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Don’t run sprints if you don’t need them - that’s the answer.

But honestly, I’m not sure what the problem is. I’ve found they they’re perfectly suitable at providing:

- an opportunity to check in with a wider team and demonstrate features.

- the chance for the development team to periodically review progress and identify any recurring issues.

- the chance to plan upcoming work and identify any external tasks that need to be taken care of.

Is the problem maybe that some organisations are over-using the “commitment” aspect as a metric? To my teams, “commitment” has generally meant “what we have agreed among ourselves we will be able to deliver in a unit period”. The metrics are purely internal, and useful for allowing us to see if we frequently over- or under-estimate how much work we can do; the sprint is really just the period of time across which we measure and refine.
Isn't ios based on Linux? Sorry for the dumb question...
Hopefully this will be just the first of many, and looking forward to what they come up with next time.

Congrats on the launch!
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Agreed. There are many ways to skin this particular cat. It all depends on your use-case.
I've yet to see anyone actually do Agile where the tasks were broken up into reasonable increments. All of my Agile experiences involve a project manager throwing a sentence up on the board for what they want done and saying "yeah I think it'll fit in this sprint" for something which no one has any idea how long it'll take because the scope is unknown and no preliminary investigation has been done (a process which would take maybe a week).

"Task estimation" for sprints never seems to involve any actual data on which to base the estimates.
I have some comments...

The article refers extensively to car sales in September 2018, and infers a "death spiral" for ICE vehicles because of a drop in sales that month.

What it neglects to mention is that September's sales, for w/e reason, seem to be an anomaly (possibly because of 5 weekends that month), that monthly sales in August were the highest ever, and that 2018 sales are overall tracking 3-4% higher than 2017.

Data here: http://lmc-auto.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LMCA-Global-L...

The author also implies that the car sales data is a sign of doom for the oil industry. Previous paragraph aside, oil use in transport continues to grow, driven substantially by trucking and air transport. Oil demand will be about 1.5% higher in 2018 than 2017, and is projected to grow at the same rate for the next 3 years at least. Beyond that, you could argue that growing wealth in Asia - with India picking up where China left off - could well outweigh the impact of EVs for many years yet.
Yeah, in the comment section he does state[1], that you should stick with the one you have decided to pick in the first place.

[1]: https://bjornjohansen.no/www-or-not#comment-510
Wisconsin governor Walker lost a sure bet at Governorship because of his giveaway to Foxconn. (it's in the name...)
I’m not sure I understand how they interact. My teams have always continued to practice continuous delivery totally independently of sprint boundaries - that is, released were totally independent of sprints.
If this is the forum I suspect (goon?), I’m certainly pleasantly surprised it is no longer known as a source of trolls.
He gives two reasons to default to www:

- Cookies are passed down to subdomains / unnecessary cookies hurt performance / cookies may be read by third parties

- DNS origin can’t be a CNAME (must be an A-type record, that points to a static IP address)

He is using the non-www like everyone else, of course. We always list out the practical reasons that www is better, just before we choose non-www.
It's not just traffic. It's literally the fact that a downtown has a finite capacity.

Walk about in Central London on a weekday and tell me if you doubled the population that'd be fine and dandy.
They could be notified privately. After all, all details of the negotiations had been private up until that point.
I believe it uses the same kernel as MacOS which is based on some kind of BSD.
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> Any replacement visa needs to be like the diversity lottery (or the Olympics) by rewarding applicants from smaller countries

Why? So you are okay with a guy who does not speak English, doesn't have moderate-high skills, will probably drive Uber or work in some restaurant over a moderately-skilled Indian/Chinese who understands and speaks relatively decent English, just because that guys is an Indian or Chinese? This is the definition of racism.

> Having multiple, smaller groups of people inside the USA also assists integration

No. Knowing the local language, understanding the local culture, knowing some people from a similar culture living in the country (a.k.a having a fallback - so as to not depend on government aid) helps in integration.

> Plus, just like the Olympics, diversity makes things interesting.

Absolutely. But that should depend on the skills and not on the nationality. Skilled people from Belgium-Mongolia would still get in regardless of "diversity lottery visa". What US needs is a point based system which rewards quality over just diversity.
And finding developer-run customers. I wonder how many such customers exist.
It sounds like he is in the wrong office (for him). Not all offices are like this.
Related: this is what I love about Twitter — people posting and getting support and the ability to shame publicly companies who are being jerks. Albeit I’m hearing only one side it seems that they’re trying to force companies who want to use stellar upworkers by putting them behind their own payroll paywall. How lame.
iOS is based on macOS, which is based on NeXTStep, which is based on BSD.
Of course, no study is needed to confirm that people have preferences...regardless of outcome.
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Last week, at the end of a work day, we started talking about what the schedule was going to be for Saturday (not a 6th work day -- we're not on a M-F schedule here). Someone asked "Is it a goal-based day or a time-based day?" And there was an answer ready! Fantastic.

In 20 years, I've never heard anyone ask that in the software field. In software, I've always been expected to work as fast as possible at all times, and when we get near an (arbitrary) deadline, to stay late as needed.

Software is full of young people, and people who have never managed any kind of team before. I have no problem working for someone younger than myself, but I do think that people should have experience managing some kind of team before they're thrown into the deep end. Software is much more complex than almost anything else we make, and it's no wonder that just figuring it out as we go along has yielded less than stellar results.
OpenAPI is gaining momentum.

3GPP for example have adopted it for several interfaces inside the 5G core network.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAPI_Specification
IMO the obvious solution is a) don't tie the visa to an employer and b) increase the earning bar.

This way the body shopping model breaks. Also in the current system workers tied to an employer have less leverage in terms of demands/wage negotiations, and tend to stick around for a long time, so this part of incentive from the hiring managers perspective will go away.
Unfortunately, this is from a phone call with Apple. Supposedly why there are multiple other apps currently in the store, accepted by apple, the do precisely the same approach for reporting phone use.
I've never understood this complaint. Do these people not have hobbies? Just use Google and Facebook and you'll find a group or ten of kindred spirits to join.
I’ve experienced scrum done “right”. Company I was with made it a strategic thing and set aside time and money for the org to make the transition. It actually worked quite well in the end but it was a lot of work. It’s an outlier though - I’ve never come across a company before or since that would go to this much effort.

Usually the conversation with management about implementing agile ends at the point where they realise the upfront costs.
So the solution then is to remove permanent immigration quotas for skilled employees, right?

If there is no quota and no insanely long waiting periods for getting a green card -- H1b will become mostly irrelevant.
Disagree. Peace means not swinging the axe. If you can't tell whether the axe is swinging, you shouldn't be applying a war/peace metaphor.

Also, war can be sustainable, especially if it isn't total war. Look at Europe a few centuries back.
It depends, that's why I'm asking. There isn't much difference between 6 or 12 or 24 to me for something you buy one of, especially if $24 gets you something much better (e.g. I'd rather buy Orange PI that supports Android). But even +$1 can be a big deal if you want to buy thousands of them.
This is very accurate. I've been approached by police twice in Miami, letting me know that I am entering a dangerous nieghbourhood - which I thought it was the city center.

Another time they didn't let me drive further, when they saw that we were a bunch of clueless europeans.
I'm grappling with this question at the moment.

The problem is that Let's Encrypt doesn't support wildcard certs, so having a single cert for the origin and allowing connections on "www." is not possible. This is a problem because a request on "https://www." will be rejected completely rather than redirected to the origin (or vice versa). In other words, I have to choose one, and the other one won't work at all and can't be redirected (for https, but I'm auto-redirecting from http to https as well, so for everything). Obviously, the marketing gains from not having a "www" outweigh any other considerations at this point, so no "www".

As I understand it, anyway. I could be wrong. I hope I'm wrong, and have just misunderstood how this all hangs together.
In agile, it’s the salesperson that’s the customer, not the actual “customer”. Unless you’re doing professional services or something agile is an internal matter. As with many things the less your customer knows about your inner machinations the better!
I don't understand the problem here.

Maybe it isn't App Store compliant, but who cares?

I don't install my dev tools on the desktop via app stores either.

For all I care, someone could port Homebrew for iOS and force me to install it via Xcode.
I am approaching my 40's and wonder am I just a bit too old that by the space flight is for the common person I will have missed my chance. I really hope I can make it to space one day.
"The metrics are purely internal"

bwhahaha, good one!
If you are not using or planning to use sub-domains, the only issue is that you cannot use CNAMEs. This is nearly a non-issue as many DNS providers offer ALIAS/ANAME/ACNAME records that essentially provide CNAMEs on apex-domains.
https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v2-production-envir...

They do support wildcard certs now.
Not if they signed a contact that explicitly says "I don't actually own this device in certain key ways". Also, the app store is a service, not a device.
We are naturally inclined to have certain biases towards different learning styles. It's really a psychology issue. What bothers me about these studies that claim we should 'work harder' on our weaknesses (i.e visual learners should read more books/text) - is that we should also build on strength.

When you bolster one learning style and neglect the other, but learn more in the process of the preferred learning style, then why not see it to the end, and understand / digest the knowledge gained?

I guess it is about balance. If I am a pure visual (or auditory) learner, then surely I would have learned that books/text have their place. I imagine that the greatest learners out there use all the learning styles but still have a bias towards their learning style. How pronounced that bias is, is still unknown.
Should equal opportunity mean that you have an equal chance of getting a job regardless of your aptitude? That's all the testing measures.. aptitude.

The alternative is giving out jobs by guesswork. It could be argued that by not checking for aptitude, we are doing quite a bit of that now.
H-1B visas aren't even given out to people with specialized knowledge, new grads are able to get them.
Exactly this.

It seems some here maybe confused that location in the app is being used surreptitiously, or ScreenTime measured surreptitiously. In fact, it is explicitly requested, explained to the users who sign up, and reflected clearly in the app with all the necessary warnings about possible battery issues on generations of devices affected (6 and prior) and used to report on location. And screen time.

Our users are installing the app for both features, knowing both are there, in the same vein as a number of other digital tools Apple has allowed in the store, that use the same approach.
I just had a daydream of Satellites as a Service. "give us a docker image extending our base image, no larger than x MB delta, and we will run it on a chosen satellite for a certain time slice for $y"

I can see that future. Even if purely as a learning tool for students.
If the oil demand drops by 2/3, it will hurt most the expensive oil extraction methods. Meadle East companies will survive as their oil is cheapes. But fracking, tar sands and perhaps sea oil platforms will stop.
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Getting given a system someone else worked on, spending days understanding the system, to identify that at the present rate it'll start to fail inside of a few months, escalating that, being ignored, then seeing the system begin to fail as expected.

It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion, except I am in the train.
I have seen a similar thing by Upwork happen. The problem also is that by accepting the first freelance job you agreed to a two year exclusivity contract on the platform, so not accepting their new terms of payroll means you cannot work with them anymore.

You might be able to work around it though by creating a new incorporation of changing juristiction, but that's a bit complicated. It's also not clear if Upwork's contract is legal or enforceable.
You can have certs with Subject Alternative Name (SAN). So one single cert covers "example.com" and "www.example.com"
This game reminds me of Super Cycle for the commodore 64, which also had an 6502.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiebnDbq0w0

Are there any collections of source code for commercial games for the C64 ?
> This is such a bizarre complaint to me

Not really, imho. There are some kind of media that are more appropriate than others for certain type of messages.

For example, would you have liked this as a video or a series of pictures with just text in it? Or as an audio file?
What’s the best alternative to upwork at the moment? I almost put a job on there but they spammed the crap of me and the process was way to much for what we needed done.
This is because of racial quotas (or per-country quotas) that exist for green cards. More here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2018/05/21/will-...

This quota should be removed.
Yeah I guess. The only charitable thing I can think to say is that maybe they've tried all the others and found them lacking somehow (what language is perfect, after all?) and so they put their hopes to the one as yet untested.

It could, theoretically, be perfect. Since it's all theoretical at this point I mean.
You can have multiple domains for a certificate. I usually do something like:

certbot -d example.com www.example.com [other flags here]

That’s from memory, it might be another -d per domain.
You can create a certificate with "example.com" as the subject and "www.example.com" as subject alternative name (SAN).

Here is an example certbot command:

certbot certonly -n --agree-tos -m example@example.com --webroot -w /var/www/example.com -d 'example.com,www.example.com'

The argument to the `-d` option defines all the subject alternative names.
What about the solution where the quota is filled after ordering by salaries? With a provision that a salary cannot be lowered while on the visa, or re-ordering and re-filtering with combined quota including new workers every year (i.e. mix previous year quota, and the new one, order by salaries, keep 2x quota, potentially revoking some visas - although this might be disruptive to the worker).
This might disadvantage the startups paying in speculative stock options though... not sure what to do about that, any provisions making it easier to bring people in based on vague promises under a salary-based system seem ripe for exploitation.

Disclaimer: I'm a former L1, although I'm pretty sure I would've also "made it" under H1-salary-system above.
> And are there any particular kinds of fish to consume to limit mercury exposure while getting the benefits of omega 3?

Mercury bioaccumulates in the ecosystem. That means higher levels in fish that eat fish, and highest levels in fish that eat fish that eat fish. It also accumulates over a lifetime, so longer lived fish have higher levels.

Farmed fish (in this US mostly tilapia and salmon) have other issues, but mercury isn't a generally concern. For wild fish, the small ones--anchovies, herring, sardines--are low in mercury, along with catfish, pollock, shad, and haddock.

The worst for mercury that are widely eaten are tuna (sushi or steak grade, the species they used for canned tuna aren't as bad), certain types of mackerel, and grouper.
I admit to some confusion: my wife and I take omega-3 supplements, eat fatty fish, and take vitamins D supplements because of the purported increase in brain health.

Still, a 25% decrease in heart decease for African Americans and people who don’t eat fatty fish is a good result.

Also, re: “That includes eating fatty fish like sardines, tuna and salmon, and vitamin-D fortified cereals, milk, and orange juice.” I don’t like breakfast cereals, to many carbs, I prefer my morning carbs from steamed cauliflower, broccoli, etc. I decided to cut out dairy partly for health reasons and partly because of animal cruelty. I hate drinking commercially packaged orange juice, tastes like sugar. A fresh orange is tasty but does does not have artificially added vitamin D - so take vitamin D pills.

I am in my mid 60s and felt tired and low energy earlier this year. My doctor tested vitamin D levels, put me on vitamin D pills, and I literally felt good again within a week.
Small changes in demand have a huge impact on price though.

Remember, the price of a commodity is set on the margin: the price of a commodity is the marginal cost of the marginal producer. And oil production has high capital costs.

So let's pretend in 2018 that the highest cost producer of oil is Canadian tar sands. Let's assume that it costs them $50 per barrel to produce a single barrel excluding capital sunk costs, but $80 to cover both marginal and sunk costs.

So even if demand is rising, nobody is going to build a new tar sands project until the price is well above $80 and they're relatively sure that it's going to stay there long enough to pay back their one time capital costs.

But if demand is falling, nobody is going to shut down one of those tar sands facilities until the price is below $50.

Of course the price of oil has a huge effect on demand, but that demand is pretty sticky. As you said, it takes years for the worldwide fleet to turn over with more or less fuel efficient options.

This effect is horribly bad news for the greenhouse effect, though. It does not operate on the margin. We cannot depend on steadily rising petroleum prices to reign in our emissions. We desperately need a global carbon tax or something equivalent or pretty soon we're going to be spending hundreds of trillions of dollars evacuating and protecting our coastal cities and on other global warming mitigation measures.
Compared to property prices it is a relatively small amount, and regressive in the extreme.

You could own a multi-million pound property in Kensington, and the sum of taxes you pay each year would be £2,246.14 [1]

[1] https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/council-tax/band-values-and-charges
Thanks for the reply! The Discord channel has been very helpful, but I must have missed this sort of thing there.
Following this logic, anyone who lives outside of the Olduvai Gorge is not native.
Fair, but sprints are effectively what have forced a lot of software dev organizations into actually thinking about making tasks bite-sized....which was one of the problems (both conceptually and logistically) about waterfall.
As launching satellites into space becomes cheaper, I'd imagine we will get increasing issues of satellite collisions and interference. Do we need a regulatory framework to address this?

I understand space is becoming increasingly militarized. I wonder what a war will of shooting at satellites will look like. What would happen if all the satellites were taken out?
The article suggests using WWW for DNS compatibility, but...

Everything it mentions in prefer for WWW can be solved by a combination of static IP and CDN. My site's domain, for example, has a domain with a static IP and the site is served by HTTPS. Certificate resolution for the HTTPS goes to CloudFlare which also serves as a CDN for everything retrieved from the domain. CloudFlare provides firewall and security options as a feature of its CDN capabilities.

Because I am already solving for all the DNS and application concerns mentioned by the article I choose to use the more sane approach and simply drop use of a default subdomain.

EDIT:

I also detest cookies. They can store virtually nothing at 4kb per domain and the cookie API is horrible. Instead I use localStorage for all storage concerns and share explicitly anything that needs to be shared via XHR, which currently is nothing.
I suspect it's either easier to a) monetize b) get a permanent audience (via YouTube), or at least perceived as such.
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