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I am beginning to think that even small teams should be split in two groups: feature and maintenance (even if this means a 3person/1person split). I often see the need for internal tooling and polishing that is never met, because there is no one assigned to it, everyone has to build features. Scrum is a great tool for feature-driven development. Kanban is a great tool for continuous tasks. Why not have one team doing Scrum for features and one Kanban for maintenance? I often see that split in companies that have developers and a separate admin group, why not do that for developers internally?

This would eliminate the "optimizing considered harmful" point, because there is group that can work on continuous improvement.
Open source sucks as a business. This took way too long. We like to think it works but... it kind of doesn't.

Not knocking open source. Just saying the Kumbaya business plan didn't really work out.
How many RECRUITERS actually know what "object oriented programming" means? They never seem to be interested in my take on (say) subtyping and the design properties of inheritance... (but that's ok; I am not interested
in the crap positions that they want to shoehorn me into by lying to me and lying to the employer while taking a gigantic cut out of the middle; yet I don't understand who relies on people who are truthfully quite ignorant of programming to assess who would be a good programmer)
that would be 1M LOC split across all the projects, libraries and modules.
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the interesting thing is that i knew who noether was because of her theorem, but i got all the way through grad school without knowing she was a woman
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I think "good coder" tends to be somewhat to completely irrelevant to the way that recruiters make money.

I imagine it's all about what you can sell - about generating convincing appearances cheaply, rather than proving true things at length.
What would those thousands of workers do? If they are independent of each other, why put them all in a single server instead of in an ASIC? If they are dependent of each other, why will thousands of thread/processes be the architecturally best choice on at server?
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Which means that UIs should not be patentable. They're inherently public already.
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Lenses can be less sharp around the edges for a number of reasons:

- Chromatic aberrations. Most old lenses are not achromat or apochromat, so different wavelengths of light get refracted with different indices of refraction. In black-and-white photography, the colour fringes near the edges simply show up as being slightly blurry, so it's not as big of a deal as in modern colour photography.

- The plane of focus might not in fact planar, but may be curved due to the lens having a simple optical design with few elements. So when one focuses on the centre of the frame, the edges of the scene do not coincide with the plane of focus.

As for the claim that old lenses are sharper than modern lenses in the centre... perhaps it is true when comparing that lens to compact camera lenses and the such. But from my casual perusal of DSLR lens benchmarks, modern prime lenses are very, very sharp in the center and should certainly beat this lens - especially when stopped down. Modern DSLR prime lenses are often faster than f/2 wide open, whereas that old lens is f/6.8, yielding a deeper depth of field. But stopping the modern lens down to f/6.8 should result in superior resolution. Anyway, small cameras and cell phones can be less sharp due to diffraction effects on such a small scale.
Interesting: "being female in Germany at a time when most German universities didn’t accept female students or hire female professors"

I'm currently reading "The Poincare Conjecture", which suggested that Erlangen and Gottingen were very open to women, but reading the Wikipedia article it's clear that the quote is correct and the book (or my memory of it) is incorrect; she was one of only 2 women in a class of 986 at Erlangen, and she was actively blocked entrance to Gottingen. It sounds like if it wasn't for Gordan, Klein and Hilbert she might not have been allowed to attend at all.
One thing I noticed: the audio volume on the tutorial is way too low... pump it up a little.

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But isn't that basically where the term came from? Actual insects frying on circuits and shorting contacts?
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Why wouldn't people read programming books outside of university classes? How do you improve your craft? Reading is an instrumental part in growing as a developer and as a human being.
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It is easy to forget that most cancers develop through an evolutionary process that takes 15 - 20 years. During this time they are under constant selection pressure by the immune system.

It is not surprising therefore, that to turn up at the very end of the process when a patient has a civillization of heterogenous, optimised cancer growing in them that trying to eradicate the whole thing with a single approach, however elegant, is likely to fail. Cancer therapies in general provide an incremental benefit.

< 5% of therapies make it out of the lab into something a doctor can use on a patient who needs it.
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The reality of modern HN is that many people here don't even know what YC is.
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Most effort on the climate change front seems to be going towards linear solutions to essentially exponential problems: A few percent solar/wind in the grid mix, smart meters that allows utilization of those to go up a few percent, more expensive gas to discourage driving, incentives to buy more efficient vehicles. Encouraging better insulation of buildings.

But it's obvious that you can't fight an exponential battle with linear weapons.

Making cars run on an available non-fossil source of energy seems to be where the biggest win is - but it's much bigger task than inventing a good battery, electricity is still expensive, fossil in many places and the grids have nowhere near to capacity to sustain a large population of chargeable electrics. Bio-fuel tech is here, but we don't have the bio-mass to make it from. Etc.

The only area in this field that is ready for one-point disruption as far as I can tell is liquid bio-fuels. There is a world-wide mature infrastructure, and the market is hungering for a lower-cost alternative. I read about a bio-start-up that's developing an algae-catalysed process that converts sunlight and atmospheric carbon dioxide into a sort of crude oil that can be directly refined just like crude oil.
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Well, except that the protagonist is an obsessive ideologue nerd who would rather hate a Web browser than be happy. If that's supposed to be an apology then it's the ultimate "I'm sorry you feel that way".
One place I worked had an explicit 30% dev time for internal improvement. It wasn't Agile, but cleanup work did supposedly get scheduled.
Turns out if you have oodles and oodles of data, and oodles and oodles of computing power, a lot of the simplier older solutions work quite well.
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Thank you for posting this. I still think of lenses as just a tuple of (focal length, f-number), and can't understand why two lenses of the same "spec" can be different. Probably a bad mode of thinking to be in.
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Maybe it is a new UI concept, but should we deny Loren the use of drop-down menus, scroll bars, split-buttons, sliders and all the other UI elements in use today? Patenting this is a morally bankrupt move.
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checking the domain didtheyread.com I get the cloudflare 404, saying the site is offline (the Linode site? If you're hosting there, can you access your hosting control panel?)

going to the live site link at the bottom of that page, gets the same page.

Earlier in March, Linode was compromised. There's a few articles around about the incident.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2156823/linode-comp...

Good luck.

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The thrust of this article seems to be that Scrum is designed to work in the real world, rather than in a made up utopia the author admits doesn't exist. Great.
You're talking about whether people should. I'm talking about whether people actually do. As for why people wouldn't read, there's one giant reason: people don't care about programming.

Obviously you care, and I care, and arguably most people reading HN care. But I believe that for a large percentage of programmers, programming is just their job. They do it, they get paid for it, and as long as they can keep getting paid for it, they don't need or care to "grow as a developer". It's just not a priority in their life, or even a goal.
Like the guy said, he lost a job. Nothing more.
A developer from a company that was bought for >$200 million surely won't have a problem finding a job somewhere else if he wants (not to mention he also worked for Blizzard). He deserves all the respects for not letting himself be carried away, and making a decision with his heart. That's something you don't see often nowadays.

You have my respect, Shay Pierce.
I think we need a new hierarchy of needs, and privacy is going to be on the bottom for most people.
"Google+ is not Facebook, and it's just getting started -- At this point, I don't see how anyone outside of Google could think they have a strong enough grasp on what's in store to come to these conclusions."

You can say that about any product from any company. With smart players, it's often true, but it's not informative.
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Then Scrum is smart.
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As a programmer based in Mexico that's had some contact with the underworld, this is correct. Greed is a powerful motivator.
I agree, and its nice to see open source projects which had naming collisions but blossomed with a new name: it's hard to imagine Firefox being 'Phoenix' or 'Firebird', both seem generic now that we know the strong identity of Firefox.
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Excellent article and good on you for sticking to your principles.

"But I exhort game developers: don't join a company whose values are opposed to your own. Values aren't just for idealists -- they matter. If a company's practices make you uncomfortable, pay attention to your instincts and be true to them."

Replace "game developers" with "developers" or even "humans" and it still works.
I think the gold in this article is the authors view of what Google should have done. I agree with pretty much every point, Google by basically declaring Google+ as "their social push" and "facebook killer", they already had their head in the noose.

Articles about disgruntled Google employees help in no part to fuel a new found disrespect for Google which I have noticed emerging rapidly recently.

I love the authors thoughts on what Google should have done, and I would like to see similar service released by a third party vendor, a simple browser plugin or even a bookmarklet. Does a simple "I like this" call to a server, which correlates all your personal likes. Its been done, and done to death, but I want it to be done better.

One of my favourite things on the internet at the moment is the like button on youtube, it is my new way of sharing music with my friends. But already I feel the need to do certain things with my likes. Tag them, write tiny comments about something my friend have liked. A lot of buzz around pinterest recently, and perhaps this is why.
GMail was loved by the tech crowd immediately, but took years to make a dent in the established bases of yahoo and hotmail.

Much as I have distaste for Google+, the strategy needs to be viewed on a longer timescale. Even search took years to become a mainstream success.
Seems quite complex, it's a hard problem to solve. My girlfriend routinely sends back clothes cause they don't "feel" right, even though the fit/size is fine. This is something you can't really solve with a computer.
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Should be clear from his comments that he didn't give the $210M figure... a gamasutra editor made this!
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True, but there are ads at both the intersection and parking lots. Not sure which has a higher premium though.
Although any small game would like to be acquired by Zynga, if you're really good and have great ideas, maybe you should not - because your company might become as big as Zynga in just a couple of years.

This deal looks like win-win, but maybe it's a bigger win for Zynga, as it removes one potentially dangerous competitor from the market.
My reaction to this is that I am sure he is right that embracing nondeterminism and relaxing synchronization will allow us to scale up to these many core PCs. However, this does not solve the problem of how 'the rest of us' program them effectively.

One of the biggest challenges I see practically are that concurrency and parallelism are the hardest thing to push down under a layer of abstraction. These effects leak out all the way through your application (and even into other applications).

It strikes me that this kind of non-deterministic approach will leak everywhere. And then who can program in this way? Who among us can reason effectively about just how far from the true answer we are. If this is the only way we can really harness the many-many-core PCUs of the future then we will have the change the way we make software. The IBM approach of armies of programmers will not work. As much as I hate this approach to software it is the way most software (at least in the enterprise) is made. Will we go back to the long beards? Or will we end up in even more aggressively restrictive frameworks that work harder to prevent us from doing this wrong.

If this approach to parallelism turns out to be important I hope that the problem of reasoning about these types of program is tractible. To push well understood software development even further away from the reach of most programmers. If we all end up having to learn a bit of statistics that wouldn't be a bad thing.
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I think he makes a particularly strong point about Zynga's unwillingness to change their standard contract to let him keep control of his iPhone app.

If a company's not willing to be flexible about something like this, then it is the last place you want to be working.

It makes Zynga look arrogant, inflexible and downright mean.
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I hate patents. I see them as a reason why true innovation slowed down. I think ALL patents should be thrown out.

However, claiming that this patent is ridiculous is ridiculous, at least if you take a look at how it is similar to patents in other fields. This patent is every bit as valid as the patent that describes a water sprinkler that uses water flow as a timer.
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While it would make the spread larger, I disagree with your use of the word "just". It would have many other effects as well - for one thing, it'd make trades on small shifts in value (ie less than twice the sales tax) unprofitable.

That would make HFT much less attractive at the ridiculous frequencies it happens currently, as you'd need to hold on to stock for longer for it to shift enough for the gross gain to exceed the sales tax. I suspect that's the effect ars had in mind.

Also, you could always put the tax into a kitty for bailing out the financial institutions who're engaging in this lark the next time they mess it up ;)
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As usual, http://lwn.net has had good coverage and comments on the topic. (A search on "Bufferbloat site:lwn.net" will get them.)