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Google: http://imgur.com/47UUNBc.png
This is why unions were created in other industries. Unions have their ovn flaws, but it is the most effective way to give employees more influence.
I used to work for a large multinational group whose core financial systems were written in COBOL during the seventies. I was told need to think of making the core systems future proof was identified as the company grew through the eighties and nineties, but never addressed. As time went by this attitude turned from one of "let's try and get on top of this" to "it can't be done because it's too risky / complex / old"...

The net result of this is that this ignorance spilled into the attitude towards technology across the group. I found it very demoralising as you always had to fight to convince non-technical staff why they needed to address technical debt that was 10/20/30 years old. In the end I managed to undertake some big and interesting projects successfully in spite of the "you'll never achieve that without a disaster" attitude, but the core COBOL system were just ignored as if somehow it'd go away (the reality was much more political and complicated than that, as it is with all multinationals...)

In the end I left for a position where people wanted me to build or rebuild things, rather than just spring the leaks around the problems. My point here is that unless you wield obvious experience or weight in this arena (as the "COBOL-legends" undoubtedly do) you'll have a job convincing people that it needs doing, at least until it goes up in flames.
You're probably very right on this one, but it probably pays to also remember that Elon Musk and his team are not infallible.
It's also slow

http://126kr.com/article/8t092z4csxl
Everything's just fine.
> I'd argue stand up meetings are the opposite of agile

Those 15min when the team gets together and talks about what they're doing and where they need help ... that's the most useful meeting I've ever been a part of. 80% of all other interactions could be removed with a kanban board and some patience.

Like, shit man, sometimes it takes me more than 3 minutes to reply on Slack because I'm doing shit. Go do some stretches or something ...
Host your own content or at least pay the hosting. There is nothing wrong about being hosted by a third party if its business model isn't exploiting your data.
You can look at it in much the same way that the early versions of Windows enabled programmers to build applications that looked exactly alike.

In much the same vein, Material's "paper" concepts are designed to minimise confusion for lay users - i.e. "What does clicking the '+' button do?". Once you standardise the symbols and appearance of certain widgets, it removes the "have to think about it" barrier. You could argue that EVERYONE who uses a Windows computer knows what the [x] on the top right corner of every window does.

And like Windows, I think you will eventually see developers modify and extend Material to make applications stand apart from each other while maintaining some sort of consistency of the UI.

But like windows, you will eventually get to the stage that developers corrupt simple things like checkboxes to operate in non logical ways (e.g. as radio buttons), or you end up with a screen where every conceivable square millimetre of the window is a 'hot point' that does something when you touch/click on it! (I/m looking at you Excel etc.)
Well we are still going around by clichés, it is not like all Italians have a large family, are dark, wear a moustache, smoke heavily, sing frequently and have only warm, sunny climate.

We don't even have anymore (with some exceptions of course) restaurants with white/red checquered tablecloths ;).

More or less there are 60 millions people spread over a country that is roughly 1300 Km (that is 800 miles) from north to south, it is hard to generalize about diet, climate and social structures ...

To give you an example, there is a (invisible) line just north of Bologna, recipes from regions above it traditionally use butter or animal fat, recipes from regions below it use olive oil.
"Agile waterfall" may be a meme but I have seen job listings use that exact term to describe the company. Out of everywhere I've ever interviewed though, no company that has described themselves as Agile have been remotely Agile, ones that don't spend so much time thinking about process generally are Agile to a degree.
That would require money. Energy companies are in the business of making money. Nuclear plants cost HUGE money to build, they deliver terrible value for money henceforth, and after a couple of decades they have to be shut down (in theory), so what's a company gotta do to make money? Cut corners.
Even if you look U-235 alone, we have at least a couple centuries of it using conventional reactor tech, based on the known (explored) deposits, and very conservative estimates of how many more we will discover once existing stock starts to dwindle and prices start going up. Less conservative estimates give it closer to 5-6 centuries.

Now, if we use the tech to its fullest extent - meaning U-238 breeder reactors, rather than conventional U-235 ones - then fuel supply is infinite for all practical purposes. It also by and large solves the nuclear waste problem.

The main problem with nuclear isn't price per watt, it's the upfront cost. It requires a massive initial investment before you start getting anything useful out of it, and it requires an even more massive investment to start deriving benefits from scaling up. Solar, on the other hand, can start with a very small investment, and gradually ramp up, with a smooth curve of decreasing cost as scale increases. That makes it more attractive to private sector.

Nuclear is something that pretty much requires very long term planning and subsidies of the kind that only governments are really capable of, and in the era of democratic governments and nuclear scare among the general public, it's just not happening.

Well, except for countries that don't have to care about public opinion. China, for example, is building a lot of new nuclear plants. They aren't ignoring solar, either, and they're making massive investments there as well - but they're not putting all their eggs in one basket.
It's not unlikely at all for a highly specialized skill set. Speaking from experience.
Combine this with the keto diet and it is awesome ;)
Ask HN: We have a promising app prototype and don't know how to proceed with it
Hi all,

We have a nice application prototype, which works decently.

We're planning to share it publicly to get some feedback. But, we're a bit afaraid of our app being copied and made production ready faster than we can do. We currently only have IOS app, but, both a web app and android app are also requires.

We also have shared the app with some investor, but, we haven't heard back them. We're living in a far away country and so face-to-face meetings with the investors are also not a realistic option for us.

We believe our app could become successful. Do you guys have any advice for us on how to proceed?
Thank you for your comment. I was limited with 2000chr that's why I do not add in my first post.

1. English will be my priority until I learned as perfectly to speak in front of public.

2.Yes for sure I will need to get registered in the UK. I will figure out wich is the best way to do it.

3. I am interested in startups but at the moment I am not found something similar to the idea. Yes, this project can grow and to be very big but unfortunately, my lack of confident English speaking stop me to find a good team or to convince people that this is a good idea.

4.Yes, it is very risky to pass all this way because have many things that can fail.

5.Yes, probably I will try to find a job and work somewhere until I polish my missing skills

Thank you CyberFonic.Will be better for me to follow a career path before try to build something on my own. I appreciate your help.
not the best for coding tho. unless someone made an editor for it.
Wake me up when we have a pill to fix body weight that really works. Not being able to eat whatever I want makes me surly.
On the other hand, who needs nation-states when they're submerged under water and their populations decimated?
I understand peak child has been reached and the only reason the population is still increasing is that people aren't dying young at the same rate they used to. I think there are bigger gains to be made by changing other things, and they can be made much faster than a slow reduction of population.
It's much less of a problem than the CO2 problem
> - since CO2 has a logarithmic effect on warming

Sources?

> - the catastrophic climate prediction models have not proven effective at predicting climate

What catastrophic models?

> - we should expect moderate increases in warming, which can be beneficial (livable climate, crops etc)

2C is not moderate

> - the unquestionable benefits of hydro carbon energy to bring people out of poverty and into modern prosperity (food, healthcare, modern technology)

Because renewable has not benefits? Isn't?

> Shouldn't we be happy that the alarmists were wrong and the threat has been overblown?

I don't know about alarmists, but IPCC has been spot on, if not optimistic with their models

> An alternative viewpoint:

Alex Epstein and WUWT? Really?
so you don't get distracted by video or pretty articles. and it's an exclusive coding machine.
Without agreeing or not with your overall statement, I want to point out that this new type of panels have not been invented by Musk nor by his companies. It was invented by another company, that they then acquired.
It's 45% nuclear and 45% hydro [0] according to Dagens Nyheter, an old and reliable news paper.

[0] - http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/vattenkraft-och-karnkraft-ger-sveri...
Are we doomed and what would a world where greenhouse gases were going down look like? Would we still be able to fly internationally for example?
This matches my experience, although I was lucky that I stopped doing "Agile transitions" gigs early enough. My question is: how do you discuss this with a customer?

At one point I had a talk with a director of a smaller bank, and he was enthusiastic to bring me on board, even wanted to pay me just to spend my workday in the office doing nothing specifically. I declined, because it was a lost cause: their team was too fragmented, their processes were too convoluted, their estimate for a very minor change added up to several months...

Yet, I felt bad about it, because I wanted to help them, but in that environment, I was not able to do anything. How do you approach such situations?
Agile is the only word I know that inverts its meaning when you capitalise it.

The team I work in is fairly agile, in that we communicate well, react to changing priorities very quickly, and ship things regularly. We're not perfect by any means, but whenever we consider adding more of the typical "Agile" process we always realise it would slow us down, and we see other companies with more set "Agile" processes being much slower.
Another kind of cult is religious adherence to methodology while ruining the very value the methodology is supposed to enhance.

When you think something is stupid (like adopting only standups), frequently it's because you don't understand the motivation behind it. Standups are one of the first obvious changes any team, no matter how oldschool and rigid, can adopt and see the results behind it quickly, to encourage further transformation.

When you're changing something big (like a development process that is stable, consistent and filled with people, resources, operational and deployment plans, etc.), you want to change it either radically, or chunk by chunk. Radical changes are easy to decide yet hard to pull off while preserving business continuity, it's a bit of a gamble not everybody is willing to take. So, many executives want the "transformation" to actually be "step by step evolution". And one of the first steps are standups and enhancing the planning.

All of the above doesn't debate the fact that there are companies which get Agile terribly wrong, and companies which can't get Agile right due to extremely rigid structure. However, not all companies who fail to visibly transform into Agile in a few easy steps are like that: sometimes they're stuck on early iterations, slowly working their ways further while preserving continuity and market momentum, and there's nothing wrong with it.
That's missing the point though. This is not about the inconvenience of certain gestures, this is about the constant stream of notifications raining down on you.
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Keep in mind that it is a perfectly reasonable position to both:

a) agree with you and GP (though perhaps not to such a dramatic end), and

b) slap on the brakes when discussing constitutionally perilous endeavors that could ultimately harm us more than this discussion can forecast; what else can I forbid or do in the name of existential issues?

That I'm in the apparent minority here based on voting is far more alarming than I'd like it to be. Am I being interpreted as pro meat or something and riling the vegetarians? When I see the words "forbid" and "advertising" next to each other in such proximity I'm compelled to point out it's a bad idea. How am I the only one on this side? I'm all for evolving the Constitution, but fiddling with the First is not where I'd start and suppressing meat advertising has the potential to become much worse. That's my only point and I cannot express to you how alarmed I am that it's controversial.

If you're coming at me this hard that the First Amendment is malleable enough to save us from perceived world doom by forgetting it when it's convenient, let's turn around and have a conversation about the Second, then, shall we? Two can play that game. Either the Constitution is infallible or it isn't. Tell me which it is and I'll debate accordingly.
> Earlier this year I made the conscious decision to remove all Internet service from my home. It ended up being the best productivity decision I’ve ever made.

Yep, can confirm that. I haven't had any Internet in my student flat in the past 1 1/2 years and am thriving on it :-) I have Internet at university and when I go home for the weekends, so I'm not cut off from the world; but I do need to much more deliberate in how I spend my time online.

One of the biggest advantages: I have time to read books again. As a kid I was a voracious reader, but that decreased in high school, partly because I was spending the time on the web instead. Giving myself the opportunity to go back to books has been tremendously satisfying. (HN and the Internet is great, but you learn so much more through books.)
Plus the burning of forests in Indonesia to make room for farming palmoil. We're all in this together.
You're confusing not being able to with not wanting to. You seem to live in a high rent area: that makes sense if you're optimising for career/lifetime earnings - but in this hypothetical you're not, you're optimising for leasure time.

Adding two hours to your commute matters less when you're only doing it twice a week. Also, anyway, I'll bet that you can buy food for a week on less than 0.75 days wages. You could, if you wanted to, if five days of leisure a week was actually your life goal, most likely make a number of changes and achieve that. But it's not going to be a life of very many modern luxuries.

People on two days a week will generally be (money) poor, but they can live, and have a lot more leasure time. But that's the point: they don't want to, they want luxuries more, and that's fine.

Remember that Keynes was writing a century ago: two days a week can buy you a decently comfortable 1910s life, but that looks a lot like poverty today (you mention your lack of AC and central heating - well, Keynes never had any of that) - because we're spending our money on luxuries rather than leisure time.
I was thinking of the same thing.
Bulletproof coffee in the morning with the 8h window would certainly force your body to switch to ketosis pretty aggressively.
This is very true, but Agile isn't the only un-achievable property in this case. Even basic healthy atmosphere and efficiency barely have a chance in these situations, so expecting someone in a wheelchair to run feels a bit naive.
if you're a contractor being ask to do things out of your remit seems like a loss maker to an employer. but when you're salaried they tend to think they know you and give you things outside of your job spec more readily.
Sadly, I agree that an "Oh, more for me!" mentality would probably be the prevailing sentiment.

Only a philosophical shift brought on by a serious downturn in circumstances would cause people to reconcile their presuppositions of reality with actual reality and by then who knows if the problem would be reversible.
I'm surprised it took them so long to do this. Someone else made one ages ago at https://www.materialpalette.com/
Burning renewables (wood) is fundamentally different than burning fossil fuels.
Is he looking for work where that's not the case? (He can see my profile for where.)
One return flight from Los Angeles to Europe creates as much CO2 as the rest of your life for a year, if you live reasonably eco friendly (still drive to work, but have solar panels for example)

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It's the other side of blind worship of law enforcement and "tough on crime". If you assume that police, prosecutors etc are always acting in the best interests of "honest citizens" beset by criminals, then second-guessing them on anything becomes unthinkable - it doesn't matter if the science is wrong or not, they know what they're doing, and if they lock someone up, that person deserves it. From there it's one step to concluding that anyone who so much as asks questions about whether the science is legitimate, is only doing that solely to undermine crime fighting, and is a "bad guy".
Less likely to rebel, really? WASP-powered US has had the same system of government for more than 200 years. In that timeframe, Spain and Italy saw several revolutions, upheavals, counter-revolutions, and fundamental shifts in democratic systems during peacetime. Even in the 1946-92 timeframe, the so called "First Republic" in Italy had a different government almost every year, and at various points it was on the verge of civil war.

I think you are confusing economic dynamics with political ones. Despite What Marx would say, the two don't always require each other.
I'd love to see a framework that treats client/server code as Ring 4 and Ring 5. you just have one codebase for client and server and it's up to the programmer to decide what it can trust the client side to compute.
> we waste more on the animals' inputs than we get out

Is this true? Plenty of humans are reaping the benefits of this industry existing. While beef, dairy et al may be disturbing from multiple points of view, few industries are as subsidized as the corn industry in the united states.

If there was a single vulnerability to be used as an entry point to tear apart the elaborate farming empires and thoroughly tackle waste with respect to output, it'd be corn. It just doesn't make sense, irrespective of animals.
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I knew that ListConcat looked fishy.
I also did this for a very long time. Being the local computer geek everyone expect me to know everything about computers and phones and of course have the latest phone in my pocket.

But being the local computer geek gives me insights that others do not have. I already saw the problem coming a mile away with the first mobile phones long before they were called smartphones. I already had the whole village asking me for advice with their computers (the few that had computers). I helped everyone build theirs for gaming and had to help them when they had problems with viruses and so on.

Why would I want to be reachable at any time? Would a smartphone make it even worse? You bet. Would I be getting a phone any time soon? No way.

I did eventually get a Nokia 3210 though, which stayed with me until a couple of years ago when I gave up and bought a smartphone to be able to screen incoming robot sales calls...
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Wrong. The low end is that extreme weather events get less frequent [1]. The high end is that they get more frequent -- but the amount is such that you're not going to get hit with more extreme weather over the next century than what you would get if you were a bit unlucky.

Your second paragraph isn't talking about weather events at all.

[1] https://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/faq-10-...
I wonder same as well. I am building something right now with v4alpha and I have not found any problems. Therefore it is a bit weird why don't they just call it 4.0 and be done with it.
Capitalistic efforts fueled and steered by taxes and subsidies. Do you really think there would have been anywhere near this progress if market forces would have left on their own?
Populations already are stagnating in developed countries. It would be much more efficient to block/tax things like beef imports, petrol cars, foreign goods/foods.
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Well, lard is pretty popular in Bologna and Modena too ;) but I strongly agree with your overall argument. Italy is very different throughout, and changing all the time; stereotypes don't help medicine.
The statement that you quoted does not claim, or imply, that it's all the same. It merely says that the left has its own sacred cows that aren't entirely objective and based on facts - which is correct. But there's a difference in the number of such cows, and just how much rejection of reality is involved in maintaining them.
One me as a European and Holland-lover is worried about is Amsterdam. A ton of Clojure stuff going on there (my special interest) but at 0.5 degree celsius warmer than now, that town is likely to be submerged.
Sorry, I can no longer edit my comment, so I am adding another comment here. I'm in no way criticizing your way of communication. I think Facebook is an excellent communication tool.

However, to me, there is something special about emails that makes them a much personal way to communicate. When I send an email to a friend, I feel like I made a personal connection. I feel I like the person a lot more when I write an email to them and get an email back. When I commented on/liked a facebook status, it just feels like it's some shit I have to do when I am bored. Since I deleted my facebook, it turns out that there are very few friends/acquaintances that I added on Facebook that I feel like I need to connect on a personal level. That's very strange.
Well, this is very hard. It is more frustrating with bigger companies.

In one occasion, where they officially brought me in as an agile coach, I tried to at least achieve some local optimum with the team, because some big improvements were plain impossible. I occasionally talked to managers about all the walls we were constantly hitting, but the answer was always "we can never change that in this company". This did not stop me from mentioning the problems, though.

Most company actually hire me as a technical coach or as a developer. There it is easier: When changing the way the team works is not officially my responsibility, I will still mention things that could be done better. But when the company does not listen to me, it is easier to let go: Then I'll just focus again on helping the team dealing with their legacy code monster (or whatever else I was hired to do).

So, in short, my strategy of dealing with it: Never give up mentioning problems and trying to establish a culture of continuous improvement with small experiments. But don't get too frustrated when they don't listen.

Also, often they do listen, and things get a little bit better ;)

How do you deal with those situations? Do you have a different strategy? What could I try to do differently?