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The age of Scrum never really started, because no one does any agile development properly ever.

At least that's what the proponents say when anyone points out any issue at all with anything agile.
Speculators betting it will come roaring back afterwards, money still getting cheaper, folks with families that can’t move, inability to ‘just move’ if you own, all probably contributing.

Housing prices have been out of whack with fundamentals (cash flow) since at least ‘12-‘13.
As someone who isn't a huge cheerleader for America I'll add a few specific points.

The US rather recently used tear gas to disperse a crowd in an absolutely unjustifiable action - while China has been regularly assaulting Hong Kong residents that are trying to preserve their comparatively free local government.

China is chomping at the bit to seize and annex the Republic of China (aka Taiwan) while the US has (granted, with a fair bit of awful execution) generally entered into wars without the explicit goal of bringing more territory under a dictator.

On American internet I can criticize Biden, Trump, Manchin and Cruz without being concerned over what consequences the government will try and visit on me for my disloyalty.

As a young teenager I watched a neighbor of mine flee the country after 9/11 due to their Omani heritage and relations and I was horrified at how middle-easterners were treated. Some Americans were even kidnapped in the middle of the night and detained (I'd argue illegally) in Gitmo. China has routinely rounded up anti-party agitators.

In my early adulthood I watched a semi-serious debate in Vermont about voluntarily leaving the union - anyone even talking about advocating for a free and independent Tibet is routinely arrested.

America has shifty credit score companies that dictate what you can and can't afford through opaque, mysterious and often quite flawed metrics - China has social credit.

America, as flawed as they may be, has elections, and, again as flawed as they may be, does have two parties - precisely one more party than China has. It'd be really nice if both countries actually had a sane number of political parties but hey 2 > 1.
Yes, but you're not "Scrumming" and "Agile" with capital letters. And that's a good thing, because then you wouldn't be "agile" anymore.

I actually like Scrum, but holding onto it too tightly is a big mistake, IMO.
The 90s web that loaded an ActiveX which would automatically screw up your whole computer? Popups with ads that move around and cannot be closed? BSOD after entering the wrong website? Half of the browser window filled with toolbars? It seems that rose-colored glasses are very present here.
Why is the DoorDash app so slow?
I don't think SFFD needs extra permission to destroy private property in a measured response to an emergency. They do it all the time.

They might not have had the correct equipment or vehicle to move a car out of the way though.
Microsoft has left the chat
> We've been looking for decades and can't find anything.

You say that as though it's a long time. The first interstellar object in our own solar system was only spotted a few years ago.
Small replicating probes at high fraction of C sound good on paper. In reality, there is interstellar matter that can destroy your high-fraction-C small probes when colliding. Space radiation will deteriorate their condition as well. Do yourself a favor and educate yourself about space radiation. It's really bad in the interstellar space. Even your favorite AI creatures need protection from it.
ESMification: Migrating from JSM to ES6 Modules in Firefox
For shoelace knots specifically, this is a personal favorite, especially the "Ian Knot": https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/index.htm
The argument I usually see is that there would be less need for transportation as the removal of explicit zoning would be part of the effort for increasing density and that would put people closer to the goods and services that they want/need.

(I don't have an opinion on this; the closest I ever got to city planning was playing Sim City)
Usually that refers to voluntary recognition - acknowledging that the unit wants to organizing without forcing an NLRB election. I believe there already WAS an NLRB election for the Raven QA workers though, so that shouldn't apply here. I think the gist of the article is that Activision was set on continuing to fight until their last legal recourse was exhausted, while Microsoft accepts the current state of things.
Good point. The only advantage that occurs to me is that you could spend the journey (waves hands) converting the interstellar object into reaction mass to enable deceleration at the other end. And maybe also for course correction, because the object is very pretty unlikely to be going anywhere interesting just by chance
Scrum was always very strange, a little package of dogmatic practice as a way (supposedly) to implement a highly adaptive methodology.
I don't know of any consumer cameras that do this. Some manufacturers use a different filter on some models, Fuji uses an X-Trans filter on some models which in the past can cause issues with some software demosaicing.
I've been working in a "post-Scrum" world I suppose in that I have not used it prescriptively for software development in a very long time.

It isn't terribly exciting stuff. Simply remove the unnecessary ceremonies and "rituals" and instead focus on practical and effective solutions to the problems you actually have. Continuously try out new ways of building the software better, measure your results, continue to improve. The heart of the agile manifesto I suppose.
Hey, as a former Vermonter I'd appreciate it if you didn't tell everyone that. Do you want us to take away Bernie? /s
The idea that USA has any interests whatsoever in Ukraine was definitely "made up" by someone. [0] If anything, Taiwan's outsized international commercial importance makes it less likely to be the next site of disastrous war. Or so I hope...

"Fake news" has become a flag phrase, like "whataboutism". The first comment in the thread to include it, either to praise or to damn, was made by the biggest moron.

[0] https://www.opensecrets.org/news/reports/capitalizing-on-con...
Absolutely true. I am prone to having this pervasive sense of sadness and numbness become part of my identity. My friend, on the other hand, always responds to "how are you doing?" with "I'm on top of the world!" To some extent, we can train our minds to be positive.
Teams is more widely used than Zoom in my view. Significantly more.
> A rule that says don't pull into an intersection you will not be able to clear (!!) would solve a ton of issues.

This is not only a rule, but a law, in most US cities. Doesn't eliminate the behaviour, obviously!
William Easttom - Modern Cryptography Applied Mathematics for Encryption and Information Security

https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=B5DB9B050F1044082F9ED26...
> To me, Scrum has always been something of a paradox. The whole point of agile is to adapt the process to the team's needs - if you're doing dogmatic agile, you're not actually doing agile.

It seems to me that Scrum has "no true Scotsman" built right in to the model. If you criticize it, a Scrum practitioner can just reply "well, just adapt it to your needs then". Or if you hear of something too crazy a team is doing with Scrum because they adapted "well, they're not doing Scrum right".
https://archive.ph/EceIk
Did you just downvote a fact?
A better option would be to transfer the residential neighborhoods of DC to existing states, and keep only the area around the Capitol and White House under federal control.
In an age where tech workers have massive autonomy and respect, it might be difficult to remember WHY the original Agile manifesto was written.

Sure it talks about delivery, working software, and the like.

But a big motivator wasn't just "Craftsmen who want to do their craft more effectively", it was "Employees who are being abused by project managers, Gantt charts, and top-down waterfall death marches, who want to have sanity"

The part of 2-week sprints that says "deliver working software at the end" is just as important as the part that says "PMs can't introduce new scope into the sprint".

So the reality is It Depends on the company.

If you're lucky enough to be in a place where you have full control over your process to deliver software, Bottoms Up, Just-In-Time Process is the perfect attitude. But if management is enforcing archaic practices for no seemingly clear reason, the "rigid" nature of Scrum actually helps enforce a good way of doing things in a way that "traditional" management can reason about.
Are the "pictures under glass" interfaces critiqued in the article really any better for those who cannot use their hands? I have full use of my hands, so I am not sure, but the few people I know with limited hand control use some specialized input device that they can operate with their mouth, eyes, or head.
Ask HN: How to get my money from Azlo (the closed startup bank)
Azlo[0] was shut down early last year. I was in Germany, they wanted to mail my balance (>$10k) to me. I explicitly asked them not to, but they insisted that was the only option.

I wasn't sure when the cheque will arrive so I eventually forgot about it.

Fast forward to today, over 1 year and I haven't received my cheque. I tried to reach them but all their email addresses and phone numbers are closed.

Their website now redirects to pnc.com. I have contacted PNC on multiple occasions and their customer service team have no clue what I'm talking about. They recommend I visit a branch, which is not possible as I don't plan on visiting the USA anytime soon.

What options do I have? Do you know anyone from Azlo I can reach out to? I will also like to be compensated for what has been a frustrating waste of time.

0 - https://www.cnbc.com/select/banking-options-for-freelancers-small-business-owners/
A project manager trying to run agile is the perfect justification for micromanagement.
The Kanban book by David Anderson was all about this, but it never caught on like Scrum did. If I’m feeling cynical I think its because there were no certifications to charge for and no strange new roles for middle managers.
>But what I see happening, when done right, is that people are forced to talk about what's holding them up.

I bring that up right away to the appropriate person via email or call or walk-over (when all else fails). If I had to wait until the next morning's standup, it would be less efficient.
My friend, this too shall pass. You are strong for having made it this far.
They called it “scrum but”
i wouldn't have issues with him if that's what he claimed he was doing instead of trying to pass off every engineering feat of Tesla and SpaceX as his own. but the piece of shit has made himself the stereotypical entitled executive type by taking credit for other people's work.
Except it got this part right..
I had a 90 minute+ door to door commute (which I could do mostly by train) for about 18 months. I only had to do it about half the time and it was manageable but probably not sustainable long-term, especially for stretches when I was regularly going in more frequently. Once a week would be pretty doable; I go in for the day periodically but nothing like once a week.
> But no one says there is a need for this extra liquidity.

The fact that scalpers can sell the consoles for a much higher price shows that there is no market equilibrium with respect to the prices that the console vendors set. To achieve this, console producers could choose two strategies:

a) increase production

b) increase prices

a is impossible because of chip shortages, so b would be the way to choose to achieve "supply = demand" (i.e. everybody who is willing to pay the market price will get a console). Since console producers are not willing to do this move (perhaps for "marketing reasons" à la "our console is this cheap"), scalpers will make use of this market inefficiency, and ensure that the prices are those where there is a market equilibrium.

So, scalpers change the situation from "there is more demand than supply" to "supply = demand", making the market balanced.

Thus, the existence of scalpers is rather are sign that the console producers chose a price that is too low. The existence of scalpers is thus a mere symptom of the bad pricing decision of the console producers.
Oh, taking a car to get to Costco is awesome. When I lived on my own and shopped via walking I'd still occasionally borrow a friends time to do a big run with them to pick up canned goods, flour, etc... the stuff that's heavy and that you buy in bulk.

But in America, if you want half a pound of pastrami you're probably going to have to get in a car to get it unless you live in one of the few areas that still follows that sort of dense city planning.
I might not use that hyperbole myself but if you've ever had to sit through LA traffic day in and day out it's really not that hard to imagine why people get upset about it. Yeah if you live in the middle of nowhere it's a different story.
They could give SFFD a blanket permission to destroy their cars in an unmeasured response to an emergency...

> They might not have had the correct equipment or vehicle to move a car out of the way though.

Or they they didn't feel it was "a measured response". Who knows.
It is definitely not a joke. This started off as scratching our own itch in answering 'how predictable are programmers?' but it turned out to be really useful, so we made a site.
There Have Been 13 Mass School Shootings Since 1966, Not 27 This Year
Interesting, I have a very different experience. My team does retrospective once a month (we don't do Scrum, so it's not tied to "sprints") and every month we actually do some improvements.

Sometimes the problems are small, let's say our products have inconsistent CLI interfaces for developers, and that slows us down, so we decide to unify it. Sometimes it's big stuff, for example the team feels that we don't have enough clarity about long term of the product, or there are too many interruptions. Then it's my (EM) or PM's role to figure stuff out.

Some of the good things we changed as a result of retro: we removed stand-ups, we agreed to meet in the office once a week, we introduced a daily support rotation for our users (we build internal tools). We can't fix everything, but every month we get something done, and that keeps the team motivated to bring new ideas to retros.
I never understood the need for these frameworks. Every time I try to read into it, it seems to make the assumption that your team are a bunch of children who can't manage their own tasks and escalate issues as they come up.

Write up a plan, get it approved, build it, release it. Escalate blockers or issues along the way and adjust as needed. I guess it's closest to agile but I just see it as... being an adult and doing your job?

All this process seems to just stress everyone out.
Be careful. I have a lot of friends leaving Chicago due to outrageous crime rates.
I would consider HA/clustering/auto-scaling to be table stakes for something as mission critical as secrets management.

As far as I can see, this is fully available in the open-source version of Vault: https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/vault/ha-with-consul
Miyazaki is one of my favorite directors.
Probably I'm misled but how is it a code review without looking at the actual code? (not listed as an input feature on the 'how' page)
I find one problem with retros is they violate the principle of "praise in public, criticism in private". People instinctively understand that and thus there tends to be more praise. Everyone hears themselves praising the process and thus start to believe it actually is good. Therefore more Scrum gets done, no matter if it's actually good for the team or company or not.

Recently I went to a retro where the positives were listed as a great team, great accomplishments in the last sprint, thanks to person X for going the extra mile, and so on. When it came to discuss the negatives, the main one was "the meeting room was hard to find".
Um so WHY was the Cruise car stopped in a travel lane to begin with? I skimmed 2x but don’t see this explained..
I got burnt out and am arguably still recovering 2 years later.
I couldn't disagree more with the premise. It was my fault, my problem, and only I could fix it. The first step was saying no to new work and cutting back on existing work.

You have to own your problems and be a good owner of your mind and body.

As an adult, you cant delegate your caretaking to others. Only you can judge your limitations, and if you expect your company to look after your better than you look after yourself, you will always be disappointed.
Apple is paying RED for #9,230,299. A quick look at the claim doesn't seem to have this patent listed.
I feel like indicating to a human driver would take about as long as the 25 seconds the autonomous car took.
Scrum and Agile have given us a lot.. of nasty problems.

Don't get me wrong, I think Scrum and Agile may be great tools, but their values are not exclusively intrinsic. There are SEVERAL prerequisites for them to work well. And proponents of Agile methods, either by excess of enthusiasm or economic interests in selling courses, books, lectures etc, have always pushed this arrogant perspective of "if agile is not working for you, you are doing it wrong" and "some organizations are not mature enough for agile". The number of practitioners who bought that truckload of BS is terrifying.

And then MBAs and PMPs finally "embraced" agile. The rest is consequence.

So, yeah, farewell agile, and I fear for what comes next.
Hey want to go get some free food at this public and safe place you've been before with all your friends for backup? Checks out ok.
Open-source audio over IP with Netjack
I took Boneh's graduate class a few years ago through SCPD. Recommended if you can justify it. He has a Coursera course that I assume is of similar high quality with less depth and rigor.

We used the above two books in addition to Handbook of Applied Cryptography by Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot and Scott A. Vanstone. I notice Boneh no longer uses the latter for CS255; perhaps it is too out of date now? At any rate, it is also available free on the web:
https://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/hac/
I had someone try the same grift to me in NYC but they went for my decoy pocket that only had used tissues.
I don’t know about “all”, but Fannie and Freddie do indeed trade derivatives as part of risk management
Tesla made a partnership with a battery company, too. They used Panasonic's batteries during their formative years. Why is Tesla beholden to different rules when scaling up?
>I don't think that is imminent. They've been saying it has been on it's knees constantly since the 1990s at least (and probably longer but I personally cannot remember any further back).

Private Eye on "24 Hours to Save the NHS" <https://twitter.com/KulganofCrydee/status/833654730849136641>
At the expense of others and hurts more people in the future.
This appears to be a 2016 column from a local paper, but it includes a number of interesting quotes from the time period:

https://sites.google.com/a/lanepl.org/columns-by-jim-blount/...

I think it gives a decent window into what was being discussed then, as I understand it.

It's a little hard to Google references that give a feeling for the issues that were on peoples' minds at the time (like the precedent of the Bonus Army), because attention/salience (what "matters" in the culture) has changed a lot since then (and even since 2016).

I had thought that maybe the bill itself would have a revealing preamble, but it doesn't really. The official name does say something though: "Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944".

I think people were very interested in taking lessons from WW1 and avoiding the same problems that had occurred afterwards. Not only would the GI Bill be emblematic of this, but also, say, the difference between the Marshall Plan and the Treaty of Versailles.
My favorite thing I've found myself doing is taking some of my older machines I use as physical sandboxes and prepping them with various OS images, then capturing them with Clonezilla and using the recovery-iso-zip option to build a custom "autonuke" ISO.

I then slap the "autonuke" ISOs on my IODD drive emulator so I can have a fairly rapid offline recovery when I need to re-stage a physical rig.
Indeed. 436 states, here we come!
In my several years of experience of participating in retrospectives at two different companies/teams - it's a total waste of time. Just one of the ceremonies for keeping "Agile Coaches" employed.
> For some reason it's makes some people on here angry

It's because some people here own real estate and don't want to see YIMBY policies that would cause their rental income to fall
Most organizations that I've worked with as a consultant think Jira = Agile/Scrum and fail to do even the most basic actual Agile/Scrum things like proper story writing, filling a product owner role with someone who has even a remote idea of the product owner's responsibility, etc., etc.
Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results (2020)
Many of the ideas and practices in "agile" in general seem to me still to be very relevant and useful. It can be used for good or evil (or just given lip-service without even really trying), but I think there is good advice and ideas there for those who are approaching it trying to do well.

But "scrum" specifically has always seemed to me the worst of "agile", a system intentionally designed to turn the developer's experience into a fordist sweatshop cranking out as much productivity as possible, treating the developer like a commodified interchangeable part. It's like as if "economic efficiency over humanity" were part of the agile manifesto (it ain't).
From the article.

> a San Francisco Fire Department truck responding to a fire tried to pass a doubled-parked garbage truck by using the opposing lane. a traveling autonomous vehicle (...) was blocking its path. While a human might have reversed to clear the lane, the Cruise car stayed put (......) Tiffany Testo, a spokesperson for Cruise, confirmed the incident. She said the driverless car had correctly yielded to the oncoming fire truck in the opposing lane and contacted the company’s remote assistance workers,

So it sounds like the car was driving perfectly fine, but stopped when a car was coming at it head on and it didn't reverse.

I think the real issue here is a double parked garbage truck forcing the fire truck to go into oncoming traffic in the first place. Maybe there's a need for a loading only zone there so that the garbage truck doesn't have to block the travel lane.
if len(diff) > 500 lines:
return "Looks good to me"
time.sleep(86400)
return "+1"
After waiting about 2 years, I got my Flipper Zero in the mail a week ago. Yesterday I bought a second one and I am getting excited about tinkering with C because the firmware is open source.
The underlying problem is simple. Stop having government backed student loans
Anything available to the public can be used in a prior art rejection, not just patents. (I'm a former patent examiner and I frequently used "non-patent literature" as it's called.)
> when you run the program, run it with ` MY_SECRET_KEY=myGitHubPersonalToken npm start`

But where does this live? Or do you literally mean that Jane The Sys Admin is supposed to type this into her terminal every time the service restarts in the middle of the night?

What if I need to replace a node? Or scale a service? How do these secrets get there?
Yes. Really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDXB0CY2tSQ
PayPals taxable income was $25 billion, so I went with the higher number (25 billion vs 12 billion) to establish an upper bound.

For a more salient point of comparison, PayPal is complaining about paying $0.01 for every $100 of revenue.