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I have heard these terms (stories, epics, milestones) a lot. Is there any standard definition for these terms or do they differ from project to project? Any good literature on how to think about them?
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It's like any other skill you develop from watching something carefully enough times, long enough. I can tell if an edge in a graphic is off by one, two or three pixels without needing to measure it. Mechanics can look at a screw and know what size wrench, and whether it's metric or imperial. Estimating times and prices does involve juggling a lot of variables and potential for overrun or mission creep... but it's certainly not just true in the code world. The design world is worse because the deliverables are so much harder to nail down. If you play "price is right" enough times you just develop a feel for eyeballing it that tends to be accurate. In the end, the most sophisticated system in the world for estimating a project is a black box AI that's constantly adjusting its parameters and weights, and that's basically what an experienced brain does without breaking it down into steps. You can of course break it into steps, but they're all hypothetical and only you understand how one can be extended and another reduced to meet the same target.

It's like cooking.

Okay... yes, ingredients, preparation, bake time... you have to take each into account. It can be hazy when you're estimating 6 months or 8 months, because you're not sure how it will come together after the first 4. That's true, for something that large.
There's windows 7 too :)
Agreed, it's marketed pseudo innovation because people want to get rich
> "The Austrian government is doing this very reluctantly but, as the chancellor has explained, he has few other options,”

Show me one place where high uptake of the shots has ended the COVID crisis. How many people is sufficient? 70%? 90%? 130%?

Why are they mandating the shots in February instead of now? By the time widespread protection kicks in it'll be the end of March, most likely past the natural end of the crisis. If they're going to trash everyone's rights, at least make it effective. Are they braindead?

> “If others have a better idea, they should say what it is..."

Yeah, like we didn't know that winter would bring in a surge of hospitalizations. How about promoting and giving away vitamin D supplements during autumn? That alone would have prevented thousands of hospitalizations and probably avoided the entire crisis. Why haven't they worked on healthcare infrastructure during the summer to help it deal with the coming surge? Why are indoor spaces still not ventilated? Why are they changing the rules every week? Do they have any actual idea of what the fuck they're doing?
I have the same issue with numerous TLAs, most frequently around here: "NLP".

My usual thought sequence is "'Neuro-Linguistic Programming'? Uhhh, no... it's not that, not in this space. 'Near Letter Perfect'? Hmmm... don't think so. 'New Lunar Passage'? Has Elon been smoking that stuff again?..."

Eventually I figure it out, but for some weird reason my brain doesn't really want to hang a hook into "Non-Linear Processing"

;)
They used to pay me to turn monoliths into microservices, now they pay me to turn their microservices back into monoliths...
> Castle is Norman French for Chateau

According to my Oxford English Dictionary, both 'castle' and 'chateau' are modern variants of the older Latin 'castellum'.
I read the article and after a few para's I know that the author now works for a SaaS expense management company and I am reading marketing material.
Reddit and FB are racing for this, and I know a half dozen other well funded startups working towards it too.

Anyone who isn’t looking in this direction is going to get left behind over the next few years.
Not really. It goes both ways. Working as a consultant in many companies will add additional layers of red tape because consultants aren’t granted the same level of trust, access, and internal communication as full time employees.

It’s one of the biggest variables that have to be considered when scoping out consulting projects.
That still sounds somewhat suboptimal, but a lot better than smashing the window 100% of the time you pull that lever for sure.
> Right now I'm working with fax machines

People still use fax machines? What is the use case?
ICEs in cars hurt local air quality and cause significant noise pollution. Even if you eliminate the fossil fuel aspect, it's still worth switching to EVs.

Aeroplanes have no viable alternative right now, and the noise/particulates issue aren't as big of a problem unless you live near an airport.
"At this point" sure, but it's not happening at all unless SpaceX succeeds with Starship at scale, which means fully, rapidly reusable and building at least a hundred of them per year, which gets launch costs to LEO down to about $50/kg.

Starting with that, SpaceX would send at least a hundred Starships to Mars with every launch window, each able to carry over a hundred tons of cargo. Price per passenger depends on how many you can safely pack in and maybe Musk is being overoptimistic on that, but he's shooting for half a million dollars.
Yes, with big picture tubes there's certainly a potential for receiving a lethal shock (of course, depending on the circumstances even very weak shocks can become lethal). My point is more about risk, respect and understanding what you're dealing with instead of apocryphal stories and fear. The former is imho more conducive to safe procedures being followed.
We have already tokenized humanity, what a strange hill to die on.
> incredibly complicated to run because it's not built as an open source product

Would you suggest it as an option to a team with limited devops budget?

The documentation seems reasonable comprehensive. Do you have a brief summary of issues?

https://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/edx-installing-configuri...
Hello!

1. Can you tell me more about the scalability of Odoo LMS for 100-1000 simultan users. What server resources is needed?

2. In the context of using the Odoo LMS, it is a good idea to have the ERP and LMS sharing same web server resouces? In production you use the LMS as a separate Odoo instance, but sharing same database as the main ERP?

Thank you in advance!
This is golden; seems to consolidate and in at least one case improve the best parts of at least 3 of my addons from what I've seen and I have not seen half of all settings yet...
You have just made my day.
If you look at California on a county-by-county basis the restrictions definitely did halve the death rate (and beyond). The counties in California that behaved more like Florida were rewarded with a great deal more death. San Francisco, which had not only tough restrictions but high compliance, had the lowest Covid-19 death rate of any metro in the country.
Yet arguably, exposure to Live View turned the Rails ecosystem back towards tools like Stimulus Reflex and Hotwire, etc instead of everyone going for the very heavy Rails API + React stack which honestly is overkill unless you absolutely need a SPA or are building out multiple front ends against your backend
That hasn't been my experience of late.

In fact, I just tried again and was asked to "verify my phone number."

Perhaps you created such an account with your phone?

In which case, Google already has that information.
Super cool!

I'm still dubious of the benefits of the aerospike but I'm happy to see the pursuit.
I like the term debt because it makes it clear it is something that needs to be paid off and is accruing interest. Meaning the longer we don't pay it the more expensive it gets, until almost no development time is going to the "principal".

Unfinished does not communicate the same. You can have an extremely clean and polished product that is unfinished. You missed the deadline but you're in a good place to deliver future requests.
Don't you have a section in the contract dealing with termination, from their side and from your side?
That's interesting, what you think Django excels that Rails doesn't? Which ones were the pain points in your opinion?
Ruby was built for programmer happiness and has always had a passionate community. During the height of its popularity, it was just like JavaScript with the paranoia. Now it’s a mature language and things are settled down. I miss _why and the whimsy the language had before.
"Sugar good. Planet is sugar. Sorry bye". But translated into firing of neurons within the fly brain. Of course there is that concept of other and self that the fly does not have. But this might be more successful with monkeys.
Your other point about motivation to describe their purpose still stands - but the point about there being too limited similarity between conceptions of the world to convey meaning between species - that doesn't work for me. They are situated in the same universe, and it's very likely that there isn't a qualitative difference between their intelligence and our own. Intelligence must be a universal law, something that falls out of the correct interpretation of thermodynamics in open systems.

Interdimensional aliens might have a more varied purpose I suppose, but then their actions wouldn't be intelligible to us at all. They might decide to convert half all life on earth into the opposite chiral form, because reasons. Or rather because there is some unknown mapping between chirality in this plane to the goals within another plain. The chirality of these biological forms within these dimensions being but the lower part of higher dimensional things which are subject to the motivating forces of higher dimensions. Although it's much more likely that any changes would not be coherent at all in our perspective of reality. The purposeful actions of other beings within other perspective frames of totality would more likely look like random thermal/quantum fluctuations within our perspective. There I solved quantum randomness for you.
And one of the classic problems with estimates is that common processes tend to bias estimates.

For example, what (I think) McConnell calls "picking the first non-impossible date". An exec asks how long project Magic Pony will take. A manager asks the team and the team comes up with a number. If the number is higher than what the exec imagined, or even higher than what the manager imagines the exec imagines, pressure is applied on the number. "Are you sure? That seems like a lot." A negotiation ensues, and often the number lands on the first date that engineers can't absolutely prove is impossible. Or the first date that engineers won't quit their jobs over.

For an estimate, we in theory want one where the team has a good chance of hitting it. Say, a 75% chance of success. But iterative pressure from the powerful will shift the distribution to 25%, 5%, 1%.
It seems to have an address width of 16 bits, there's no mention of a memory management unit, and the website lists its RAM size as 256 bytes, so I'm going to say no, regardless of speed.

The RAM size is of course the most limiting out of those three, but even if it were larger (and one could somehow build it without resorting to integrated circuits), you'd probably run into problems with the other fundamental limits if you wanted fancy things like memory in the order of megabytes.

Of course that's not the point, though, because building an entire general-purpose CPU from scratch at such a human-visible scale and from basic components is a feat in itself.
For anyone curious about aerospike engines, Tim Dodd has a great in depth video on them: https://youtu.be/D4SaofKCYwo
Ive had things like that. Previous to me someone put a large amount of relational data in a object store. It's dog slow and stupidly complex. I call that not fit for purpose, and make it clear that it requires a total rewrite.
Huh, interesting, could you maybe use this as an in-repo alternative to something like git-lfs?
I recall there was a bug in Firefox from years back where JS could be used to infer what addons were installed. Typically it just pinged some extension URIs to look for an extension's presence. If it HTTP 200 OK'd then you had it installed. That bug has been fixed IIRC.
Show me you don’t understand Ruby without telling me you don’t understand Ruby.
I've got my email out there on my HN profile, and others. All using a unique alias to the same mailbox. None of those alises where I'm using at instead of @ have received emails.

I can only conclude spam bots aren't that good.
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> Markets are designed to reward people who take risk to create useful things for other people.

This is an illusion. Recency bias due to technological advancements in the recent past.

But through the history of our specie it was social phenomenons which made people rich, not giving people what they want.

And it's still the case. Take the 20 years long war on terrorism. It costed 2 trillion of real cash (not phony marketcap, again real cash) which ended up in the pockets of few people and institutions.

The Subprime/housing bubble is another example. It's a viral idea , meaning a social phenomenon that prompted people to think real estate was always gonna appreciate

The Japanese bubble of the 90s, the dot-com bubble of the late 90s, the Russian debt crisis of 96, the European debt crisis of 2011..

Markets reward those who can buy low and sell high. Period.

It's not about creating a good or a service as much as it is about riding the waves of ideas and shifts in public opinion, as well as being able to closely follow viral social trends which prompt people to flow in/out of a determined asset.
This hurts to watch :-D
Network Validation Evolution at Hostinger, part 2
Totally agree, built a few dapps this year and the auth story is always such a breeze.

Had to work on an old project for a client that was using oauth2 and it felt so archaic.
There is a lot said for making the Linux random number generator configurable. A good entropy (random number) source takes entropy from a number of different sources and combines it with a cryptographic strong algorithm: Either a strong hash whose output is made the key and IV for a stream cipher, or directly using an Extendable-Output Function (XOF) such as a cryptographic sponge. [1]

For example, there is some controversy with the RDRAND (the x86 ”give me random bits” op code) operation, with concerns that maybe the numbers weren’t truly random, and at least one known security hole where the RDRAND output could leak under some circumstances. However, it’s widely available and probably makes good random bits. However, if it doesn’t, we want other sources of entropy (microphone output low bits, interrupt timings, etc.) so /dev/random or /dev/urandom still gives us strong entropy even if RDRAND is completely busted.

[1] I personally think a cryptographic sponge is ideal for this, since sponge functions have absorb, output, and duplex (absorb after output, i.e. accept new entropy from the system after outputting bits) functionality
You don't actually have to endure microgravity for the whole trip. Tether two Starships and spin, and you've got gravity. Musk mentioned a few months ago that they were considering it.

Couple years ago I worked out what the cable mass would have to be, and it really wasn't bad. There's even a Kevlar-equivalent that stands up well to space radiation.
Great point about Qanon and facts not being necessary. The fact we keep having the same argument on HN about masks is proof that it doesn’t really matter what Fauci did back then. It’s just weak justification for current bad behavior.
Is this the same one that is in use by Chrome?

Any plans to create more sandboxes like this for other platforms like Windows and Mac?
If you can define it, give examples, yes they can.
So it's laws/rules causing this. The U.S. government lifted truck driving restrictions, I would bet they do something similar when it comes to food processing plants.

For what it's worth (not saying the above as a way of sticking my head in the sand), I do keep a personal supply of food because I believe people should "Be Prepared". Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
I worked for an e-learning company where they built a custom solution for various reasons, but mostly for flexibility.

Some of those reasons:
- integration with other (client)systems
- advanced payment integrations, like bulk sales to schools, free accounts for teachers, combination packages with books (separate ISBN's) etc.
- ability to introduce way more types of content presentations and learning systems
- work really well on mobile
- make the UX way, way better
- different ways of tracking progress, Xapi or something country specific

It was and is quite the investment, but they have complete control and they can offer something nobody else can.

We've looked at other solutions both open-source and commercial and most of them truly suck. They either contain too much or too little or require heavy customisation, or the UX is appalling.

Once you need to onboard organisations or schools, each with multiple departments and their demands/regulations, you're in for a world of hurt unless you can adapt your platform.

It really depends on what a 'teaching business' will be for you.
I bought a bunch of Bananas and they sat in my kitchen bowl for 2 weeks. I ate probably half of them in that time, but after a couple of weeks, as expected they are off.

I demand Bananas compensate me for my losses. Typical banana dark patterns.
Turns out I didn't need to use a debugger. I just manually viewed the source, spotted a malicious domain, and worked backwards from that to see what was being sent to it. The author of the addon was careful not to make it obvious what was happening. There was some weird backdoor that randomly pinged the domain with a GET request containing info on sites I've visited. Fiddler is awesome BTW.
Promises in JavaScript and Clojure
A quick Google suggests that the top 10% of (individual) earners in 2019 took home at least 116k (almost 4x the median!).

Seems totally believable to me.
Just because a nation 'has laws' does not mean they are implemented well, or effective.

Singapore had Colonial 'laws' 'order' and 'policy' and what amounted to national strategy that worked well within their context as I pointed out in my first sentence: good commercial law in a sea of chaos.

Also, they were a 'fresh slate' without historical ethnic groups, political causes, large swaths of poor, under-performing industries to be subsidized. They can focus on the 'high surplus' activities and leave everyone else to worry about the other things.

Much like if Manhattan were to 'separate' from the US, kick out the poor people, and still control 65% of US banking activity - Manhattan would be much richer and the US somewhat poorer. They could bring in poor worker / non-citizens from upstate NY etc. and keep social costs externalized.

'Any state' cold 'copy' the Singapore model, yes, and the results would be they would probably be 'much better' (if they came from a bad starting point) but not as good as Singapore because of their strategic placement.

If India were to be as efficiently run as Singapore, they would all be 25x wealthier just as a matter of efficient organization.

But it'd be impossible to 'copy' the model because of historical, legacy political forces, every group and party wanting their supposed piece of the pie. And of course, 'efficient organization' is one thing, but without some kind of strategic industrial advantage, it's a bit harder. Of course, India could focus on being the 'IT / Software' power house of the world, and if they did that, then backed by efficient organization, they would be a 'rich' country.

Canada, Australia and New Zealand are 'clean slate' (mostly) colonies with an effective colonial bureaucracy, and at least some advantage of natural resources, and they are rich.

And FYI if every nation surrounding Singapore did adopt their model of governance, Singapore would be much less important in the equation, much like if the 'Rest of China' became as trustworthy, consistent and fair minded as Hong Kong ... then Hong Kong would lose much of it's advantage.
They are researching early December 19 wet market cases, when it's already clear that Europeans were infected at the Wuhan military games in October 19.
The difference being, of course, that you only need one such application running, rather than every app that needs notifications running its own service. And of course, if a stock method every does become available, it only needs an update of UnifiedPush, rather than of every app that ships its own notification service.
For front end auth it’s as easy as pulling in a react web3 lib.

Authorizing the service itself to act on the users behalf is a little trickier and usually involves contract signing.
For people just starting, I can see it being true. A pedestrian example might be a Lambda. You look at the pricing on their site and calculate it down to the penny, but the cost ends up higher. Because the Lambda pricing page doesn't mention the Cloudwatch logs that were created with your Lambda, but they aren't free. (Leaving free tier stuff out of the picture).
Hmm, I must had misunderstood then, my bad. When they said trucks and SUVs have been out of style for 50 years … that to me implied that they were around 50 years ago (how can something that doesn’t exist go out of style? :))
I really enjoy the vibes of these sites, although it's not the style I would want for myself. Is this a solo project?
I didn't see any reason to object to this, I mean, it's not as if anyone's actually _using_ it.
You hit the nail on the head. Developers are underpaid.
I checked, and you’re right, road deaths are (relatively speaking) low. Around 1500 per year in the UK.

However injuries are incredibly high, >100,000 in the UK.

I think if we consider QALYs instead of deaths then the calculus on importance becomes more obvious.
Sporadic instances of ransomware predate cryptocurrencies. However, ransomware didn't start becoming dominant until the early 2010s, with the rise of Bitcoin. Before then, building a botnet was the profit motive for most viruses.
This seems very much like the Git repository format, with loose objects being collected into compressed pack files - except I think Git has smarter heuristics about which files are likely to compress well together. It would be interesting to see a comparison between this tool and Git used to store the same collection of similar files.
I noted the following passage

> …the “temporary alliance between the mob and the elite” and that is the willingness of these elites to lie their way into obtaining and retaining power through “the possibility that gigantic lies and monstrous falsehoods can eventually be established as unquestioned facts.”

and also noted the glaring omission of the honourable messers Trump and Johnson, two of the most successful and prolific charlatans of our time.

Up until that point I was quite engaged with the article, but I found quite telling the complete lack of discussion of the world of post-truth politics and how two extremely patrician men managed to mobilize the common people to act against their interests by just lying through their teeth, viz election fraud and saving £350M per week for the NHS.
if "web3" works anything like crypto, there wouldn't be any rate limiting as long as you have control over your own node(it might be more expensive / harder to set one up though).

In the same way torrents are not rate limited.