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"10 minutes"

Are you the only one attending or something?

Standups are initially scheduled for the start of the development day. But then people come in a little late, get that first minute call, have to attend to something that hiccupped, so soon enough the standup happens 30 minutes into the day, eventually an hour into the day.

So if you did get there on time, now you just spin your wheel waiting, because first you've got that obnoxious standup that's going to disrupt everything.

Now you get there and spend ten minutes waiting for everyone to assemble, and for the S.C.R.U.M.Master to pull Jira up on the overhead. Finally you get going and everyone has an essay about their herculean effort putting a button on a form, which absolutely no one is listening to. You have the manager (because really they're a garbage way of managing) interjecting and asking questions. You have someone say something dumb they're doing and everyone gets to stand there while two people who could have taken it offline have a conversation.

40 minutes later you go back to your desk.

Invariably the standup aficionados (almost universally shitty managers) will say "you're doing it wrong!", but what I just described is the standup reality virtually everywhere.

EDIT: Exactly as expected, I made the mistake of actually replying to people who questioned my comment, which means when some angry person comes along they get to downvote all of them. That aspect of HN is weak sauce.
That gets you to 2025, which is "soon" under some definitions.
Perhaps...I agree companies will come out ahead - they always do :-P But I'm hopeful there's room for employees to come ut ahead as well.
Same here. But the Katsura's comment suggests that's because we never tried. I use a messenger too but I wouldn't mind if this felt more seamless, required less clicks/taps but didn't come with extra cons like more unnecessary dependency on Google.
I've never been in law enforcement, but I think as in any other resource-constrained endeavour, effort and resources have to be prioritized after triaging tasks. I'm guessing in this case, it would be by the severity of the alleged crime). Also, it has become apparent to everyone - not all "protests" are equal, hence not all responses will be similar.
The highest rate of inflation the US ever hit was in the 1980 (https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/historical-i...) at 13%.

The world did not end, and the rate was not sustained. This time period corresponds to high interest rates because it has to, but the value of loans was depreciating rapidly.

Since then the Federal reserve has had a target inflation rate of 2% over time and if you look at the data they've hit it.

So yes, the US has substantial protections against uncontrolled changes in the inflation rate - that's the Federal Reserves mission statement.
It ver much looks like the Google people there have zero clue about what the actual issue is, as well as how to communicate about it.

The only reason given was literally ‘we suddenly want to enforce our policies’, which is really no answer at all...
I'd say the people who have invested time, forethought, and organization into how to evade law enforcement are scarier.
It’s quite simple: Anyone can borrow as much as someone is willing to lend.

That said, the government doesn’t borrow money. They create it.
Thank you for the book recommendation. As a startup exploring SaaS ideas using open source almost 90% of the time, I keep thinking about the licensing issues (most projects I use are MIT, GPL, AGPL licensed) and any potential restrictions about what I can or cannot do.

Selling those as-is projects as my own isn't the model. But, bringing together, customizing, adding functionalities and making them easy and useful to users is.

The speak to a lawyer route doesn't work and isn't practical for me. Hope this book gives me some direction to start off with.
> You know the saying, right? Economists have successfully predicted 9 of the last 6 recessions.

You know that the person who said/wrote that was Paul Samuelson, one of the most important economists in the 20th Century, right?

> To prove that Wall Street is an early omen of movements still to come in GNP, commentators quote economic studies alleging that market downturns predicted four out of the last five recessions. That is an understatement. Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions! And its mistakes were beauties.[20]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Samuelson#Aphorisms_and_q...

He literally wrote the (text)book on economics:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_(textbook)
He was quoted not long ago for his segment with Rhonda Patrick about diet.
Scala 3 introduces a number of simplifications. For example, typeclasses and other constructs are much easier with Scala 3. This said, Scala always included the idea of having a powerful type system. From this perspective, it can never be as simple as a language that doesn't have a comparatively powerful type system (or no static type system at all).
Governments should moderately prefer self-hosted solutions to cloud services, especially when a president just got banned from all social media platforms.
This feels like a surprisingly obvious idea

Printmakers sometimes float a layer of water on top of partially used ink to stop it polymerizing. I suspect that floating a layer of oil on top of wine might have some undesirable side effects
I'm at year 25, and I agree with this list. And I wish more people who think I'm too 'old' agree as well.
I enjoyed reading the text on this very nicely presented page.
A pretty standard stack I've done recently is Netlify, Gatsby (I'd lean next at this point) with Prismic, Hubspot and GTM. It's barely more investment to setup than WordPress but lets you build something visually sophisticated really easily and you get user friendly CMS, CRM and all the analytics and user engagement stuff. And running headless means there's almost zero attack surface.
Wow, that one was rare. I don't think I ever saw but one Radius clone when I was doing on-site service.
After 35 years, my opinions are mostly the same.
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They _can_ create it. But they mostly borrow (via bonds like treasury bonds), rather than create. Only those countries' gov't who can't borrow at a low enough rate would create - such as venezuela.
My first programming memory is using a Model 100 in the back seat of a car on a long road trip. A great machine.
Wouldn't it be "good" for people's mortgages, especially if they've got a long term fixed rate?
I think this makes for an EXCELLENT interview question.

Engineers with strong opinions are better than engineers who just do whatever others want and haven't thought deeply about anything.

But even better is an engineer whose opinion changes as more information becomes available.

You want to hire the person that is capable of both making a thorough case for one approach, and is mature enough to admit that that approach is suboptimal and then go implement the optimal one.
Writing services in a separable manner is, in a sense, writing scalable software.
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We opened an Ulupalakua Red while on Maui. It was robust and sharp - not very enjoyable. The second night and thereafter it was absolutely amazing.
A white balance sampler was already the next thing on my list, if that's what you mean by "white point selector".

For sliders, maybe I can have the scroll wheel adjust the sliders while you hold ctrl... I'll think about it. I'm probably not going to have keyboard focus for the controls, though.

Output settings... I'll probably replace the Save TIFF button with a Save As button that lets you select what and where to save. Not sure when I'll get to that, I have some other things I want to prioritize.
> If a government can demonstrate that it borrows money to invest in the economy and increase future taxes -- e.g., by building infrastructure, educating the population, researching top-notch tech -- by all means, borrow more!

That's remarkably shortsighted. You're missing whole swaths of knock-on effects of borrowing. What if I told you that the government only borrows money on the backs of the working class, who pay for it in increased prices that the economist class doesn't measure because they have lost touch (compare the increase in price of a quarter pounder vs cpi)... Then would it be worth it unlimitedly borrow?
Does it have to be one or the other? This is an equally ignorant response. 21k is a lot, and to hand-wave any questioning of this as "ignorant" and "arrogant" is... those things. Lots of companies have bloat, and this is especially apparent if you've also worked somewhere that's competently managed. Recently someone was telling me about a shoe auction company employing hundreds of engineers (sorry, I forget the exact figure, want to say 300-600). I don't care how much traffic you're doing or how many shoes there are, that is a ridiculously unnecessary number.
Potentially, but when I looked at Firefox sync to see if I could implement a custom version, the spec was kind of crazy complex.
Which was exactly what my spouse did to me by having access to the password and then changing it with the utility company and not updating it in the password manager.

I think as another commenter said we’re complaining about the wrong piece of the flow. Important accounts like utilities should have a mechanism where as many users as necessary are tied to an address. In many households it will be one user but in some it might need to be 2, or in the case of roommates 2+.

We can have multiple users tied to our mobile phone service provider so why not the gas or electric?
I believe though that you should just have some system in place to automatically check/fix these issues(for the most part). I've been in far too many environments though where PR reviews are just surface-level formatting nits and don't address functionality or architecture at all..
If you build for millions of users the way most devs do, your business will flounder before you finish.

Facebook, Twitter, and Google all started simple and scaled only when it became necessary. If you want to do what they're doing, start by doing what they did. Don't skip to the microservices.
There was widespread fraud (of the criminal variety) in the run-up to 2008. A number of journalists, particularly Matt Taibbi, have written extensively about this.
From this and another post, I got the impression that some of the employees might not be salaried. If that’s the case (getting paid hourly and giving the impression of working while actually doing something else), I would consider that stealing from the company.
I thought the 750ml bottle was a single serving size?

For a joke, my family got me a 750ml glass a couple of Christmases ago. I have yet to use it.
Why does it have to scale? Doesn’t a CDN solve most scaling issues for a content site.
Horizontal scaling for static content is just as trivial if not more trivial in WordPress with the plugins.

[Edit] downvotes are fine but let's open up discussion.

Further edit, WP has great static content manager plugins. It's not direct to S3 but a single server can handle a lot of traffic in that mode.

The part that becomes significantly easier is updating that content or adding new ones. You don't need devops to rebuild and redeploy.
Isn’t doping in cycling mostly blood doping, ie. replacing «old» blood with blood collected prior to a competition? I doubt that has any real effect on your body beyond the immediate effect of the new blood binding oxygen better than the old blood.
Drupal uses twig for templating now.
And all the software to support and enable users to make use of it... as well as a ton of cutting edge research in the fields of IC design and manufacturing, computer graphics and artificial intelligence.
The title doesn't mention activity, but the actual study does. That's my point here.

> I would not say it gives the impression that “being active is pointless”.

If the only way to be healthy is to be skinny, what is the point of being active at all?

Being healthy is a sliding scale, not an on/ off toggle. Being active and overweight is significantly better than being sedentary and overweight. Being skinny is an even bigger jump.
Dahl & Nygard would not agree with you:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089054011...

http://kristennygaard.org/FORSKNINGSDOK_MAPPE/F_OO_start.htm...

Kay came up with the term "object oriented programming", but he has made it very clear that what he had in mind has little relationship to what most people mean by that term today.

If you want to give Kay veto power over the correct application of the term, be my guest but please be consistent across all other cases where a word or phrase changes its meaning over time.

Contemporary OOP pays only lip service to Kay's ideas (something he would be the first to say), and is only tangentially influenced by Smalltalk at this point (Objective C probably being one of the few widely used counterpoints to that).
I use a gravity filter with combined ceramic-carbon candles.

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Mine is that "this should never waste a user's time unless absolutely necessary." And it is absolutely shocking how many developers do not care if they make a user wait a minute for something that should take <1 second if they spent 10 minutes in the code improving it.

To me, it is a moral failing if my laziness costs user's time. Remember how many users you have and multiply delays by the number of users delayed by your code.
> To add on to that, I think the key behind DRY is to not repeat a concept within your codebase, and not failing into the trap of avoiding similar but slightly different code blocks that aren't exactly logically equivalent by carving up your code into nonsense.

Dry is about not repeating behavior. It's not about not repeating text.
Ban dihydrogen dioxide. That stuff will be around forever
Vivaldi syncs with their own servers, and it syncs a lot more data - such as notes - like in the Opera 12.x days.
> It's "real coding" to me, though I haven't done any in fifteen years.

For what it's worth, as someone who's done both (Linux kernel maintainer and web developer), this sentiment reads as a kind of chauvinism to me -- the implication that higher-level work isn't real coding.

If I had to choose which was more difficult, I'll probably go with web development: the kernel simply had much less that you had to know to be effective, compared to the massive stack of protocols and frameworks that even a simple web app runs on top of and demands competency with.
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BotaBox. Great wine. Keeps forever.
Where did you get the 100 number from? I think Nintendo is an interesting company for comparison here but I do find it hard to believe they only had 100 employees as recently as 2011.
A nearly 13 month grace period beyond EOL seems quite generous to me.
I’ve been saying this for a while.. we are missing local communities in today’s society.

People used to go to church and do religious events and things sometimes during the week - this is all gone now, and I wish we had an alternative that didn’t rely on religion, just based on the local community somehow.

Community centers 2.0 or whatever, but a place where people have a reason to go. I can only think of classes which doesn’t quite work I think (hard to really get everyone there at the same time) but maybe it’s the key I have no idea!
> This simple and elegant solution would not have been possible with C++

Actually, it would, but not via any feature of the language. You can use features of the linker to accomplish this (particularly LD_PRELOAD). It's not the same thing, really, but it felt worth mentioning for the record.
It's especially useful with the newbies, as they are most likely to attempt to reinvent the wheel, due to lack of knowledge/experience.

Also, in the age of WFH stand-ups are a replacement for lunch conversations, the most rudimentary block of team building. I think that if you're not doing stand-ups or something like that since March you're probably losing team coherence.
I don't have the option to do it. But a mod has edited it.
I definitely agree about the socializing. I miss seeing friendly colleagues face to face and having lunch with them. It's not just that though. I started a new remote job during the pandemic and... I feel like I really don't have the same bond with these new colleagues that I had with my colleagues at my previous in-person job. I genuinely feel like we would collaborate better, and be a better team, if we could hang out in person. There's a certain bond of trust that you naturally build when you just have lunch and casual conversations with people, that is very hard to replicate online.

As for the commute, I previously had a 15-minute walk to and from work before. I try to design my life so I can either walk or bike to work. I miss that too. I was more physically active before, and there's something meditative about walking, helps clear your mind.
> There is crazy inflation in things like house prices and assets like stocks.

but these items are not required for somebody to live - so they are not used in the inflation calculation.
Yes regulations and fines will have an impact on crime prevention, but not when those fines have any impact on the ones doing the crime.

Also, I agree with the OP, I feel HSBC is a criminal organization because there is so many ethically questionable actions taken by this org[1] and even after getting caught and being fined for aiding criminals they still repeated it. [2]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC#Controversies

[2]https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/hsbc-moved-...
Agreed. It’s a deliberate inefficiency to make sure you at least have a chance to communicate with your team on a regular basis. Otherwise you might go days or weeks without the chance to have a critical two minute conversation.
The SolarWinds hack is another cautionary tale about not self-hosting.
> but in particular I believe that inherent inefficiency with WordPress design will incur more cost to scale

WordPress essentially generates static pages and is trivially set-up to run behind a CDN like Cloudflare.

You can easily have WordPress sites in the Alexa top 50k that run on a $5 VPS - behind Cloudflare.

> My rule of thumb is that will probably be alright for a simple, small project,

Right. Simple, small projects. Like whitehouse.gov.

As long as you use Wordpress for what it was designed for, it really doesn't matter what scale you have.
Good riddance! The fact that we're still supporting Python 2 at all in 2021 is madness.
They no longer need to lure new users in, so they're revoking their gifts.
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> I also think linting rules are important, not for what they actually do, but just to get everyone to stfu about variations in code style that dont matter and arguing about more important things.

Agree. I don't think that there's one "best" style, but I've worked with people who don't care about consistency at all, and their code is so much harder to read. There's bunch of value in just picking a style and sticking to it.
POC scales easier, thats all that matters to win the idiot match.
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Chromium would have to safely store and manage user data on their servers, which is an additional cost.
It was mentioned offhand. It was some episode on Views on Vue. I binged on it, so I don't remember the episode number.
And he quickly (2-3 days) retracted that call once he recovered from the initial despair of the 2016 election results:

> But will the extent of the disaster become apparent right away? It’s natural and, one must admit, tempting to predict a quick comeuppance — and I myself gave in to that temptation, briefly, on that horrible election night, suggesting that a global recession was imminent. But I quickly retracted that call. Trumpism will have dire effects, but they will take time to become manifest.

> In fact, don’t be surprised if economic growth actually accelerates for a couple of years.

* https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/14/opinion/trump-slump-comin...

* http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/the-long-haul/

We all make mistakes: the important things is to own up to them and learn from them.

Have any of the people who said Bernanke's QE would cause (hyper)inflation and currency debasement publicly recanted?
(Assuming COVID is solved), why couldn't you meet up with a coworker for a lunch?
Hard agree with 4 and 5. Soft agree with 6, I think there's nothing's wrong with sharing specially since many of the important teachings are incompatible with the kind of people for whom these lessons are not obvious after a couple of years of experience.

But points 1 to 3 give me a visceral negative reaction. I'll go into detail:

1) If you're writing anything that's not a script with a few lines, and you care about your software not being terrible to maintain and change for other people in real production settings, typed languages wipe the floor with dynamic languages (excluding ecosystem moats, just judging the languages).

Good types act as documentation, a higher form of tests, and a form a development paradigm to make it easier to iterate through code new or old by building/modifying stacks of machine-checkable assertions that you can pass around.
Not enough devs are taught how to think with types and extract the most out of them, but any half-decent dev can be taught how to do it in a few days and the difference is night and day to anyone who has experienced it first-hand.

2) Java is terrible, but it's not as unworkable as some other mainstream languages given its extensibility and ecosystem. Java was sold to managers as "prevents cheap workers from making mistakes", but it was never about that and it's mostly terrible at it.

3) I would say that's a deceitful take, for only the absolute minority of systems have to care about scaling beyond a single server with failover (and a separate database if going with managed DB). For those systems that absolutely do care about horizontal scalability the answers should be absolutely obvious to any senior dev from the moment the requirements are stated. And for those cases where someone feels there may be a need for a complex scalability solution but there's not an obvious case for it yet, development will most of the time be better off starting with the simple solution and selectively optimizing as needed, just don't make it impossible to switch later down the road.
Nintendo with only 100 employees 10 years ago? Missing a zero maybe?
Looks like Pip 20.0 will have a long life…
Friendly reminder that entire scientific community runs on Python 2 legacy code and nobody will rewrite it to Python 3.
It just demonstrates being thoroughly out of touch with the hardware platforms that people are actually using: not a quality to seek out in infrastructure for your embedded-system project.

It is hard to imagine any reader who might consider an embedded project being unaware that all current hardware (excepting rare MIPS variants) is little-endian.

A microcontroller meant for use in a network router might reasonably be big-endian, just because most IP protocols are. That is the only place I can think of where one might deliberately choose it.
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Surely they also use GLONASS and Galileo.
My experience from other organizations:

* Corruption runs to the top.

* The top is very careful to communicate verbally, through implications, or otherwise.

Dunno about Google.