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We actually massively profited from implementing standups and agile-ish process and we really do not feel the downsides mentioned in the article.

Standups:

1. The standups are held in very small groups that work on the same thing and where it is important that they are coordinated.

2. Standups are not a place to discuss priorities. Those were set way before. It's for you to tell everybody what you're working.

3. Standups take 5-6 minutes per day. It's less than one foosball game. Some teams actually do their standups while doing a plank, so that they're very short.

4. Standups help us achieve team cohesion. Everybody knows what everybody is doing, so people can help each other when needed + leads can detect issues sooner (especially valid for introverts, since they sometimes lock up and grind away without telling anybody).

5. If you're bored during standup and not getting any value then you should not be part of the standup. Standups are considered optional, but everybody attends.

Agile process:

1. 14-day scrums are to sync priorities and discuss the development process. Generally speaking, we set up quarterly goals (and we have a rolling forecast for the next two quarters) so its clear what people need to do. We do not change the quarterly goal, except if external forces force us (example: things failing).

2. The schedule also gives the leads a clear tool to block any "non-urgent" but important tasks that would meddle in the development process. Instead of caving under the pressure of product teams or high-level management they can clearly state when they will start working on the task. I think the schedule needs to be set so that management can handle the lag between request and start of work on the request. I've heard of 3-day sprints since that was the most effective way of blocking daily priorities changing until management got on board.
That may be because that is about US$100k at the current exchange rates. A cynic would say that the comp has only gone up because the exchange rate has, since tech tends to be denominated in USD.
That's cool for you but

* How many people in your team/organisation can read and write assembly?

* How difficult is it to hire someone with assembly knowledge where you are?

(not having a go at your solution specifically - not enough project managers think about maintaining solutions after people have left)
Not to be a downer, 'cause I think the movie is great but, how much was he worth then (and how much now?). Was there a financial safety net tied into Moxie's life then? Was he just playing crust punk tourist?
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Opera is incredibly smooth, works on every device I own, it's fast.

The new ownership situation isn't optimal but the quality hasn't gone to shit yet imo.

I remember when opera used to have an IMAP client built in and you could open up an IRC chat tab, it had so much cool stuff!

Mozilla is terrible. Way too left, low quality everything. Mozilla is the single most toxic thing in software culture in the past fifteen years, imo.

Your remark is sorta like "I don't trust Frigidaire, they only have one product!"

Which of course places you in perfect position to shill for Mozilla.
If you're referring to real numbers, then virtually no real numbers have a name. If all real numbers had a name then you could order them alphabetically and put them in one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers, which we know is impossible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_diagonal_argument
Is there an android solution to automate registering and accepting T&Cs for free wifi? The log in process and unreliable connection make them barely worth using.
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But if I hire nine women, I can get a baby in a month right?
The only choice in the current high noise/low signal environment is to pretend to be neutral or pretend to know what you are talking. Both Obama and Trump fall in the later category.

You and everyone else who believes talking is a route to solutions is delusional. Especially in the current environment of self reinforcing echo chambers and us vs them narratives. There has not been a single major issue solved in the last twenty years of social media and 24*7 news "educating and informing" the public.

Will technocrats who are political have any success? That experiment is currently running in China and the default American narrative is it will fail. So either way you look at it an SV entry into politics will fail.

What they can do is change the environment. Remove the retarded mechanisms that increase "engagement" at the cost of dividing people. This is much more in the realm of their domain expertise than thinking they need to spend their time talking or propping up talkers more.
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There's politics, and then there's politics. The topics that get flagged usually are ones for which it's near-impossible to have a productive discussion. The HN guidelines are spot-on with "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." The important topics usually filter through here. If you want to indulge in shouting at each other over what outrageous thing some political figure did or did not say this week, there are plenty of other venues on the Internet which encourage just that.
Counting calories is really not that difficult. It's more about awareness than anything else, and the main benefit is investigating how dense the various consumed items are. I've been able to implement it and saw others do it who similarly weren't really what you'd call "disciplined" people.

I think the idea that calorie counting is something super difficult is a bigger barrier than the activity itself.
Yeah!

Rain is a good time to go for a walk.

Everything is quiet in a way, and there are less people around.

It's a bit like walking in a noisy snowfall. (You know when it snows big flakes it gets very, very quiet)

The downside is if it rains a LOT you will be soaked and cold and everything you carry with you will be soaked, too. It's fine for keys but a phone... That can break.
Right. If nothing harmful has been reported by New York Times by now, then I’m sure nothing could ever go wrong.

I’m critiquing the shape of the system and the potential for harm. The municipal duties our ancestors fought to have managed through democratic processes we love to pride ourselves on are swiftly being surrendered to private corporations who citizens widely do not trust. And then we wait until the damage is irreversible and pretend we weren’t asking for it.

I warned you.
Async standups are great even for on-site teams. First, people only spend half a minute to post it; manager needs half a minute to read it to know whats going on. After it is posted, everyone have something to refer to before the weekly meeting, which does not have to be long if it is well prepared. The set up keeps the communications efficient and consistent.

As for the original post, the outstanding team does not need the manager, so far. It will need one, after the writer deteriorate the culture and communication channels that have been established before him with own "trust" and f-words.
Gmail and FB happen to have both been launched in Spring 2004. Plenty of people were concerned back then about the privacy consequences of allowing Google to search your mail, and plenty of people didn't want to engage with FB. I think the Gmail situation was clearer at the time.

The EFF has of course been concerned with privacy since the 1990s.

Speaking of 2004, in 2004 the EFF was on the board of organizers of the fourteenth conference on "Computers, Freedom, and Privacy" (http://www.cfp2004.org/program/speakers.html), a conference series they founded in 1991 IIRC. I'm not immersed in the history here, but my recollection is that relatively more time was spent on copyright and privacy w/r/t governments, vs. privacy w/r/t corporations.
The language for specifying computation in GENTLE is similar to a shallow backtracking version of Prolog. The language is translated directly into C.
People do the same thing in other languages where PIN isn't a homophone with other words (e.g. German) and not just with PIN.
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It will certainly not work for devices with high power requirements. So ovens, washing machines, etc. are out. But computers, TVs, routers, phone chargers and all the other small stuff might profit.
Storage is a minor worry. The main thing is whether the storage makes the frequent operations efficient. The tuple (index_position, value) is reasonably storage efficient but abysmal for linear algebraic operations. So one cannot decouple storage efficiency concerns from compute concerns too much.

I think this is one of those shibboleths that separate folks who are experts in ML/data-science at scale vs those who are coming more from a enterprise/DBA background. I often have to convince folks why its not a great idea to write sparse matrix multiplication in SQL.
A language is made popular by its ecosystem. R has not only the latest statistical tools implemented through packages but also domain-specific ones. I use both R and Python, but for data analysis, modeling, and plotting - R is much ahead of Python. Find an obscure or cutting edge method, and chances are someone has implemented it in R.

And the package system is absolutely smooth. I have never till today had any issue and I have used it on a weekly basis for the past 6 years.
Why? Why would an airport make connecting to the free WiFi they offer harder?
Wow! Such a valuable article!
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Cisco, Adobe and Oracle seem to be having a competition of who can release the most security vulnerabilities.

I personally and professionally will never want to touch their products.
> I didn't say people can't lose weight without calorie counting, just that some of us do use it

You did. If you're walking back on it then ok, but don't lie straight to my face: "Obesity is directly caused by a failure to moderate how much we eat"

> If you can do that without tracking it, cool

You can too.
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Indeed and those are the lucky ones. For the rest of us handling sparsity often becomes a 'make or break' deal
Why do most countries drive on the wrong side of the road?
To make it work in loanwords from Arabic, a consonant phonology table needs to be added, because the target language may have fewer consonants than Arabic.
This approach works really well when you have a great team - like I'd imagine palmerj3 has at Spotify. I've worked in a few of these places and know how well this approach can work. However, I am currently working at a place with people who are very inexperienced and frankly pretty lazy and just generally not very motivated. The manager has to constantly monitor them and make sure everything is being done. In this type of environment you just wouldnt see the end result at the end of the month. But personally I find this approach works super well for me.
Or... People with chonic diseases don't tend to use saunas.
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> It's a general-purpose tool. The politics is in what you use it for.

That's exactly the view they are arguing against. There is no hard border between tool and decision to use it, the infrastructure will always shift the context of what's possible and alter society.

Once nuclear weapons become possible, a coldwar and arms race becomes imminent. Once a massive, uncensorable communication network becomes pervasive, the old social institutions that guide public communication become irrelevant and we build new ones or face massive misinformation and propaganda campaigns. It's not that we choose to use social media to propagate fake news, it's the inevitable political consequence of their technical structure.

This is not an argument against building things. But an argument for taking responsibility for what you build and acknowledging that building technology is a political move, it strongly affects the inner life of the polis.
What is the overflow behavior? If it fails and warns you that some operation overflowed, I don't see an issue.
Cooking your own food is a great way to improve your health and also unplug from technology for a while. Restaurant food is usually way too full of oil, sugar and salt.

Another very healthy way to reduce your caloric intake is to make fresh vegetables the center of your diet and then fill in from there instead of eating the occasional side salad.
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This is completely avoidable, you simply don't allow people to pick their own PIN. Banks don't allow you to pick your credit/debit card PIN, and I would assume that this is precisely one of the reasons why.
How did I live not knowing it? Very usefull! Sent to every friend. Thanks for it!
> Okay, how does the other party get richer? It usually isn't because they fight against more efficient technologies.

By exploiting the poorer party in the previous round of this game. Wealth is pretty much self-perpetuating - the more you have, the easier it is for you to get even more.
> when Congress is replaced with politicians not working on dismantling the institution

So basically never?
Goal for today - get stuff done. finish up things we planned for the week.

Blockers - hopefully blockers are identified and communicated right away vs waiting for standups.

How to get stuff done - less unnecessary meetings and processes. Async communication.
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I've known people who've worked within telecom sales. Employees of any area's dominant phone company are specifically trained to call their control of the lines out as a benefit of not using one of the smaller competitors to whom they're legally obligated to sell space. It becomes part of their pitch. Something to the effect of "Use [AT&T/Sprint/whomever] because we control the lines and our jobs always get done -- other jobs, maybe not so much." is frequently heard.
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Why not? Seems like a common sense rule.
You guessed correctly!

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Indeed some things work great in the Netherlands which might not work well in other places. But even if we have to change some parts of the delivery model to adapt to other markets, I think the high level concept has a high chance of working.
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Regular bathing forces you to do lots of auxiliary physical activity. Firewood, ashes, etc. Enough to distort statistics.
Lounges often have wifi meant for guests only, and the bandwidth can't cope with everybody in the airport using it.
I really don't get this "management can micro-manage developers". Sounds like you work at a very shitty company / unhealthy environment. Dailies are for the actual working team, so they work better together and not a tool for team externals to shit all over the process.

I really can imagine your scenario - do you really have your CEO standing there on your daily meeting? Or are you bothered by your Team Lead?

I'm a CTO and I've never been on a daily. I don't care about daily tasks. I care about shit breaking. It can be our tech, our infra, our people, etc.. That's what I need to solve. I don't get it why in the god's name I would attend a daily. What value would I get out of that?

If on the other hand, I see shit going down, I dig in right away and talk with the Lead and/or Team if shit got real.
Some guy is building some kind of faux-hologram
Any comments on the tech behind this?

(I've done a few projects crowd sourcing and distributing information like this and I'm currently thinking about some tools in this space, hence my curiosity.)
I think leniency for violent crimes or burglary is probably misguided in at risk communities.

For most non-violent crimes, this study was unconvincing (generally speaking I’d like to see incarceration alternatives for non-violent crime, why send people to crime school at tax-payer expense?).

I agree that for these groups, there’s an elevated chance that the parent is actively harming their family. I just don’t think it would be statistically justified to separate families that aren’t criminal.

And, of course, it would be deeply inhumane.
I don't think our ancestors fought to ensure that mapmaking could only be done through democratic processes. The usual story we like to tell ourselves about this country is that our ancestors fought to give us freedom, not to ensure that the government would have the final say on how we're allowed to identify our neighborhoods.

You say you critiqued the potential for harm and that you've warned me, but I don't believe that you've done that. You've explained how similar changes to other systems could potentially harm me, but you haven't explained how changing neighborhood names on Google maps could lead to harm.
As someone who has been on both sides of the coin. My take is:
Don't make your site for anyone and everyone.
Keep a target audience in mind. Most of the time, the person that hires you is usually the target audience.

Don't try to be too cute. For example, I have seen sites/resumes where the whole thing looks like HTML tags.
My first impression is "cute" but it makes it hard to read as you try to gather real information.

Most of the time when someone is looking at your site, they are asking themselves:
- Who is is this person?

- What do they do?

- How much will it cost me. (Does it look expensive, cheap or reasonable what tier do they fall into. ex: Dominos pizza or Gourmet Pizza)

- Have they done any projects that are similar to what I'm looking to get done.

- Are they competent

- Do they look like someone I enjoy working with. (energy, attitude, views...)
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R was the first language I learned (I ... do not recommend this) and while I don’t use it Day to Day at work, I’m always using it for fun side projects about everything from baseball statistics to urban planning. I’m not a professional statistician, by any means, but fully appreciate the work the community does with this toolset.
> In fact, most people are miserable and suffering from health issues that bears don't suffer from.

They also don't suffer from health issues that bears suffer from (and that preindustrial humans suffered from, too). As for misery, I can agree about the part caused by stress and ennui, but along most imaginable metrics, humans today are better off than in any other period of history.

> meat is largely the same and that's what most of what our ancestors ate

Technically, meat and fruits are "the same". In practice, meats are heavily processed products of factory farming exercises, and besides that, who buys just meats and fruits? Most food we buy has at least one more level of processing involved.
The processes help coordination and accountability; if they may be improved, the team will improve. Will it become an ok one? It may.
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$3/user/month would signal to me to walk away. You can't possibly sustain at that rate if you ask me making investing in use of your tool a risk. Good software costs money, and deserves money, don't lower your prices too much. Consider them carefully.
Technology might have had a negative impact on their families but I believe that the alternative would be even worse for them. Without technology they would probably be conquered in war and speaking German now.
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Not true. Most banks in EU allow you to change pin at the ATM.
That seems to be the model that Walmart is having the most success with right now in the US. Fortunately this is something we could do if it becomes more requested. But, just guessing, that market is probably small. I think the main competition will be shopping in store vs. online + delivered.
If you don't trust upstream why are you running their code?

I don't think it's reasonable for such a small group of people as Debian developers (or any other maintainers) to review each change looking for potentially malicious code. Especially in codebases as big as Firefox.
MIT EECS freshmen aren't exactly beginners.

It's not the right book for 19-year-olds who want to learn programming. It's the book for 19-year-olds who have been programming since primary school. A complete beginner will struggle terribly, and s/he'd still miss most of what the book is really trying to teach.

Lately, MIT has been investing heavily into obtaining a more cosmopolitan image, so ditching a course aims to scratch the itch of hardcore nerds -- while disappointing -- wasn't unexpected, I guess.
Thinking about the long run: Is there any version of the future where the best and largest library of statistical procedures could be somewhat language independent, and not organically part of a small language that itself is an unholy alliance of a matlab-like quick-and-dirty syntax and a hobbyist-level scheme interpreter runtime?
The real problem with shifts like this is the transition period.

I agree that that, considering every luddite separately, that each did have valid concerns. Every person cares forst on foremost about themselves and/or their immediate family.

And when new things make old things redundant, of course it negatively affects the person whose job revolved around the old thing. And this in turn negatively affects their families.

So, they are srewed. But the new thing is staying and from that point on, every "new" adult that looks for a job in that area will know nothing but the new thing. Will operate this new thing and will make a nice life for himself.

In the end it will be viewed that the new thing is so much better and maybe society is actually better of having the new thing instead of how things would be if the old thing was still used, but the persons who were the last to rely on the old thing of jobs and thus prosperity will always be the ones who were screwd by this new technological advancement.
And then you'll have beautiful cities with nice streetscapes.

Seriously, if you don't want your street corners to look like a black deathball or [something straight out of Stranger Things][1], you need to consider those poles as "shared limited resource".

[1]: https://twitter.com/pketron/status/938097381064654848
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There are elixir meetups held by pagerduty.
PagerDuty is moving primarily to elixir and have a large engineering presence in Toronto. Their interview is a bit tough. I know several good devs who didn't make it through the process. It's usually something like two-sum problem (two lists, does a number from one list sum to equal 0 from the other list?) in a 40 minute live coding exercise over the phone.
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