm a little hesitant with. It reminds me of a single pane comic strip I recently saw. It was of a business man receiving a logo from a designer, and he said, "Why should I pay you $X dollars for a logo you designed in ten minutes?". To which the artist replied, "It took me ten years to get that quick at making logos." Learning the art of software development is similar, you need to get a solid foundation in your domain of knowledge before you can build anything both well and quickly or before you start to find things easier to figure out.

I would like to stress that programming is very hard and taxing when you are completely new to it and it progressively gets easier and easier. I only was recently re-informed of how hard programming is as I have recently helped my brother begin programming, because like you for the most part I find it relatively simple to learn something new. Though I find it easy to learn I notice when I first dive into a new framework, language, or codebase I do have to watch my stress levels and make sure I'm not getting overwhelmed by it.

>I mean, come on, in the grand scheme of things, developers are wizards who never have to be worried about 90% of the things other people in the world have to worry about. These finer qualities of career enjoyment are nice-to-haves, not necessities.

If by wizards you mean everything they do seems like magic to everyone who has never written any code and themselves and their methods are often misunderstood I would say that is true, and I think that may be part of the problem. Though some might oppose it I think the idea of educating more people in CS in grade schools might help combat that.

To the second sentence, I would say everyone has their own measurement of what a necessity and a nice-to-have is, but often most things people complain about aren't completely necessary. You can tell he (the blog poster) has a problem with the way things are being done at his company I appreciated his opinion although I don't necessarily take his stance.
Don't keep us in suspense. Which one?
The challenge is to have grammar-like and pointer-like structures in a connectionist network. To ground such symbolic notions is the entire quest!!

MC tree search converges to minimax.

I'm really fond of Bayesian methods, but I think arguments about optimality should not be overstated. The brain is just an approximation at best.
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