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Maybe other teams work radically differently, but everywhere I worked it was inevitable that team members would occasionally get "meaty" projects to work on where they would take primary ownership. Under the repetitiousness and time constraint of stand-ups, it still outwardly appear that the smaller tasks broken out of a large project can all sound the same to others on the team who are only mildly interested in the details of other people's tasks.

If I was working on a very functional team where we had the employees and resources to work very collaboratively across projects, I'd certainly agree that (groups of) tasks that take that long should raise alarm bells. But most companies, in my experience thusfar, minimally value their developers and only hire X amount of them, so the developers they did hire are naturally forced to take on large projects to the point of taking sole ownership of them.

Disregarding that, I don't see it as unreasonable that tasks shared between multiple people would take weeks to figure out. If I were hiring developers, I wouldn't want them to race to make a bunch of horseshit that's going to fail, but instead they should take their time to figure out the right approach. In conjunction, they should be able and allowed to communicate when long-running tasks aren't going anywhere, without any shame. As long as they document the steps they took along the way, there's no reason that standup needs to play a role; with documentation, a manager should be able to tell if an employee is incompetent or merely trying to do their job right.

I don't think that stand-ups are really a big deal, but if I were running a team, I probably wouldn't use stand-ups in a traditional sense. Rather, I'd keep stand-ups but not make them goal-oriented or strictly related to work in any sense. As I said earlier, I think it's positive for people on a team to interact at least once throughout the day if they are in the office, and a quick and optional stand-up in the morning would be a great way to facilitate this. If someone wants to bring up an issue or asks if another team member knows how to do X thing, then awesome. In fact, I suspect people would be more comfortable in doing so if they aren't wasting time thinking up how to summarize their work for stand-up, and if stand-up was kept casual and didn't devolve into employees reporting to their manager.
Statements are not true simply because you state them.
I believe you brought up antergos. The exact statement was.

"I worked with the Antergos team, a team of 4 people, to write a distro that let you pick and choose everything, from DE to browsers. While I've mainly faded away they are still hard at it. In short, if we can support nearly every DE with 4 volunteers, what are these *buntus spending their resources on?"

You compared flavors of Ubuntu unfavorably with flavors of antergos and it's neither throwing a fit nor entitled to point out that their resources presumably are spent on making things that work.

Regarding antergos, I consulted their bug tracker my issue had been reported already and wasn't fixed within the month I was interested in the matter and it was impossible to use the older version without the bug because once online it helpfully updated itself to the broken version. Further as far as I could tell the bug was generic enough that it would have effected most users. It simply crashed most of the way through a generic Ext4 install to bog standard desktop hardware.

People throw around entitled as if giving away something for free exempts your work from all critism. Sure you owe me nothing but if your work over promises and under delivers I'm apt to say something so others don't waste their time.
More inside the article (not sure if the last 2 were intended):

"it’s a bit of a stretch"

"lingering question"

"laundry list"
Good link, to answer my own question, the first year insight sales were (drum roll): 17.
You may want to look at this - https://electrek.co/2018/07/30/tesla-model-s-x-interior-refr...
Temple University SJP Posts Column Supporting PFLP Terrorists
My rule of thumb is, write it yourself until it's painful, and spend a day looking for a good library to reduce the pain. If you can't find it after a day, or if you found one but it's taking longer than a day to configure it for your needs, try to write one yourself. This rule has not done me wrong yet. It's how I ended up moving away from Mobx and Redux in favor of RxJS and setState (just submitted a post about how to do this), and why I moved from Vue to React. But it is very subjective and subjectivity gets harder the more people you have on a team working on the same code.
What's a macro?
RPi is not something comparable to this.

PocketCHIP is: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-wor...

It's sad that it's not easily available any more. It's open schematics, though, so you can also build it yourself, given enough skill and determination.
Walmart is the Fortune 1, FYI: http://fortune.com/fortune500/
A thousand-billion is the old way of referring to numbers, but the UK switch to the American style in the 1970s. Strangely, the old style of billion, thousand-billion, trillion, thousand-trillion, quadrillion, etc, makes much more sense. What is a billion two of, anyway? What is a trillion three of? And so on?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-52AI_ojyQ
GIGANTIC SCREEN-OBSCURING POP-UP. INSTANT BACK BUTTON.
> In the US, my insurance was billed 14k USD for a simple diagnostic procedure (stress echocardiogram) that normally would cost a few hundred dollars. I ended up being on the hook for over 2000 USD.

I agree that the insurance aspect of the system is difficult and could use mild regulation. But I think that the single-provider nature of "universal healthcare" is probably what causes issues with the Canadian system, more than the single payer aspect...
I think the problem with people thinking complex numbers don't exist actually stems from the imaginary component and the same problem of imaginary numbers, which is rooted not in failing to teach about other kinds of numbers but in the name. Especially given the name of the real numbers.

The idea that real numbers are real, imaginary numbers are not real, and complex numbers that have a real number part and an imaginary number part are also not real is a natural consequence of unfortunate naming choices.
I did that (4pm standups) for a while on a team that was just me and another guy plus our team's dev manager, qe manager, and product manager. All the managers were in HQ, my teammate and I were in separate remote offices, so it was done over Hangouts. We loved it being late and got a lot done for just two of us over the few months, but the managers didn't like it (very few times they'd all show up, and dev manager always showed up while on a bart train) and killed it (back to 10am meetings) a few weeks before the team dissolved.

I've been on 11am standups lately and they're not too bad, but it incentivizes me to either come in at 8 or come in at 10-10:30. The latter is what usually happens.
+1

The standup should be the place of last resort for bringing up barriers impeding a task. The more resourceful you can be at solving a problem/brainstorming outside of the standup the better ime
How does this compare to namecoin?
Does this really "move the needle" in terms of security? TLS should be sufficient to allow your traffic to enter and exit hostile territory.
Does the lack of OS dependencies mean that it can't present a graphical user interface? Isn't that the main intended usage of WebAssembly, providing a cross-platform user interface that usually runs in a browser?
something shallow but a few machines became unusable due to MWB cpu usage
Aside from `as->` which mentioned by others, you can nest thread-last into thread-first if you need to and it behaves appropriately. (You can't go the other way for obvious reasons but it works when you introduce a collection.)
If you're interested in it, you may want to check Duinomite:
https://www.olimex.com/Products/Duino/Duinomite/

The disadvantage of using VGA is that if you actually want to use it for showing your kids how much fun we had once then, they might not be able to appreciate it when you connect the device to a large screen - it doesn't look too nice and a CIRCLE draws a (jagged) ellipse...
This is the top comment, but I'm confused about how it relates to the linked article. The article doesn't really advocate outsourcing your software to third parties, just consolidating the infrastructure that you do own (sometimes in clever ways, like recursing your own PaaS) to make it as simple as possible.
Can confirm I have this and I'm on the fastest insider build ring. There seems to be differences between how input is made etc which leads me to think there is something more to it than just "makes the wrong calculation".
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>I'm not sure when programmers became so averse to writing simple code.

I know everyone likes to spend a day writing a date/time library, but when you need to develop a full stack app. You just dont have time to do everything from scratch.

These are decisions you have to make.
It is evidence of N=1.
Why shouldn’t I be able to change your username to “daveFNfuck”?

How many people will need to start calling you “daveFNfuck” before HN mods should change your username to “daveFNfuck”?
To be fair, Python asyncio is a really ugly interface for something that other languages (e.g. JS and others) have done a lot better. Maybe look at other languages than Python for async programming.
I am admittedly abstracting a little bit, from this very particular program structure to the general problem of retail outlets doing home delivery to regular consumers.

I suspect Amazon-owned companies are unlikely experiment with the particular structure Walmart is trying. It feels like Walmart is trying to solve a very particular problem that most other companies might not have.
Standups are about developers updating eachother. Basically no one outside the development team should be in the standup. I don't get what's negative about this.
Some guy answering every post with some generic "try these troubleshooting steps" which are all completely unrelated to the question. That guy should be a bot or a sticky post...

I'm wondering if there are sites that have people on agreements to answer "200 posts/month" for a fixed pay or something, or get paid per answered question within 48h. In any case: it's not helping.
Basic the language is nostalgic but not exactly great.

I hope Lua might be eventually added.
Love this idea. The white glow around the white box is pretty jarring and your subtitles don't have any different formatting ("newest ads" should be bold or bigger). Spacing is inconsistent as well.

For the viz, at least on chipotle, the colors don't actually show anything? All of calories is green and all of protein is red? I'd just toss it in excel and use their default "high is green, low is red" on each. Then default sort by the most efficient foods. Then maybe test out "high is green, low is white" for price, so we can easily see efficient foods that are cheap, without making expensive foods look explicitly bad.

Chiptole logo needs to be resized. You could try a bar chart also.
And here’s a link to it: https://www.math.brown.edu/~res/infinity.pdf
I first read your comment as the inevitable "that's not true agile" response. Haha

Perhaps companies should just pick and choose what parts of Agile methodology suits the situation. I don't really buy the idea that Agile only works if there's an ensemble effect from every workflow aspect made Agile.
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This is easy to explain. Main premise of agile is spending a lot of effort on improving the process. These are the standups, demos, retrospectives, etc.

It is no wonder you get more done if you cut the effort. You are coasting on past improvements. This is only going to work for a while until your performance starts to slip because the team stopped correcting and improving.

Spending time on improvements is important for other reasons. If your team spends 100% of the time on project work it is inefficient by definition (though not very intuitively, but see constraint theory). Spending time on improvements creates necessary flexible buffer. This is an alternative task when there is shortage of project work or it can be temporarily cut if there is too much project work.
If you don’t want to explain or share, I don’t want you on my team.
My, how very Douglas Adams of you =)
"The perfect is the enemy of the good."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good
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Hi Dstik, being 100% candid, I don´t really understand from your landing what the product does =/
Had the pleasure to interact with PicNic CTO in their past job and met PicNic tech team at various conferences in Europe: top talent with a great team spirit working on many interesting topics.

PicNic is a bit puzzling for traditional retailers. I interact with C-levels execs of "traditional" retailers in Europe and very few have heard about PicNic. When they realize what PicNic achieved in the NL, basically "solving" the last mile problem they all have, they usually are quite impressed.

Obviously, last-mile delivery is highly country specific: sociology and urban planning/population density in the Netherlands is very different to any other European country. Attempt to roll out the PicNic model in Scandinavia (roughly the same population size) would be a completely different story.

As an outsider, I'm wondering what PicNic next move will be. My money is on an international expansion into Germany, starting with Dusseldorf and its lander (similar population density and size).
Yay for Atari basic!
> That is, if I am working for weeks or months without making visible progress, but I have successfully delivered the last X things on time, why are you worried about what I look like?

I'm not worried what the OP looks like, or generally what I look like for that matter, but they were worried what they look like. I just dispute the claim that standups are the root of their anxiety about that.
It could work, but there hasn't been a ton of demand for it. Yes, it might help at the very beginning, but people do learn and become productive without it.

It'd also be a worry if libraries started doing stuff like this; it'd be harder to use from "normal" Rust.
I think your team is too big then. Don't have company wide standups, have a standup per team and possibly role. If you're working on a web stack have a standup where the backend devs talk, one for the DBAs (if that's a thing you have) one for the front-end people... If there's someone in a product manager role they might want to attend all the meetings but likely not.

If a clear majority of the audience isn't interested in your status then you're just burning hours.

Also a standup with 40 or 50 people is just plain silly. I worked in gaming a few years ago and our standup was a full game team, the artists, designers, QA, server-devs, client-devs and our stats guy all spoke. It was a bit interesting to see what artists were doing but totally unnecessary for me to hear anything anyone said except the two other people I worked with, and we communicated well outside of the standup anyways.
It's actually 120V/~208V. If you're feeling frisky, you can confirm this by going around between random pairs of outlets in your house and comparing the right slots from two different outlets until you find a pair of them that are out of phase from each other.

Fundamentally, the power grid is based on three phase power. Typically, the average telephone pole will have four power wires on it, and one or two thick bundles of phone line or maybe cable TV, I dunno. Three of those four power lines are the three phase electricity, and the fourth is the common neutral line that is ideally near 0V, but typically fluctuates a bit.

Only three out of those four lines enter your house. One is is the neutral line, the other two are just two of the three power lines. Those two power lines are not 180 degrees out of phase, they are 120 degrees out of phase. If they were 180 degrees out of phase, the math is simple: it's obviously just 240V. Since it's 120 degrees out of phase, you end up with a sine wave that looks something like 120\(sin(x)-sin(x+pi\2/3)). (only you need to adjust it for frequency) If you're better at your trig identities than I am, you can calculate that out exactly, but for simpletons like me I just plug it into my calculator and find a local maximum of 207.846 something.

(note: In the US, we use neutral and ground to refer to the common center of the three phase power, and the wire that is buried in the ground near your house, respectively. In the UK, I think they call these two wires ground and earth, respectively. Note that the term "ground" has a very different meaning (read: one of them can kill you, the other one keeps you safe) depending on the context.)
Cue the people trying to claim that anyone in this entire world is unbiased. I'm biased, you're biased, everyone's biased. CNN is biased, NYT is biased, Fox News is biased, NPR is biased. We should all stop pretending that our own news source is unbiased. It's simply not true.
Do you care how useful the thing you're building is for the people you're building it for? How well it fits in with what other people on the team are building? If any of your teammates have ideas that could be helpful, or have learned things that might be of interest to you?

I've often been the guy who comes in to help untangle a messy code base, and an entrenched "just let me build shit" attitude appears to be a chief predictor of unextensible and inflexible design. Even when not in a managerial role, I don't like to see people working in silos because experience has taught me that I'm gonna have to deal - as a fellow dev - with repercussions of poor design sooner or later.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? Especially ones with a personal edge.
> I was taught in (american) school adverbs are a lazy and informal form of expression.

I've certainly (in the same place) heard that heavy adverb use is a “writing smell” in much that way, but the point of that was very much not to substitute the use of adjectives serving as if they were adverbs for actual adverbs.
Had a chuckle at the "weakness" of that last one. Pretty sure "ugh, I just work too hard!" is everybody's go to weakness.
Pretty mediocre, really. The Nikon F-mount dates back to 1959. :)
Funny how there's a Show HN link for a standup app right above this post...
Why the need for all this formalization of process. We're all adults. As long as we hire people who can communicate well, shouldn't just having conversations here and there when the need feels natural be enough?
The assembly video (https://basicengine.org/hardware.html#_assembly) is really neat. I like how he made the SMT ICs easier to test by bringing out all the pins to nearby pads. That lets you easily test for bridges and good connections at the cost of board space.
What about using Uber/Lyft for deliveries? There are dedicated people already willing to drive their own cars to transport things.
The self described "first online meme generator", memegenerator.net. Showed up circa 2009, so, before that?
Please don't.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17670452 and marked it off-topic.
VA loans shouldn't have PMI.
My account literally has my old legal name, and can't be changed
People should try to think more long term about standups.

Yes, maybe you could remove them and maintain the same productivity for a year, so they appear wasteful.

But removing accountability, can lead you occasional bad decisions, which lead to more frequent bad decisions and then 5 years later you have some REALLY bad habits in place. Standups feel like babysitting, and they are not necessary if everyone is just ready to work, but I think the accountability from publicly stating goals for the day has a subconscious effect that can lead to people getting into a great routine.

I myself, never needed standups to prevent goofing off. But they really helped me get a handle on how bad I was at predicting the results of my work for a day. My optimize makes me perpetually underestimate the time it will take to do a task by a factor of 3-4. With practice in standups I've got that down to more like 2x.
I'm not sure where you're from, but I don't know anyone who doesn't have literally dozens of VGA monitors they can't figure out how to get rid of. Even modern this-year Dell monitors still come with VGA, and I've never even seen a modern TV without RCA plugs.

Is their a Goodwill or Salvation Army store around you? Check it out, see what their electronics section looks like. That's the target market.
The Soundtrack of Your Life: Muzak in the realm of retail theatre (2006)
I'm not sure that is the right way to see it. If we did find life on Mars would that mean humans could never travel there? I don't so. More than likely we need to transplant Earth life to Mars for large scale terraforming.
Distributed Deep Learning on AZTK and HDInsight Spark Clusters
> While it is true that the solar wind has stripped Mars of much of its original atmosphere (due to the lack of the planet's magnetic field), and that any man-made atmosphere on Mars would eventually be dissipated by the solar wind - the speed at which this occurs is measured over geological time frames - on the scale of tens, if not hundreds of millions of years. If humanity were to create an artificial, life-conducive atmosphere on Mars, any atmospheric output due to economic activity (CO2 + other gases) would easily exceed any atmospheric losses. Thus, the atmosphere would be stable.

From ... https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceX/wiki/faq/mars#wiki_what_will...
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I currently pay $78/mo and I barely get 1 down it’s frustrating. It’s the only option I have.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/image-macros

"The term "image macro" was first coined in Something Awful[2] in 2004. In the forums, users could summon a number of default image macros using simple commands like [img – macro], for example, timelines, "Aces!" and "Captain Obvious to the Rescue!" images. The name is derived from the computer scientific definition of a macro: a rule or pattern that specifies how a certain input sequence should be mapped to an output sequence according to a defined procedure. The earliest definition of an image macro was submitted by SomethingAwful forum user Eclipse[3] on February 12th, 2004."
This is insane. I heard that 50% of people can't come up with 500 bucks in case of emergency.
> Scientists at the Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have discovered a behavior in materials called cuprates that suggests they carry current in a way entirely different from conventional metals such as copper.

> The research, published today in the journal Science, adds new meaning to the materials' moniker, "strange metals."

> Although scientists understand the physics of LTS, they haven't yet cracked the nut of HTS materials. Exactly how the electrons travel through these materials remains the biggest mystery in the field.

The biggest mystery in the field... of science?
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