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>Extending the length of the 25 minute pomodoro. If I’m in the deep work flow, I’ll continue past the 25 minute alarm.

Someone told me that its 25 minutes because it prevents you from building too much context in your head that prevents you from taking a break at 25 min mark. You can't do creative work if your brain is filled with lot of context. eg: TDD goes really well with pomodoro because you are only thinking about the next test and you can break on failing test so you can pick up right back. Is this a reason for 25 min for Pomodoro?
The best software developers I've worked with have been average "coders". Instead, they have an awareness of the broader context that allows them to deliver more business value, even if their implementations may not be quite as good as their more "advanced" peers.
Just gave it a shot, and it seems pretty good. It does not have all the features, and scrolling is a but clunky, but one could always submit a PR, right? :)
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This is a brilliant way to put it. "Fear of shipping manifesting in 'productive' ways." We tend to manufacture busy work instead of focusing on what is necessary right now. (OP himself might be in a situation to seriously consider incorporation, so may not be applicable at all.)

I find so many startups in APAC incorporating in USA, with justification that they "need" a US company to get customers, or get a better payment gateway etc. That's just focusing on the wrong problem.
1. Get enough visitors by getting the word out.
2. Convert enough trials.
3. Talk to (email) real users.
4. Get to the point where they are ready to pay.
5. If objection clearly indicates payment experience, terms of service (location of company), then consider incorporation.

By setting up subsidiary / parent company elsewhere, you are committing to too many overheads in time and money.
Sounds like exactly what calm.io was doing before they were acquired.
Fogbugz (also created by Fog Creek) is actually a pretty good alternative to JIRA.
Yeah upon closer examination, I realized how poor the selection process was. Having it biased based on people that use hackerrank makes the list pretty useless IMO. It's far from an accurate portrayal of the best programming schools in the world.
This looks like a great project. How easy would it be to extend to ARM CPU?
Two of Razer’s prototypes were stolen from its CES booth
Harley Davidson was caught doing the same emissions scam and no one seems to care. Granted there's less vehicles from them compared to the 11 million Volks but still.
I've been to modern doctors who spent time with me, and in all honestly--I'm getting no benefit from their "wisdom".

Now the family doctor, whom retired in 2000, was time well spent. He palpated for tumors. He looked at our retinas. He listened to our hearts. He found a slight mitral valve prolapse in my mom, and myself.(Something every doctor I have seen since has completely missed, or didn't care enough to listen for?). And yes, some times the rubber glove was brought out.

Since I have good insurance now, my doctors spend time with me, but I have found talking kinda useless, unless I'm in for a specific symptom. Too many they don't seem to really listen.

They love to run up the bill with a depression screening. They mention fish oil. Blah--blah--blah.

I sometimes think a person without good insurance might be better off. They are left alone. They aren't put on dubious anti-depressants. They arn't over treated. They won't get a testosterone patch. They won't get any edgy new treatment--that might be found to be dangerious. I will admit; I'm no fan of modern doctors, unless it's for emergency medicine. Maybe that's affecting my judgement? I don't have the respect for doctors I once had. I haven't been to a doctor recently whom I didn't walk out of thinking---He's/She's just in it for the money? I have a psychiatrist that put me on a addictive drug years ago, and has literally held me hostage with the mandatory office visits, and they are solely for money. I look back at 99% of my doctor office visits, and I can't think on any ailment they caught by spending talking time. "So give me the comprehensive blood test, and order a MRI if I"m complaining of upper right quadrant pain--please doc, and refill any addictive prescriptions for a year. I really don't want to talk to you, unless that office visit includes blood work, or something other than just yacking, and running up a bill!"

I'm now fifty. If you get through your twenties-thirties without a mental malady; you succeeded. Life in America is hard on the psyche, and that can cause so many health problems--high blood pressure from self medicating? Weird pains? Most of it will be psychosomatic. In terms of health, I can offer what helped me: cut back on the alcohol, exercise a little, eat less. Get that pneumonia vaccine if you're constantly getting chest infections. It's one of the better vaccines.
Probably not, no. JIRA, Confluence and Bitbucket all offer free tiers. Also, they're really good products for the niche they fill.
Actually anarcho-capitalism permits anarcho-communist, anarcho-syndicalist, and mutualist enclaves (in addition to any voluntary organization) within of a polycentric legal order. It is the most inclusive variety of anarchism.
It's selective justice. Imagine driving down in a 2009 Toyota Camry with your well dressed family on a well paved highway in Alabama at 78 mph in a 65 mph zone on a nice, clear sunny Sunday a safe distance away from the preceding car at the same velocity as quite literally every other car in every other lane you see. Clearly not posing a safety threat, not lane-weaving indicating any form of compromised faculties or dangerous behavior, no threat at all really. However, Smokey the Bear state trooper Bob decides he doesn't like the way you look. You could be black, you could be wearing a Ralph Lauren Polo with a NORML insignia on it and Bob just happens to hate pot, you could have an atheist bumper sticker and Bob just got on shift after a rousing sermon from Pastor Jedidiah. Justice imposed on selected individuals is not justice.

Ethically, were he to enforce the law to the letter with an egalitarian approach, the first person he saw as he got on shift exceeding 65 should have been pulled over. As soon as that ticket was issued, he should have done so for the next person, ad infinitum until he was off-duty.

In actuality, if every single arrested individual stopped one day and decided to exercise his or her constitutional right to see his day in court like that prep school[1] individual did, we'd see what would amount to be a DDoS on the system incapable of handling a caseload of such magnitude. Pragmatically, an ADA will use a very effective method - known colloquially as "charge stacking" - to intimidate the accused into pleaing out a charge he would likely beat[2].

Though I'm totally with you on the classist component - should Michael Jordan's son commit a crime, he'd be far less likely to be convicted than whitey-mc-Kentucky-Meth-Mouth Tim's son due to the same lack of resources afforded to him.

[1] RE: your rape scenario -- Compare this aggressive attorney http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/28/us/new-hampshire-prep-rape... vs these less fortunate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_jogger_case

[2] Even more compelling is the motion for dismissal those defense attorneys could raise in aggregate on 6th amendment grounds. In the state of California, the 45 day cap could be breached fairly easily if all of the defense attorneys concurrently suggested to their clients to enter a not-guilty plea. You'd also see a marked decline in arbitrary traffic stops, as arresting officers would be forced to spend the day in court rather than in speed traps.
It's not better, it's just a million times more usable. A Ferrari is nice, but for day-to-day stuff I'd rather use a Volvo :)
>Because he maintains that installation and you don't?

So why is that an acceptable mentality for "in-house" developed software but if you buy something proprietary from a third party where you have zero say over what lib/langs are used, it's A-OK?

>Check for conflicts of this version of this library with other software currently in use (by other developers maybe, or even by the same developer).

That's not the case when using containers properly. Every service gets it's own environment so whatever version of lib-xyz is needed, even if incompatible with other parts of the project, are walled off for only the service that needs it.

>Add it to the watchlist on the dozen or so security mailing lists and newsfeeds he checks daily.

Ok this is where I completely agree with you as we have been working on this at our company. My personal solution seems pretty logical though so hear me out.

1) Build a docker file that fully documents the install of your service as well as any OS level dependencies. Ensure that any config files are external to the container to allow sysadmin access.

2) Document in a central location (say an internal wiki) what the external services, servers, repositories, developers, and admins are responsible for the service.

3) Automate builds of containers from repo and add automated testing post containerization.

4) Sysadmins monitor repositories for changes to docker files or wiki articles for new services, databases and libraries as well as taking note of library versions. If an issue with a particular lib or service is discovered, the config files can be edited to point to a new service. Or a new container build can be triggered with zero changes to the source code, but a forced update to the OS packages for the container.

In a tight situation where a developer might not be available on-call, the sysadmins have more control over a similar proprietary product but don't have a workflow for messing with source code (which they are likely not familiar with regardless).

There are solutions to the issues you raise (often trivial ones at that), they just require an adjustment to workflow and an increase in communication between developers and their sysadmins.
thank you so much - i was using an app (nuzzel) to aggregate... and i thought that's where the "web" link was. didn't look carefully enough @ this page. gracias!
Trust me, as someone who routinely interviews new grads from many "top" schools, MIT still has great programmers. So do CMU and Stanford, neither of which are on this list. HackerRank is unintentionally demonstrating that they are not a factor when it comes to evaluating interns and new grads from schools that are already well-recognized for having talented students.
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Many are combining Direct Health Care with a Healthcare Share. It's a co-op model that's not really "insurance" and is meant to be drawn from for only serious issues. So kind of what you'd expect to cover with a high-deductible plan. It works more like a community who reviews and decides whether they want to contribute to your bills.

One of the biggest advantages of these healthcare shares is that they're ACA exempt. Meaning, no fine. But there are other requirements to be accepted. Especially with the religious healthcare ministry ones. But they are very affordable.

For example, I know people who use http://www.chministries.org with a local (AZ in this case) DHC such as https://www.arkfamilyhealth.com
I went to San Jose State University which is in the top 25 in the US and top 100 worldwide and I didn't feel like it was anything special.

In fact, most of the people in the program were pretty bad at coding.
So you moved the goalposts. You were talking about the economic thing to do. I responded accordingly. Now you want to talk about ethics and morality.
> 15 years ago, when a project would kick-off, as a sysadmin
> I'd be invited in and the developers and I would hash out
> what versions of each language and library involved the
> project would use

To wit: the new ideologies in infrastructure management are actually designed to solve the underlying problem that necessitated that kind of working setup. Why should the version of a lib in one part of the software somehow pose existential threat to the infrastructure? Engrain the dependencies into contained, independently deployable pieces, and make it so that app-level code can evolve without bringing down the world with it. Make it easy to revert back, and/or utilize phased rollouts, and you've got the ability to iterate quickly, keep pace with external dependencies, and it no longer has to be some scary thing that requires big back-and-forth meetings over mundane details.

(As for software that releases often, maybe it's an over-correction, but there's a reason things don't work as they did in the glory days, and that's because they were never really that glorious.)

This doesn't necessarily rule out the expertise of systems administration, because the platforms for all of this need to be built & maintained, and there's still a lot of work to be done on network boarder security, etc. It's a movement that focuses systems administration to systems administration, instead of having to be this big org arbiter of microdecisions, and all the baggage that goes along with trying to be the gatekeeper of all.
That's on my to-read list hahaha.

Though, for some reason, I've never seen many people recommending it.

Would you care to share your thoughts on that book? I'd really appreciate it!
Bullshit article and methods, click-bait and misleading title. I'm sure students in decent universities have more to do than solving HackerRank challenges. Actually, I've never met a good programmer that would waste their on some useless ranking; they prefer solving real world problems and have real projects.
It is kind of a shame, I found the way the filters on Fogbugz to be a pretty interesting interface.
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Nim compiles to C by default and the generated code is pretty efficient - comparable to regular C.
Sorta. That is hard data on price of some things. My question is data on what people actually spend.

Consider, many people buy dollar beers at the bar. What I buy at the grocery isn't even that cheap. So, again, straw man.

I'm not asking what people could spend. But what they do spend.
Oh god... Let's hope they don't spoil it. I just made a paid subscription...
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Thanks. I'm still waking up.
Acting like that to your employees is a quick way to make them disappear. Apple was Apple, nothing was going to make them leave, no matter how much of an asshole Jobs was. I would listen to a CEO/Managers tirade once, before I started looking elsewhere. It's only a job.
You may appreciate this video:

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Don't forget "dev". Everyone is a "dev" now.
+1 for security theater. If 1Pass app is compromised, you're compromised - period. Even with app permissions, does it not still have file system access? I don't see how this change would prevent it from accessing all your Dropbox files anyway.
Also, since Dropbox uses an exploit to gain permissions, I'd say we're placing blame in entirely the wrong place here.
On the other hand, the 1Pass folks in that thread are giving all the wrong reasons. "We won't do this because it's hard," is very different from, "we won't do this because it offers no benefit in any scenario."
Users who are security conscious aren't using Dropbox to sync their password vaults.
So much this. If I am getting my degree from an established/well known university I am much less likely to do something like this. This is even more the case for top students from top universities.

My business school had all graduating seniors take a similar assessment and liked to advertise that our students scored in the top 99% of all universities on the test. The thing they left out is that the top 50% of business schools did even bother with the test.

That didn't make the assessment totally useless, but it also didn't mean that our graduates were in the top 1% of business schools.
It looks like those numbers are hard to quantify, since South Korea's expenditures include e.g. salaries for Korean workers at US bases and the provision of non-cash resources and services:

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-allies-20160930-sn...

I suppose if the government in Seoul no longer felt it was worth the cost, they could stop paying and ask the Americans to leave.

EDIT: Oh yeah, why did you put "protection" in quotes? That's exactly what it is. The US doesn't pay North Korea to break the South's windows, if you'll excuse the mixed metaphor.
Fascinating read. What is the title of the book?
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Everyone is an "engineer" these days. It doesn't matter what your title is, as long as you get things done.
From that Wikipedia same article, it says

The Talmud teaches homiletically that the word amen is an acronym

The etymology section shows the word has much more prosaic roots. The Talmudic acronym seems to rather be an interesting backronym.
Sysadmin is getting automated. There is not reason to know it.
+1 - the election was an 18 month+ campaign. Constraining it to just the casting of a vote seems too narrow.
Wow. This makes me really glad I don't buy cars and don't patronize sports. What a load of crap!
I used to advise friends to stick to the 25 / 5 minute break, but more because I thought that this enabled one to sustain this rhythm for longer. However, currently I'm experimenting with longer pomodori, with the reasoning that if I'm in the flow / deeply working, the value of that flow is too great to take the risk that I might break it because of an arbitrary break.

I think a better advice now would be to experiment, and see what suits you best in terms of sustainability, output and fulfilment.

Today I my pomodori were between 25 minutes and an hour. It's home time now, but I feel great due to a large part of the day filled with flow.
I feel like hackerrank is a poorly done product run by people who don't know what they're doing or what makes them a good or bad developer.

I believe that more strongly now.
I don't believe he exceeded the definition at all. It's naive to think at this point that the media isn't using the term "election hacking" (in a headline), as a means to push the false narrative that "the election was hacked". I think its limited to think that it was simply an unfortunate title, when put into context with 99% of the other headlines they put out. As OP stated, they are throwing a hissy fit because they didn't control the election.
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Sure, but those are still all very different from software development.
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I very much doubt big enterprise clients use the services at bitbucket.com. Standalone is where it is at, and BitBucket (previously Stash) is a worthy competitor to GitLab (which was pain to setup just few years back). Big companies usually don't move at the speed of javascript frameworks.
Actually, I think Rob Pike in a talk said something along the lines of "they are writing code as opposed to programming", implying that "coding" is sort of "mindless programming". The output of "coding" is code, the output of programming is a program, which may or may not be code, though usually is.

Edit: Upon some googling, this comes from the book "The Practice of Programming" by Kernighan/Pike.
I am curious about the context you mention. The button itself, as far as I know has only one case when the context is specific. That is if you are on the homescreen, but not on the first page, a single click will bring you to the home page. Otherwise it will bring you to the last page you have been on.

The camera/music controls are linked with the control center but that is operated differently. Double tapping is definitely a weird choice for accessibility.

Also, you can also triple click the home button as an accessibility shortcut. But it has to be enabled.
Not related at all but I interviewed for Trello in 2016, the meeting was super cool (video call in the browser, nice RH girl apparently very excited about my profile), the job was full remote, they needed help to move from Backbone to React and they have millions of users (!) so I was quite hyped. Then I received an email of refusal from another guy containing only a quote from the CEO. I asked for feedback (probably my spoken english was not good enough but I wanted a confirmation) and the guy replied me that he couldn't say anything for legal reasons... and the same quote from the CEO. Cold shower experience.

About the topic: we used JIRA in my last job and it was not that bad. Curious to see what they are going to do with Trello.
This sentiment is simultaneously terrifying and comforting.
I'm guessing hackerrank attracts more people NOT from prestigious schools, because they don't already have the status of having gone to Stanford/MIT/Berkley/whatever. People from those schools probably aren't wasting their time being "ranked".
Schneier seems to focus a lot on a "smoking gun" type of evidence, which the US intelligence community probably does have and it doesn't have an incentive to publicize. Intentionally or not it appears he spreads doubt that Russia was in fact involved.

However the leaking of the documents was done so sloppily there was a significant circumstantial evidence that private parties have used to conclude that it was done by Russians or the Russian government. Arstechnica can see some of the obvious signs that don't require any specialized training: http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/06/guccifer-leak-of-dnc...

Schneier mentions "techniques go back to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" - well, identifying motives is one of them and Kremlin definitely has an interest of doing something like that and has done it before.
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Just a reminder, the second place [Sun Yat-sen Memorial Middle School] is actually a high school, not a university by all means.
Yeah, I agree. I've worked with many alternatives but JIRA shines compared to the competition, especially at managing agile workflows.
>Making cars is "statistical murder". Bad schools are "statistical murder". Selling cheesecake is "statistical murder".

Yeah, the question is how much. Cheating on emissions tests is definitely more murder than selling cheesecake.
I don't want to be that guy but I don't see this language as usable. Not because of technical reasons but because... I mean... look at it. I can't understand what's going on. It's way too complicated.

type Vector* {.importcpp: "std::vector", header: "<vector>".}[T] = object

template `[]=`*[T](v: var Vector[T], key: int, val: T) =
{.emit: [v, "[", key, "] = ", val, ";"].}

What the hell does that mean?How the hell do I check this is correct at a glance?

I know "it's easy", "you'll get used to it", "after you learn the syntax it'll be great" but I mean... no one is going to buy that.

I get that it's supposed to be condenced but I don't necassarily buy that as being the end-all-be-all of language construction. I think that's actually quite harmful to programmers. If a single character means the same as 10 lines of a simpler language then you're more likely to hide a mistake in your code.

I'm not saying it's wrong either, I'm just saying a majority of programmers will be afraid of it. I rather like what swift is trying to do with condensing well-known operations but I don't think Nim and many other ML-inspired languages do it in an approchable way.
I don't think anyone other than Facebook/Microsoft/Apple/Google can afford Slack.
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