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> Jira doesn't just reflect, it drives convoluted unhelpful bureaucracy.

I though so too, but now I no longer believe that's the case. This is because of two reasons: one questions the statement itself - and the other one questions whether the statement correctly identifies the organizational issue.

Firstly, almost every tool I ever used for project organization has grown to similar degree of complexity. All _software_ employed was strongly incentivized to implement new mechanisms of automation and regulation - thus right now I would struggle to name a non-defunct and non-single-user tool that doesn't have the issue. And certainly no tool that that I would call "established" - an arbitrary designation, to be sure, but that largely reflects that the complexity almost _defines_ establishment for a project management tool.

Secondly, because I think the issue isn't, truly, the _bureaucracy_. Right now I believe it's the _technocracy_. It's the belief that every process has to be codified into software, and enforced in a manner that would make exceptions impossible without a pull request. This leads to
- increase in complexity (because corner cases that would be easily solved with a quick email exchange now require weird workarounds - and if they are too common, actual change to the software)
- reduction in real organizational flexibility (any special case is now discouraged on a technical level).

Worst part is, it's very hard to sell a shift away from this. Technocratic adherence to software-enforced processes became nearly synonymous to "accountability." In itself that's frustrating to me - I believe this serves to paint organizational failures as forces of nature, effectively reducing accountability. But, so far, I have failed to effectively communicate it to most people - with exception of the very few who, themselves, have a considerable interest in social dynamics, one that goes beyond the professional interest expected of a manager. And to those, those are generally truisms - I'm under no impression I'm particularly original here.

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Aaaanyway, I went back to liking Jira - because, under all the cruft, there's still (or at least there still was) the basic bug tracker software that's almost like Bugzilla, but slightly less painful. And I like bug trackers, as long as they're used to track bugs - not manage projects. Projects are managed by people, and these days I believe that the reason all this software, as complex as it is, keeps failing to accurately communicate the project state, is because you would need the software to be a person.
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Well it certainly calls their objectivity into question, and the objectivity is supposed to be the entire point. The way they described the better (and more expensive) desk before the shakedown made it clear that it was the best one. That they changed it to a runner-up after many attempts to solicit a kickback is a seriously bad look. I don’t trust them at all now.
This has been talked about soooo much already, c'mon NYT, this is news from February.

They didn't roll this out smoothly, realizing after the fact some lateral/personal-use options were needed. As a user/customer who this affected in both personal and business sides, I'm happy with the compromise to declare personal etc. But also, c'mon, 14 years of free pretty damn good. Business users stand to pay for some services, esp. the breadth that G offers.
And I love the test rigs PF devises. Some really clever ones like the oil wear tester in his most recent review.
> I understand that software companies have non-marginal expenses.

For most subscription businesses and SaaS companies, non-marginal costs are most of the costs. The pennies Netflix saves if you don't stream during the month are a pittance compared to other SG&A expenses like headcount and content production.

> I also disagree that's the point of subscription models.

What do you think the point is? Why would Jetbrain's move to a subscription model? Why does Spotify stream music and not sell tracks and albums? A subscription model is a fundamentally different business than one offering standard transactional sales.
> And in all of this no-one gives a crap about the children, since they rarely spend even a word talking about tracking down the uploaders or creators of said porn (i.e. they say a site "has child porn", but not how fast it is removed, or if the site gives the IP of child-porn uploaders to the police, or anything beyond trying to establish in the viewer a bad site <-> child porn association).

Aren't there legal requirements in place for this stuff, at least in the US?
That's a lot of words. All I hear is "let them eat cake".

The FACT of the matter is that people who can't afford housing don't care about any of that.
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If only some of that Yellowstone Lake (7700 feet) runoff could be channeled south instead of east. Aqueducts?

Edit: A plan was cooked up in 1919, but nothing came of it. https://magicvalley.com/news/local/hidden-history-yellowston...

A century later: 2021 discussion: https://wyofile.com/wyo-looks-to-store-divert-more-water-as-...
Alternatively, the anomaly is no anomaly at all. Its origins were fortuitous, but rather than a reversion to the baseline of misery it was an unlocking of a new normal though a series of irreversible (or very unlikely reversible) inventions, much like agriculture was. We used one source of energy to power our leap forward, we'll use a different one to sustain a baseline of plenty, or maybe unlock a new level soon. I see no reason whatsoever why this is less likely than the doom and gloom currently so in vogue.
Thanks for showing your view. It does help in making me be more empathetic to UX/UI designers.
> then is the intent of this project to only service corporations?

One of the intents is NOT to service corporations for free or promote such services.
I tweeted this exact thing to them last month and they basically acted surprised I didn’t like it.
You call your bank, or go into a branch, and transfer it to their bank account.
Is that a "pro" tip ?

Otherwise Vacuum Wars channel had an entertaining test on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QT8SQjp-y0

The channel is great in general for everything vacuum. As far as review goes they put a serious effort in them. The brief foray into air cleaners was a great parenthesis.
Anti-union is not anti-labor. Unionization makes it harder for those not employed in an industry to get their foot in the door, by reducing turnover, and by reducing the growth of jobs produced by the industry.
He provides no ideas that would help the company succeed and find profitability. Only vague mention of returning to open source and that focusing on cars is bad because it bad for the environment.

The company raised a huge amount of cash and needs to make money to survive. The mistake was probably raising too much money.

So somehow, he thinks that the projects his colleagues „believe in“ are going to be more profitable than what they are currently working on. Do they have a business plan? Have they spoken to customers? It’s just so naive.

And it’s important to note that while they raised and spent a huge amount of money, they sucked up all the talent and probably prevented other competitors from emerging in the space. So we shouldn’t feel so sorry for them. They were privileged to have so much money available to them when others didn’t.

But I won’t lie, it’s always nice to have VC money dumped into open source work while it lasts.
The price seems to be somewhere between $2.5 to $3/lb now:

https://www.selinawamucii.com/insights/prices/united-states-...

In any case, doubling the price of almonds is exactly the kind of change I'd expect to see if water was charged fairly. It's one of the worst offenders - if farmers have built their business models around free water during a historic set of droughts, their business models are fundamentally unsustainable and it's the government's duty to fix the pricing sooner rather than later.
> Example: in the 90s, Windows, arguably one of the easiest commercial operating systems and certainly the most familiar, used to routinely frighten its users by falsely accusing them of crimes.

> "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down."

At first, I laughed.

Then I realized, I think I remember seeing this error message when I was six years old, and being freaked out.
It also is a form of documentation. I love when someone doesn’t type code but then ends up adding the types in the doc string, why wouldn’t you just type it then?
"Bank error in your favor. Collect $200"
In some cases. This happened in the EU during the COVID pandemic due to weird regulatory reasons.

But in general: if no one is booked on the plane, they will stop selling that flight pretty quick. Of course in the short term they might fly an empty flight if all passengers no-showed and if they need the plane at the other airport, but their fleet allocation optimizer probably works at most a couple days ahead, so empty flights will soon be culled. Similarly routes with few passengers will get allocated smaller planes in the future, etc, etc.
There's a "statement timeout" feature you'd find helpful - https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/control-runaway-postgres-qu...
I’ve gotta be honest here, I really don’t know what you’re trying to say. Workers having a say at their workplace is a burden? Working at a big company somehow solves this? Having a say at your workplace and working at a startup is too much entitlement, you can only have one?
Hmm, I don't think any governments are actively legislating to make it illegal to be (or acknowledge the existence of) fathers or housewives.
> LVT cares more than any other tax system because tax revenue is reflective of the economic value of the property.

This is false, LVT only cares about the hypothetical economic value not the actual economic value.

Let’s say you buy some farms in the middle of nowhere for 10k/acre and put a theme park on it. Your LVT taxes are in theory unchanged, though depending on how it’s calculated the value of land around that property increases because it’s near a theme park. Then your LVT increases when people start to build hotels etc around your property.

What’s interesting about this model is your incentivized to develop land as a single unit. A sports stadium with associated shops and hotels is valued as if none of it was there, but split it up and each pays more due to proximity to other businesses.

And of course what improvements are included or excluded is rather arbitrary. Do you value a natural or artificial pond differently?
If you want to read that in the most favourable light, perhaps that's more AML/CTF regs. You can't be laundering money or funding terrorism until you try and get cash _out_ of your account.

But like others are saying, there's ample evidence that Robinhood are despicable, so they sure as hell don't deserve and favourable interpretations of their trashier policies...
Thank you, that's a nice feature. I hope I won't forget it until I need it again.
Typing is also documentation. If you are documenting your code you’ll need to document the types for it to be useful so why not just type it and save yourself a whole bunch of runtime errors?
What other motivators do they think they offer?

I mean, I am primarily motivated by the work, being something that I enjoy, but I already have a job that provides that. I need that and more to consider a move to another job.
Some previous discussions along the timeline of this:

5 months ago: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying (660 votes)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29996432

1 month ago: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail (238 votes)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31403047
Spot on. One of the reasons we created Atlas (new product) was precisely this: help stakeholders and dependent teams focus on common language between teams over this misconception that task-level reporting is how they help understand the true state of work. Disclaimer: I work for Atlassian on Atlas, and I didn’t think I could ever get so passionate about soling this problem.
I also subscribe to choice. They do lots more than product reviews. They have general guides on how to get the best use out of products, mystery shoppers reviewing customer service, tools to compare health insurance, etc. The reason I stay subscribed is they campaign about consumer rights issues which actually cause industries as a whole to change, e.g. bank fees. They also have the shonky awards which usually gets a bit of media attention each year, where they shame companies for poor behaviour, quality, outright scams, etc. I think of it like a lobby to help us consumers out, which we need more of. Too often we are listening to the advice of the industry bodies that represent the companies rather than the consumers.
The big problem with most YouTube review channels is that they're reliant on the vendors to provide them with free test units and other forms of access in order to grow their channels, and Linus is no exception.

I actually came across a "why I'm shutting down my channel" video a while back in which the host showed emails from the company whose product she was reviewing (it was a drawing tablet or something like that) pressuring her to show the product in a more favorable light.

It's so hard to tell who's actually objective in those review videos and who's censoring themselves at the request of a vendor.
I'm more concerned about their interaction with addictive apps than with strangers on the Internet. I'm confident that I can educate them to have a skeptical view of the world them and exercise common sense, I'm not sure I can stop them get more and more addicted once they get started down that path.
He does go into his anti-car personal views a bit much, but he also suggests that focusing on auto tech is a dead end because Google and Apple dominate that for the mapping space. Is he wrong?

> Do they have a business plan? Have they spoken to customers? It’s just so naive.

If things are going downhill, isn't it more naive to believe that the current people overseeing that have the right idea?
There is a fourth using the back of the main head similarly to the depth probe. It can be less fiddly and less subject to wear if you don't need to get into a small space.
This kind of arrangement used to be extremely common before building codes made them illegal. Here's a humorous indication of how normal this would have seemed to people 70 years ago:

> The 1951 sci-fi classic “The Day the Earth Stood Still” inadvertently shows us how. Klaatu, a level-headed extra-terrestrial emissary, escapes captivity at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He wanders down Georgia Avenue, away from not-yet-nuclear-weapon-free Takoma Park, and attempts to disappear into everyday DC.

> To do so, Klaatu checks into a boarding house at 14th and Harvard in Columbia Heights. Each room houses one or two people, and as such there’s scant privacy to be had: everyone overhears everything.

> This is convenient for Klaatu, who knows little of Earthlings’ simple ways, but probably annoying for the Earthlings. Conditions like these were common in DC homes at the time.

Source: https://ggwash.org/view/31818/an-alien-notion-800000-dc-resi...

A single room with your own bed and a door that locks is miles above sleeping on the street, even if it means shared bathroom and kitchen facilities. We need to legalize these options once again.
People who are food insecure are poor. Poor people eat shitty food, binge eat more commonly when presented the opportunity, and likely suffer from more stress / malnutrition.

Food insecurity doesn't mean you're constantly underfed. It just means you can't generally know where your next meal is going to come from. Hunger sucks. It's not tough to see how that could cause you to eat more.
Well, I hope you're right. But I'm not sanguine about civilization's prospects for surviving >2C temp increase, which seems to be where we're headed.
Good Lord what a good find. I'm asking because of your username—for people into the trance revival scene that's sprung up around DJs like Courtesy are there any artists or other DJs today you'd recommend?

I spent my early twenties going to DVS1 and Ben Klock sets. Past the drugs the music was (and remains) foundational to me.

To avoid making a valueless comment I can also suggest resonate.is! It's a music co-op that pays 45% to the artists, by far the most. I listen to the #ambient tag at work.
I'm afrayed it was :-)
his essays are also great: https://www.counterpointpress.com/dd-product/the-unsettling-...

and his poetry: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/wendell-berry
It's absolutely rampant on any social media platform, and most blogs. I'm guessing it's extremely rare anyone is prosecuted for violating the disclosure laws. Some choose to do it to keep their viewers trust, but one big problem as platforms go all-in on algorithms, it's less about having a trusting audience and more about doing what you can to get random videos/posts picked up by the algorithm, regardless of content.
Land isn't, but land value (in dollars) is
> I've tried to advocate for this at my organization and been told that we don't want people primarily motivated by money...

Oh good, i do not want bosses only motivated by my work output either :)
It's a pitiful state of affairs isn't it?
> But this caused her to freak out as clearly "someone" was watching and knew what "her" page was. Ergo "someone" was watching her on the internet.

Even through her reasoning was wrong, she still managed to reach the right conclusion.
Interesting you mention banks.

> A 2019 study by Hua Sun and Lei Gao of Iowa State University found that from 1990 to 2015, same-sex couples were 73% more likely to be turned down for a mortgage than similarly qualified different-sex couples. In addition, same-sex couples who were approved for mortgages paid about 0.02% to 0.2% more, on average, in interest and fees.

https://www.investopedia.com/mortgage-lending-for-lgbtq-peop...

The US government has made positive changes to combat this practice,

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-lgbt-banks/u-s-banks-...

but you would be mistaken to assume such discrimination has completely disappeared or doesn't still exist in similar forms.
Yep. Sometimes reality sucks. I also have a lot of wishes that will never come true.
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Do any browsers API's support quic ?
How many interviews have you taken to determine that one is an outlier?

I haven’t had a “formal” interview in some years now, but of the 5 job interviews I’ve had in the last decade, zero had a take home component and one had leetcode style questions.

Since I’m 0 for 5 on take homes, and 1 for 5 on leetcode I can only surmise based on your logic that neither actually exist.
To that last point, that's why we have AvE and his BOLTR reviews.
I've read some articles online, but I still haven't managed to understand the hype around wireguard. It's lighter than OpenVPN, but has more obscure primitives? Doesn't seem like a great trade off...
Where to put air purifier is also important (but depends on situation). So design is a bit important to put on good place.
Torrenting.
Just because a person has political views doesn’t mean they need to push them out to every medium possible.

When I’m at work I expect people to mostly talk about work, not divide the office by broadcasting controversial political views via their avatar and posting hot takes in their status messages.

With developers I expect the apps to solve some problem I have. That’s it. I know a person, or team of people, wrote it but their politics are completely irrelevant to their ability to solve my problem via and app. I also don’t need to know about their family, hobbies, religion, or dreams.
> I only see the impact a union could have on improving morale

There is literally no higher calling.
I happily give the "I like the job discount." (I have 20 years professional development experience.)

What's critical is that you still need to be "market rate." You don't have to be the highest compensation on the market, but you need to pay me around the 60th percentile.

Edit: I should add that, in the two times I was below market rate, once I became indispensable, I threatened to leave unless my pay was jacked up. The "I like the job discount" only goes so far.
People still think a rainbow is political. And look at all the political stunts GOP is pulling at LGBT peoples expense.

Also, we aren’t past that point.
Has there been research on subsidized apartments versus paying people the difference and letting them choose where to live? Rather than applying for a subsidized apartment, apply for a $1k-$2k/month rent subsidy from the government and live in market rate units.
Why would you need so much aspirin?
The Economic Impact of Moore’s Law: Evidence from when it faltered (2017) [pdf]
Sure, finding the right method to solve an issue is important. I agree fixes with their own problems (medication) shouldn't be viewed as a panacea.

Hey, have a good one!
From personal experience, Roku OS TVs (TCL mostly) have a very good non-internet user experience, with a dedicated mode for being a dumb display. WebOS (LG) is decent. Tizen (Samsung) ones are okay, although the one I have is from before they started putting ads in the menus so I don’t know if there are placeholders. None of them have disabled any features or nagged me, or tried to sneakily connect to the internet. Google/Android/whatever-it’s-called-this-year TV (Sony) might not even be usable without internet, I’m not sure. It’s also terrible.

Generally, firmware updates on modern TVs are used for creating bugs and performance problems, rather than fixing them. They also add advertisements. Don’t ever connect it to the internet, and it’ll be fine.
My default is hiking boots, flip-flops, and either sneakers or strap-on Tevas, depending on climate. Wear the boots on the move, and the others are manageable, although sneakers often don't make the cut.
You touch on a common mistake with collective bargaining. It assumes the market and landscape stay static. That the entire industry will not go through huge waves of change and huge levels of innovation will be needed to survive.

If companies suck they should die. We should not have too big to fail. Look at blockbuster vs netflix.

Companies don’t have to fail completely but certain projects should be able to fail. We don’t want huge companies expanding into everything with their sheer sales networks. We don’t want monopolies and oligopolies.

Look at amazon. It has a terrible reputation. And a monopoly. What we want and need is more competition. And it will come.
Ask HN: First 90 Days Senior Engineer
Hi everyone. I recently got hired at a big tech company as a senior engineer. I'm a "new" senior in the sense that I recently turned 27, so my years of experience is relatively small.

The language(s) and tooling are all new to me. I've been studying the code in-depth and asking questions, but want to be a valuable member of the team. What things would you recommend someone in my position to do?

I'm fairly quiet, so one of the bigger challenges has just been trying to socialize remotely and be an empathetic team member whilst balancing the technical difficulties of the work. Anyways, would love to hear your experiences.
Sounds to me like you might grow to resent this individual if you gave them shares. I agree with everyone else: give them a % revshare for hitting milestones. No shares this late in the game.

Also, in this looming recession, equity will be less sexy to hold for employees. So use that to your advantage. Good luck!