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It's funny that you bring up CMMI in the discussion. CMM(I) is nearly the antithesis of Deming's approaches toward quality management. What's really interesting is that Deming's approaches were adopted by Toyota decades ago to historically great effect (sadly with few other large examples of named successes in the business world) while Taylorist approaches (including CMMI) a handful of other Japanese daibatsu and especially US companies back to the 19th century. These companies have had vastly different growth trajectories over time, but when it comes to quality most consumers in surveys will associate Toyota with it over Hitachi, Mitsubishi, and Fujitsu (I believe all of these companies are full-blown CMMI 2.0+ adherents and champions). Similarly in the US, what has Six Sigma really done for companies that have adopted it? GE is hardly known for anything in the public eye resembling technical chops, for example, and most studies show that companies that adopt Six Sigma more than 70%+ of the time lag the S&P 500 upon adoption with no long-term recovery afterward either (perhaps Six Sigma adoption is not a cause but a simple correlation with poor performance similar to private equity oftentimes getting a bad rap in the public eye).

When even the US military - one of the world's foremost investors in management and leadership research - has largely abandoned command and control (the military equivalent of Taylorism) we really need to ask whether structures that enforce a management/worker caste vs. one that empowers those closest to a problem are effective beyond any meaningful scale.
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Actually, she went to prison for lying to the FBI - which is pretty much impossible to avoid doing if you spend any amount of time talking to them.

Don't ever talk to federal investigators. That's your lawyer's job.
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This is one of the main motivations for me wanting remote work.
I'm excited for the AMA to see if any of this is touched on. There was a whole string of unforced errors enabling these theories, and what's stranger is that none of them were abrupt choices under pressure. There was plenty of room to offer some kind of proof of life after these theories started circulating, and I'd love to know what drove the decision to not, say, have Assange walk up to the embassy window.
And note that you sought out a comment not addressed to you...

Am I correct in thinking you are new here, and unfamiliar with the format of HN?

Just FYI, comments on HN are usually not addressed to any particular person. The format here is actually an open discussion that anyone can participate in.

aggressively demanding that somebody educate you

Could you link to the comment of mine which you believe is an "aggressive demand"? In terms of literally reading the text, none of my comments are a demand for anything.

I'm also confused by your suggestions to pay a therapist. Do you also believe that people who agree with you are uninterested in learning if they fail to pay a therapist, or is it only people who disagree with you that you believe require mental help?
But this whole article doesn't even mention any of that, even in passing.
I paid accident claims for over five years. The absolutely "Fuck you, you were in the wrong place at the wrong time" totally random stuff was a shockingly tiny proportion of the claims I paid. The vast majority were either 1) accident waiting to happen because people are irresponsible asshats or 2) people who knew how to work the system and wanted to milk their insurance for all it was worth.

And the thing I found hardest to swallow about that job was that many of the totally random, shit happens claims from good people not milking their policy for money got damn little money out of us. It seemed incredibly, horribly unjust to me.
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I've been using Pomodoro for about 5 years now and it has been a major life changer. I don't use it at work, I use it to manage finite time pre or post for my side projects and outside learning.
Here is a writeup on my system.
http://juvoni.com/pomodoro-time-forecasting

I've developed razor sharp focus over the years, and pomodoros are like my focus shock absorbers for med/low energy periods or times when I'm most likely to be distracted.
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Not on my 2002 Corvette. First gear and low throttle opening invokes CAGS, the computer assisted hear selection.
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Perhaps that would be an interesting area of study. I think the lack of dexterous limbs probably inhibits the pig's ability to solve certain problems they would otherwise be mentally capable of tackling.
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Even Java had to create some escape valve for its explicit exceptions, just because there was a huge set of them that could appear literally anywhere.

But then, exchanging that for return values does not make your life easier in any way. It just means you will have to write redundant tests, and will have a flow that is exactly equivalent to the exceptions flow, after you simplify the redundancy down.

You can have your compiler or IDE making the list of possible exceptions for you. But that list is always too big to reason about anyway, and for high order functions, it may be the entire set of exceptions available for your code and some more the it can't discover at compile time.

Haskell has tried a different take on the problem with error monads. It's clean, simple, and does not solve the entire problem. So, it also has exceptions, and they are even worse there than at the imperative languages, because everything is high order.

I think people are entirely justified in ignoring the problem and moving on. Unless you want to dedicate yourself into research, there is not a clear path to solve it.
I don't make enough to have a liquid savings for these events. Credit works.
Thats about all Atlassian is good at. HipChat has become an abomination of a client across Windows and Mac. Every new release is about fixing functionality they broke with the previous release and even then it still isn't fixed.

Logging in from multiple places has always been terrible. I'll be logged in on Mac and available but randomly get emails as if I'm offline. I'll be online on my phone and get e-mails. I wan't emails of messages when I'm actually offline and not logged in but HipChat doesn't seem to care and emails me anyways sometimes. The option to turn off email notifications isn't very configurable either. Its off or on.

Look at the release notes for windows and mac and search for reconnection. Just about every release has a fix for reconnecting going back to 2014.

https://www.hipchat.com/release_notes/mac
https://www.hipchat.com/release_notes/windows
Because everyone else is still using git.
Last time I was in Hawaii, I had the opportunity to interact with an octopus in the wild. I will never eat one again.
I do not understand the disconnect that developers have with understanding all of the benefits that it brings.

Because they've never worked on an old codebase, because front-end technologies change so often and everything just gets re-written anyway. It's a waste of time worrying about this when the code won't make it to is first birthday.

If you were speaking to seasoned C and DB developers about stability in the tools and the platform, you'd be preaching to the choir.
I find that approach works best for about three days. I suppose three days of work is all my little brain can hold! Three days of crunch followed by one or two days of downtime is insanely productive for me.
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> Throw a rock in the blockchain space and you'll find a different definition of blockchains, or what it means for one thing to be a blockchain or not. It doesn't really help anyone to argue for hours on end over this, when it's largely a matter of opinion.

It is true that "blockchain" is increasingly a literally meaningless marketing buzzword (e.g. R3 Corda, a "blockchain" product that brags of not actually containing a blockchain). However, this doesn't really help convince.
Riku is 10 years ahead of me!

https://chris-lamb.co.uk/posts/10-years-of-debian
Well, why not stop eating them?
This feels a lot like equivocating between "site X hacked" and "site X DDOS'd", except on a more urgent topic. There's a lot of FUD achieved by failing to clarify when digital attacks are known-and-inescapable risks (leaks, legal harassment, site takedowns) and when they're actual system-level attacks.
> They’re Software-as-a-Service on steroids.

I've been writing about this for a while and I'm thankful someone else "gets it" on a level. The key to understanding why blockchain data structures are a big deal for software (including AI) is realizing how they enable change in business models and the more customer focused "business layers" in which those models operate.

It's worth pointing out that SaaS is a evolutionary step up from the older MSP models. Assuming software models do not change over time is dogmatic.

Blockchains, like Bitcoin, enable a means by which suffering/cost of work can be encapsulated in a transaction that cannot be altered later by the consumer of that suffering cost or the producer of that suffering cost. This means the suffering (work units) incurred by the AI (or the human involved) can be preserved in a way that is immutable and used later for efficiency improvements. That's not to say the work done by the AI is necessarily valuable, but by making it immutable the work done by the AI can be judged/measured to have been worth the amount of resources it took from something else (i.e. an other's suffering) to do the work it did.

It is my belief that adversarial machine learning may benefit from blockchain based data stores.

All of this is very important given our current infrastructure, and all software models that go with it, resemble Swiss cheese from a security perspective. Super viral growth models may make VCs and a few scrappy millennials wealthy, but they don't scale long term for customer satisfaction. We certainly don't want an AI going around creating super viral growth models that drain the world's economy either!

Blockchains enable "do better". "Do better" is the first step on the path to enlightenment.

I should note that my use of the term "suffering" relates to the cost of causality, either by one's own choice or by something outside one's own choice. It is not meant to refer to the human emotion of suffering, although the two can certainly be related.
Arch Linux is super awesome and super lean. It has one requirement, that you can read. The documentation is solid, and you'll be up and running in a very short time. Your first install might take long, but do not fall into the this-is-frustrating trap. You'll be rewarded pleasantly for reading. It is also a bleeding edge distribution, basically the packages are updated pretty frequently and there is no concept of a release - cycle as such... in theory. Not to mention you also get to hang out a lot with a cool guy called Pacman-
> tl;dr - Make your software easy to build, don't just package up a mess.

You've pretty much hit the nail on the head. You forgot one additional bit though, please for the love of god don't have a crazy web of dependencies.

I see a lot of Node and Ruby apps online that I think would be incredibly useful in the Fedora package collection and have considered contributing them on more than once occasion. What always stops me is the 50+ dependent NPM packages or Gems they require that aren't already packaged by someone else.

The incredibly annoying part is most of these packages provide minimal functionality that you could have just implemented yourself, or that shouldn't in turn need another 3-10 transitive dependencies of their own. I get that not re-inventing the wheel is generally a good idea, but please try to pick your dependencies wisely if you want to see a distribution include your package - because a volunteer maintainer likely doesn't want to be responsible for your package + a dozen or more dependencies if they can avoid it.
Care to link to sources for server-based and server-free decentralisation that aren't your own blog posts?

(Also, that blog post you linked is flat out wrong -- Bitcoin, Ethereum, et al are all instances of eventually consistent systems that can and do prevent double spends)

Still -- if you're willing to sacrifice anonymity for the sake of avoiding sybil attacks, then how do your nodes federate without a central authority?

This is why having precise definitions matters: With each question I ask, we're eroding away the guarantees that such a system provides, and the implementation requirements with them. At what point do we just give up on "blockchains", and just adapt a run of the mill distributed log-based db instead, which gives you BFT and immutability, and where the asset layer is easy enough to add to the top?
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> As an aside, did you know that the word "Amen" actually is a acronym in the Jewish language that means "El melekh neʾeman" (or AMN) which translates to "God, trustworthy King". (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen)

I did not know that. ;-) Thanks!
I love how completely alien they are compared to us. The sort of decentralized nature of their nervous system compared to our path of evolution. (I'm no marine/evolutionary biologist so I'm probably butchering the terminology...)

I loved reading the two pieces Sy Montgomery wrote that are in Orion Magazine.

https://orionmagazine.org/article/deep-intellect/

And the follow-up:

https://orionmagazine.org/2011/11/interviews-with-an-octopus...

(Edit: Si -> Sy)
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I'm just saying you have to compare apples to apples.

My diesel Peugeot 306 1.9 did about 45mpg no matter how hard I drove it, whereas my friend with the same model with a 2L petrol engine said he was using roughly twice as much fuel as me. The later common rail 2L version was supposedly capable of 55mpg
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If you are filling your son's developmental needs[0] well enough and consistently enough, he will turn out just fine. Parenting isn't rocket science, specific behaviors have specific results and we actually know a lot about "what are the right behaviors?"

By the way, at 2 1/2 years old, any "bad parenting" that your son received can still be corrected by adjusting your behavior accordingly. Insecure attachment is simply caused by the child not trusting the caregiver enough, so none of it is "set in stone", trust can always be earned through consistency.

In addition to reading the linked article below (highly recommended), maybe you could also sign up to take an attachment test with your child? Not sure exactly how this works, but it would give you honest feedback.

You can also look through this guide on "how to raise nurtured children"[1] and see if anything interests you.

[0]: http://sfhelp.org/parent/d_needs.htm

[1]: http://sfhelp.org/parent/guide6.htm
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Maybe something along the lines of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory
Right, microservices isn't "architecture". It is - whether they know it or not - an admission that "we can't do architecture so we'll chuck it over the fence and let the ops people worry about how it all hangs together".
Actually, I would rather language and tool designers have a go at a true System Admin job. There is a reason PHP gets installed by default and Ruby on Rails does not.

Frankly, at the end of the day, most businesses don't want something that was "working" breaking. All the conflict comes from that one desire. There is a reason System Admins have to do the "Patch Tuesday" dance and despise any software that just updates by itself. Getting yelled at because Chrome updated to a version not supported by your ISV or your local developers is an amazingly fun experience.

Yep, System Admins have to be the company nanny. It sucks, but the apps need to keep working.
It's not just a "way of feeling"

(>"I can now completely sympathize with how he felt in this moment.")

It's a way of communicating.
It's not in anyone's interest to do so. No valuable natural resources to strip. Too much integration cost for South Korea. China finds a buffer state useful. US gets an excuse to keep troops and millitary equipment stationed in China's backdoor.
True. I had to setup Jira for our team and must say it was an awful experience. Too many options, hidden in unintuitive places, awful (too verbose) documentation... Everything is just so difficult. Horrible UX. But it was still the best on-premise solution I could find. Trello on the other side is a delight to both setup and use.

I think buying Trello was great move for Atlassian. No way could Jira compete with them in the long run. And now they are even safe(r) from new Trello-like competitors. Brilliant move for Atlassian. Too bad for us users... :(
I certainly meet necessities and a few luxury items but people think 100k is like rap star money or something. We don't make enough to buy some frivolous luxury items like a designer bag or an actual new car. We make enough to spend more than normal on groceries, go out to eat a few times a month, and pay the rest of our debt. Not enough to have a decent liquid savings account. Every time I get $500 saved up I end up with some new medical bill that I forgot about.
To call out something that nobody else mentioned: because when you to use that newer version of pycurl or pyASN1 it's probably going to break the system level tools for running patches, handling license enforcement, and being able to keep the database online for other teams.

I've had this problem over and over again (biggest one last being with the US Census). Folks insisted on upgrading a python library and auth to the hosts stopped working.
> there's a reason Perl is the sysadmin language

That would be mostly Python these days. If someone here would touch Perl on my systems, they're gonna have a very bad day. Sure I wrote stuff in Perl back in the days, but those days are over.

I see this as Perl's problem: to be good enough at Perl, you'd have to frequently use it, but Perl is in my eyes only suitable for quick hacky run-once scripts - which should not be written frequently, so you shouldn't be good at Perl. My Perl is pretty damn rusty these days.

If someone is still writing large scripts/apps in Perl these days, I question their judgement in technologies and ability to keep up with the times. Sure you can write larger scripts in Perl - but what's the point? You have to take care not to make things unreadable, while when using something like Python, it's much harder to make a script that's unreadable.
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His actions do not suggest such noble goals. I don't really care what he claims.
Also Pipelines which is like Travis CI built into Bitbucket.
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I always wonder what it means/takes to run/maintain/manage a successful open source project. What are the logistics, pain points and great things. Just looking for general discussion.
They taste ridiculously good. However I am conscious of it, and I rarely have it.
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More specifically, he wasn't right because he was an asshole or tyrant. I've run in to folks who worshipped at the Jobs alter, and adopted his personality, in the thought that this leads to success (one person basically said it in so many words - 'it if worked for him...').

Jobs' legacy on the behaviour of so many future companies will be an interesting one, because some people only looked at that one side, and ran with it.
I think I meant that as a joke, so I've probably never seen more. Sorry to get your hopes up!
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> So the idea that came to me was, why do we need to consume publishers' content using regular browsers?

Because content creators need to make money and that is how you make money on the internet (Google and FB included).
I understand that it feels wrong. But I'd suggest the parallels are closer than you think.

First, the folks who "fight for the right to be treated as a human being" also stand to gain monetarily (and otherwise) from that treatment.

Secondly, suppose Kalanick's desire to build Uber is ideological in nature rather than merely profit driven - i.e. suppose he views building Uber as a way to shape the world for the better. (I do believe he views the world this way.) Would that redeem his actions in your view?

Incidentally, I really appreciate the intellectual response. It's far more interesting than the general anger consuming this thread.
Don't worry, VAG will invest in a Trump property and all the charges will be dropped.
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It removes the underlying need for a Sys Admin to worry about the versions. Admins should see this as a good thing, but in my experience many dislike it because it takes them out of their Gatekeeper role

Yes and no. You can have strong feelings about which containerization technology to use and which version, without caring in the slightest about what's inside those containers. This is the attitude I have adopted because it offers a win-win.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4PWP8uL-1o
PC-BSD has changed name to TrueOS.
Mind if I ask what, in particular, is making you move?
> Yes, you have some extra code in your code base so it's less clean. You also have a stable environment as a result. The first affects only your personal preference. The latter affects all of your developers and users.

Backward compatibility has real costs. You cannot restructure your code base as easy, you cannot deprecate bad ideas, cannot extend it as easy more and so on and so on. Sure, it also has real benefits (as you've stated), but missing the disadvantages while only highlighting the advantages is not a useful approaching, it only shows "your personal preference".
I didn't mean to disparage the math by my remark. I think it's interesting and I look forward to understanding it.
i'm really not sure what point you are trying to make.
Yes, VC is good at compiling but not optimizing.

Given people expect both from their compilers these days ...
For me the Pomodoro technique is about starting, not finishing. I normally devise ways to procrastinate but PT allows me to fool myself into starting by committing a small period of time.
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Yup. Having "Free, forever" on its own seems a lot less binding.
For a product to succeed, you need a lot of different pieces to all go right. So even though you personally may not have full visibility on all the pieces, if you mess up the one piece you are responsible for, you may indeed mess up the whole product.
Just to jump on the numba train, I've generally found it to reliably obtain C like performance from C-like Python code. This property also holds when you use Python as a preprocessor language for generating computational kernels, which provides a lot of flexibility not evident in the documentation.

It also has simple-to-use openmp-like multicore parallelization, limited class support, AOT compilation and CUDA & AMD HSAIL support.
Animals have always seemed to me smarter than humans in some (important) ways. Squirrels, for instance, are extremely resourceful and can survive in conditions few, if any, humans could. If that isn't being "smart", I don't know what is.

In any case, the smart/brain weight ratio is not in humans' favor here, that is for sure!