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After working in Scrum for over a year, I find myself in violent agreement with every point in the article.

For me, Scrum has always been nothing more than an “Agile Bootstrap”. The core idea within it is very simple: try something and examine the results. Stick with what works and try alternatives for what doesn’t. Repeat. And, above all, learn.

So Scrum starts you off with a list of practices to get going with. The whole litany of backlogs, story points, sprints, daily stand ups and retrospectives is nothing more than a vocabulary - a pattern language for stakeholders. It’s got pros and cons - a good way to bring people together but it needs to be recognised as a crutch and ditched quickly before the team comes to treat it as an article of faith to be defended at all costs.

And this is where so many agile coaches fail in my (limited) experience. When I was undergoing scrum training, it was hugely disappointing to hear colleagues asking questions of the trainer along the lines of “Can a scrum master multi-task among teams like an anaesthetist in a hospital?”. Or “What does Scrum advocate when a production incident requires someone in the team to drop out and assist?”. Or “Can we have scrums of scrums?”.

The answer in every case is the same: try something - anything. See how it goes and decide whether to apply that approach again in future.
> They must be burning lots of cash though. I placed a $100 order with about 7 items and it came in 6 different boxes.

It's an interesting business model for sure. They were spending $20-25m a month on advertising and then on top of that is selling things for less than they cost.
"Autobiography of a Yogi" [1] - If you grew up with people doing Yoga and Meditation, or at least were exposed to these topics for some time, this book is a great window in that world. It is from a person who brought Meditation and concept of Self-Reliazation to the West [2].

At the risk of being ridiculed, I'll venture to say this: There's a big part of us that we don't fully know. All of us are trying to different things to find happiness. Above book proposes that Meditation has answers to most of the questions and talks about various Yogi's. This triggered a deep desire for me to know more. I learnt Meditation from a different organization and am very happy at where I am. This book started that journey.

Warning: There will be a bit of mysticism in all this. Take what your gut says and leave the rest.

[1] https://www.ananda.org/autobiography/
[2] https://www.yogananda-srf.org/
> How about a simple "devices selling in excess of 500 units must have security devices updates provided for four years from the first date of sale"? Legislation doesn't have to be onerous.

Even this is problematic, you still generate the a large incentive for the manufacturer to prevent reverse engineering of the device. If no one can find the exploits because the vulnerable firmware is not readable, the drivers are heavily obfuscated, etc, then they don't have to provide any updates and only dedicated actors with access to funds will have any chance at success.

In order to prevent this you may have to make the legislation _more_ onerous and require the manufacturer releases to the owners the ability to sign updates and reverse engineer the device. Something like this needs very careful consideration not to create perverse incentives and to maintain competition and pricing.
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I have yet to see an ergonomic touchpad. Although there are plenty of horrible mice to go around, too, there are fairly ergonomic models, and even special RSI-prevention models.
Hijacking the thread to complain about DP!

Ports are way too wobbly unless you use your laptop as desktop. I love ability of using 2 external displays with MacBook keyboard and trackpad just right there in the center. But move the computer a centimeter and displays disconnect. Moderately painful!
> 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.

Show that to a people unfamiliar with the Scrum church and it will say that sentence is meaningless. And well, it is, in an absolute way. A story is just that: a story. Maybe it can help to put your son to sleep, but I doubt you need to invent a brand new vocabulary to discuss about software architecture and technical debt, and I doubt you can do anything brillant by only using a few examples in a field that is even more driven by pure logic than maths.

We are grown up. I don't want to work anywhere where I'm told stories and must get some points done by the end of the week. And this is not anecdotal: Scrum is a derivative of a manufacturing framework. I'm doing engineering.
Sure!

Opened up an issue https://github.com/siddharthkp/auto-install/issues/1
I saw a comment on reddit pointing out that planes cannot take off without the baggage weight/distribution calculation. And arriving flights cannot have their baggage scanned to show up properly at baggage claim.

The latter seems like something that could be overridden with pen/paper, but I can understand how the weight calc is intricately tied to the scheduling system. I just can't believe they can't have a fall-back at each airport: a simple program that runs on a PC that certifies a single flight based on who physically showed up and how heavy their bags are.
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which is not any less abstract and immaterial. There is no unit of wealth you could compare, or if there is, I'd like to know.
My goal is to ship products that people will buy and use. Scrum and "agile" has only been an impediment.

"with such ridiculous vitriol"

Emperor, little boy, no clothes. It's thankless work.

In opposition, defenders of Scrum et al use the No True Scotsman's fallacy. Because those of us who have tried and failed are just morons.
You feel me, brother! That's exactly what happened when I decided to create this :)
When the postal system started, localities had to prove the roads were good enough for postal delivery. Most of those rural roads were maintained by the locals.
> Genuinely curious: what sorts of results have you achieved by employing fear?

I don't think I've done anything of this sort. My comment is based on observations of the world around me. Not just me and my friends, but them and their friends, their interactions etc.

In the corporate world, I've seen fear be a very motivating factor. Whether it's keeping your job, keeping your bonus, being assigned to a team, or avoiding a crap assignment, fear is definitely a factor. You can see it people and it's not uniform.

In the social world, I've seen people extend invitations out to parties to people they genuinely cannot stand. Not because they want to, but because if they don't, they're afraid the person is going to talk shit about them.
Talk about damning with faint praise.
The whole node ecosystem is a mess. Shrinkwraping is a pain, easily bottoms out due to node's small default stack limits, and often the only solution is to `rm -r node_modules` and rebuild the dependency graph from scratch.
But if I remember things correctly they don't sell to a single user..?
I'm surprised that his wife didn't divorce him for taking so much risk over this much money. Especially when they have 2 kids.
"More generally, it's not like doing it now makes it faster than doing it later"

No, but "faster" isn't necessarily the point. Doing it correctly leads to it being "faster" because you don't have to constantly go back and fix bugs because you used ugly hacks to get stuff done in the short timeframe you had because the company decided to wait until the last minute.
Pretty hardcore fastmail fan here, love it, I did something similar about 3 years ago - I migrated my 10GB~ gmail account to Fastmail.

Haven't looked back since and it just keeps getting better.

These guys are the core contributors to so many fantastic open source products, they're transparent, respect your privacy and security above all else and it's resulted in an excellent all-round email service.
There's the latter two third of the grand parent comment that completely counters your comment.
EDIT: This is also why Ethereum's recent hard fork is such a ridiculous idea. Now Ethereum has all the downsides of centralization without many of the benefits.
That's interesting, tell me more?
If you inherit less than hundreds of thousands of dollars the inheritance is not taxed at all in almost every country of the world so that's an unlikely excuse.

>>They didn't inherit enough money to not work?

And yet.....they still don't work?
Square brackets – one keypress.
Curly brackets – two keypresses, shift and the other bracket key.

Result: reserved key for brackets, instead of mixing brackets and numbers while making the only kind of bracket an entire key more to get to.

Evaluation: it's clean and efficient.
FWIW, I cut back to 30 hours a week for a couple of years in my late 40s. The effect on my stress level was phenomenal. The issue wasn't so much the direct hours worked, but the flexibility that I had to lengthen a weekend or take a random morning/afternoon off without feeling like I was cheating anyone. It was also nice not to be on the critical path for every damn thing, which I think is a continual struggle for most people experienced enough to be in a leadership role among many more junior developers.

There was a downside, though. Between working less than full time and working from home, I sometimes felt pretty disconnected, marginalized, etc. Mostly I was OK with that, welcomed it even, but I eventually came back to full time because I didn't feel like I could drive the things I needed to from that kind of position.

Overall, I highly recommend it. Just be aware that there are downsides. Like working from home, there's also a greater need for self-motivation, self-discipline, and self-reliance than if you're working in a more traditional arrangement.
Thank you, I knew I wasn't the only who thought this.
It doesn't matter if that code path gets interrupted. There's no need to synchronize anything. If interrupt A sees that the extra registers are idle, and then gets interrupted, that's okay. By the time the inner interrupt returns, even if the inner interrupt used them, they will be put back to idle, and A can safely switch to them. Everything else works the same as current hardware.

There's the cost of a branch, but you could remove that by making it a hardware feature. It's a branch that should predict well though.
At least in the US, the proportion of land needed to produce food is steadily declining.

For lack of a better metaphor, we have a race between galloping food supply and the propagation of the idea that smaller family sizes are a good thing. Given what I know now, I'd bet on human reproduction declining before food does.

The big monkey wrench is political instability. We have much less of an understanding of it than perhaps we should have.
I was actually happy it was about messaging/positioning, which are hard. There are already a lot of posts about designing messaging systems :)
What about projectors?
Typos with npm have always allowed RCE. You can have typos while doing $npm install ....
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Not a whole chapter, but yes, I had forgotten the exchange near Cirith Ungol.
Wow, I'll have to look that up. Thanks!
The Indian example is Google receiving preferential treatment over Facebook because of net neutrality. I'm not saying Facebook should not respect nn while everyone else does, I'm saying no one should.
I like my Logitech trackpad but really I just want a keyboard/trackpad device exactly like the bottom half of my MBP for work.

https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Rechargeable-Touchpad-Multi-...
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> I would suspect one portion of it is their dynamic pricing model. I wish there were more info publicly available about the mechanics.

It's a pretty simple transfer of VC money to customers in an attempt to increase growth.
This would surely be downvoted into oblivion if it was any other blog.
Indeed. If there's one thing we learned about node dependencies this year it's that nothing can go wrong if you take dependencies without thinking about them.
This is demonstrably not true. Just send mail to an email list that you are on. The email will be sent (confirm with other list members), however you will not receive it when it is relayed to the group by the listserver.

(Or was your comment tongue-in-cheek?)
In hindsight I do think it's true that you want numerous experiments with possibly different controls with the exception of whatever is important for the effect. In that sense you want your experiment to "discover the right abstraction" of details that your principle works over.

So I think what has to occur is a gradual "loosening up" of the controls from strict replication to weak replication, with both types of replication giving information about the effect you are testing: its validity and its generality, respectively.
From the the /r/gamedev thread "The first video that has intuitively explained quaternions to me."

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/4wnd54/the_first_v...
>By turning Internet access into Facebook access. Try explaining how it's not a monopoly.

Any other company can provide internet access, e.g. Google.

>No, government is forcing Facebook to play by the same rules as everyone else. That's fair and necessary.

Of course, given that there is nn everyone should respect it. My point is that nn is harmful.
"Yes and no. If you don't need to make changes to a given system then it's fine for it to "rot". Presumably there is a business reason they want to make changes, in which case bringing the code up to a point where you can make those changes is part of the cost of that business-level deliverable."

Except at that point, there's likely a hard (usually arbitrary) deadline, meaning you don't have the time. So you end up hacking stuff up again, and the tech debt doesn't get addressed. Your best people end up getting frustrated that they're not being listened to, and that they constantly have to explain this stuff to the business people, and eventually they leave.
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It now has

data on Pokémon and lots of other useful things

I love this - will be able to show off my kids a tool that I use all the time for work.
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12225808
I've always wanted to try putting a trackball on the floor, I've heard it is great for window selection. (I use focus follow mouse - if you are stuck on something other than a X this may not apply)
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I think you hit the nail on the head. 30 productive hours is a 60 hour workweek once you add in all the useless meetings. On a 18 month SAP implementation I was doing 70 hous a week for 18 months including 3AM calls with India 4-5 days a week. Totally fried me. It is interesting though, now that I'm working independently and change my standard rate for meetings, the number of meetings has gone way down.
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Is there any way to download bulk data sets for gross height data for the USA?

I'd love to pair that up with OSM to make a few nice 3D maps.
Why do you think it's an idiotic assertion ? Do you seriously think that the world needs countless of developers working on next big CRUD app ? Or countless of meaningless metrics and reports ? I do not think so. It's a work for sure but it's a meaningless work.

Your gut reaction is correct albeit I think it makes sense to keep these people but slash their salaries. It takes a lot of time to train cheap workforce. Because well...it's a cheap workforce. You either brainwash them into believing that they are working on something great or sooner or later they realize that job hopping will bring them more money (pretty much what happens in every cheap offshore location).

These people can still do great job. Perhaps it's not worth the 150k you are paying them but if you could legally slash it to 60k...then...does it make sense to hire some clueless droids in some sweatshop in India ?
This is correct, they do now test apps before they go up. But yeah, plenty of malware is regularly found in the Play Store, so you can't just "trust Google" to protect you.
>1) You're wrong. Bill Gates, etc, are counter-examples.

Bill Gates is an example only of (a) the kindness of his heart, or (b) tax-incentives for philanthropy, depending on your level on cynicism.

Both tell us nothing about the system he operates in though (well, except the (b), which tells us something about the government and IRS).

Obviously anybody in any era and system could arbitrary out of kindess/a whim or for some hidden motive give money for a good cause. The question was whether the system encourages such a behaviour, not whether it can happen in some counter-examples.

>2) The problem is the word "invest". You're saying in the same sentence that the investment is a loser.

No, I'm saying that an investment shouldn't necessarily aim for the maximum profit, everything else be damned. I'm saying what enterprises only pay lip service to in their ads and brochures, their "social responsibility". I'm saying that if you can have a lesser profit (still profit mind you) but do far more good, you should do it instead of being a greedy bastard.

As for charity and donations, those existed both before and after capitalism. (In fact they predate capitalism by some millenia), so are no argument pro or against to our topic.

>3) It's not "how capitalism works", it's how any self-sustaining system of value allocation works.

There have been tons of "self-sustaining system of value allocation" (which pretty much means: any society) that didn't value profit first and foremost, or at least better juggled it with other concerns.

That doesn't mean that tons individuals or leaders in these didn't value profit first and foremost -- only that the societies at large had other moral/ethical/etc priorities and, err, values. In Ancient Athens for example, it was all about being a good citizen.

>How would they afford to stay open, to give the drug away, if it cost them more to develop and produce it than they made?

Nobody asked them to give it "away" or to have it cost them more to develop than they made.

That said, an organization can also operate at zero or marginal profit. Amazon did it for more than a decade, and not even for a good cause, just to gain market share.
True. The amount of technical debt produced is a function of the time constraints and the person skills. In turn, the time constraints can depend on the skills of other people in the organization at planning, designing, figuring out requirements, managing the team and the process, etc. Saying "ah sorry, we'll have to work one more week/ month on this because, you know, technical debt" is sweeping all these possible issues under one big carpet.
An open question independent of the author: What do people use Mathematica for that can't be done in R, SAS, Matlab, SPSS or Python libraries.

Is it a great innovation that other tools have caught up with, or is it still getting a lot of use at the bleeding edge?
This was with the Gmail front-end. It's entirely possible there was just something messed up with my account. I haven't come across too many others that have had similar issues, but most people I know have much smaller accounts.

Thanks for letting me know my info is out-of-date. The problem with these sorts of comparisons is it's hard to use both options extensively, simultaneously.
It's one thing to entertain that an idea may be true, it's another thing to actually live out that philosophy.

I'd give the parent commenter the benefit of the doubt that they're sharing an idea to debate (which we are), or just being facetious by quoting Machiavelli.
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> I'm curious - does anyone else think that the equality that matters is equality in material outcomes?

Maybe not directly, but...

> The real equality that matters is equality in dignity as human beings, equality before the law, equality in our respect to each other.

Material outcomes demonstrably affect all of those things, and cannot avoid doing so, generally, because "material outcomes" are power, and power is fungible, and those are all important areas to which power is applied.
> I don't know about 3B, but Jet is a drastically cooler brand for them in their ecommerce battle esp. among millenials.

Every time I see a comment like this, it really makes me wonder who these mythical millenials are. I work in a company with 11 millenials out of 16 employees and NONE of them have even heard about Jet, let alone bought from it. Now that Jet was acquired and will be quietly folded into Walmart, it's more than likely they never will.

They use Amazon almost exclusively for all of their shopping needs.

Not sure where you got the notion that 'Jet is a drastically cooler brand'. It seems false both from anecdata I have and from the design of their website, which looks like a cheap knockoff of Amazon.
>There is no citation needed to show that society would collapse if essentially all manual labor stopped overnight. To suggest otherwise is silly.

To suggest what I proposed equals "all manual labor stops overnight" is taking for granted what you were supposed to prove.

That's exactly what we were arguing about, remember?
A typo should not start installing random software on my machine.
You might want to consider a name that isn't owned by a tech giant: https://www.meraki.com/

Also, I recommend just using email for logins. They can change their username whenever, but the email stays the same.
Whereas in contrast, Democrats will offer every comfort to your children, and make your grandchildren pay for it.

It is unclear to me as to why I should prefer one over the other, when the option to build the best and most durable infrastructure we can afford without indebting future generations beyond the benefit they will realize from it has not yet been explored.

Both of the major political parties in the US are actively hostile to both sound economic policy and universally beneficial infrastructure development. They have been captured by the private interests of the business-owning class (which includes to some extent the middle-class stockholders).
> It sounds like you have thought a lot about all of this!

Up until around 2014, I was heavily involved in the construction of a small CAS (100MM objects online, around 5-6TB in size) for a client that needed to replicate certain periodic calculations in a reliable way. It worked well, but something like noms would have eliminated the need for a bunch of custom work.

> If you are interested, your brain would be very appreciated in the github or slack.

I'll take a look... thanks for the invite!
I guess if you understand what is going on as a manager, then you might prefer the 10 points team?

I know I do.
It's one of the few systems I've seen that is simultaneously a good programming language, good at symbolic computation, and also good at numerical computing.