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I agree with you that any kind of process sucks when a team doesn't really know what they are doing.

And by using a methodology you are saying just that "we have no fucking clue, so we will try it this way that person X sol us".

I have debated agile proponents about whether agile would work in their respective organizations on multiple occasions. Usually I argue it would fail just as much as any other approach?

Why? Because people try to adhere to it strictly and completely miss or ignore their current context, which is usually THE problem they are trying to solve in the first place.

And you are dead wrong about waterfall. Waterfall is not even a methodology. Anyone selling himself as an "methodology expert" while trying to sell you on "waterfall methodology" is a quack and a fraud. Anyone talking about waterfall as a possible methodology is a quack and a fraud who knows nothing about methodologies. Because waterfall is not a methodology, just like adding rat poison to kids candy is not a business model. Waterfall has always, since the very beginning of the term, been an anti pattern a "anti-methodology".
I built this as part of my dissertation in the 4th year of my CS degree over a year ago. Was talking to somebody about it yesterday and they suggested I should post it on HN so here it is.

Essentially you are looking at a search engine that attempts to extract some relevant images from the content of the result pages in an attempt to make it easier for the user to make a decision about which results are most relevant. The search portion of the project is a fairly thin client that uses Google ajax search API, making calls to my API to decorate the search results.

The API fetches the web page in real time and uses a range of features in the source code of the html to make inferences about the usefulness of a given image. The search engine tries to display the logo of the page at the bottom left of each result, and a representative content image to the right. It works really well for certain kinds of searches, e.g., 'news', and not so well for others.

One important point to note is that it currently breaks for all wikipedia results as my special logic for parsing those pages is now out of date as they've updated their html :s
Patents are, in theory, only granted on ideas which have been reduced to practice (implemented).

I can't get a patent on the idea of a time machine. I can get a patent on an actual time machine.
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Testicular cancer is probably the more pressing matter.
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what did the java engineers get wrong? Hotspot performs fast interpretations then compiles after multiple run of a piece of code.
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Not getting cancer doesn't avoid all the other health problems. Those may not kill you but do have a significant effect on quality of life.

But sure, informed consent is a good thing.
> Chris Harrison at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, working with Zhiquan Yeo and Scott Hudson, has shown that animated pop-up download progress bars which use visual illusions make the process seem around 10 per cent faster than it really is.

Apple already uses a a basic visual trick of this kind in its Mac OS X operating system, but Harrison's research suggests such techniques could be used to greater effect.

From: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18754-visual-tricks-ca...
Not sure if I understand it well enough but is this Apple's version of pulling an SCO?
At many companies, those 5000 minutes "saved" will be later squandered on Facebook. :)
1. why not take translate.google.com and see what amber is in some other language which still sounds neat in English.

2.look through the thesaurus for suitable alternatives.

3.Or why not take something from the names of the 3 amigos who are graciously taking it upon themselves to get this great framwork and community happening.
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The product manager at my job is completely non-technical, and this seems to have been by design (they just filled it from an internal candidate a couple months ago), basically she is supposed to be the bridge between engineering and the "stakeholders", so to speak and make sure their vision matches what is happening. To handle the technical side of things we have another manager that does have a technical background, loosely termed the "project architect". All technical decision go through him or the CTO, the fluff stuff and touchy feel stuff goes through the product manager.
McDonald's held a "National Hiring Day" this year, and accepted 62,000 applications out of a million. Even near-minimum-wage drudge work is scarce compared to the number who will take it.

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For me the 'averaging' of two controls seem totally bizarre. One pushing forward and one pulling back and the computer thought that was OK?

My fear of flying is reaching new heights.
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So is existing, to be fair.
I must be the odd man out.

Daily standup. But I am in constant contact with him during the day and CC him on all my email so he knows the exact status of any development without him having to ping me.

If management is leaning on him especially hard he might ask me for status reports every 15 minutes.

I also track time spent in a crappy web app they make me use, if I don't update every day I will be getting a call from my PMs boss as our business owner will start chewing people out. It is odd to get emails sent to me with the VP of technology and the division president wrangling over why I can't update my status multiple times a day so they can watch me tick features off.

Maybe I need a new job.
This is a corporation with 60k people, you would think they would have better things to do than to watch me work.
As a sibling quote mentioned, 1.9 is fast relative to 1.8. JRuby is pretty fat in general, with the potential to approach Java speed at times, although I think specific things can slow you down a lot. In particular it was the case (not sure if it still is) that exceptions in JRuby were pretty expensive, but many Ruby libraries treat them as cheap, leading to performance problems if you move from one platform to another.

I was not trying to be precise though, just give a feel for the different implementations.
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If you already have an app developed which uses redis, and want to provide an offline version, it's much less work to run a local redis than to rewrite the storage backend. Yes, it might have made sense to just use sqlite from the beginning, but we don't always have the luxury of perfect future requirements knowledge.
It may have looked like it was from the initial requirements. Requirements change.
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The iPad is not banned in Germany.
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It's trendy to knock TechCrunch down but you have to admit that's some good journalism.
This is being done in our name and with our money. If you don't like it you might want to consider your choices when buying or requesting presents this festive season. Make it an RIAA- and MPAA-free Christmas and tell your friends and family why.
Apple is staying in Germany in my opinion. I could not see otherwise.
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If someone is actually asking you for status reports every 15 minutes, you're long past maybe in the needing a new job spectrum...
Don't worry: Android's build of Webkit still has plenty of work before it's good enough to be considered competent. Apple's Mobile Webkit, on the other hand...
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Yet. See this other story on the HN front page right now:

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/12/09/motorola-wins-patent-...

If Motorola posts bond, though, it will be. Though there will, of course, be appeals and all that, so it might be overturned before it's enforced.
Can a code base be beautiful if it doesn't solve the actual business problem?

I'd argue that it cannot and that you will not be able to write beautiful code until you understand the business and what needs it has. Developers that understand the business will focus on what is important.
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The hhvm is some nice piece of software, but it also takes many resources. This will always remind me to be very careful when making a design decision, like what language to use for project.
Yes its amazing how easy it sneaks in! Was looking at a gist of mine recently (https://gist.github.com/1222875) and it suddenly jumped out at me!

my $hits = ...

for my $hit (@$hits) {
my $user = $hit->{_source};
...
}

:)
I would also do the same thing, but i do not have that much money in my own company at this point :) Thanks for your view!
I think i am going for the air. It is so much prettier! :p
I think most people lack the fortitude. It's better to sit in silence for a moment and think, and take your time, than to 'check out' into the reward drip novelty as you so well described it.

The next level, for me anyway, is to focus on creating stuff and making a business that contributes to the person who agrees with the above statement, rather than working to create the crap that sustains those who don't.

How could such a perspective be integrated into gamification? In other words where the objective of the game is to make something that doesn't just rake in high profits and make one rich, but sustains and exemplifies an integrated, engaging existence on all levels?
I think i choose the air. Thanks for your advice!
At this stage the kind of openess I strive for is that developers have an option to distribute software to customers without asking a third party for permission. The kind of openess we know from OS X and Windows XP.
>From what I understand, these scans tend to turn up all sorts of things that may or may not be anything serious; but all of which, once found, requires follow up.

It's really worse than that. Most of the tests they end up doing with they spot some kind of abnormality have some risk associated - x-rays increase your risk of cancer, for example, and anything that penetrates the skin carries some statistical risk of infection.

Where I live there are companies offering these full-body scan deals, where for an exorbitant amount of money they run your entire body through an MRI machine and then have someone look at the results. What they're finding is the risks associated with the follow-on tests (xrays, biopsies, etc) outweigh the risk that you'll miss something curable. In other words, statistically you're actually shortening your life by having one of these scans.
I have choosen the macbook air, thanks :)
A pretty basic write up. Static caching is standard these days. The article doesn't help with speeding up today's dynamic sites.
re: clean perl and generic functions - have a look at Moose. Its Perl's equivalent of CLOS.

* http://moose.perl.org

* https://metacpan.org/module/Moose

* https://metacpan.org/module/Class::MOP

* BankAccount example (Practical Common Lisp) - https://metacpan.org/module/Moose::Cookbook::Basics::Recipe2
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There are dozens of things, cancer and others, your doctor can catch and add decades to your life. Go.
Very nice.
One suggestion, it'd be nice if the selection/options updated as you typed. ie typing 06 scrolled to show 06:00, 06:15 etc.
or filtered the possible options to only show those matching /06/.
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Some democratic ones.... like the United States and Australia, right?
Thanks. Yes, that was a very interesting passage in the book.

When asked to write about something the tendency is to think: "oh, everything about that topic has already been written." Or "There is nothing original or new to write about".

Instead focussing on the smallest of objects & start with it, brings along a flood of original thoughts to write about.

Very interesting perspective indeed.
Making helicopter drops is destroying the economy not helping, they think innovation comes from the printing press.
They would be sitting on JIT-ed pypy 1.7 at this point, which can yield over 10 times speedup in some cases- I've tested some of my own code.

So having superior language with better out of the box speed in default implementation - I'd hardly call same place.
And it links to another great article on gzip compression.
In the US, felony criminal proceedings are initiated by a grand jury at the recommendation of the District Attorney. Megaupload can file a criminal complaint, but the DA has a lot of freedom in deciding to put the case in front of a grand jury or not.

Megaupload can bring a civil suit against Universal but these proceedings cannot lead to a felony conviction, which once again is a criminal sanction.
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It really depends on what kind of software you're writing. Sure, startups writing web apps for casual users can have super short release cycles.

But imagine "agile" development for commercial airliner flight control software.
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Several comments here indicate that this practice is outdated. I disagree strongly. Even in 2011 autoneg is flaky on many switches - in a recent shipment of ~100 machines, ~5 of them autonegotiated to 100mbit instead of gigabit. And these are name-brand machines with name-brand switches.

Forcing duplex and speed with ethtool is still relevant.
Thanks for sharing, similar story:

Here in the UK a program was started sending out postal tests for bowel cancer to men and women of an at risk age.

One arrived for my father, he wasn't going to bother, he felt fine, and to do the test you had to paste a bit of poo into the kit and post it back, which grossed him out a bit. My mother persueded him to do it, and 3 weeks later he was called up by the hospital, as they'd detected blood.

2 weeks later he was having internal test and a month after that had a tumour and a couple of feel of colon removed.

It's now 3 years later and thankfully the tumours have not returned, though he has 6 monthly check-ups until the 5 year mark, then down to yearly.

All this was free (well paid for by tax). By pre-emptively catching the cancer early the NHS was able to both save a mans life, and also save a huge amount of money that could have been spent on late stage care.

I am forever indebted to the NHS and universal health care. As a self employed artist my father wouldn't have been able to afford private care, and I hate to imagine the state of care he would have received in another country, where universal free healthcare did not exist or was underfunded. The money we pay here in tax is far less than that paid in other countries in insurance, and covers everyone equally.
1.Doctors are required to get an undergraduate degree, any undergrad degree before attending medical school.

2.Health insurance is paid for with pre-tax money but money a consumer spends directly is paid for with post-tax money.

Change these two things, elimnate the tax break for health insurance and allow people to attend medical school straight out of high school, and the cost of health care should drop quickly.
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http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616 adds errata, RFCs that update it and hyperlinks (it is a web after all)

Direct link to Caching in HTTP http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-13
For a couple years I was that business guy with a good idea and no money looking for a technical co-founder, but that strategy failed. Then I learned how to execute using a very lightweight web app that I paid a consultant to build and hired people who were smart enough and trained them from scratch. In 2 years I've gone from one person and $0 in cash to a business w/ great margins & nine people w/ all growth paid for by sales by focusing on a single idea and always holding onto it. Pretty soon I'll be able to pay for the people I need to scale the business to much larger.

In my opinion calling ideas worthless shows a lack of vision and creativity. It is very possible to engineer a business that can dominate from a single idea; doing so takes some fortitiude, cash, moxie, luck, strategy, determination, and a bunch of other adjectives.
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Ask HN: Can you recommend any .Net hacker communities?
I'm just reading "Agile Principles, Patterns and Practices in C#" by Micah and Robert Martin. They claim early on that .Net developers have poor reputation. Especially in comparison with Java guys. Surely Java world has more man power and thus it's easier to distill those sharpest devs. Even worse for .Net, the platform is not really associated with open standards and open source.

Nevertheless, I want to learn new things and build interesting stuff, and it would be odd if I was the only person around to do so. Even if the tool has not so 'hacky' reputation as Python or Ruby.

Do you know of any .Net hacker communities, I could look up?
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He just took it from the radar people.

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Either you stand up for what you believe in, or you don't. The "rules of the game" as you say, were made by the people that are playing it.

So if you believe that some companies have taken the patent game too far and are a nuisance to society, why not take action against it and stand up to your beliefs?
I hope you do not exclude the US from these. You know...

* Torture -> Guantanamo and other similar (worse) bases all over the world

* executing people with out trial -> police officers firing at will or over-using tazers to drunk people until they die (not to mention that carrying a gun is legal for civilians too).

* executing minors and the mentally retarded -> no health care for poor people who can't afford it, maybe they should be executed

* using the military against the populace -> firing chemicals, flash grenades and plastic bullets at OWS protesters

* holding political prisoners -> or just capturing them on behalf of their government and then just handing them over
Methods and functions are not different.

Functions implement the descriptor protocol so that when you access them as an attribute of a class they basically return a partially applied function.

If you remove self and introduce methods as a concept a lot of things become a lot more difficult or impossible for the sake of a few people who think that making self implicit is somehow cleaner without any real argument behind it.
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What is quiet likely is a Chinese internet business will adopt/fork webos to complete in the Chinese market against android. Which is held back by the Google vs China war.
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I think this is not the case. TFA seems to say that replying to a many-recipient message sent with Group Messaging off is automatically considered a "reply to all" action when it shouldn't.
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The title is incorrect. This doesn't make device faster. Original title: "Ubuntu/ARM rebuilt with hardfp float-abi".
Correct. =)
A different perspective: my dad was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer in 2006. Even though his prognosis was very bad, he got top notch care, got MRI/PET/CAT scans whenever they were needed, got put into an experimental chemo program, and generally received fantastic care. Although it wasn't enough, and from a financial POV was probably a Poor investment, I cannot in any way fault the care he received. There are certainly problems with the Canadian system, but every experience I've had with it (even and perhaps even especially the unsuccessful ones) has been fantastic.
It depends on how unsuitable hotspot vm would be for them. Google wrote their own vm because hotspot vm was highly unsuitable for android.

I'd say that if Facebook was java based they'd have to stick with hotspot vm. Whether it's a good thing is a completely different story.