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Finimize | Full-stack Engineer (Node, React, Redux) | Full-time + On-site in London | https://www.finimize.com/jobs/

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"who is still to this day behind bars while his wife is enduring a strict house arrest."

Liu Xiabo is since dead, actually: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/13/opinion/liu-xiaobo.html
In a perfect world, agile is about responding to change, in reality it is about responding to change and to misunderstandings. I believe that the latter is even more important, but an emphasis on change might be helpful to sell the idea to people who don't think that it could happen while they are involved.
Hi! The second apt-get update is there so microsoft-mlserver-all-9.2.1 would be found. The wget was used as per the installation instructions by Microsoft. I used aptitude because I encountered problems with the package dependencies.
I'll trying a CMD in the near future. Thanks! :D
It would be great to survey a large selection of software projects and see if Agile has positive or negative impact on the success.

My current view (not backed by any numbers) is that the majority of widely used software started as an spontaneous initiative by a small group of developers or even a single developer that didn't use any formal methodology.
How to use external services safely and reliably in Elixir applications
I think the last paragraph is perhaps as important as the first one, though I wonder if it highlights the most poignant issues. In a sense, one concept agile is aimed at is that (most of the time) neither the developer nor the user / business knows exactly what the end result should be.

Rather than try to ignore this, agile aims to treat it as a base truth, and work with it. Whether it succeeds or not is open for debate, but for most domains, I tend to prefer it over big, upfront design.
An important difference from the Transputer is that it is an entirely asynchronous design that doesn't rely on a clock. It doesn't waste power idling just to distribute and keep a clock vibrating, unless you program it to do so.
You can do what I do with my phones. Root it and install a AOSP based rom and skip flashing the Gapps packages. For app store you can use F-Droid and Yalp. Most of the Google apps have pretty usable FOSS alternatives.
I installed CopperheadOS on my Nexus 5X, it has been a blessing. I use OsmAnd~ maps and navigation, Startpage for search and Firefox (and Firefox Klar) as my browser.

I chose Mailbox.org as my mail/calendar/contacts provider. DAVdroid syncs my calendar with the default Copperhead OS calendar app (Etar) and the Contacts app. I use the K-9 mail app.

For YouTube I use NewPipe. It suits me a lot better than the YouTube app. I can even download video/audio for offline use.

All the apps I mentioned above are free and open source and available via the F-Droid app “store” that comes pre-installed with Copperhead.

For the first time I feel that I own my phone (not the other way around).
Watch: HEIF vs. JPEG on iPhone 8 compared
The users whose data was exposed are not Equifax's customers. People who want credit reports on them are.
Hijacking Computers to Mine Cryptocurrency Is All the Rage
Ah fuck the Chinese and their ridiculous arrogance
What do you mean? I don't think I saw a single Erlang file in that repository.
Britain has frequently been regressive when it comes to freedoms. It's the classic nanny state and both the parties play into it. Labour want welfare to help people into work. Conservatives want to ban everything nasty to make people nice.

But while censorship in the UK is nothing new, I feel like we're entering grand new era where I can send you a few links to extremist material, an encrypted USB stick without keys and you disappear into a black hole. Forever.

If that —or even the heightened fear of that— isn't terrorism, I don't know what is. I certainly feel more threatened by accidentally breaking a law than terrorists where I am.
> The leaked information is being traded among fraudsters, and will remain to be traded for years

Do we know that to be true?

My understanding was that we have no idea what's being done with the leaked data. Has there even been a spike in fraud?
High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) – Technical Information
As others have said, the option to disable telemetry is in the other stores.

Read the article, it says it too:

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You can turn off the anonymous data collecting of Firefox Focus by tapping on the settings icon, and flipping the switch next to "send anonymous usage data" to off.

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I dont understand the word Forcing here. Norway had a choice to continue denying The one China policy. Putting pressure on Norway thru various means is not forcing. Forcing would be done via a military operation leaving little choice.
Because Agile is a vehicle for selling books, consulting, training and speaking engagements. It was never intended to actually be used for producing real, working software in a commercial setting.

Those who can do, those who can't invent methodologies.
I have just encountered this writer for the first time. Not sure I'll read more. But from the excerpt, I wouldn't say he has "high praise for autocrats". He is just saying they are less constrained in their actions and hence have more personal effectiveness. That might be true, even if morally unpalatable (don't confuse the two).

Also that 'three Fs' quip I have heard elsewhere. Looking past the deliberate provocativeness, he's making the point that it's actually nonsense for most of us.

Maybe his other writings go further, I don't know?
California City Confiscates Toilets from Homeless Residents
Many advanced nations outside the United States (talking mainly about Europe) have learned long ago that the eight hour workday is too much. But in many places in the United States, an eight hour workday would be considered quite short. The other issue is annual vacation time; it's surprisingly short on average in United States compared to most other places.
Growth Hacker’s Dilemma of Imposter Syndrome
It's funny how some people call for separate IDs for each govt agency and some (different?) people then use such fragmented measures as a proof of govt inefficiency.

But I do think people are excessively paranoid / anti government today, so maybe just my bias is showing.
I think you commented on the wrong post :)
The update policy was a problem >5 years ago, but now I'm surprised how much updates I get on these "China-phones".

3 years ago it was a big task to get the devices to speak English and install Google apps.

Now they got onboarding even for German and all things are installed on the first start.
beg a pardon, was looking at the other submission.
A Tough Call: Agree to Be Spied on or Get Fired
Sure. The point here is that the promised "3 year minimum OS updates" for the Pixel 2 is a significant improvement on that.
Is it a nightmare because of Basic or because of the development and maintenance practices?
> Forcing would be done via a military operation leaving little choice.

Blackmail, threats, deceit, etc are other ways to force. Not saying that occurred here, just that your definition has a narrow scope.
Consumption taxes (like sales taxes) are heavily regressive and result in the poor shouldering a much heavier share of the tax burdem than the wealthy, proportional to their share of income (let alone disposable income).
Not much fun reading it though.
I could say: "My understanding is that software is just the code you put on the Neumann architecture. There must be some serious dollaroos floating around in consultancy fees for such a simple idea to be cropping up constantly and as a solution to almost every problem."

The thing is: not every problem is completely trivial to solve even if the basic idea of the blockchain is well known for some years now. I see progress, there are innovative ideas and implementation in the industry every year. It is not about the initial idea, the cryptoindustry is evolving just like the sowtware industry evolved. There may be more hype than necessary, but this stuff and its potential impact is real.
I don't understand the problem with the word forcing here. If you take your kid's xbox to make them clean their room then yeah, you are forcing them to do it.
> Agile gives the programmer a voice in the process

In theory, perhaps, but there are many places (everywhere I've worked) where the programmer voice is subjugated to project managers, product owners, and pretty much everyone else.

> once they update the tasks and time estimates, the feature's priority can be re-evaluated

Never worked anywhere that developer task and time estimates were considered as "truth" rather than something for everyone else to override or ignore based on external constraints.
Agreed - In my experience, there are a small group of people who use it as originally defined... and for everyone else, it means, "Not waterfall."
Plus, the author gives zero sources for the statements and numbers they present. We just kind of have to believe them - or not.
The Last Invention of Man
Deploying 20 times a day without thinking about it
It's a bit sad, actually. You'd think we have progressed further…
I'm not aware of any widely used product (os, browser, ide, ...) that was developed with agile.
The super-Earth that came home for dinner
I think Warren has something to say about accountability.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vudP3ROnFYI
Genuine question as I've only dabbled in Go, but I've heard complaints from other dabblers that Go seems to encourage large files rather than breaking things up in a more modular fashion. Is that a reality? Or has the complainer just been unlucky in the code they've viewed?
You can have a look through the Solidity language documentation http://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/develop/ then setup an environment with truffle (contract deployment and testing framework) and testrpc (lightweight blockchain client) as the client then write some contract code
An interesting detail left out of the article is that Norway's neighbor Iceland ended up signing a free-trade agreement with China in 2013, both Norway and Iceland had negotiations underway in 2010 when China broke ties with Norway.

Norway and Iceland are both EEA members, effectively with one foot in the EU, Iceland was the first European country to sign such an agreement with China.

Norway and Iceland having free-trade with China while having deep access to the European single market leaves EU expansion in an odd situation. Neither country could become a full EU member without hurting trade with China, or alternatively the EU would have to make a similar FTA with China beforehand.

I've wondered what the realpolitik of the situation is. Is China's main interest in these deals to drive a wedge into further EU integration? Are they trying to create a situation where Norway and Iceland joining the EU would be contingent on the EU accepting a FTA with China?
Because it was taken over by cargo cults like SCRUM who desperately try to turn it into a "process" forgetting the very first line of the Agile manifesto: "people over process".

Agile is a philosophy not a process. The process will differ company to company, and should derive by working backwards from the goal you want to achieve: "We want to solve the right problems for our customers".

What that ends up looking like, what you ship, what you DON'T ship, and how you do/don't ship it will matter entirely on your customer, your product, your company, and your specific team.
Vastu Principles Consider a Toilet in the North-East Direction
Call me cynical, but it's not going to change anything:

* Equifax won't have fines levied against it

* C-level staff won't have to pay fines (because they put in place or rewarded a corporate culture that made security a low priority)

* Banks and other institutional customers won't stop using Equifax

* No additional regulation will be created

It's all theatre; we'll have "thoughts and prayers" directed our way while nothing of substance changes.
Applying pressure that is irresistible is the literal definition of forcing.

So yes, China was definitely forcing Norway to recognize Taiwan and Hong Kong as a being a part of China.
"Hostile" is a good way to put it. I am infrequently, but still regularly, annoyed by the missing jack. It's especially problematic when I need to debug an audio app or play guitar through an Apogee JAM. (There is no existing dongle that gives you both aux and data, so I have to use the speaker.) Makes me feel like I have a toy phone.
Brainfuck has even simpler syntax and is even more inaccessible. There's way more to languages than syntax.
Accountants are pretty important once you have a sufficiently large organisation to manage.
The Agile Manifesto was written by programmers for programmers. Never forget the principles, even as the reality has been taken over by cargo-cult MBAs:

* Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

* Working software over comprehensive documentation

* Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

* Responding to change over following a plan
There's an enjoyable irony in publishing Barthes' work after his death.
The Pixel market share chart Google probably won't be showing at its event today
What's that got to do with the price of fish?

Ah...
Stanford researcher's 15-minute study hack improves grades by a third of a grade
The white paper just got published so we're relatively early in the process of implementing that.
Utopian meets dystopian
> ...those who can't invent methodologies.

Or they follow methodologies invented by others because they can't manage to get their own mess under control.
The latter. It is a moral failing to build/market a product with failure modes that expose unconsenting victims to consequences they did not sign up for. And "we were just following orders" should not be a defense, either.
And when your device is stolen?
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> The underlying problem is the existence of centralized identity, as opposed to decentralized identity.

There is also an underlying problem of reliance upon publicly available information (and in many cases, one's SSN is publicly available, even before this breach) to authenticate that human body X claiming to be John Smith is in fact actually the John Smith.

Public facts, such as SSN, mothers maiden name, or name of first employer, etc. have been relied upon as "secret, known only to John Smith" items for authentication purposes when in reality those facts were never really secret in the first place. The only reason those facts even worked as authentication devices is that pre-internet/pre-google it was exceedingly hard to look most of them up in the public records. Doing so often involved physical travel to multiple disparate archives and physical search through archived paper. And so if unknown human X knew all three it was highly likely X was John Smith because otherwise X had put in an awful lot of effort. Today, with the internet/google, obtaining almost all of these facts from the public records where they have always existed to begin with involves typing in searches, zero physical travel, and no combing through archived paper.

The internet has simply exposed the Emperor's New Clothes [1] for what they really were all along.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes
The parent claimed the "purpose of requiring a college degree ... is not to demonstrate knowledge, but rather to demonstrate submissiveness."

So no, I don't agree that my statement about college is anything at all similar to what the other person claimed. And unless you can cite any evidence that college is an indicator of subservience, I maintain my position that such a claim is insulting.
Aragon's focus is mainly on Board-level governance, while Colony is focused on the day-to-day management of tasks with a built-in reputation system to allow contributors to be rewarded in proportion to the value they provide a project while having reputation-weighted influence in the governance of that project.
My current job is my first truly agile software development position. I have never spent this much time in worthless meetings ever before. I also never saw a team with a lower "velocity" before.

Estimating story points for tasks when we know there is only one who has the skills to do it, direct conversions between time and story points. Countless hours spent in splitting and combining "stories" to make them agile sized bites. Estimation meetings that take half a day, where for every story only 20% of all the people who sit there can contribute.

I feel like this is all a big fat joke.
i find that "everyone else" means they do whatever by "they are agile" (meaning nothing)
agile is a manifesto, not a process :)

I started with Extreme Programming in 99, and watched the march to Agile tree hugging, hippy, non programming, consulting gold mine weirdness.

I barely know what people mean when they say "agile" now. I think anything that is some variation of scrum planning is considered agile
>The free speech worst case scenario is not American but Rwandan:

I agree that was horrendous; however why is it the worst case? The US military also funds and sponsors media, and lies to create war. Why were the Rwandan government's provocations worse than the US's? More people have died in The War on Terror. Both wars were unjust, for power and profit, and targeted specific ethnic groups.

Rwanda's genocide itself does have a particularly evil nature. I'm just trying to show that it is difficult to say which is more evil.

Free speech isn't perfect; it is just better than the alternative.

>the worst side of "freedom to lie"

There are already laws against false accusations and lying. So in theory, if someone slanders a rape-survivor group by saying they have no right to be upset, etc., because they were not raped, the accuser can be held liable for those false accusations, which is a good thing. I support free speech strongly, but I don't think people have the right to deliberately lie about individuals, groups or businesses, without consequences.
> And yes, I'm sure there are old optimizations which will also do that

So then it's not new behavior.
No you are not. They can decide to live without it.
Most of the problems being discussed here in this thread regarding work hours per week, commute times, finding time for leisure and exercise and family time, the time spent dropping off kids at school, etc -- there are mostly unique to America. Americans could really learn a lot about how successful you can be despite spending less time at work, as well as less time fretting about other things, by looking at any of many countries on the continent of Europe, who offer a much better work/life balance but with no sacrifice on work output.

Some of the most talented and productive developers I know are in the Netherlands, France and Germany, and have a lifestyle that would be considered impossible by many in the States.

The brain needs time to recharge, time away from "work", time to think about work without actually doing work, and the punch that gets packed into a shorter work day can be much greater if the brain is working at optimum capacity, which usually doesn't happen if it is taxed for loads of hours day after day after day.

For me personally, my best ideas come when I am away from a computer, and my brain is free to wander. The more time I sit at a computer, ironically the less likely good ideas will come. Most work environments in the States have not learned this yet.
Its rather a matter of incentives. Norway has more to gainthis way. But it is not threatening their existence so forcing is the wrong word to use here. Its just clickbaity.
See above ^ - I work for one so can say with some truth here.

Yes they do have this problem but it confers several advantages: people are more bought into the work they are doing, they are happier, they understand decisions made about them, they work with more passion. Not all communicational efficiency makes people happier or more productive. Though it does take discernment and judgement when to not bother have a meeting and make a decision about something. You want to try and lower the problem you identify.
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Hire people from abroad? I'm from Nepal and would be thrilled to move to UK for a job.
I don't see why Taleb thinks Kelly, Shannon and co. are the only ones who understand ruin. Daniel Bernoulli formalised what is now known as the Kelly crterion in the 1700's. Kelly and Shannon's contribution was to demonstrate a connection to information theory, which was incredibly fashionable in the first half of the 20th Century.

It's really quite an old result.
Note that the gcc.gnu.org server, like many others, is configured to also serve the same files via HTTP(S) e.g.

https://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/old-releases/gcc-1/gcc-0.9.tar.b...

It's actually a little surprising just how much code is already there even in such an early pre-ISO-C version --- it feels like GCC was rather overengineered from the beginning.
It's called bootstrapping, would indeed be interesting if they used there own platform to build it, or run it in a way right now that allows them to migrate to Colony as early as possible. As long as it does not work for there needs, it's not clear why it would be good enough for anyone else.
> no nuance at all

Oh, now you're talking nuance! But lo and behold, it's your binary vision of the world that precludes any nuance. If you agree that exclusivity is in principle a good thing in some cases, you're in trouble. Now you need to explain why excluding some immigrants from your country, some workers from your company and some men from your wife's bedroom is legitimate, while excluding gays from marriage is not. If your argument is that you are looking after your own interests, while those who oppose gay marriage just act out of hatred, think again. Many of them are concerned about their own and their children's mental health, so there are interests involved there. So now you have to weigh one kind of interests against another kind. Good luck with that.

> GOP gerrymandering... voting restrictions... broken electoral system...

You, sir/madam, are in thorough denial of reality. Trump and Brexit happened first and foremost because a large swath of the population was angry for being marginalized to the point where there was no one left in position of power to look after their interests (because all such people were fired, just the way you like it). Everything else you mentioned might be true, but even if it had not significantly influenced the election results and, say, Clinton would have won, you cannot deny that a huge chunk of the population voted for Trump, who did not campaign like a Republican - he appealed exactly to these oppressed, angry people who you and the likes of you opt to marginalize in every way you can. You seem to think it's all a game of fairness, but in fact the radical-leftist intolerance you demonstrate is nothing new - it all happened before during Communist revolutions and resulted in millions of lives lost during wars and subsequent mass repressions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror