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Emillon, thanks. Some of those Music To Code By mixes have a fair amount of vocals though. I think nowadays, a lot of coders would prefer my weekly radio show at www.chma.fm.

The drawback with the radio show is that each episode has a 25 to 60 second promo tape at the intro, but after that it's all music, no advertising, and I don't do voiceovers. I'd recommend episodes starting at about #070 - I was still trying to find a groove in the first seventy, and I only stopped doing an intro voiceover in the early 70's.

They're also on SoundCloud (I just archived them all starting a few weeks ago) so you can skip around easily if you need to: http://www.soundcloud.com/djbolivia
On a bad scrumfall project, a coworker of mine (Dave Bock) talked about an Agile Maturity Assessment (http://blog.codesherpas.com/on_the_path/2010/07/the-path-to-...). He never really got it off the ground, but I only mention it to say that my ideas below aren't new.

I see Agile teams as having (say) three steps towards maturity. Something like:

1. Agile Adoption: adopts some agile practices, strictly by the book.

Sometimes this turns out well, sometimes this just turns into scrumfall projects. Sometimes this is taken because of top-down demand for some reason ("Must build sustainable engineering department." or "Must hire rockstars, but they all get cold feet when we describe a typical day at this office full of fire-fighting"). Sometimes this is taken on because a manager read a report about agile teams being more efficient, so let's throw agile practices into the mix and maybe get an extra 20% productivity out of the engineers we have, because Agile is so efficient! ("It's magically efficient!"). Sometimes this is undertaken by bright-eyed, grass-roots engineers who don't know they don't have a prayer.

Sometimes this stage is filled with people doing numerology and trying to figure out industry standard story points per programmer or something equally stupid.

2. "Communication goes both ways"

Clients listen when programmers say something can't be done, or at least look at velocity and use that as a basis when planning. Kanban may work well at this maturity level, and horribly fail at the agile adoption level - the client listens when you say, "you've filled the development swim lane lane with 8 units of work, you can't add any more at this time")

3. "Agile Zen Master"

Everyone involved is mature adults. The need for process disappears because something lightweight really works, and all team members are valued. There's something lightweight to manage the development workflow: Be that a Kanban board, smoke signals, whatever. Some procedures remain, but only those that really work for the team.

Of course, this maturity model falls into the "Brooke's Trap" (where every project thinks they're immune from Brooke's Law), but there was talk about how to overcome this in the maturity model.

To me, this entry targets the third type of mature project, or encourages movement from second to third. Which is good, but you also don't demand a kindergartener paint the Mona Lisa or do Calculus either - there needs to be understanding in the Agile community that there's organizational growth required sometimes before abandoning processes because they aren't explicitly mentioned in the Manifesto.
Many airlines have some type of policy in place for this. It is usually more about how big a passenger is, rather than pure weight (although the two are related). Of course, airlines, the bastions of customer service that they are, can't get it right...

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/kevin-smith-fat-fly/story?id=983726...
I've been saying this for awhile, not because of fuel prices but because of comfort. It is rude for an overweight person to spill into adjacent seats.

Just like it is rude for overweight people to drive up the cost of health care because they refuse to take care of their own bodies.

It's a touchy subject, but I think we have a lot to gain as a society by telling people it's not OK to be lazy and fat, instead of silently judging them. (Save yourself the "Some people can't help it!" argument. No one is buying that the 33.8% of obese Americans fall into that category - it's a choice for them.)
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I misread your post, and did a ninja edit. Sorry about that!
I asked them about this - they don't handle marketplace businesses (Taking money on behalf of another customer), for the same regulatory issues previously stated. PoundPay (also YC) is trying to solve this issue but I haven't heard a peep out of them... Also it is quite annoying because I paid for a zaarly and it showed poundpay on my statement, I had no idea what it was.
The hot backup is in the same New York datacenter, yes. We also have daily backups across the country in our original Oregon datacenter. The whole OR setup is getting love to be a much more resilient failover location as we speak (that'll be the topic of my next post). As for downtimes, pingdom says we were down 7h 6m 23s last year, so 99.92% uptime (note: not nearly all of that was DB related).
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One thing I love about Mailgun is that they keep retrying POSTs to our URL if it doesn't respond with a 200 status code. It adds a nice level of reliability to our email gateways.

I think you could add that here, and it might be a good value add. Depending on pricing, I could be convinced.
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FULL kudos to Peter Cooper for this.

Ruby is such an amazing and zany roadtrip of a language ... these few little gems have got me hungry for more. Its awfully addictive when you realise you can do so much with so little.
You should put that same text on the website. I signed up immediately, but then had questions as to whether or not I should have.

That text would have sold me without a doubt.
Add a link to the current issue of the newsletter, so folks know what to expect before signing up.

[EDIT: I see the first issue will be the 17th, cool; well maybe add a link to that when it comes out]
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You've said elsewhere that you live in Canada. Then you should know that this is far from an apples-to-apples comparison. The Queen has little real power in Canada. Where I happen to live (Québec), she is quite unpopular, but at the same time, she is not the head of government, merely the head of state. The distinction is vital, and is why people rightly focus on the Prime Minister and the Parliament when talking about policy and governance in this country.
I'm a little surprised by this.
I can understand Jeff wanting to "slow down" a bit and spend more time with his family etc but unless he has enough money to basically retire I can't see how his workload will reduce from not working on stack exchange.

Stack exchange I believe is developed mostly by programmers working from home and there are enough of them and SE is well developed enough that I doubt it requires Jeff to be glued to his keyboard at all times so it would seem simple to reduce his hours at his current job. In many ways it is the ideal job for somebody with a family since he's working at home and he's already done the hard part. I imagine it's now more a process of making gradual improvements as the money comes in.

I wonder what is next for Jeff, I can't see him taking a cubicle 9-5 with BigEnterpriseSoftwareCo and if he joins/starts another startup type business he's back to square 1 in terms of workload.

Perhaps he will focus on his blog/writing more now?
He doesn't seem to worried about the prospect of being unemployed with a growing family so he must have stockpiled a fair amount of cash.
You'll likely be labeled a terrorist and not be able to board an aeroplane... at least in the USA.

Edit: I meant this to be humorous, though it may not be far from the truth. If Symantec values its source code above a certain dollar amount, I'm sure it would be a federal offense in America to download this code. This is how Kevin Mitnick became a federal fugitive... it was simply based on the dollar amount of the source code he possessed.
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The article seems to miss one key point that would make implementing this much more complex. While we have some control over our BMI (weight to height ratio) we don't have control over our height.

I have two friends who are 5' tall and 6'5" tall. The 6'5" male, while still being quite fit, comes in at a solid 210-220 easy I'd guess, which would (under a 'weight only' policy) incur a surcharge for him. The 5'0" female has a little extra weight probably being about 130lbs. She's 90lbs less but more "obese" than the male.

Variations like this would make this type of policy very hard to implement in reality.
Jonathan Coulton comes to mind. He left his boring job as a programmer to pursue music as a way to make a living. He does not sacrifice family time for his "dream", but provides an example of a dad doing something he enjoys to make money for the family while having fun with the family.
I hope the 42in is their baseline size and that they have bigger sizes. We're at 50" plasma right now and I'm not sure I'd want to downgrade size.
We will, but there currently is no current issue, first issue is on the 17th.

We expect there to be archives of the individual issues that you can browse before you signup.
Xubuntu is also really useful if you want a superior desktop UI. I'm not sure if it's gotten harder or easier to make a default Ubuntu install use Xfce4 on the very newest version, it'd be nice if that was an install-time option instead of the separate distro mess. (It used to be just sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop, but I've been out of the Ubuntu world for long enough I have no idea if they changed that and it wouldn't surprise me.)

I'll be on Gnome2 until it dies, after that I'll have a full switch to Xfce4 since it's the only one that can compete with Gnome2 at the moment. I'll probably seriously experiment with various tiling managers around that time too. I'm more excited about the future developments of Wayland which I'm glad Canonical is supporting but not so much gnome3 and unity.
Wow! Thanks a lot DanBC, VMG, proexploit and andrewthornton. Really wonderful feedback from all of you; will work on implementing most (if not all) of the suggestions so far.

Please keep more of it coming folks, on all aspects of the site.
There are many things that influence how much it costs to transport people or anything else-- including weather, how much taxiing is involved and the style of the pilot.

I am sure the airlines have taken this variability into account. No need to make ticket pricing even more elaborate than it already is.

If they start discounting for thin folks, then they'll be criticized if they adjust the ticket for bad weather conditions and/or lead-foot pilots as well.
> The fact that they have to resort to legal means to secure their own source code is not a positive indication that they do a good job.

Really?

So if I, a supposedly reputable citizen have to resort to calling the police after my house is broken into that reflects poorly on me?

Symantec may have doen things that reflect poorly on them, but I don't think calling the police in is one of them. That's what you are supposed to do.

Remember that pretty much every tech company has had some of their code broken into, whether it's microsoft's OS, to Google's Chinese gmail back doors to oracle's db leak.
You're completely right.

For the most part, it doesn't matter what tools you use if you (1) have developed discipline, and (2) have actually defined what you want to accomplish.

The key hill to climb, where most would-bes are going to fail is at this sentence: "READ THE DAILY LIST EVERY DAY once you sit in front of the computer".

To do that, you've first got to develop the will and desire to accomplish stuff -- and if you had that, you probably wouldn't be fiddling around with the todo-method-du-jour.
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Yes, it will be. Your question is the equivalent of asking if English will still be written the same in 30 years.
"The patch only has this effect on systems with the firmware problem detailed above, which can be identified by using dmesg to display kernel messages and looking for the message "ACPI FADT declares the system doesn't support PCIe ASPM, so disable it"." >> Not for all!
> ...a recent independent poll where over 50% of the polled Syrian citizens were in favour of Assad remaining in power.

My dear friend... When you're living in a country that the leaders use frickin' TANKS to kill the opposition, if someone called you at home and asked you whether you're in favor of the government, unless you're a very brave man who is ready for the consequences, you say 'Yes sir, I am' - not because you like the ruling regime, but you think that this might be a trap set by the government to catch more rebels.

I think you've had the luxury of living in a free country and can't imagine the fear that people feel under totalitarian regimes.

Please, understand the fact that things are different in free countries that what they are in Syria, North Korea and Iran (where I live). You can start by reading '1984', by George Orwell to get a feeling of how dictatorships work.
I'm 6'5", 275lbs. Fine, charge me more. But you better give me a seat that is reasonable for my body size. The width and leg room of coach seats today is completely absurd!

Part of the problem is that there is too big of a gap between coach and first. It's like having to choose between a Smart Car and an Escalade, when really all I need is a mid-priced sedan.
What about this one?

http://www.pythonweekly.com/
The source is still pretty valuable to a competitor right?
Slightly similar lesson I learned when developing games (and other 3d apps). Make sure your debug-output is so good that you don't have to start the debugger before you already have an idea what's going on. Simple stuff like - your 2d and 3d cursor positions can be printed on screen always. You can add lines and polygons which are visible for debugging in your code with a single line (and you only comment them out afterward and don't remove them as you will need them again). When developing things like A* - make sure you can print every value on screen easily. Adding all those kind of easy debug-outputs is usually worth it over and over again and still it often only gets added to a project after people get stuck on the algorithms for too long. So right problem in 3D-development: debug output first.
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Hello HN! I am Lead Software Engineer for The Motley Fool (http://www.fool.com/press/about.htm) a top US website focused on financial news and advice. I am taking part in an internal development program and one step is to visit other companies. I would like to learn any new practices we might want to try and pass on any we have found particularly helpful. These do not have to be just development processes; we also have a great office culture (http://culture.fool.com/) that we are always looking to improve! I would love to spend a morning, afternoon, or even a full day with you and your team especially if you are really proud of the work you do and the team you do it with. I hope to keep this pretty low key so I don’t impact anyone’s day too greatly.

Our shop is mostly ASP.Net with some old classic ASP thrown in for color. We have web forms, ASP.Net MVC, and all three view engines in play. Our builds and releases are highly automated, mostly done on a one week schedule but we do release as needed. My team has recently started to develop a new site using django, which has been a fun experience learning puppet, buildout, and fabric. I would love to visit with your team if you’re running a larger website on django!

I hope this can be a fun time, I can’t promise any business changing ideas but I can promise a cool Fool baseball cap and lunch! I will be in town a couple days before PyCon (March 5th and 6th)! Please feel free to email me at mgurtzweiler@fool.com to coordinate.

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"The movie was great"

Neg?
Or, instead of calling it "playing", you could call it "sharing your knowledge".
Now that organizations like Khan Academy have traction and resources, I think they'll be able to bridge the gap. They'll be able to iterate as they receive feedback from the educational community.
I say "the last few weeks", but really, that's just when I've been focussing on it. This library has been in development for at least a year. Finally getting it released feels good.

If anyone wants any help with using this, they are most welcome to contact me via http://ryanmccue.info/ and of course via the issue tracker. :)
Are you planning to offer something better than http://www.pythonweekly.com/ ? In other words, why should I subscribe to _another_ weekly python digest? :)
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Many corporate environments are not allowed, period, to use software against the terms of of the license. In absence of a license, the author retains all rights.
Sounds good. Any example content you can put on the signup website now (a single sample story, a sample contents listing, anything) might go a long way in convincing people to sign up.
These accounts are strikingly different. I'm sure the true lies somewhere between "he was locked up in a safe room with a sawed-off shotgun" and "all you had to do was ask".

I don't really know about that dumb waiter though. It certainly does not look like the entrance to a safe room and I'm not even sure Kim could fit through it.
This sort of thing could set-off an arms race between police and those who want to record them. However, the police today seem to stifle recording in a grass roots, individual way. Would the police chief be embarrassed to explain in a room full of journalists that his department "jams" legal communications equipment as a matter of practice?
Will MariaDB be the Next MySQL?
It's already quite common for airlines to charge based on weight of luggage (or at least set a limit beyond which you pay extra).
Is BMI a relevant factor in this discussion? The author's point is that higher weight = higher cost of transportation due to fuel costs. If you're a tall person, it may not be your "fault" that you are heavier than average, but that doesn't change the fact that someone who weighs 200 lbs adds more to the fuel costs of a plane than someone who weighs 150 lbs.

The goal isn't to judge people based on whether they are "overweight" or such, but rather to institute a system that charges customers proportionally to the cost of transporting them.
Whether the weight comes from obesity or from simple body size has no effect on the cost-per-kg to transport someone by air. If you're 6'5'', you're transporting more mass - it's only fair to pay more, because it costs more to move you.
I was thinking the same thing. It might be better to learn this stuff at a console from the get-go.

One advantage would be that you could try invalid syntax and operations (i.e. x/0) and see the errors that result in real time as opposed to an hour or a day later after the teacher marks up your test. Then you're more likely to stick with it until you get it right, which in turn means the answer is more likely to stick with you.
How so? You're simply now a "Third Party Payment Aggregator". We do this with one of our products and we're a small operation.

In my experience, the hard parts are getting initial approval from a merchant/bank and dealing with fraud. But I don't know of actual government regulations.
We don't have control over our birth gender, age, country of origin or a large other myriad of factors that are used to calculate insurance premiums. Certain industries succeed in placing these kinds of discrimination on the consumer, others socialise it across their entire base.

The relatively small differences in cost may make it socially acceptable. A 6'5" person is probably already used to paying extra for reasonable leg-room.