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As time passes I'm more and more wary of my Android phone (even though I have only a very limited usage compared to most "connected" people as far as I can tell). I just don't trust Google at all anymore. I think my next smartphone might well be the first Apple product I purchase in my life. Not that iPhones are without problems but as far as security and privacy are concerned they're pretty clearly the lesser evil these days.

It's not so much that I think that Apple is more virtuous than Google, that'd be naive. It's more that their business model seems to align better with actually respecting their user's privacy instead of siphoning as much data as they can even if that means using ridiculous defaults, nagging and dark UI patterns.
Their type systems, object model and reflection capabilities are very alike.

It's been a long while since I've developed anything serious in Perl, but the main difference I find between Python and Perl, aside from the syntax, is the value/reference split: Python makes every (passed) value a reference implicitly, Perl uses references explicitly, that can affect an architecture in important ways.
This is disturbing. What ever happened to good old fashioned police work?
I guess Tim's blatant sales pitch found a mark, eh?
Indeed. Besides, the app itself has access to the full content of your conversations so what happens in-between is pretty much irrelevant.
True. I didnt appriciate the late rejection letters past 3am EST. Seems a bit self serving. No need to wait that long to send out letters except to creat a hype
It's easy to get root on some Android devices. I think all Google phones purchased directly from Google make it a standard option; some others do as well, and still others have easy exploits.
It is either fully repaired/remanufactured and resold/used in a swap out, stripped for parts for repair/remanufacturing or totally recycled by Apple.

The "It's broke, here is a new one" IMHO is convenient for the consumer having their mobile device repaired. They're not having to wait around for hours/days while the repair is done. IME, Apple only really swap for total hardware failure or screen replacement on the X series iPhone.
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"And I'm much more likely to be killed by a random traffic accident (only time I've been hit on my bike was by a white women driving a Ford) or domestic terrorist/psychopath than an immigrant."

Are you using your experience with the Ford to support that claim?
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Obvious sales pitch is obvious.
>Why does NYT have it out for Amazon?

Lets Occam's razor this shit. Is Amazon a megacorp with the ability to throw their weight around and have a large impact on the world? Or are they a little mom-and-pop operation that have wondered into the crosshairs of newsmen conspiring against them because Bozos is the owner of a rival paper? In an era where NYT would like nothing more than to stop the bleeding from papers to online, and migration from NYT to Wapo isn't even on their radar?
In contrast in the case of Apple you have a customer relationship with the company that sold you the device and they have an incentive to keep you as a customer without having a need to extract as much advertisement revenue as they can.

Do you acknowledge this comes at a huge cost? Apple has a fraction of the marketshare as Android in countries like India. Apple's iPhone prices out billions of people. Android-based phones don't. If Android-based phones adopted Apple's business model, billions of people would not have smartphones.
I feel like there is a more constructive way to outline in which ways this solution might need to be improved to be suitable for various real-world use-cases, without focusing on whether this submission qualifies as HN content.
I've always had a problem with the scrum concept of team velocity i.e. assigning story points to tasks and then measuring how many story points a team delivers each sprint. The idea that this yeilds any predictive power is flawed. It's based on the assumption that the team is static. As soon as someone leaves the team or someone new joins, all the historical velocity data becomes useless and you need to recalibrate. The reality is that teams are dynamic. They grow/shrink/change all the time.
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I started working with agile since day one and it was fun back then. Why? Because it made projects so much more interesting. We were learning how to do things differently and it was pretty cool. Unfortunately, it became more popular and upper management started looking at the benefits of Agile. “Tell me one reason why we should adopt agile in our company?”. Unfortunately, a good answer to that was the ability to track the progress and a large increase in delivery and productivity. Teams hate those words but management love them.

That’s what agile became today, tracking progress with constant status updates, charts and metrics that tell a team “clearly you did a really bad job this time” or “you’re late”. Management doesn’t even have to do the dirty job anymore. Meaningless meetings, less power for engineers, no creativity (ain’t got time for that!), etc.

It went from a cool way to do things to a perfect tool for factories. No offense to factory workers.
Whenever Eno comes up I have to go and watch Adam Buxton's video about Eno and Bowie (and co-producer Tony Visconti) recording 'Warszawa'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FODvjYoVEi8
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While I agree with the sentiment and am also strongly against this mass surveillance, I don't think that a "please think of the children" argument helps our case here.
Can somebody please write this in C99 C? I'll do it also, but I'm too busy currently.

I'd also love to see the 7 word variant implemented with the first bit mark for full. it's only mentioned in the cppcon talk but not in the repo.
Not an elite, but videos are hard to consume. An article is something I can read on the bus.
Can someone please explain the functional superiority of this over, say, a Venmo balance?
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Let people fail. This is an opportunity for growth.
I feel your pain.

The worst part is that, when you push for some basic SE practices, the senior devs/researchera/PMs say (1) but we don't have the time to do planning/reviews/testing/mentoring, just look at the schedule, and (2) they don't want their own code to be subjected to review.

I slid sideways away from that endless crunch / hero 10x coder / code solo project, but I need a proper new job too.
To be legally recognised it has to also exist as some paper or electronic records usually. For instance in the UK it has to be registered at companies house. If you Bob and Joe get together to do stuff and say 'lets call ourselves the Bob and Joe company' I think you'll find that legally speaking you are actually a partnership which can be iffy if Bob signs a lease in your joint names.
Your preference is backed by science:

> However, most studies have shown that dark characters on a light background are superior to light characters on a dark background (when the refresh rate is fairly high). For example, Bauer and Cavonius (1980) found that participants were 26% more accurate in reading text when they read it with dark characters on a light background. Reference: Bauer, D., & Cavonius, C., R. (1980). Improving the legibility of visual display units through contrast reversal. In E. Grandjean, E. Vigliani (Eds.), Ergonomic Aspects of Visual Display Terminals (pp. 137-142). London: Taylor & Francis

https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/15142/whic...
It would have been exceedingly easy for the NY Times to do research to get us some numbers. Instead we get this handwavy quote.

And this statement doesn’t invoke a lot of confidence for me. The article talks about profit-sharing for salespeople, then this quote says “most” retired with a “good” pension. So there were some that didn’t retire with a good pension? Who were they?

And then the quote ends with “most” are “comfortable”. Comfortable is quite different than the prior part about profit-sharing and retiring with the equivalent of a million dollars today.

That quote is just so exceedingly vague it doesn’t answer the question that The NY Times itself poses.
Civil disobedience is a real thing, the first example that comes to mind is ignoring laws that require a front license plate, specifically because it reduces the likelihood that your vehicle tag will be caught on camera, those automated ticket system might move on to the next plate if they don't get a scan. I totally agree with you.
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And the illusion of getting things done, because tickets! makes it seem like progress is happening even if churn is all that's happening. Last contract (I left) was 6 years into churning the same awful pile of spaghetti. I came on board to help break the logjam. Micromanaging Agile manager put me on fire fighting, just like all his other reports, just like the last 6 years of churning had done. Left after 6 months and it was obvious they were going nowhere.
Hey everyone,

It all started a week ago when I challenged myself to build a product while streaming the process. It was a good opportunity for me to get out of my comfort zone and code in front of others. The stream itself was a success in my opinion with almost 1k people watching over the 10-hour stream.

The product I built is called RemoteStandups and the idea came from the Indie Hackers forum when I noticed several threads made by people to find potential candidates to organise standup meetings together. So I thought there's gotta be a better way of doing that so I built RemoteStandups as a different solution to that problem.

You find or create a standup meeting on the site and then before the appointed time, you will receive a notification with a unique URL to a video group chat with the rest of the people in your standup group.

The site itself is quite simple, but it serves its main function. I would be grateful if you can have a look and give me some feedback, roast the site or anything that comes to your mind

If you want to support my launch you can also vote for my product on Product Hunt or just join there for a conversation.

PH: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/remotestandups-1

I managed to record part of my stream on Twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/razvanilin

Thanks a lot everyone!

Raz
"... much of what is done is faux-agile, disregarding agile's values and principles." This. It feels so easy to get caught up in methods and tools, to not make a proper commitment (because it is tough to change the way you work) and to land in a sort of semi-agile state that no one likes.
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Randy and Craig (Taran King and Knight Lightning) did an amazing job with Phrack. It was an honor to write for them, and I almost never see them mentioned when people talk about the zine. The zine, and the St. Louis Summercons, were hugely influential. I'm still friends with a bunch of folks from that scene.

If it weren't for a timely late night phone call from Craig needing some more content for an issue, the Conscience of a Hacker would probably not have been written.
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It uses blockchain technology to handle transferring funds as apposed to something like Visa.
I've seen the converse. "Empowered" teams arguing relentlessly with each other and other teams. It comes down to individuals regardless of what the methodology-du-jour is. Martin seems to think all we need is better tech skills.
But the job of the manager is by definition to assign tasks. A bad manager doesn't delegate and tries to do everything herself. Not doing a task you agreed to as some sort of petty revenge or to teach a lesson is incredibly unprofessional. Just don't accept the task to begin with.
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That is a strange definition of responsibility - the voters aren't responsible? They lack agency completely? The propagandists who would and have used other means like newspapers, radio broadcasts and even just whispered malicious rumors? They completely lack agency as well?

Tech is just the easy scapegoat for society.
>Apple generally does the right thing.

Except make their products affordable to low income people.

Or give developers tools to develop(Cant afford the 2,000 USD upfront cost of ios dev)

And pull apps off their store because they were competitive with their own apps (or helpful to their customers in a way apple doesnt like)
Where is the link? Should it be this one? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-samsung-italy-antit...
Wow, really nice! I had to carefully analyze the page to find the answer, first reading:

keySize=16 valueSize=0

@ronomon/hash-table: Inserting 4000000 elements...
@ronomon/hash-table: 783ms

new Set(): Inserting 4000000 elements...
new Set(): 3695ms

...that the key and value sizes are in bytes (seen only once one reads the api). So, almost 5 times faster set insert, congratulations. The major advantage is, of course, the chance to less stress the GC when the data sets are big.

> the 100ns to 200ns cost of calling into C from Javascript using N-API (or V8)

Do you (or some reader here?) maybe know what's the current cost of calling into WebAssembly, compared to that "calling C" cost?
Thought further this might lead to a prohibition of manually driven cars and a use of only self-driving cars (talking about the future here).

As allways it boils down to freedom vs. security.

I think, as long as we all live under the same jurisdiction the only way is to find a balance between the more risk averse and the more risk taking people.

We wont find a compromise everyone is happy with, but one that does kind of work for everyone. Not enforcing laws as strictly might calm the moods a little bit where the law goes to far for some.
> I was hoping that this article would talk about how Brown Recluse aren't actually dangerous

It does to some degree, with anecdotes of interactions with no ill effects.

Clearly it can cause severe health issues, but the vast majority if the time it doesn't.
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What about famine and ice age?
They aren't out yet, but it will have similar hardware requirements. Phone manufacturers don't value a free driver availability when building their phones, making it difficult for alternative operating systems to support.
Indeed but how about now?
Cambridge Analytics isn't an ad company but very much working with personal data.

All that health data in healthkit would be a treasure trove for insurances, even without using it for adverts (but for determining premiums, for example)

Apple pay could tie into a credit scoring system.

And so on...
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What about online standups? Nobody is standing up and not likely to. What about managers that fall into injecting themselves into every standup? Hard to fix that, hard to eject your manager from a meeting, and its a likely state that becomes the inevitable end point (see Markov Chain).

There's no mystery here. Lots of stories the illustrate how they went wrong. People being people.

Maybe they need more work on the front end, to condition participants to not bring their conditioned responses into it because it requires a new attitude or something.
Like almost half the globe I have astigmatism:

> People with astigmatism (aproximately 50% of the population) find it harder to read white text on black than black text on white. Part of this has to do with light levels: with a bright display (white background) the iris closes a bit more, decreasing the effect of the "deformed" lens; with a dark display (black background) the iris opens to receive more light and the deformation of the lens creates a much fuzzier focus at the eye.

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> Jason Harrison – Post Doctoral Fellow, Imager Lab Manager – Sensory Perception and Interaction Research Group, University of British Columbia

Borrowed from this answer in stackoverflow: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/15142/whic...
Julia does not have a tracing JIT right now, but does use runtime information in order to JIT specializations based on (often inferred) method argument types.
So long as there is no PII, what is the problem with that? If you mod something that's in warranty and you knowingly void it, that is your problem; same is true for every single manufacturer out there.
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F-Droid the client started out as a fork of the aptoide app, yes. This was quite a while ago and I doubt there's any resemblance in code or appearance at this point in time.

F-Droid the ecosystem is far more than that though.
I think Wall Street would just tell you that you shouldn't have gone public.

There's not going to be a breaking of vice-grips -- sudden and monumental actions -- because the banks would tank the economy just to get political leverage by threatening average Americans' asset values. Then they put the vice grips back on. If you want to do something about that, it's going to take a while.

FWIW capitalism has a lot of things wrong with it in the information age, but if you want to start blowing up major foundations, don't expect the interested parties to take it lying down and give you a fair fight.
I was arguing about installing Perl modules from the distribution's repository as root, not replacing the system interpreter. The other solution is system wide module install with cpanm. Perl5 has plugin "language features" available via modules such as Moo, Role::Tiny, MOP, autobox, Clone etc.
What happens when you mix a brown recluse and a black widow? You get a brown widow. (Not really).

These http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/URBAN/SPIDERS/brown_wido... things are all over SW Florida insofar as I can tell from the egg sacs littering my lanai. There's more to say about them - but not now, I feel bad about passive/aggressive threadjacking. I'll just leave that link here for my fellow Floriduhuns.
An hour is not enough time. That's barely long enough to have started thinking and researching a problem. Of course, it would probably make more sense to scale the timeout with the difficulty of the thing being done; if you're stonewalled on something trivial vs pondering architectural issues.
This is my most desired feature in iPhone. Disabling location service, when you don't need it, helps with both battery consumption and privacy. I don't understand why Apple doesn't want to implement an easy switch option, unless they want to track your location for some reason.
It's quite possibly manipulated to keep it above $6000, prime suspects being either Bitfinex/Tether or the Chinese miners doing it.
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Now we need to find someone who will match every dollar that Mozilla donates, and kickstart the positive feedback loop with $1.
This argument is a fallacy because it implies that money not spent is wasted somehow, but that is opposite of the truth, that savings underpin investment and thus growth.
The media cynicism in this article is problematic. The implication that the media spreads FUD about brown recluses in an effort to make more money sounds an awful lot like the things Trump says. I highly doubt there is a conspiracy to lie about brown recluses by the media, for any reason.
> The irony being that agile was meant to be a rejection of blindly following a ONE TRUE WAY.

The same holds true for all religions. However many believers nowadays defend it as there was only one true way.
The problem isn't that DDG misses 10% and you have to try g!.

It's that you never know whether it's missing 10%.
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Only based on the idea of QoL that comes from economics, where it's measured by money exchanged.
That's the less important definition, IMO, just a poor approximation of real QoL.
Or even just direct contributions to retirement plans for all employees, no matching required. E.g. a company contributing $500 per month into the employee's 401k. My last company did something similar, but it was tied to salary and it was annual (prorated). I think a better case can be made for doing it monthly, so you don't need to bother with prorating, and also to do constant amounts for all employees rather than tie it to salary.

My current employer defaults employees to 10% and does dollar-for-dollar matching, but there's people who opt out because they want (possibly even need) all of their salary now, and thus they don't get any contributions in their plan. Yet these are precisely the people who would most need the contributions, because they're least likely to save up money in other vehicles!
Which is exactly what happens in many "agile" projects, test team gets replaced by devops and unit tests.

Except those unit tests get a lower priority than writing documentation.

And we all know which priority writing documentation gets.
While I'm sure that's a consideration, it's incredibly cynical to claim that that's the only reason Cook is saying this.

Apple has been extremely firm and open about their commitment to privacy, when they could easily have just gone along with the crowd and harvested data, too. I think it's highly likely that they could have made significantly more money doing that than they do from the people who choose Apple products specifically because of their privacy stance.

Cynicism can make you feel really superior, 'cause you can see through all the BS everyone's spouting to the cold dead hearts inside, while all the people around you think that people actually care about anything but money and power.

But, see, there are actually people who care about something more. And when you fail to recognize that, you enable those who don't, those who benefit from all the not-caring, just that little bit more.
Exceeding $MaxSpeedInYourCountry on an empty highway isn't where the majority of speeding related accidents occur, so a basic top speed limiter wouldn't do very much anyway. Not to mention that (at least in Europe) people are likely to take their vehicles to a neighbouring country where different speed legislation applies.
In my experience the power structure within the team is fairly flat, it's the managers outside the team that insist on having authority, micromanagement and veto rights over things they don't understand.
Prove it.

https://www.apple.com/uk/legal/privacy/en-ww/
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Wow, it's like the way I move my mouse isn't a legit Turing test.
What a shocker.

The real problem is using stupid methods to identify real users. This adversarial run is reaching it's end state, and you can't tell apart humans from machines there.
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There was some truth to that assumption when the internet was more niche and the old ecosystems were in place - it required a certain degree of curiosity and willingness to learn and explore when there were established "reputable" ways.

Greater access does help /if they are willing to use it in self improving ways/ in the first place. If they just use it for tabloids and gossip it won't be a library to them but tabloids and gossip.
I bet BuzzFeed has a lot of really skilled digital ad guys on staff, maybe the Author is an expert in the field already.