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Agreed.

As far as I'm concerned, "agile" refers to the principles on this page[1], and ONLY the principles on this page. Not Scrum, not Lean, not Kanban, not Xtreme.

The problem is, it's hard to sell a set of principles. To understand people and interactions takes months of working with people: it's much easier to sell them a process or a tool and leave. Customer collaboration requires building a relationship: it's much easier to negotiate a contract for your client and leave. Responding to change requires you to stick around and see what changes happen: it's much easier to sell them a plan and leave. And to arrive at working software you have to get a lot of things right: it's much easier to sell a bunch of documentation for software that doesn't exist, and then leave. Money ruins everything: the reason agile had to explicitly deprioritize the things on the right side of the list in the first place is that all the incentives in a software company push you toward the wrong priorities. The things on the right side of the list are all quick, easy wins that look good on a quarterly report.

There are companies who I've worked with who do agile (the principles) well. There's nothing wrong with looking at Scrum/Kanban/whatever as inspiration, as long as you realize that they're just processes: individuals and interactions matter more. There's nothing wrong with using Pivotal/Jira/Trello/whatever, as long as you realize they're just tools: individuals and interactions matter more.

[1] https://agilemanifesto.org/
I wonder if the author of this article is aware that evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein uses and promotes using a bandana as being far more effective than nothing for those who are unable to get an N95 mask.
Frankl was a holocaust concentration camp survivor. I don't think that's exactly what he was getting at.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Frankl
> majority of the nation enjoys close to $1 a gal.

This is highly regional. We are currently at somewhere around $1.75/gallon.

Twenty miles away, though, has $0.99 / gallon.

Doesn't make sense to me.
Yeah I know your project, it's really great! I think it was big news here on hn.

Love how clean and simple you keep both your project and website.
That's actually the nicer side of the problem. Given current conditions pretty much everywhere, doctors and nurses that don't run away end up overworked to the point of exhaustion. Some of them die, rest are left with PTSD. Healthcare systems worldwide are bleeding medical staff, and unfortunately, training a new medical professional takes many years (more than a decade if you want them to be any good).
You should try their Inspirazione Napoli roasts if you haven’t. Wonderful.
If it's been studied a bit, and it helps people's health, then why isn't it prescribed?
Since you like coding and apparently you happen to enjoy building websites why not transition to web dev? The barrier to entry is relatively low. Give freecodecamp (https://freecodecamp.org) a shot and let me know if you ever need help!
No, because management.

A key success of agile was to provide a buzzword that let engineers say no when they were asked for a fixed estimate for a fixed-until-it-changes scope to fit in a Gantt chart.

Take agile away and they'll be straight back to demanding to know how long it's going to take to build something when no one's really sure what the something is.
> So it's actually affermatively wrong to willingly donate any money to welfare projects

Too late to edit, but I wanted to clairify that I'm talking about strategicly wrong (less effective than something else they could be doing) rather than morally wrong (of negative effectiveness).
This is really helpful, thank you. What you say puts some form and empirical evidence to my concerns about Hackintosh. I guess my gut had it right this time, which is unusual. So you can brick your fancy new homemade, warranty-less PC!

Anyway maybe one day I'll do it for fun on a crappy laptop I get off Craigslist. Sounds like this pays off most when it's a low-risk effort.
Agile's early evangelists wouldn't mind watching Agile die

It's easy to say that, but the obvious follow-on question is "and replace it with what, exactly?" Maybe the answer is in TFA, but I didn't read it yet. I hope they have something to propose, otherwise this discussion is pretty vacuous.
>and I think you said you’re going to test that too. It sounds interesting.

That's a pretty far cry from telling people to inject bleach, which is the narrative some outlets are trying to spin right now.
This is how I feel at work sometimes; like someone will say something kind of wrong but mostly right or their rationale for something is a little bit off. Is it really worth derailing a meeting over?
> I also tend to recommend his university course lectures over his public-directed material; I'm not sure why it seems more moderated, but I'd guess that professional accountability and contextual habits developed before fame have something to do with it.

I've noticed the same thing. I think he's gotten into bad habits commenting on subjects outside of his area of expertise, but I did enjoy his YouTube lectures for the reasons you mentioned
Oh, I see. Thanks for the missing context!
The small studies were flawed too. We are witnessing incompetence across the board.

The treatment in the "good" studies that, let's be real, most people are gunning for because they go against the president's tweet, they administered the drugs to critically ill patients. The original proposed mechanism of action is solid, came from a Dutch paper in reference to SARS, and ideally the treatment is administered sometime before the patient is already dying.

Just look at what's going on on this website! Anything remotely supportive of Trump is automatically voted down. This is a board of learned professionals who have clout and their lack of objectivity is representative of academia and industry at large right now. Let's not pretend you could openly support Trump at almost any major institution right now.

And this isn't about Trump. This is about getting over petty rage and not leaving treatments on the table to stick it to the man.
And even more importantly, external content should always be a link instead of a button. If it's a button, you can't see where you are going which is a poor user experience and security issue. Other than that, neat idea.
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There are some indications that COVID-19 can already triggers cytokine storms by itself and that's what's killing some patients that seem to get better then crash.
This is where moderation and strong guidelines are absolutely key. HN has a guideline specifically against shallow dismissals. Responding to a sincere question with "make games, don't make engines" would warrant moderator intervention on a place like this.
> Also I think the comparison to lean manufacturing has always been very shallow. I get the metaphor, I just don't think that human resources in engineering can be optimized like manufacturing processes.

Agile and Lean are empirical process controls, they are based on the same concepts. Ken Schwaber explains all this on the first chapter of his book "Agile Software Development with SCRUM":

Defined process control: same inputs always result in same output (manufacturing widgets on a production line).

Empirical process control: same inputs not always result in same output.

Schwaber conceived SCRUM (and was among the founders of Agile) after realizing software development required an empirical process control: give 2 dev teams same specs, 2 different apps will come out (they might do the same thing, but in different ways)
Not anymore I guess?

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/11/tech/amazon-price-stipulation...
I know it's a bit low-brow to advertise other products on launch posts, but headspace never worked for me, beyond a week or two.

What finally got me into the habit was Sam Harris' waking up course. The non religious angle, removing all the wishy washy stuff, and just varying the angles at which to tackle the problem.

I highly recommend it, specially for the HN crowd who are probably more like me.
The solution imo is to remove those parts of the industry that are driving the mistaken consensus.

Build software in small firms or consultancies who will treat it as a craft.

Maybe more a hope than a solution.
Many people have been trying to figure out if that's true or not.

Like all the times the President has announced a new policy on Twitter, but none of the people who would be responsible for implementing it knew about it or understood the specifics of what he actually wanted to happen.
Had a brief look at boost-python (not actually done anything with it), and that looks quite straight forward for exposing C++ to Python.
The Google Analytics 'trick' (to identify all the sites someone owns) has been around for quite a while. All you have to do is use a code search engine like publicwww to search for the snippet of code or the analytics ID.

It's not just the Google Analytics ID or GTM Id, you can also use the Adsense pub-id or just about anything else that you might think sites have in common. When you start to also look at backlinks and IP neighborhoods, things can get interesting, as well.
I couple of words of warning.

1. Lenovo has a bit of a shady history, with Superfish and Service Engine/Center being the main pre-installed malware or data leaking things that come to mind. Those were windows focused, but if they'll do it there, why wouldn't they do it on linux?

2. Often manufacturers who ship linux will add really stupid EULA/TOSs to the system. A few years ago I bought a Dell linux system only to be greeted by one that had all kinds of things like arbitration clauses I did not agree to, so I highly suggest not using pre-shipped linux versions!

3. Be prepared to distro-hop to find the right one, regardless of "linux compat" tags. Each batch of production even on the same laptop line will have small variations, and after many years of testing linux on many laptops, my general advice is you really have to distro-hop to find the right linux for the laptop you have. I know this isn't ideal, but it is the state of things. For example, I have a newer Ryzen laptop 2-in-1. Every single major distro including arch with newer kernels had major, showstopping issues... On a hunch I tried Devuan... and I have now been running a non-systemd system for half a year with no major issues at all. (and it helps me stay on top of sysvinit land since I still manage some non-systemd boxen) On other systems I've had to distrohop and the one that works ends up being something else. For example in 2015 I had a MBP on which Ubuntu seemed to just work better than fedora or debian or arch. In 2017 the MBP I had Manjaro ended up being what worked over the others. (the Manjaro hardware detector is the best in linux land imho)

4. Consider different desktop environments and window managers. One of my pet peeves is someone trying out Ubuntu with KDE/Gnome with something and when it doesn't work throwing up their hands. I think far too often what people blame linux for is really the fault of the DE/WMs. Consider going outside the norm, try XFCE, i3, or my favorite, Awesome. (there are many more)

5. Finally, while I understand we all want things to just work on the practical side, remember that computing is inherently an ideological choice, at least in my opinion it is. (I am excluding work computing because sometimes you don't get a choice on that /stares at work Macbook menacingly) I believe in the four freedoms as posited by RMS and try to match my actions to that, for example almost everything I use is gpl+, with only a few exceptions which I am always looking for alternatives to. I've sacrificed some things to get here (gaming w/ friends on some games that don't work in proton/wine, for example) but it is worth it to me.
My mood disorder has made my whole career a rocky journey. I'm 43 now, and doing well in my current role.

Managing your depression will always be part of the trip. Don't listen to the voice(s) that say you are a failure/loser/underperformer, just do your best. Say it to yourself whenever you need to: "I'm doing my best, and that's how it will always be."

Strangely, when I know that I'm doing my best despite everything, I feel calm.
I wonder if there will be a resurgence of the "large scooter" mini cars from the end of the talk -- but using the new battery and motor tech that the lime-type scooters use.
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> It is human nature that when talking to your boss you put things in the most optimistic way that fits your understanding, and your boss hears it even more optimistically. After a few steps up the chain this results in a complete disconnect from reality.

I learned this the hard way, maybe 3 months into my first real job. I was testing safety critical systems, but it was still being developed so the tests procedures were also being developed and executed. I was asked for my status, I said: I've tested about 60% of the system (this one was small enough that that sort of statement was actually valid), everything has passed so far. My boss heard: Everything passed. He released the build to the customer, who found a failure almost immediately (about the same time I did, but I had no idea it had been released). I was taken into a conference room and chewed out for making us look like amateurs (we were, when it came to software). I learned several things: 1) I needed a new job; 2) Never use the words "done", "everything", "all" until everything is actually all done, managers only hear those words and nothing else.

> Now, you say, reality eventually intrudes. Yes, but it is normal for upper management to not realize that deadlines will slip until about 2 weeks before they do. And will continue to think it is about 2 weeks off indefinitely.

A manager, fortunately not mine I was his peer though he got promoted for his "successes", would always say that his products never shipped late. "How can you say that? I know your last release was 3 months late." "We updated the schedule and we hit the new schedule." "But you didn't update it until the last month. It was 2 months late by then already." "But we hit the final scheduled release date." He just got lucky that the customers weren't loud enough for his boss to realize the spectacular, repeated failure until after he got promoted. The new manager got hit with it instead.
The problem with your metaphor is leaving the Fridge open to cool the house does not kill you (and the person wondering that is not holding a position of high prestige). People are actually worried about people injecting disinfectant.

“My concern is that people will die. People will think this is a good idea,” Craig Spencer, director of global health in emergency medicine at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, told The Washington Post. “This is not willy-nilly, off-the-cuff, maybe-this-will-work advice. This is dangerous.”

Lysol is worried about it:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/do-not-inject-disinfecta...

And they have cause to be, after the last time Trump spoke about chloroquine and people listening to him consumed aquarium chemicals and died as a result.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/23/health/arizona-coronavirus-ch...

The media has a responsibility to report information of medical experts and no responsibility to be charitable to the President to save him from embarrassment here.
Like many, I've been learning new recipes recently and that includes pizza -

I've been using this dough recipe (it has wholewheat in it) [0] and been really liking the flavor of the dough. I've also moved to slow rise, the dough flavor seems more complex (or it could be psychosomatic). I leave it in the fridge for 2 days or 3 days, depending on how quickly we go through one batch.

But for cooking, I'm following this method (which is similar to what suggested in the OP). Basically to cook the pizza with tomato sauce first and then add the cheese [1] (PSA - this guy has such fun personality, be prepared to watch hours of his pizza videos)

I've also bought canned peel san marzano tomatoes (from both Whole Foods and TJs) and just used an impression blender to puree it with some basil.

I watched an interview with the owner of Lucali in NY [2] and he said he cooks his tomato sauce. So I've been cooking my tomato puree simmering it for 30-40 min. It makes it much richer. Still not sure if I like it more or not.

[0] https://www.billyparisi.com/homemade-pizza-homemade-pizza-do...

[1] https://youtu.be/xuy8sP4Wb2k?t=142

[2] https://youtu.be/BSHh0MmJM1U?t=339
I think the other point is that no taxonomies are authoritative. Most of the arguing comes from either people trying to diminish the work of others with negative descriptions or from people assuming others are trying to be authoritative rather than merely descriptive of their own work.

For everyone that doesn't think Minecraft is a game there are a bunch of people making, playing and talking about Sandbox Games.
> Ok, I studied algorithms, got rejected at the paper round. Now what?

If you actually studied then play the odds? I.e apply to the dozens of other large tech companies that pay handsomely. Unless there's only Google in the Netherlands (assuming that's where you are based on the Dutch reference) or you already applied to dozens and got rejected at the paper round by all of them
> In particular, when I'm really pressed for time, then few recreational pursuits feel fun because the lost time itself is too high of a consequence.

Thanks for articulating this idea that I so often experience and wasn't aware of.
Is the consumption pattern different? Less disposable income? No prevalence of credit cards? Is this really a noticeable effect/difference?
This is kind of nit picky, but isn’t Jeremy Bentham typically credited as the founder of Utilitarianism? Not criticizing, genuinely curious as James Mills was barely mentioned when I took philosophy coursework.
Given that performance is so close to the same, my only question now is whether there's a measurable difference in power usage between shift and multiply.
If you meet an asshole in the morning, you met an asshole. If you meet assholes all day long, you're the asshole. I can think of a few current or former coworkers who talk about how everybody is an idiot and they are the biggest idiots I know.

Insisting people use a tool that is capable of doing dangerous things correctly, every time, is white-knuckling. Yelling at them about screwing it up is running your organization by shame. When you do that, eventually only the people with very high pain tolerance ever get promoted, or even heard. Do you really want to work on a team run by masochists/sadists?

Similar to make the change easy, make the easy change, if you want to have a dialog with people about doing better, the easiest way to do that is to give them a reliable tool (literal or figurative), and then start insisting they use it when it becomes obvious they haven't. The people who insist on doing things the hardest way possible can still do it as long as nobody else feels the consequences. But typically what they're going to learn is that where self-reflection is concerned, they're bad at math and they have way more frequent problems and far more collateral damage than they like to tell themselves.
I've had very bad experiences with Dell's in the past so I'm staying away from them. My previous laptop was a Dell and it caused me more problems than all other laptops I've owned combined. And they are a tad... Overpriced imo. I mean an xps is around 25-30% more expensive than an equivalent zenbook for instance as a direct competitor. Currently I'm on a zenbook and it's been incredibly reliable. I intend to switch laptop soon and I'm between one of the newer zenbooks(yes, I'm aware of the bullcrap that is the screenpad, though apparently now it even works on linux out of the box) or an hp envy x360 which also apparently works out of the box.

I'm aware of System76 but I want to avoid buying a product that isn't that mainstream outside the US market. I can't recall even seeing one out in the wild anywhere. If something goes wrong with it, I'd need to ship it half way across the world to get it fixed. Not a very solid plan on my end.

I generally need a smaller form-factor laptop, otherwise I'd even consider something like cadnetwork because they too claim to have full linux support and even though they are a small manufacturer, in normal conditions(covid-19 aside), Cologne is a 3 hour, 40-50 euro flight away from me.
The strongest argument against remote work (generally speaking, not specific to the current coronavirus) is that a company is not disciplined enough to communicate well, especially across teams. This may be the case if a significant number of business decisions are done in side conversations. You probably need some tooling such as a chat app, video conferencing software etc and a process where important business decisions are written down and communicated.

There's also a case where some jobs need to be done in-person. A good example is a restocker for a grocery store. You can't move boxes remotely. Similarly a surgeon can't do a surgery remotely.
I plug in to a big monitor and full size keyboard for getting work done, but...

Regarding the monitor, I find the 1920×1080 resolution fine at 14 inches. Super high resolution monitors this small ended up being annoying to me.

Regarding the keyboard, I prefer the Carbon X1, which has deeper keys and more key travel. The Lemur has keys similar to the macbook keyboard, very low profile and very short travel.
>While he identified the mechanism of inoculation, my understanding is he theorized that it was due to the attenuated pathogen outcompeting the virulent one for nutrients rather than due to stimulation of the immune system.

How could it outcompete the actual virus if the actual virus isn't there yet at the time of vaccination?
This has been following me around recently, I can't seem to get away from it.

SAFe is everything that has ever been wrong with the software industry rolled into one terrible thing that is anything but agile.

I can't fully express here quite what I think of it!
I work from home and am a big advocate of doing so.

One thing I find difficult in remote teams is the ability to ask a coworker a question quickly. There can be a fair amount of lag time over messenger and this occasionally blocks the completion of work.
There was an article about "luck" a few years ago and how researchers really found "luck" was somewhat in our control. Graduating in a recession isn't, but being "blindsided" is - luck had a strong component of being attentive and aware to the world around them. This derived from a calm wellbeing. I used to know someone who always lamented her "bad luck." Stuff like car accidents, or getting physically injured. She was also the most profoundly depressed and anxious person I had ever met, like within minutes you could tell she was disturbed. You could tell her bad "luck" was her mode of being constant distracted, but there wasn't really any advice you could give other than "work on your mental state," which she already knew.

Her original bad luck over which she had no control was an unhappy upbringing, which is truly unfortunate, but that's not the last word on life.
SARS-Cov-2 RNA Found on Particulate Matter of Bergamo in Northern Italy
It's impossible to have a company potluck.
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Message aside, that is a terribly organized diagram. It looks like someone dumped all the things they wanted in it on the screen, moved them around just enough that they weren't overlapping, then simply... stopped, having done no actual organization.