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The burden of proof isn't on me. It's on the Agile crowd. What evidence have you got?

Off the top of my head though, how about having agile and non-agile teams complete a project from the same designs, with amends and feature requests introduced at scheduled intervals. Study the results. I'm sure someone with a background in constructing these kinds of studies could work out the kinks and make sure it's a fair comparison.

It's unfeasible because you'd need a large sample and those kind of people aren't likely to take two months out of their life to work for free on a science project. And I guess that's why Agile goes largely unchallenged. No one can afford to do the science to prove wether or not it works.

And the ones with evidence and experience proving that it doesn't work are people like me who have to put up with being told I'm wrong, and I'm unlucky and it's all somehow my fault that I can't reproduce the results. It's like everyone is claiming they've cracked cold fusion, and it's my fault, not theirs, that I can't detect the neutrinos.
Well, you negotiate the conditions of the contract, write the code, and make sure everything runs correctly. Nothing to it, really.

I actually teach people like you how to do this properly. Course costs $299. It is taught live, and it prepares you to point where you can consult confidently. Shoot me an email if you are interested. Too expensive? You will make 10 times that amount on the first month.
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Very slick. Though I'm unfamiliar with the space... you say this is cheap, what would a comparable component cost?
It seems that news as a business is moving away from journalism, and towards sensationalism. Being first becoming more important that being accurate. Getting the most eyes on your ads.

I have a suspicion that what newspaper companies want is not what is taught in journalism school.
That'll depend on the exact type of superglue, but there's a more basic problem in that the standard stuff uses a cyanoacrylate that often is an irritant. So they use a slightly different variety in medicine, first trade name Dermabond, which was used the last time I got a bad enough cut. It's really good stuff, but as noted elsewhere, not so applicable for catastrophic hemorrhage.
>More than 90 percent of the entrepreneurs ... were well-educated: 95.1 percent of those surveyed had earned bachelor's degrees, and 47 percent had more advanced degrees.

That really surprised me. Maybe it's just a tech entrepreneur thing but I thought the "college drop-out turned founder" narrative was more common.
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I prefer Underscore's implementation of `each`. It doesn't blow the stack. http://underscorejs.org/docs/underscore.html#section-13
or rather than creating an iterator yourself, use setTimeout(..., 0) to put the next call on the event loop.
Erlang has been my latest hobby language, and while I'm not very deep into it yet I'm having fun looking through the source code here to see what "real Erlang" looks like.

https://github.com/basho/riak_cs

If any experts happen to notice particularly good or heinous examples in this source code, it'd be interesting to point them out.
Looks very nice, reminds me of http://www.stylizerapp.com/ with added mobile/responsive
The problem is that there is not enough financial benefit to being first to a story, or getting a story right, or having the best article. Websites who report the news but never leave their office desk all day (ie, reposting AP stories and re-blogging, Mashable and Techcrunch for instance) make as much money as those that do real "in field" news work. And that brings down the value of real "in field" news work.

Back 10-15 years ago, a newspaper could break a story, and no other newspaper would be able to cover it til the next day! There was financial benefit to breaking news stories. Now, with the Internet and 24 hour news on every channel, when a newspaper breaks a story, it's posted in 10,000 other places within 10 minutes.
Ummmmmm...ASBOLUTELY NO! Terrible advice that will stagnate your development as a developer. You need to learn faster and better ways of doing things ALL THE TIME. That is how you become a faster developer. But being a faster developer shouldn't be your concern, being a better developer should.

Based on this guys advice, why learn a framework. That will take time to learn. I can just hammer out the code on my own. Very short-term thinking.
I'm not sure how what you're saying relates to the article...?
If you want to be precise about it, "the goal" is specific to each human being. I would hope it's something like "Make the world a better place" though.
"For probably almost every website/webapp in the world, the amount of servers you have is 1."
Still if I can do the same thing in a cheaper server with the same level of productivity, why wouldn't I do that?

"There's a whole lot of these types of things that don't matter if your code takes 0.01 seconds or 0.05 seconds."
Yeah but why would you prefer Ruby instead of PHP/Python/Perl for those things then?
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Hi Stewf, thanks! That definitely wasn't a dig at your curation/aesthetic - just a reality of the site becoming popular. Didn't even notice the filters you pointed out, so those will definitely help!
For some reason, testing graduates a lot of designers.

What I found in various game companies is that game designers usually graduate from other positions in the company and rarely hired as designers from the start.
Sinatra and Padrino are some of the more common Ruby alternatives, especially for smaller sites.
This is not a tip. The author simply reported his natural learning curve. Naturally, you learn a lot at the beginning and later on you don't learn as much. The author went through this process and thought that because he didn't learn much "other things" at the end, he was doing the right thing, and he had made mistakes early on by not focusing only "the thing" he was supposed to learn.

No, he did not make mistakes by digressing into learning things that are related but might not be directly addressing his problems at hand.

Learning is complicated, as things that you learn help you in ways that you might not be even aware of.
Insightful and clever. Not only is it an intrinsically awesome thing to do for curiosity/posterity, but this way Blue Origin gets a look at real flight test data from real F-1s.

The F-1 was an achievement. The turbopumps are of particular note.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketdyne_F-1
Hmm, sorry about that :( Can you try the direct Vimeo link? https://vimeo.com/62227334
Why we avoid throwing exceptions at StackMob
I don't think Numpy is allowed or used in these benchmarks. However GMP is and that's why pidigits is so much slower on Ruby.
So where does the blood go?

The demo video shows an extreme bleed. Like a artery has been cut or something. Sure, you seal the blood in but wouldn't you still bleed out internally?

Like if you cut your femoral and gel up your leg. Would you survive for any length of time?
The main problem perpetuating Wordpress' design woes is its plugin ecosystem and how it depends on Wordpress' internals. A massive hook system, scopeless globals passed around like nobody's business and overall reliance on how "things work" right now - if you change any of that, you break most of the plugins (the code for which looks even worse than Wordpress itself).

An idea I always have in the back of my queue is to write an adapter over the hook system and various state variables plugins expect to have, and bridge it (the plug-in system) to something like the Zend Framework or Symphony. The amount of work involved prevents it from becoming more than a pipe dream.

EDIT: Added clarification for the adapter purpose
Voyager craft exits the Solar System
I'd wait for an official Digg statement, because Digg may have requested to be removed from google search results (the net result would be the same)
I also really miss pattern matching and I think that JavaScript would be well-served by it or even minimally some sort of destructuring.
I'm continually impressed that Wizards manages to keep Magic as balanced and fun as they do, especially considering that they don't have the resources to really playtest formats other than standard. It always makes me angry seeing people in comment threads for previews/spoilers raging about how Wizards is "ruining the game" or some such nonsense. Making Magic is _hard_ and many players don't seem to understand this :( Of course the Magic community is anger-inducing for any number of reasons; but that's another can of worms entirely.
It's a known Chrome + Windows issue at the moment - still trying to figure out how to best resolve it without failing back to just web safe fonts.
Hacking stuff together from stackoverflow might be faster initially, but later on the product will encounter severe quality issues. Learning the fundamentals and foundations of a technology, combined with experience and architecture knowledge will make a programmer 10x faster while still maintaining quality.
Let's not forget the Onion's take on it:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/cia-realizes-its-been-using...
I talk about that too. :-)
I think the real secret for coding better, is to know when to apply this advice (just looking for the answer you need without exploring anything else) and at other times maybe when you have more times, make some in-depth learning of broader technologies / API / languages / maths... areas that you've previously identified and tagged as potentially worth investigating. From my experience I can tell you this is the second component which make you a better developer in the long term. But the first component is also essential, it is the one that makes you start things and complete things without falling into endless procastrination and second guessing. So both short-term and long-term strategies are importants.
i've had to hack additional functionality into some third-party wordpress plugins for clients. it is a nightmare compared to my own PSR-0/Composer projects. it's just an incredibly twisted kludge of code stuffed with globals and craziness. most unpleasant experience ever.

sadly, wordpress's massive plugin ecosystem of poorly written spaghetti is the very thing that will prevent it from being rewritten.
The lights are finally here! How exciting, Brian and Dan. As a visual artist, I've seen first-hand the awesome effects the lights can deliver when viewing artwork. Combining those effects with programmable and responsive audio control is a fantastic next step. The ability for users to program the lights will allow them to enhance creativity in their visual, art, and audio projects.
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>Taste (and hence design) is completely arbitrary in videogames.

Taste is definitely not completely arbitrary in video games.

What makes a video game good is however harder to operationalize - as it always is with mediums of art. Ask the average person why they like some song, an example of an answer would be something like "It's got a catchy hook", which the video game equivalent would be "It's got good controls and explosions."

I do not know what actually makes a game good, but I also have a very hard time believing that taste is completely arbitrary in video games and that video game design is useless.

>But the reason League of Legends and Temple Run reign supreme over the DoTA WarCraft 3 scenario and Canabalt is not superior design or balance.

Sure WC3 DOTA is less popular than LoL, but you'd be insane to say that people do not notice imbalanced stuff.

You seem to hold the view that the more popular a game is, the better. This is probably not true considering how popular Farmville is (or at least used to be) while not being a very good game at all.

Hm, I have a lot more to say overall but I think it's just gonna end with me ranting to a straw man, so I 'm gonna stop here.
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And the use of antibiotics in food production: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtherapeutic_antibiotic_use_i...
I like the idea of separating a programming paradigm from actual programming languages. Obviously, certain languages lend themselves to certain paradigms, but it's nice to see a book explaining the concepts of functional programming in a language that doesn't enforce all of the tenants of that paradigm by default.
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Demo: http://designmodo.github.com/Flat-UI/
PSD Download: http://designmodo.com/flat-free/
> getting started story

Try talking like a human or at least a developer and not a marketroid.
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To be fair, this has always been a paradigm of the journalism industry. Freedom of the press was not an easy right for the founders to enshrine given how the penny press routinely slandered colonial leaders. "Yellow journalism" was so bad that the namesake of the Pulitzer Prizes is blamed for fueling the Spanish-American war.
I'm wondering if the OP is trying to point out that Ruby 2.0 is slower on these benchmarks than 1.9?
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Is it just me, or is half the craziness of this that Jeff Bezos took off 3 weeks to be at sea?
I don't think this is anything new? We've had reports for over a year that Voyager has been getting anomalous readings. Whether or not that indicates having "left the solar system" is still a matter of debate (unless this article is trying to say that the debate has been settled), although it's certainly still exciting.
there's already a symfony2 bundle that has started that work i think. I don't recall the name though.
I used to defend "Agile" against the "haters" in much the same way. As I gained more experience I began to see that most of what people claim is "Agile" is just prescribed processes trying to hitch themselves to the manifesto and the community it started. They have little bearing on what is or isn't agile though.

Scrum is scrum, if you like it fine, I don't. XP is XP, and so on. Each does in fact try to offer up a recipe for successful software projects. But there is no such thing as an "Agile" process. So, try to embody the principles and it may help you to be a better, smarter software developer, but even if you do it may be of little to help to cure a dysfunctional team or business.

Best of luck.
Of course an advantage of python over ruby (speed-wise) is that you can leverage numpy if you need to do fast matrix operations, whereas ruby has no such library (that I'm aware of).
@Matt, thanks for including this link. I'd read it a while back (maybe a link from you!) but couldn't find it when I was putting this together last night.
Spending lots of money on things of little value means you've got the money to spend. Don't underestimate how attractive this is to women.

Even if everybody knew diamonds were BS, they'd still be the premier engagement ring jewel. Nothing says "I love you" like throwing $6000 out the window like it was nothing at all.
To paraphrase Churchill, Wordpress is the worst CMS -- except for all the others.

I'd love to find an open-source CMS (preferably in Python or Ruby) with clean, secure, elegant code and a well-organized framework that comes with a friendly admin and active, responsive development community like Wordpress, but so far I've got nothing.

(If anyone has any suggestions, please do feel free to share them!)
How can I use my masters degree to get a higher salary?
From what I've read the antibiotic resistant strains of bacterial are outcompeted by non-antibiotic strains when not in the presence of antibiotics.

So if antibiotics become completely ineffective and people stop using them, the resistant strains will die off eventually, possibly quickly.
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Because they prefer Ruby? I personally wouldn't choose PHP or Perl unless I had no other choice. Nothing wrong with other people choosing them, but they aren't for me. And given the choice between Python and Ruby, I'll choose Ruby unless there is a compelling reason not to. And saving a few hundred dollars on a commodity server would never be compelling enough for me.

Edit: And when I actually need better performance from a specific piece of code, I can and do drop down to C.
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The same way lawyers already enforce contracts? If I had to guess. That and having publicly made the statement, they would see a mass exodus of users if they broke their own promise. (Think GoDaddy)
"It's this attitude that makes me never want to use ember.js." Agreed. In fact, I suspect I'll never end up using it, now.
Does Riak CS support static web site hosting ala S3? I checked the docs and didn't see anything specifically about that so I'm guessing no.
Right, but is this a concern for most JS?

I realize that JS is becoming more popular for various tasks -- not always relating to the web -- but still, I kind of doubt that 99% of the JS out there is going to run up against these types of problems. Perhaps something like Uglify.js or similar might, but then again, if you're implementing a parser (or any other static code analyzer/tool) then you're probably going to avoid most libs to start with.
> The company will not use the patents in offensive litigation without the permission of the inventors.

Now look at the names on the patent in question. Do you think they'll oppose offensive litigation specific to this patent?
So Toyota can amend any feature of a car at any point on the production line? Could they move the steering wheel to the back seat on a whim and the car will still function? I think not. You can't use Toyota to prove that Agile works.

One thing has nothing to do with another. If you want to kill bacteria, bleach is pretty effective.

If you want to kill a person, a bullet does a good job of that.

Dipping bullets in bleach doesn't make either of those things do either of their jobs better. And it doesn't make either of them any better at killing flies.
That would seem to be prior art for that element then, depending on the dates. Though now we'd have to dig into the rest of the elements.

And apparently I'm getting downvoted for not being familiar with LiveJournal, so that's something someone else would have to do.
Anyone remember that science fiction story, where the first ship to leave the solar system shatters some shell. And that it's later discovered that all stars have the same shell, which is impermeable from the outside. Sort of an enforced prime directive by unknown powers? This reminded me of that, and despite many searches I'm not getting any hits.
And ditto for Perl: PDL - http://pdl.perl.org

However I think the basis of these benchmarks is really to pit languages against each other and not it's frameworks/libraries.
Sexism is sexy.
Twitter's patent application was filed in 2008, so no, this is not related to the recent legislative change.
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Well, to put this in the context of the original article, it was actually talking about executive-level positions. To grab some numbers from a random blog post (http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/11/employee-equity-how-much.htm...), a VP Product (or CEO) could be looking at a $175k salary with $87k/year of equity, while an early engineer might make $125k plus $31k/year equity (in his example). The posted article is mainly saying if you're going to settle for "only" the CEO numbers (175+87), rather than true fuck-you money, be sure you're at least meeting lots of VCs and building your network (for a future venture?). I don't think that's most people's take on the matter either.

I agree that very small equity grants don't exactly help engineers pay the bills compared to salary. In fact, small increases in salary seem to confer disproportionate financial and psychology benefits to employees, while stock options are more abstract, and looking to other fields they don't seem necessary to retain skilled professionals. So why not pay engineers with all salary and hold onto the stock? Mainly because start-ups have limited cash too, and equity to give away.

However, at the risk of over-generalizing, I think the competitive job market in the Bay Area means that engineers are paid good salaries plus at least a token amount of stock. For an early employee, it could mean a little icing on the cake, or in the best case significant wealth.
Well it seems that this gel might have very little application on it's own and would be best used in conjunction with traditional tried and tested methods.

The major flaw with this gel is the risk of Hematoma. Basically lets say you have a vessel that has been ruptured by trauma and you use this gel to pack up the external wound.

But the vessel is still leaky !! This will lead to collection of blood inside the body and can be harmful in the long run.

It seems this gel is most suited for (their first clients) the military. And would be effective on the field along with using tourniquet.

Also there is already a variety of Surgical Glue that is in use. But it's used along with traditional sutures as the glue is not strong enough and will rupture. So on the fragile inner layers we use the glue and then towards the skin which is much more stronger the usual catgut sutures are used.
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Yeah - that's a really hard change. For anyone dealing with a legacy system, I always recommend Mike Feathers' book on "working effectively with legacy code". He talks about lots of patterns for dealing with this.

I'd probably see if I could start to break off a piece of a system, bring in a consultant or new dev for a couple of months, pair them with one of your team and rotate every few weeks. You won't lose too much capacity in terms of working on the core system and you'll get a chance to start to slowly introduce members of your team to new best practices. Sometimes single page web apps can help with some of this as you can just drop in backbone on a page or two and use it to federate data from both your main app and a new app you're adding some functionality to.

You probably will end up losing half the team over time, but honestly if they put up with the current state of affairs for so long, that might not end up being a bad long term outcome. Just don't big bang any changes - cultural or technical. And try to ignite curiosity rather than "mandating innovation"
Even though the Backbone API has been solid for a very long time, here's hoping the psychological effect of reaching "1.0" continues to spur opinionated abstractions that sit on top of Backbone.
This is a really good way to stay junior level for your entire career.
The second is not an indirect means of achieving the first.