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I'm not sure how well this approach works on average, but I haven't had a great experience. I'm a software engineer supporting a research group that's mostly CS PhD's. I take any chance I get to teach good software engineering practices, but they mostly just don't care.
> You may be bitter that he brought politics into entertainment. But that says more about you than about him.

Well, I never particularly cared personally. But hypothetically what would it say about me?

(note to mods: I'm not upset, and I'd like to hear what camel thinks on this matter even it's a petty insinuation about my character)
In my experience, these discussions boil down to anecdotes at twenty paces.

I've seen software development done very poorly and done very well, sailing under a variety of flags. But on an eyeballing there are far more bad experiences than good that get labeled "Agile".

Whether this is because of causal differences or because it's easy to affix any label to anything (and most experiences suck regardless of the label) is hard to tell without a control-group universe were the Agile Manifesto was never written.

If anyone needs me, I'll be counting to twenty.
Yeah generally I used to find a sleeping pill mandatory for sleepers, the downside being that one tends to leave at least one possession behind in the cabin the morning after.
It all depends on what one means by "already been shown how to do it". Something like that could easily be misunderstood/forgotten by the trainee or glossed-over by the senior. Or maybe he was just having a bad day. Whatever the case, learning often takes some amount of repetition before mastery is achieved.

Real life work is not like stackoverflow, if you have a team that's your responsibility, you can't just downvote them to oblivion. Nor can you use performance on any one incident to decide to end someone's career in that particular workplace.

Sometimes people just don't measure up to expectations, that's OK, it happens, but firing should be a decision based on a history of underperformance.

Questioning whether or not someone is fit to "be there" should be something that is done upon deciding to start a PIP. Otherwise, it's just eroding the confidence and motivation of the individual and the team and, in many ways, is as bad as firing that person out of spite.
I can say for sure, that Gitlab is not running that slow all the time.

However, the services run noticeably slower when the US awakes (I'm located in Germany), which is in the afternoon and evening around here. I have no stats, but it feels like builds and the site run smoother in the morning.
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If the software is truly that unoriginal, use something off the shelf. The issue is that in literally every non-toy product I've every been involved in the product owners will always turn CRUD app #237 or Ho-Hum SaaS #17 into something significantly more custom and much more complex.

>because some developer who was bored with his job decided to use a blingy new Javascript framework he had no experience with because he wanted a challenge.

That definitely happens, but I think it's a different problem.
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Why should text chat need more than a 'terminal client'?
A 3 passenger car at 25 MPG significantly beat airlines in fuel efficiency per passenger mile assuming reasonably direct routes.

Busses and trains both crush aircraft from a physics standpoint assuming similar occupancy. Though of course with very low occupancy per cabin things can shift.
This is an example of a precise analysis that is unhelpful because it is irrelevant in the contexts in which the algorithm would be used. It's like saying "all algorithms are constant time-complexity in practice because computers are finite". True but useless.
I'm late to the party, but I think I have one that hasn't been mentioned.
I don't think it's possible on IOS but I like having the ability to edoy my hosts file.
I download a popular block list and port it over to my phone, plop it into to the /etc/ folder.
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They are using content from the real sites. Copyright violation.
Marketing. In general!
Note that the "uniform" part, on which the second part ist also conditioned, ist not universally accepted. There are certainly shared elements, but most likely also specialisations.
States? I don't have numbers at hand, but I'd bet a paycheck that there are U. S. cities in which more than 3.8K cars are sold every month.
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Consider the security aspect, as well.
Apple is generally considered much more secure than Android phone.

For example, see this Ted talk that describes how this security gap is a civil rights issue. Basically, Android phones are cheaper. But, they are much easier for the police to hack into. People with more money buy Apple, and it's much harder to hack them.

https://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_soghoian_your_smartpho...

As another data point: in the last few years there have been a few high-profile news cycles about the FBI trying to hack into an iPhone of a suspected terrorist, and not being able to. They were pressuring Apple to get access, and Apple was pushing back. But the bottom line here is that the FBI couldn't get in to an iPhone.

I haven't ever seen a similar news report for Android...
Been following hawkins and Numenta for a while. They have never really taken off in commercial applications as far as I know despite some sound reasoning behind their theories. Hopefully they will make an impactful breakthrough soon.
The portland metro area is constrained by the UGB, and that constraint has yet to materialize in any sort of land shortages. And there is plenty of ways to sprawl within that boundary.
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Exactly. If it's not an issue or it's not enforceable, then why not put it in writing?
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Now there's also [1] ouroboros: the story of the first quine, and [2] more quines and random eggs

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About time. Over the last generation almost all US cities have failed to add enough new housing to handle the growing population.

Want to reduce homelessness? Build homes.

Want to reduce ridiculously overpriced homes? Build homes.
I don't know much about how it was split up originally, what are you basing that on?
I look up answers on StackOverflow. I ask questions on IRC or (sometimes, these days) Slack. I don't think I've ever seen a co-worker's question get answered on SO—seems to be kind of a crap shoot. So are my methods but at least I don't have to tend my "karma" on those to be able to use them effectively.
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Car-free cities are picking up speed
In case anyone runs into this in the future, Zulip has a few features that could help:

* You can set a message retention policy that will delete each message after N days. (We're building the UI for it, but currently you can email support@zulipchat.com for help on turning it on.)

* On Zulip Cloud, you can set a message visibility limit that will save all your messages (e.g. for legal/compliance reasons), but only the last N messages will be visible to the team.
IRC is one of the few Internet venues I still frequent. Been using it since 1998. Some years ago an important (but small, private) channel moved from EFnet to Freenode, so that is the network I now use. Seeing Freenode IRCops looking to fix what ain't broken ("but it's opt-in" they'll say..) makes me have doubts about the move. If this sounds "get off my lawn" to you, you're getting it.
That's correct. If a URL is blocked using robots.txt, Google will never be able to see the "noindex" tag on the page.

URLs blocked in robots.txt can get discovered through other links and they will get displayed in the search results.

However, you will not see any information like the meta description on these blocked URLs.

There's a good explanation about this here, including a video from former Googler, Matt Cutts:
https://yoast.com/prevent-site-being-indexed/
Agile is like Communism. It's never been done successfully and every time it fails the apologists always respond with, "well... they weren't doing it right."
Why would it? Prices are set by the market, and profit is a dependent variable?
I have a theory here... culture beats process, but companies without the culture have to rely on process. So you’ll find that companies with the right culture can deliver better results without needing a bunch of process, but companies without the culture end up having to force it with process.

And tbh, despite how bad “Agile” process can be, it’s a lot better than pure waterfall.
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Wonder if jack would allow third-party content rankings
Fixed. Sorry, I've been engaging is user behavior that IRC as a protocol can't support: using a mobile client. I'm still new to going fast with my TAP strap.
I think this is a credible idea. If other countries can do it, why can the US?
This Reboot-to-Fix mindset encroaches on other domains as well. My car had a weird issue when it would't pair to the phone, auto-technician: "reboot!" Someone here say that I'm probably a *nix admin vs a Windows user, and that's true, but every time I try to do adminsy things on a Windows box, the tools are just not there, or the interface to the tool is like controls in an alien spaceship. I find myself completely and hopelessly lost. Trying to find stderr, stdout, logging, grepping, finding, the tool to work with PKI certs, all fearsome in their inscrutability. Are there Windows kernel old-timers who can help me with the learning curve? No. Most Windows admins don't have a habit of digging deep because that's not the culture, because the tools weren't/aren't there. And reboot fixes most things on Windows.
> why are they so expensive

Because they are relatively difficult to produce, and require resources which are not extracted and processed at the rate required to sell as many of them as hybrids or gasoline cars.
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Non-substantive comments are frowned upon. So's commentary on voting, for that matter.

Cf https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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> Learning IF, FOR, RETURN is not hard. There are 20 words max to learn.

That was true in the old days with C or Pascal, but it's not much the case any more. Modern C++ has about 100 keywords [1]. Even Swift (Apple: "easy to learn") has about 100 reserved words.

[1]: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/keyword
[2]: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-reserved-Swift-keywords
> “My wife and I consider it’s too much money," Wright said. "I’ve got enough now… and we worry what that amount of money would do to the kids."

Haha, so, this is a comedy.
Anyone else catch that Helm seems to think that meteorology has to do with shooting stars?
Actually, the article just broadly mentioned that they worked on some aspect of the software. There is no evidence (in the article) that they were working on critical software, and it was their piece of software that caused the current problem. You can't blame the notepad team because the windows kernel crashed.

In any case, even if we accept your premise, my point was that assigning blame to the person you hired rather than your process of hiring that let a large team of unqualified people work on your critical software is odd. (Not saying you personally are blaming them, but that was my general point)

>but, as you can imagine, there's very little overlap between cheap and good.

Why? Even outside of software, for e.g. my wife is a post doctoral scientist and she gets paid a pittance for working 9 sometimes 10 hour days doing critical research. Somebodys wage being associated with the quality of their output only happens in a small cross-section of industries. I work in pharma and while I'm happy with my compensation, its a fraction of SV startup salaries. I know.. this might come across as super salty, but I don't think their wage is in anyway co-related with the quality of their output.
Look at where most of the red is when calculating the housing affordability index....

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=1419fe7...
Agile is shit. It hasn't done anything but increase the cost of software and overhead for technical teams. It's ridiculous how much time is wasted just to "be agile". It's a scam, total scam sold to huge companies because it provides a high level overview of the work being completed.
“Most code” is debatable, but one of golang’s goals is ”Go compiles quickly to machine code” (https://golang.org/doc/). Because of that, I can see it being slower than C++ on code that benefits a lot from optimization. That makes it not the right choice for code that runs a lot, as this code likely does (I expect this code runs for many CPU-years each day)
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Just as an example, Gil Scott-Heron's critique: https://genius.com/Gil-scott-heron-whitey-on-the-moon-annota..., or: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_G0ct4
The underlying premise is "does it really make sense to treat the UK operation as a separate item, or should we be dividing UK revenue by global revenue and demanding a tax on that percentage of global profit of Apple Inc?"
Reasonably easy, given current state of stem cell research.

Having neurons is different from having a useful neural connection though, or part of brain...