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You misunderstand. If more than a small minority of your code cares what OS it's running on (beyond obvious excepted), you have a large amount of technical debt. Cleaning that up, either by refactoring or replacing the offending code, is in the business's best interest because it keeps costs down and keeps more options available to the business.

The 'business people' are not qualified by themselves to say that the cost-benefit analysis of the refactoring is worth the effort. Because while they may have a good idea of the customer benefits, they generally have little insight into what the future costs of technical debt are. You see this obviously demonstrated by 'business people' who are shocked that there is work to do on five-year-old code that has been working fine for years. Any reasonably experienced developer, any many junior developers besides, can tell you that code rots if it's not maintained properly.
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Exactly, isn't the entire webs just urls for resources? TinyURL has nothing to do with it.
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If we could pass a public stimulus to help banks become too big to fail, why can't we get together and pass something similar to help our Infrastructure too strong to fail?
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Modularize by functionality, not by layer. Start with a simple end-to-end path and grow outwards, rather than trying to go top-down or bottom-up, and don't split into distinct layers until you're actually deriving value from doing so. Writing code when you don't have the use case yet is always a bad idea.
Do your links support your conclusion? They seem to be optimistic about mars-to-earth transfer, but not the reverse.

"The conclusion is that if microbes existed or exist on Mars, viable transfer to Earth is not only possible but also highly probable ... Earth-to-Mars transfer is also possible but at a much lower frequency."
And Iceland:

http://www.textavarp.is/100/
As soon as I read your title I thought it might be this bug. I get it maybe a few times per month in Windows 7. I have not seen it happen in Windows 10. You can fix it without rebooting or killing explorer.exe by shift+right-clicking on the taskbar item.
This may be a bit of a tangent, but one of my favorite recording artists, Grimes, has said after her breakout album Halfaxa that shutting herself away for 10 days or more without any contact was vital to experiencing the "visions" which gave rise to her music... the recount I heard, did not seem happy, but necessary.

Oh, that the secret does lie within us, and that we must cross a frozen field to arrive at it. Who knows
Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12247326
Should they not be paid for their work?

I don't see how it is an advantage to allow people to rip off original designers, present it as their own work and charge a premium.
The code behind this is probably more poetic than the output. Perhaps the union of technology and culture is farther than we think.

Although, this really shines a light on the fact that it probably isn't necessary for technology to attempt to optimize every human experience.
Might be from the UE green/carbon certificates but don't quote me on that.
Denmark. Technically you don't get paid to attend, you get a stipend to help pay your living expenses while you're studying. I know it's similar in other places too.
How exactly does that work? Where do they get the energy from? How big are these rocks?
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Well is it? At some point, either we become like machines, or the machines become like us. There is a limit to how many times we can redraw the lines.
If you want to migrate from system A to system B you don't start writing all data to B immediately. You don't know if B can handle the load, if your code is right, if double writing will cause an unacceptable slowdown etc. Instead you mirror a % of all writes from A to B and increase it over time.

Now you have a problem because B only has a % of the data. To fix this you need a separate task that periodically identifies records in A missing from B and syncs them. This is the "backfill" - it isn't part of your running application and is only needed for the duration of the migration.

Once you think you have sufficient data in B you can start checking your work, run a % of your reads from both A AND B and make sure the results match.

Once that matches for a while you can start making a % of reads from B without ever contacting A. When this reaches 100% you stop writing to A.

Each % here is a separate feature flag.
The OpenBSD project doesn't have the resources to provide this so m:tier employs a couple of OpenBSD developers to provide this option for people who want it. Not sure what is embarrassing about this.
The backends don't matter. It's the password-changing frontend that has both passwords at change time and makes the call.

This isn't about setting the characteristics of a single password, it's about setting the allowed editing distance between them during a password change.
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Why would I want to use Zammu over just using Travis CI or any other existing CI service? The only new feature I see is scheduled deploys. (It's not clear to me from the description on the site how this work.) Unfortunately it doesn't seem the SSG I currently use (Wintersmith) is supported anyway. Although I don't see why adding specific support for each system should be necessary.
One might naturally assume from the article title that at some point I'm going to be able to hit the teletext button on my tv and see ... teletext.

But what this is, is someone who has found a way to broadcast their own text service to their own tv. Kind of interesting of course, but not really the service coming back from the dead.
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Actually, that's the factoid.

According to Wikipedia [1]:

> The term was coined originally in 1973 as a neologism by American writer Norman Mailer to mean a "piece of information that becomes accepted as a fact even though it’s not actually true, or an invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print." Since its creation in 1973 the term has evolved from its original meaning, in common usage, and has assumed other meanings, particularly being used to describe a brief or trivial item of news or information. So it is a factoid that "factoid" means something that is true.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid
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So does GitHub

https://help.github.com/articles/about-github-pages-and-jeky...
So what are the real options of survival?

a) accelerate migration to Mars

b) population control?

Anything else we can do to prevent "fucked"?
I mean the system in general. I get new ports (like everything else) every six months. And when security flaws are discovered in third party software, they are fixed in the -stable branch of the ports tree.

https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#PortsSecurity
Oddly enough, works fine with ublock and privacy badger though. Ublock makes wired jump halfway down and sometimes through articles on page load though which is strange.
I'm from Ireland. In the version of English I grew up with, we refer to the nearest big town or city - wherever the business, social and cultural life of the area is concentrated, basically - as "town." We would say, for instance:

- "I'm going into town."

- "Let's meet in town."

- "Is there anything going on in town tonight?"

When I lived in the south-east of Ireland, "town" referred to the central business district of the nearby city of 50k inhabitants. When I lived in Dublin, "town" was Dublin city centre. And if I lived in or near London, "town" would refer to areas of central London.

It really has nothing to do with whether the place qualifies as a village, town, city or what have you.
The frequency is much higher from Mars to Earth, but you only need one Earth microbial spore to survive the journey to contaminate Mars.
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Aspen and its upriver neighbors have proposed a $6M fiber to bring its broadband over a megabit. Aspen is 40 miles from I-70 which is a fiber corridor.
I a common fantasy to move to the mountains, become a freelancer and hiking & ski bum. But if you are still getting AOL dialup speeds, it doesnt quite work.
In Denver we are spoiled by 50+ mbs offered by multiple carriers.
I have an old Pentium M notebook with 256 RAM lying around with Linux for optimizing. If you get it to run fast in it, it should run pretty much anywhere. I'm looking to moving to an old netbook though, but I'm not sure because of the architecture of the first Atoms.
Just make one, it's usually straightforward
TBH this is what I've always assumed it should be from day one with Scrum, after training with Ken Schwaber etc. The backlog is not a Todo list.

It's the only way that seemed sane without twisting user stories into weird refactoring or architecture stories and keeping team from writing garbage code waiting for these "tech stories" to clean it up.
A good summary and I propose three minor additions to the issue list:

1) One big part of IoT is replacing capital goods with decades long depreciation with goods having months long depreciation. Yes your $20 Honeywell lasted three decades and a new one would last three more decades, but this $200 IoT thermostat simply won't be supported in a large number of months and the end users need an economic plan to replace it, say, annually, rather than a couple times per century. Which has interesting environmental/ecological concerns of its own. Your 1996 dumb thermostat works fine in 2016, but your 2016 IoT thermostat absolutely will not work with whatever passes for an iphone in 2036, or probably even 2026.

2) Demarcation points and interoperability and DRM need to be monitored. Oh so sorry your IoT thermostat got powned and tried to burn down your house, unfortunately instead of the standard current loop interface it uses a DRMed proprietary RS-485 based interface to talk to the DRMed furnace so rather than swapping in a new thermostat (which would just get powned in minutes anyway) you'll need a newer model thermostat and those only connect to new furnaces, so an IoT thermostat with a severe DRM infestation getting powned means a $5000 new HVAC system not just a new thermostat.

3) As more and more people recognize IoT as an anti-feature or unwanted at best, people are going to refuse to set it up, sorta like the millions of VCRs blinking 12:00 in the 80s/90s. My MiL has a long obsolete smart TV that's never been connected to the internet and is merely a dumb TV. Selected because she liked how the bezel matched her home decor. Likewise IoT devices are going to have to get used to the idea that very soon many/most users will never connect them to the internet, yet they still have to at least minimally operate.
In addition to what other people have said, it's feasible that he had a longer sleep schedule- maybe 36 hours instead of 24.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12243680 posted it last night, good to see it caught some traction.
The article dances around, but doesn't really say that people define friendship differently and segment their lives differently.

I have professional colleagues whom I consider good friends where we've established level of mutual trust, but our "closeness" is defined by what/where we're going things -- we have a level of trust that is very meaningful, but we mutually "pop" up/down to a higher/lower levels of friendship.
Ugly and nonsense. But over time I expect it evolving into something we could read.
To be honest, I do not know what you mean by scientific method and I have not made any claims about scientific method. I have made a distinction based falsifiability. Falsifiability does not need experiments, but _observations_.

You have written your "obvious" point now a few times, but you have not written a single unfalsifiable claim of palaeontology or any of the many other sciences you claim that exists.

My hypothesis is simple, _anything_ that claims being a science but makes unfalsifiable claims, is quackery. You see, this hypothesis itself is falsifiable, all you need to make is give a single unfalsifiable claim of a respectful science to prove this hypothesis false. So can you give _one_ example of palaeontology that is unfalsifiable?

(Mathematics does not claim to be a science in popperian sense.)
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The Priceonomics article [1] says otherwise:

> There once was a time when people had to be convinced that a car was useful. That was the situation in 1895, when brothers Edouard and Andre Michelin developed a new design for a car tire...

> First published in 1900, the guide’s 399 pages contained all the information drivers needed to “go touring” through French towns and cities. Only restaurants attached to hotels were included, and they were listed rather than carefully rated.

1. http://priceonomics.com/why-does-a-tire-company-publish-the-...
What would a good children's computer museum look like?
It's been already discussed in this thread. The performance impact should be negligible. I am having ~110-150 FPS with my nVidia 560 Ti in CS:GO , 1920x1080.

The precise testing haven't been done explicitly to measure increase/decrease. But feel free to test it. ;)
Attack the power systems which security overlooks. Sounds like this case.
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The value starts at 1. The first person to view pays 1 DC to see it. If the viewer up-votes the dream, the value goes to 2. If the viewer downvotes it, it goes to 0. The value increments by 1 for every up-vote, and the lowest value is 0. Too many down-votes at 0, and the dream is forgotten (deleted). It only costs DC to view. Voting doesn't cost any DC.

The poster cannot request a certain value. All dreams start at 1.
The article is also criticizing their particular version of scrum. For example "collecting points" or obsessing about them is not unadulterated scrum; the word points or planning poker are not even mentioned in the scrum guide. Any good developer, scrum master or book on scrum will tell you that story points are not a performance metric and they are only to be used by the PO and just for planning ahead.

There is little to criticise about pure unadulterated Scrum because there is surprisingly little prescribed and what little there is they openly tell you that you can change it in the retrospective. The real problem is that management, agile coaches (and unfortunately sometimes also some developers) often want to religiously apply every little thing they ever read in a book and seemed like a good idea. I think that solutions to all the problems the author mentioned are possible without deviating significantly or at all from scrum -- should that be important for whatever reason. The only prerequisite is that everyone involved is open to change.
OK thanks for the suggestions.
This brings back memories - 1985, Donna Haraway
The problem with raising issues with a framework like Scrum is that despite many share references, most people are in environments which apply Scrum in a slightly different way.

We talk about organisations applying Scrum but what we're really referring to are groups of people, and depending on those people, their mindset, their history and their current role requirements - they will use the Scrum model in their own idiosyncractic way.

Take the point about technical debt and running so fast with an Agile development workflow that you never get to refactor code or properly document etc.

Even if you just took that in reference to one specific company, the value of, cost of, and importance of these things could be different at different times.

When a startup is running to get MVP out to get customer feedback, it's usually much more efficient to set the basic expectation that the first version of your product will get thrown away once you've learned all the important aspects of what you need to deliver. With that in mind - startup development is a completely different beast than when your product is established and you have paying customers with expectations of up-to-date documentation etc.

Some managers are do not have good people skills and manage by just holding developers to account based on the expectations set in their Scrum planning day. Discussions about whether refactoring should be done yet or not may not even be something they want to know/talk about and they rely on engineers to factor that into their sprint estimates.

Depending on whether the company is being driven by sales/demo opportunities, or feature roll-out timescales etc. then the call about whether to do something 'quick' or 'right' may drop either way.

For developers it's important to understand the dynamics that are driving the business and what their role is (sometimes you have to 'JFDI'). If you have a good engineering team with a strong leader then these things shouldn't be that visible to anyone else.
It's also important to be able to meet the expectations you set. If you keep delivering late then you'll also struggle to get people to let you do more than the minimum required at the time.

For the business as a whole it's all about the big picture and understanding the decisions you make and what their impact (short and medium term) is.

If you want quick releases and don't have the resources for that to allow for good documentation and/or scalable code, then you need to understand that technical debt is building up and at some point it will need to be paid.
One question I have is how does one actually objectively measure technical debt? I mean by anything more than a guess or intuition.
Does every singleton/global variable count?
Does every comment with a HACK count?
What other factors contribute to technical debt, and by how much?
The overhead is negligible (close to 0). ;-)
>fat profit

Probably not. You'll barely break even. It's not as lucrative as you think it is.
the main host of delta is not sabre, it is deltamatic, a homebrew system that is run by delta. Most other airline systems like sabre communicate via teletype to one another
The fundamental problem with Malthusianism is that it is static thinking. It projects on the basis of no change in technology, as if the present moment continues eternally. This is why all statements to date on running out of X or Y at time T in the future have proven false. What actually happens is that people look ahead, forecast increased prices for X, and then the more adventurous go and build a better way of getting X, or create a different resource X1 that can be used instead.

It is never different this time.

Arguably alarmism that fails to consider technological process is a necessary part of the signaling mechanism by which realistic price forecasts are established, an example of the market performing its usual strange alchemy in turning (often willful) ignorance into something useful, but that doesn't stop it from being frustrating.
This has played out for me. A couple of friends moved away. We had kids and the ones that stayed didn't. I talk to one out of my four "close" friends on anything resembling a regular basis. I realized I hadn't spoke to one in 8 months.

If you have kids and your friends don't, expect that to put a strain on your friendship because you won't have time to spend the way you did once upon a time. You will plan more because your time is no longer free, just borrowed from your spouse or whoever else is watching your children. You will lose those serendipitous moments that form the contours of your relationship.

As an entrepreneur, I have found it really difficult to make friends. I have a business partner and a distributed team, it is extra hard to make new friends. If you work in an office, you come across people. I always found it easy to make friends at work and took it for granted. Now, it's nearly impossible to do. Then again, my mom has exactly zero friends and gets by so I have to imagine friendship is not a necessity.
Yes they did: https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...

But it doesn't really matter whether Japan got to 105% or 95% of US GDP in 1990 - my point that China could get to 30-50% of US GDP in 30 years stands.
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I'm skeptical about retrospectives.

We've certainly done them, identified problem points and then solved them (and it does feel good to do that..) but it doesn't actually seem to make things better.

Lets compare it to say, personal estimations:

When you estimate, execute and reflect, you can tangibly improve your estimation process.

You can quantitatively observe an improvement in estimations on tasks when people go through this process.

Previously; estimated 20 hours for (task). Took 10 hours. Repeat... soon, your estimates are for 10 hours, and you're quantitatively, objectively able to make consistently better estimates.

Retrospectives in my experience don't do that.

You can sit through 50 retrospectives and each one identify a problem area and then fix it and yes that does feel good, but objectively when I reflect over the defect rate as a result of the process, I feel like retrospectives make zero impact on the rate at which technical debt accumulates.

There's something missing in the way they work; all you (well, all we, I suppose, this being my personal experience...) ever do is find things that are wrong and fix them. Objectively when you look at it, there's no closing of the loop where the defect rate drops.

There's no process improvement that generates less problems in the future... all it ever is is band-aiding to prevent technical debt spiraling totally out of control and devastating the project.

There must be a better way, where you somehow measure how technical debt was created and work to incrementally prevent it happening... but I've never seen that actually happen in practice.
Considered octopress too.. seems like a good option.
Python's grammar is context-sensitive until the lexer processes indentation. There are other programming languages whose grammar is context-free.
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Weird, I've had all sorts of bugs happen to me, but I've never actually seen this particular one happen across 4 or so systems.

As to your question, I figure it's the same as anything else in windows, legacy code. One library gets stacked on top of another, then another, and when the UI pulls from it, it drags up bugs from the entire stack.
EDIT : Please share links to your blogs too.. it would be great to know your work!
It is a genuine question, not a rhetorical question putting into question the data, Netherlands has currently a deficit of 4.1 GHA.
How can you tell a ransomware threat is fake?
If you're objecting to people who treat scrum (or any project management tool) as a one-stop-shop that will cure all ills I agree with you, but nobody here is saying that.

If you are objecting to defining the scope as small tasks and measuring your progress through that over time, then continually re-evaluating this scope as requirements change, then I think you are not working in an environment that would benefit from this kind of tool.

Its just a pragmatic set of guidelines, and objecting to it with such ridiculous vitriol makes you sound as foolish as the people I think you're objecting to.
They started with a surplus as everybody else and they run into a defict, like most of the rest of the world, including many large countries. Unsustainable growth except something like a technological miracle or a plague happen? Probably.
That is generally true.
But, all power is, at its root, symbolic. Stalin only slaughtered as many as he did because people believed in the symbolic power of the state and in him as having some right to lead such an abstract entity with total authority.