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That sounds like a line by someone who has never seen the disaster that some incompetent people can do. Design is not necessarily something done by a kind of mythical "architect" (whatever that means...); instead, a good programmer simply very often write software that has a good design.

And I would say than in most areas, design is effective and required.

NT works. 9x is long-dead (and even 9x had tons of design, but there was just a gap too immense on some fundamentals to get anywhere)

I would even make the hypothesis that good design is always eventually effective and required, but the period of time after which lack of proper design hits you badly varies, and in some fields it is actually longer than the lifetime of the product...
I dislike email more than I dislike forums. :)

I mostly blame that on the fact that my ~13yo gmail account is basically a graveyard of receipts and tracking numbers, the odd password recovery here and there, forum digests, thread replies, etc.
Doesn't surprise me. Look how ignorant Americans are of their own system as well. In this very thread Americans are revealing that it's possible to counter-offer at hospital checkout to save $10,000. Should be common knowledge, no?

Instead it's a highly upvoted anecdote in every HN thread about American healthcare. It goes around like fire-side superstitious oral story-telling. What's even the limit on this story? The guy above offered $1,000. What about $100 or $10? What about just leaving with a $0 bill? Since the latter is possible, is the $1,000 a meaningless gesture so we don't feel like assholes? Is this the system?

Also, Mexicans in America are often of a Mexico-hating variety since they left Mexico, and in my experience they will often pander to Americans by dumping on Mexico. Just like what you see in Americans abroad that play up the bullshit.

The destitute in Mexico go to a public hospital under the Seguro Popular program. I lived across from one.

You can get a high level overview here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Mexico -- For example, it doesn't seem like you realize that Mexico has a universal healthcare system.
jesus fucking christ. gotta block that port ASAP
What they are complaining about - that they are treated as second-class citizen - is exacly, how they treat Linux, for example.

No OMTP, OMTC, no hw video acceleration, no smooth scrolling, buggy dark theme, etc, so Firefox on Linux is not as polished and/or performing as on other platforms. The excuse for that was, that Linux has small market share, so it is not worth for putting more resources into solving these problems (some of them have bug reports open for over a decade!).

Well, Firefox itself has also small market share, it is in single digits now. The irony is in the part, that they actively used this as rationalization for what they do, but do not like it, when others use exactly that reason on them.

I'm not talking about validity of the rationale itself; just about the irony of finding them on the bottom of the hole they helped to dig out.
Would be interesting if moving forward, when a user wants to take an image they know they will likely share as CC, they could tap a button to turn on 'CC tagging' such that the camera app applies a digital signaure to the image. Perhaps then, at least some image sources could be validated as being intentionally released under CC by operator of the image source at the time.
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Guys - thanks very much for your input but note my original question. I know that what you say is right about why what they do in my wife's company is not the way things should be done. But my question was: what can be done to improve a situation like that? And not just specifically for my wife, I'm asking the more general question for others who are in similar situations.

The example I gave about the daily meetings was just that: an example, meant to illustrate why my wife thinks that it seems more important for their managers to pat their backs about using "agile methods" than to actually know what they're doing.

That said - I'd also like to point your attention to another commenter here who pointed out that the original authors of the agile manifesto were actually trying to achieve a less strictly structured work methodology. However, I get from your comments about how a daily meeting "is supposed to be done" that some of you seem to indeed have pretty strict ideas about what constitutes agile and what doesn't. So that is kind of an interesting observation in itself, I think.
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In other words, they have plausible deniability because of how the backdoor was designed.
>Or we'd still have a King running things.

I think you would be surprised how many people in the UK would support that. I have run into a fair amount of very old-school monarchists who fully believe that Liz should seize power in a coup. They also tend to think that we should retake the British Empire and I find myself having to politely explain that these days the rest of the world is slightly better armed than when we first had a go.
You have a short attention span for a finance guy...

Argue the points, or don't bother addressing the writeup. Good grief.
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Looking for full stack, front end and back end developers

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How about it! Sounds good to me
From my personal experience corporations didn't officially ditch IE6 until they officially ditched Windows XP. Microsoft dropping support for Windows XP encouraged corporations with expensive support contracts to upgrade their fleet. This resulted in new hardware, new os, and new default browser.
You only have that issue if you search by the model of your PC. For Dell, search by the service tag (short string of letters and numbers) and you will get the drivers for only the hardware that PC shipped with. For HP enter the serial number.
We Used WebAssembly to Speed Up Our Web App by 20X (Case Study)
Velodyne fires back at Elon Musk's Lidar criticism
I will note that the "secret arrest warrant" (grand jury indictment) appears to have only existed for a little over a year; there is currently no evidence that one existed for the majority of Assange's residence in the embassy.
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I love the title in the article:

"Is it only diet and exercise?"

Lol. So... they are telling the 'news' that people who eat well, are very physically active, live in close communities with little individual isolation... and they are healthy?

Hold the presses! Seems like BBC had a day where they needed to put in some filler news articles.
> My house was broken into last year. I wish I had Ring then. We never found any leads and police were unable to do anything.

> Since then I have gotten Ring and definitely feel more secure. We even found footage of a man stealing our mail and were able to confirm with Ring app footage from a neighbor that the man stealing the mail was the same stealing their mail.

In that case was, the culprit ever apprehended?
Will it remain on Steam and playable on Linux?
My experience is that giving all the camera footage in the world will make little difference to a home robbery investigation, hopefully other's mileage is better.

All of the people I know with Nest/Ring/Arlo/whatever who have been unlucky enough to suffer a break-in have found the thieves frankly don't care about the obvious presence of the cameras and neither did the cops care all that much for the footage.

I like these smart cam products for spying on if my Amazon parcel has arrived, or what my kids might be up to in the yard. For crime _prevention_, I don't especially rate these things personally.
In L.A.’s future, you may not need a car, insurance or a parking space
Yeah - ironically respected Greek philosphers who insisted upon purity of thought as a virtue have shown that literally pure thinking on its own is ironically useless without a reference to reality given the believed absurdities from refusing to validate against reality.

But that is more of an indictment of purity as a notion being inherently good. Mathematics for instance is "pure thinking" in that any system may be described mathematically doesn't mean your model neccessarily matches or is remotely reasonable beyond mathematical consistency. Combine it with the real world and it certainly isn't debased but enhanced as weird new phenomena can give rise to new theory that encompasses them.
>> I've worked with RHCEs that didn't have much in the way of RHEL administrative chops

I don't understand how this is possible. Did you validate their RHCE at redhat.com? It's not a multiple choice test, it's real systems(not connected to the internet, no google for you), and you don't pass if you can't configure/repair them and the services required. The requirements aren't toy examples, they tend to be complicated and involving things you want to avoid due to difficulty. Most people(>50%) fail the exam, according to redhat's statistics.
This is a slanted, conspiratorial rant full of personal attacks.
Hi! GitLab employee here, thanks for your question. Someone from recruiting will be writing a more informative response to you by the end of the day. In the meantime, we have outlined some of the rationale behind this requirement here in this merge request: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/... (and a little more discussion here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/895)
This one was quick. It took decades before anyone questioned the war on fat. Looks like the war on carbs is already at that stage.

Give it a few years and we'll start to see the bad affects of too much protein. Mark my words.

People who live a long time don't care about diets. Show me one who did.
The Bell System was not innocent of this either. They made a pretty clear dividing line between "craft" labor, and management. At Baby Bells programmers were pretty much unofficially (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) not management, until it came time to do strike assignments, then, all of as sudden, programmers are managers.

One question I have is: was this a conscious decision on the part of IBM and Bell System management, or was it something that just emerged?
congratulations, it's been very interesting following pipelinedb's story the past few years!
Rocket League is mostly about its potential as an esport. Buying everything seems like the straight forward way to handle this.
Specifically, what part is contrary?
It is being removed from Steam (EDIT: rather, staying on Steam for now) for Epic Games Store exclusivity, and EGS does not support Linux: https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1123674492566372352

EDIT2: "Epic clarified to Variety that continued patches, DLC and all other content that hits the PC version of the game through the Epic Game Store will also appear on Steam for those who already own the game."

https://twitter.com/crecenteb/status/1123690436604960771
First off, great article.

But, like so many other articles about security vulnerabilities, there seems to be a general attitude among most people (including many IT shops) that "it's an isolated incident", and "the experts will fix it...".

"It's an isolated incident", and "The experts will fix it...".

They said the same thing about Spectre, Meltdown, Rowhammer attacks, what have you.

"It's an isolated incident", and "The experts will fix it...".

Well, if you read HN long enough, you'd know that there's too much of this on too regular a basis to continue to espouse those views.

I'm going to go for broke here.

I'm going to put on my conspiracy "what if" tin-foil hat, and ask two questions.

The first is related to Virus-Checking and Security Software -- like Norton, McAfee, etc. how do we know that any of it doesn't contain remote code execution (aka major security) vulnerabilities?

You see, if I were the bad guys, that's where I'd put it.

Also, let's say you have Nation States. Could you see one of these guys "persuading, for the good of their country" one or more of their same-nationality corporations to put such vulnerabilities into their "Security" software?

In other words, maybe you have a Chinese producer of anti-virus/security software, and maybe it has little "surprises" for non-Chinese Citizens.

Maybe you have an American producer of anti-virus/security software, and it too has little "surprises" for non-American Citizens.

You see? Nation A thinks that it's permissible and OK for it to compromise Nation B's "Security" software. And Nation B thinks the same thing, but in reverse.

Even if Nation States are removed from the equation, you still have the Virus Checker/Security software company themselves. How do you know that random employees at that company haven't tainted that software in some way?

In other words, "Who guards the guardians?"

Which is my second question.

It's an ancient philosophical question.

"Who guards the guardians?"

We The People - do not seem to be doing such a good job these days...

All I know is that you might be seeing a whole lot more "isolated incidents" that "the experts will have to fix" in the future, unless We The People - step up to the plate...
As a class, lawyers and doctors are some of the cheapest people you'll ever meet. They don't want to pay full price for anything. I have tons of stories about this; one of the most egregious was a lawyer who made over a million a year and sued his mechanic to avoid paying an $800 repair job to his daughter's old VW Bug.
To be clear I'm not saying a corporation can't be charged with a crime. Just that a corporation charged with a crime almost never goes to trial. And I don't know a single corporate attorney who has ever handled a criminal case for a corporation. We negotiate contracts, not plea agreements.

So while I'm not at all a criminal attorney (and I don't pretend to be an expert here) a defendant's presence at a criminal trial is first year law school stuff. A defendant absolutely must be present for the initial appearance. They can waive their right to appear (by not showing up once they've been charged) but criminal charges cannot be brought in absentia.

My point was that a corporation that ceased to exist likely wouldn't face charges the same way a deceased person wouldn't face charges because the government can't charge a defendant without their presence.

If the government could charge people with crimes without having them appear in court they surely would have tried and convicted Whitey Bulger long before he was caught and wouldn't have been so concerned with Julian Assange's extradition.
There used to be a bone store in Berkeley, called The Bone Room. They're online-only now, though, after the death of their founder and presumably also rising rents. (https://www.boneroom.com/about--contact.html)
It may come preinstalled but in this case the author wiped the computer, reinstalled Windows and then voluntarily installed the software while visiting the Dell support site checking for updated drivers. It is also able to be uninstalled which the original comment suggested it could not be.
An entire generation of people was told in the 1990s that recycling was morally virtuous and that “doing their part,” however small, could clean up the environment. And they believed it because it was easy. “Oh, I can order this meal kit service and be environmentally friendly because it’s all organic and all that plastic packaging can be recycled? Great!”
That Costa Rica reference threw me off, I didn't realize that your claim is the haggling over medical bills is built in into the US health care system.
That one deserves a Balls Of Steel award. As a long time web dev, thank you for the service you have done to my life by not having to look after IE6 crap any more.
Having two big esport games under their belt is a pretty big deal, as well allows them to consolidate those teams under the same company. Psyonix has a lot of experience with developing an esport and Epic Games might also be looking for help developing Fortnite as an esport.
I would recommend for the author of this article to read the original Agile manifesto and point out where the so called Agile methods and resourcing models are described.

I am often only resourced 10% to some Agile projects, because my expertise is often only required for a small part of the project. And yes a copy writer can do my job as well, but would you really let an average electrician build the timber structure of your roof while the plumber wires your house ?
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They do but it's worse than useless. For every time they have accurate holiday hours, they 10 times show me a bullshit warning that the hours may vary due to the holidays when a) I already know that and b) the business is open regular hours on some religious holiday that I don't observe.
Unfortunately there is almost no carbon or hydrogen on the moon with the exception of trace amounts in permanently shadowed craters. Self sufficiency is barely possible in those areas which comprise less than 1% of the moon's surface.
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If you're on WordPress and value your users privacy, do not use Google Analytics.

Sure, webmasters get to take advantage of big brothers' trove of fingerprinted browsers and fancy metrics, but you're also diming out your users to Google and feeding a beast that's already obese.

Google benefits most when you put Google Analytics on your site. Now they can track your users. Webmasters getting analytics out of the deal is the only way Google can sign you up to spy on your traffic.

That's why I use the 100% self-hosted WPStatistics plugin on my WordPress.org blog. And it's considerably faster than Google analytics too, because you don't have to make your clients do an extra DNS query and download external tracking scripts from 3rd party (Google) servers.
What about what protective or healthy heart genetic markers their population might have?
> the effect of every American undertaking an unprecedented lifestyle change all at the same time would be totally wiped out

It really wouldn't. You totally underestimate the "role model" influence the US has on the rest of the world. If the dynamics of the US market would change, all other markets would race to follow in the same direction. This would also be both supported and driven by the individuals across the globe, doing what is "fashionable." Humans are slaves of fashions, even when when is appears improbable.
Amex has a human pick up immediately. Just saying.
Goaccess is great in theory but I found that it does not have good protection against miscounting bots as users. But even GA has that problem.
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