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Scrum, Kanban, scrumban, tickets with predefined checkins... all can work.

"Formal scrum" only exists to sell books, certs, classes; but more importantly to give justification or a "fix" to failed project managers and leaders.

A process will not fix a team that has bad teamwork, is not productive, and/or has bad communication/leadership/management.
no wonder looking at the funding, is it?
How about Hong Kong becomes autonomous Hong Kong and they decide what they want?
Germany is cash-based because of consumer behavior, not because costs are somehow lower. With corona, e-Commerce and services like SumUp more widespread Germany will inevitably catch up with other countries.
It seems to me the ECC ram, maxed out is really the driving factor of the cost.
Thank you for responding. I'm getting tons of down votes, and you are the first to say something.
In Sweden, you can pay in most online stores (that I visit) with Klarna. They use direct back transfers.
See this prior discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23297500 and this commit https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/196c87c9cecfacf978f37de4ec...
It's 2020 and humans are scared of humans.
Citizens of the commonwealth aren't foreigners in the UK (and can vote if resident -- a Canadian citizen resident in the UK can vote in UK elections), and of course, Hong Kong is ex-commonwealth so I think it's more nuanced than you're giving it credit for. The Crown was sovereign over Hong Kong for more than 150 years.
Does anyone know if there have been any serious human challenge proposals considered? Why they aren't being considered is one of the biggest puzzles for me.
I use a free dropbox for things I think are worth keeping too, but that doesn't include random code and explorations. Those usually go into a local folder and get upgraded to a git repo if appropriate.

Most of the stuff I produce is random garbage that isn't worth keeping. There's a good chance that this guy didn't think he had anything particularly interesting or worth keeping. Once you feel you understand how the app works, you don't really need the work you put into figuring it out anymore.
It's a matter of management. Brilliant people can be very useful. Even team players may not work with all other team players. Gotta find the right fit.
They used a very cool way to analyze the Bones. Instead of chopping off samples the bones were put in a plasic Box and a tiny static upbild was enough to kick some molecules out of them which they analyzed and identified the species.
If you say reified generics I'm going to scream. Other than that one what else does the CLR bring to the table?
Maybe have a look at bunq. They check most (all?) of your boxes.
> prevent violent crime?

well, i don't think that's ever the mandate of the police - they are there to punish after the fact, not prevent before the event.
When I last looked into it, it seemed they were much more sure. Perhaps Wikipedia editors wanted refs that were more tempered.

Any explanation of myopia must explain why it is far more prevalent now. Genetics does not explain that.
> Nothing you said is useful(in the USA at least): we aren't going to do "contact tracing", we aren't going to "keep people at home" unless they want to stay at home. We can't "diagnose" anyone b/c the testing is too slow.

New York and the states surrounding it prove you wrong. New York, in particular, has almost 100% contact tracing due to 10,000 contact tracers. They also have a positive test rate of about 1% which indicates that they are testing all the people that need it and then some. New York has an R0 < 1.0.

This could be contained, even in the US. Even at this late date.

But hey, what's the point in arguing with someone who is impervious to facts that disagree with their predetermined political narrative?

No need to answer. That's a rhetorical question.
Ya problem is it’s all NIST “approved” and US companies love that because it means the government is happy to use their products.
I don't mind electric desks but I prefer crank operated ones, like the Adler Desk which totally slays, because there is no motor to burn out and need replacement: https://work.ohiodesign.com/adler-desk.html
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The worst part is, that the fee for a card payment is shared between Visa/MasterCard and your bank.

Bank transfers within a country are often free of charge, but are quite uncomfortable to make (typing numbers) and usually are not sent immediately (so that you can not pay this way in a grocery store).

Banks have no interest in making bank transfers easier or faster, or opening up to cheaper competitors of Visa/MasterCard. Meanwhile, people happily keep their money in a bank, seeing that all bank services are free and that it "can not get any better".

I think, if anyone is to replace Visa/MasterCard, they should also make their own bank (a place where people keep money in a long-term).
I assume on-ramp/freemium. Free certs help them sell paid certs.
Do proper use of ZFS also require ECC memory?
We deciphered all of the complicated 5G speak, so you don't have to
> One of the clearer examples of the headline and tone trying to sell the writer's preferred narrative even when the actual facts presented undermine that narrative.

So... fake news?
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I can also speak to some of the negativity as you've asked for folks to chime in. The foreign banner waving you're seeing is a response to the perceived and actual loss of freedoms and autonomy guaranteed under Once Country, Two Systems for a minimum of the next 20 years. Beijing is failing to honor the commitments it made to the Hong Kong people, to the UK and to the international community in 1997. The Hong Kong people are as a result asking for assistance from their former colonial overlords and contractually-bound current protectors (the UK) and the "bastion of freedom" (the US).

I sincerely doubt that had Beijing given Hong Kong the autonomy it committed to, you'd be seeing this kind of action on their part.

It didn't need to be this way, but the CPC cannot tolerate anything that might be perceived as an attack on "national unity" (and I use quotes only because "national" as defined by the CPC extends into the sovereign land of a number of countries including (at least) Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and India).
If you like the SF / West coast progressive vibes, Boulder will be better. Denver is bigger with more diversity and things to do. It's super easy to meet people because many are new and looking for friends. Definitely much cheaper than Boulder. Housing / rent should be going down, lots of new buildings going up.

I'm leaving CO because the air quality is so bad out here, especially in Denver. Sixth worst last time I looked.

Denver has a vibrant tech scene like Boulder and you will find they only ask for normal work hours. Work life balance is a big part of the Denver culture. People love the outdoors activities, sporting events, and drinking. This is a heavy drinking / drugging town (another reason to leave)

If Denver sounds like your preference, I can tell you more about the neighborhoods and put you in touch with an amazing apartment search company. Literally the best experience I had looking for a new flat, they did everything, scheduling viewings, Uber you around, buy lunch.
After having consumed many ebooks, there is one unfortunate side-effect.

My memory/feel for a book seems to be partly tied to what I hold/the cover/the font. I love ebooks, but once I've finished one, I just don't have the same fondness/recollection of it afterwards anymore. This might be a very individual thing though.
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Funny thing, but especially given the Covid situation and worries about crops, now they want those low skilled Poles, Romanians and Bulgarians back, fighting over them with Germany, Spain, Italy, etc.
Yes, clearly you should take that $1000 to buy the "I Am Rich" phone app instead.
For the first point, the app can explicitly tell the user what their login is, or otherwise assign some unique identifier the user can use when contacting support. The app can also offer to contact support for them, which can pre-fill the user identifier.

For the second, that’s entirely the user’s choice. Your app can also allow them to associate a new email address for this purpose (which strikes me as exactly what you actually want since the real unstated motivation here is getting the user’s email).

For the third, don’t make me type in someone’s email. The exact same issue as described happens if they have multiple email addresses too. Just let me use my OS’s sharing mechanism to send a special link that they can open to establish the sharing connection. An invite to share, as it were. Not only does that solve the problem, it’s significantly more user-friendly.
I get what both you and GP are saying, but isn't there some middle ground?

I was thinking of something along the same lines and was fearing pretty much the points you have raised.

However, I'm currently living in Paris, France. So in this particular situation, instead of moving to some small town in the middle of nowhere, I could move to some town in the suburbs. That would be far enough for it to be much quieter and calmer than Paris, also much cheaper, especially since I ride a motorcycle so I wouldn't have to be close to public transportation. But it would still be close enough to Paris for it to be practical to attend conferences / cultural events / whatever without spending a day on the road.

Don't arrangements like this exist in the US? Say some town 100 km or so from NY / SF that would make a terribly daily commute but would be bearable once in a while when you need to meet people / go to events?
That article is incorrect; their guess of equivalent GPUs was about $5600 too high.

The FirePro D700 used in the Mac Pro was essentially a rebadged consumer card. (It's surprising, but none of the GPUs in the Mac Pro officially supported ECC.) Instead of two FirePro W9000 cards ($6800), they should have specified two HD7970 6GB cards ($1200).
I find it interesting to consider the different affordances of society that have lead to dollar stores and convenience stores being a lower-class destination in America, while convenience stores in Japan are frequented by people from all social classes and seem to serve a real niche.

The main difference I can think of is how cars and public transit are viewed and differ. In America, most people, excluding the poor and those in dense cities, have cars. The middle and upper class have ended up in "suburbia" in many parts of the country, where they've sprawled enough that any activity mandates taking the car. Those in this class all have lawns, and thus houses must spread enough that densely packed city blocks are really only for the lower class.

This is in stark contrast to Japan. Trains are taken by people of all economic class, and neighborhoods are generally a little more dense. Cars are not the everyday staple of life.

I think that difference leads to the need for a nearby corner-store that serves the small needs of life. The 6-pack of beer, the toothpaste and other small toiletries, the bread for breakfast.

There's clearly this niche of more frequent smaller "neighborhood" stores in Japan. Why does it end up translating so poorly here, even in larger cities where we have public transit (though significantly worse) and we have relatively high density, relatively walkable, cities?
| Isn't it the police's responsibility to prevent violent crime?

There have been several Supreme Court cases that have answered that question with a hard “No”
I run multi terabyte, billions of rows HA postgres in kubernetes using a helm chart and Patroni (baked into the chart), which uses the native k8s API for automatic failover and pgbackrest for seamlessly provisioning new replicas. It's a single helm chart and is by far the easiest DBA I've ever done in many years.
There is also a huge difference in b2b payments. Cards account a very small percentage of B2B payments in Europe. I don't know how it is in the US, but I've understood that a much higher share of B2B payments go the card-track?
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This is like saying the health authorities have no interest in what you eat, they just treat you after you show up with a heart attack.
We have instant transfers between banks here in the Netherlands. It is coming for the whole EER.

Some payment terminals now can also generate a QR code that you can use to pay, in addition to the normal debit/credit card payments.
Doesn't that require you to jump back and forth between browser and editor? also, does Jupyter support running multiple kernels in the same session? Org-babel allows you to mix and match languages freely.

There's also really good support in Emacs for interacting with Jupyter, too https://github.com/dzop/emacs-jupyter
Then why do most of my non-tech relatives have an @icloud.com address that they never needed and never read?

Blame the user all you want, but their "choice" was guided by Apple designed UI and Apple provided defaults. Whatever it is, it's producing optimal outcomes for Apple and no one else.
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ex 2:5077/7 here.

Almost any tech guy in early 90s was a Fidonet or Usenet user. That was the only mean of communication and source of technical information available worldwide, an informational Klondike for programmers, electronics engineers, for all kind of hobbyists. Personally, I can say that Fidonet had a significant impact on my career and on whole my life. I was a node running multiline BBS somewhere in the middle of Siberia in 90th. It was a technical challenge, it tought me to deal with and solve many technical and organisational issues. I learnt and studied TCP/IP by reading Fidonet echos (aka Usenet groups) and tought myself to deploy IP networks (including DNS) not having IP access because there was not any in my place at that time. I learnt to use OS/2, then FreeBSD. And there was no Google to ask. Participating in echos gave me a good warm feeling of the big world at my fingertips.
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Off-topic but I went to share the URL to this article in iOS Safari, and was surprised that the URL I shared was on a completely different origin (propublica.org). Now, that link appears to be the same story on ProPublica’s site, but that was pretty jarring; had no idea that browsers respect changing share links to entirely different domains.
The big question: Does copyright law apply to cartoon version of copyrighted images? Transformative work can circumvent copyright law, but are you allowed to feed copyrighted images into an AI algorithm to create cartooned versions? Who owns the copyright at that point?
> As they point out at the very bottom, all their arguments apply to all third-party sign-ons, so they're removing Facebook as well.

Nope, some of them also apply to Facebook, and Facebook has the additional destruction of privacy concern. They have to remove Facebook or support Apple too because of the policy and have chose neither instead of both.

Some of their concerns specifically don’t apply to Facebook/Google/anything directly tied to your real email that you’d otherwise choose to sign up with. You add a bit of complexity to your database to record different login types, but you can easily reconcile them to an existing user if the emails match, and provide the features they want like searching for a user by email.
Phone Is Vulnerable Because of 2G, but It Doesn't Have to Be
Ask HN: What is the best tech stack for privacy?
I want to live a more privacy-aware online life. In Email, browsing, sharing, and more. What tools do you use for that?
There has been a lot of bash on TikTok recently. TikTok is by no means good, but I'm yet to see it proofed much worse than counterparts from Western companies.

A lot of videos and articles make me feels more like pure anti-China sentiments, just like many similar campaigns did to Huawei last year.

It's fine call out the risk in terms of personal privacy, or national security.

It's also fine to have and express anti-China sentiments, since everyone has his/her own opinions.

But it annoys me there are a lot of people charging with only assumptions, or play double standards just to make every Chinese business or Chinese person looks evil. It's just hypocritical.
Actually, YAML is probably worse than JSON, but JSON is really crappy compared to EDN. It's unfortunate that JSON has become the lingua franca for services, because it's really a stunted, primitive thing.
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You are being downvoted just because the "zh" in your username. What you say it is actually true and I suppose it is the feeling of a majority of HongKongners, if those wishes are legal or feasible it is another discussion.
> We have huge sprawling cities and towns that have been hollowed out by population flight. In my parent's town, half of the buildings are derelict. Spreading thin what would otherwise be a vibrant business district.

This is mostly a policy failure due to the failures to create regional government in most metro areas that is updated to match the actual metro area. Instead, we now have individual municipalities and suburbs duking it out for the same pie. Suburb A could afford to keep tax rates low because it had brand new infrastructure that didn't need much maintenance compared to the city, until it also needed to replace its infrastructure at the end of its lifecycle, at which point Suburb B now has the spanking new infrastructure with low maintenance costs and low tax rates, until it doesn't and Suburb C does, rinse and repeat.
surprised people are so willing to accept these claims without proof, especially here, where I imagine the number of people who could actually do the work this person claimed to is disproportionately high
While that is a real problem, and I completely flunked my whiteboard coding test for my current job (they liked me anyway, appparently!) I have observed "senior software developers" who fail at FizzBuzz even when they can write it in their home, on their own time, in their own editor, using their preferred language.

These are people who likely happened to be "lucky" and rose through to management/team lead positions before they had time to truly learn the details of programming, and then they spent years dealing at higher levels of abstraction and their foundational knowledge atrophied.

The number of expert beginners[1] in our field might surprise you.

[1]: https://daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-th...
In the one place I saw Scrum work really well it wasn't because of scrum we succeeded it was the amazingly talent team that groked their goals and understand how to build software well. The complete lack of an enforcer manager was a huge win, being connected directly into your customers and letting them drive what they needed and balancing it with the engineering, that worked really well. They executed well despite scrum and ultimately used Kanban with on need for the biweekly meetings since they were releasing many times a week.

Scrum was a small part of a package of process, the important bit that made that possible was the engineering processes not the task management ones. The business needed to work out what matter most to it and the developers certainly helped more as their expertise in the subject matter grew but what made it all slick was the automation and engineering. Engineering is where the time goes on a software project and doing that well is what matters. As an industry we focus so much on something that is a few hours of effort a week on planning and tracking and yet the big time goes into the actual work. If you spend a lot of time doing planning and tracking and not producing software you are doing it wrong regardless of whatever process you say you are using. Scrum is not remotely sufficient, it ignores all the important bits.
I just don't understand this POV at all, I mean it's like two seconds of work with systems like crash plan and other automation tools. You keep everything in one master folder called /myprojects, then point the automated back up system at the directory and done. I have everything in there from blender projects, to code, to sheet music transcriptions.
This is an overly simplistic view. If law enforcement isn't a deterrent, even in principle, why do it?
Doesn't Lua have tail call recursion built in to the language? Stack overflows shouldn't be an issue on properly written recursive functions.
With the examples I gave, the application is ready to execute at any given moment, rust-analyzer is a crutch not a solution.
Denver also has a really great scene with more companies / jobs just b/c population differences. Tech != Startup
Agreed.

What happens when the genius leaves? Can other people extend or maintain their work? Is there a lasting benefit to the organization? Does their work enhance the capabilities of other contributors?

From my experience in working with "very productive individuals that don’t work as a team", the answer to these questions is "no".

The reality is that a large chunk of generating economic value stems from being able to get along with other people.

The richest blacksmith in the Old West wasn't the one that was the most brilliant artisan. They were the one that knew the value of a customer, how to cultivate a long-term relationship with one, and how to get more.
Great article, but it does not mention management attitude. If upper management does not have the right attitude towards Scrum, Scrum will fail. If upper management does not guard the role of the Scrum masters, select capable Scrum master and allow them to function correctly, Scrum will crumble into another tool for micro-management which frustrates developers and destroys productivity. I also have seen that often it are the more ambitions (and less technically talented) developers that opt for role of Scrum master as a stepping stone to a management role. These type of Scrum masters will starting act like top-down managers, who no longer fulfill the role of a Scrum master, namely provide a safe environment for the team to function optimally.
uucp, uucico, tin and you are set. ;)
I had literally never even heard of Quibi before I saw this headline
Salaries are also good, and I saw a report which put Denver at #2 behind Austin for how far paychecks go.

Austin is another great consideration. They don't have state income tax either.
Thanks for the overview, I need to start collecting your comments. :)
Ah yeah, I checked just now and the number of allowed frames is quite large. I observed a smaller limit of around 200 with the default config of an earlier release candidate of 5.4.0 and just expected the final version to be similar.
This can flow both ways. I've had great engineers on my team that people were scared to approach because most of those conversations resulted in the questioner discovering they were wrong about something or missing some knowledge. Ideally people who are afraid of that are coached up to be happy to learn instead.

That only works if the great engineer is also excited to learn and help. If they call people stupid or fail to listen to all the details because they prejudge the situation, then they're more of the "brilliant jerk" archetype -- but they often aren't as brilliant as they think they are.
That's what most people said 10 years ago about the mobile payments (mobile bank to bank transfers, not related apple or Google pay) in the Nordics, but no one is doubting it anymore.