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> Meet sprint and release commitments consistently: Scrum blabla

Aahhahha ok nonsense confirmed

I've NEVER seen Scrum work, at any cadence, anywhere, ever, even in shops with good developers, BAs and PMs

The list of reasons why is endless but usually boils down to vague requirements, (or clear requirements for what turns out to be the wrong thing, which is basically the same problem) and unrealistic expectations from stakeholders. Too often, devs are asked for pointless estimations that amount to "how long is a string?", and the timeline for delivery predictably becomes very inaccurate.

There's also the fact that bundling all changes over a whole week or two into a single giant release is more or less guaranteed to fail since even a small bug or problem means the whole release has to be rolled back. (even though there was nothing wrong with most of it)

Contrast this to continuous releases where every small change is released independently all the time, where, if something breaks, you can likewise just roll back that single small change while letting everyone else carry on as they were and release their stuff whenever it's ready.

I could go on
What we do at our co is run a Hugo plugin which, when an SVG is embedded in the document, provides an _Edit in https://app.diagrams.net/_ link for that SVG.

IMO, this was the missing piece for us when it came to keeping diagrams up to date.
>So all causes are equal? Is it bad to apply informed judgement on society issues?

Are all speech created equal? Is it bad to apply informed judgement on society issues? I mean, why do we want Bad Speech to proliferate? The government should ensure only Good Speech is allowed!

>If you go by that, then the US revolution should have been a bad and illegal thing.

"all causes are equal" =/= "all causes are a bad and illegal thing".
I fail to see the preventative aspect. The system really isn't set up for that.
> 62.3% turnout

> 32.62% voted for Trudeau

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Canadian_federal_election
It would be possible to measure it while on with the right hardware. It's unlikely, yes, but chips are moving to more generality and it is kind of reasonable that we would see such overdesigned chips at some point (analog + high density IO for screen in same reusable package).
You could make this same argument about professional athletes, but all across the world no one seems to follow through on this obvious money-saving hack. So I presume it's more complicated than you're suggesting.
Note that this is not asset forfeiture. The order only authorizes financially institutions to temporarily freeze accounts if they suspect they’re being used to fund illegal blockades. They can temporarily freeze accounts without a court order without any fear of legal liability.

That’s it. It’s a time out, not a forfeiture. The Emergency Act is powerful, but this invocation isn’t that powerful.
How easy would it have been for Apple to implement a way for a third-party developper to push a refund to a customer?

I'm so mad at them.
Google Datastudio, if you're fine with something in the cloud hooking up to your DB (and whitelisting the IP).

Metabase or Apache Superset, as others have mentioned, can be deployed on-prem so it's a bit more isolated/secure.
On COVID issues the NDP, Bloc and Libs are aligned which is a significant majority. Also we just had an election and nothing changed. The Liberals with a minority is actually an indication that Canada wants to be further left than Trudeau, but we haven't gotten there yet.
Got a downvote or two, so I thought I'd add some references:

First, I retract my numbers about 95% of world almonds and avocados coming from CA - I was typing from memory from research I did a year ago, and now I can't find sources to corroborate this. Nevertheless:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almonds_in_California
"The state produces 80% of the world's almonds and 100% of the United States’ commercial supply."

https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/Statistics/
"Over a third of the country's vegetables and two-thirds of the country's fruits and nuts are grown in California."
"In 2020 California's farms and ranches received $49.1 billion in cash receipts for their output."
"California agricultural exports totaled $21.7 billion in 2019"

https://spoonuniversity.com/lifestyle/the-problem-with-drink...
"...between 33 and 248 gallons of water go into producing just a half-gallon of almond milk. I'll let that sink in for a second, before I remind you that 99% of almonds grown in the United States are grown in California..."

https://www.truthordrought.com/almond-milk-myths
"8% of CA ag water is used to grow almonds" (and keep in mind that ag water is 90% of the total usable)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281474989_How_much_...
"On average, about 2,500 liters of water need to be supplied (by rainfall and/or irrigation) to a rice field to produce 1 kg of rough rice." - That's 2.5L per GRAM of rice.

https://news.yahoo.com/many-california-farmers-water-cut-130...
"A handful of districts supplying farmers including Gallagher are receiving nearly 2 million acre feet of water this drought year, enough to supply the city of Los Angeles for roughly four years."
People like to talk about the cities being problems, or that it's the water we send down south, or whatever like that. Meanwhile, a handful of (farm) districts, in a single year, are using the equivalent of a 4-year supply of water for the entire city of LA. Wow.

And yet:
https://abc7news.com/san-jose-water-california-drought-conse...
"Whaley said the [San Jose Water] company is asking customers to cutback 15-percent from their 2019 water use levels, and pay $7.13 in surcharges for every unit of water used beyond that amount."
> I would highly encourage you to find different sources for news.

I’d be curious to know the type of apolitical source of news you consume, considering the flat out incorrect claims in your post.
PURE FUCKING EVIL.
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If only he enacted the policies he said he would enact instead of triggering all the emergency acts he can find. I'm still waiting for proportional voting (it's been 6 years)
BLM protesters have been promptly arrested when they blocked streets or failed to disperse when the police ordered it, often rather violently. If these protesters want to get the same treatment BLM protesters got, they may well regret it.
Maybe statistically, but I don't think children have to lessen the joy of marriage. There are couples that make it work and are more fulfilled with kids. But perhaps it's because their priorities are family first and everything else after. Just seems like a strong blanket statement to make.
Seems like as I get older I find my self being correct much more often than I want to be.

If you divvy up responsibility sufficiently malice at an organizational level is indistinguishable from all the individual actors within optimizing for achieving their own little KPIs. Generally speaking most people do their jobs satisfactorily. Nobody needs to be incompetent to get bad results. "Not my fault a little old lady got shot, I just check the spelling on the paperwork."
That's very reasonable. Police and public office holders should require their DNA sequence to be available online, and all DNA collected in association with crimes can also be published. That way civic minded citizens can have a tool to track down potential offenders, and also to identify any genetic predisposition to health conditions so they can help the officers get the support they need.

If it's good enough for rape victims, it should be fine for the police right? Since they have nothing to hide, as upholders of our laws, they will have nothing to worry about.
There are less people engaging in highly disruptive actions such as in the blockade of the border pass or in honking at night than police officers.

The tactics are pretty simple. You order dispersal for disruptive people. If they refuse, you calmly walk towards and past them as a group in riot gear. If they engage in violence, you act in minimal self defence, and if they refuse to move, you continue, slowly pushing them forwards.

If people stay stuck in their trucks or cars, you give them a warning their car is being impounded. If they don't leave by then, you tow it to the side and give a hefty fine, with or without them inside.

It's not a hard problem at all. I've been on the receiving end multiple times. It's only when you start throwing tear gas for no reason or beating up people for fun - which police often does to other groups - that you have unprovoked issues.

As it stands municipal police has done exactly nothing. They haven't even given fines.

The ones seizing weapon caches are the RCMP, under federal jurisdiction. They've recently been allowed to take over the duties of municipal officers because so many of them refuse to do anything.
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I didn't say you endorsed OPs views. You said that this was the same as someone in one part of the US funding political action in another part of the US. Apocryphon noted that Canada is a sovereign country and not part of the US. You replied that this didn't change the point of your original post. This implied that you don't see a distinction between funding political activity within your own country and funding political activity in another country and is independent of the OPs political stance.
It's for how it's pronounced, like Hwil Hweaton
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It's this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
Another difference is that most European countries have multi-party systems. One of the key divisions is between the establishment (social democrat, christian democrat, etc.) and the activists (green, liberal left, populist right, conservative nationalist, etc.). While the establishment pays more attention to corporate interests, the activists are often ideologically opposed to them. If the establishment pays too much attention, it may lose seats to the activists.

In US politics, the establishment/activist division occurs within parties rather than between them. The first-past-the-post system makes it difficult for the minority faction to gain a significant number of seats, until there is phase shift and the minority suddenly becomes the majority. That's arguably what happened to Republicans, but it's too early to say if the shift has had an effect on their stance towards corporations.
I am prepared to believe this number, but I think a citation would be very helpful here. In any case, have you bothered to also look up the economic burden of disease of covid-19 in Canada, in terms of QALYs and/or DALYs?
This is not out right terrorism. Take a breath
> That's neat. I hope that every protester that misused a privilege of their CDL lose their truck license, lose insurance, have their bank accounts locked, and face enormous fines. I guess we have differing hopes.

Yeah. Ruining people's lives is a weird desire that somehow became very popular in recent years among the same people who usually criticized punitive justice.

> Sign petitions. Make a new political party. Lobby. Do a campaign. But if you try to force your political will through force -- which parking large trucks throughout cities and on border crossings is -- you have crossed a line and need to be reigned in.

Signing petitions and lobbying is a privilege of people with power. Neither the US nor France became a republic by signing petitions. Those are, of course, extremes, but those events are the basis of the liberal democracy, so it is quite ridiculous to dismiss everything beyond petitions and parties as crossing a line. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 wasn't enacted because someone signed a petition either. In fact, the protests were widely unpopular among people (https://imgur.com/4GYbaDt). Gene Sharp, a political scientists that studied nonviolent struggle, described in his book (http://www.aeinstein.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/TARA.pdf ) 198 methods of nonviolent actions, and they include far more possibilities than meek petitions.

>A sort of "look someone previously in a different country and a completely different event tore stuff down so let them go wild in another country to own the libs". Just garbage takes that should be embarrassing to the speaker.

And there is a vicious cycle where people are trying to one-up garbage takes by coming up with more and more ridiculous responses to each other.
My anxiety levels literally started rising when I read that line. It's another example of developers being infantalized, instead of treating them as highly trained professionals.
There are also groups crossing American and Asian chestnuts and then back-crossing them. Some are just exposing the offspring, and I think another is testing for the right genes.
I would say the difference is many of the other vaccines actually work. You won’t catch the disease if you get them. The covid vaccine does not do that. Also they fired people for not taking it but now require those who took it but are sick to work anyways. It’s no longer about protecting the population but rather forcing people to do what they are told. Forcing us back to work while sick was the line crossed that changed my mind this vaccine is not about public safety.
No, it is not worth it, and in the long-run may not have the desired effect.

For me, after seeing this, I would possibly not report being raped. Arresting the rapist isn't going to directly help me (depending on the situation), so by selfish game theory I shouldn't risk compromising my DNA
I'm glad it exists too. If you ever have a need to juggle tabs this extension is a godsend. Believe me, I've tried finding similar functionality for Chrome/Edge and aside from Edge vertical tabs, the rest are a kludge at best.
Even if you could throw money at a staffing issue, I still would rather mandate vaccines than require the government to vacuum up/print tons of money to treat illness that's trivially preventable. COVID vaccination is leagues cheaper than COVID hospitalization, and that cost affects everyone.
Here's a cool story, from a few years ago, that I heard about here: https://www.vincit.fi/fi/software-development-450-words-per-...
This situation (interviewing for someone else) is not uncommon in the IT/Software contracting field. Even more common is someone sitting across the room from the interviewee and giving answers. Sometimes through headphones hidden under hair. And I am taking about pre covid times where even if the interview was remote the job was more likely than not in office.

What does the manager do when this happens? I have been there. The answer is simple, I did exactly what I would do if the exact candidate I interviewed showed up but fell short of expectations (say used google extensively, or the questions were theoretical and they were good talkers - happens with QA and Project Manager jobs). If they are borderline, give them a task, see if they are able to complete it. A Manager should do it anyway, interviews are hard. Most companies have probation periods for this reason.

Why does it happen/what’s in it for the candidate/contracting firm?
For the candidate a few weeks or months of experience that they can add to their resume. Do it in 3 or 4 places and suddenly you are a mid level developer. Hopefully they also learn a bit of programming in the meantime.
For the contracting firm any money is money.
Sketchy IT contracting forms routinely do this and worse.
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Taking triangles off a corner is called a chamfer. If you're cutting it off, the material ends up on the floor or vaccines up, then recycled into new stock
Wow, do they not have to get blood draws before entering the force? I know little about police officers, but I know during in-processing into the military, at some point you get blood drawn and your told that the information from that will go into the CODIS database for ever and always. Or at least I remember MEPS mentioning that when I was enlisting in the Navy.
Sex is a fairly private and personal matter for most people. This creates inherent barriers to "society" working things out on this topic.
Third hand report, but apparently academics have tried to simulate what an echo locating person would hear from a 3d world, but not yet managed to convey the experience to a blind person over audio. IE there is some effect that they haven't captured yet

So Doom for echo locators not yet possible.
If at some point, the government didn't stop the old phone companies from disallowing any third-party accessory to be plugged in the phone jack, we would not have the Internet.
There's a trade-off: it takes much more masonry to enclose the same amount of space.
Eliminating easily preventable murders like this one should be considered higher priority than anything else. Divorce rate and obesity of course are issues, but to put them above murder? Come on.
Makes you wonder if we want the guy responsible for this influencing vaccine policy.
Ask HN: Is there any way to avoid backpain while coding all day long?
I'm 30 and recently I'm having a severe back pain (most likely sciatica) that has affected all aspects of my life, including my job as a programmer.

A doctor said she wouldn't recommend height-adjustable desks, but I don't know of any other position/way to write code that is easier on the back. Lying on a pillow on the bed usually reduces the pain, but it's harder to type things that way. I even thought about getting an iPad arm for my bed so that I can do my readings while resting on the bed, but I'm not sure if that's a good idea as it'd probably make the back muscles even weaker.
>"lifestyles would improve more than damage done by negative externalities"

Just because you assert this doesn't make it true. Tragedy of the commons is at play - we have no good way to measure if your statement is true or not - which is it's own issue.

It is easy to imagine how your statement could be wrong, despite what we see.
Starting with a non-industrialized society, you add in some tech, like cars. Some people use them for personal benefit. Of course a few cars don't cause everything to go suck just by themselves, and even so, the benefit for their users outweigh the harm to them personally, so they use them! Some other people are now going to need to use cars to compete with the people who do use them. Eventually the harms really become apparent, but there is no going back. And even if some people would choose not to use cars because of the harm, it is much harder to choose to abstain when practically speaking, things are still going to suck because everyone else is.

So, taking cars as an example, how do you know you are right?
I recommend reading the bottom of the article and then googling the Maru Voice Canada the people who ran the poll. They are an organization who's members they poll. A rather small one at that with a probably very high self selection bias. Calling this a survey of Canadians is blatantly false.
This is not an easy question to answer.

iOS and Mac OS definitely win in terms of what's built-in, the screen reader they come with is more than enough.

JAWS, a paid screen reader for Windows, is perfect for enterprise environments, as it works well with Microsoft Office and Common productivity applications and lets IT administrators enforce security policies. At also has a vibrant market for scripts, both free and paid. Those scripts add accessibility to third-party apps. Companies can even hire script developers to implement accessibility for the internal apps employees need, which is often important in big corp / government, and it is in those environments where JAWS thrives.

NVDA, the free Windows screen reader, is more suited to software development work than JAWS in my opinion. It's written in Python, which makes it much more flexible, but also much harder to learn script development. There's a big collection of addons and plugins of all kinds, from speech synthesizers and braille display drivers to full on remote access suites (which no enterprise security policy can block), but all of those addons need to be released as GPL, which discourages any development on addons for internal and professional applications. In many countries, NVDA has replaced JAWS entirely, even in the enterprise.

Narrator, the built-in Windows screen reader, is getting better with each year, but it still isn't on par with other solutions that we have. It's great for installing another screen reader or figuring out why your existing one doesn't work, but that's about it.

Linux is a shitshow, free software zealots will claim it's perfectly accessible, while many problems still remain. It can be used, but it's probably the least accessible out of the big three, at least when the GUI is concerned.

Android works, people use it, but iOS works much better. IPhones are much more popular in the blind community, even in countries where they're extremely expensive, even considering the fact that blind people are often unemployed or have low-wage jobs. Android has quite a few rough edges and thinks might not work the same way on different phones. It's been getting better over the years, but even something as simple as accessibility on first setup isn't guaranteed, something that Apple has basically figured out more than 10 years ago. It's much more common for an Android phone or a Windows PC to fail in a way that requires sighted assistance than it is for a device running iOS or Mac OS.
I kinda agree, though probably from a different prospective than you.

In the case of abortion, the right of the fetus to its life should be balanced with the bodily autonomy of the mother.

You can make a much stronger argument against mandatory Covid vaccination, since it is mostly about an adult making decisions about their own health.
Agreed. The anti-abortion argument claims that bodily autonomy should be violated because not doing so supposedly results in the direct death of a defenseless child.

The pro-vax mandate argument claims that bodily autonomy should be violated because it supposedly prevents a 0.05% chance of death of an innocent person. (usually adult)
I hate goal setting. Goals plain don't work, except for maybe as a way to set your direction.
Maybe the better question you should be asking is whether a simple majority (50%) is enough to justify drastic and extreme countermeasures mandated by the government, two years into a pandemic, with no end in sight. You might think this is a perfectly reasonable and responsible thing to do, but half of your neighbors strongly disagree. Now that vaccines, testing, and masks are widely available, does the government have a right to continue interfering in people's lives? If so, when does it end?
This does indeed solve a significant burden. Relying on npm seems a bit awkward. I might suggest using native packages, especially on mac; something like a DMG or .package.
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I'm not sure exactly what you meant by "morals", but I'll use Teams[1] for $50 million a year, thanks. I'm guessing you might also. After that it's just a matter of finding where the line is.

[1] Or put up with whatever such thing.
Boston ‘accidentally’ emailed workers’ Covid test info and vaccination status