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Checking in is useful. The problem from sprints comes when each one is treated as a deadline instead of just a point to check in, evaluate new information, potentially pivot.

When they are treated as deadlines, the problems come. And there is no reason you can simply forgo sprints entirely...and still check in, see how things are going, pivot, evaluate new information.

To this point in my career, I’ve never seen sprints present when they didn’t go down the destructive path for teams.
> Assimilation isn't an easy process and mass migration in this scale is indeed a new thing.

It isn't really and most certainly not for central Europe or Germany. People too often ignore that the 20th century has seen constant and massive population movements [0].

In Germany particularly with Turkish guest workers [1], fall of the Iron Curtain triggering mass migration from eastern Europe, later refugees from the Yugoslav wars mixed in. More migration after the 2004 enlargement of the EU eastwards.

Now you could argue "All these people have the same culture, they are not weird Muslims", which is a moot point because these same "their culture is too different" claims were made about eastern Europeans for many many years before they became part of the club themselves.

It should also be noted that nobody ever talks about the reasons why these refugee streams exist in the first place: US foreign policy.

Even back in 2002 Afghani people made their way to Germany, followed by Iraqis and people from many other MENA countries, fully escalating with Syria.

This isn't some sudden new thing, one could literally watch this happening over a timespan of nearly 2 decades, yet nothing was done. It's so painfully obvious that some people consider this as part of US strategy [2].

[0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/refugees_01.sht...

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/turkish-guest-workers-transformed-germ...

[2] http://www.voltairenet.org/article187588.html
You can use ESP chip and make it talk GPIO/I2C/SPI while communicating with your phone over WiFi.
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Was just listening to an interview with Peter Beck. He clarifies the US-NZ question. Short answer is it is both, I had my proportions off with being more (3/4) American now. It's been American company since 2012. The US factory is 3 times larger than the NZ factory and makes stuff we're can't do here.

https://podcast.radionz.co.nz/mnr/mnr-20181112-0826-rocket_l...
> And yet it's the conclusion every major thinker (and practicer) in our field has come to (plus there's historical evidence from tons of mis-estimated projects, regardless of scope and budget).

I agree fully and I think the main issue is this: People estimating, wanting estimates, "fueling" the workplace and ways in which businesses operate where estimates and milestones are the norms we work around...

The big thing I see missing is the fact that mostly everyone involved in these "mental work simulations" (as I'll call them) is calculating all of the tasks for completion against time it takes to complete tasks.

There have been some people commenting on, "I am glad to give an estimate so long as I'm allowed to add ample padding time for unexpected issues, scope creep, and then I'm allowed to double the entire estimate or at least add 75%. If I can get that estimate signed off on I'm fine with estimating".

And that's probably where I'd say I sit and feel most comfortable: "I'm fine with giving estimates so long as the person singing off on them realizes I'm really just giving a best case scenario guess with a bunch of worst case scenario 'what-if's' built in as well as some 'inevitable scope creep / customers deciding to change specs on the fly' type stuff." But something is still missing. There is a lot of lingo and business-speak and cross-department buzzword ad-libbing taking place but not a whole lot of ground is being broken in terms of moving things forward. Why is that?

The big thing that's missing from ALL OF THIS (IMHO)? Everyone is basing all of these estimates as if things were taking place in a vacuum. Even in that vacuum, over time, estimators, project managers, and developers have come to realize that including padding time for inevitable issues, scope and feature creep, and unforeseen circumstances is an absolute must. Even then, that's inside a vacuum of sorts.

I truly believe it's impossible to plan without falling prey to the "Estimate inside a vacuum" issue. Even if you are a driveway paver and you've paved 10,000+ 100' driveways in your illustrious 20 year career there is going to be something unforeseen that comes up that will prevent your 10,001th job from being completed under time and under budget. The problem is that there is no way for us to truly determine any and all possible issues that could arise. The bigger issue is that bosses and clients don't tend to care when money is on the table, jobs are at stake, and careers are on the line. So we create estimates and we miss them and promise to get it right next time. Even though we know we never will, vacuum or not.
Well not only would banks be far less profitable, but the entire modern economy would grind to halt. I think that's the real problem with 100% reserve banking--it's disingenuous to cast it as less profit for banks.
It's not unlike those who capriciously decide to day-trade then run afoul of taxation rules and limitations of operation so they end up losing a lot more money than expected.

Some like the individual in the article will end up being examples to others.
Offtopic, but it makes me really angry when I hear about people who are in constant pain, yet when they go to the doctor, they're told "you're perfectly healthy". No admission on the part of the physician that they're simply not all-knowing just "Your numbers are in range, therefore you must be perfectly healthy". It's getting to the point where you need a meta-doctor to tell you what doctor to go to for your problems... Your GP is kind of supposed to fill that role, but it's obvious there are many who don't see their job that way.
The problem Bitcoin solves is that fiat currencies fail all the time due to: debasement, hyperinflation, counterfeiting, wars, coups d'état, etc.

It occurred to me that someone should make a sister site to the (satirical) https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoinobituaries/ except it would list real-world occurrences of fiat currencies "dying" of these various causes.
It wasn't impossible to get a good car - just quite hard. My grandfather was just an ordinary steel plant worker, who was so good, that he got a short term contract in Egypt and earned enough hard currency to buy one of the first Volga's in the city (a white one, because black was reserved for party apparatchiks). He was not even a member of the Communist Party, on the contrary, when he was young he was conscripted for a forced labor as German ethnic minority.
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Any hacker knows that you go after the low value targets to get to the high value targets.

You hack the CEO’s secretary to get the CEO’a records. You hack the defense contractor to get to the defense agency.

The concept of a “low value” target is outdated, which is why there’s such concern about commodity IoT devices.
No language issue here.

> Elephants with a rare “tuskless” genetic trait had a better chance of surviving Mozambique’s long civil war, financed in part by poached ivory. About a third of surviving elephants’ daughters have no tusks.

That's as squarely central an example of "evolving" as it gets.
Twice is a severe underestimate.
Considering the cost of storage it's probably cheaper to launch N sensors and just keep a record raw everything. Which is more or less the model of the existing earth-sensing satellite world.
IMO Bitcoin is a commodity, not a currency. (Please do not downvote me for the opinion). Regulators and at least some judges have called it a commodity.
e.g.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/07/cryptocurrencies-like-bitcoi...

The charge shouldn't be related to currency trading, but something related to failure to pay taxes on buying and selling commodities.

[edit: As usual, comments on bitcoin expressing a non-evangelist point of view get downvoted.]
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Thanks; the 'in a pinch' bit rather puts a damper on things though!
Can someone integrate this with Alexa? :)
Those some commercial producers as you put it, have invested in debuggers for BASIC, Pascal, Modula-2, PL/S, PL/8, NEWP, C, C++ and Ada for IBM/360, VAX/VMS, IBM 400, Solaris, Aix, HP-UX, Tru64, Irix, by IBM, Unisys, DEC, Compaq, SGI and HP themselves.

And if I have to mention a FOSS compiled language instead of Python, with debugger support out of the box, then Oberon, Modula-2, FreeBasic, Gambas and FreePascal come to mind.
I bought a copy back then out of curiosity (as a Linux user). It's an excellent book, and I don't think many of the techniques described in it are out of date. Things like the ELF format still form the infrastructure for Linux binaries. There's a bit of historical info too, but IMO reading that is analogous to reading about a language like C — it's of central importance if you want to understand how and why these systems developed.

So, I would recommend it.
The title is a nice turn of phrase, but there's no real content in the article, just a series of unsupported assertions painted over with a sense of wistfulness. It reads like a nice proposal for an article that has yet to be written.
http://osxdaily.com/2014/02/12/install-command-line-tools-ma...

But more to the point. Even if you didn’t know about that option you gave up because you didn’t want to sign up for a free account?
Mainline kernel support would be nice too.
I think what we're seeing here is that companies optimise for the store shelf rather than for actual use. A thinner, bigger phone looks much more appealing in the store, which is where customers make the purchase decision. The disadvantages of that design (comparatively short battery life, does not fit into the pockets of my favorite pants) are only noticed later when the purchase has already been made.
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Exactly. The Microphone access is only required when you want to report a bug or send feedback with a voice memo attached.

Instabug cofounder here.
So it looks like chrome’s decision to hide the stable URL prefix is a good idea now.

Interesting.

The technical reasons really make me lean towards using www.
Great suggestion, but due to extremely poor support [0], it might be best to use a polyfill [1]

[0] https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-variables
[1] https://github.com/aaronbarker/css-variables-polyfill (or https://github.com/jhildenbiddle/css-vars-ponyfill)

Personally, I don't like forcing JS to make things render properly on the client, but it depends on the project whether it's acceptable or not.

However, it kind of defeats the purpose, because if you're willing to use a polyfill, then you may as well use sass or less as a solution anyway (and get a range of benefits that they provide).
If I was younger, farming tech is definitely the place I'd be headed.

Imagine being able to change the world.
Previously discussed in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13164058

I noticed there that the top comment is "developer here, ..." by user studiopuckey, do you work with them?
Gold, based on its practical uses, should have a much lower value as well--but naysayers have been proven wrong since time immemorial. I think the market will continue to stay irrational much longer than we will be alive.
Your location is embedded in the photos you shared on drive. Scarlett Irvine.
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Starting to become a bit annoying how orgmode is immediately linked whenever a notes app is posted on HN.

Emacs is a beast of a program in the same way Vim is. One has to sit down, bear through the pain, and force themself to be slow as hell while they "learn" the program. This culminates in a experience that arguably is only slightly better than something that a person can get immediately through installing any other modern notes app.

A majority of people don't want to have to do that.
A slight branding dilution in an area that very few users look at or pay attention to that represents maybe 2% of the screen real estate and smallest font when a user is on your site outweighs the benefit of being able to use a regular CNAME for increased flexibility and scope your cookies to your actual website leaving subdomains available for purposes that would not be viable security-wise if you are using the root domain?

Sorry but such a blanket statement is naive and arrogant—you've got to look at individual use cases before making a call on this.
Funny how you compare Europe gdp growth for the last quarter to China growth for the whole year, just to cheat the readers trying to push your narrative.
Funny how, for your admission, you have stakes in the oil industry and you are criticising EV with nothing apart from opinions, exactly the same thing that you accuse other writers to do.
Even funnier is that you are actually writing that the ASP for a new vehicle, not for a new EV is 36k$ when in about 6/9 months the model 3 will sell for 35k$.
The funniest thing obviously is the last word of your comment.
Bullshit.
It’s the funniest because it really applies to you, working in the oil industry, and just none the wiser like all your colleagues that were ridiculing ev trying all they can to avoid the inevitable.
We have today an electric car that can lap faster than a Ferrari 458 [0] without any changes, apart from the wheels, for a fraction of the price.
In 12 years, at worst, India and Germany will ban the sale of all the ice cars, as I highlighted in my previous comment.
Enjoy your last years in an industry that was lucrative only at the expenses of the whole world.

[0] https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.carsguide.com.au/car-news...
He does get an eyePhone, though, and iirc he can be seen throwing away his previous phone because of it.
Cool hardware, but there's no way I could justify the price to myself with the limited functionality of iOS as it stands today. A lot Apple tech writers/podcasters keep saying "just wait for iOS 13!", but the earliest a developer is going to see iOS 13 is 6 months from now at WWDC, the earliest the general public will get any additional functionality is 11 months from now. That's a LONG wait to see if any changes will be made to make these capable of doing real work for all but artistic professionals.
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Huey supports thread, process or greenlet worker models.
You are begging the question. "Social consensus" is literally the same thing market value.
They don't care about people with disabilities. They don't even care about people without disabilities. It's not usable for people who are not differently abled.
Actually part of the payload for this flight was a technology demonstrator called NABEO, which is a sort of sail meant to more rapidly de-orbit small spacecraft using atmospheric drag.
Cool example for a music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k9qDxyxS3s.
Qemu.

https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/Mac
Amen! As a diabetic (with a pretty high educational level, mind you) and as I've ingested marijuana before... halfway thru the article, I concluded it was nothing but anti-cannabis propaganda. I've deliberately put myself into ketosis for the fat burning effects and knowing how DKA develops, never had any issues - because I made sure to take my insulin.

My guess on what is going on is a) lower educational level diabetics b) they don't really understand the biochemistry of things, the medical stuff c) they probably (I'm pretty sure) are drinking as well -- and alcohol is 10x at least if not more a larger factor in bad control of one's diabetes.

Something I've had to acknowledge as I've gotten older. I was never much of a big drinker, but I've have noticed it has gotten more problematic over the years and my advice now for young diabetics would be to really be super conscious of your drinking habits. Alcohol causes all sorts of lower level not so obvious issues with managing things properly - blood sugar levels get really out of sorts for days until the liver gets back to normal operating procedure.

So if the study didn't account for the use of alcohol and how excessive it might be by the subjects (especially in the lower classes) then they ignored a very large factor in how diabetic related problems might develop. And the article was so obviously very sloppily written and the biases in it were quite obvious given how things were phrased --> propaganda.
and stick it to big herbicide companies using lasers to kill weeds. Sounds cool imo.
I suspect this allows the festival organizers to more easily take a cut from the merchants.
Do they control for economy? Is the definition of “fill time musician” the same?

I imagine full time musicians would be impacted by a faltering economy at least somewhat more than most careers and probably one of the last careers to bounce back.

Not doubting you as everything I mentioned was based on second hand information with no science other than “as a person in the industry, X seems to be true.”

As I said, I would love to see a world where even mediocre artists can make a livable wage.
Several previous discussions over the years:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=super%20recogni&sort=byDate&da...
I would love to read that paper if you can find it!

Does metal 3D printing mitigate any of these challenges? Or is the problem a packaging problem where there is a minimum size required for the mechanical parts?
Good point. A solution must afford P2P transactions without a relaying party, and the devices used must be low-power and possible to charge using solar energy or hand power.
I’m surprised Upwork didn’t spell this out for the freelancer from the beginning.

I was in a similar situation with a company in LA, and my contracting company alerted me to it, and helped me transition to full time employee status with the client company, once i’d Worked enough hours with the contracting company.
> Sorry, maybe I'm not seeing it, but what part of that link describe lexical user definable reader macros in scheme?

None. I never said it does. I said it has a fixed syntax.
Yet Turbo Pascal for MS-DOS, with more features than Go has currently, did already have faster compile times on those clunky 8086 CPUs, let alone on modern 21st century hardware.

Fast compilation times in Go are only a surprise for a generation that never used native programming languages with native support for modules.

As for C++ compilation times, yes they are an abomination when doing make world from scratch, including third party dependencies, with heavy template code.

However modules are around the corner and they were just voted into C++20.
Carpets are awful breeding grounds.

I use low-cost area rugs which get shaken outside regularly or simply replaced.

I've nailed a few heavy-duty spring-loaded clamps to an elevated wood deck joist where I hang them for shaking and a day in the sun every couple weeks. Don't even have a vacuum cleaner anymore, it's a huge improvement in quality of life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-till_farming
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I definitely agree with your point, there may not be a need for a high tech solution to that problem.

I would be curious what ratio of producing vs protecting rows a farmer would need. Perhaps it’s less than alternating rows, not harming yield as drastically. Perhaps 1/4 or 1/5 would do.
It's commonly used in clickbait headlines. If you're using an ad account that Facebook doesn't consider very trustworthy, you'll have a difficult time getting ads with certain attention-grabbing words approved.
Redhat ships with a targeted policy. Most of the non-network programs are put in a very permissive domain to avoid breakage.

I just checked the CentOS policy[0] (not at work and don't have easy access to the Redhat repos).

It appears that xserver_t does have write access to both etc_t and shadow_t [1].

More specifically, xserver_t is part of the selinux_unconfined_type attribute, which means that it can do pretty much anything. (Even more specifically, it is part of the files_unconfined_type attribute, which gives it write permissions to everything in file_type):

> sesearch --allow -s xserver_t -t shadow_t -c file policy.31
allow files_unconfined_type file_type:file execmod; [ selinuxuser_execmod ]:True
allow files_unconfined_type file_type:file { append audit_access create execute execute_no_trans getattr ioctl link lock mounton open quotaon read relabelfrom relabelto rename setattr swapon unlink write };

[0] https://centos.pkgs.org/7/centos-updates-x86_64/selinux-poli...

[1] Because of its sensitive nature, /etc/shadow has its own SELinux label
The important part of DKA is the imbalance in the pH of the blood, which is a dangerous problem. This sentence is basically false and misleading. Diabetics can thrive (yeah, thrive) on a ketosis type diet.

DKA != ketosis, but "dietitians" and "popular wisdom / common sense" don't have much of a clue, as I've concluded over the years.
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> Perhaps the most compelling argument for bitcoin is the completely apolitical and predictable monetary policy it operates within. Bitcoin cannot be used for quantitative easing, for example. You can’t just print more of it when the whim takes you.

Bitcoin eliminates the possibility of inflation by replacing it with a guarantee of deflation. Deflation comes with its own sets of economic and political problems, some of which can be just as thorny as the ones that come with inflation.

There is a school of thought that holds that inflation is so bad that its opposite must inherently be good. How much Bitcoin appeals to you will depend a lot on how close this aligns with your own thinking.
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Up until the last few decades, English speakers would not consider the color in your link to be “pink”. “Pink” was another word for “light red” (not the name of a hue), named after a flower that looks something like https://www.stauden-stade.de/img/artikel/full/823.jpg

“Hot pink” is a creation of the fashion industry / marketers from the 1980s (or maybe 70s?).

If you want to be unambiguous, you should call the hue of your link purplish red or similar. You could also use a word like fuchsia (named after a different flower) or magenta (a purplish red ink used in 4-color CMYK printing).
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And Mach was a modified 4.2BSD kernel adding microkernel aspects. It was literally written as a drop in replacement for BSD.

The kernel also includes code from BSD, source is available, including from FreeBSD/NetBSD and OpenBSD. For example, the network stack is BSD code. It also includes OpenBSD's pf(4).

For example, there was a recent ICMP vulnerability in XNU, that later affected FreeBSD. So please reconsider posting misinformation in the future.
Just one there are hundreds across the country. They all play the same game identify hot techs and hire people and bring them here and then bench them till work shows up. Trump has accomplished nothing so far.
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