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When reading this summary of "The Mythical Man Month":

> The best way to do that is to organize the team like surgical units. In an operating room, there’s a large group of support staff, but only one surgeon. One person cuts, not ten. A programming team then has only one programmer, but many other support stuff.

I instantly remembered what I thought when I read the book myself: Why isn't that taught at university? Or mentioned in any other software engineering book?

Many other parts of "The Mythical Man Month" are often cited, but the "Surgical Team" chapter is almost never cited.

Why is that?

Was the "Surgical Team" even unusual back then? Or, has it been tried and failed? If so, how did it fail? If not, why don't we see that pattern implemented in today's software projects?
Why is it a problem, or what problems has it been causing in NYC? I understand the legality is questionable but I don't know why the laws exist in the first place.
I dont think that was implied at all, he/she was just pointing out the contrast.
Looks very cool. If I hadn't already settled on a Hugo/Git/Netlify setup, I'd be investigating this for sure.

Also, congrats on writing website copy to appeal to non-techie audiences. It's well written, benefit-focused, and generally good stuff. I could actually see myself introducing this to non-techie entrepreneur friends and having them likely to use it.

P.S. - even more impressed that your docs seem to be written for non-technical users in mind too! Nice one.
> There is nothing that will provide you with a bigger advantage in life than a high IQ. Nothing. To repeat it: NOTHING.

Parents with bags of money.
Xara web designer going popular again?
I didn't say I couldn't understand them. I was talking about the amount of time it takes to understand a typical library in a language like Java. My experience is that you would have to spend a lot of time jumping through different classes, and often have to step through things in a debugger to understand them.

By contrast, I find that code in Clojure libraries to be much easier to read and understand. You literally needs orders of magnitude less code to solve same kinds of tasks, and it tends to be organized much better. I can open a namespace and read it top to bottom to see what it's doing. That's pretty much never the case with a non-trivial Java class.

As a concrete example consider the Java Flyway migrations library to the Clojure migratus library that I've taken over maintaining

https://github.com/flyway/flyway/tree/master/flyway-core/src...

https://github.com/yogthos/migratus/tree/master/src/migratus

They both provide same core functionality, and I was able to understand the Clojure version in a few hours. It would take me much longer to understand Flyway or to be meaningfully contribute to it.
'Our members own seven apartments on average, they are not big companies'

Amazing how people live in distorted realities. To the vast majority of the population, owning seven apartments definitely puts you into 'big company' territory. Plus not being 'big' doesn't mean you get any exemptions.
This question reinforces the parent's point. It seems totally obvious to us that everyone should GTFO of the theatre.

And yet in the 1950s they didn't.

What was different about the mindset of someone from the 50s? Were they inured to explosions coming out of WW2? Were "pranks" with pipe bombs a normal thing? Was it just that nobody had ever been killed by one so they didn't recognize the threat? Was the 50s mind somehow more stoic?
So obviously you aren't interested in having a meaningful discussion, just to argue. I didn't realize I was wasting my time, so this will be the last reply.

Here's the wiki on Enterprise Software if you are interested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_software
Is this a surprise? If you look at eBay, it's also dominated by professional sellers as well. In some sense it makes it better because you have motivated people handling the transaction, not one-off people that might not take the transaction seriously.
Whats the payscale of a software engineer working remotely from India?
What kind of pay scales do remote engineers living in a country like India get?
Supply is very fixed? Most of the cities that you read about having a "rent crisis" also have a very aggressive contingent of anti-housing construction folks.
*Patels (don’t generalize people, its not nice)
So if they missed a small pack of drugs that some slipped in there, some ones life is ruined
Tofu – The opposite of a font
If AirBnB gave me the option to filter actual lived-in apartments, as opposed to professional operations, I would definitely prioritize those. I miss the original feeling of booking someone's actual apartment, sharing their history, books, way of life, even weird knock-knacks. IKEA catalog living rooms get old quickly.
One of the things preventing Puerto Rico from becoming a state is the balance of power in the US Congress. The thinking is that a majority of the Puerto Ricans will align themselves with the Democratic Party. That would result in 2 new Democrat Senators which would upset the balance and possibly swing the senate in favor of the Democrats.

There have been similar concerns going back to the 1800s as well with the United States' western expansion and creation of new western states.
Same in South Australia, mostly to prevent the spread of Fruit Fly (confined to eastern part of Australia). WA and SA rely economically on fruit plantations, so the noxious fruit fly could cause grave damage to local economies.

Don't travel with fruit in Australia, its the height of selfishness.
Of course they inspect first, for as long as it takes, and whether your flight goes without you is secondary.
Person who bought an old triplex with a ton of deferred maintenance and has been running it as a vacation rental for a long time here.

This is not an easy side gig. It's more than a full time job, and I have been living in one of the units and only renting two and my SO helps out a lot. Bringing on a third unit and I am about at the point of needing one full time employee.

It is a never ending fight against entropy, as well as a not insignificant number of guests who will lie to get over on you.

You have to:

Manage bookings/field inquiries and sell property in these exchanges/make special offers to fill spots.

Accounting/legal/tax

Cleaning. This is very labor intensive. To properly clean a two bedroom apartment to hotel standards takes at least 3 hours and that's if guests left it clean. One stray hair in the wrong spot and you lose.

Maintenance. Decks/trim/walls need to be patched and painted each year. Things break. A very heavy-set guest will crack a toilet seat and it needs to be replaced in the 4 or 5 hour window you have between guests. You might get some animal infestation that needs to be dealt with.

Guest relations. Guests will forget things and want them mailed to them. They require handholding and strategies to keep review scores up.

People will constantly be trying to negotiate your price down, even though you offer 4 times the square footage for the same price as a nice hotel in the area.

I am working on automating and streamlining as much of this as possible, and there are gains to be made there. I have made gains with superior cleaning technology to save time as well.

FAQs and guides can help, but guests don't read them much of the time.

This is not real estate investing, its hospitality and meeting and greeting guests and chatting with the friendly ones is what gives you the good reviews where other less hands on places get the very critical ones.

Professional management is where this space needs to go in my opinion.

Vacation rentals have been a boutique industry for a long, long time. What was disruptive about AirBnB was the opening of it to spare bedrooms and the subletting of places people rent from others.

AirBnB has both made the space much more popular, and caused a lot of the ire and animosity we have seen towards the space.
People are pussies these days
Interesting, and startling to me when I first learned of it, is the probabilistic method [1], now not infrequently used in combinatorics to prove the existence of a solution to some question without constructing it. One proves that the probability of existence is strictly greater than zero.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Probabilistic-Method-Discrete-Mathema...
SDF has an active group of "phloggers" which are proxied to the web here: https://sdf.org/?gopher
Ask HN: Why is there no way to prevent scroll-jacking on a webpage?
Who will win the race to become the world’s first AI superpower? Curated digest
That makes sense - sort of like the UK or France overseas territories that are not part of the EU.
I'm implying that people in the 50s had larger metaphorical balls and less hysteria than people now -- regardless of what is prudent to do.

It was also evident in how free-er kids would walk around -- a 10 year old having adventures around NYC by itself instead of being taken everywhere by their chauffeur parents.
Reminds me a lot of a persistent surveillance program they've tested in other cities. The idea is if you record all movements in a city from the air, you can trace where criminals come from or where they go. This system has not been implemented in a major American city, to my knowledge, because of the privacy issues.

Excellent Radiolab episode about it: http://www.radiolab.org/story/eye-sky/
That's more small business category.

With a business plan and stable income, getting a small business loan isn't hard. In this case, there is an asset value risk, but that doesn't mean this is large company territory...
Looking at the source. All the text is loaded with the HTML (in a <script> tag), which is filtered using a fuzzy search implementation.

Very simple and fast considering the text doesn't change ;)
Spy Emergency 2017-24.0.470.0 Serial Number Is Here
In my recollection, it's presented as speculative. It'd definitely be interesting to know the experiences of those who've tried it in fullness since.
The lack of sense of humor here is stunning. Other comments here are deep in conspiracy-land. Forgive me for contributing a differing, humorous viewpoint.
No, that's what living in a bubble feels like.
That's the kind of pluck and industriousness that made this country great.
SDF has a free streaming music service called aNONradio with live (including daily openmic) and archived content. A handful of its members produce original content shows available at http://anonradio.net
And if you dig into the anti-housing discourse, you'll find there are also several good reasons for that.
Thanks, having editor integration with the application runtime completely changed my workflow. I simply couldn't go back now, having instant feedback on the code you write is extremely satisfying.

What surprises me is that none of mainstream languages provide this kind of environment. Lisp and Smalltalk have been around for many decades, and somehow this workflow ended up being completely neglected in the mainstream.
Yeah, that's really different, though. It's essentially a way to simplify counting. But the "converse" of the probabilistic method doesn't work: zero probability doesn't mean inexistence in an infinite set.
Only when something new comes along and replaces it.
There is no rent cap in Germany. The article is wrong.

Germany has only "soft" rent controls that limit YOY increases in rent and (selectively) increases in rents when changing tenants.

German economic orthodoxy relies very much on the need to build housing in order to deal with housing shortages and with rising rents due to housing shortages. The "soft" rent controls simply buy time to get housing projects underway. Without new housing being built, rents would still reach market levels, it would just take a bit longer.

Berlin's current problem is excessive urbanization driven by migration (1) from the neighbouring comparatively poor East German states and (2) of foreigners who speak only English and hence prefer a city that has already evolved to accommodate English speakers. Various and sundry NIMBY problems where locals oppose new housing projects also don't help.
Less than 1000 verses. You could naively linearly search the whole Gita as a single string.
> So what you are saying is that there should be safe spaces for conservatives to express themselves? That conservatives should be welcomed for their diversity? That conservstives should be given a participation trophy and honored for their special snowflake ideas?

Good grief. Diversity of every imaginable kind is good except for diversity of thought apparently. Whatever happened to "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.", which used to be one of the core principles of liberalism? Has the identity politics-driven faction of the left fallen to the point where that has been abandoned too?

And even if principle weren't a consideration (somehow), consider that even if one chooses to ignore conservative speech and attempt to deny conservatives platforms from which they may speak, they do not magically wink out of existence. In fact, it may galvanize them, as the Democratic Party found to its sorrow in recent elections. Continuing to exclude and deny the beliefs of half the country is a recipe for political suicide, so the sooner that the mainstream left expels the identity politics faction, the better.
You don't expect factions? Religious wars have been raged over tabs vs spaces... tab is 2, 3 or 4 spaces... bracket on this line vs the next...

Factions are normal and I would expect them to coalesce, polarize and get more extreme over time.
Because it further reduces the number of homes available for people to actually live (which is why we have zoning laws), which inflates rent/housing prices. This forces the bottom rung out of the city, because they can't afford to live there, and now minimum wage jobs (which we need to run the services people want) can't be filled, artists and musicians disappear, and the city becomes a place only for tourists and the wealthy.
> The problem with housing is that the supply is very fixed.

This claim seems to be the root of every anti-AirBnB argument: AirBnB rentals eat into the resident housing supply.

But this is simply solved by zoning and regulation. In any given city there is some number of residents and some number of visitors, and some number of permanent and temporary beds for them to sleep in. Yes, AirBnB shifts some of the housing stock from resident to visitor - but, if that's what economic forces are commanding then the zoning & regulation should adapt, not fight it. It's not a capacity issue, just one of allocation.
That, presumably, is one reason supply is restricted ("fixed"), along with other restrictive laws, like height or density limits, forced parking minimums, etc.

Another contributor is poor transportation infrastructure, which limits peoples' flexibility, creating more pressure on housing near train lines and stations, etc.
Don't know about NYC, but for one, it raises the rents, because hordes of tourists are more lucrative than locals renting long term.
So seems like it's easy in Brazil to illegally own a firearm. I suspect the UK avoided a similar outcome by not only making it illegal, but also policing in such a way as to make it difficult to illegally own a firearm.
According to neoliberalism yes. The rest of us don't believe that markets are both the best and inevitable answer to every human endeavor. Some of us even believe in weird stuff like human rights and self governance.
>Rent caps are never a good idea, they have so many unforseen consequences.

Compared to uncapped rent that doesn't have any?
Adam Smith wrote, in the Wealth of Nations in 1776: "Disagreeableness and disgrace affect the profits of stock in the same manner as the wages of labour. The keeper of an inn or tavern, who is never master of his own house, and who is exposed to the brutality of every drunkard, exercises neither a very agreeable nor a very creditable business. But there is scarce any common trade in which a small stock yields so great a profit."

Airbnb is a remarkable innovation that allows landlords externalize those negatives, while keeping the profits.
This is an implementation detail, and doesn't affect the API presented to the user. For example, consider the clj-http library that's backed by the Apache http Java library internally https://github.com/dakrone/clj-http . As a user of clj-http, I don't know or care about the fact that it's a wrapper around OOP code.

Furthermore, if you wanted to, you could reimplement the internals in Clojure and the users of the library wouldn't be affected.

Being able to leverage existing mature libraries is a huge advantage, and the fact that they can be used via idiomatic functional APIs provides the best of both worlds experience.
The fact that you whine about anyone disagreeing with you being some bogeyman you call "the Left" (which does not exist of course) is telling; instead, you should consider your discussion partners as people instead of the enemy, perhaps then you will provide arguments that are not you just stating the thing you desperately want to be true over and over again and we can all learn something.
The system encourages it. Ingress data is cheap, and so many scrapers just default to high frequency.
Is that a reason to give in to the market?
> Berlin, like most German cities, is experiencing an acute shortage of affordable homes. Rents are rising at a rate of nearly 10 percent a year, even though the city has a rent cap and has introduced one of the strictest bans on holiday apartments - many other European cities also have some kind of regulation.

From that quote I would say vacation rentals are being scapegoated. Rents are rising with one of the strictest bans on holiday apartments.

Affordable housing was a problem before AirBnB was ever conceived.
Interesting. Puerto Rico's statehood is basically an edge case of the demographic quicksand that underlies the Republican Party's current domination. Trumpism certainly isn't doing the Party any long-term favors in that sense.
When in history have "chinese walls" like that ever worked?
>The problem with the anti-AirBnB argument is it always attacks from the angle of vacation rentals eating into the resident housing supply. That's nonsense.

Not for those that suffer from it.

>There is some number of residents and visitors in any given city, and some number of permanent and temporary beds for them to sleep in. Yes, AirBnB shifts some of the housing stock from resident to visitor housing, but, that's really just a zoning and regulation problem, not a capacity issue.

Well, unless people en masse are willing to go out there and build new houses, and prefer to use them for resident renting instead of AirBnB, it is a capacity issue.

Capacity doesn't magically increase with demand in the real world. Especially if there's a big, more lucrative, sink for new capacity.
> What was disruptive about AirBnB was the opening of it to spare bedrooms and the subletting of places people rent from others.

Yet that's a minority of Airbnb's offers according to the article. The vast majority of rentals are operated by "professionals" who rent all year long, this is not like a "paid couchsurfing" service. People like you buy condos for the sole purpose of renting it on Airbnb, and that's fine, but let's not pretend like Airbnb is some grass-root charity.
That's true for commercial waste, not residential. http://www1.nyc.gov/site/dsny/index.page http://teamsters.nyc/locals/local-831/
There are all kinds of biases involved, but the ASVAB has been normalized against a (the?) general population of high school students.

I think that the ASVAB was designed as a job-choice tool is more of a problem than that it was designed as a military job-choice tool.
Breaking news alerts would be sent to phones around the world. "Bombing at New York theater ... Multiple casualties ... DEVELOPING." The Survivalists out in the Dakotas start loading up their weapons with ammo and standing watch on their properties for looters. Twitter is going nuts. Total lockdown at all public buildings in the Northeast US. Etc etc.
As with Uber, what began as an interesting tool rapidly became another "death star" to be dreaded.
I have to agree that this argument is utterly unconvincing, even as a reason to believe FLT may be true intuitively. It simply dismisses with a wink and a nod the idea that there might be one single counterexample out there for one single exponent (or, a finite number of counterexamples for a finite number of exponents). In other words, it does nothing to argue against the set of counterexamples being of measure 0. Indeed, until Wiles finally proved FLT, the relative lack of progress on Siegel's conjecture on the infinitude of regular primes would tend to lend support to the view that a counterexample might exist somewhere out there.
If it makes things any clearer, the author of the quora comment is apparently a figure in various culture wars, so I imagine GP's opinions about him are coming from things he's said elsewhere, not just what's in TFA.

(I only know this because there was a brief furore about him the other day - he got locked out of his youtube account, purportedly for his conservative views, or somesuch.)
Yes, because the smaller ints are 'pre-constructed' in Python (hence all 1's are the same "int(1)" object)
Interesting idea. Would this app be feasible on iOS as well?
App Store Optimization Information Lib
Some interesting blurbs from the manifesto:

"This document is mostly written from the perspective of Google’s Mountain View campus, I can’t speak about other offices or countries."

"Change is good (unstable)" vs
"Change is dangerous (stable)"

"Women generally also have a stronger interest in people rather than things" thus "This leads to women generally having a harder time ... leading."

"some on the Right deny science that runs counter to the “God > humans > environment” hierarchy (e.g., evolution and climate change)"

"Thankfully, climate scientists and evolutionary biologists generally aren’t on the right."

"the Left tends to deny science concerning biological differences between people (e.g., IQ[8] and sex differences)."

"Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of humanities and social scientists learn left (about 95%)"

"Ironically, IQ tests were initially championed by the Left when meritocracy meant helping the victims of the aristocracy."

"males are biologically disposable and because women are generally more cooperative and areeable than men."

"Alienating conservatives is both non-inclusive and generally bad business because conservatives tend to be higher in conscientiousness"

"empathy—feeling another’s pain—causes us to focus on anecdotes, favor individuals similar to us, and harbor other irrational and dangerous biases."

"Considering women spend more money than men and that salary represents how much the employees sacrifices (e.g. more hours, stress, and danger), we really need to rethink our stereotypes around power."
>I have aspergers myself, and I can very easily see someone who has aspergers who for whatever reason no longer wants to socialize anymore getting up and doing their own thing out in isolation.

Did you get a diagnosis from a qualified professional, or is this self-diagnosis?

I used to wonder if I had it, but then I met someone who was diagnosed with it. Fairly significant difference.