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Merged airlines with multiple legacy systems from 1980s. The legacy systems are well battle tested over the decades, but brittle to add new capabilities like mobile.

Only about a third of of from-scratch large corporate and government software systems succeed. Having to hire the cheapest contractor doesnt always work.
articles stating Universal Basic income is a Neolibral plot to make you poorer is a neolibral plot to make you vote against Universal Income to make you poorer
Am I the only one who saw sourceforge.net and didn't click because of the fear of going to such a malware-ridden site?
China using technology abandoned by U.S. to build nuclear plant of the future
I give these three books out to new managers in my org:

* High Output Management by Andy Grove https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679762884/

* Turn the Ship Around by David Marquet https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591846404/

* The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591843472/

For interns I give out these two books:

* The Pragmatic Programmer https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeyman-Maste...

* The Passionate Programmer https://pragprog.com/book/cfcar2/the-passionate-programmer
All welfare (direct payment from a government to an individual) systems are designed to make you poorer and more controllable. Universal basic income is no different in this regard.
For some reason, I read the title as being 3D printable maps for the entire US. That'll eventually come, I guess.
I see it more as an attempt to revise and scale up the already exceptional block-structured design of the Eixample, which is already trying to pack as much as possible (backyards, terraces, parking...) into the interior of the blocks.
True that. There are Turku, Tampere, Jyväskylä, and so on.
How exactly are you going to, you know, design that piece of furniture?

Are you going to go through the many years of schooling and/or decades of practical applied crafting that it takes to make a worthwhile piece of furniture?

So let's say you do that. You make yourself a really great piece, and your friends want to buy it because they didn't want to suffer the 10+ year path to making something worthwhile. You start selling to your friends, but then Walmart comes and makes a near replica at a quarter the price through economies of scale.

You wouldn't be upset? Would you make another piece of furniture? Would anyone else commit to 10+ years of craftsmanship to learn to do so?

This seems pretty straightforward.
Love the site, but $348 a year feels really steep. Glad I purchased most of the library before the pricing model change.
Probably because of Parkinsons' Law.
Use the fast-forward button, that is available on any decent video viewer. Oh wait.
Maybe you don't want / you do not have the chance to have sources and build tools installed on your production server and you trust mtier to build the patched sources for you.
I find it very useful.
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Take a look at Germany, they are steadily increasing their biocapacity while reducing their ecological footprint (I wonder how they increase the biocapacity so steadily over such long period of time). So, you may not achieve a balance, but maybe at the scale of a region like Europe, we can achieve it.
Uber asking for support against new regulations in email to London customers
More like 20% if you don't include labour. Then take out another 40-50% for insurance on the property. Then put the rest into paying the mortgage. Which you admittedly get back, but remember you're doing all the work on the house yourself and houses do wear out over time so that will eat into your margin even more.

EDIT: Don't forget about property taxes! Those eat up a pretty big chunk of the rent too. They're usually a couple hundred a month. Let's be nice and call that 10% although it's generally much larger.
Night by Elie Wiesel. It showed me how resilient a human being can be.
Every legal protection creates a possibility of costly litigation, including a possibility of a litigation that is costly despite the claim being bogus.

A design patent (and a regular patent, too) can be broad enough to cover all the obvious solutions to an obvious problem. Even if it covers things that existed before the plaintiff started working on things described in the design patent, it still costs a lot to defend against it even when the prior art is obvious.
There's a similar bug where a taskbar set to auto-hide will stop, well, auto-hiding. The recommended solution is to pop open Task Manager, find explorer.exe, and restart the process.
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That's exactly what I had thought at first. I think that there are too many brilliant engineers with great (and technically working) ideas out there who are just too afraid (or lack business acumen) to enter the market a bit more boldly than through Open Source.

Specifically in this case where the software is so niche but adding such tremendous value to end users, a very premium price tag wouldn't be too hard to sell. But it would have to be sold. A skill that the author didn't have and didn't want to acquire / hire.

I'm the author of www.jooq.org, which has gone an independent dual-licensing route and I really wish more people did this rather than hoping for an OSS sponsor... (hello Groovy/Pivotal). And I can totally say that all fears are wrong. I am doing even more what I want in my company, both from a technical perspective as well as from a personal branding perspective. Comparing this with being driven by a corporation like Red Hat...
>As I said, I'm sure that plenty of people did. Fringe groups will always have extreme opinions.

If you consider MSNBC a fringe group:

http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/chris-matthews-compares-bushs-...
I'm not sure why you're so obsessed with the "mainland Chinese perspective". The Michelin star wasn't awarded for pure-bloodedness.

Also, try telling the Taiwanese that they're "less Chinese" because they don't write simplified script.
You can always stick with the release binaries, which are unchanged.. or follow -current development by periodically upgrading to snapshots, where you can find more up-to-date binary packages. This is what developers run on their laptops, and often in production. It's sort of a "rolling release".

There aren't enough resources or interested developers willing to handle -stable package builds, but the ports tree is tagged each release and receives select backported security updates, which you can build yourself.
If their work is valuable, sure. If we can easily replicate accidentally (remember, design patents do not involve deliberate copying, but copyright does), then their work isn't valuable to us, since we are able to do it on our on accident.

And it appears that in this situation it's the designers pushing for this legislation that are charging a premium.
From the Guardian story at https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/jul/29/buy-design-cla...

"Take, for example, the famous Eames walnut and leather armchair with matching ottoman. The officially licensed and copyrighted producer, Vitra, sells them for £6,814 in John Lewis. Yet copies made in Chinese factories sell over the internet and in some stores for as little as £399."

Later:

"With an estimated 54 factories in China making Eames furniture alone, he [David Woods, a copyright laywer] predicts the closure of websites producing bargain basement, mass-produced copies of furniture, 'as after all, this was their business model'."
Have you flown through Hartsfield-Jackson? There's six concourses with 30+ gates each, nearly all of which is Delta. Their operations are highly-concentrated there.

That being said, I expect them to upgrade their generators to handle outages like this, and distribute more of their IT infrastructure. Unlike the typical summer storms in the Atlanta area that delay flights, this affected them worldwide.
My point is you probably shouldn't normalize this kind of behavior or advise your daughter to forgive it and steer men like this towards someone to mentor them. Women don't have an obligation to raise men they didn't help birth, and teaching them that they ought to promulgates misogyny of a different form. I understand this is meant in the spirit of "turn the other cheek", but this isn't really good advice unless you're already operating on the principle of good faith and equal standing. It's not even clear that this alleviates the original problem, since why would men who don't respect women be amenable to this?

Teach them to require consent and communication, and tell them they'll always have your support. Beyond that, don't get involved in what may or may not be virtuous behavior to you. Women inherit a lot of puritanical guilt over nonsense that parents project onto them.

I understand the desire to protect your children, and particularly your daughter in a world that generally values them less. But misogyny is a power dynamic that is reinforced by socializing women to normalize it and especially by socializing men to perceive their existence and agency as more valuable.
Because otherwise people will stop spending time making those special chairs.

Either you're trolling or have absolutely no concept of the amount of work it takes to create a really nice piece of furniture.
Why designing a good UX is hard, and what you can do about it?
if its being used to 'get velocity up' instead of measuring velocity then its not being done right.

I personally think estimating projects is one of the most difficult things about this industry. Especially if we're talking about delivering many calendar-months worth of effort for a team , unless its just a variant on some other project[s] the team is well experienced at
It's pretty steep, and I'm not sure I'll be keeping the subscription going in a few months time.

Yeah, yeah, "professional development is priceless", "it's less than the cost of a $whatever", herp derp, etc...

But we're staring down an imminent recession and a plummeting Sterling value right now, so every little saving helps, even for well-paid developers and their families.
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. As a scientist, it helped me to realise that the quest for truth is only a tool: I have to choose my own goal.

Edit: I also want to mention "Language in Action" by S.I. Hayakawa. I read it too recently to say that it has had the most impact on my life of any book, but it opened my eyes to orders of magnitude more cases of imprecision in our language than I had ever noticed before.
It's strange that corporations spend so much time and effort lobbying for tax breaks, grants and credits, what with them making them so poor and controllable.
Despite Lack of Investment in STEM, Kenya's Tech Startup Ecosystem Is Thriving
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It seems to me that objects are being copied no matter what. In one world, mutation is common and the copying occurs within the GC subsystem. In the other world, mutation is rare and the programmer has to manage the copies manually. Pretending that the copies are wholly new objects which owe nothing to their predecessors strikes me as disingenuous. For all practical purposes, creating a new object that differs from its predecessor in one field is equivalent to mutating that field (except that it's far worse for performance).

Is moving a burden from the runtime to the programmer a good idea? Generally, no. There might be something about this particular case that makes it an exception to the general rule, but the point seems very far from proven.
Increase efficiency, reduce consumption. Sending people to mars takes too much resources.
> In no way was it 3G or 2g which is full internet.

Free Basics was delivered over 2G/3G, instead of being delivered over wifi.

I am not defending Free Basics here.
I was wondering how long it would be before UBI started to be attacked by the far left, considering it will cement capitalism the basis for the economy and make all forms of socialism obsolete.
It's amazing to me the people that openly express sociopathic tendencies on HN.
I've had very good luck with NSIS 2.1. It's pretty far from state-of-the-art, but it's really solid if you just need to copy some files and make some start-menu shortcuts.

The primary market for one of my products is elderly people, and the fact that I get almost zero setup-related tech support issues from that market tells me a lot.

And yeah, my existing installers work just fine with Windows 10, so I assume they just added some Windows 10-specific features.
An odd assertion - "having more money makes you poorer".
Tough day for them. Moving to 'cloud' hosting... it doesn't just make it someone else's problem. It encourages good architecture.
In my experience, people matter more than methodologies. If you have good people on your team, product and dev, then you can make any methodology work. If you have bad people, no methodology will work. Advocating for one methodology or the other is far less important than hiring the right people.

That said I prefer Agile to Waterfall by a lot, and Agile developed in reaction to Waterfall so I think it was a success.
I've seen it for years on my Win7 install but yet to see it on my Win10 install, which I got in mid-to-late June. But yes, it's always frustrated me too and I don't know what's caused it.

I suspect it's one of those very low-priority bugs and thus never gets fixed.
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It sounds as though you objecting to being required to give any estimate at all.
"If you use any Apple iOS devices to read your mail, you’ll be pleased to know that FastMail, with help from the big A, fully supports iOS push." This is huge! I thought it was just Apple being idiots. I didn't realize that third-party non-Exchange servers could push to iOS!!!
How did you handle regression testing of the refactored functionality? That's our biggest hurdle. QC is swamped with "regular" sprint work, so there's no way they manage any additional load during the sprint.
Ask HN: Anyone working on the Delta outage that can give us technical details?
Delta is experiencing a worldwide systems outage right now: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/08/08/world/europe/ap-eu-delta-outage-.html

I'm curious to find out any details as these kinds of services are so different than the ones I normally work on. I'm also assuming there's lots of redundancy built in, so how does such a widespread outage occur? Anyone else who works on airlines systems I'm also interested to hear from. Thanks!
An egalitarian society sounds interesting; someone should try it.

I can respect the honesty of a monarchy. We have a fake egalitarian society where most of our leaders must either be Bush, Clinton, Roosevelt, Kennedy, or be closely related by marriage. Not to mention the behind the scenes families that control and pay for it all. Its disrespectful to the concept of democracy to view Hillaries coronation party as anything other than a hereditary monarchy ceremony. If it were not for Trump (and thank God for Trump), Jeb's coronation party would have been held the week prior. In that way I can respect a monarchy much more than a fake, false democracy. Someone in the English queen's family will rule after her; thank you for at least being honest about it.
A few recent HN discussions have tremendously eased my anxiety of this...thankfully they working on moving things in the right direction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11092219
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11860752
Wow, that's a strong claim backed up by... absolutely nothing of merit.
Because rarely is it really their own work, often just subtle variations on prior designs. And in practice... original designers do not win unless they are also backed by large companies. This is not about individual designers... this is about companies preventing individuals from copying them.
How do you deal with installing to user directories? This is what made me move away from nsis. (I mean, running elevated installer to be able to install to ProgramFiles, yet still able to install to UserData). There are some workaround but they're rather horrible, to put it mildly.
I disagree with most of the major criticisms here. I think it is a valid description of an experience using scrum half-heartedly, but not an argument against its purpose or value.

Points, for example, the argument is based on the premise that teams are obsessed with points. What if the teams use points as a framework to discuss complexity? I have worked in scrum groups where if something was given a large point value it would be questioned and "split" to break the job into component tasks that could be done by separate people simultaneously (or some now some later).

Long meeting times with the wrong people in the meeting? That's a managerial issue and has nothing to do with scrum.

Writing stories is the main art of scrum and without good stories it is pointless. A story can be written to encourage a developers to improve quality of a codebase, share knowledge with another team, or take time to learn themselves. A really good story would encourage these things and also deliver customer value.

Any system for managing software development hinges on good communication. SCRUM's main advantage to me is that it provides continuous opportunities for face to face communication. If you fail to take advantage or engage with those opportunities then it won't work, but I bet another "framework" wouldn't either.
> The fourth republic had a symbolic president, and the fifth republic has a very powerful president, because DeGaulle demanded executive power as a condition of assuming the presidency during the Algerian crisis of the late 1950s. That's why the fourth republic ended and the fifth republic began -- DeGaulle had a new constitution written.

It's a bit more complicated than that, to be fair. A big part of de Gaulle's motivation for the semi-presiential system of the Fifth Republic was due to the instability of the parliamentary system of the Third and Fourth Republics. Whatever else you might say about de Gaulle, the Fifth Republic has been remarkably stable and orderly compared to the regimes that preceded it after the revolution.
That doesn't seem to be the issue that this article raises.

>a closer look at how UBI is expected to work reveals that it is intended to provide political cover for the elimination of social programs and the privatization of social services.

Seems like the issue is that UBI, as it's being discussed now, will look more like "entitlement reform" than a net benefit for poor people.
I upvoted you because your comment adds to the discussion, not because I agree.
Site is fine if you use Ghostery, NoScript, and Ublock Origin together though.
IMHO, unfortunately standups tend to become status report meetings just for the sake of it (article talks about control, I think it nails it). I rarely see anyone bring a blocker. It's just "yesterday i did this, today i'll do this. Next!".

It gets worse if the team is actually 2-4 different teams with not much overlap (because companies tend to adopt these agile methodologies without much thought and it just keeps growing and including more people because.. it's nice, right?). Then you're ignoring (or not having a clue) about 90% of the meeting, and it's _daily_.
Wal-Mart Agrees to Acquire Jet.com for $3.3B to Fight Amazon
AKA tax evasion
Well, the argument in the article is that basic necessities are priced based on what people can afford. So, if everyone is getting UBI, in theory they could all afford more, and so prices would just go up; bringing everyone back to where they used to be before UBI, but now without the non-UBI based benefits (food stamps, welfare, etc).

But, the article does not provide any evidence (simulations or studies) to back up that claim and, in my opinion, it is not very convincing.
It isn't as if it is a secret that at the root, the goal of ideas like these is to reduce income disparity.

But if the HackerNews Libertarian Army would prefer to live in a gated communities which keep the uneducated hungry masses away from their Montessori Schools and Gelato serveries, and fly by private helicopter over the wrecked and broken infrastructure to their friends in other gated communities so that they can 'keep all of their hard earned money', then so be it.
SourceForge changed owners and doesn't have many of those issues anymore.

https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-now-scans-all-proje...
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/83105.html
Investors keep ignoring catastrophically disappointing Tesla earnings
>We already established that property management companies do this for 10% of the rent.

Closer to 30% and that doesn't include maintenance costs and insurance which are _VERY_ significant.

>Should I charitably assume that you've just never heard of insurance?

I've been charitable by not bringing it up. It costs ~40-50% of your gross income from a rental property where I'm from.

>That 80% of the rent which goes into their pockets after...

Point me to where I can make that kind of money and I'll quit my job today. I'm sure I would have absolutely NO trouble at all getting a loan if I was pretty much guaranteed an 80% profit.

>Many landlords end up not fixing stuff that breaks.

If it's in the lease that they will (It's in mine.) Then sue them. If not, fix it or move. I've yet to see a lease that didn't include timely repairs.

>If land ownership were illegal and it were simply rented from the government...

It pretty much is. What do you think property taxes are? When you pay for land you're just providing an incentive for another party to cut their lease short.

>Not possible while they own deeds to the land. Ownership of the land is the part that lets them be parasites.

Land is cheap in a lot of places. Sometimes much cheaper than renting. The barrier to buying land varies, but sometimes renting is a better option.
"I do have FastMail’s Android app on my telephone. The app is a Cordova / PhoneGap / CrossWalk style unit with real-time email push and notification via Google Cloud Messaging (this is a relatively energy-efficient way for android phones to get push notification and is natively supported by FastMail)."

Migrating away from GMail for privacy reasons and he still ends up with Google for functionality...
I have rarely seen a PO as the single contact to the "business". Most of the time there are multiple project managers, product mangers and line managers who have a say and put pressure on the dev team.
I find that pretty odd. A decade and a half ago now I rented part of a rack in a not particularly high end co-lo facility. They had battery backup for an hour and then generators that could be fired up in twenty minutes with 3 days worth of diesel.

Delta airlines, with $40B of revenue last year, has less than 8 hours of backup power for their mission critical computers?
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