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> Agile is about ditching managers, bureaucracy, and estimates in favor of empowering the team itself.

Scrum (as intended, not as actually done in most companies) is in essence a set of rules to prevent things from falling apart after you have ditched the managers:

* know what you want to achieve during this month -- planning for longer time is unrealistic, weekly planning is micromanagement;

* at the end of the month, make a demo of new features -- make sure that all pieces fit together, and get feedback whether this is actually what the customer wanted;

* reflect on what happened during this month and why -- this is the moment to speak freely, complain, and propose changes (for example, this is the occassion when the developers could collectively decide to stop using Jira);

* decide where to go during the next month -- together with the customer: the customer decides "what first", developers decide "how fast";

* make sure your colleagues know what you do and whether you need help -- this shouldn't take more than 3 minutes a day.

If your sprints are weekly, you are doing it wrong. If you don't make a demo, you are doing it wrong. First, with continuous integration, deploying the demo should be trivial. Second, if you don't show the demo to the customer, who is giving you feedback on your progress? (Nobody? Management?) If you skip the retrospective, or if you don't feel free to speak openly during the retrospective, you are doing it wrong. If you don't have an idea what to do next, and what is important for the customer, you are doing it wrong. If management gives you deadline, you are doing it wrong. If your daily standup takes more than three minutes, you are doing it wrong. (For anything that requires more time, you should arrange a separate meeting, for only the people involved, not the whole team. Note that the "separate meeting" could still be like five or ten minutes long.)

So much for the dream. Now here is what actually happens: in your company, the managers have the power, and they are not going to fire themselves. So instead, they will impose on you some kind of management-driven pseudo-Scrum, which looks like this:

The sprints are short, because that gives the managers greater feeling of control. You don't talk to the the actual customer, and the customer doesn't see your product before it is officially delivered; the managers acting as middlemen is how they justify their jobs. There is no retrospective, because this is the first and the last time in history when management decides that something is a waste of time. You have sprint planning, but you also have deadlines, so your choices are often limited to "do X this sprint and Y next sprint, or do Y this sprint and X next sprint". The daily, instead of team members synchronizing with each other, becomes team members reporting to the manager. You get Jira, which is set up according to the manager's wishes.

This is not a coincidence. The managers insist it needs to be done this way, because they want to protect their jobs. The same thing would happen with any other methodology.
No, Mein Kampf is not allowed. Critically annotated versions are allowed. There is a significant difference here
I’ve found that the best value I’ve ever gotten from Sprints, was to manage upwards. We had a CEO that would request features daily, change priorities hourly, and get angry when nothing was delivered.

So by having each Sprint accounted for and signed off, whenever he barged in and demanded something new, the first question was asked - what would he like removed from the current Sprint. By him signing off that things were removed, he could no longer ask why it wasn’t completed as originally agreed to
Cool article, interesting read...

But also...cool tool!
I would say that we're very big on intrinsic motivation and teamwork -- and that these two things (coupled with our transparent compensation) serve to give people reward from their work that is something beyond what differentiation provides.
adults have done it too, including some teachers. people think it’s cool to do because they heard it on the Simpsons. not much stood out, we had uniforms. you get made fun of for the most fundamental and unchanging identity, your race. It absolutely destroyed my self worth at the time, and made me embarrassed of my skin color, and I know that others experienced the same thing.
Being from the UK (living in the US now), I've never used the term 'hey guys', with my English accent it would sound like I'm being a fake or trying to hard to be hip.

Likewise, there's not a chance in hell I can pull off "hey y'all", well maybe if I was wearing a cowboy hat... :)

In any case, I use "Hey peeps..." (peeps -> people), which doesn't offend people (afaik).
aha, thank you. The compared to alternatives would be cloning, no change, or small and slow perturbations. Sexual reproduction === intentional mass mutations, that's such a clear way to conceive of it all. It's the genes that matter here at the end of the day. Wow
I think computers could be conscious (whatever that means) if they modelled living minds to a sufficiently high degree of precision. I do not see why the physical substrate would matter.
Or the already widely adopted Hispanic.
Really, the market has spoken. In relational databases, tables with multiple columns aren't strictly necessary, but practically quite useful. In the same way, property graphs are more useful than triple stores, since common usage patterns want a collection of related properties a lot of the time.

Another way to put it is: it is straightforward to map a property graph to a triple store. In most cases, the property graph will have fewer nodes and edges and will operate faster and be easier to maintain.
Real-estate interests, including banks for whom mortgage securities are a massive asset class, are a key factor in the anti-work-from-home constituency. And the major Fed constituency.

The shift here could be striking.
Honest curiosity here. With so many competitors in the space both free and paid, and with many doing self-hosted, privacy conscious angle, and many open source as well, what are you doing to separate your tracking from those. At a glance, I wasn't able to discern the major difference and I'd imagine a lot of users looking for analytic solutions might fall into the same thoughts.
Honestly it’s becoming unbearable.
Too late. HR has been moving to make us to stop using: blacklist, whitelist, sanity check, and master. It's a frighteningly difficult exercise in doublethink to take a required security course (produced by a third party) that refers to blacklist and whitelist and then having to self censor your own peer discussions about it.
Dr. Seuss is currently #1-6 and holds 22 of the top 30 bestsellers on amazon right now. Interesting timing for this to all unfold.
Could you explain what linking a couple of smaller, shorter studies is worth?
> severe racist overtones

I haven't seen a good summary of what parts of the withdrawn books were considered inappropriate, but my understanding is that the stronger objection has been to political cartoons that Theodor Seuss Geisel created.

I've not seen any assertions (never mind evidence) that the children's books contained "severe racist overtones". To be clear, I'm pushing back on the "severe" adjective. There clearly have been assertions about racist overtones in the children's books, just not "severe" racist overtones -- at least that is my understanding.

Unfortunately I guess it would be inappropriate to actually post the objectionable material for discussion since it has been made clear lately that there is no "use-mention" distinction permitted on these matters.

We are therefore rapidly finding ourselves in a situation where the most easily offended person wields immense power to shutdown speech and commerce by simply asserting that something offends them and there is no recourse to challenge their opinion, it must be accepted without discussion.

I find this situation appalling and rapidly approaching frightening.
The Kaypro II is a case study in how I would design a computer if I were a competent person with enough technical skills to be successful outside of tier 1 ops or management. It is built from folded steel, the keyboard housing shows signs of having been hacksawed by hand, and all the parts are commodity THC that are still available 40 years later: it is serviceable. Same reason I still drive a 20-year-old car despite being expected to afford better, given my present station. I don't like disposable crap.

But CP/M...man, I wish the Kaypro ran something more interesting, because it deserves better.
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A search for “nazi” on eBay returns 28000+ results.
I agree there are monopolies that need antitrust attention. Wish we'd focus on the ISP infrastructure. Regional broadband ISP monopolies are the problem underlying the big tech social media and advertising companies. Yelling at eBay for banning Dr Seuss books is a distraction from that and I believe that may be the intent. We haven't been able to discuss net neutrality for a few years because of this tabloid style of news. Let's get back to business.
I've been building a locally-hosted version of Pocket that saves articles (and pdfs) to a lucene index, and provides full text search over them. https://github.com/SaahilClaypool/SearchStory
Ask HN: Motivation to Study Leetcode?
I am an experience developer but I cant pass interview screens that use leetcode style questions.

I've come to terms with the fact that I need to simply practice, practice, practice. ( even to the point of buying elements of programming interviews and system design interview prep books )

But I still have trouble actually making time after work to consistently sit down and read the prep materials or grind the problems.

Any other devs in a similar position? What helps you with motivation?
Okay I was all for the Dr. Seuss estate deciding to no longer publish their own works, for whatever reason they wanted. W H A T E V E R reason, including using their platform to make a statement about society.

I think this has been misinterpreted by everyone else, including Amazon and now Ebay, as well as everybody trying to extrapolate "what comes next, here is this unrelated hyperbolic example to let everyone know cancel culture has gone too farrrr"
Does anyone know of a reputable study on how load speed affects conversion rate? I’ve heard many people claim that small increases in page load speeds have been shown to have outsized impact on conversion but have never seen actual studies with proper controls.
Once again California sets an early example for all of us by trying to ban Seuss way back in the '80s: https://larrylivermore.com/2011/08/19/the-town-that-tried-to...
It's pretty much "were you on a ventilator or diagnosed with ARDS" and "are you over 80". There's long covid cases outside those criteria, but with superdosing Nicotinic Acid and 3-6 months almost all seem to resolve.
Thanks,

> This leads to a deeply intrinsically motivated team

If you managed to achieve that, then hats off!

> if we succeed together

Hope you all do! :)
On similar note, there been some articles recently saying that long covid disappeared after taking vaccine.

LONG COVID PATIENTS SAY THEY FEEL BETTER AFTER GETTING VACCINATED

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/2/22308965/covid-vaccine-sho...
Things still get complicated there. What is the value of a car? I'm not planning on selling mine, so I have no idea. Do I just Blue Book it? If I key the shit out of it every Christmas and then have it repainted in January, can I knock 40% of the value off? It might be cheaper to just have it repainted.

What's the value of a painting? You could use the price I bought it for, but what if we just swap paintings instead? You know, I give you this fancy painting, you give me some Goodwill shit and you pay me a $100k "finders fee".

What's a yacht worth? What are super fancy houses worth? One of Mike Tyson's old mansions is still abandoned, so I assume it was worth nothing since they couldn't sell it.

Properly valuing things is hard. Wealth taxes are also regressive, in a way, because poor people are much less likely to have access to financial instruments that will return greater than the wealth tax rate. The poor and the middle class are far more likely to have their money in functional investments (homes, cars, etc) than they are to have them in something that generates profit.

So you'd still have to just not assess the tax on assets under the value of a reasonable home and car, at which point we're basically just back to what we have now, which is carving out a loophole for the poor.
The very short consulting can be pretty intense. People come fast and furious and want answers. They sometimes are folks who really badly need a larger consulting or training engagement from a specialist, but can't afford it. So they sometimes come hard, sometimes frantically, looking for miracle fixes.

I thought they could be fun, but you really had to be on your toes to do it well. And you need to set really clear expectations on what's doable in the short time.

In the end, however, it can sometimes just be easier not to charge. If you do larger projects, these short little meetings can be a primer for filtering potential clients while giving the potential client a taste of what working with you is like.
Hello, fellow sentient beings!
Exactly! Children are very vulnerable to unsound ideas - this thread is full of proof of that fact. Allowing them to be exposed to just any content while they're still developing their own perspective is simply inhumane.
I respect eBay's ability to decide what is for sale on their platform, but I agree with the reporter: It's incredibly silly to ban a Dr. Seuss book when Mein Kampf is available.

This is what people call "virtue signaling". The article says that only 7000 copies were sold of the highest selling such Dr. Seuss book. This has no practical effects besides publicity. If they are going to seriously take this view, then they should have started with Mein Kampf.

Now, if they were to release a press-release with a long list of banned products, or classes of products, that isn't to say I'd necessarily agree that it was a good thing. But at least it would be consistent.
Low rates and reduction in consumer spending are rather signs of recession not deflation..

From 2008 crisis pretty much every country in the world is printing money like crazy. Its easy to print more digital numbers, its harder to gain actual land to inhabit ppl.

Thats why properties and land gain so much value lately and thats why its the biggest issue of them all - huge inflation in the housing department.
Sounds like Emacs' GUI mode.
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I think, the social mechanics of this process is very simple. Ability to tell others what to do is called power. Some people are more power-hungry than others, so they seek ways to assert themselves over others. That's a perfectly normal human thing to do. What matters is the way you would achieve power in a society. Getting power through building up your name as a notable researcher or author is one thing. Playing favor games with others in power is another one.

In stable societies the power ladder is at least partially correlated with creating added value. Getting people to buy your product, getting people to elect you into office, even helping out your friends so one day they will help you haul that fridge upstairs. They also have some checks and countermeasures, like the universally trusted independent judicial system, that somewhat impedes attempts to break this correlation. Except now it's breaking apart.

Now we have a growing socioeconomic group that wields increasing power over what others can say by just claiming that they are fighting for a good cause. As long as you are anti-$BUZZWORD and have a sufficient network of followers, nobody dares to oppose you and nobody will protect those who dare.

It's not really about what is in the book or what pronouns someone uses. It's about the fact that a power-hungry person can have the pleasure of telling 1000 other people what to say, and financially obliterate those who don't comply. And no, there won't be a happy blissful day at the end of the road when we have finally eradicated all friction points and everybody can go have a beer together. The power-seekers won't self-disband. They will keep finding a target after target because that's where they get their kicks from.

Entire fucking history of USSR is littered with different power-hungry people using noble goals to chop their competitors' heads off. It didn't end well for them and it didn't end well for the country. I'm happy we are not at the head-chopping stage yet, but I keep wondering how long do we have left...
Anyone can run office hours for any of their open source projects they want - that sounds great!

But I won't and I don't feel any sort of obligation to do so, so I don't think 'should' is really appropriate here.
Ebay didn't decide it unilaterally, it is in conjunction with the Dr. Seuss estate and Dr. Seuss Enterprises LP
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> Agile was written at a resort by 10x engineers for 10x engineers.
Do these 10x engineers need Scrum ?

Not to beat a dead horse one more time, but "Agile <> Scrum"

Scrum is just one, out of many methodologies that claim some association with the core ideas behind the Agile Manifesto. It's totally possible to be "Agile" and not do a single thing that's in Scrum.

And just to add one more note: there's a lot of "stuff" that gets lumped in with Scrum in a lot of these criticism heavy threads, that isn't actually part of Scrum per-se. Often times idiot would-be Scrum masters cobble together bits and piece of ideas here and there and make some goofy hodge-podge and then call it Scrum. I'd encourage anybody contemplating Scrum for whatever reason to go read the Scrum Guide and see how different it is from the "Scrum" their organization practices. Same for the Agile Manifesto.

And if you encounter an organization that claims to be doing SAFE (Scaled Agile Framework) turn and run away as fast as you can, IMO.
I'm straight and I use partner in most circumstances. People don't need to know whether I am literally married to my wife.
Yeah it seems like it may reset the hyperinflammatory state.
I'd really encourage you to take a step back here and think about how you'd react if it was your speech being policed. Imagine someone sent you an email declaring that the words "pop" and "soda" are exclusionary to Southerners, and from now on you need to refer to carbonated soft drinks only as "coke". It's an easy one-word substitution - would you do it?
These companies don't have the legal means to put your body in a cage, end your life or take you into custody by force until you answer to their accusations like a government does. That's why comparing this to government jackboots is a very weak argument.
Non sequiturs are not explanations. None of those claims imply nuclear must be part of the energy solution.
Gaslighting much?
This sums up my thinking. Scrum is a contract between developers and managers, especially non-technical managers.

Developers have always complained about being micromanaged or being given business objectives that don't make sense or about changing requirements or some such. But non-technical managers at the same time typically complain that their developers are prima donnas and that their team produces unpredictable and non-repeatable results.

If you understand KPI's, you understand scrum. Scrum exposes the development process to managers and in theory is supposed to give them a better idea of what the team is doing, what they're having problems with, and what the consequences of their management directives are. If that leads to better management of the team, scrum is a success.
How about they start with mental health
I don't fully understand this move by eBay. They let people sell the books without problem. Then the rights holder withdrew the IP from circulation (their right) and then SUDDENLY and simultaneously eBay arrived at the same conclusion as the rights holder? Like overnight they came to the same realization?

I don’t get the problem with the Asian depiction (apparently the eyes are problematic). But looking at block prints (and other art) from East Asia, many use the same representation[1]

By the way, this seems like a kind of DRM but without the encryption part. Instead of encryption DRM is being enforced by cultural zeitgeist. Who would have thought that as a possibility?

[1] https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://mymodernmet.com...
I (not GP but also native BrE) reckon I use ~lled transitively and ~lt intransitively. I'm not aware of/haven't found anything to make a case for that though.

(Edit: or perhaps it's more about active/passive voice? Thinking particularly about burnt/burned.)

It's taken to an extreme by some thicker accented (dialected?) people around where I grew up though - an' so I turnt [turned] round (right-right round) an' said to 'im [...]!
When broadband became a regulated term, those ISPs falling short of the low bar set by the US Government rebranded their product to HSI.
In my limited experience, almost every language specific presentation at an HPC conference is about C++. New projects and initiatives like DPC++, SYCL/oneAPI, Ginkgo, etc are C++ based. And if you look at the open source libraries of the national laboratories, e.g. LLNL, C++ libraries are more common than C libraries, which in turn are more common than the Fortran libraries.

If anything I'd say that C++ is the default for HPC conferences.
I don't know where you're from but where I live "guys" is a completely neutral term for any group of humans. My wife used it today on a call to three other females.
As an Australian I actually don’t have much of a problem with this.

I didn’t see it mentioned in the article but of the total of 53.4 million doses of AZ vaccine Australia has ordered 50 million are being manufactured in Australia.

What’s more except for some minor outbreaks originating from returned traveller quarantine community transmission has been effectively stopped in Australia for the last 6 months. Even 1 case outside of returned traveller quarantine is big news and cause for internal travel restrictions. It’s been months since the last person died from COVID-19 and the economy has largely recovered to prepandemic GDP levels.

Frankly this is a minor delay in Australia’s vaccine rollout and the doses will go to serving places that are frankly more in need.
Arent you bothered by the crazy volatility? And doge seems to never be able to catch up with the other coins as it has unlimitted mining capacity. I did buy some once and sold it higher but would never want to hold onto it. Maybe im missing out
I certainly agree with you! My reason for not adopting geo-based pay actually dates back to the beginning of my career: one of the senior engineers I worked with in Menlo Park needed to move from California back to Massachusetts to save his marriage. Our employer applied a geography multiplier to pay; as per company policy, when he moved, his salary was adjusted based on the new geography -- which meant his pay was docked by 5%. Of course, he was doing the exact same work -- and it very much felt to him that the company had simply taken advantage of an already difficult personal situation. And indeed, the five percent was not at all meaningful from the company's perspective, and was not even terribly economically meaningful from his perspective -- but it was emotionally gutting. I made a mental note: never, ever do this.
We wouldn't need to go all the way to dependent types, which would guarantee at compile-time that array accesses are safe. Even if all the bounds checking happened at run-time it would still be tremendously helpful.
It's good that the vast majority of people make full recoveries but 2% of the US is still over 6 million people.

I personally know two people who have long 'recovered' from Covid but still have no smell, or a reduced sense of smell. Not life threatening or really holding them back from anything, but they say it effects their quality of life more than they expected.