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They do not want loyal employees nor care about loyalty. Game industry wants cheap replaceable employees. Since many want to work there because due to emotional ties toward their childhood games or wish to brag about working on famous game, cheap bodies are available.

Game industry has ridiculous turnover, for developers it is something like five years and you are likely to be out.
> I did not buy 64GB of flash storage so Facebook could be lazy.

then vote with your wallet, and remove the app. If you can't tear yourself away from facebook, the web is the "right" app to use!
Good lord, the chrome, the font, the lines on this car:

http://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/40992/image.jp...

What happened?
I have my Android set as "Do not Disturb: forever", while allowing calls to still ring. Since people don't call me unless it's something urgentish, it works well, and notifications never distract me when I'm with others any more.
Lots of universities (at least in the U.K.) offer journal access for their alumni, it might be worth checking with them if you can still get an account to log on.

... of course there is also SciHub...
Yes. Planting a forest is a one-off, though. The only way to capture more carbon with the same land is to cut down all the trees, bury them deep enough so that they don't decompose, and start again.
Except here what you label as "pseudo spiritual" is actually the more realistic, scientific and moral way of seeing things.

The iPhones and Supermarkets are of the dream reality.

A world without consequences, where the Foxconn Factory Workers (or the mines of Congo) do not exist.
Are you sure about that

No, I'm not :)

What is clear, though, is that he had a right to be on his seat before the whole sorry mess started. They probably could get him for "interfering with a flight crew" or some such crap after they asked him to leave.

While passengers usually do get the short end of the stick (and in the case of United it appears that the stick is always covered in shit, but I digress) I think the situation in Europe is a lot better.

When bumped, or even if you experience extended delays the airline must compensate you in cash. No useless vouchers, which are hard to redeem. There are a few exceptions, were that doesn't apply, namely if delays are beyond their control. Mechanical problems, however, don't count because it's their duty to properly maintain their gear.

Passenger rights within the EU are clearly spelled out and airlines can't subvert them by mealy mouthed "contracts of carriage"

I'd also wager that this wouldn't have escalated to this point virtually anywhere in Europe. Since the "smack him in the face and that'll teach him to comply" philosophy of policing seems much less aparent.
> I believe cases from the past where utilitarianism, with regards to quantifying human lives, was used to justify objectively bad things like genocide or sterilization deserve to be considered.

There's bad utilitarianism, much like there's bad science; bad science isn't science at all.

That people claimed their intentions were pure doesn't mean we have to accept that they were, and that we might be skeptical towards claims of utilitarianism as justifications for inhumanities doesn't suggest much about utilitarianism itself to me.

> I'm not out to slander others.

What I mean by this, is if you characterise utilitarianism as a justification for the above, people who support utilitarianism appear to be supporters of a terrible ideology, whereas those are cases are all deeply flawed, and not a fair representative of utilitarianism.

> people with power and authority have used the utilitarian principle to justify bad things

The comment was a response to "people on the internet" supporting terrible utilitarianism. they also have little authority.

Terrible things where done by doctors in the past, this says little about modern medical practice.
Yes they do, but I guess she just mis-spoke (for those in the UK, this is Carol Kirkwood on the BBC)...
I scratch around passing time on the internet, but then if I'm not doing that I'm passing time watching cable tv, passing time playing chess, passing time smoking pot, passing time reading novels, passing time playing golf, passing time laughing frivolously, passing time sleeping, passing time day dreaming, passing time eating, passing time shopping, passing time chatting on the phone......

Basically, I pass my days in my idle ways, and I don't think it matters what the medium. I can say that I don't pass my days on social media, its tedious.
I hope that too.
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> Your sense of "temporary" is clearly much longer than mine.

The point is not how long "temporary" is. It's incredibly hypocritical to complain that nuclear power has some sort of serious "nuclear waste problem" that must have some type of 10,000 year solution while conveniently ignoring the actual problems in other power sources.

There should even be much nuclear waste in modern breeder reactor designs, but even with the older style reactors that currently exist, the waste still tiny thanks to uranium having millions of times higher energy density[1]. That waste gets less dangerous as it decays, so the "temporary" isn't a consistent danger - it's bad initially, but the long tail is significantly safer.

> why we're comparing

deaths / kWh [2]

Far too many people panic about the "dangers" of nuclear power, while conveniently ignoring the larger dangers from other power sources. Even including Chernobyl, nuclear power is still safer than any[3] other source of energy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Energy_densitie...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents#Fatalities

[3] Solar and wind are also very low, although dam failures and the dangers of working on rooftops to install solar cells make them slightly more dangerous than nuclear. We should obviously use these sources as well when possible. I'm sure we can also improve the safety of solar, such as installing during regular building construction instead of retrofitting existing roofs.
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Don't want to be a buzzkill but MacOS malware is growing faster then Windows malware ever was. 2016 MacOS malware up by ~750%[0].

2017 will be even bigger. The more users you have - the more malware you get.

[0] https://www.macrumors.com/2017/04/06/mac-malware-up-744-perc...
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> 1. Agile can never work in an agency, where the client has control over budgets, deadlines, and features. There is simply no incentive for the client to compromise when your agency has made some pretty ridiculous promises and put themselves on the hook to deliver.

Yes, I've worked at places where they'd accept fixed budget and short timescale projects while also preaching about the benefits of agile to the client. This meant there was minimal upfront design and the customer was given a chance to change their mind often. This lead to crunch time and having to make changes that could have easily been predicted if planning had been done from the start. If you suggested the latter advice though, you'd be accused of being a "waterfall" practitioner and ignored so it felt very cargo cult.

My view is that projects with short time scales where it's predictable early on what all the functionality should be, you should plan out as much as you can from the start and get the client to OK as much as you can early on (e.g. with mockups, interactive prototypes). Agile is more suitable for larger projects with flexible budgets where there are so many unknowns that planning ahead isn't productive.
I used to work at a megacorp that pretended having stand up meeting seated was working agile.

I just nodded, cashed the paycheck and still did great work. some battles I won, like moving a whole team to continuous integration or removing most of the manual busywork in testing, sometimes I just let bad stuff go because you can't always win and instead aimed for the second best option: dodge.
Don't know what's up there

Not much, it appears :)
I dont think its "under-estimating" as much as to get buy-in in a corporate environment means promising to over-deliver

Architects/Developers can also be their own worst enemy - chosing a new stack over the existing stack
Lots of apps are like this and I don't understand why. They should be using the caches folder and "the system may delete the Caches/ directory to free up disk space". However I have never seen this happen. When my phone runs out of space I have to manually delete these apps. Are they not using the correct folder, or is the system not deleting the caches?
I'm fat again, but had awesome good results with the book: burn the fat, feed the muscle.

Biggest problem is, i get back into my old habbits.. It took 2 years to regain my weight that i lost in 6 months ( 25 kg = 55 pounds) -- way more muscle than i had before.

Short:

- Eat every 3 hours

- Muscle exercise ( male - see comment/reply below) - preferrable in the evening

- Cardio in the morning, after a protein shake ( Tip: Rope Skipping). Try HITT ( interval training) when you can.

- no alcohol

- Min. 5 x / week, doing sports

- Enough of sleep!

- Muscle confusion --> Change your exercise routine regulary due to muscle memory

Now, i'm back again at coding late at night, barely enough sleep and no sports :(
I think process is important. If there isn't some kind of method or process, it isn't really engineering. You can't build modern bridge or building just by going at it.

My comment wasn't clear: scrum is sold the majority of the time as a whole new process and it's seen that way by most, from the minute they do the training.

I've read the scrum book and to me it seems like a process that helps develop your own process. I think that's a fantastic idea.

The problem I'm talking about is that 90% of scrum masters and companies moving to scrum, well, are moving to scrum, as though it's a whole new process as opposed to organically developing new effective processes that fit the company like a glove.

On a smoke break, I heard about a company "doing agile" that's now moving "back to waterfall" after laying off 2/3rds of their team. Another big blue chip I work with also got shafted in a big way by a consulting company that tried "moving them to agile".

What you do is a world apart from what most people attempt and it's the latter that devastates.
HHGTTG. Excellent reference, if you're going to spend time on picking the 'right' colors rather than just any set of half decent colors and then move on you might miss out on that important little thing called functionality without which it really doesn't matter what color it will be.

Once you're established and you're tuning the last 0.3% of the market that you might catch if only you used the 'right' colors you can spend time on this.

It's another nice example of premature optimization.
Also nice: the joke by Rich Hickey that Agile solving software development via sprints is like someone revolutionizing the marathon by firing a starter pistol every 100 meters.
I had no idea IEX had got so complicated. What happened to good old fashioned time precedence at price level limit order books?
Have you ever felt sleepy after eating? I can't focus on that state, this feeling makes this claim very valid for me. Also, feeling an urge to eat and not do anything must be a good focus exercise.
Well, in general this is true of entertainment - the best usually has that "little extra special bit of love" injected into it, and when something is a pet project, it shows, even if the end result isn't good. This happens a lot with movies, and it's probably why the comparisons between games and movies are so common; for larger productions in both mediums, no matter what you do you have to treat it like a somewhat industrial process due to the sheer number of people required for each production. A smaller team can of course have a more personal touch, but this usually means longer release times and more limited resources.

A lot of the time it just really depends on the motivation behind the director. Keep in mind that some of Nintendo's most successful games were from simple observations on the parts of their creator, like Miyamoto watching ants while he was gardening and coming up with the basic concept for Pikmin. Most yearly release games will suffer just because they are yearly release games. Same with yearly release movies.
I once saw python code

if 'i_know_what_im_doing' not in kwargs:
raise ...
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Oh, good. Now I can figure out which shade of blue I should use.
Works in the UK too. Maybe if you search for "speed test" in Dutch?
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Modern agriculture is part of the carbon economy, especially since the Green Revolution. Inorganic fertilizers are produced using coal and natural gas, and nitrogen-enriched fertilizers emit nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas. These inputs were previously mostly sequestered.
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North Koreans aren't idiots.
Well, frankly there are tons of apps where I have no idea what the + button do until I click it. Many times, it's not what I would think it would do.
I have definitely lived through #1. I started out at a "web agency for marketing agencies". Most of the time the actual client never knew we existed. Budget and features were set up front and the deadline was immovable as other forms of media would be directing to our apps/webpages starting on a specific date.

Despite all of that we called ourselves agile. This amounted to pretending to be agile for 90% of the project and then as the deadline approached just staying up late/working weekends to make sure it was complete and out the door. Naturally it was worse when we had competing deadlines between different projects. And when do different clients ever have deadlines that fit nicely in between other clients?

Being at a "product company", it is much easier to be agile about stuff where features and/or deadlines can be shifted
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I think ownership here is not always bound to making money off it or a third party making money off my content. There are various reasons like control over content as well as privacy aspects, which all play into ownership. So the Author only really does not like someone else making money off of his work it seems.

I have my own reasons (lesser around monetization) and thus I'm hosting some of the webservice I depend on on my own for some time now. Since I am not very much into sysadmin things, I found https://cloudron.io recently which has served me quite well thus far. Looking forwards to eventually get my email on that as well :-)
I Don't know. When something important actually happens, newspapers just say it plainly, without riddles and silly comments.
When WWII started, british newspapers didn't title: something awful just happened, they titled BRITAIN AT WAR.

When anybody titles: Something important actually happened, guess what?, you can be sure that nothing important actually happened.
These are fair points. I think there exists a certain degree of silent desperation in the population. Climate change is basically just dismissed as obnoxious or phony by the current administration and many in power. The Trump WH seem willfully ignorant, in particular..

To be honest, there are probably many Americans who are less attached to maintaining America's legal foundation - and would accept the laws of any other free society - than they are to taking action against climate change. I don't mean this to say to "throw out the constitution", and I agree we shouldn't remove things that grant us stability.. But what does even the totality of the rule of law mean in the face of the laws of physics?

To be fair I probably derailed the thread from the topic of advertising's nonexemption from 1st Amendment protection..
One thing I always think when seeing images of NK towns and cities is how clean they look. They seem to be immaculately maintained.

Though I suppose that is all for show and another word could be sterile.
It's interesting that lots of people on HN say the same thing: I don't know how to perform an action; there are no affordances in the UI.

But Google is a data driven company and they must, surely, have scads of data on this. They must know what their users are trying to do and how they're trying to do it, so why are Google interfaces so hard to use?
This post makes no sense to me.
Ghost offers paid hosting, Wordpress, for example, can be self-hosted, but self-hosting is almost never SELF-hosting, as in having your own actual servers at home.
It's almost always a case of you using a hosting company...this post just makes no sense to me.
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Well then. If copying's out of the question (for now), then I propose Plan B:

A single brain, in a secure location, remotely controlling multiple bodies (one at a time, but able to switch between them.)

• Identify all the points of contact – the I/O pins – between the brain and body.

• Identify the medium and format of communication between brain/body/senses. I think most of this has already been achieved.

• Grow a body, a shell, without a brain.

• Take your brain out and keep it alive in a vat.

• Put wireless transceivers at each I/O point on the controlling brain and the shell body/bodies.

Will anything like this be remotely (<pun) possible?

You'd have to get used to lag but in the case of a fatal accident/violence* and most diseases your brain would be safe and able to switch to a new body..

I expect something like that would be very valuable to soldiers and workers in hazardous environments, like space.
This is, literally, math.
Have you come across LibraryThing before? From what you're looking for in terms of tracking, list management etc it should meet your needs. The only bit i'm not sure about is the ability to subscribe to new releases by an author author or in a series.
I think you are exaggerating a bit but there is some truth in what you say but that's not Material design's fault. It's Google's that doesn't follow their own guidelines.

Do not confuse "Material" with "Anything made by Google".
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Yet the reality is self-actualisation / spirituality are as out of reach for many now as they were years ago when we were 'poorer'.
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I think one (kind of specific) use case for that kind of diet as part of athletics is marathon prep. You really want to be prepared to burn fat during running a marathon.

In a normal (say up to half-marathon) running plan, getting faster and stronger by pre-feeding carbs feels good, but for the long distance it's a lot different.
especially as the team and code grow there's little reason for standups, nobody cares about what most of the other people tells anyway unless they're effected in their goals.

much better to have a team leader who knows the tasks for everyone and warn people when they are operating an area where they can step on each other toes, so that they know they need to coordinate.

the Nx(N-1) rigid reporting structure of stand up makes very little sense
Of course there are risks -- but are those risks really of a different order than having to build nuclear storage containers that will hold for thousands of years?

I'd say that activism has left us with the most undesirable outcome: we still have ancient reactor designs producing unmanageable waste, and every solution to actually reduce that waste has become politically unfeasible. All that we've done is create massive amounts of technical debt that will burden generations to come.
I don't see value in stand ups most of the time and usually they just get in the way of your work e.g. "I'll start this feature in 30 mins because we've got a standup in 10 mins". I already know what most people are doing from either group chat or the planning board, and a lot of details won't have much relevance to everyone so you end up zoning out just like you would in typical bad meetings.

The "what did you do yesterday?" part can also encourage people to scramble to justify they worked hard enough yesterday when it's tricky to condense why a task isn't as trivial as it sounds.

What did you do yesterday? What are you doing today? What is getting in your way? That's exactly what planning boards are for! Create a Slack bot which automatically summarises and posts this for each team member every day if you really must.

Planning boards are great though. They give you an overview of what everyone is up to, what progress is being made and they're little effort to keep up-to-date compared to having to reply to lots of emails about "what's going on?".
Back when bitcoin was a mere curiosity, pre crypto currency excitement, well even before that first bitcoin pizza. I happened to have just found this neat piece of software while searching for things related to MPI, parallelism, and that sort of thing. It was called bitcoin, and I had a 32 node OpenMOSIX cluster all to myself for about 12 hours.

I kicked off the bitcoin processes let it all fan out to every node, and went to class. Coming back to check on it before I left University that day. I made a mental note to myself about how many "coins" it had ground out of the clusters CPU time and placed in my "wallet", with all the importance one might place on remembering the exact number a computer got on a geek Bench score. If memory serves, it was something around 25,000 bitcoins.

At their peak value, that works out to in excess of 30 million US dollars worth of mistake due to lack of desire to back up the results of my idle experiment. To be fair at the time, they were worth less than nothing, I vaguely recall some mention of them 'possibly in future being used as a medium of value exchange' and that sort of abstract thing, and I was running the software out of curiosity. So I'm not bitter.
I think the article is correct. Agile has valid motivations and solves concrete problems.

But in practice, you will eventually see confirmation bias and cargo cult.

The motto of delivering customer value has been used as an excuse to emphasize the surfaces exposed to the customer (e.g: features) and neglect non-features (non-functional requirements, e.g: maintainability, security, performance, scalability, configuration, testing).
I doubt there is a working model, but The Venus Project by Jacque Fresco is very inspiring, moving towards a resource based economy. Our current economy is flawed to the extent that it will destroy us if we don't replace it with something better for our planet and humanity overall.
This is the thing. You need to invest not only in completely understanding how every aspect of material design works, you also have to understand that visual languages enforce strong opinion and aren't an expression of creative freedom.

So if you understand it well enough and if you have enough weight to ensure what you are designing fits into it then it might work for you and your users.

It seems to mostly be used like bootstrap thought and ends up being tedious and inconsistent. The worst kind of inconsistent as well, the one where you are mislead by familiarity that then doesn't turn out to be real.