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I think the biggest problem in Finland right now is that if you wish to do anything, you start by filing a form to the government.

TEKES and Sitra both evaluate everything they put money into. That evaluation is more likely to be aligned with political climate than business prospects. (There is hardly any difference with big business, but big difference with small ones. Sort of "Nobody got fired buying IBM" -effect is at play. Currently shown in the "strategic areas" in TEKES funding. Which happen to be local current tech hype words.)

The Social security office hands out "Start money" which amounts ~1000e/month to starting business, given that you employ yourself and the accept your application. No slow bootstrapping allowed.

Practically these programs don't enable anybody to start a business. You can't plan on getting anything form govermnet, because they might always just fail your application for whatever reason. Which means your businessplan has to work wihtout goverment assistance for you to start it. If you then get assistance, that's just lucky, but unfair advantage. Especially the "start money" seems completely wasted.

The Finnish goverment budget has deficit, but their revenue is huge and credit rating still very good. The smart way IMO would be a government loan guarantee to every business. Let's say SBA style, 75% of total summ guaranteed up to 100 000 thousand. That's peanuts to big companies, but would help immensely any startup. No government evaluation needed, as the lender would retain some risk. Gov would actually spend little money while doing a lot. Win-win, but seems like no politician allows ceding power from government institutions to markets.

>The government’s investment arm Tekes is behind almost every Finnish startup.

Local Finnish private investors are less than thrilled by startups completely hand picked by government office? Color me suprized.
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We tend to bundle that work up and include it in tickets with the full acknowledgement of the rest of the team.

"Oh, since we're adding new email features, we'll need to clean up some of the old email code. That will add additional complexity to this task, so we will estimate it higher."

It works, allows us to still track the impact on velocity, keeps everyone informed, and makes technical debt clear and trackable.
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It isn't just diffused over the entire field of view. It's a lot like how CRTs work with the beam scanning over the whole screen line by line. The lidar only needs a very short pulse of light for each given point so it's a lot like taking a laser range finder and just moving it from point to point. Even though it's a very short pulse, the intensity of the light coming back from whatever it hit is exactly the same as if it was shining on it constantly.

If you took a 1W laser and were scanning it back and forth over a 90° by 90° fov it would be impossible to see outside in daylight but if you could take a snapshot of how it looked at any particular instant you would see a single bright dot. All it takes is just long enough to trip the photodetector on to get the delay between light out to reflection received, any additional time shining the laser at that point is just a waste so you can scan a massive number of points many times a second.

Fundamentally, a lidar sensor does not need anything higher intensity than what it can detect when it's scanning a single point.
Bryan Cantrill's Delicious Lipoma would be a TERRIBLE name for a rock band.

However, I now am very excited for Cantrill's Usenix talk. That will be... interesting.
Do I Actually Care If My Friends Like Me?

I mean, there's plenty about my friends I actively dislike but we have more binding us together than tearing us apart.
"So I must have been doing something right. But I did a lot of things wrong, too. The winner had also open sourced his implementation and when we started discussing and comparing our implementation, we learned a lot from each other."

i loved this bit. rather than hyper-competitive moat building, they chatted and helped eachother.
Speaking from a UI developer perspective, this never works :) But YMMV, I suppose…
This one is epic http://www.linux-magazin.de/var/linux_magazin/storage/images...
There are so many great books here. I'm surprised to see nothing by Palahniuk. I've given Choke and Survivor as gifts.

Also disappointed that George Saunders didn't make the list. His essays in The Brain-dead Megaphone are great and his short stories, especially Isabelle and others is The Tenth of December, are heart-warming.
What about commit names? Here's what happens when you use git for commiting changes that do not support a meaningful name: https://github.com/github/developer.github.com/commits/gh-pa...
It's news that "think tanks" aren't always as independent and impartial as they claim? Really? Before the Brookings "controversy" nobody at the New York Times suspected that these organizations, which are closely linked to the political parties, government departments and corporate interests, might not be as independent as they claim? Now that I find hard to believe. Or maybe they had a tiny inkling and this shocking example of DC lies and corruption pushed them over the edge and they finally produced an article about their dark suspicions.

Are we to believe the "newspaper of record" has just discovered the tip of the iceberg that will eventually lead them to conclude that the Beltway think tanks are, in part, propaganda mills for the Dems or GOP, or DoS or NATO and the government's corporate sponsors? What next in this brave new world, the NYT discovering it shilled hard for the Iraq invasion of 2003 and is shilling hard for Hillary Clinton in 2016? What other "blurred lines" will this fantastically brave and honorable newspaper pull into focus for the public?

I don't know what's weirder...the article itself or the fact that it's taken at face value by the target audience. Looking at the parts in isolation but never ever zooming out and considering the links and connections between them and the whole it reveals is a sign of these interesting times. Likewise, the earnest and perplexed "study" of various symptoms like, Trump, say, but never ever honestly considering what caused them to appear in the first place.

Is it simple ignorance that drives this insane game of charades or is it something else...like a deep fear of having to face an unbearable truth...a fear so deep that outright self-delusion is preferable to holding power to account. Accepting the consequences of what an honest evaluation of government and corporate power would reveal about where American society is heading...well, that is something the mass media is definitely NOT prepared to do.

Which raises the question of what role exactly is the media playing in all of this? The Times article partially answers that question. When a person or persons repress uncomfortable thoughts and feelings, these will find an indirect outlet, often without the denier being aware that this is happening.
What if your component has a lot of nodes? Do you re-render them all? I guess that's the reason they made react. Even if the state of component changes most of the DOM nodes of render component stays the same and re-rendering them would take too long.
shouldn't this be an AUA?
He’s got one army: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Guard#Pontifical_Swiss_G...
A simple RSS reader to quickly scan headlines
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Isn't immigration making up for the low birth rates? It seems to be here in Europe.
I find the cardboard boxes that are massively larger than required for the contents to be very annoying, like I've been bait-and-switched.
A few defining characteristics of scrum that lead to overly optimistic predictions:

* The prediction is made in a meeting while your head is "out of the code".

* The prediction is made in a group setting, rendering the decisions more easily subject to peer pressure and groupthink.

* The prediction is made up to 2/4 weeks in advance of actually doing the work.

* The prediction is made without risk of overshoot attached. Risk is critical metric which scrum conceals.

And the main defining characteristic of scrum that leads to pressure, after all of that unwarranted optimism:

* The prediction is designated as a commitment.
Why don't they hire a property management company to rent it out? Whatever's preventing that sounds like the real problem here.
For me perhaps its "Out of Control" by Kevin Kelly : http://kk.org/outofcontrol/
No methodology can save us from managers that don't understand what they're managing. For various reasons this is more common in software development than other fields.
Why does a car need a radio? Why does a cell phone need "candy crush"? Why does your TV need a remote?

None of these things are necessary, 99% of them aren't "need to haves", but they are "nice to haves".

I've gone down the "home automation" path, and i'm currently about $600 in and with that i've got most of the light switches in my house connected, as well as my thermostat and stuff like door locks and the garage door to the house. So keep in mind that I have a bias here.

Individually there is no one thing that is "worth it", but together it all adds up to a nicer life to me. Being able to turn all the lights out after i've gotten comfy in bed, being able to make sure the door is locked after i took in groceries, turning on the porch light for the delivery guy, or even checking to make sure the garage door wasn't opened when our car was broken into a few weeks ago.

Nobody wants a "Fridge that needs gmail passwords", but they want a fridge that can show your calendar. A fridge that can message you when you run out of something, a fridge that can show some photos from an album on your google account, or can send usage reports to your email on how much power it's using, or show you the weather or even the news. Now there are much better ways to implement all of that than just storing the gmail password and using it, but less technical people don't know that. Don't conflate the users' want of features with them wanting the security flaws as well.

Now I still don't think any refrigerators on the market have reached the point where it's worth the extra money for the "smart features" (at least as of a year ago when i was looking for a new fridge), but I feel it's close. After all, a refrigerator is a large appliance very in-view in the middle of your kitchen. People have put things on them for years with magnets and tape, it's a prime location for a touchscreen that can control not only the fridge, but can show and control other parts of your life/home. IMO it's a perfect location for something like a screen, and a pretty logical extension of what people have been using that space for already for years.

But to be honest I want other appliances to be "connected" first. Namely the dishwasher, and the clothes washer and dryer. Being able to schedule those, send alerts when they are done, to have the dishwasher determine if it's full enough to run now, or if it should wait, etc... Those are the things i'm looking for.
> USA is the only superpower

> Eggheads

...

Anyway, the military is one way of projecting force and power. It's also the most obvious way. But to say it's the only way, or the only way that counts, is very naive.
In a non-broken organization technical leads (or equivalent) have same level of authority to guide development as feature driven personnel and the necessity of features vs. quality can be triaged in bright daylight.

If the organization is not sane, that's another thing of course (and often the case, sadly).
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The benefit to me, is that if I create a design, I can then make money from it.

Someone like Amazon can't just come along, copy and paste, and steal my idea and make money from it.

On a more general term, this would surely encourage originality, as there is a direct incentive not to copy

However I can see the other side of this argument, where big corporation buy up a large number of Design patents and use them to institute a tax on a certain item.
One article worth reading is :

Machine perception of time, if only nanoseconds were seconds

[1] http://umumble.com/blogs/hardware/machine-perception-of-time...
"Lean" is supposed to address quality and habitability more. 2 of the 7 tenets of lean focus on it:

Build Quality In

Optimize the Whole

I've never practiced it and my only exposure has been reading some of the book "Lean Architecture". But it certainly seems like an improvement over Scrum which seems blind to some of the most critical things in developing complex innovative systems. In fact I'm convinced that Scrum was designed to work with basic information systems where a feature consists of essentially adding a new data entry form or report for a database (e.g. a lot of web stuff)
How biotech executives profit from legal insider trading
I will always blame whoever most recently left for everything. The rain, the chair being broken, the mouldy cream cheese in the fridge.

No jokes. It's Brads fault.
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Yep, I haven't been able to finish the book either, and what I've read didn't stand up to all the hype.

Taleb's Antifragile I did, unfortunately, finish, and it's way, way worse.

Now that I think about it, both books have a similar pattern: the first dozen or so pages present an interesting idea, which does give you a fresh and useful mental model in understanding the world. The rest of the book, unfortunately, meanders off into superficial redundant applications of it and pounding into the reader's head how anti-establishment Taleb is.
I've also posted a tutorial video for the tool here: https://youtu.be/in1ItGKDr98
“It is not greed that drives the world, but envy.”
Same in Nordics (Finland, Sweden, Norway).

It's not true that there wouldn't be point in using teletext even if the same information is available over the web. First of all, the access to teletext is convenient if you just have the TV remote - browsing with so-called "smart TV's" is painful (bad UX) and switching to an actual computer involves changing TV input, and losing possibility to watch TV picture and hear the sound at the same time.

Lots of people here use teletext e.g. to check up sports results and latest news on headline level.

And, as someone pointed out, even the Web version of Text-TV pages is often good: it's snappy and fast even if you only have a 2G connection.

Sweden: http://www.svt.se/svttext/web/pages/100.html

Finland: http://www.yle.fi/tekstitv/txt/P100_01.html

Norway: https://nrk.no/tekst-tv/100/

Denmark: http://www.dr.dk/nav/tekstttv/indexx.htm

(These are the public broadcaster pages; commercial channels have their own, similar ones.)
> Not sure why one would want to attack that.

Well, that would make it less obvious.

1. Take a short-position on Delta on the stock exchange

2. Sabotage a piece of infrastructure that's important to operations

3. ???

4. Profit!

:)
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LLC with one Canadian involved gets around this I believe.
"Keeping your installed OpenBSD packages up to date is hard and time-consuming."

I find it very easy. I follow stable and upgrade every six months. Upgrades take about 30 minutes max.
OK medical in general, obstetrician in specific. Or perhaps dentist. Certainly the whole pathology sector.
Does it seem a little embarrassing to anyone else that this is necessary? OpenBSD is supposedly the most secure nix platform available, and yet users have to resort to third-parties to get functionality that is available on nearly every other nix system by default.
Clickbait head. Lose it.
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Lose that client
Keep in mind that Scrum was designed by consultants working for organizations that don't understand software development. So they designed a process that can make sense to people outside our industry. In order for it to go well, though, the person running the Scrum process needs to know how shit really works. This is rarely the case.
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"The user-facing design needs to drive the API interface, not the other way around."

I don't see how this need would nullify the ability to modularize code.
I use the swiss teletext app daily, it's the fastest way for me to consume informations and sport results.
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I don't see what information Carla Schroder is adding to the ownCloud/Nextcloud split.
Sounds like you've never worked in a shop where they think "agile" == "no need to plan ahead"
I don't really have time to watch a video at the moment, but I'm not really sure what the significance is. If you allow look-ahead, I would think that most popular languages can be parsed with an LALR(2) parser (e.g. yacc/bison). I've even implemented the SIP protocol with an LALR(K) (antlr) parser and SIP is insane :-). I often wonder about Ruby, especially with the leading period that's allowed. But there are a lot languages with really simple grammars out there. I can't imagine that python is anywhere near the top of the list. In practical terms, simple grammars make it easy to write tools. I suppose you can also save stack space if you have simple grammars, which may be significant in some situations. Other than that, I'm not sure why it matters. Can you elaborate a bit more?
Teletext still works in Italy on digital tv. By heart: 103 latest news, 110 news index, 201 football index, 202 serie A results and 203 leaderboard. 295-298 results and leaderboard of major European leagues, 261 other sports index. If I have the tv switched on it's faster than my tablet.
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Well, each blog post is under 30 kb without images. So page load is very fast. Speed is one of the main reason why I use my own static site generator. Since it is hosted on Github Pages, it depends on how fast Github can deliver the page :)
I really don't see the literary merit in a lot of these pieces, but obviously this is an interesting step forward...
Well nobody has a need for 99% of the crap in our lives. You don't need a car, you don't need a TV, you don't need a computer.

But it sure as hell is nice to have all of those things.

I find it funny that in an article about how manufacturers are locking down their devices to only the features that the consumer needs (effectively having the manufacturer tell you what you need), you are going around telling others what they need.
Yes, I know, though I wonder if there will be a day when the halberds are taken away for "health and security" reasons.

(Yes, I know they also have actual handguns hidden somewhere.)
Wal-Mart to Acquire Jet.com for $3.3B in Cash, Stock
This comment is a generalization
Please don't put your tomatoes in the refrigerator. Now you've gone and corrupted them.
thanks a lot for this clarification!
I thought Henry VIII did a thing to make divorce permissible for kings and prices? Is there an official place where the succession is listed and laws detailed?
>though zealotry is perhaps the wrong word here - zealots were a Judean movement that rebelled

historically you'd be right, by definition you are wrong, zealotry is fanaticism

violence may have played a role in the past but times change
How is the performance on this compared to a bare metal install?

IE how many FPS do you get with a native Steam install vs Dockerized Steam on the same hardware?
Confirmed: Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash
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Looxury! At this very moment I'm tethered to my phone for the 4th day in as many weeks because British Telecom is incapable of supplying DSL to the country for which they're the monopoly provider.

I'd be all about a fibre-optic cable on telephone poles, since they don't seem to be able to keep the existing copper ones under the ground connected to anything.
No one can compete against free? But that free is limited to Facebook. I bet a lot of people would like more than that and would be willing to pay for it.

>Governments exist because the people themselves prefer to defer such matters to people that presumably know what they are doing.

That's strange logic. Considering that people often do not prefer such deferment and are often pissed at government decisions.

I'm merely stating that it is not the government's roll to determine if the individual should or should not have access to a certain product.
I also found it interesting that Teletext is supposedly dead, but then the article itself links to another article that mentions how art contest winners will be broadcast in Germany, in the Teletext of broadcaster ARD... so... which one is it?
Yes, but designers are a minuscule part of society. Laws shouldn't benefit a few at the expense of the many. I guess incentivising originality is the benefit to the many. Are we better served by original furniture designs than by the ability to build our own furniture, however it may be shaped?
>I propose a deal: Let's destroy their culture.
> I understand this approach, and it works many times. But when the porting is delayed until the last possible minute, it's more likely that hacks are put in because the requirement turned into a hard deadline. Instead of defining a sensible OS abstraction layer, the developers might find and replace "Windows XP" with "Windows 7".

Which may well be the right choice for the business at that point.

More generally, it's not like doing it now makes it faster than doing it later: you have to put the same amount of total work in either way. In fact you have to put more work in if you do it now, because you will have to ensure that any subsequent changes don't break the porting. If you have other tasks that are a higher priority than porting, you should do them first, almost by definition. Of course if the port is your highest priority then that is what you should be working on (again almost by definition). Porting should be left as late as possible, but no later.
Kanban is the software development equivalent of the Concentration (Memory Match) card game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_(game)

As though a useful, usable product design (architecture) could be divined thru piecemeal revelation.
How are they monopolizing the market? It seems that the prevention allowed Google to monopolize the market, instead of competing with Facebook if it was allowed.

>Facebook doesn't let them decide. Because they only provide Facebook. It's an illusion of choice.

They can decide between having Facebook or not, no one is forcing them to use it. Government is forcing them to not use Facebook. That's an illusion of protection.
> I'm curious - does anyone else think that the equality that matters is equality in material outcomes?

You should not forget that inequality is not only about material outcomes. It is also about power to decide economic matters, such as how capital is invested. Shouldn't these matters be decided more equally by all members in society?