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"Agile" is, as best as I have been able to tell, defined as "anything not waterfall."

The line "The IT industry today treats waterfall as something old while agile is cool" reflects more the lack of general understanding people have of software engineering and history.

"Not waterfall" was as a common theme in the famous 1969 NATO conference which kicked off 'software engineering'. For example, (quoting http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/nato1968.PD... ):

> The need for feedback was stressed many times. ...

> Fraser: (from The nature of progress in software production) »Design and implementation proceeded in a number of stages. Each stage was typified by a period of intellectual activity followed by a period of program reconstruction. Each stage produced a useable product and the period between the end of one stage and the start of the next provided the operational experience upon which the next design was based. In general the products of successive stages approached the final design requirement; each stage included more facilities than the last. On three occasions major design changes were made but for the most part the changes were localised and could be described as ‘tuning’. ...

> The use of feedback from a partly designed system to help in design, was discussed at length.

Of course, "waterfall" as a development model wasn't even formally described until a year later, or coined for another 7 or so years.

I like the description from http://tomasp.net/blog/2019/software-engineering/ that:

> For waterfall, the context was a more general managerial culture of the 1970s, rising complexity and costs of software, and the fact that programmers were "hackers" who were hard to hire, train and replace.

That is, while 'iterative but speedy design to delivery' is old - has been around since the 1960s - its coolness now comes as a reaction to a certain managerial style from the 1970s, which was a reaction to early agile.

Many of the concepts in agile, like rapid prototyping, were well-known in the 1980s and 1990s, and by the mid-1990s - well before 'agile' was coined - considered best practices.
Time travel in Haskell for dummies (Tardis monad) (2015)
Selling custom signs to businesses. I help them design the sign but also have a sign creator on the site that businesses can use for more basic signs. I send the design files off to a supplier who then makes and ships the signs. It averages $20k in sales per month. It is not hands off (fair amount of customer support & design work) but the net profit makes it worth it.
You're absolutely right. One of the murderers was asian, as were three of the jurors. But this isn't purely a matter of race, it's very much a matter of class.
I know .. but many people have this picture of the Nazis. So I wanted to clarify ..
This seems a tad unethical
I would argue that preventing an individual from creating a new deodorant (or any typical consumer product) because "there is already enough of them" is a defining philosophical difference - either you are for freedom, or you are for collective coercion.

In my opinion, there are never enough deodorant brands. If a new entrant wants to make a new product, it will succeed or fail. It may compete on price or quality, it may drive out another brand, it may expand the market for deodorant by targeting a type of skin sensitivity that wasn't targeted before, it may do any number of things.

But there will never be enough deodorants. There can always be room for one more, and to prevent an individual for trying to make another is the moment we go on the path to Soviet Russia.
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This is great, thanks for the link.
Could you expand on how this workflow be different/better than sticking to just something like TFX and tensorflow serving? Is it easier to use or more scalable?
Probably means http://tuxkart.sourceforge.net/, which I also remember from waaaay back when

Last update on Tuxkart - 5MB (the author apologies for the size of the download)

"" "" "" SuperTuxKart - 574MB
Just want to say thank you. I wish more sites on the internet put out quality content like yours!
This looks neat. I'll be sure to read a few articles from here.

Why the curated section though? I think it distracts to have links to articles from NYTime or Wired on the side.
I'm going through some really tough times and I'm very interested in things that can help me change my behavior. How would you describe what hypnosis does to a person to help them overcome these things?
It's not so simple. Before the indigenous Inuits migrated to Greenland there were other people groups there. There were the Dorosets and some people even believe the Norse arrived in Greenland a quite a few decades before the Inuit settled. So the Inuit were by no means the first people to use the land they currently occupy, yet nobody will dispute their claims of being indigenous to their lands.

Contrast this also to the Faeroe Islands (another Danish colony in the North Atlantic) whose current people group settled there centuries before the Inuit settled Greenland, were (arguably[1]) the first people there. You’d definitely raise an eyebrow if you’d hear them being called indigenous.

In short. Being the first people group to use the land is neither necessary nor sufficient for being indigenous.

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1: The islands might have been settled earlier by Irish monks, however (unlike the modern Norse settlers) they never established settlements that lasted for generations.
My takeaway is (for applications that need this):

#1: Keep rows immutable. Don't use UPDATE or DELETE.

#2: Store the time columns you need, e.g. insertion or transaction time, and/or event generation time, etc.
That's because you bought an industry-specific ETF. So any imbalance in that industry would noticeably affect your holdings in the short period. General advice is to buy diversified ETFs (like the S&P 500 as the OP said) and hold them for long periods of time. It's a very different strategy from buying and selling individual stocks over a short term.
On Being Introverted in Academia
> the emissions when those trees burn

We'd probably have to sequester them somewhere anaerobic. Bottom of a deep-sea trench or underground. Which also reduces the net carbon footprint of the activity.
Its hard for me to plant a tree, but I could expand my garden or add a bush. How many gardens are needed to equal a tree?
Software development is all about not re-inventing the wheel. Yet there are countless build systems, tons of pointless frameworks. I wonder developers have nothing else to do. Every company releases their own version of everything.
Simple cooking methods flush arsenic out of rice (2015)
More like death by pointing a gun like object at police...
3.4 has been out of support for over 3 years, it is junk.

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?vendor_id=...
It would be fun to flip the image so it really looks like a Tiny Mirror. I wonder if this would work?

In the initial setup:

ctx.scale( -1, 1 );

In the drawing loop:

ctx.drawImage( video, 0, 0, canvas.width * -1, canvas.height );

Something like that anyway. We have guests arriving soon, so no time to test right now, but if anyone tries it I will be curious!
As noted below, no, but Bazel now officially does, if you'd like something similar (this is new as of a couple weeks ago): https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_jvm_external
You need light, water, micro and macronutrients in right amounts.

Desert greening is essentially question of water availability and reversing soil erosion but you may also need the nutrients.

There have been many attempts in desert greening and oasification but they are expensive and have not been very successful in large scale. It's much easier to create a desert than do the opposite.
Interesting. I suppose you could stick with manufacturers that either don't care, or are long defunct.
Most often its grazing livestock, they like to eat seedlings.
I am curious if you are non-white, because I am not and I can’t agree with this. All my interactions with the police have been curtious and professional on their behalf even if I am clearly in the wrong, even if I am discourteous.

I can’t think of a single person of color that I know, and I know many that has had a poor interaction with the police.

America isn’t a bastion of racial equality, but by and large the police are okay.

I used to have the same feelings as you did from watching the media, but it’s like the medias portrayal is not representative. Just look at their coverage on violent crime, if you watch it you’d believe that everyone is at risk all the time but my county hasn’t had a single assault in the past 5 years.

IMO people are better served looking at these problems as local issues to which the aegis of greater government can help.
The first "wow, neat" moment of the article is the single-pass Haskell function that replaces every element of a list with that list's largest element. Haskell's laziness makes for some crazy possibilities and some totally incomprehensible performance properties.
only a programmer could produce such a pedantic comment such as this.
I guess it depends on the location. Some have cattle and deforestation. Natural reseeding can be slow. Though in England if you leave a bit of land alone it'll pretty much be woodland in 30 years or so.

If anyone fancies donating to plant a few 100 or 1000 trees https://donate.trees.org/campaign/trees-for-the-futures-eart... does good stuff for about 15c/tree. It doesn't take very much to cancel out your personal CO2 load that way. I donated I think $100 for 1000 trees a while back.
> I see 80 brands of deodorant [...] satisfy[ing] all manner of wants and needs

I'm not exactly in favor of a command economy, but seriously, how many of these 80 types of deodorant -- or any comparable consumer product -- are fundamentally different from one another, as opposed to being distinguished only by their branding and marketing?
Plants try to minimize CO2 utilization becase it’s energy intensive. We could design something that stores more carbon, but with real tradeoffs as it would have less energy for other things.
Something I've been looking to do myself! AFAIK the rate is around 6%? Willing to share the website - would be mega interested in reading!
Yup -- I just didn't want to go into too much detail.

David Howell at Harvard has written quite a bit about identity in Japan -- see esp. "Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan" (2005).
Second after Turkey, which is not in the EU.
"Trees are supposed to slow global warming, but growing evidence suggests they might not always be climate saviours." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00122-z https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19690382
> Finland? China?

The Chinese just steal research papers and pretend they're theirs.
Police officers are killed on the job at something like 60x the rate of the regular population. There is a lot of material to work with here, but if the guy really pulled his Tazer on the cops, he more or less engaged in death by cop.
I give a fixed cost so materials cost x 2 is usually a good starting point for a minimum price, then add on if you think it's going to be very labor intensive.
And lots of land. Suppose you can plant them in say 4m rows with 4m separation, it would be approx 60K trees per 1km2 or 20million km2 in total. Twice of the size of the US?
> there are a total of 10 Manchu native speakers left in the world. This is a problem because many Qing-dynasty documents are in Manchu

The lack of Manchu native speakers is not a problem for dealing with Qing-era state documents. The Manchu language is well-described and for many, many decades Han Chinese scholars (and then foreign scholars in Europe and North America) have been trained to work with Manchu sources. Does the lack of Latin native speakers hinder anyone from working with a new Roman-era text or inscription?

Furthermore, those handful of remaining native Manchus heavily code-switch with Chinese, and they have lost a great deal of their native Manchu vocabulary (a common phenomenon as a language dies), so even if you did show them a Qing-era text, they would probably be unable to understand much of its terminology without special training.

I am all for protecting language diversity, but your Manchu example is uninformed.
Please find a way to ship these to Europe! It would become my new notebook of choice in a heartbeat but I run through them like (insert some kind of simile here). I would also happily share this with all my musician friends.
I think the unfortunate reality of ChrisFix is to make videos at that level of quality... takes real time and effort -- plus a vehicle that merits actual work he's not done a video on yet. Hence he only puts out one or two a month, but they're of an extraordinarily high quality, which is evident in his sub numbers and view count.

I've considered making videos, but the reality at the moment is there's not yet the time to do it to my level of quality. At least not yet.
The best way for sequestering wood is turning it into biochar. You even get some energy out of it.
How are reminders implemented? Do they use google reminders behind the scenes?
I don't know. I don't think this experiment has ever been done before.
Look and research companies, understand their product, invest in them thru stock market. Go long(6 month to years).
Kudos and thank you for resisting advertising and figuring out an alternative business model. It would be awesome if there was a whole alternative Internet like this, where ads (and selling user info) was forbidden.
166 trees per living person, so however many gardens that is, multiple by that
I started creating apps when the first store was opened. It makes almost 10 m times more than my normal job (team lead, developer). Still I have no desire to quit my day job. If I manage to keep this going for another 5 years I will reach a point where I have enough money to live my life without any financial issues.
Comparing yourself to Pythagoras after blabbering nonsense that has nothing to do with the topic. You must have HN confused with Reddit or 4chan.
I raise bees and sell the honey. Good for a few thousand a year and the money makes up for the stings.
I have a couple of dozen chickens and sell the eggs, but this makes very little money since eggs are so cheap in the super market. It pays for the feed and that's it.
I wrote an Amazon book on how to play harmonica in the style of Sonny Boy Williamson II that sells steady and makes me beer money.
I sell a couple of my Science Fiction short story collections on Amazon. "Error Message Eyes" and "Frogs in Aspic", but after a good first year they sell only a couple of copies a month.
I sell four or five Science Fiction stories a year, but only occasionally do I get pro rates. It's nice to see your name in print, though.
But what is a partial differential equation?
nor the small emission from natural decay of dead wood

That said it could also:

- absorb some heat

- create new wind / rain cycles

- provides a lot of material (construction/furniture) to replace cement and plastics

- kill millions of people of exhaustion from planting that many trees
Housing is a very complex subject, but in general the biggest issue with housing is that communities block new developments on artificial grounds such as environmental review, ruining their view, or "historical character". If you want to reduce housing prices, build more houses.

On humvees and diamonds - if people want large cars and diamonds, let them buy them. If your unhappy about fossil fuels, would an electric humvee be better? I could go through your or anyone's home and critique the usefulness of any number of possessions based on my own subjective definition of value. That doesn't mean I'm right and you're wrong, or that you don't deserve such things.

We let the individual decide what is best for them.
I realize this response is late.

The term “parameters” is unfortunately overloaded.

CloudFormation parameters are used within CF. We were referring to parameters in Parameter Store.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide...

But then, how do you get the secret value from CF to parameter store? If you put the value of the parameter in your template, then it is stored unencrypted in your template that is probably in source control.

For that, I use a combination of NoEcho in CF and use that user entered value as a !Ref when creating the parameter store. Run the template manually one time and then you can have it default to the existing value.

But you need a custom resource to create a secure string type.
Depends on the database you are using, Microsoft SQL Server has a file stream feature, optimized for exactly that scenario. They store the actual files outside the DB.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/bl...
It only invented transistors, lasers, zippers, the internet, carbon fiber, airbags, information theory, aluminum smelting, television, induction motors, alternating current, radio communications, GPS, LED lamps, florescent lamps, incandescent lamps, nuclear power, magnetic storage, RADAR, refrigeration, solar panels...

But hey, the Soviets beat us into space by about a month. All they had to do was murder a million of their political opponents and then starve their people for a few decades. You decide if it was worth it.

And if you think the US has a "free market" healthcare system you are quite mistaken.
Thanks for the reply. Could you give some more insight into how and what tools you choose for the different sort of tasks (say NLP vs CV vs RL)? Also, how and why are different tools/pipelines better for production and product building?
Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
> Do you work on the road or take off years at a time?

For the first one (AK->Argentina) I just took time off and lived off my savings account. For around Africa I wrote my first book and I write for multiple magazines while on the road.

> Are you armed, or do you just avoid central conflict areas?

Crossing an international border with a firearm will result in instant jail time in virtually every country on the planet. No, it would be impossible to bring a firearm. You might be surprsed to know I have never heard a single gunshot in three years around the continent, and Ethiopia was the only country I ever saw regular people with firearms. In every other country it's only the police/military, who are extremely professional.

> I take it no family? (hence the 'solo' bit) or are they undersganding?

No kids or wife. I did have a girlfriend with me for some of the Africa Expedition - living in the Jeep proved too much for our relationship.

If you do have a family, don't let that stop you, I've met plenty of people on the road with families, ie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc61AxCQQR4
Eco+Terra+Easter+Sale
> in practice, someone controls it, and they almost never have the interests of the occupants in mind

Yes, that's why I'm advocating leases. This allows you to separate short-term control from long-term control more easily. The interests of the occupants are best attended to via short-term control (the sink needs to be fixed now) but the interests of society are best attended to via long-term control (we need to tear down this single family house, which made sense 50 years ago, and replace it with a multi-family unit).

> it might be best if everyone received some designed size plot of land

That might work if there was a constant supply of new land to distribute, but there isn't.
Just use a bunch of these: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event

It worked 49 million years ago.
There does not have to be a binary choice here.

Markets do some things very well. They do not do everything well.

The basic idea of self governance is we surrender some choice in order to maximize personal freedom.

Applying market principles everywhere results in people being free to live under a bridge, or in an alleyway...

We can and should very seriously constrain markets, and or eliminate them for some things.

What is left will function much better because more people will be able to participate in a meaningful way.

The left is moving this direction, adding economic reform to it's standard social agenda for these reasons. The party struggle over it is plain to see.

Way too many people are in real economic trouble. Markets are killing them.
Just wanted to jump on the bandwagon and say that you saved us from buying an entirely new grinder about a year ago. Thanks so much!
Nonfiction about my adventures or guide books. I find it much easier than fiction, though I'm an Engineer and not overly "creative" when it comes to writing.
Check out my website: https://www.quietstrengthhypnosis.com/ The “Learn” section has some good information about hypnosis.

I’d also be happy to chat more about this one on one, if you’d like. No obligation to actually schedule a session; I don’t charge for chatting and answering questions. :) Shoot me an email: david@quietstrengthhypnosis.com
Christ Doesn’t Save Us by Words First of All, but by His Body
I was curious about this too and got about halfway through a project to parse historic "Ask HN: Who's Hiring" data and find companies with the same job posting over and over. Use it to generate a "Who's Not Actually Hiring" list :) Wasn't curious enough to finish it though...
That's probably more lettuce and zuccini than I can easily eat, maybe not practical...
Capitalism does encourage reward for innovation, which is why it works better... up to a point. Innovative people exist everywhere - it's part of who they are - but when no rewarded, they won't work. What we have in the US is that crafty, selfish businessmen manipulate the system and "invent" all kinds of walls that steal the rewards of innovation for themselves. Now we have tech "giants" and massive corporations that pay peanuts (in comparison with their actual profits off innovation), run the government, and want oppressive laws and treaties like the TPP.

As I'm fond of saying:
In a capitalistic system, a few people end up with all the money and power.
In a communistic system, a few people end up with all the money and power.
The means are different, but the result is the same.
Why do people always reinvent and start from scratch and then complain always puzzles me. SQL Server Filestream Feature:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/bl...

FILESTREAM integrates the SQL Server Database Engine with an NTFS or ReFS file systems by storing varbinary(max) binary large object (BLOB) data as files on the file system. Transact-SQL statements can insert, update, query, search, and back up FILESTREAM data. Win32 file system interfaces provide streaming access to the data.
> what is stopping nature doing this

My money is on humans.
This is a great illustration of how there is no hope of sequestration as a solution. We're unlikely to plant even just a billion trees.
>I don't know much about the history of Japan, but it seems to have been inhabited by non-Japanese/Chinese and then the Chinese ancestors of Japanese conquered the land. If anyone knows details I'm interested.

That's quite a strong and controversial claim to be making without strong evidence. From what I understand, most modern Japanese historians are quite opposed to the above idea. As one of the other replies pointed out, it's also a bit anachronistic to be applying terms like China and Japan in this situation.
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