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I don't agree with it either.

Case in point - I've been in a situation as detailed toward the end of the article where all the devs on the team were feature leads, except we still had a designated overall lead. Just 4 devs on the team, all of us were very sr (principal or sr. principal devs). But the overall number of stakeholders in the product were probably well over 30 people, so it was still a big coordination effort.

It was for a fairly large legacy enterprise healthcare product ($200M per annum revenue). Each big feature had its own core team with other stakeholders in the company -- usually these meetings would be with a half dozen other people. The main core team for the overall product had about 20 members. Each feature had its own requirements/design documents (usually 30+ pages each). The main requirements/design docs would sorta be like a high-level index linking to these sub documents.

It was a waterfall process of course, and once the designs were mostly there the entire team would work on all the features together. The team lead would assign what people would be working on at any given time, but beyond that the feature leads would break down and delegate the overall work based on who was working on their feature. Typically each feature would be worked on by 2 people at a time and sometimes 3.

The team lead wasn't actually the strongest dev, he just had the best 'leadership skills'. He was the one our manager trusted most and generally spoke to about overall project health and deadlines. He was the one who cleared pathways with other teams/resources (ie. ensured QA was on target to line up an availability window, how many engineers they could provide, etc).

I don't see any points in the article that really argue against having a designated lead, and I think it's always a weird idea that a team lead (note I don't say 'tech' lead) is seen as anything but a manager who still codes. It's not an architect, the strongest dev, etc. It's a person with a best management/leadership skills with perhaps a solid high-level grasp of the domain. In a small team/product yes it can just be just the strongest dev, naturally rising up. But in these situations I've seen usually the key is there are not too many overall stakeholders... say a team of 2-3 devs with less than 10 people involved overall.
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From my perspective, the world of the public school is actually what society is, like it or not. People don't encounter drugs, weapons, or sex in the adult world? The adult world doesn't have it's own "school of hard knocks"? News to me. (Sometimes this of course is due to poor life choices, but it's probably better to witness poor life choices firsthand.)

I'm ambivalent on homeschooling and it largely depends on motivation. I can absolutely buy homeschooling as an alternative to a poor public school district with no opportunity for quality education. I don't buy homeschooling as a way for parents to hide their children from "the real world" or other more ideological reasons, which from what I see sometimes does happen. This is a bad strategy; after all, in so many career paths who you know is just as important or even more import as what you know.

My guess is that homeschooling will produce both some of the best students and some of the worst, depending on the parent.
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Okay, I'm sorry.

The article is well written, my brain just turns off if I read higher math.
You're right, but I think he's also making a wider argument that C isn't good at fixing bad application or data design choices choices for you.

He considers that a positive feature, not a bad thing. You're the inverse.

I can see both sides of that tbh. It's a justifiable - but myopically idealistic - point.

But man he's being a pretentious ass about it.
That's what I was thinking. Maybe they're looking for smaller, like that awesome 'gag' flip-phone in Zoolander.
"You'll probably want to keep cron. But if you don't, then you should stop and disable the service. Because otherwise when trying to remove it with apt remove cron it will try to install postfix!"

...wat?

Is that actually a thing?
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Surveys, the same way National Parks are valued at $92bn

http://time.com/money/4389722/national-parks-economic-value/
> As far as she was concerned, the government's description was the end of the story.

This is what people don't get about China. "Ooohh yeah, China will take the U.S down a few pegs, go China!" this is a very popular sentiment on reddit's /r/Worldnews or with any cynical millennial on reddit. They eat up all the blatant propaganda that comes out of either Xinhua or the People's Daily (China's very own English language, government-owned & ran propagand... erm, I mean "news agency"). China literally, not figuratively, brainwashes its citizens. And they do so from a very early age: Japan is evil!. I get a kick when I hear people say how China hates Japan and Japan hates China. I'm sorry, but relatively speaking, it's a one-sided hatred -- just go search youtube for people asking random Japanese people down the street what they think of China. There are dozens and dozens of them, all by different youtubers and done at various times over the last 10 years.

What they don't understand is that if China replaced or supplanted the U.S as the world's sole superpower, things would be a whole hell of a lot different than they are now. China would most definitely exert its influence in a way that the world has yet to see. The U.S is far from perfect but they are, by *orders of magnitude, the lesser evils. They're simply benign by comparison. Under Chinese rule, it would most certainly not be benign and many of our freedoms would erode the more powerful China got. Until one day we wake up to a global "great firewall". Sounds like an exaggeration but as someone who has lived in China, I assure you, it's not.
I can see the appeal, but it still seems way easier just to put a cheap computer in eah location with equivalent compute power to a phone and carry around the SSD.
I've done grind and aero. It's not espresso. It makes a good cup of regular coffee if that's what you're after, but if I'm going manual like that I prefer my french press.
everything about windows upsets me.
Keep in mind how heavily we are taxed at higher income brackets, higher living expenses, and also that "US salary" is a huge overgeneralization. Startups in third and fourth tier startup cities might pay 1/3-1/2 of what's in SF, etc. Comp varies a lot.
> make them one way?

They are one way. Almost the whole of Manhattan is.

Broadway is already narrow. Seventh not so much, but car traffic there can frequently be as bad as foot traffic. I'm not sure what a good answer would be.
I thought long-term steady increases in BTC value would be because of long-term steady increases in volume, but volume looks like it's fallen off a cliff. What is going on here?
I really miss the laptops that had physical switches and the little sliding camera covers.

I'd even settle for a good case that just covers/muffles all of that.
I want a backend service I can call from my statically generated (i.e. jekyll) websites, to implement things like blog comments, analytics, etc.

A true cloud platform where I don't have to mess with admining and provisioning servers and containers. I want to just upload my code and pay for the cycles and bandwidth I use. Aws lambda for http basically.
Took the quiz ended up with a blank page, broken image. Fix your stuff bro.
I want more Sandstorm apps [0]. Specifically:

* an issue tracker (like Bugzilla)

* a money tracker (like Gnucash)

* a Q&A thing (like StackOverflow)

* a meeting organizer (tracking agendas and minutes)

[0] https://apps.sandstorm.io/
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You should give Macports a try if you haven't already! I run it on my macbook, and it's made a world of difference. 99% of everything I use in Linux can be found in Macports, and it "just works" for the most part.

You can't get kernel-specific things like strace, but they do have just about everything else. The big sell for me was being able to install the GNU versions of everything.

Macports keeps everything in /opt, so you also never have to worry about it clobbering anything that MacOS expects to work in a certain way.

edit: some background on Macports vs Homebrew - it's basically a vi/emacs kind of a thing. Homebrew utilizes the MacOS system stuff a fair amount, and installs everything to /usr/local. Macports tries to keep everything fully separate, and installs into /opt.

My personal experiences with Homebrew weren't great, but others will probably have the opposite opinion.
But wouldn't trying to solve some of these problems make more sense than a turn toward homeschooling? Maybe get more mature, self-actualized people involved in the lives of all children, not just the privileged ones?

I don't see how promoting homeschooling as the alternative to schools is a good solution here.

Also, a turn toward homeschooling can be a total wildcard based on the values and intent of the individual parents. The movie Dogtooth[1] is somewhat relevant here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogtooth_(film)
It's not a snob issue. It's just that if you prefer an espresso-based drink, that is what you prefer. If I preferred a drip-based drink I would have many cheaper options.
What kind of revolution are you expecting? Loads of people already have smartphones and I don't see them switching, and you can already get a flip phone for < $10.
I wish there was a good javascript library to handle table (filtering, sorting, paging, ...). The best I found so far was datatable, but it is not perfect.
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It's worth a try! If you're looking for a good editing environment for it, There's a good VS Code Haxe extension that works well - it has code completion and a few other nice features.

And if you're ever unhappy with the language and want to jump in and wrangle the syntax tree yourself, it has a decent macro system.
not to reply to own thread on theme, but want to also add ketogenic diet was also used for treating "epilepsy," now known as a general class of seizure disorders, which are related to many issues, among them brain lesions. I have zero medical background, and if you are searching on this stuff, my point is that beyond the political stuff, there is something up with sugar.
A bit off topic here.
I'd like to appreciate how tiny, the payload for the site is. The main js, is just over 18 kb. Too small for a SPA. It loads quickly and reacts reasonably quickly. Good job on that.

Noticed that the analytics related js file alone, took over 11kb. We can do a better job at this.
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Cloud is problematic because of cost of bandwidth and storage compared to local solutions. Until bandwidth is actually plentiful, uncapped, and cheap, I would rather have a local solution.
"[explanation of acpid] But I'm on a virtual server that I don't intend to suspend/resume. I am going to remove it for fun and see what happens. ... I was able to successfully reboot the droplet but after halt Digital Ocean thought it was still on so I had to Power Off using the web interface. So I should probably keep this."

Science! :D

I love the approach of systematically going through and prodding everything to see what things do and whether they're actually required. I remember doing this on my Windows 95 machine, stripping down running tasks using Task Manager. Of course, in Windows 95, if you killed the wrong task the system would just reboot... :P
Nope, I'm including that. It's anecdotal obviously but I've only known one person - ever - who did that with a regular watch.

Was kind of gross tbh.
Generally, that's what I used to do, but a lot of drivers are now so dependent on the GPS that I have to give street-by-street instructions.
Would it store music, or just information about music?
I wonder if they've done any research on what sort of recording keeps people on the line the longest.
>Are you going to claim that a parent is more qualified than them?

There is lot more to teaching than a bunch of "qualifications". I don't know about the educational system of your country. But in my country, people learn to pass exams. And often lessons memorized line by line (In my enginnering college we had students who learn computer programs by heart to pass lab exams). This means, one the exam is over, they are as good as new. Blank state.

And when these people come to teach, they often do little more then orating what is written in the "text book".

This is about professional colleges that I am talking about. But it is a little bit better in schools. Simply because the subject is simple, and any grownup with enough education can teach themselves enough of any subject to teach in a class. The same goes for a parent.

Add to this the fact that a parent can spend a lot more resources to teach their kids than any school teacher, and can follow any method that work well for their kids, and more importantly, they know their kids better then any school teacher (I mean, they should)...
Most people don't mind immigrants coming to make a living --so long as they follow the rules most other legal immigrants follow. What most people contend with is people just coming in because they want to. Can I just land in Japan and get a legally obtained job without a visa, can I do so in Mexico as well?

More or less the same rules every other nation has to control who comes in (and out) including Mexico, South Africa, etc. We are not outliers in this respect.

It's a long process --sometimes involving multi-year even decade waits for people looking to legally migrate. It's not fair to them or to me (when I want to go overseas) to have people jump the line.
Every site which uses the Reddit upvoting model is subject to this type of attack. The correct name for it is a Sybil Attack[1]

I suspect a large portion of Reddit accounts are sockpuppet[2] accounts, alongside Product Hunt.

It's the Law of Manipulatable Numbers where if you put a number next to somebody's name online, then the person sometimes (not often) tries to manipulate the number.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockpuppet_(Internet)

Also noteworthy:

http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/trump-clinton-debate-online-p...
I also use VMWare Workstation Pro. The other big difference is the file access times are significantly faster on VMWare compared to Vagrant.

So for me, as a PHP developer, my page loads time are 5x faster for VMWare compared to Vagrant
That sounds pretty cool! Im in the same boat but with mac instead of windows. Wonder if i could do the same thing. I mean, Xorg is available on mac too.
Trees are nice, but holy cow...people with too much time and money on their hands making stuff up to justify whatever.
What math? The math of nespresso vs k-cup? I know it's more expensive, but you can't do espresso with keurig. If you're talking about the math of DIY you are not taking into consideration the math of labor and time.
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Thanks for the feedback, I thought people would appreciate a more minimalistic UI similar to Hacker News, but I might have gone too far :)
I guess, sorry if I am coming across as touchy. I'm a diabetic and there is a ton of misinformation out there about it!
Well, allowing script to run in email, and insult to injury, running them in "local" (ie full privileges) security zone didn't help... not locking down the filesystem and jet (which has fs access) active-x controls earlier on from browser (and flash, ugh) access were significant.

It wasn't just IE though, Netscape had plenty of points to exploit.
gunicorn --- thanks, I'll look into this.
A bank robbery still has about as much in common with copyright violation as with pirating actual ships. I am not threatening anyone when committing copyright violations

A much more convincing argument could be made that theft and copyright violations are the same. Buy theft has quite low punishments (at least in California).
Plus, it's not necessarily a good idea to hire random people to run lab tests.
It's actually very crazy. I've witnessed delivery trucks double park and instantly get parking tickets. I think (and the article seems to confirm it) they just look at the ticket as a price of doing business in NY, and pass it along to their customers.

The city actually could really enforce this by towing these trucks, which would put a stop to this practice, but they are probably addicted to the ticketing revenue and don't want to put a stop to their "free money."

Then there is the problem of how would the restaurants and stores get their inventory if the delivery trucks are effectively banned from parking?

It seems like there might be a great technological solution that involves rooftop deliveries by drone, but that is probably some years out, and likely to be stifled by paranoid regulators that don't like the idea of UAVs flying so close to skyscrapers, especially in an area that is constantly under the threat of terrorist attack.
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As someone following Bitcoin I would mostly agree with this. While Bitcoin cannot be considered a proper (or in any way safe) alternative to Fiat I think it's growth highlights a dissatisfaction with central banking as more people become educated about it.
Java bytecode is standardized. So any JVM implementing the spec should be able to interpret the output of javac:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se7/html/jvms-6.htm...

Python bytecode on the other hand is not standardized: its bytecode is considered an implementation detail of CPython and can vary from version to version.

Your example reinforces my point.
There is nothing subtle about the differences of prefix and postfix expressions. That is speaking generally, not only in C. Complaining about that might as well be complaining about parsing techniques, and that's where they would quickly be proven uninformed.
He didn't make a personal attack, he attacked his position.
Congestion pricing. Eliminate parking for sidewalk space and include delivery zones or dedicated delivery times with the street closed to traffic otherwise.

On street view I see maybe one delivery truck per block. Otherwise a very large portion of the street is dedicated to empty car storage. You've seen delivery zone parking before, right? The entire problem is how much space private vehicles take up versus the amount of public space that is available to people. The imbalance is huge and unfair and it's a matter of when, not if, that balance is going to be adjusted to a reasonable state.
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The Norwegian Broadcasting Service just announced that he had conceded defeat to the head of the electoral commission.

However, they stressed that Jammeh had not yet publicly conceded.
Comparison: http://i.imgur.com/33y9izG.png
It would seem like it has but not for all domains yet (google.be showed me the old font, .com the new one)
I know I'm in the minority, but I'm currently on a work computer with the resolution at 1024x768 and it makes your website landing page jumbled and overlapped with text. (In Chrome at least)

And the quiz un-takable as the text overlaps options.

EDIT: Went to take it on my iphone 6 using safari, and the text is still wonky during the quiz.
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You don't get jail time for running a bat-corking company, or for making hockey sticks with "illegal" curves, or for deflating footballs, or for building a stock car that intentionally doesn't meet NASCAR standards.

I don't see how this is any different. People are going to cheat. They should get punished for cheating. If that cheating involves fraud, they should face charges for fraud. But it should not be illegal to drill a hole in a baseball bat and fill the void with ground-up bouncy balls.
How is cheating an a professional game ('esport') not equivalent to financial fraud when cheating in an other professional game (physical sport) is?
The difference between arguing, discussion and debate is largely one of opinion.
Is it ketones that animals pickup from cancer patients? I've heard of dogs able to 'sniff' out a cancer diagnoses.
Exciting times. I'll be watching this, but I'm very curious to see what happens with stellarator designs which appear to be much easier to operate (if massively harder to build).
Could this be people trialing cyberweapons/defnses? (Not necessarily a state actor, though not excluding that possibility either.)

"If using x% of our resources CF is degraded/loaded y%, then there is z% chance they'll be disabled by W cyberattack."

I've never been sure how scientific red team is, particularly blackhat ones.
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I don't know that I fully agree with you. I've seen some "deadlock breaking" where necessary discussions were cut short by, like, 5 or 10 minutes and the resulting "compromise" architectural decisions ended up being disastrous.

I've also seen team leads set agendas and drive discussion in such a way as to bury important issues that would otherwise come out while wasting time on minutiae.

In contrast I've never really seen one of these fabled technical arguments over tabs vs. spaces that lasted 4 hours and wasted everybody's time. If nothing else, sheer boredom prevents discussions from going on longer than they have to.
Why are lab grown diamonds still priced in the 1000+ range. Does it actually cost that much to manufacture.
Making up research cost?
Just high profit margin?
Why exclude the second and third largest economies from the picture (just because they are not "western"?

The reason most advanced economies don't need mass deportations is because they enforce immigration laws more strictly for jobs and for schools --therefore they have fewer illegal immigrants (due to fewer incentives). On the other hand we allow more legal immigrants than all those other western economies --which is a good thing.

I'm okay if those same people just get back in line with everyone else, by the way. It may take a while, but take your turn like other legal immigrants.

PS. Latin American countries from time to time do conduct mass deportations, so it's a bit misleading to say none do. Even Angela Merkel said she'd deport upwards of 100k immigrants she first allowed in (thus legal).
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I did it for a while (not on a Surface Pro) but the longer I ran that set up the more I grew to hate it since all of the work I wanted to do was in Linux and thus Windows quickly became a bloated and unnecessary distraction. So in the end I wiped Windows and installed Arch.

Maybe with Windows 10 and the Linux subsystem I might find myself happier with a Linux VM, but honestly I feel more at home running Linux bare metal anyway,
Thanks, this is good to know. I've only had limited success with VirtualBox--my guests' performance takes a dive when I assign them more than 2 virtual CPUs (both Linux and Windows guests).

Looks like VMWare Workstation is on sale for $162 today. Might take the plunge.
Are people actually boggled by the "++" operator? If they can barely wrap their minds around that, why are they even in programming? Seriously!
I sometimes wonder, if some Potemkin Tech Lead- all fraud, but scaring the shit out of the big ones, would be good. Sort of challenger in the ring, who constantly keeps the tech giants fighting, afraid to loose there markets.

Of course, such a scam, to make it feel real, they would to have a product at some stage.
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