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It's what's blocking me from trying it. I don't want to spend time to micro manage my desktop system and applying security patches involves lots of time. They should bless certain architectures (amd64) and certain packages (chrome, firefox, one DE) and keep binary patches available for those, everything else can stay the same (i.e. binaries on release). I also don't want to try third party services for updates because I'm not sure if I can trust them. I know core OpenBSD team can run a tight ship but other OS teams have shown that's not always the case. Irc the excuse is that openbsd is now a research operating system, but lack of funding probably plays into this as well. So everything is broken as per usual. </rant>
I learned this the hard way not too long ago when someone informed me that a number of people I'd worked with who I'd thought of as friends just really disliked me. It hit hard at first because I thought of them as friends- 'work friends' at the very least, and made me start questioning other people that I thought of as friends.

After letting my mind spin in a tight loop about it for a while I decided that really it doesn't matter that much, because I'm happier liking people, and I can like someone and be friendly even irrespective of if they like me or not. Of course I'm not going to push my company on people who are clear that they don't want it, but it doesn't really do any good to second guess who actually cares for me and who is being polite.
If you still have a copper land-line, there's a line-item on your bill for the Universal Service Fund. Originally, it paid for rural telecom (phones for farms), but there's been a lot of debate recently on whether the money should be used for bringing internet access to remote areas.

From a technology standpoint, fiber would be the only option. The distances involved are too long for DSL and coax cable.
the cyborg, 30 years on
Pfft... disconnect the thermostat and take it back to the store and get a new one. If their security is so asinine that it can be hacked with ransomware, they should damn well cover it under warranty. 1 bitcoin indeed. Put your old mercury switch back in place until you have the time to go and replace it. At least with your thermostat, you're not losing all your work...

...and it's simple to disconnect and reconnect yourself with 2 or 3 wires. In fact, I'd wager with a single wire and a little (and I do mean only a little) know how and a copy of the factory firmware you can recover it using the exact same process as you unbrick a router in just a few minutes.

Though, you should probably close the other holes in your network first. Chances are, if your thermostat has been hacked, they're in your network and it's only a matter of time before your computers suffer the same treatment.
Remember that "Lean" (SCRUM is really a subset of those practices) is at it's core a manufacturing process. Manufacturing isn't engineering. The author of the original post captured this very well:

> ...one can claim that this is not the job of Scrum, which is a software management methodology, and not a software engineering methodology, that it's only concerned with organizing the teams' time and workload

A manufacturing process can only drive quality if both the primitives and end system have gone through some sort of engineering process. Web developers love this stuff because they have components, frameworks and clients where the engineering details are taken care of in MANY scenarios.

Using a contrived scenario involving LEGO -- you cannot expect kids and parents to design new LEGO parts. The components are designed and engineered to work together in a completely different context. Carrying this further, if you want kids to assemble a consistent, specific artifact (Say a Star Wars X-Wing fighter), someone at LEGO needs to design that and produce documentation. Designing on the fly with sprints ("ok, kids, today figure out how to make a wing") isn't going to be a productive exercise.

Most SCRUM projects that I have personally seen fail are projects where "agile" is a codeword for "we didn't think this through, so we'll figure it out as we go". Then the "sprints" become a real joke as the team repeatedly runs into a wall.
> I had to deal with keeping my server out of over-enthusiastic spam blacklists

My domain got blacklisted once. I contacted the service concerned (i.e. the people running the blacklist) and they said my web domain had appeared in the footer of a spam email.

"So, do you have any evidence I put it there, or paid someone to put it there?"

"No."

"So you'll blacklist random domains a spammer puts in their email? Because that's what happened here."

I was surprised (and still am) that this kind of service could be so naive. My domain was literally just a bare http://domain.com/ in the footer, no link or advertising associated with it at all. Domain blacklist successfully polluted, as far as the spammer was concerned.
Being careful is expensive, and as of this moment the people who are going to be landing on Mars first want to make a profit. Considering how we treat life that we're absolutely sure exists, and is a lot more complicated and near to us than alien microbes, I have no doubt at all how this will play out.

Lets just hope that Mars is sterile when we get there.
The real boogeyman in this legislation, i.e. the intended target as described in the article, seems to be China making cheap replicas. I think cheap replicas are probably a good thing. Why wouldn't I want the same thing but cheaper? It's not my job to ensure that local designers stay in business.
Especially not if their design patents (which is what I'm asking about) can be reproduced accidentally.

For example, since clothing is much too necessary, universal, and functional, there are no patents or copyrights on clothing design. I think that's a good thing. The only thing you can do with clothing is trademarks, so as long as a similar-looking garment doesn't say it was made by some other designer, I don't see a problem with copying clothes. Why does furniture have design patents?

Design patents cover similar designs as the original, and there's no need to demonstrate that they were copied. How does punishing "independent invention" (legal term for utility patents) help us with design patents?
This isn't exactly an unbiased view.

True, but one thing to consider is that engineers and construction workers can make a lot more money performing emergency repairs (replacing a bridge that has just collapsed or fixing a broken water main) compared with a run-of-the-mill rehab or new project.
When you buy property as a value store, more often than not ot's more trouble than it's worth to rent out. Not to mention that many renters, to put it mildly, don't take care of the building or the area very much, which has a big cost associated with it if you ever want to live there yourself.
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Who cares? Why go through all that effort just to move your data out of the US, if they really wanted to read that they would, but they most likely would not care.

Silly over reaction. Your going to use a service that is not as good, waste a bunch of on importing/exporting for reasons that would have made no difference to your life.

So your actively choosing to downgrade your life to spite someone else. Smart move.
True, but don't forget that non-broken organizations are very rare :-)
Both devs and managers are attracted to scrum for two different reasons:
- devs like scrum because of the agility of it and the though that they will have more control on how to evolve the product and the code base and have the freedom to architect and develop the way they see it right.
- managers like it because it gives them an oversight on how the team is performing and a possibility to have a more accurate estimate the a rule of a thumb.
In my opinion scrum stop working when devs think that it's complete freedom and control over the product and/or managers think it is a magical spell to increase team productivity.
Another reason that make scrum goes wrong is that religious believe that every rule in scrum manifesto needs to be applied as is so magic can happen, scrum is not a recipe but a guide that need to be adapted to each team, organization and context. Trying to follow the rules religiously will always fail.
Agreed which is why I will likely not subscribe. If people are willing to pay that price point then that's fine. $15 per episode for a variable schedule seemed pricey, if you dont care about the immediacy of it it basically turns into $29 once a year where you download the back-catalog and watch at your leisure. In that sense you are paying for the ability to get it as it comes out, not for the content itself.
Not if the immigrants are past school age and have not learned needed skills in their home countries. Implicit in the population growth factor is education and training that makes those new people marketable.
Luck dog near miss
> Rather than alleviating poverty, UBI will most likely exacerbate it. The core reasoning is quite simple: the prices that people pay for housing and other necessities are derived from how much they can afford to pay in the first place.

Obviously, higher demand means higher prices - but people's need for "necessities" (basic food, shelter) is constant! In that case, it shouldn't rise under UBI. My intuition is that prices would only rise for more limited, optional, luxurious goods, and that's a very good thing.
"Objectivity", "rationalism", "freedom", or some other totally non-ideological word, I'm sure.
Because that two weeks you spent writing excellent code is mostly useless unless you have a way to get feedback on it. As a customer, you've given me no value.

What if you finally hook up UI to the sub-component and the customer/stakeholder decides they don't like any of it? You could have known about it earlier.
Vancouver is currently a mess of low interest rates, FOMO, foreign buyers, and supply issues. Due to both the city & BC government having a large number of developer donors, it's also a very partisan issue.

For the longest time, the ruling provincial party was of the opinion that this was not a problem and high property prices was due to the strong economy (circular logic, as real estate & construction are the drivers of that.) They were getting pretty hammered in polls. On top of that, they cited a ~5% ish foreign purchaser number based on 19 days of data, only to then bump it to 10% conveniently on the release of new data a day or two after introducing this 15% tax...so yea. It's a disaster.
my initial reaction was that going against Amazon is a suicide mission, but on the other hand Wal-Mart probably doesn't have a choice? Also this is great for consumers since WalMart prices are extremely competitive due to their supply chain innovations
Serving different things on https and http is completely to spec, though. It's not really a server misbehaving.

(I do agree that it's contrary to expectations, but I'm sure this doesn't stop sites from relying on it.)
Do you know what data is transmitted via GCM? It could be a simple "hey check your email" ping to trigger a sync. I doubt the message size allows for much more anyway. It might also be encrypted, whatever it contains.
Works perfectly fine here in the UK
NYC does try. But overall it's beyond a disaster. Is there even a thinker anywhere here? People just sit for hours in traffic and just know one cares.
Only in a tax system with 'taxee had to prove good faith' basic rules, which luckily aren't that common.
That was my take away too. There are no mentions of studies or simulations to back up the primary claim that inflation would eat away any UBI based benefits.
FastMail's servers are in the US. The company is based in Australia.

I recently moved my email to FastMail and I really like it. I even prefer its web interface over Gmail's. Please explain why you feel that FastMail's service is inferior. My experience has been to the opposite.
UBI is quite literally the opposite of capitalism. It is a form of socialism, so saying it makes 'all forms of socialism obsolete' is a very strange thing to say.
I live in Canada and basically Vancouver, possibly the Canadian city with the nicest weather, is completely cut off to me. It's not even like Silicon Valley etc where there is an industry and you can find a job that pays better here, it's just completely too expensive.

There was a website called something like "crack house or million dollar Vancouver home" because knock-down quality bungalows were selling for over a million dollars there.
If you are concerned about privacy and gov tracking and getting their hands on your email then whats the point of migrating from one "unsecure" email provider (gmail) to another one (fastmail)? With some of the fastmail servers in US jurisdiction your email is just as safe as with gmail.
Ghost seems to be doing well, see their blog.
Not really: people can point at the stability of the Fifth Republic and compare it against the previous regimes, which were quite the opposite. That creates a lot of inertia against scrapping a system of Republican government that currently fundamentally still works.
Downgrade?
In Kenya, Safaricom’s Little Cab App Goes Head to Head with Uber
I wonder how that works? I found an "open source" project that apparently requires OSX server to generate "com.apple.servermgrd.apns.mail" push gateway certificates: https://github.com/st3fan/dovecot-xaps-daemon
> 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.

IME that's very rarely the highest-value thing you can be doing for the business. It's not worth paying for flexibility that you're never going to use, and it's not like it's going to take longer to refactor later than it would to do it now.

> The 'business people' are not qualified by themselves to say that the cost-benefit analysis of the refactoring is worth the effort.

Yes they are. Cost-benefit analysis is their job. It's your job to give them an accurate picture of the costs and the benefits.

> 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.

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.
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We had pretty good (but not amazing) unit and integration tests in many of those systems, and a willingness to manually test the systems where we didn't have tests.

If we had to lean on a QA department to get this stuff done, I'm not convinced we would have been able to actually deliver that project.
+1 on almost everything you wrote. I also moved from Gmail to Fastmail in almost exactly the same way some months ago. I agree completely to the plusses and minuses you mention.

I would like to add one minus though. Any good old smiley like ":)" in emails gets replaced by a yellow smiley face icon. I hate to see yellow smiley faces where someone wrote colon end parenthesis. It's all done client-side though, so noone else has to see it. Have been in contact with FM tech support and they seem to be uninterested in adding a checkbox to turn this nuisance off. Otherwise an excellent, excellent service.
I was waiting for something too, even something flimsy. I guess the takeaway is that until this is studied and probably put into practice in pilot programs like HN's and others', we're just going to be subjected to load of ideological rhetoric.
> It's amazing to me the people that openly express sociopathic tendencies on HN.

It's more amazing that the majority of people, both online and in meatspace, prefer to sweep reality under the rug.

What's sociopathic about being able to recognize and deal with these types of situations as they come up in your life?
The author doesn't explicitly say "tracing" but he specifically calls out Dapper and Zipkin in the section, "“It’s slow” is the hardest problem you’ll ever debug."

Dapper - http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36356.html

Zipkin - http://engineering.twitter.com/2012/06/distributed-systems-t...
God, now I really feel my age, thanks guys ;)
It is good to look up the scientific method before arguing about Popper.

(Hint: It is in the first sentence of the second paragraph on Popper's wikipedia page. Also, your own link had the term as a related link.)

Enough for me, bye.

Edit: Another hint, Popper was amongst others professor of "logic and scientific method" at the University of London. It is also noted on his Wikipedia page. In short, you argue Popper without understanding what Popper argued about.
>UBI is quite literally the opposite of capitalism. It is a form of socialism

How would UBI transfer the means of production from capitalists to the workers? Don't confuse socialism with a welfare state.
> Quoting a nice idea from the article: "One way to achieve this might be putting work items through what I would call an algebra of complexity, i.e. an analysis of the sources of complexity in a work item and how they combine to create delays. The team could then study the backlog to locate the compositions that cause the most work and stress, and solve these knots to improve the codebase. The backlog would then resemble a network of equations, instead of a list of items, where solving one equation would simplify the others by replacing unknowns with more precise values."

Does this even mean anything? How would it work in practice?
"So far, my conclusion is that this is a service that is technically more than capable of replacing GMail, even for power users. Furthermore, FastMail’s primary (and in fact only) business model is to charge you money for making sure that you can keep on emailing like a boss. Together, this makes for an offer that I could not refuse".

Totally agreed. I'm a Fastmail's happy user, glad to pay for such a great service.
Out of curiosity do you work from home or do you happen to work for a company that's located where you are?
The problem with your argument is that it assumes technical progress continuing eternally. For instance Malthus himself was mostly preoccupied with the idea, that the population might increase faster than the agricultural output. Through the use of chemical fertilizers there has been a breakthrough in how much food we can produce, so the malthusan catastrophe was averted. Agricultural output is still growing, but there are physical limits.
> intended to provide political cover for the elimination of social programs

Yeah, because that's the whole point of UBI. It removes all the middlemen, all the politicians/ideologues using those programs to buy votes, the welfare cliffs, and replaces it with something that just helps people. Like with any change though, the ones who benifit from the current system (and I'm not referring to the actual beneficiaries) are going to be opposed to it.

It's really going to to come down to whether you care more about implementing your ideology or actually helping poor people (and everyone else).
In regions where housing supply is constrained it seems very likely those costs would increase in line with any increase in incomes from UBI.

This makes me think the state getting involved in housing provision would have a much greater impact than UBI.
In this case it was less about gov tracking, and more about the depth of the machine learning profile GOOG builds of its users.

That being said, decentralising a bit to providers that don't specialise in user profiling but more in email handling, is a step in the right direction.
I am having a strong Deja Vu right now. I remember EXACTLY the same scenario happening a ~year ago. Hmmm

http://qz.com/417617/every-united-airlines-flight-was-ground...

and again http://www.pcworld.com/article/2945552/united-airlines-fligh...

and again http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/05/29/computer-system-shuts...
> Which may well be the right choice for the business at that point.

I think it may be imporant to raise a few points for consideration here:

- what may be a good choice for the business short-term can also be a very bad choice for the business long-term

- many - personally, I believe most - businesses don't care about products they make or services they give, they care about the money they can make via those products/services; ergo, the quality doesn't matter beyond the point the customer already paid what they were expected to pay

I don't bring it up as criticism, but only to point out that there are two completely different worldviews here competing. One, shared by many developers, is that the product is what that matters. The other, shared by the "business types", is that the profit generated by product matters.

I also feel that part of one becoming a professional developer is a shift from thinking about quality of work to thinking about its money-making potential. Which I personally consider a poison to the mind, and it makes me hate working in companies. But those are just my personal feelings.
No one is pretending all politicians are equivalent, but this constant drum of so and so is just like a Nazi or Hitler is simply a naive intellectual exercise.

A politician using fear of something and promising something else is their bread and butter. It does not make that politician like Hitler.

Every President skirts around the constitution. You can look up numerous examples where Obama has bypassed it or took a very liberal reading. Does that make Obama Hitler now?

The DNC emails recently came out where journalist were making sure their stories were okay with the DNC before publishing. That is the opposite of a free press, yet no one is calling them the Nazi party.

Picking and choosing pieces of history in a vacuum ignores how that history came to be. Trump/Hilary may be terrible candidates and/or Presidents, but neither of them is Hitler. The US has survived bad Presidents before and it will survive one again.
This presents a mechanism of travel, but no proof travel has happened.
A friend of mine is a big advocate of space habitats. Apparently they are far superior to Mars as a place where we could expand in foreseeable future. Maybe someone knowledgeable could chime in?
"The Five Eyes, often abbreviated as FVEY, are an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. These countries are bound by the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence."

Austrlia is spying on your email on Fastmail the same way NSA is reading your gmail.
How Businesses Have Leveraged Pokemon Go for Millennials – AlphaGamma
Jekyll on Github does not allow plugins. Though I'd say that this seems to be a bit an overkill, one shouldn't need cntainers for this kinda task. Best approach would be local build+rsync/ssh for a normal hosting. For github, I'd build the site targeting another git repo that I'd push to github.
You would still have some meta-data :-)
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Neoliberals want to make you poorer, now? Say it won't work, fine, but don't say it's plot to make you poorer.