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The fact that agile would be overrun by bureaucrats and vendors and thus turned into the same old bullshit was not only predictable but predicted from the outset. The new bullshit may not be quite as bad as the old, but it will take decades if not centuries for the real principles of software development to be worked out at a macro level.

A big part of the problem is the myth of "organizational change" that is endlessly propagated by consultants and enthusiasts. I've seen fathomless amounts of time and energy spent on trying to do this. It is largely poured down a drain. Inefficient, anticreative organizations don't change, except by dying. The idea that they can somehow go through an enlightenment experience and become productive places that are good at making software is extremely seductive. People are willing to put a lot of money into it and there's a steady supply of gurus happy to take the other side of that bargain. Note that the gurus don't produce software themselves, they just talk (at high hourly rates) about how you should do it. From what I observed (and I saw a lot of it) this is mostly mutual self-deception.

The way we will get better at software overall is not by "organizational change" in the places that suck at it, but by starting new organizations (e.g. startups) to provide new outlets for creative energy, some of which will succeed and render the old ways obsolete.

Happily, the situation at the individual level is not as gloomy as at the macro level. We are free to do things differently if we want to.
The users of "izillow" might not understand that "izillow" is not affiliated with zillow itself. It has the potential to damage their brand.
I found this from a previous HN story::

Your Specific Question :: http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/2009/01/08/what-do-you-n...

Overview :: http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/2007/04/26/whats-on-this...
I dislike arguments over semantics. Saying something is a tool does not mean it is not also a language. For instance, mathematics can be considered both a tool and a language.

It's true that Clojure is a programming language designed to be practical, but I fail to see why this would make it any less useful as a language for communicating ideas, or any less able to change how people think about things.

Could you provide an example of an idea that is more easily communicated in another Lisp, rather than in Clojure?
Dammit, what was the word I was thinking about then?

Thanks for correcting me :)
And a nation in which the average individual changes careers 3 time, for that matter.
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I use Satchmo[1].

A few other people seem to as well [see 1]. My main site is GWT, so has the same Main-Site/Subscription Handling divide you seem to favour.

Satchmo & Django are nicely architected, so it is as easy to extend/modify as anything could be.

See :: Features -> Subscription Based Products[2]

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[1] http://www.satchmoproject.com/

[2]http://www.satchmoproject.com/docs/svn/features.html
Commas are for both. There are few hard-and-fast rules for comma placement; mostly it's a matter of style.

Unlike commas, there are only a few situations where semicolons are correctly used.
Pretty good.

Nice observation that organizations are simply taking the old command and control and factory mentality and trying to make Agile fit into it. But, of course, it's not vague "organizations" that do this, it's all of us. As technical people, we naturally drift towards wanting to define more and more exactly what something is -- we want to program the people. We think that by continuing to define exactly what is agile that we're helping more than harming.

I also take issue with the discussion at the beginning that pits "Software Engineering" versus Agile. This is broilerplate agilista bullshit. If you're converting a conversation into something useful you're using Engineering techniques. That's the whole definition of Engineering - moving from spec to value in some kind of organized way. And that way can be formal, informal, conversation-based, etc. Duh. Now what you might think of as heavy engineering is a different subject -- but those are just deployed flavors, not the true thing. You can't argue that agile is cool but the way organizations are doing it suck without (hopefully) realizing that software engineering is also cool but just done in a really sucky way at times by those same organizations. It's the same difference. So I think making this false choice shows a real immaturity/lack of deep applied knowledge on the part of the presenter.

Maybe it's just me, but I'm also getting tired of seeing that same old manifesto crap with every agile presentation I see. It's not the Ten Commandments. Get over it. If you're spending 60 slides to explain what agile is, then that's your presentation topic, not how agile is being applied. I guess I liked the conclusion but thought the build-up was overly done.

Overall it was worthwhile to see.
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I would not pick either HBase or Hypertable as an option for most of the uses people are switching to non-relational DBs/KV stores for (which I think is driven more by simplicity than needing multi-TB scalability.) They're not particularly accessible to just running make and getting started with either (I have a very large hadoop cluster at arm's reach and I found them sort of painful for other reasons...)

Based on that I'm kind of surprised they put Cassandra in there, though; I would class that with Hypertable/HBase etc in one article and CouchDB/memcachedb/tokyo cabinet in another.
I produce software on a regular basis. And I'm also one of those high-priced gurus you mention.

It's not black or white. Organizations are full of good, intelligent people who want what's best for both the people and the organization. It's just that everybody has a different idea of what that is.

I wish it were as simple as "adapt or die" but many times it's "adapt enough and survive" which means big companies do a little bit of everything.

And it's the agile true believers that are many times behind this make-agile-just-another-heavy-process movement. Take a look at the various lists for defining if a team is "really" doing scrum or not. Read up on what some of the practitioners want to do. The agile community is doing a lot of this to itself, large organization or not.

So big companies pay us gurus to come in and try to change everything. And then nobody wants to change. And nobody gets fired if people miss a sprint. And everybody wants to perfectly define what agile is. And upper management wants to start tracking what metrics make "good" teams and what make "bad" agile teams. If you're lucky, you improve productivity by 5-8 percent using whatever generic agile principles the teams can accept.

That's a winning preposition for everybody. Doesn't feel great, and there is no break in the clouds with sunlight streaming in and music playing, but from a cost-benefit perspective it's a worthwhile cause.

Yes, agile is full of wonks preaching TDD that haven't coded in 20 years. Or analysts with 2 years of experience apply agile with a checklist. But that's where the movement is at right now -- it's spread from emphasizing delivery to being a little bit of something for everybody.

I wish it were as simple as you say.
Hold on. Why is a stack based language any less able to do that? If anything, it's closer to your ideal, as it has less inherent syntax than Lisp.

And for that matter, why do you think Clojure is so awful? It has no reader macros, true, but it does provide a more succinct way of writing hashes and vectors than most other lisps. Other than that, well, it's a Lisp.
I went shopping for a laptop a few days ago, and checked out the MacBook Pro 15", which is $1738 at Club Mac (and that's after a $150 mail-in rebate). I instead ordered a Dell Latitude E6500 for under $1250 (plus $50 for a Mini 9 netbook, which was available in a combo deal), equipped with twice the RAM, the same CPU, the same disk, a magnesium alloy chassis (not as pretty as the Mac's aluminum, but not bad and very light), same resolution LED lit display, similar dedicated video card, backlit keyboard, a 9 cell battery (reportedly ~2.5 hour longer battery life than the Apple), web cam, roughly the same weight, roughly the same height (1" vs. 0.95" for the Apple), and more ports. Oh, and a three year pretty comprehensive warranty.

So, Mac OS X tax = ~$488, and I would have gotten less RAM, and deal with a rebate which I seem to never actually receive even when I remember to fill out the forms and stuff.

Just saying...the MacBook is a fine looking machine, though. This Dell is reportedly hackintosh ready, too, but I always end up just using Linux, anyway.
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Interesting, but in the same sense you could say "there is no such thing as waste", because in theory everything could be recycled somehow (and if we have no use for it now, we might find some in the future - just as the article states about some of the radioactive waste). Yet getting rid of waste dumps and just keeping the garbage around at home seems infeasible for now.

It is also not clear from the article how expensive recycling the radioactive waste would be.
I didn't say it was simple; I said it was mutual self-deception. That being said, I did find a simple solution: I got out. The effect is comparable to what I imagine someone would feel if they were cured of athsma and able to breathe.
He's using their brand without permission :/ I agree that is a Terrible unethical business practice.
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How much are you making from it? Maybe $250 is a really good offer.

Regardless, you're using their brand, and they should be able to take the domain easily enough if they want to.
Sorry, but that conspiracy theory does not add up. If they would not honestly believe the stuff was dangerous, they would have no reason to be against it.
A very clever way to go out.

It instantly reminded me of the story of when Carmack and Romero decided to go on their own after they were working together at Softdisk. At the time, there were no side-scroller games for PC for performance reasons. Carmack (20 years old at the time) had an idea, I believe it was about shifting the pointer of the display (or something to that effect), that allowed smooth side-scrolling enough to emulate the effects of the NES. He stayed up all night, and left a floppy at Romero's desk for the next day. When Romero got in the next day, and played the disk, Romero pretty much said "That's it, we're outta here" and from that initial engine was born Commander Keen, and the beginning of the legend of John Carmack.

It's been a few years since I read the book "Masters of Doom", so some of the details are hazy, but I thoroughly recommend it.

Carmack's genius is just out of this world.

Edit: Factual Correction.
My partner, who's not a member here but is very much a 'hacker' of all things electronic, car and computer, has a page about his disabilities here: http://sirbendy.jemjabella.co.uk/patient-information/my-disa...

He uses a Microsoft natural keyboard at home, but apart from that doesn't have any specific requirements for his IT equipment. In terms of every day tools, the only thing I can think of is that his car is an automatic (no clutch, so he doesn't have to worry about the extra pedal).

He's quite lucky given the range of things that CAN affect CP sufferers, and is fantastically independent.
It can certainly be improved - it didn't find the manual for a Nokia 5220.
Don't search engines rely on huge human intervention?

This site thought worked: http://safemanuals.com
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Ah, no. I bought the domain name because, for a while, I was going to call my new band The Perceptron. I ended up calling it something else, but figured I could reuse the domain for the site.
I really dislike this to be honest. Not having threads ensures the language is nice and simple and pure. Threads in what is pretty much an event driven language, make very little sense. What operations 'block' in js? Threads encourage sloppy inefficient programming.

If you start 20 WebWorkers, and it's faster than having 10, you have to ask some serious questions of the interpreter/VM. Like whether it's insane.

It should really be up to the interpreter/VM to be able to spread the work over multiple cores, not the programmer of the js.
Once again, I don't think it's mutual self-deception. People see that agile principles work. Some don't understand how it applies to their job. Some, quite frankly, view agile as a bunch of new age, feel-good crap. In a big organization, life is about compromises. That can look like self-deception, but it's not.

I'm not a big corporate guy, even though I work with them, so I understand the freedom of getting out. When I'm in startup mode I'm about a hundred times more happy and productive than working in a large group.

But corporations still exist, and people still need to work in them. Some people want the imagined security that things will not change -- that they can punch a clock every day and work at the same place for 30 years.

Now you and I know that stability is an illusion, but it's one that people cling to.
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I can not follow your logic. I never had VC investment, but I did not even think the VCs pay you. Even if they did, wouldn't you access your value by the expected outcome P(failure)0+P(success)10 billions?

It also doesn't matter, because I still think the opportunity cost equation holds. If you decide now to become a waiter instead of an IT consultant, it costs you 70$ an hour to be a waiter (assuming waiters earn 10$/h and consultants 80$/h). I don't think there is a way around that.
Is the company you are presently at public, and for which there is an options market? If you'll get an extra 6 months' vesting with the cliff, ask the new company to pay you an extra signing bonus NOW, with which you can buy N shares of call options at a strike price of S; N being the number of shares you'll vest in 4 months (6 months minus July and Aug), S being the same as your options' strike price.

If there's no options market, you'll have to guesstimate.

There should be other opportunities beside this offer?
Is it really possible to audit complex systems in a reasonable amount of time, & would they have to call whenever they make any small changes?

I can't wait for the day when such systems become plug & play
There is.

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Please back up your statement.
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It can, not easily though, I think you've been watching too much CSI... :P
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I know - I am hiding on a small display (notebook), but on bigger displays (external) it seems silly.
That's Softdisk, not Apogee. Apogee was id's publisher from when they started moonlighting until id handled their own distribution for Doom.
I think it's valid to assume that this was before the (galilean) principle of relativity. Even today many (most?) people don't know that it's ok to choose either model.
There is http://beagleboard.org/

It might be closer to what you had in mind.
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I thought that sounded fishy, but I didn’t go to check it out. Thanks for the reference.
If they didn't compete there wouldn't be any evolution.
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There are people out there who will read "unofficial version" and still not know that it's not official. Those people will not be any more clued in just because it has a different name - if it looks/works like zillow, it is zillow. Targetting this level of understanding is futile.
Seconded. I'm really impressed with the amount of features he has been able to pack into DuckDuckGo while keeping the design dead simple.
Probably paragon. Maybe pinnacle or nonpariel.
The audio and video element support is good for the open web but still needs work to be an alternative to Flash and Silverlight because currently it is too slow. It's not just because of Theora. Ogv videos play noticably better outside Firefox. Safari's video element support (using H.264) is much better.
"I don’t think that it’s appropriate to discuss our conversation in public..."

Welcome to the internet. Have a nice stay.
Your experience coincides with Microsoft's new series of commercials where they give a person a fixed budget for a laptop:

http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/techtracks/2009/03/26/...
Thanks for the correction. I though it was Apogee, but like I said, the details were a bit hazy.
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Would be nice if they could speed it up a little.
Thanks! Good stuff - but somehow I think you're making your own luck!
I think I might have been mixing up paragon and messiah.
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You can also just type 'n' (if, like for me, HN is one of your most frequently visited sites).
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stop with the downvoting unless you're going to contribute something yourself. as a novice flash developer i would really like to be able to learn how to make a basic mario game.
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This for example links to http://news.ycombinator.com

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There was a recent thread about amateur rockets: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=583550 The technology is becoming more accessible and cheaper.

Why not just pack the most dangerous nuclear waste onto a rocket and blast it out of the atmosphere and out of any orbit, perhaps into the sun?? The risk is something happening to the rocket on the way up. It sounds absurd but there's a lot more radioactive things in space, and costs for such a procedure seem to be lowering.
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I'm looking at JVM performance optimisations at the moment (I'm working on cache-friendly data structures for DBMSs, and interested in how running this stuff on a JVM affects things). As just a little test, I wrote an identical binary search in Java and C over a large array (with randomly increasing contents), with a very large number of iterations. I pregenerated all the search numbers to eliminate discrepancies with regards to time taken for RNG. It turned out that for completely predictable searches C was always a bit faster, and over smaller array sizes C also beat out java. As the array got over about a million elements in size, Java caught up to and then got significantly faster than C.

On further investigation of a 150 million element dataset, Java was performing 1/3 again as many instructions, but missing cache half as much. I've been spending some time looking at all the JVM performance optimisations, but I still haven't worked out why this is - a random binary search isn't exactly a test case that's run time optimisation-specific. It's fascinating stuff, anyway.
Cool, I chucked up a date formatter thats along the same vein

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Oh come on - why seek to hurt/destroy a viable business in these dark days just because you personally don't like how you're treated?

Determine a fair value for your work and negotiate. It's a shame they opened with a low-ball offer backed by a threat (if this is truly how this all unfolded), but be the bigger man here and forge some cooperation! Maybe then they can learn a lesson about dealing with API devs without first seeing them scared off by a personal vendetta campaign
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There are a few guides on the web for such things, for example:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/platform_game.htm

Which, incidentally, is the first google result for "flash platform game tutorial"
Awesome! I've been using django-oauth for sometime now, been looking at django-restapi and so on. But this takes the best of both worlds. And I especially like that it is not tied to the data models, so this means we can build in some business logic.
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(And the way things are going, that 70 year number will go up by 10 years every 10 years.)
Very interesting. Could you also allow generous users to upload scanned manuals for old products which aren't online? IANAL but perhaps if you're in the US you could get some Safe Harbor protection and in any case, it is not certain that manufacturers would care if you hosted their old manuals.
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The link is to Chapter 14 from "Freedom from the known", by Jiddu Krishnamurthi.

Chapter 15 talks about the nature of meditation, and I believe this is particularly useful to those who have discussed mindfulness, concentration, and vipassana in another thread :

http://www.freeweb.hu/tchl/freedom_from_the_known/1968-00-00_freedom_from_the_known_chapter_15.html
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That is a bit of a strawman argumentation, though. The parole is usually not "use coal plants instead of nuclear plants", it is essentially to get rid of nuclear plants. Instead of building more coal plants, saving energy is an alternative (for example).
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