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Agile these days is more like a particular sort of religious cult, where's there's no way to disprove the central mantras and there's this eeeevil mythical[0] enemy the cult is meant to overcome. The solution is always more of the cult's mantras. That said, if some company succeeds with an officially non-Agile process, they are still being Agile since they chose the process suited for them. So Agile is always right.

The good in Agile:

* Think about your processes and your progress.

* Inefficient processes should be culled.

* Overmanagement is bad.

The bad in Agile:

* Complete ignorance of the legitimate needs of everyone in business who is not a professional software engineer (most of the Agile mantras are actively harmful here, and are discreetly walked back as in this entry).

* Iteration is not a value in itself.

* Programmers should be managed, at least so long as the typical corporation has the structure it has, and Agile doesn't provide good tools here (at least none that programmers like...)

[0] https://loufranco.com/blog/waterfall-is-a-myth
One thing some may consider "decentralized" is that you can self-host
What would happen if we all woke up as talking ostriches? What would happen if we all had three hands instead of one? There's thought experiments, and then there's gibberish.

What would happen? WE WOULD MAKE MORE. Violence is inherent in determining power and hierarchy, and an intelligent species is always going to pursue the most effective technologies for inflicting violence and use those technologies to maintain a monopoly on violence, ie a government. Failure to do so just means someone else will come along and do it for you.

Guns are not the problem. Violence is inherent to the human condition, and to intelligent species more generally, because only beings willing to inflict violence when needed survive and reproduce. This is why gun control, in the modern sense, is so deranged. It fetishizes one manifestation of an ancient, atavistic urge while failing to understand that said urge runs much deeper than any given technology for inflicting it.
I think anyone who's not deep in accounting would assume we're just talking about the simple sum of all expenses, not specifically fixed or variable. Like if over a month I paid $100 in rent, $100 in payroll, and $100 in new equipment, labor was 33%.
The difference is that Discord voice chats work like "meeting rooms".

I don't want to call everyone in a channel, I want to see who's already hanging around and join them on a whim. It's not really "calls" per se as you don't actually call anyone and they're not coupled to actual text conversation channels.

That's the big UX difference, and it's a big deal for gaming and more casual communities with many participants.
I don't think this even registers on the list of topics relevant for the federal elections.
This is a pretty new development. The cynic in me thinks he's finally listened to some PR people on how to get people to like him. It sort of coincided with the SNL appearance, too.
Oh no! A TODO is almost never written with the level of detail I'd want in a JIRA ticket. I think usually, if I'm leaving a few TODOs in a checkin, it's to highlight several locations where a single change needs to be made. Automatically creating new tickets for each call site sounds like hell.
Thermal storage may also be very useful for intermediate term electric energy storage.

https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2020/12/f81/SETO%20P...

This scheme would also allow backstop generation by using a fuel to reheat the storage material, potentially useful for "black swan" prolonged outages.

The fluidized bed heat exchangers seem particularly interesting to me, if sufficiently low escape of particulate matter can be achieved.
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They have lignite. Actual proper coal would be cleaner (!).
There must be more to this, what are the odds a person who keeps life savings in cash happens to move it at the time some police are prowling to invent a reason to stop and search a vehicle, and happens to be the vehicle chosen?

I'm not saying 'great law guys, nothing to see here' (in my country a quick search suggests same exists, but needs a warrant from a magistrate, and there's no DEA for that weird twist) but the article just seems to be painting it in the most bizarre obviously wrong light possible.
was XMPP killed by Google after shutting down GTalk ?
Germany proves nothing. As you say, "if you have neighbors". Germany pretends to be good but really is just exporting the problem. If your solution requires neighbors doing it different ways it can't be scaled.
This usage is indeed very common, but it is always meant and understood hyperbolically, and the meaning of the word relied on by the hyperbole is just M-W's sense 1.

To see this, remove the word "literally" from such a sentence. You are generally left with a statement that is still hyperbole or metaphor and not literally true. Which word are you going to redefine in a sentence like "It turned the world upside down." to enable you to interpret it literally? If you understand it as hyperbole, why does adding the word "literally" require any special meaning for that word?

Conversely, if you believe that the word "literally" literally can mean "not literally", in the same way that, say, "cleave" is an auto-antonym, it would authorize statements like

(*) When you use metaphor, you are speaking literally.
(*) What I said was the plain truth, but John took it literally.

which I think you will agree are not standard usage.

Moreover, if you replace the word "literally" in a sentence like

"It literally turned the world upside down."

with something that means "not literally", like

"It figuratively turned the world upside down."

it changes the meaning. The first sentence is hyperbole and the second is awkwardly literal.

I understand the desire of lexicographers to document this usage, which is as you say common (and legitimate) and seems to confuse people, but it's just not a different meaning of the word.
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I had this same thing happen to me in NYC, outside JFK airport. Not limited to poorer countries at all.
I was not arguing with you, I was adding to the point you made
The main thing is I'm a mac user and I didn't like the touchpad, and the screen size is 1024x600 which is not very interesting for me.
Greyed out comments are still legible. I regularly see people saying things like "I'm sure my comment will be flagged", and days later, it just isn't. Sure, there's a popularity contest - unless you get rid of voting and display-in-vote-order, there always will be. But I would say that paying much attention to that rather than the contents of comments represents a personal choice to be distracted by the noise of the "contest", even while the signal remains in plain sight.
https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html

The supply/demand graphs for the California grid are public for all to discuss. We can look at 9/05/2021, and see that 25GW was demanded at 12-noon, while 36GW was demanded at 7pm at night (hour 19 on the graph).

The energy required between 5pm and 10pm on 9/5/2021 (from 17 to 22) is ~37GW per hour.

That's 185GW-hrs of energy. Exactly what technology can both store-and-output 185GW-hrs each day, and every day? The "Tesla Megabattery pack" in Australia is 0.3 GW-hrs FYI, to give you what a "very very large" battery can do.
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I don't think many people need to be reminded, but sure, it's a nice catch-22.
Short answer is because the chemical goes directly through the membrane into the bloodstream.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublingual_administration
https://www.nber.org/papers/w26598
That's the small story in the bigger one. In the end, Proton is failing to deliver service that claimed to not record PII therefore failing protect their users.

One could argue they only protect good users - as defined by Swiss law. Then what's the point of Proton?

Next time, a whistleblower from a Swiss bank or agency?
It measures the most important thing, which is the ability of people to actually write coherent code, a skill which is lacking among many devs. and which is the most important artifact (of many) of an Eng.

...

"Most of the time in the interview, though, should be spent letting the candidate prove that they can write code."

- Joel Spoolsky, the Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing

...

" If they get a problem they don't know, "

Well they should be leeting on something at least a tiny bit novel in the first place, not over the top algorithms, but something that requires a bit of thought. No trick questions needed, just something a bit open ended.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/25/the-guerrilla-guid...
If you want affordable housing, then build houses.
hyperbole much?

recommendation: bring some data and citations to your argument.

currently your perspective sounds like the ramblings of a crazy person.
Due to Salinas v. Texas, you now need to say "I am invoking my fifth amendment right to remain silent."
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I'd rather let users install their own OS with minimal roadblocks (one click verification, no loss in functionality, standard low-level interface), seems to me like a more feasible and general option than forcing support of whatever ad-ridden rubbish manufacturers cook up these days.
> There aren’t good integrated replacements

I think even that would be a good attack vector against Atlassian: For them, "integration" means adding links from one product to the other. If I were to pay for an integrated suite of tools, the least I would expect is that their bloody markup languages are consistent. But because Atlassian just buys random products and then doesn't seem to ever change a single thing about them, that's not going to happen.
"Better? I'd agree with you that it's probably not. "

Not really disagreeing, but "Better" is just constrained by the real ressources at hand. You have a team, specialised in making plattform independent QT apps? Sure, that is what you do. But chances are you don't, so you just target the web as web devs are plenty around.

"Academic" metrics of what is theoretically more preferable as a plattform and should be considered "better" are usually not very helpful to actually build things.
Depending on the risk, they might say no: many companies prefer pay a fine than respect the law for worse reasons than this
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From ProtonMail:

> The Internet is generally not anonymous, and if you are breaking Swiss law, a law-abiding company such as ProtonMail can be legally compelled to log your IP address.

Does this mean that IP addresses are not logged by default (assuming the account settings are also set to not log IP addresses - it can be enabled) but are logged only one a specific account after a LE request? Does this mean they could add a per-account warrant canary?
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They should have refused and shut dowm the company instead. There is another provider who did just that.
What are you talking about? Influencers are advertising, and are likewise banned.
Diamonds are actually common here on earth too. The idea that they are rare is propaganda spread by the DeBeers cartel.
I am not complaining about the company hiring immigrants and allowing remote work across the Europe. I just haven't seen anything inherently Swiss in it, anything different from any other European company I worked for, that would justify the "Swiss quality" marketing.
So basically, everything is difficult, including doors.

That makes the OP article sound like clickbait, making doors out to be the most difficult thing about game design.

Also, I wonder how much of it is due to the disconnect between design and software implementation. From a software perspective, it doesn't seem that difficult to define doors as a separate class or type of game object behavior, and hard code that behavior into sequences.

It seems like the difficulty is mostly on the design/animation side. Controversial opinion: Maybe the problem is that designers and animators are just not as good at solving these logic problems as the software engineers.
> and stay out of critical systems that can create cascading vulnerabilities

Oh, you mean like Microsoft and Google in the examples I gave?

Why are you changing the goal posts? Your original statement was that this issue is evidence that "everyone is now aware of the awful engineering practices that underpin their products." My clear argument is that this is not the case, as lots of companies with systemically critical software also have bugs of this magnitude, or more.
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There are many more models of low-end phones than high-end phones. Manufacturers could adapt by producing fewer models of low-end phones, which would make them less expensive to support.
This is the same form of argument people use against building newer nuclear power plant designs.

A: "Newer designs are safer."

B: "There is no evidence of that because they haven't been built yet."

A: "We're talking about the design here. You can see that it has these passive safety features which..."

B: "But there is no evidence of that because they haven't been built yet."

A: "Okay, then let's build them so that we can see the evidence."

B: "No, we can't build them because there is no evidence that it works."
If you can't pay your employees a living wage your business does not deserve to exist. I don't care if it's a small business owner or $megacorp.
Not very familiar with Discord, but from what I understand it seems everyone runs their own server? Like every game/topic/etc community has their own server?
I think this is just some people's reflexive notion that 'China + sometimes Japan' = East Asia & 'Rest of Asia' = southeast Asia.

It was mostly started by China companies like Alibaba treating any international expansion as 'Southeast Asia,' since they did it via HK or SG offices.
You've described most EU policies.
Zero fossil fuels needed to happen 20 years ago. ASAP won't be good enough. One argument can be made to keep around existing gas-powered plants to absorb demand peaks, but building coal or gas plants right now is lunacy. Nuclear might or might not be in the future, but fossil fuels certainly need to die much quicker than they do.
I love seeing everyone else’s hobbies. It’s important to be well-rounded.

Somewhat tech-related, I like building and repairing electronics and vintage mechanical things (Singer sewing machine, old door latches, old Macintosh; you get the idea).

Bike maintenance is deeply satisfying. Especially when you go camping on a bike you’ve completely overhauled.

Listening to and playing music are important to me in ways that are difficult to describe.

And not really a hobby, but just meeting new people and neighbors and listening to them (especially people not in tech) is very rewarding.
Passenger cars have also gotten significantly larger since the 1980s/90s. I think its mostly to do with enhanced safety features.
Much as I hate everything Atlassian touches (although Portfolio was pretty useful as a stand-alone tool if you kept it far away from JIRA), It’s not like MS Office or Sharepoint have never had vulnerabilities..
There's a ton of things you can do in Jira, and different organizations use different things. It's like excel or word, in that sense.
Agile is about measuring and tracking, full stop. The difference between Waterfall and Agile is that Agile promises short iterations and continuous measuring and tracking throughout. But the important bit is that everything you do as a developer is tracked, recorded, and KPIs extracted from it so the company can see if it's hitting its OKRs and if not, what can be done.

Yeah, I know, that's not Agile according to the Agile Manifesto. Forget the Manifesto. You think the CTO approved an Agile transformation because of a fucking manifesto? NUMBERS. How much money can we save and how much more profitable can we become by delivering exactly the software, and only the software, our users need with ruthless efficiency? This, and ONLY this, is Agile in the enterprise. Shove your manifestos. You have sprint commitments you need to fulfill. Get back to work.
I agree that side projects can be fun. But I feel that the broader issue for many developers, including myself, is that we're cash-strapped. The majority of my classmates in University don't do any side projects; they spend their time doing practice problems, applying for interviews, switching jobs, and so on. I'm not in high school anymore, things are getting more expensive, and I know better. I spend my time doing game dev and art when I should be building an emergency fund in the case of a climate disaster or an unexpected medical surprise. I would be financially better off building SaaS tools for niche enterprise users than spending most of my day having "fun" and knowing this makes it hard to have fun.
This is already the case for some manufacturers: see phones supported by LineageOS.[1]

But the manufacturers are changing device drivers like the I change my socks. The community can't keep up.

[1] - https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
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People don't change phones, especially cheap phones, because they stop getting security updates.

The result of this law would be that cheap phones will get more expensive for no benefit at all and expensive phones will cost the same.
This comment nails it - anyone who has had to investigate other offerings that satisfy the needs of project management, design, and engineering will quickly find that all the other options out there are total garbage in comparison to Jira, which is why Jira remains at the top of the totem pole for what it does.

As an engineer & former manager, there are definitely things I didn't like about Jira like slowness, but everything else I investigated/used were worse in multiple significant ways.
They should do nothing because once they show data to a user, they have no legitimate claim to forbid that user from telling others what Facebook has shown them.

What you're talking about is essentially DRM, using technological means to circumvent user rights.
This. The author is obsessed, but that makes it fun to read. I've been using i3 exclusively for close to a decade and never used a window placement other than 1-3 windows in a horizontal row; switching to tabbed layout when I want something fullscreen; and rarely, for specific applications, a floating layout. Rather, I use a lot of workspaces (16) and put windows in those that I expect to find them.

My point is, you don't need to use a WM/DE like others are using it, but how you prefer to use it. i3 is flexible enough to allow many styles, so choosing to use it might be mostly about whether you think it can cover your preferences.
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Github (and plenty of other solutions) provide "edit in browser" capabilities. One could even imagine a custom web front end that enumerates the tickets, allows search, has a new/edit form that does a commit behind the scenes, etc...

Fossil SCM has all of the ticketing/bugs stored in the source control repo. Of course, in this case the repo is a SQLite database.
It bypasses the stomach and intestines. It also bypasses liver metabolism (first-pass metabolism)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublingual_administration#Prin...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_pass_effect
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I won't bother with coding interviews. I consider them to be "hazing rituals"; not actual qualification assessment. I am very, very fortunate, in that I don't have to deal with them. I am not looking for work, and plan to never look for work, ever again.

I have a giant portfolio[0]. It has links to 40 or so repos, with tens of thousands of lines of code, spanning decades. Just about every project can be cloned, built, and submitted to the App Store, or SPMed into your own work, in about thirty seconds.

I've written stuff that is now a worldwide standard infrastructure, and the links to that work is in my portfolio, as is a blog entry, where I discuss the strategic thinking that informed its genesis.

I've written dozens of articles, tutorials, and blog entries, that detail the way I think, work, document my code, evaluate and implement architectures, and work with others. Links to all that is...you guessed it...in my portfolio.

There are years of checkins, so things like development velocity can be measured. My GH ID is solid green.

If you aren't willing to even look at it, then we probably won't get along, and we're both better off, avoiding each other.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/story/chrismarshall
That paper is comparing what happened to what would have happened without the nuclear phase out. That is, coal would have gone down MORE if nuclear had not been phased out. It does not support your claim that nuclear was replaced by coal. As the graph I gave you shows, coal use there declined over this decade, even as nuclear has also declined.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1434581638923620360?...

These days you don’t even need to fake the photo, you can just attach the fake drama to a photo of something else and no one will bat an eyelid.
I highly doubt it's running on Mars. For one thing, sibling comment has a list of repos that have the badge, and it's a lot of python packages. I suspect it's more along the eath-based infrastructure and data processing side of the equation. Still a pretty cool get, though.
Usually, if you don't give the government some power, that power is just taken by the strongest or least scrupulous. If you want to reduce the government's power to tell industry what they can and can't do, you just increase industry's power to control your life or pollute your environment. If that other party gets powerful enough through this method, then they eventually earn the title of "the government" -- so of course governments are the sources of atrocities! The word just means "whoever has the most power". Yes. Atrocities are committed by the powerful against the weak. Of course!

The trick is to stop treating "the government" as some monolithic "other", and work to make the government part of us; made out of the same cloth as everyone else. If you don't like what the government is doing, then get more active in government. Any barriers to everyday citizens becoming active in government should be torn down as much as possible. Then giving the government power is the same as giving everyone power.

This is what libertarians and anarchists never seem to understand (or intentionally ignore). There's no such thing as "limited government" if you think of "the government" as a collection of entities that have power over your life. If you're lucky, you can have some influence on the makeup of those entities: mega-corporations, billionaires, tribal warlords, 70-year-old white supremacists, crime bosses, religious chosen-ones, feudal lords, or us. Let's work hard to skew it toward being us as much as we can, and stop pretending that if we take power out of the hands of one entity that we call "the government", then that power just goes away and nobody else exercises it.
No. XMPP is still alive and not owned by Cisco.

> XMPP is the name for the streaming XML protocol that emerged from the Jabber open source community in 1999. When that community submitted the protocol to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in 2002, it chose to use the name “XMPP” instead of “Jabber” to eliminate the possibility of confusion with the open source community and the commercial Jabber.com company (since acquired by Cisco Systems, Inc.)

https://xmpp.org/about/faq.html