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> ...everyone gets just a couple of minutes to sum up where they were yesterday, where they're going today and what's holding them up.

Peer-to-peer, listing blockers is more or less the only thing that matters, followed distantly by making sure we're not stepping on each other (deploying the same thing, refactoring the same class).

It's also important to sync up that designs are good and work together, but that's outside the scope of Agile (and standups).

The bulk of the info in the yesterday-today-blockers standup is to let the manager get a quick rundown of what the employees are up to. It's a management tool, basically. And that info is all duplicated (if you're doing it correctly) in the agile board, the burndown chart, and in the version control system. So management could just create better queries and dashboards on top of existing data and get the same information.
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I allow myself to get attached to projects that my employer allows me to release as free/libre software---which I think is reasonable to do, since it will always be there, with or without me, with or without the company.

The medium-sized family company I work for was just purchased by another, multi-billion dollar company. After the post-acquisition stuff calms down, I'll be having that discussion with them. Until then, any work I do on the projects are void of the personal passion and extra time I put into developing and researching the projects, as much as I am able.
I may be a special case but for me an ideal software developer would have the following characteristics:

Knows the answers to my questions.
Knows where to find answers he doesn't know.
Knows others that can be pulled in when necessary.
Doesn't lie or pretend.
Will take time to talk out the details used for decisions.
Can see the forest AND the trees.
Will do his best at figuring out a way to make it work.
Isn't scared of something not working.
Reads RFC's and patents for fun.

And thank you for this question, it helped me crystallize some thoughts in my head.
Hmmm.... I think that a lot of these "people jumped on me on social media!" anecdotes aren't because people said they preferred Spartacus over Game of Thrones (Spartacus is way way better btw), but because they got involved in one of those debates that is tantamount to a fight.

Like abortion, or wealth inequality, or police brutality, or gay rights, or race and IQ.
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Yes, it's the same line of logic because it's correct.

The claim that Rust's memory safety is sound while C++'s is not is... not really the question. The question is whether that matters in practice. C++ has certainly improved in making certain mistakes easier to avoid.

Now, I come down on the Rust side for many situations, but making unsubstantiated claims about your language of choice is exactly the problem people had with the Curl blog post. Please stop making them about Rust.
I told you, you are symptomatic of the short-termist attitude that persists - we must carry on whatever the cost.

The alternative is that you make do, because this is a serious situation, far more serious than a business deal.

Ironically, your future income and the income and quality of your children's lives will be directly affected by your actions today. But, people just put it away in their minds, file it under "well, can't possibly do that" and forget about it.

If the worst that can happen is some scary figures pop out of the news now and again, what's the point in changing?

We will all look back in ten years and say, we had a chance to do something, but we didn't.
This depends on the company. Where I work now we do get paid for overtime, but we have to organise it with our managers and producers first, and it has to be for a good reason. At the moment we are not in "crunch" so we only do overtime if we think we need to.
The car predates the other term by a few decades
They still use their mighty data to show me ads for things I've literally just bought, I do sometimes wonder if all data is even.
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That's intentionally awkward. If I tap the messages icon on Facebook.com on mobile, I get redirected to a page telling me to download the app. Similarly, messenger.com points me to the App Store.
He's probably referring to biochar. Turning biomass into charcoal, grinding it into powder, and working it into soil is known to sequester carbon for at least a thousand years.
The "big loop" concept is fundamental: the power lines we use to move energy around are all closed loops, so, even with DC, the mass of electrons that flow in one direction is the same as the mass that flows in the opposite direction. There is no transfer of mass.

This is different from ectrostatic generators: there, AFAIK, there should be an actual transfer of mass. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_de_Graaff_generator
It's an accounting term, that's relatively recent (~500 years). It's literally a "concern" about the company's ability to "go" on. A going concern. It could also reference the concerns that are ongoing - namely operational concerns - that need to be addressed.

For more about the history of the field of accounting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Pacioli

Source: Am CPA
The planet is going to be just fine, the only thing that we can screw up is our ability to live on it in large numbers - which matters a lot to me for obvious reasons.

Unless we're speaking about things that literally are extinction events for us, the larger organism doesn't really care about extremely short term fluctuations; in the scale of a few hundred million years the current climate change (or the temporary existence of homo sapiens) doesn't make a meaningful impact.
Thinkpad.
It's an addiction, like smoking. Except far far more damaging to all life.
That's good to know. It's something I'm trying to jostle with - whether people would want to carry 2 devices just for the sake of getting Internet access.
CVE disclosure list: oss-security@lists.openwall.com (unfortunately since Mitre stopped taking bug reports via e-mails it's not as active as it has been).
This sounds like ephemeral diffie hellman. Is that still protected by patents? I wouldn't think so seeing we've had robust implementations in openssl for a long time now.
Yes and no. Fat burning is an important part of distance running, but you can get many of the adaptations without running in a fasted state too often, whereas running fasted (/low glycogen) can severely hamper recovery and performance. I feel like the intense focus on fat burning is a bit of a fad (pun fully intended). You should also realise that boosting fat burning capabilities comes at the expense of glucose burning, which ultimately means you lose the ability to go into higher intensity zones. At the very least carb up before your speed workouts...

If you want to set yourself up for a successful marathon, I'd say being skilled in fueling yourself during the run is probably more important than optimizing fat burning.
Somehow I've never really had a sweet tooth at all. I usually decline sweet foods when people are handing around cake or cookies, or only accept to be polite and take a small slice. But get some nice savoury food near me and I'll scarf it all down. For some reason umami is to me what sugar is to others.
I only use Nexus and Pixel devices lately, so I'm not sure if this is available on all devices, but for apps that I have any worries about (e.g. 100% of games) I have a second user, on an empty gmail account created purely for that purpose, that I switch over to. It takes less than three seconds to switch accounts, I game and get the diversion, and then switch back. The downside is that I don't get notifications, and some privileged info is still available to the apps (although I block the ability to make calls or send texts to the other number, etc), but it does greatly reduce the surface area of the exposure.
Next time strap a go pro to your head and you'll be able to record it while you watch it. The fish eye lens will also let you record other people watching it through their phones, and you can feel even better about being more connected in the future too.
> I've tried this strategy, but it just comes off as whining.

It helps to deliver some good results first. People take you and your opinions more seriously after.
> I'd argue that having a 'war chest' is actually detrimental to agility [...]

I believe that's what the parent is saying as well. I read it as saying that larger companies with a 'war chest' are able to weather the problems caused by reacting more slowly, and so agility is not as highly prioritized, while smaller, newer companies have to react quickly or die.
I don't understand your recent comment strings - your comments in the John Deere thread yesterday were equally confrontational without anything to really back it up.

Confidence in Tesla is high because people like the brand. Panasonic similarly works hand in hand with Tesla because they're confident the value of the Tesla brand. People will read that motortrend comparison and still buy a Tesla - because the bolt is ugly and looks like your lyft drivers car, and because they want a Tesla.

The idea that Tesla has unjustified hype is not a novel position to take and I don't know why it would serve as a good position to snipe at Tesla when it hasn't worked at all in the past. (see recent short sellers woes)
Would not at all surprise me. Twitter regularly censors popular right-of-center Twitter accounts.
It's funny how power companies quickly moved away from the pay you cash for your power to credits to now fixed rates for life. Solar is a huge disruptor.
The truth is it took us 80 years to get into this mess, it will probably take 80 years to get us out of it. Hopefully technology can provide a path.
I do, but it's mostly just "because I can."

I signed up for the GitHub education pack, which provides (among other things) $50 USD in DigitalOcean credit. I spun up one of the $5/month droplets, primarily to use as an IRC bouncer. But, since I now had my own Linux server with a static IP address, I said "Why the heck not?" and bought a domain name for $10.

So now I have an IRC bouncer and a personal blog.
(And a Quake 3 server...because I can)
Haha I'd like to add one disclaimer: don't try during race season ;).
Limbo is the most canonical example of overhyped Mario reskin. What's good in it? Just stupid gore, halloween-grade "darkness" and use of little boy as protagonist to generate more pity points.
Just wanted to thank the OP, caustic, for this. I first thought it might be past my available background/resources for a casual read. But I found it accessible and rewarding.
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Can anyone tell me if I am logged into chrome and use a non-google search engine, are they tracking the queries I make in the omni box?
And the updates from their status channels are a joke.
Assuming this is true (which I don't believe it is), why would they do this? I doubt UAL is paying them enough in advertising dollars to justify something like this.

This isn't like silencing/promoting selective political speech where the personal ideals of the heads of the company are being pushed forward. Unless Dorsey really likes flying United.
Thinkpad X201.
And as long as you fit the "correct" demographics for living in the south.
Thanks. It's difficult to judge unless I actually test it out - I'm in the market for handsets to be able to rent/give it out as part of a broader business solution but I'd hate if the end users end up having a terrible experience.
Add to that putting projects into 'maintenance' mode once they are 'delivered'. Ie no manpower to do any improvements, and even barely an bugfixes---even though lots of new downstream projects depend on it.
"Going concern" is the correct phrase in business jargon: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/going_concern
I'm a huge thinkpad fan. I'd totally go with one of these if you have a bit more budget: http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/lenovo-thinkpad-x62-mod

If you're going for a regular second-hand thinkpad (which is also a fine choice for linux in my opinion), the poor quality trackpad doesn't have to be an issue. Many people swear by the trackpoint 'nipple', once they get used to it.
On BMW it used to be like that but is no longer the case. A 325d is now a 2 liter engine with a larger turbo. A 340i has a 3 liter engine. And so on. They've kept the model numbering but as smaller engines gained performance and efficiency they've replaced smaller engines in larger named cars.
Have you considered running VirtualBox/VMWare Fusion/etc on your MBP and doing Linux dev in a VM?
Thinkpad T420. $100 on Craigslist
If you go Air, the i7 are quite fast and can get 8GB RAM.
Not sure what the HN opinion of Reddit is, but they have a forum intended for your exact use-case:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SuggestALaptop/

Might be some help to find there.
> I'll try to physicalize countability.

> Start counting the naturals: 1, 2, 3, ...

> At future timelike infinity you'll reach infinity.

> Now for the reals. Your goal is to step from 0 to 1, by way of 0.1, 0.01, and so forth.

> 0 0.0........

> At future timelike infinity you still haven't stopped adding in zeroes to the right of the decimal point.

> In the first case, at any finite time before \breve{i}^+ you will have counted out some finite natural number. In the second case, you will not yet have counted out your first nonzero real.

The same reasoning applies for rationals, yet they can still be counted.

The definition of «can be counted» means there is a bijection between your set and the naturals. Such kind of bijection can easily be created for the rationals[1] and Cantor's diagonal argument[2] shows that you can't create such bijection for reals.

There is nothing really intuitive about this concept, but fortunately the proofs are pretty straigtforward which give a kind of «intuition» around this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pairing_function#/media/File:D...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_diagonal_argument
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If you see a Chromebook that you like the specs on, the crouton project can turn it into a dual boot system with your distro of choice. I found it surprisingly easy to use and it works really well. Since it's a chroot under the hood, the new distro can use all of the device drivers from ChromeOS, so all the hardware works perfectly.
i feel like the terms quarter- or half-million (or million itself) are what people would use to describe salary once they've busted the "6-figure" descriptor where the first figure is implicitly "1".

"half-million" is much more impressive sounding than "mid 6-figure" salary.
Thanks! That makes sense and personally, I'm not into automated content either - I feel that it loses the effectiveness of being personal.

I'd love to engage you guys once we've had sufficient funding.

Good luck!
I added a new keyboard ($40) and SSD I already had. Feels like a new machine.
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The very best wines and the $2.95 stuff are in essentially the same bottle.
I loved the ThinkPad T420s when I worked with it at me previous job.

Extremely easy to upgrade, well built, difficult to damage, great battery life with minimal TLP configuration, and the slim form factor was great for mobility.
> The money went to "the top 1%", whatever. Where do they keep it?

That's a complex puzzle but the answer is some combination of all of the following: financial assets (this is a big one, stocks and bonds soak up a lot of money), real estate, luxury goods, re-investment, off-shore tax havens, and under a pillow (gold or other commodities that have low utility but high scarcity).

> All in all, because the entire "1%" money is circulating in the economy anyway, what does it matter who it actually belongs to?

this is the theory behind the now discredited and disproved "trickle down economics" theory. the money doesn't really circulate very well, actually. it is far less liquid in the possession of the wealthy than it is in the possession of the working class. wealth stockpiles in the form of longterm held financial assets sucks a huge amount of money out of the economy.
X220 is good. You'll want to start using the Trackpoint if you're using it regularly, and an external monitor is always an option if you need a higher resolution.

You may also look at X200 with LibreBoot. Quite a lot of places sell these.
Do you really think they quoted the high end of what they make to the reporter for this story? I'm sure that's the very low end of what people make (think "junior" devs in this particular niche). I'd bet the higher end people easily make 2-4x that amount.
> ... I don't understand the hate for Facebook ...

I suspect that any hate of facebook has a fair bit to do with the fact that it is 1) pervasive, 2) a fairly closed system, and 3) comes with a lot of strings attached. The fact that it's a closed system is really the crux of the issue, everything else just kind of accentuates the problem. Here's an example of why facebook's existence is annoying

My local climbing gym, for example, has a website, but instead of posting information there, they post most of their updates (like competition dates) on Facebook. Without having a facebook account (and regularly checking it!) there's no way to keep up-to-date on these postings. Now, if you create a facebook account, there's no good way to tell people "don't send me messages here, just email me", so now you have to keep an eye on your facebook messages, otherwise your friends will get annoyed that you're ignoring them. Facebook doesn't implement IMAP or anything though, so your also stuck going to their website regularly, or install their software on your phone and saying goodbye to your once-long battery life.
For myself? No. For a non-technical end-user that for whatever reason needs grep-like capabilities? Yes.
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Really nice tool. Great work mate!
It was obvious that pay you for power was not scalable. Eventually you'll see people disconnecting from grid altogether to avoid fixed rates.
You might enjoy this book. It's quite good.

https://www.amazon.com/Moral-Case-Fossil-Fuels/dp/1591847443
Thinkpad x220 or t420s. You can get a USB3 port on the i5 t420s, but the battery life is generally shit.

x220, you need to get an i7 to get a usb3, but the battery life is great, and it's small, and you can upgrade to 16gb ram.

Stick with thinkpad. the 20 series is the last series to offer the classic keyboard. After that, e.g., x230, t430s, you get chiclet keys.

x61, x201, x220. Stick with those. I'd go with x220, but you could even get an x61, and put 8gb of ram in it...it's ddr2 though, so it will be expensive.
Still wouldn't matter even if they hadn't given it away in the subheadline, because the author cherry-picked the model names to support his point.
That's my position too.

Whenever I get told a corrolary of 'the planet is more important than humanity' I automagically hear:

'look, I'm not really into this scientific thing where you guys seek truth with experimentations, logic and deep thinking. I guess I could, but frankly I don't see the point, I'm just going thru life, because, well, because. But, you see, I'm pretty sure this time we're having the last drop of our civilization because a {insert big fear here} is coming upon us and we can do nothing about it!'.

This has been going since the beginning of humanity I guess. Differents type of minds, as aliens to each others as are cats to dogs. Greek philosophers to roman plebe. Galilee and Copernic to their so-called peers. Technologist to ecologist.

That's the real danger we are still facing since the beginning: we're at the same time forced to collaborate to do something really meaningfull for our children (free and sustainable energy/food, freedom from work, long and diseases-free lifes, space-faring, etc), and utterly unable to communicate and seek consensus in a very efficient way.
When I was a kid my great-grandmother used to occasionally make and eat calf's brains.

I was never willing to even consider trying it.
This article has several nice plots, but IMO the wikipedia does a better job describing Fourier transforms than this article. A few things that article alludes to, but not clearly states is FT ability to convert between time and frequency representation of a wave.

Another question worth at least cursory mention: what is so great about sine waves (or complex exponents)? Why are they better than, say, step functions for decomposition of many physical phenomena? Even a couple of quick examples would be helpful (drop a stone into a lake; what shape are the waves? extra credit -- why?).

Above may sound harsh, which was not my intent; I just think expanding a little can give a much better view of the algorithm and its applications.
Affordable enough space travel that we can survive.

Earth is just a bootstrap.
Sorry, I misread the theorem earlier. Thanks!
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This isn't your average developer banging out Rails or Swift apps. This is extremely specialized knowledge of huge and arcane systems that are decades old. Entirely different ballpark in terms of knowledge and skillset.
I pushed http://geekbot.io/ as an alternative for physical standups at my current place -- it's been generally well received, and when I've used it on short projects (that were set up a way that needed daily sync-ups) I found it pretty helpful, and much less intrusive than a physical standup.

Still prefer to have things structured in a more coarse-grained manner, though.
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I haven't read the article but I do have my two cents to add toward the subject of game development hiring.

Going into college I had the dream of eventually working at Blizzard or some other big video game company. However, I ran into articles about studios of beloved games hitting misfortune (Sierra, Westwood Studios, etc.) from either bankruptcy or being bought out by bigger game companies. I also read articles on how former big studio employees were being dumped at the end of projects. You can see Hideo Kojima as a latest example.

There is, however, a silver lining. All, if not most, of the tools for developing software are out there to use for free or with doable licensing which usually rely on sales of the developed game. Unity, Unreal being big, powerful game engine examples while Gamemaker or even straightup IO libraries like SDL being on the other side of the spectrum.

With these tools, coupled with various distribution methods like GoG, Steam, eShop, itch.io, or just straight binary hosting, indie developers have been killing it in the video game space when it comes to creativity and originality. There is the problem of the door for entry being a bit too open and so you tend to see a lot of vaporware, clones, bad games, or even alpha/beta games that seem to just stagnate due to feature creep or other misfortunes. But there are gems being put out that even surpass the crap AAA companies put out.

I see former workers of big companies ditch or get laid off from their former employer to start their own gig or join one. It's exciting to see what they come up with and which ones succeed.
Even if it's not intentional, they may have some algorithms that "throw the baby out with the bathwater" as the saying goes.

We're already seeing Google's recent "extremism curation" hit a lot of youtubers that shouldn't be anywhere close to being impacted by it, and yet they still are. If Google's DeepMind/Brain AI can't properly curate this sort of stuff, I can't imagine Twitter is any better at it.

After governments keep pushing them to "deal with extremism" I wouldn't be surprised if they took overly aggressive actions to be on the "safe side." I also think they're wrong to do that, but in Google's case they are obviously concerned about more advertisers dumping them.