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I don't think this is a viable solution to Agile. I think the spirit is fine in that its painfully obvious that Agile has become little more then a buzzword sold by consultants, and almost all implementations of it look a lot like mini-waterfall then anything truly agile, but this misses the biggest faults in current agile implementations

1. It still puts process over people, you can never have an agile workflow that has ordained gatekeepers, in this case the separation of "project leads and stakeholders" from "developers" is going to lead to the same class of sprint problems you have in any implementation today. The people you need are the one's doing the work ( every single one of them, from the most junior to the most senior ) to sit down with the people

2. The lack of agility in scoping work in sprint means this is just a three week waterfall rather then a two week waterfall. You can't call any process agile that doesn't allow you to change direction at any point in time, hence the word agile. In traditional agile this is supposed to be a terminated sprint, but for reasons this is almost never done.

3. The baked in rest week will just make people unhappy. Teams are at their best when they are working together and making progress, that rest week will foment dissent within the team, especially since the "stakeholders" still have tasking to be done that week.
Drivers pay fuel taxes already. Fuel taxes are proportional to vehicle weight and power.

IMHO, it better to tax normalized_areanormalized_weightnormalized_congestion . For example, if vehicle is 30% spacer than average, has 50% more weight per space than average, and uses road at peak hour when road usage is 50% more than average, then it should pay 1.3 x 1.5 x 1.5 = ~3x tax. If owner want to reduce tax, then it should use smaller, lighter car, and use it at off-peak hours, e.g. 0.9 x 0.9 x 0.5 = 0.4.
Have you tried getting it back now that machinima.com is defunct (albeit much like the original content that got them off the ground)? I think rooster teeth probably don't want to be associated with that brand anyway.
Some people use the roads a lot more than others. Those people should pay their fair share.

Someone who commutes in an SUV from Fairfield to Manhattan every day should have to pay much, much higher fees than someone who rides their bike from Greenpoint to Brooklyn heights.

Once (particularly wealthy) people are made to incur the true cost of their lifestyle choices, the hope is that better choices are made.
I am also into adventure motorcycle riding. All I have come across is a reddit group r/Dualsport for a forum. There is also thumpertalk. Though I feel that is more geared towards MX riding and not adventure riding. Have you been able to find any other groups that are worth anything? Maybe the adv crowd isn't as big into forums, they might be too busy out riding!
Exactly. And if all the people with low skills upgrade their skills, the cost of low skilled labor increases, driving up the price of goods, and making the current UBI insufficient.

We NEED low skilled labor. Bioshock proved this years ago.
It would put a crushing burden on those people who could least withstand it, but as long as you can avoid paperwork....
I'd encourage everyone to guesstimate how much distance could be taken out of their commute or drive to the city by removing parking lots, huge highways and tens-of-foodball-fields interchanges, large set-backs and front lawns to keep people away from unpleasant roads, and so on, then check whether they could bike that distance in what it takes to drive.

When I encountered the idea that cars being common causes them to lose all benefit for most people while also causing them to become necessary, I initially thought it overblown. Then I ran the numbers. Well. Crap.

[EDIT] and don't forget to factor in minutes or hours per day spent working to pay for car+maintenance+gas.
It's well known that if you know people at Instagram you can highjack almost any handle. There is plenty of stories out there documenting the theft of prime handles like @firstname or 3 character handles.
If you could move to San Francisco that could greatly increase your odds. The Bay Area is a tech mecca and there are lots of meetups, accelerators and people that culturally match your passion. You could go to demo days, parties and network + pitch. It's a hustle to raise funding and you'll need a great team, idea and traction to show that you're worthy.

You can find relatively low cost housing here as long as you don't mind renting a shared room: https://www.facebook.com/groups/390478684333910/
If you want strongly typed errors then you could use a language with checked exceptions (Java). What you are describing is not a complaint about exceptions, it's a complaint about weakly typed errors. You can have the same problem even if you don't use exceptions -- e.g. what happens if one of your inner-inner-inner functions returns null when the docs say it shouldn't? You will just end up with if-null soup instead of try-catch soup if the language doesn't support exceptions.
Hey, you're almost half way too understanding why dealerships are quite a good arrangement for auto manufacturers.
And agility requires slack (unscheduled capacity) which means less than optimal "resource" efficiency. Stakeholders and managers need to understand that if they what to be able to handle changing plans and requirements then their time can't be fully booked. Problem is then many expect the developers to just work more hours leading to burnout and turnover. I really think developers should push for hourly exempt status (the only class of workers in the US that are allowed hourly exempt status) instead of salary exempt status. With hourly exempt, while you won't be paid time and a half, at least you'll be paid straight time for anything over 40 hours a week.
Depends, are they a double agent?
They A/B tested the headline with and without “elite” and the headline including “elite” got more clicks. Then they ran that headline and got you to click on it/comment on it/engage with it.
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>Don't do overtime. Don't make estimates.

Said another way, estimates are not promises. Don't crunch to meet them. I think it should be phrased as "no deadlines".

The whole sprint structure is so you're constantly adjusting your plans and estimations at some predictable time. Without a sprint you can end up with randomization.
The US is not regularly directing its hackers to break into the worlds companies to steal all their IP and then put it into play across all industries. The amount of blatant copying is insane... just head to any market in Asia to see the abundant fakes that flood the markets. There is no comparison.
The amount of problems I have with the SD card on the raspberry pi is crazy. The thing is never stable.
That's fair, and I don't mean to sound absolute because most things in life are not.

https://www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobi...

"U.S. mobility is among the lowest of major industrialized economies."

So in other words, birth privilege is strongly correlated with future earnings in the USA, but less so in other industrialized countries. We still have more economic mobility than many countries, but we should say the "Nordic Dream" instead of "American Dream."
What problem does this solve that existing reputation systems don't? When I read a New Yorker article, for example, part of what my subscription is paying for is considerable skilled labor by a group of in-house fact checkers. How does moving this work to an outside free platform improve the situation?

Moreover, how do you replicate work like calling sources to verify statements before publication?

I wrote a short piece for Wired once and had to go back and forth with their fact checker on the most picayune details. In an article about balancing online work and travel I had mentioned in passing searching under a hotel bed for an outlet, and she wanted to know what hotel it was, what country it was in, when I stayed there, etc. The process was exhaustive and not something I would go through with a bunch of Internet randos. It was also done before publication and involved a fairly high level of trust.
Use USB
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Python's default implementation is so incredibly slow, such that any programmer that implements a new language that doesn't just make "everything dynamic" will automatically end up with a language that is faster than Python without really trying.

There are probably a 1000+ language implementations out there that are faster than Python, most of which are single person efforts.

Lobster is a much more static language, and does inlining of functions, inlining of structs, specialization etc that allow it to remove a lot of runtime cost, such that even the VM is fast.

It also has been in development for about 8 years now. I've been working on compilers in one way or another for almost 30 years.
Isn’t that more or less what donor-funded political organizations like the ACLU and the NRA do?
Anecdotally, as an ex-smoker who quit after my mother died from lung cancer, I spoke to my doctor about screening. He did a lot of dismissing and hand waving about it. It upset me greatly at the time. This article explains it all well enough. Doctor/patient communication is very important.
You can have high capacity, low cost, or reliability. Pick 2.

Consumer cards choose capacity and cost, because that's what sells. Industrial SD cards pick capacity and reliability, but cost at least 4x more than similar consumer cards due to inherent tradeoffs in the hardware/firmware design.
I think it's more specifically something like this, in case anyone is actually wondering:

"When rich and famous people want your handle bad enough to shell-out money to a PR firm who has spent a boatload on Twitter ads to establish a very favorable business relationship that allows them to procure already-in-use accounts for their clients with a simple request to their account manager at Twitter."

I saw this happen for a small startup I worked at some years back who hired a PR firm and instantly were able to take control of a twitter account that we'd been denied access to for _years_. It was inactive with like 8 porn posts and nothing in the last 5 years, and we sent in formal verification of our trademark, and I also reached out through back channel tech contacts who put in internal requests, and we still got denied 3 times over about a year period. We hired a PR firm to run a marketing campaign for something unrelated to Twitter, and on like day 2 of the relationship, they reached out and basically just off hand said "oh yeah btw we reached out to Twitter and got control of this account for you, I think it matches your company name more directly if you want it!" We hadn't even asked them about it.
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This seems like more or less basically what I've been doing.

(Not with "one week off" though, that sounds nice but neither necessary or realistic).

It works out okay. As with everything else, the competencies/interests/capacities of the people, especially "product owner", make a big difference.
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Exercise is good for your heart.
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Those laws were written to make sure the government gets their tax money from people who are way wealthier than you. that's why the law is nearly incomprehensible: it's a compromise between lobbyists of moneyed anti-tax interests and those who are trying to solve legitimate tax dodging problems that arise with expats and international wealth in general.
Ubers were growing like a cancer. With no limit in place they would just continue growing until nobody else could use the roads. They are a big factor in the current levels of congestion.
Heyy @Aardappel Interesting project!

I wanted to share your language with a game programmer I know but the links to documentation from your homepage look broken.

Essentially https://htmlpreview.github.io/ is dysfunctional. Try accessing the sample links in that project's Github page.
I'm not saying it's not justified, specially when i have seen my family friend's life being saved without ruining them financially because of free healthcare, i was just replying to the last sentence of OP. It's justified and i'm still allowed to hurt a bit by seeing the amount of tax i pay.
the article uses the netherlands as an example of how its supposed to be done. the problem in the netherlands is that there are some things you are legally entitled to, but that aren't on your tax app. like 'averaging' in case of varying income. Dutch tax law is not so simple as implied. also i'm supposed to be paying wealth tax over the part of the property i'm not using as my own living space (i rent out part of it). right now it is impossible to do this. saves me a bit but it could land me in trouble as well.
I don’t know if I should believe the analysis. I don’t know if the video being presented is representative or being selectively chosen to tell a story.
False equivalency. The US has not been caught on the scale of China and its forced tech transfer policies. US may have some limited targeted activity, but they aren't wholesale strip mining industry IP.
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> How do you even know from that story that there was sex or child involved? You are eager to engage in a manhunt based on ... what exactly?

Trust. We can see often cases of americans executed by traffic police just because, and other abuses ("A Dallas police officer entered an apartment she thought was hers and killed the owner of the apartment" and so...) so the repeated message that encounters with US police should be navigated carefully if you don't want to be another victim looks justified. At least in some places and specially if you are black or latino.

I think that in Europe we have a different relationship with the police. It seems (from my non expert point of view, I could be wrong) that Police in USA can lie and "get away with murder" anytime they want. Europol lying about such serious theme as abused children would be a big no. Would nuke any trust and public collaboration and is just not expected. What happened to Ian Murdock, Aaron Swartz or Andrew Sadek [1] would be very difficult to justify from an european point of view

[1] https://www.thedailybeast.com/student-drug-informant-found-w...
> "We already have a kind of congestion pricing, in some sense. If you plan a trip during peak hours, it costs you more time."

this is an underappreciated point, as it underlies the popularity of congestion pricing among wealthier folks, whatever their politics (left-leaners ostensibly would otherwise support more egalitarian/progressive policies).

currently everyone pays with their time, whether rich or poor. you can't buy your way out of the problem just for yourself. irksomely, money is of no advantage. but with congestion pricing, you could, and that's really appealing to wealthy folks.

i'm not arguing against congestion pricing, just noting a less-visible motivation. a progressive pricing scheme (pay more if you have higher income/net worth), for example, would still reduce congestion while providing more egalitarian access.
And I agree that these are things that need to be solved. But UBI won’t do that long term.

Like, just to push a point, with medical care, the prices are so absurdly high that a poor person with UBI who had to pay a large medical bill would effectively just lose their UBI to medical debt payments and interest. And now they’re back where they began. It’s an entirely different problem.
I'm surprised to hear that there are non-DRMed games on Steam. Do you have an example? I thought it was standard that every game released on Steam that doesn't have some awful third-party DRM like Uplay has the Steam launcher code patched into the executable. Valve has some tooling for doing this even to existing legacy exes that can't be rebuilt from source.
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It's not about being cold blooded. It's a function of the job and what's best for the team. Better to get them out early than let them bring everyone down then let them go.
Are you talking about Venice?
> what happens if one of your inner-inner-inner functions returns null when the docs say it shouldn't?

My choice of language wouldn't have the concept of "null".

If it somehow returns an Option type... well, the docs would say it, and it won't typecheck unless I handle it.

> If you want strongly typed errors then you could use a language with checked exceptions (Java).

Yes, typed error handling looks an awful lot like Java's checked exceptions.

Buuuuut exceptions magically unwind the stack at unknown points. I don't like my stacks unwinded unless I explicitly tell them to. Function exit points should be explicit.

Also: it has unchecked exceptions too, runtime exceptions (null pointers, anyone?) and lacks the expressiveness to handle error propagation while not being a pain in the ass.
This is changing by September 2019, "Payment Initiation Services Providers (PISP) is the term used by the EU.
This article looks like digital “rags” should, its editorial, but the rich media, subtle sound, really bring it to life. It could do with a bit more text and details, but the format in general is stellar.
> Jokes aside, why not include MIT or UChicago?

...How many schools do you think can fit in the #1 spot?
That would explain it. I avoid the new SPA redesign. Thanks!
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But there is a downside, by your own logic. If you vote for a candidate that you disapprove of (don’t want to elect), you run the risk of increasing their support.
Unless you quite easily remove the watermark.
Your fingers may have been coated with graphite, a common and harmless lubricant.

Make the plunge and pay for a lead test that you'll trust and then be satisfied with the results if they come back OK.

And remember that vitamin C increases excretion of lead in small furry mammals.
In UK there is not even a box to tick. Vast majority of people don't ever file a tax return themselves, I've recently had a discussion with someone who has worked in the UK for 15 years and he was surprised to hear that tax returns are even a thing - it's so automatic that he has never even thought about it.
As an American, I would rather get spied on by the US than by China, too.

All of the pro-China downvoters on this and many other HN threads.... I do not understand you. I recall from my political sciences courses in university that a hallmark of progressivism was being against imperialism. The basic idea here is that imperialism involves deliberately expanding a government's control of physical territory through violence, subjugation, cultural appropriation, theft, and many other means.

The idea why imperialism is a moral BAD was that it inextricably involves suppressing the human rights of others.

Now, China is an imperialist power. Full stop. It wants more land and more people. It has killed and is killing to get more land and more people.

The same cannot be said of the US.

So why the constant whataboutism on China issues here on HN?
This sounds like a job where people don't get paid.
"would you give up your account name"
"No"
"We have changed your account name"

Is 10x worse than "we have changed your account name". If you're going to do something and there aren't any alternatives don't act like it's a question unless an extremely high ratio will say yes.
On the other hand, with e-books, I can put 5000 of them in my pocket and carry them around with me.
Maybe they should just build company dorms and make living and eating in them a condition of employment.
A vast majority of these boards use chips made for mobile phones to keep the costs down - so we have to make do with what these chips have. Which is why they support 2 or 3 camera buses, WiFi, LVDS, HDMI, Bluetooth, SD, but usually no SATA, no PCIe lanes, no Ethernet (it's often a USB device like on the Pi).

The Pi is pretty much the only one with the sales numbers to justify the cost of a customization, but even that would be a small miracle.
Like I said, it rarely actually happens but when it does it's because the person really was incompetent (I don't worry too much about "culture fit" and other vaporous qualities).

As a manager, it's my responsibility to do what's best for the business.
This.

I've spent at least $2000 this year to figure out how to make this work—and I'm going to spend more to actually fill and send the forms off. . .

The additional requirements of the recent tax legislation which make it effectively impossible to own a foreign corporation (as an American living in said foreign country) and retain earnings according to the corporation's "home" country's tax laws is even more ridiculous. The IRS demands 10-20% by fiat disregarding all international tax law.
My HP N40L "MicroServer" only supports up to 8GB RAM, but I have it running now with 16GB. Sometimes FreeNAS will boot saying there is 16GB, and other times it will boot saying there is only 8GB. I'm unwilling to risk loosing that old reliable system via a potentially dangerous BIOS hack, but it sure would be nice not have to reboot it until I win the lucky 16GB jackpot.
Reuters is writing for the world wide audience here who may not know the nuances of which Uni outranks another.
> These aren't visual watermarks like what you'd get on physical paper.

Except they often are visual. "Owned by X" and such.
I don't think GM or Ford are claiming they are selling the cars faster than they can make them...
> most communication happens through the issue tracking system (which is faster to work with than e-mail)

Written by someone who hasn't communicated this way (especially remotely). This is really just a way to mark your ticket as blocked, and fuck off for the rest of the day because the person who needs to respond won't get to it until they're out of "flow" or whatever (isn't maker time great?).

> Once a sprint has begun, Issues may not be added to the sprint

So the company is just supposed to eat the extra time in a sprint if there happens to be that extra time? No fucking way will a company opt into that, especially combined with the monthly beach week time (AND any reasonable absences during the sprint itself).

This is a pipe dream. Sorry, but asking a company to treat you like this is asking a company to basically pay you for doing nothing. Ridiculous.
Have you tried just using nose plugs/clips? There seems to be some variation in how well people can close off their nasal passage while underwater and often people who have more trouble with it sound exactly like this.

Personally I have to be blowing air out my nose at a pretty unsustainable rate to prevent water from coming in, so if I'm doing serious swimming I use clips. Not exploring this option when I was a kid made me resent and hate swim classes even though I loved being in the water.
My friend, software engineer at a VFX company, said his sprint meetings were only for planning ahead and no crunches to snap deadlines to sprint "ends". Thats silly, stuff always exceeds sprint ends.

My team insists on sprint deadlines, but no sprint meetings . That's cargo culting.
This doesn't seem very agile. Without developer input into the sprint planning meeting this is going to lead to 3 hard weeks where overtime is highly likely because the team didn't have any say on what work was done and 1 week off to recover.

Whilst this may help with burnout so do the main implementations of agile when done correctly.

Agile done properly is all about quickly getting feedback on the speed of work so the business can correctly plan in accordance to this.