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Ex-ThoughtWorker here. Pat is indeed a respected voice in this space, even amongst ThoughtWorkers, but he is not the only diamond. I learned pair programming and TDD from many colleagues over three years and four major projects. In all that time, there was exactly one individual whom I thought was a waste of space. On the whole, ThoughtWorks' typical approach to agile (note: lower-case 'a') development is firmly grounded in the pragmatics of what used to be called Extreme Programming, not Scrum-type dogma.

I'm sorry you had a bad experience in your brief engagement with TW. I believe it to be atypical, and I hope you'll have occasion to reconsider your -- not un-dogmatic -- conclusion.
What's so remarkable about focusing on heads of state rather than lesser ministers, members of parliament, etc.?
You can be prosecuted for reasons entirely unrelated to your publishing of a story, even if that is the true reason. Do you think people don't try to intimidate journalists?
You know the difference between H2O (distilled water) and water, right? Like, which one of those is conductive and which one isn't, all that stuff?
USSR used nuclear bomb to stop gas well blowout
Want to be sure your HTTPS site doesn't have mixed content issues?
Do you know how many bike sheds they could have painted with the man hours?
The iPhone was a revolution in product design, but its hardware was all off-the-shelf technology. There was no fundamental hardware invention like new battery technology. The iPhone's most radical departure from existing smartphones was its use of a capacitive multitouch display, but Apple got that tech from a startup they acquired in 2005 that had been founded in 1998 by academics who had been researching uses for multitouch. So that revolutionary advance was brewing for more than a decade.
How exactly is I "contrary to th notion of an open a d free society." I think that's just nonsense. And you think this could only be good if it leads to the government failing and a failed government obviously leads to world peace?

I think some just let irrational hatred make them believe inane fairy tales.
I haven't seen the Model X in the flesh yet, but I got the impression that storage was only medium-crossover and not big-ass SUV volume (especially with the lack of roof storage). I could be wrong though. But either way, as you point out it's in the same price range as the S so it's way too expensive anyway.
What makes you think that recent elections were not free? I am Russian and vast majority of people I know (like 90%) went to vote for Putin. I have one friend who was worried about elections not being free since he was voting for Prokhorov and really disliked Putin, so he signed up as an independent observer at one of the St.Petersburg voting booths, and he was shocked when he saw the amount of people that came to vote for Putin, he said it was like 9/10 people were voting for Putin after they counted vote papers, and he said there was no way to fake those votes at least at his booth.

For some reason individuals in Russia think that if the candidate they were voting for did not win the elections - it means the elections were not free and somehow fake, but you have to understand that there are a vast majority of people in Russia who thought that Putin is a better candidate compared to Prokhorov and others
There are a few individual efforts, here is one.

http://news.boldride.com/2014/02/man-builds-electric-c3-corv...
Their manager will have a stern talking to them about how 'this isn't how we operate' and 'you broke protocol' and 'made everyone look bad'. They'd be reassigned to the most boring and menial tasks until they quit.
I doubt this was meant seriously, but it's worth noting this actually doesn't work. You need each left/right decision to be independent so that positioning yourself at a certain place in line doesn't allow you to choose left/right.
I can tell you what happens. I worked at a very large telco.

We went through months of daily meeting with 10+ very expensive execs, PMs and Business Primes from all over the business.

One day the only other coder in the room leaned over to me and said "Are we still talking about <x,y,z> that you or I could code in 10 minutes?"

Yes, we were.

I coded it and showed my managers and so forth. I was completely ignored, and the meetings rolled on. In a place like that, there are so many people that have job titles that have nothing to do with "getting it done", which in a funny way makes them less interested in getting it done. Their job is to analyze, plan, document, process map, etc. etc. so that's what they're going to do, no matter how trivial the thing is.
Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% from Panama Leak
Anybody have a non-paywalled version?
There are no Superchargers near me, or anywhere near my route to family on the holidays. Tesla's network outside of California is so sparse as to be useless for much of the country. Here's the map of Tesla's 613 supercharging stations (right) versus 27000 public non-Tesla chargers (left):

http://i.imgur.com/Ktg8h3W.png

So the fact that Tesla has no good answer to remote charging for most of the US hasn't stopped it from selling cars outside of California. You're more likely to have a non-Tesla quick charger on any given route than a Supercharger, and if you own a non-Tesla EV/hybrid, you'll probably be able to use it "out of the box", where a Tesla will need a $450 plug adapter. If I want to drive west, I won't run into a Tesla Supercharger for about 250 miles -- outside the Model 3's range -- but I'll pass 9 quick chargers from other operators on the way.

Long-term to reach millions of EV unit sales a year, car makers -might- need a better answer to charging away from home, if other technology and social changes don't obviate the need. In those coming years, Blink/Chargepoint/etc have lots of time to continue expanding their networks -- including adding more quick chargers, more plug types, and more reliability -- and can likely do it faster than Tesla or any other single company can on their own.
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That's pretty much just a badging thing. GM sells European cars with the Opel badge (and Vauxhall in the UK).

Chevrolet Volt was same as Opel Ampera, for example (but it had so bad sales that it was discontinued).
They could hack into the iPad to make it display this: http://www.thecleverest.com/countdown.swf

High chance somebody gets shot.
according to https://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger a 30-minute charge will give the vehicle (specifically the model S; they don't have stats up for the 3 yet) 170 miles of range. A 15-minute charge would be a little more than half of that, but not much. Stopping for 15 minutes every ~80 miles would be a moderate inconvenience.
People should use smartcards more in general, regardless of circumstances and for perfectly legal stuff. It's not hard.
Vim with some todo plugins, Emacs orgmode, but there are also some lists which I need daily on mobile, for that purpose I use Wunderlist with abbreviated descriptions ( Yea I know I'm paranoid, but hey it's in the cloud and Microsoft owns it )
I use Trello.

Three lists:
TODO, DOING, DONE

Items in DONE get archived the next day. Items in DOING get moved back to TODO if not completed. I organise them in their list by importance - i.e. ones at the top are most important.

I use labels pretty heavily too such as red for BLOCKED.
In this world, everybody is trying to abuse everybody else all the time at the background and foreground.

One just should not use "external abuse" as reason to act (or not).
I see the appeal of it for big enterprise teams composed of
disposable programmers

Can you explain? Why are go programmers "disposable?"

Is it because the code is understandable (especially following our style guide / enforcing gofmt, godoc, etc)? I do find our go code to be that way, but I don't think that's a bad thing.

Productivity in Go is an illusion

I feel productive in Go. Can you explain this statement? I like dealing with a simpler toolchain as the op mentioned.
Hmmm. But isn't the idea of unum2 that the size of the representation, and hence its properties, can and should vary by application?
To be fair, if the taxpayers are going to be victims of bureaucratic inefficiencies, I'd prefer that the beneficiaries be disabled veterans vs. that money going to Boeing or Raytheon or Palantir or whoever.
> Privatization is not a general solution though. It needs regulation and oversight to keep unfair market practices to a minimum.

That's a statement, not an axiom, although it's taught as an axiom. Did you know that the US military is the biggest polluter? Who regulates it? If government can't regulate itself, what kind of regulation of private companies do you expect from it, when said private companies have money to bribe it?

In reality, what regulation comes down to in 90% of the cases is just granting monopoly rights and artificially increasing barrier for entry. That is all. Give me any example of a good (in your opinion) regulation and I will almost certainly find how it works to the benefit of a small group of people.

> The biggest defect is that government officials cannot be held responsible for their mismanagement and thus have no incentive to not screw up

Precisely.

> First, getting elected to an office and office in general has to stop being about who gets the most money and money/favors must be eradicated from lobbying totally. Second, voters must stop treating elected persons as if they're replacement monarchs.

My argument is that you should show a reliable mechanism of how we can elect the right people first. If you can't show the mechanism, I'm defaulting to the assumption that politicians will always be incentivized to be corrupt. And I'd argue that there is no such mechanism, because lying to people will always be easier and more profitable than telling the truth, and so only liars will get elected. In fact, that's the difference between a businessman and a politician: a businessman has to provide a service or product first, then he gets paid. A politician just promises things to get elected and then is in no way legally bound to keep the promises.

And you can't just say "we should...". I think we should all not work and just chill and enjoy life. If I find out a reliable way to replicate that, I'll be the first to share.

> The spending of taxes is broken and sadly you cannot hold anybody accountable.

And it will stay this way. How do you expect government to behave when they spend somebody else's money (taxpayers) on somebody else (government employees and subcontractors) (see Milton Fridman "4 ways to spend money) and are not accountable for any of it?

>5, 6) The guy who doesn't want to work but gamble or waste his life leading an unhealthy lifestyle won't magically become a productive member of society. He will find other ways to use but not contribute. Some might argue that by supporting him to survive one prevents a worse fate for him and the society.

Not convinced. If the majority agrees with you, but I disagree, does it mean you have the right for the chunk of my money that will go into financing those things? I'd say no, you don't have that moral right, even though the majority agrees with you.
Is it remarkable, or is it completely expected for propaganda?

I've been visiting the US for 6 months now, and the only time I hear anything about the outside world is when (China/Russia/NorthKorea) are doing something bad, or their citizens lives suck, or rarely when a social program in a developed country (UK, Europe) goes a little wrong (over budget or whatever).

Interestingly, the fact that hundreds of millions of people living in developed countries have better health care, education, roads, etc. than Americans is never mentioned. It's also never mentioned that American politicians are for sale, and bribery is completely legal here.
Space mining?
Little cars can get away with a lot. Sloppy lines, blocky stance, squat haunches, fat lights, goofy plastics ... that kind of stuff always looks horrible on larger cars. But small cars get away with it, sometimes even with style, for some reason.
I'm admittedly not very familiar with compiler backends - especially not JIT compilers. But how does this optimization even work if I'm constantly modifying the method tables of objects at runtime? If I understand correctly, ORMs and Web frameworks for dynamic languages do this sort of thing all the time.
The "one file to update whole up" is not really an issue (and you don't need to upload whole dll, if size's an issue, can always rsync (besides people appreciate getting a single artifact from e.g. Go, and of course they compile their JS into a single bundle with webwork etc).

Changing and touching "only one file" might be doable in Python or Node, but it's not the way it should be done there either.

You should have an automated process for deployments.

Plus, if there were interdepencies between files, you'd need to fix and upload them too, only Python wouldn't help you find which those are because the tooling is not that good as in a statically compiled language.

Not to mention: the tendency in dynamic languages is to lament for lack of typing and related toolsets when it comes to large scale programming. People go from Python/Node to Go for this, or add types to JS (Typescript, Facebook's Flow), or add type annotations to Python (see 3.5), or do the same to PHP, or create a PHP-derived language with types (Hack), etc.
The qualifier "such a book" referred to the original description "Not undergraduate ones, but the really narrow topic ones that are used in graduate classes as reference materials for professionals".

That excludes Stewart's calculus, and many others.
Last Duma elections were definitely rigged.

For example, Moscow voted as two different cities:
https://github.com/alamar/elegraph/blob/master/moscow.png
Note the two obvious centers of blobs.
I'm yet to see any non-handwavy explanation of that phenomenon, and why it then disappeared for the next President elections.
And RE: the edit I just noticed that you made, you appear to have confused "propaganda" and "politically incorrect" with "factually correct".

A claim was made and backed up with data-driven scientific study and you still aren't able to perceive it as anything other than propaganda? I feel sorry for you.
Yes, but I thought I would try one that takes 4 bytes like a float, just to see how it compares.
I've only started profiling Java code this week, and I've been shocked by the poor state of affairs.

Does anyone have any recommendations, preferably that can tell you (some) information at the line level. I never realised how spoilt I was with C/C++ options (gcov and valgrind aren't great, but they mostly do the job).
Those companies could more effectively redistribute or reinvest that wealth than an individual ever could.
> I'm sure there must be some way to achieve this and also make the content freely available. But whatever system replaces the current one has to deal with these issues too.

Post-publication peer review could solve all of these (and the access issue too!). I'm still not convinced of the superiority of pre-publication review by only 3 (usually quite busy) people max.
For those interested, I'm working on an open-source project for doing this at home: https://github.com/schollz/find

My solution basically uses the RSSI values for generating classifiers for each room. It works well enough to replace motion sensors.
I do. But a police officer gets taxed. A fireman gets taxed too (a lot in my opinion). What are they subscribed to? Themselves? How about using big corporate money to pay for that? Look at Apple they run most of their offices outside of the US to avoid being ripped-off by the US government. If they get a fair tax bracket then they'd bring their business back in the US. Then we could use that money instead of our own money.
To me it looks essentially like a Mazda 3 with shades of the BMW i3. Fairly generic.
My standard ICE Honda does this too. A green arrow to tell me to switch up/down a gear and a row if up to 5 green dots to tell me when I'm driving efficiently (e.g. accelerating gently or coasting to a stop, not harsh acceleration followed by hard braking).
There is a little bit of nuance you might have missed here, we are mostly discussing Plugins, and Prius has a plugin. Ford Fusion Energi is the worst thing that can happen to Plugins and Fusion Hybrid is a good car but does not belong in the discussion here.
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Not following, do you have an example transaction that might provide some context?
It's also reasonably similar to tf.slim, which we haven't released as a standalone supported component yet, but that's included in the release of the trainable inception model -- https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/inception/i...

I think it's great that we're seeing a lot of experimentation in how to express models for machine learning. It's very clear we haven't found the best ways yet, and seeing what people choose to try to make easy to express (and harder) is good for progress.

(I'm still grouchy about the state of modularity within machine learning models. It's not easy enough to reuse / have libraries at the model level yet.)
In short, if we could it would already have a name.

XKCD did a great chart to explain this potential 9th planet: https://xkcd.com/1633/
Not taking anything away from this very novel work, but MIT definitely has a well oiled PR apparatus to publicize their research. This is a good thing from the perspective of science advocacy and outreach. But it is less good from the perspective of other researchers working in similar areas whose work can get eclipsed this way.
It does have the effect of binding the team together amazingly tight and ensuring everyone is pulling in the same direction. Issues that crop up are solved early rather than festering away until they get to be a huge.
Besides the fact that data (which I have cited and you have not) beats any anecdote, your analogy is awful. For one thing, since I happen to know people in the tree business, I can assure you that the pros use equipment the amateur isn't likely to have. It's a different activity. Second, people are broadly similar when it comes to how their bodies will handle tree planting. There's no huge difference in speed and resulting stresses on the body. What's likely to injure one person is likely to injure another, even if one is twenty and fit while the other is fifty and overweight. By contrast, few runners will ever be operating in the same milieu as someone who's competitive at the college level. Most have never been capable of it, and almost none once they've passed forty. Injury risks are most definitely not comparable across the two groups.

You're an outlier. You should be proud of that, and clearly are, but you want to have your cake too. You want to believe, contrary to the evidence I've cited, that your outlier's experience is relevant for people who have never had the benefit of working with professional coaches and trainers, for whom any likelihood of that is decades behind them, who might have struggled with all sorts of mid-life health issues before they took up running. That's the typical beginning runner who needs to know this stuff. They're ill served by your willingness to hold forth without benefit of relevant experience or familiarity with the actual science of the matter. Was there ever any rational expectation that your anecdote - which is the only thing you offered, in contrast to what you were supposedly answering - would help anyone else avoid injury? If not, then why did you feel the need to speak up?
As someone who works with a bunch of architects who don't code, I'd really rather not. It's basically a one way road to not being current, which in theory shouldn't matter, but in reality it very much seems it does.
Why? The money is ultimately just going to pay some individuals - they can be upwardly mobile elites from good schools (Palantir), stodgy defense establishment types (defense contractors), or groups that traditionally get less of this kind of attention. Why not?
Interesting seeing Rupert Brooke's "swimmers into cleanness leaping" associated with American attitudes to the Second World War. I associate this poem's bright naivety with European attitudes to the First World War, and associate the Second with painful reluctance both in the UK and in much of Germany.
You believe its "ironic" that a group of people whos foundation is "liberty and equality" don't want to "just let free markets work"?

Seems like a bit of a stretch...
Their annual revenue is 75B DKK, which is more like 11B USD.
Not to mention the cost of all those iPads, which was probably millions of dollars.

(They could have just invested in some 24-sided dice! (Search Amazon for the "D24")

And I wouldn't trust the TSA with iPads anyway.... http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/abc-news-tracks-missing-ipad-f...
A poor person has no Netflix, and doesn't have time for YouTube, she is either clocked in on the job, sitting in traffic to pick up kids from school, or cooking dinner. Besides, that kind of mindless passive entertainment is vastly inferior to what monarch had access to -- hunting, horseback riding, live music and shows, sex, etc.
See pharke's response above regarding cheap processed foods.
while I get and agree with your point, I find many meteorologists have about the same accuracy of prediction as the other two groups.
Those chargers top out at 45kw thought(real world, I have the CHAdeMO adapter). Superchargers are 120kW which makes a huge difference when you have more than 100mi of range.
They would probably get in trouble for performing work which the government representative (Contracting Officer) had not authorized.

The larger issue is that the government is not setup to move quickly, and for the majority of things the government does oversight is a good thing. That level of process does make it hard to do things like this efficiently, but it's all about trade-offs.
CCS and CHAdeMO have similar voltages so I wouldn't be surprised if Tesla can use them(they already have an adapter for CHAdeMO).
Why would they, when Time Warner (owner of CNN), for instance, is a top 10 contributor to the Clinton campaign and is therefore legally bribing politicians?

Source: https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cid=N000...
It seems you could be the perfect person to help her out :)
The basis for transparency is government, at least in the common law tradition, is the understanding that without it, government actors will tend to act in their own interest rather than in that of the public.

Do you think that this is a reasonable belief?

If so, then it logically and obviously follows both that 1) development of products by the government (to the extent that this is even the reasonable purview of information age government at all) need to be conducted in a profoundly public way and that 2) a failure to do this will result in a properly disaffected populace and shortened moral stature on the part of the government.

It is no fairy tale to suggest that secrecy in government is a substantial part of the formula of government failure more generally. The only assertion I'm making that might not yet be in evidence is that, amidst the information age, this aspect of good government is more important and that its effects will be realized far more quickly.
But could it support 7 lanes? (This is a somewhat serious question)
"I don't really wanna defend King.com"

Sure. I cherry picked the negative because of this.

There are too many game engines that are made for special
purpose studios (People who have experience with them)

I think there are a lot better GPL'd engines people should use so the community benefits; not Candy Trademark king King.com

Particularly Libgdx; Blender3d ; Godot

Now that I think about it game engines are a bit like Linux Distros in that all the options possibly dilutes the greater purpose.