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I don't even really understand your objections here. You're describing various tools that are useful in some situations to get the various developer and business outcomes you want.

Planning poker is useful for exposing different interpretations of a task from the perspective of multiple developers while trying to avoid group pressure or prejudiced outcomes. Spikes are tools that allow developers to explore a problem space and gain information about whether a proposed approach to a bigger problem is feasible and how much work might be involved. And story points are there to help the development team understand how much work they are able to get through in a period of time, to help improve estimates or targets that are useful for themselves and other parts of the business.

I'm really sorry if you've had a bad time with this stuff, but none of it is unreasonable or particularly outlandish – and personally everything you've highlighted has been extremely useful to me as a developer. Like all tools they can be abused; the problem there is a broken organisation, and not a broken tool.
Just to be clear, I'm talking about two (or more) developers, gathering together to solve a problem collaboratively, with the end result that the code to do so is written or at least the significant questions have been answered and what remains is little more than a mechanical exercise. But I'm talking about that happening spontaneously, and not necessarily starting from a complete blank slate, being done on a specific schedule or according to any specific process or using any specific tools, or being required as formal policy.
It degrades gracefully, just turn JavaScript off.
I am around the same age as this guy and so much of it is mindset. My dad worked in a university computer lab for 30 years but at some point gave up learning new technologies. He doesn't own a smartphone. Barely uses email. I set up his Roku but he won't use it, just watching whatever is on TV.

Meanwhile, my neighbor is 90+ and recently asked me deep historical questions about the internet, like about ARPA, protocols, DNS... stuff many software engineers never bother learning about. He pushed until I couldn't go any deeper, then he was disappointed.

It really just comes down to being more curious than lazy. And also changing how you learn what is worth learning - asking people who invest energy into what is good is a great way to save yourself time.

Getting older means you recognize patterns in things, so you stop digging past the surface in a way you used to. Any time I watch an old music video on YouTube inevitably someone says "musicians today are garbage compared to this" without ever looking past (or even at) the most vanilla Top 40 music . But music is awesome right now, collaborative and unchained, whole careers spanning and unfolding on YouTube.

Those same people who are posting about how great Bob Dylan is weren't listening to The Archies on Top 40 radio, they dug past it when they were young but no longer put in the effort. You need to find new ways to find the good stuff - spend energy when you are young learning how to be more efficient with your curiosity!
If the monopolist is huge enough, they control an enormous cascade of wealth transfer.

There are many points for a small business to tap into one or more of their streams in a way which everybody wins. But this usually requires that no disruption takes place. Without actually adding value (to natural resources) yourself, you are allowed to remove enough value to grow an operation having share price which can outperform the underlying monopoly.

This is a common strategy with oil & chemical companies.

They can also afford to not be a pain or make you wait until the end to be financially worth it.
If they buy up all of the slots and then fly them, customers can take the flights. The goal isn't to (necessarily) to ensure that competitors can operate, it's to ensure that passengers have flights they can travel on.
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Putting candidates in a bit of stress for 5 minutes during an interview was part of my interview training at $bigenterprise over 20 years ago. I can't remember if I ever used that but the idea is not new.
In psychology class the professor told me that the number of connections in a human brain increases only two times in life, during infancy and during adolecense, at all other time the number of connections is decreasing.
So this is the plausible worst case - unfortunately I see no reason why it should happen differently if we don‘t manage to keep R0 way lower for a while than it currently seems.

It‘s growing exponentially, so one week we‘ll still have a working healthcare system, the next week it will be overwhelmed by the low percentage of people needing O2 or breathing support for a few weeks.

We‘ll improvise and then there will be next week with a double number of cases. And a further diminished number of healthy people working in health care.

Then our healthcare system will just collapse and those people will die that would otherwise have recovered after a few weeks.
It‘s a combination of exponential growth of infections and accumulating numbers of people who need treatment for a while.

As I understand this about is the current situation in Iran, it just happened earlier there.

We‘ll try a lot, maybe find a way of better treatment to mitigate this a little.
This will happen until mid april, next year we‘ll have a vaccine, maybe.

Oh, and this is what I fear for my country. We have public healthcare without copay, you can’t be layed off for being sick and if you’re sick (or quarantined) you’ll still be payed.

This is going to be a wild, depressing ride and it will come ‚suddenly‘.
I've had some interactions with intelligence/defense. What I've seen indicates that they're very interested in the code that runs on their systems. Audits take months to years.
If the fine is larger than the price of the fuel then they'll just fly the flights.
If it changes the phenomena that trigger false-positives of suspicion towards "was actually present near the scene of the crime" and away from "wrong skin color in the neighborhood," it can be argued the tech has improved people's lives.
Ooh, i stumbled across this one site that I wanted to add to my feed reader, didn't find <link rel="alternative"> tags in the header, but a <link rel="https://api.w.org/"> tag. I'm not sure it is their intention to open up the WordPress back-end, but I found how to get the list of articles from it, so added support for it to my own feed-reader: https://github.com/stijnsanders/feeder#feeder
Are you referring to the first graph in the post?

If so, great question. I haven't looked into this much but wouldn't expect it to be parabolic - that was just an approximation to illustrate the points raised.
getting to an airport is hell and ex´ensive, if you miss your flight tough shit so you have to leave hours early and just wait. airport shops are so expensive it costs more to buy tax free there than at the nearest shop at home. what's to like?
I find working in different places for different tasks. So i code best in my dining room, but might move to the kitchen if reading some documentation. Then i might take a calls in my lounge.

Also if i get stuck for a bit I try to get out at lunch to get some perspective, even if its an early lunch

Seems to give me good momentum
Because such information should only be used to confirm as specific person was present, not to dragnet a bunch of innocents.
I'm curious about restarts and snapshotting: would it be feasible to reset a microVM for each incoming request?
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If you can't afford an attorney, you can get one appointed,

In the US, that only applies to indigent defendants in criminal cases. It does not apply to anybody with any semblance of financial stability and does not apply to anybody in civil cases.

Is it different abroad?
Two are installed, but MCAS only used one, and the disagree warning light was not operational despite the documentation saying that it was.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/techn...
That's exactly right. In this light, what one should and shouldn't according to a single person (what your last post was about) doesn't have any meaning when discussing what many individuals could value: that's on a higher meta level.

It becomes at best a statement of opinion, and at worst it can be taken as dismissive of the values of others.
You've pretty much nailed the problem. The ?good? news though is that Heroku is really slow, so just running Firecracker VMs on real hardware, doing edge TLS, and adding http2 + brotli is a huge win.

When people use https://fly.io/heroku, we launch VMs in the same region their Heroku app is in so there's no latency hit to the DB. Weirdly, latency between a Fly app a DB on AWS in the same region is sometimes even better than AWS cross-zone latency.

We _also_ give apps a special global Redis cache (https://fly.io/docs/redis). This is sometimes enough to make a full stack app multi-regional, usually people cut way down on DB queries when they use their framework's caching abilities, which can make it pretty nice to run a Rails app + cache in, say, San Jose while the DB is in Virginia.

I know of a couple of devs running Elixir apps on Fly that leave a data service in the region where their DB is and basically rpc to it from other regions, which seems to work well.

Read replicas are a good idea, we'd actually like to try that out at some point. It seems pretty doable to put something like pgbounce/pgpool in front of a read replica and let it handle routing write transactions properly.
> If you have a seven year old and both parents work an hourly job, where exactly is that kid supposed to stay?

Anywhere that minimizes contagion of the virus. I'm not trying to be coy or flippant. I recognize that there are hardships involved. You gave a very general scenario so I can only re-state the fundamental invariant.

> get a bunch of parents together and rotate which house all the kids will stay at each day and pool their wages

That could work. Except better not to move them around, and limit their exposure to adults who do move around. I'm not an epidemiologist so I'm not qualified to give detailed advice.

I do feel pretty confident about telling people to stay home because that's how you slow down a pandemic. The streets should be deserted right now.

Here's the messed up thing: the virus doesn't care. If we have set up our society in such a way that we can't respond properly to this thing it will fuck us up and we'll have no one to blame but ourselves. IF there are too many parents working, and not enough extended family (or whatever), and/or not enough sick leave, and/or a system that can't make and distribute tests, or any of a bunch of other factors, THEN people are going to die. A lot of people. And if enough of the die (or just get really sick all at the same time) major additional problems could occur. Most cities have only about three days of food in the pipeline. After that, the only food is our pets, and then "long pork".

The best thing you can do to stave that off is stay home now before it's too late.

Maybe our civilization are fundamentally at odds with surviving a pandemic, I hope not, but be clear about the danger here.
Ironic. I had heard tales of the old Soviet Union about trains running empty to fill distance quotas. It was presented as the ultimate proof of how messed up their system was.
The other thing to be said here is that, despite the risks of cooperating with a police enquiry, if the choice is between them using objective geolocation data to identify possible leads, versus them stopping off for some donuts before driving around until they find a black guy, then we surely all agree which is preferable.
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The article is about the atomic write pattern: create tempfile, move tempfile over original which effectively is an unlink of the original.

And yes, this should be solved, but some NFS servers don't support it, e.g. AWS's EFS.
The world may not, but the people responsible certainly do.
The LockPickingLawyer has done a few recent videos on RFID locks and how one can bypass them. They were pretty interesting to me:

"[1052] Defeating a RFID System With The ESPKey" => https://youtu.be/0SEHUqkbIjU

"[1056] This Black Box Reads RFID Cards in Your Pocket" => https://youtu.be/dTObKtHzroM
I have a question. They show that any given depth-ell network, computing F, is w.h.p. approximated by some subnetwork of a random depth-2ell network.

But there is a theorem that even depth-2 networks can approximate any continuous function F. If the assumptions were the same, then their theorem would imply any continuous function F is w.h.p. approximated by some subnetwork of a depth-4 network.

So what is the difference in assumptions, i.e. what’s the significance of F being computed by a depth-ell network? What functions can a depth-ell+1 network approximate that a depth-ell network can’t? I’d guess it has to do with Lipschitz assumptions and bounded parameters but would be awesome if someone can clarify!
It looks like the PornHub logo, I believe that's what the GP was referring to.
> ended with a cliffhanger! OP eloquently picked apart the predominant system without a clear alternative :)

Author here. Yes, another comment made the same point. But I'm glad you feel what I covered was eloquent. Often, diagnosing exactly what the problem is takes you a long way towards solving it.

As I said in the other reply, I will post the follow-up to this article in a few weeks which will outline where I am going with this: I'm building a multi-part series looking at estimating in software development, so Sprints are an important aspect.
Snapshot / suspend isn't doable yet, but it sure would be nice.

We've booted some apps in Firecracker in <20ms, so if you build the app properly you can absolutely do a new VM per request or TCP connection even.
No, you're still misunderstanding, apparently. Go back to reading what I originally wrote if that helps.

The risk existing and being too high to make it advisable to talk to the police has nothing to do with race, and everything to do with police vs citizen. The relative risk is different for different groups (class, sex/gender, race being the major ones, in that order), but that has nothing to do with the risk itself being there for everyone and therefore the advice being the same for everyone: don't talk to the police, they are not your friends and they are not on your side.
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Just 3 years? Usually you can ask the bank to guarantee the current interest rate for up to 15 years. Of course you will have to pay a premium on top of the market rate interest but e.g. getting 3.3% instead of 2.6% is not a bad deal compared to being surprised 3 years later that your original 1.5% rate is now 2.5%. 1% additional interest on a $600k house could mean that your monthly payments go up by $500. That shouldn't be taken lightly. However, negotiating a different interest rate after 10 or 15 years often makes sense because you have already accumulated equity. You no longer owe interest on the full sum. If only $200k are remaining on the loan then your monthly payments would only increase by $167.

If you want to get into the stock market then do it in a sustainable way. Don't try to time the market, you probably won't win a second time and lose your money before you have fully understood how the stock market works. Get a small financial buffer. Enough to stay unemployed for 6 months. Put the surplus into a conventional portfolio. If you don't care about the stock market but want to get your cut then focus on ETFs that index the market (S&P 500 is a classic) and put the rest in bonds. I recommend starting today. Just spend $100 on a random ETF to become familiar with the selling/buying workflow.

Most important rule always do your own research. Let strangers (financial advisors, friends, maybe random people on the internet) help you figure out yourself but never take their word as the truth.
It is good isn't it. I just re-read it ten years after the original publication.

I googled and Perron's start-up GeNeuro is still going, trying to fix MS with an antibody against HERV-W. https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/geneuro-raises-eu17-5m...
> by collecting data from their users without asking their permission

It is my understanding that Google Location services asks before storing this data. My fear is that by writing blanket untrue statements like this, people that don't know better just read it as fact, and spread it.

Disclaimer: Work at Google (in a different space), but everything I write here is my own opinions/views.
In internet v1 years, around 2000-2005 the limit was 2 months of inactivity even for new accounts (also an inbox limit of 6MB, later reduced to 2MB).
Agreed, as much as the current administration has pledged to "drain the swamp" the hill is looking just as corrupt as ever, if not more so. Instead of corrupt industry insiders and lobbyists, we just have corrupt industry outsiders or those who will immediately bow to the administration.
IMO this is what class action lawsuits are for.
So, homelessness combined with a lack of public facilities is a burden on businesses with humanitarian policies? Is this the "invisible hand" correcting an overlooked externality?
Isn't it still the wrong thing, even if you built exactly what was asked for?
Media misinformations issues aside and I mean no disrespect but this kind of reliance on intuition, uninformed biases, and your own (perhaps siloed) social circles is exactly what's wrong with politics - the non-diligent electorate.
Are you referring to the learn guide demonstrating the policy JSON reference in the aws_s3_bucket.policy vs the provider documentation demonstrating the reference inside an aws_iam_policy.policy?
Ceo's BMW X5 was stolen last year.He watched the CCTV later on.The guy came to the car with a laptop and drove away after a minute or so. Police found the car dumped somewhere on a road,as the car ran out of fuel and apparently it had some security feature that prevented the thieves from refiling it.
I think when the data tells them that their strategy isn't effective at decreasing churn they'll pivot to a different one, and they'll do it faster than pretty much any other company in the space is able to. And if the data tells them that strategy isn't great, they'll pivot again.

IMO people underestimate the power of being a tech company that spends on media versus a media company that spends on tech.

I also think they're better suited to international content development and distribution, which has always been tricky for Hollywood. Part of that is technology, part of it is organizational.
> here's the proprietary part: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/....

That's ECS, not EKS. Two different products.

The EKS documentation is at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/fargate.htm...

> For contrast, you can manage a Kubernetes deployment using standardized yaml and kubectl commands, regardless of whether the application is running on localhost (minikube), on Azure or on GKE.

Likewise for EKS.
Tangential question about the work "burglarized":

Is there a term for a word that's the result of inefficient application of modifiers?

I would guess that "burglarized" is formed by this evolutionary chain:

A1) burgle

A2) buglar : someone who burgles

A3) burglarized : an object which has been acted upon by a burglar

But I would think a more canonical chain is:

B1) burgle

B2) burgled : an object of burgling

A3 and B2 seem to mean the same thing, so I would think B2 is preferable because both the word itself, and the chain of applied modifications, are shorter.
It’s like with 42. You see what you want to see. Who knows if Wuhan is a success or not. There is no benchmark. If Seattle, Mediolan etc have 1M cases but Wuhan stays around 100K then their containment will be hailed a monumental success. But if everyone else contains this below 10K and Wuhan stays like today, it will be a failure. But it’s still the answer to OPs question, as Wuhan is the baseline.
I don't know why everyone is eliding the gunfire here, to me that's the most important aspect of the story. If he was merely a shoplifter, there would be little harm in just issuing a warrant and looking for him later. But once he started shooting, preservation of property became a secondary concern.
I asked the wife, and sure enough the child did dive into too-shallow water. He sustained a neck injury in the dive, which led to his drowning.
> Boeing also withheld knowledge that a pilot would need to diagnose and respond to a “stabilizer runaway” condition caused by an erroneous MCAS activation in 10 seconds or less, or risk catastrophic consequences.1

Both the LA and EA crews did respond withing 10 seconds and restore normal trim using the electric trim switches. LA worked on the issue for 5 minutes, EA for a couple minutes.

The findings did not mention that Boeing issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive to all MAX crews after the LA crash that contained correct instructions on how to recover from it - restore normal trim with the electric trim switches, then cut off the stab trim with the console switch.

Both crews were able to restore normal trim repeatedly with the electric trim switches. But LA never cut off the trim, and EA cut off the trim when it was in a dive, not after restoring the normal trim.
Having worked with Boeing on other aerospace programs (not commercial though) and having been on the Gov side, the basic findings ring true. Boeing's culture really is as flawed as the report reads. The idea that Dennis Muilenburg, however, originated or did more than prior company management to foster this culture, is nonsense. They remain, even today, operating with this culture. The real problem that stands in the way of "fundamental structural reform" is that regardless of specific aerospace market, few alternatives to Boeing exist. And don't think the corporate cultures at other traditional US aerospace primes is consistently better.

The points about Government acquiescence to Boeing pressure in performing regulation also resonate. Beware the tendency to make this a single-axis "more vs. less" regulation issue. The solution isn't "more regulation". The central concern should about regulatory culture. Ultimately, responsibility lines must be drawn, standards established, adjudication performed, and unique or specific situations accommodated. Inevitably, the "less regulation" crowd corrodes the kind of regulatory culture that serves the best interests of the populace in these processes. Good regulation depends on having highly-competent, wise, empowered, and apolitical persons on the Government side. While providing regulatory organizations lots of funding doesn't ensure that they hire, empower, and maintain such a cadre, starving them of resources and implying the Government can never be competent, so it should reflect the role back to Industry, is pathological and will produce outcomes like the 737 Max.

We need to not just empower and provide adequate resources to regulators, but also demand and foster a culture of competence and good judgment^. Making that happen is a lot harder than arguing about "more or less", but necessary for proper outcomes.

^"good judgment" here explicitly excludes decision-making with regard to political implications
Ah yes. It got copyright claimed for "Love Me Do
The Beatles" even if it's in Public Domain in Europe and Canada.

Classic Youtube.
Maybe I'm just not reading this right, but the right column is all red. Doesn't red mean "smaller than last year"?

https://www.cdc.gov/budget/documents/fy2020/fy-2020-detail-t...
Honestly, how can we ever beat climate change if this is the norm.
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I think the analogy would be something like:

DNA is the code.
Epigenetics are config options which can be saved to a file and passed on.
The cell is the machine which interprets the DNA + config options.

So there are three pieces, and I don't think OP was talking about epigenetics.