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There are three parts involved in any project. The product, the process and the people. As it currently stands scrum does not make any provision to address the people. Hence management uses this void to turn scrum into scrum butt and turn the devs into jira ticket processing machines which are pushed until they break.

Until the big names in the industry accept that error and address that, I guess there will be no hope for most people doing dev work.

Most companies on themselves don't have any incentive to address this fact because the commoditization of programmers benefits them and because they aren't in a position to understand the long term consequences of this (or don't care)
Yes.

It's zero sum, you don't have any real influence on the market if you're at the "give it a trial" level, and you don't have any knowledge advantage over other actors in the market. (cf. investing in stock categories you understand, which has the risk of losing money and significantly overestimating your ability associated with gambling, but does at least have a realistic prospect of an overall upward trend in prices and some possibility you can understand certain relevant things better than the big institutional investors moving the market price)

There are practical reasons to trade forex like a multinational company hedging against currency movements causing income to fall in one part of the world, but that doesn't sound like what your brother is doing...
> There are notable case of ultra runners dying, and autopsy shows long term heart damage

I wonder how much of this is pre-existing heart conditions that went undiagnosed versus running _causing_ heart damage.

> Days like that tend to elevate my resting heart rate for up to a week afterwords

This is surprising to me... I've run almost 5000 miles and 6 marathons so far and this has not been my experience. Maybe it's due to over training? Have you asked a doctor about it?
We may not have the full story here, but it doesn't seem like Instagram is disputing that they simply took it. I don't see anyone suggesting that they even attempted to contact the guy first. Outrageously poor way to handle things. Also, at what point does an Instagram account become "inactive"?
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The business wants to know how much feature X is going to cost and when they can expect it.

They need to know that, because they need to decide if it's worth it in the first place, or because they need to plan follow-up actions for when the feature will be done.

If the developer doesn't make estimates, you're just forcing other people to make their own estimates, that they'll hold you to.
Not saying that we could've expected this of the pilots, just doubting the claim 'could not stop nosedive'.
Specifically stating that the claim

"The crew performed all the procedures repeatedly [that were] provided by the manufacturer but were not able to control the aircraft."

Does not match MCAS as it has been explained to me.
> The fact they are typically referred to as exceptions has nothing to do with the fact that they are exceptional or not.

Yet there's millions of google hits for "exceptions should be exceptional" and variations of it. This meme has taken hold in a big way. I've tried to use them in other ways -- after all, as the author of a program, how can I possibly know which branch will be the common one, for the user? -- and I always get beaten down by other developers with this aphorism.

As this article points out: "The naming of ‘Exception’ is actually quite unfortunate."
“freedom of movement” should be free as in speech, not free as in beer.
IG is the same IMO. You won't see the blatant bigotry and politics, but you will see a monoculture of self-promoters and brand builders which are similarly exhausting, just in a different way.

And I say this as someone who is subscribed to some niche meme pages on IG and enjoy them. It's just that if the page were to disappear tomorrow, I would have forgotten about it within a week. It wouldn't be missed. The value it gives me is very limited. I'd wager it's the same for a lot of other people. Social media's value is geared towards advertisers, not users.
> And hasn't been updated since 2017

This is only a useful data point if there have been significant changes to "writing system" released since then.
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Repairs in Europe seem a mess - a friend had to wait months for a replacement windscreen
Your agent, no matter who is paying them, has a fiduciary duty to you.

This isn't universally true. In some US states, the frequent problem is that the agent who is showing you homes (and who you tend to think of as "your agent") is not actually your agent (with fiduciary duty to you), but a subagent of the seller (with fiduciary duty to them). Here's an excerpt from recent report on this:

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For many years, a large majority of home buyers and sellers have worked with real estate agents. Most consumers believe that these agents always or almost always are required to represent the interests of the home buyer or seller with whom they are working. ... Yet, real estate agents often are not required by law to represent the interests of the buyer or seller with whom they are working, and many do not.

In reality, there are a number of different types of relationships allowed in most states between real estate agents and their clients.

• Single agent: The agent works solely for the client
and has fiduciary responsibility. A fiduciary agent
is “obligated to procure the greatest advantage to
his client.”
• Designated agent: The agent is recruited by the
listing agent to work with a buyer and has fiduciary
responsibility to that buyer.
• Subagent: The agent works with the buyer but has
fiduciary responsibility to the seller.
• Dual agent: The agent somehow is expected to represent the
interests of both the seller and buyer in a home purchase.
• Transactional agent: The agent works with both buyer and
seller to facilitate a sale but has no fiduciary
responsibility to either party.

https://consumerfed.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/the-agenc...

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So while it's possible that you live in a state where you are correct, where subagency and dual-agency are forbidden, in the absence of a signed contract for the services of a buyers agent, others should not follow your advice until they are certain the same is true for them.
FWIW, I've found that the best way to shorten stride length is not to think about stride length. For many people, that will result in a very unnatural stride. Instead, focusing on increased cadence will cause stride length to decrease more naturally.
The driver is required to keep their hands on the wheel and be ready to take over control in a split second, have you missed the memo? /s

The current development state of AP would make a nice MS thesis on a quality university, but is at least a decade from production; that is if the cameras-only-based concept works at all.
This doesn't sound like the sort of story that actually includes a lawsuit.

A final paycheck on a final day of work is not unusual. Might not be legal, but not unusual.

Most people who threaten to sue you intend it as an empty threat. Ask yourself: is this person likely to consider spending $10,000 of his own money to go after you?
Meh. To me cars are an unpleasant necessity. I dislike driving, I'm constantly either bored or stressed, or both. Driving in Bay Area is even more unpleasant than less dense places. To park it, I either pay what would be rent on a studio elsewhere or drive around a half an hour a night looking for a spot at which I may come back to a busted window.

So when buying a car, I look for cheap and reliable, less likely to be victimized, definitely used (why pay for a smell?), with enough space to move the crap that requires the vehicle in the first place.

Point being, this is one reason those Hondas sell. I could buy a Tesla, but the idea of dumping a bunch of money on something I don't enjoy is about as attractive to me as buying a designer platinum drain snake.
Yes, but...
Please don't jump into minimal shoes and expect to do your normal mileage. Or, use them as your first running shoe, if you aren't a runner. Transitioning to them too quickly can lead to different overuse injuries (due to your body being used to heel-striking, and now you'er doing it without cushion). Start with a short run, on the track if you can, with PERFECT form.

As a semi-serious runner (sub-20 5k at 42 years old, ~20 miles/week), I've found it best to rotate shoes, not just to minimize wear on a given pair (cushioning can take a day to fully rebound from a long run), but also "horses for courses". Cushioned trainers for long runs. Light-weight racers for speed work and races. Trail shoes for off-road. Etc.
Insulin can be had for as little as $30. If someone can't afford that, it's because they can't manage their money.
25% overhead is a little too much
We need more representation. There's no reason to have the same number or representatives in the lower house of congress as we did at the turn of the 20th century.

We should also repeal the 17th amendment and popular elections for president.
I think I may have been wrong regarding independent. Given the context of the thread, it sounds more like platform-independent, rather than publisher-independent. The previous comments are about platform-specific stores.
EU to ban non-meat product labels – 'veggie discs' to replace 'veggie burgers'
NUT2NT+, 4-channel, all-frequency, GNSS RF-to-bits receiver
I'm not totally convinced that particular compromise should win. The issue I have with it is whether political candidates should have to please everyone. Using that strategy would likely lead to a lot of charismatic but ineffective people getting elected. None of big issues would get any sort of resolution, because the candidates that the most people are ok with are the ones with the fewest controversial stances.
The study was 16 swimmers and 16 runners.

From the paper itself:

"For runners, sprint/power athletes were defined as those who competed in 100–400 m races and high jump, while distance athletes competed in races ≥800 m. Short distance swimmers comprised those competing in 50–200 m races while middle-distance/distance athletes competed in 400–1500 m races. Eleven swimmers swam freestyle, 3 swam breaststroke and 2 swam backstroke."

The phrase "there were interesting if small differences" makes me suspect nothing statistically significant was found. Digging into the paper, I found the sentence I was expecting:

"Further research is required to delineate whether these observations are a product of a superior exercise stimulus, or a necessary adaptation to promote filling during upright exercise."

Any small sample of undergraduates always gives the same scientific result: more grant money required.
Oh, it’s worse than that.

Depleted Uranium tank shells don’t produce too much dust, because of Uranium’s habit of braking into large pointed shards. This “self sharpening” aspect is why the material is used. But when it’s used in thermobaric arms, watch out.
> You appear to have completely missed the point of ebooks.

And that point is?
You're thinking in terms of currying, which Rust doesn't support. If you could partially apply arguments to functions in Rust, your reasoning would be correct, though the functions would still be equivalent since you can define `flip` (as in Haskell).
Google Pays Apple a Staggering Amount of Money to Be Its Default Search Engine
Please for the love of god, do not use Postgres on a SD card, you'll corrupt it quickly, even spinning rust over USB2.0 is faster and more reliable. That's my experience with it at least.
> I understand why people like Ableton, but don't pretend it's not limiting to expressivity.

Every choice you make is limiting. There are things you can do with ableton you simply cannot do with turntable mixing alone.
Yes, Simon points this out explicitly: "Why bother to fight for 10 percent of a few dollars more for this story editor or that co-executive producer of some actor or director when to NOT do so means less freight on the operating budgets of the projects that you yourself hope to profit from? Why serve your clients as representatives with a fiduciary responsibility and get the last possible dollar for them, when you stand to profit by splitting the proceeds of a production not with labor, but with management — the studios who are cutting you in on the back end? Why put your client’s interest in direct opposition to your own?"
Definitely a software QA issue. People are blaming the engines but we couldn't have known, a priori, that software is incapable of compensating for the change in balance. Process should have been in place preventing the delivery of an inadequate solution.
Ask HN: Is it common that a startup gets acquired without informing their users?
Well, I don't have the time to go through the whole thing but on a first glance:

1. Seems like they identify someone as runner or walker based on a questionnaire filled. After X years those people fill another questionnaire to indicate whether they had OA or hip replacement. I would think that at the time of the second questionnaire a runner will still be assumed a runner, even if he doesn't run anymore.

2. Exercise other than running increased rates of OA and hip replacement.
There are some functions for which we know things will break eventually, e.g. a db call. We want to catch those situations, no pun intended. Our options are: return codes, or exceptions.

In the return code case, we're using if/then to handle error situations.

In the exception code, we're using try/catch.

With respect to spaghetti, they're literally the same thing, just differently indented...
I'm pretty sure there are many real world examples of domain names being taken.
> 'Freedom of movement' isn't some crazy lunatic idea. It is an important part of living for many people.

Your being able to drive for free comes at the expense of my being able to walk about town freely. I have to worry about being struck by vehicles and about all the soot I breathe in, and I have to take less favorable routes because some road crossings are just too dangerous. You're arguing your own peculiar interests here rather than what's good for everybody, or what's good for our country overall.
Betting a solid half of those are for Canada (mostly those living near the border—don't you still need at least a passport card to drive over?) Mexico (all-inclusive resorts for the most part) and/or Caribbean cruises, entirely. That accounts for almost all the travel I hear about in my extended knowing-stuff-that's-going-on-with-people range.
Yes, small releases are a huge part of making this work. "We can't do short iterations because iterations are so much work!" is the core of resistance. Something's going to go wrong, and we have this heavy bloated religious "deployment" ceremony with ten people on a call for six hours and how on Earth could we do that once a week? Yeah. We can't do short iterations because of all the crap we do because we do long iterations.

I'm always paraphrasing Kent Beck... if you can't write your requirements on a card, you need to use a smaller card.
2 Hours work, potentially £1.2M saving for the NHS
> the team wants to go with Node.JS, as this would be somewhat better for their careers later on.

This sounds like Resume Driven Development to me... which seems like a really silly reason to switch languages. Node.js will have new challenges, and different performance characteristics (maybe better in some areas, maybe worse depending on your use case.)

I've done a lot of backend Node.js development but wouldn't migrate an existing project to it without a good reason. Maybe you have a lot of time and bandwidth to debug any new issues and to learn a new ecosystem (which is something I rarely have.)
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Interesting how?
"Happiness activities" are fine, but I'm not sure they should be subsidized by taxes.
Your freedom to drive where ever you choose on the fastest route infringes on freedoms of others, for example:

* their freedom to drive on the fastest route possible
* their freedom not to have a large road in front of their home
* their freedom not to have their taxes invested in a road infrastructure ballooned to a level that they might not need
* their freedom to live in a world that is not inflicted by global warming

Freedom to move does not mean you can do so at any cost to the freedom of others.
"Free as in speech" is very, very close to "free as in beer".

For all practical purposes it doesn't cost me anything more than my time to exercise my free speech rights.

Something that's nominally "free" from direct government control but the government gets to dictate the monetary cost of using it is not free by either definition.

Anything that increases the monetary cost of freedom of movement (time is not such a big deal because rich and poor alike have 24 hours in the day, hence I don't see traffic jams and crowded subway platforms being that big a deal) is a bad thing, even if the increase is a trivial amount to the upper classes. Mass transit (not the same thing as public transit though the sets intersect) should not be like a restaurant where you pay $50 for a $20 meal because that keeps the poors out and that is exactly what congestion fees and tolls are designed to do.
Congestion pricing is essentially a usage fee, and is highly efficient from an economic perspective. Without charging drivers for roads they get paid for out of general funds. There’s nothing free about non-drivers subsidizing private transportation.

Furthermore, at artificially low prices, more people drive until congestion is unmanageable. Without that pricing your 45 minute drive might balloon to twice that amount of time. Congestion is so bad in NYC that interferes with city services, like busses.
That's a great description. Now I understand why I enjoy Steve Yegge's writing. At least one of the reasons, anyway. Thanks!
An idea that you can document and track newrly 100% of time of 100% of your “resource” gives mediocre manager great pleasure.
When I worked in a major city I would go on a half-joke rant anytime someone brought up traffic, parking,or obesity. If I were somehow the king of a major city, I would have a giant parking lot on the outside, and ban all cars. You could buy day passes if you need access to the roads to move or something, but it would be discouraged. People would walk more, and be healthier, The air would be higher quality, and most importantly you wouldn't have to wait to cross the street when you're walking to lunch.
Further, my jurisdiction's general election has 30+ contests. Ballot real estate is already scarce.

One mitigate is to split our plus-sized ballots into separate federal, state, and local, but no one is considering doing that. The primary argument against is ballot process (central count for vote-by-mail) is already complicated enough.
I've visited (and driven in) Sydney, and I've lived in NYC (had a car), and drove around Brooklyn/Queens often - occasionally Manhattan.

I think difference in traffic insanity between Sydney and NYC is at least an order of magnitude.

Congestion pricing is the only rational, workable solution.
> And do so in inadequate shoes

This is why I hate the "just go minimal" cargo cult. Yes, some people will notice how it highlights their heel-striking ways and will make the necessary adjustments. Others will not, and they'll end up smashing their feet even more than before. For them - and I think they're more numerous - minimal shoes are the exactly wrong answer. Not all runners are lithe twenty-somethings. Some are built differently, and react differently, and need different shoes.

ETA: Yes, it's a shame that heavily padded shoes are the default. They shouldn't be. And minimal shoes are great for some people. All I'm saying is that "go minimal" has become the "do you even lift" of running, and I find it just as unhelpful. It's not a universal prescription.
Yah, it's kind of a continuum. Plenty of consultants do execution, not just in tech. Accenture are "consultants" who will try and build you whatever you ask for, but they actually started as a subsidiary of Arthur Andersen.
>The original comment you were replying to referenced Boeing's smear of the pilots, not Lion Air the company.

I responded to:

>the Lion Air crash (they were busy smearing the airline an the pilots instead)

Which clearly references Lion Air the company.

>You're absolutely correct that Lion Air might have had the opportunity to prevent Boeing's design failure from bringing down this plane (this time). That still leaves the biggest share of the blame squarely in Boeing's lap.

Blame is not a competition and having a more at fault party doesn't excuse your failures. Lion Air failed badly and the pilots didn't take an obvious step to correct their issue. They merit the blame they are getting.
Hah, I should have read further downthread to this before telling you about multiple dispatch via decorators.
Australia is too car dependent, these tolls will slowly help wean us off that and will eventually result in good public transport for all. When you live in a city where the balance has shifted from cars to public transport, your life gets better.
Hi, I’m the co-founder of Threader, a Twitter client that curates good threads and compiles them in an article format.

One of our competitors was acquired by a US company 7 months ago. They didn’t communicate about it and still pretend to be indie developers. They even kept their Patreon, which is misleading since users might think they’re supporting indies.

I was wondering if people from the HN community have already heard of similar cases.
I don’t know the situation in Sydney as I’ve never been there. But in NYC, which is what the article is about, the funds will go to transportation improvements that make it easier for people to get around. There’ll be more freedom of choice because the subways will be better (and hopefully they’ll add more bike lanes and wider sidewalks).
Yes. Scroll down and try to read the low contrast entries at the bottom.
Can't speak for anyone else, but I remember trying to snag a funny or hard-to-get name during the invite period but they were all taken. For a short time I used my common "screen name" of the time but soon after switched to my.name@gmail.com.

I was in my mid-late 20's and If I'm being honest with myself, I think I looked at Gmail as the webmail provider that more "savvy" or professional people used. I wanted something I could use for both personal stuff and professional contacts so the old silly_forum_name@yahoo.com wouldn't cut it.

Later on this would shift to using my own domain to express professionalism but I still have my first.last@gmail address as the account all of my friends and family use.
David Simon has earned the privilege to write that word with a straight face. (I think Stephen King could also pull it off, for different reasons.)
>> less-privileged Apache child processes (such as CGI scripts) can execute malicious code with the privileges of the parent process.

Vulnerabilities always seem to be related to CGI scripts somehow.
I'd say the law has worked very well in this case: The customers private data was at risk (being moved out of the jurisdiction that protects it) and an unscrupulous buyer preferred to pass on the opportunity than assuring the customers their data was going to be as safe as before.

I see no culprits or bad actors here. Everyone looks after themselves.