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Purely my opinion, so feel free to agree/disagree.

Most of the time, agile fails due to an unwillingness to be flexible. It's either stakeholders or managers with rigid deadlines/demands, or teams that are incapable of adapting their processes to increase productivity.

If you ever want to test your agile setup, ask yourself this: what happens when you finish a sprint and you have time remaining on a task? For me, this is the ultimate test of agility in an organisation, and it's usually where you see the first problem(s).

A lot of people in tech like to complain that consulting firms have ruined agile, but I blame you/us. We've ruined agile because we refuse to be agile, and we ultimately accept a process where we rush into development without adequate planning, or the ability to change course during production.

In all fairness, it's not just developers faults. It's also the fault of managers that implement this "agile" thing we've sold as a rigid process that needs to fit a set of concrete parameters.
what's the rest of the estimated savings?
It's not impossible to estimate roughly how long something will take.

If you consistently get it wrong, either:

1. You're not breaking down the work into small enough chunks to properly think about how long it will take

2. You are probably consistently under (or rarely over) estimating and should be able to fix that. For me, I have to triple my estimates, it always takes 3 times longer than I think it would

To claim estimating is "impossible", when many of us do it absolutely fine, is ludicrous.

Separately, there's scope creep, but that's another matter and again can be managed (e.g. "if you want X extra functionality for the same cost, you're going to have to drop feature Y, which will take roughly the same time").
>"Stealing from the hard-working to give to the lazy brings is a massively perverse incentive which only low birthrates, dysfunctional behaviours and national decline."

This is outrageously charged and bigoted language is the sole result of radicalization.

That you use these ignorant and bigoted labels when discussing economics belies your total academic and functional ignorance on the subject, and betrays your true purpose: to mindlessly repeat the propaganda which convinced you into this tribalistic response.

"On the contrary - there is actually 0 successful socialist states. So your statement is massively misleading."

An extremely common "whataboutism" defense from a fully radicalized zealot. No one brought up socialism, but the Propaganda Script that you are rote-repeating and incapable of deviating from makes heavy use of this particularly ignorant "whatabout" trope, so of course, you have to just copy-paste this red herring in.

I truly hope you can wake up from the radicalization which has fully consumed you. Good luck, you really need it.
Indeed, currently all "verified" reviewers are manually vetted.

Long term the goal is to have an open reputation score for every fact checker. I'm currently experimenting with different implementations of this, and seeing good promise.
If someone can't perform the job, the only option is to let them go. As I said in my original post, it rarely happens because it's actually not that difficult to vet someone without forcing them to write tons of code.

In order of importance a manager should put the company first, then team, then individual employees, then themselves. Poor performers hurt everyone on that list.
I raise the topic of discrimination and instead of addressing it, you respond with a simple example. The person who creates the straw man should fill it.

If you use any criteria other than the qualifications of the job, you open yourself up to accusations of discrimination. Rightly so.

Outside of government, I haven’t seen equally qualified candidates. When government organizations achieves this, they do it be using fixed duration “contests”. Gov optimizes to minimize discrimination. This approach is not something that matches the needs of businesses, specifically as they are often competing for talent that will take another job if delay in offer, retention of other works who are burdened by the position not being filled, and business objects that will not be met or costs incurred if delayed.

The fact is that in all population centers cost increases closer to the center, many types of business and locations with shorter transit times to these desirable locations. In other words, the poor live furthest away from their jobs.

This isn’t even bringing in the topic of diversity, which is much more nuanced. Here though there is no argument that many groups live in communities and those communities take real space. In other words, distance from a business is unlikely to correlate to diverse communities.
I don't really agree. I won't vouch for an asshole, but I'd much rather vouch for someone who is reserved and hard-working than overtly friendly but lazy or incompetent. I don't know of anyone I trust that feels different on that (the topic has come up many times).
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As another UK citizen, the problems are our government, and a bit of a european oddity tbh.

E.g. just to take one of your points, I've found trains in germany and france far better than ours.
Haven't you heard, Apache isn't Web Scale.
So the non-coroutine case of that code are all regular functions, without using CPS or anything. The only special feature Lobster has is that when you write "return" it will return out of the lexically enclosing named function, not the function whose body it sits in (which can be an anonymous function). This mean return is implemented by unwinding stack frames until it gets to the named function, almost like a lightweight version of exception handling. It also can't resume these functions, like you typically can in languages that support CPS.

Now the co-routine functionality takes an existing higher order function, and compiles it such that the call to the function argument instead does a yield. These are really regular co-routines that are implemented by copying stack frames off and onto the stack upon yield and resume. I just thought being able to share code between HOFs and co-routines was cute, since they often express the same patterns. Why would you write an iteration twice?
I don't think that's a rare situation at all. There's a large population out there that doesn't identify with R/D (in US politics), but does identify more closely with a 3rd party. But they never vote for them because "tactics". That doesn't mean those people wouldn't find R or D acceptable, it just means the're ideologically closer to a 3rd party. What AV is trying to get at is the situation where the most people are accepting of the outcome.

If a candidate is not acceptable, you don't vote for them. The situation you're describing is not one of selecting from Ideal, Good, Bad; it's the situation of selecting from Ideal, Somewhat Bad, Bad. If you're unwilling to vote for a candidate, they are by definition not "Good" to you. So you would just vote for the Ideal candidate in that situation.

In the worse case (everyone just votes for a single candidate), AV simply acts as FPTP. In the average and best case, the candidate that is acceptable to the most voters wins.

Look at it from the view of the US's extreme polarization: if I'm strongly for A, and you're strongly against A, nothing will be done if A wins. But I'm strongly for A, and we're both "meh" on B, then B might not get everything done that either of us wants, but at least the process won't completely break down.
This sounds familiar. I have watched now quite a few people go through serious diseases. One pattern I saw was tests, tests and more tests. A lot of them very expensive, time consuming and painful. But when you ask what they will do with the test results there often is silence. To me it looks like they are doing something because “we need to do something”.

Reminds me a little of data collection practices at companies. Sucking up more data feels like you are doing something. But using the data is much more difficult and often doesn’t happen.
It's cheaper to offer a 10% gift voucher than a 10% discount.

Where I live, most people approve a pre-filled statement. This boosts tax revenue, because people don't think twice about deductions that are not pre-filled.

It's more convenient not to do your own math, if you trust the actor who does the math for you.
You overestimate the knowledge of MIT in Europe. I worked there and had to explain it to a small but not negligible fraction of my German friends.
* Choice A: X% chance of aggressive cancer, which worsens as it is left untreated.

* Choice B: X% chance of finding and treating aggressive cancer. Y% chance of false positive leading to significant side effects.

If Y is zero, then the choice to do further testing is obvious. If Y is large, then it depends on how large the side effects are, and what the chance of running into them is. You have risk in either case, and you will never reduce risk to zero. The question is how much risk you have, and what cost there is to mitigate that risk.
Ugh, seriously. I mean, who wants a stable http daemon that's well supported, well documented, and well understood by a giant community of users? Sounds boring to me...
> For other people who like speed and performance, Tesla's are the cheapest way to get there.

I generally like Teslas but unfortunately they were not meant to be driven at high speeds for what other people consider as a normal period of time, as can be seen for example in this YT video [1] of a Tesla's battery over-heating after driving at 190-200 kph on the German autobahn. Their 0-to-100 kph times are excellent, though.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff0F5f9bmwc
The number one reason agile projects fail in my experience has absolutely nothing to do with planning session, sprint cadence or estimation. It's because the client was not properly prepared to accept iterative delivery or play their part as product owner. I see a lot of team organize themselves around a well-groomed backlog and set their priorities only to have clients come in and ask for deadlines and fixed scopes and all the other stuff that is anathema to agile. If you client is able to set priorities effectively and allow a slower, quality-driven model then everything else becomes just so much easier.
I don't know if it's true for NY, but many people live in western Wisconsin and commute to St. Paul / Minneapolis in Minnesota, and none of those people are required to file income tax returns in Minnesota. They file only Wisconsin returns.
In the UK you only have to file if you have particularities like that which you describe. For everyone else, the PAYE system seems to deduct the right amount ("withholding" in the U.S.). It's simple enough that not everyone needs to file: https://www.gov.uk/self-assessment-tax-returns/who-must-send...
Very thoughtful comment, thank you. I am going to write up a blog post on why you should not use Thoughter in the first place, or at least only as a "break the ice" mechanism, and I'm going to use a lot of the comments here like yours as fodder.
Great guide that does what it says: assure defense to protect developer in weak positions, which as we know is a normal part of experience.

However, maybe it would be nice to add a guide for shadow operations that hackers may want to undertake to ensure project long term success, for when they have a strong position ("aggressive agile" if you want).
tl; dr: the false positive rate is too high.
> What problem does this solve that existing reputation systems don't?

To turn its slogan into an analogy: the New Yorker is high quality closed source software. If you disagree with the New Yorker, you can't file a bug report.

You might say, "I wouldn't want to," either because of something on your end, or something on the New Yorker's end. Continuing the analogy, there are closed-source models, open-source-but-closed-development models, and open-source-community-driven models.

I'm typing this because the problem this solves for me is I often disagree with the news, and I would like to fact check them. Perhaps not--as you mention--by calling sources, but by citing other evidence.
Illegal and unconstitutional. It's not up to the carries to dictate which phones work on their Network. That's the reason for standardization of network protocols

Do you really want, hypothetically, a phone maker, say Apple, to get into a sweetheart deal with AT&T and make phone service on non Apple IMEIs unreliable? Or for AT&T to target certain political, religious groups ....
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Well, unless you're poor, at least you likely don't have to worry about being audited. The IRS is too busy auditing the poor and minorities to worry about anyone else.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/3/18292741/irs-tax...

I really wish, as a country, we could stop beating up on the poor.
Road maintenance and expansion is not really the point. It's not like midtown has a bunch of extra room to build new roads. It's more of an admission that eventually you're just gonna bump into hard physical constraints that no amount of money in the world is gonna help you get past.
Are you Guybrush Threepwood?
“You're swimming in the ocean and notice something beneath you. Is it a friendly dolphin or a dangerous shark? Do you hold your breath and do a deep dive to figure out which it is? Keep in mind the deeper you go the greater the chance that you'll drown.”

Does it really make a difference what it is? Will you do anything differently?
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Unreadable.

Arabic has a strong difference between letters of the same word, and different words. There is no exact equivalent in English...

b&u&t&i&t&m&i&g&h&t&b&e&s&o&m&e&t&h&i&n&g&l&i&k&e&t&h&i&s
This is why, when selling, its better to use a la cart brokers. You pay a set fee to MLS your place, and set fees for other things. You still need to pay a commission to the buyer broker/agent, otherwise they won't show your place. So, 2.5% or 3%.

Traditionally, the commission paid was 5% (split 4 ways), but some markets that got as high as 7%. I once had an agent explain to me (who was bad at math) that this was due to inflation.
We should totally criticize private prison industry and the whole racket - which we do. Journalists in America already talk about this, we debate, we fearlessly discuss.

It takes Reuters and NYTimes journalists to bring stories like this to the front of the world. They risked going there. The Chinese media is spineless.

There is no need to bring America in this discussion because as Americans can freely and openly criticize the government, sue them, write about it and condemn it. Freedom of press is a real thing in USA.
Ford just announced a head-on competitor to Tesla, based on the Mustang:

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/4/2/18292752/ford...

They’re clearly staying in the car market.

Instead, they realized that gas guzzling midrange sedans don’t sell anymore, and killed those off. That lets them focus on smaller and larger vehicles, which is where the demand is.
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Google's pursuit of Dragonfly is only going to exacerbate this situation and they will actively be complicate in the censorship of these human rights violations and further enable the Chinese government's ability to suppress dissent.

When Google left China they did so because they had "...evidence to suggest that a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists."[0]

Since then, by Google's own numbers, the Chinese government has become significantly more suppressive and demanding: https://transparencyreport.google.com/government-removals/by...

Given the status quo, what message does it send to the Chinese government that Google is willing to backtrack on their statements and work with a government that is even more evil than the one they left? It's naïve to think that the Chinese government won't use Google's re-entry as a tool for suppression, and it's also naïve to think that Google doesn't understand this. Their greed will only further facilitate these human rights abuses.

[0]: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-chin...
While scaling up is hard, it's not like the expertise to scale up doesn't exist. The auto industry is pretty established, and I'm sure that there are companies and/or consultants that could help Tesla out.
I think your example can be illustrated by adding spaces between the characters like so: क्षत्रिय vs क् ष त्रि य (note how the first "glyph" decomposed into two drastically different characters)
I can't help but wonder about the tautologies of such a system. If you only hire people with silly hats and spend 70% of their time on sillier hats you are missing out on actual talent with stupid tautologies instead of anything of intrinsic worth.
Essentially I suspect that networks don't bring success in many cases but prevent it in others.

The real question is what keeps networks from being collective madness in service of themselves? The closest thing I have found is competition smacking them in the face with objective reality.

History and the present is rife with bad ideas perpetuated by networks - perhaps the reason why science advances one funeral at a time even in face of evidence that it really doesn't work that way. Look at miasma theory and their resistance to germ theory even after cholera outbreaks where brewers were untouched because they got some pay in beer.

WW2 era Imperial Japan was a particularly bad example given things like Banzai Charges and acknowledging weakness being socially unacceptable to the point of thinking even complete destruction of the navy of a much larger and self-sufficient industrial naval power over oil sanctions would somehow result in restoring oil supplies instead of eventually coming over with a much bigger navy and airforce in a decade /in the avsolute best case scenario/.
To cite Benefits Street to say the whole of Europe is like that is like concluding the whole of the US is a shithole by looking at 1 street in Alabama where most of the residents are opioid-addicts , or that it's a Somalia-like warzone after looking at Chicago's south side...
As technology workers our influence on the world around us is outsized in many ways. At some point we have to get more heavily involved in building civil society in local and global ways. Live and let live is a great mantra but it is failing because we don’t excercize the influence we have in ways that can prevent these things from happening. If Facebook is toxic it can and should be forced to change. If the Chinese state is complicit in such large scale crimes against humanity then it’s ability to trade with us can be severely curtailed to influence behaviour. Consider California alone passing laws that prohibit investment or even trade with companies who have investment from such states. The change will be swift.
> What is curious to me is that elite marathon runners "jog" at what I would consider being a sprint for myself. So, I wonder if sprinting would be an anaerobic or aerobic exercise for myself?

Everyone has an anaerobic threshold (the level of exertion at which the body transitions from aerobic to anaerobic systems).[0] But your AnT is much, much lower than an elite marathon runner's due to years of training designed to increase running economy.[1]

So what is a sprint to you (e.g. anaerobic exercise) would be a jog to Kipchoge or Bekele (e.g. aerobic exercise). If you are able to run fast enough to make yourself gasp for air, you've just done some aerobic exercise!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactate_threshold#Lactate_meas...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_economy
Currently doesn't, we're trying to figure out the easiest way to do so.
https://www.fleetcarma.com/electric-vehicle-outlook-2019/

There are 3 million EVs on the road today, of which around 2 million reside in China
I think I've expressed my point unclearly: emoji are an adaptation of our communication patterns to the medium. Real time textural communication could not express things we were used to expressing in other real time media via tone of voice or body language, so we adapted how we communicate those things to the media. Indeed writing itself is an adaptation of language to a new medium.
I wonder if this is a "dont waste your time" issue coming from management?

As an anecdotal example, Im an engine mechanic who routinely sees older trucks from the 80s and 90s. mostly idler/pitman arm replacements, tires, diff fluid, etc... on these which is expected as many are pushing a million miles or more. I had a 1981 International S1700 limp into my garage one day with a misfire problem due to long, long overdue oil pressure problems. I fixed the oil pump and was getting ready to hook up the diagnostic computer when my boss stopped me and said "if you plug that thing in its going to light up like a christmas tree. You aint telling the driver anything they care about anyway."
Correct, not for making wild hits. And yea getting past spam email anywhere near 100% of the time is basically impossible, but I did seem to be getting into people's junk folders more often than I expected. I'm using https://postmarkapp.com/ FWIW, so going to see if there's different language or format or paygrade or something that will improve my delivery rate.
I only consider the option for ebooks in linear reading ones, like novels. For non linear ones I don't, so cookbooks (cooking or any other subject) or manuals I can't use them , I need paper. And you're right don't even began talking if there's a diagram/image/map.
Western diet now killing more than smoking and high blood pressure, study
Classic base rate problem, the rate of lung cancer rate is low compared to the false positive rate. It seems that one option is to follow up with a second scan 3-6 months latter and see if the tumor has increased in size. However there probably serious liability issues with this approach even if it means you're still catching the cancer earlier on average compared to waiting for physical symptoms. I'm curious how counties like France, where smoking rates are high yet have high life expectancies, deal with screening for lung cancer currently.
In addition, there are lead issues in older military housing on bases like Ft. Meade. My youngest granddaughter had a false positive on her test; several other children were not so lucky. The good news is that the top brass at the highest levels are working to resolve the problem.