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> Except that every incarnation of Agile that I've encountered is a rigid implementation of scrum plus sprint planning plus Jira.

This is not a problem with Agile; anything that works anywhere will lead to imitations that steal the name and attempt to extract some simple recipe from the "lessons" of that thing that worked.

> While I agree that this is against the agile manifesto, that's no excuse. This is how it ends up getting implemented in large corporate environments

No, its how something that is nothing like Agile gets implemented in large corporate environments and called Agile.

Fundamentally, this is a symptom of a broader leadership culture issue environments in the authority structure and culture has people that neither know nor care to know about the domain have authority for decision making within that domain, and its certainly beyond the power of people external to the affected organizations with an interest in particular approaches to problems in any given domain (software development or otherwise) to do much about. It is, however, a pervasive problem in large bureaucracies (not only corporate ones.)
Wonder why they didn't mention unicornscan in their paper?

User-land Distributed Portscanner released in 2005:
http://unicornscan.com

Defcon Presentation Introducing Unicornscan from 2005:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdCEo6yoEWA
I've been considering building this as a personal project, because I never got to know my grandparents very well and sometimes I have conversations or experience things that I wish I could relive. I highly doubt anyone would ever bother with most of the recording. Sorting out the relevant bits is an open question, but I suspect a combination of speech-to-text with search and a timeline could help find interesting things.
Good. Now they just need to spend that extra time fixing bugs in most of their software.
Imagine a Cable Service provider that says:

1. We will show you only content and no ads in all the standard programming. (Of course the Cable service decides what is programming and what is Ads)

2. There will be a separate dedicated channel only for ads where the Cable Service authorized Ads will get priority.

3. The Cable Service Provider would show his ticker ads on all the channels.

Obviously consumers would find an immense benefit in subscribing to such a hypothetical Cable Service. But the real problem with this would be the following:

1. Advertisers will see less value in advertising with Channels but instead they will advertise only with the Cable provider.

2. The production houses will earn less and hence will make less programs and poor quality programs in the long run.

3. Consumers will suffer in the long run.

Go to think of it, Facebook's early day success and even the current progress was possible purely because of their aggressive email marketing strategy. All those friend invitations eventually forced everyone to join Facebook.

If Gmail really wants to help fight spam and email marketing they could have done the simplest thing that Yahoo and AOL have been doing since inception. Give us a the complain reports. For example whenever a Yahoo! user marks a mail as spam, Yahoo notifies the email sender about this. This helps email marketeers to ensure that such person is not sent any mails in future. Wonder why Gmail cant do this.
"sanity check" in this context is a bit different than in software.
Have you read his biography by Walter Isaacson? I think there is no doubt in the tech community whatsoever that he was an ass with people, he cheated his own company people, and also his friend Mr. Wozniak. Also, Jony Ive 'considered him' as a friend, but quoting him :
"He [Jobs] will go through a process of looking at my ideas and say, 'That's no good. That's not very good. I like that one,'" Ive told Isaacson. "And later I will be sitting in the audience and he will be talking about it as if it was his idea. I pay maniacal attention to where an idea comes from, and I even keep notebooks filled with my ideas. So it hurts when he takes credit for one of my designs."
I'm not wearing any blinders. That's the point. I have no loyalties or hatred towards anyone just because they have letters after their names.

My examples are meant to show you that your "Us and Them" mentality with engineers and MBAs is just false and doesn't reflect reality, no matter how many anecdotes people throw around on HN.

You asked for examples. I gave them. Now you're attacking me instead of my point. I've proven you wrong, bottomline. You just can't see past your anti-MBA bias.
No, not at all. Just drawing a comparison.
> ... "class C" ...

I realize lots of people are simply in the habit of saying "Class C" when what they really mean is a /24, "Class B" for a /16, etc. but classless routing[0] has been around for 20 years now and these terms need to go away.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing
I said it before, but this points it out all the more: the educational credential race hurts the poor the hardest.

Even if college was cheap and guaranteed to graduate, it would still be the poor who could least end up able to sacrifice 4-9 years of their life on it.
Let's say the product was based around a mobile services app. For discussion let's say Uber for dog walking or Uber for X. What would you consider a reasonable salary and/or equity stake for Hacker to be interested. Assuming solid business model, marketing plan, all else equal.
The algebra of Unix command substitution
I'm not sure what you mean by "morals". If you're implying that Russian knew that the US would never attack, but the Americans couldn't trust that the Russians would never attack, then that would still be propaganda at work.

If some Americans actually believed that the Russians were so maniacal that they would attack, even in spite of Mutual Assured Destruction, then those Americans were foolishly suckered in by propaganda.
I'm not sure about ASP.NET - projects I've worked with are utterly over-engineered with so many interfaces, services, factories, and service factories, that it's impossible to figure out where the code is that actually does anything, even in VS2012.
Your best defense of MBAs is that some are capable of doing other things as well. You may as well tell me that dogfood is a perfectly reasonable meal for humans because sometimes you feed your dog your leftovers: "Dogfood makes great people food. See, here is some dogfood that also happens to be people food" "MBAs can create just as well as technical people. See, here are some MBAs who are technical people as well" "Chiropractors aren't all quacks. See, here is a chiropractor who is also a licensed physical therapist."

I can only conclude that it is as I suspected; you are full of hot air.
I've been using fish for about 3 months now and I love it. Switched from bash.

Here's a presentation I gave to my local coder community on fish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWmKfb2jQhU
Thanks for responding, it's good to hear your side of things. I'm sure you understand the market a lot better than me (I very rarely use flower delivery services).
I did something similar when I was researching search technology at my university[0]. Then when coming back from lunch some weeks later I found two gays from the it-department had locked them self into our office to investigating what we where doing. Apparently we had hit a lot of honeypots :)

0: http://www.boitho.com/
There's no talk about basebands because there's nothing anyone can do about it.
But who did you mean? IBM?
It seems like that person I have been waiting for to create that mapping is me!
Before if you had a 59 US $ plan (dedicated IP), the cost was 0.59/thousand, so you could send 118k emails.

With the new plan, for 59 US$ you get the dedicated IP and 10k emails. Sending 118k emails with a dedicated IP would cost 113 US$
Steve Jobs - The deal maker
That's pretty good going I would have thought? As well as charging cycles, I assume time is a factor. My Macbook Pro (bought July 2009) had reached 65% capacity by the time I replaced it, after something like 45 months and ~250 cycles. By then the computer had been begging me to replace it for about six months.

I actually thought this perfectly reasonable, with nearly 4 years being a fair lifespan for a battery, no matter how few cycles it might have been through. While it was obviously knackered, it still held enough charge to be perfectly useful, if not amazing - but perhaps I should have held it to a higher standard?

(Hopefully it's just this year's unusually hot UK summer but after a mere ten cycles its replacement is down to 93% already. So maybe there's just something up with the electricity supply to my flat.)
Yes, it also had a big impact (of course, negative) on the culture of 'healthy competition' that once used to be the case in the pre-Apple era. Steve Jobs ensured that someone, somewhere is always in a 'face-palm' position reading/hearing about patents on "pinch to zoom", "slide to unlock", rounded corners, icons in a grid, wedge shape, and many more, while they went on to steal more.
I started looking at http://yclist.com/ and realized that many companies I often see listed on the front page here are actually YC companies, but not marked as such.
Huh, didn't realize that Stross is British. The fight against spying there seems even more uphill, to say the least.

While the existing Constitution should be upheld as a first step, I do believe that some or all of the human rights protections should extend to all persons, not just citizens, and that spying on allies during peacetime is unacceptable. On a practical level, international spying is just a run-around for domestic spying anyway: we snoop on the UK's servers, they snoop on ours, and whoops, data on our own citzens!

I also think there is an oppurtunity for transnational democratic organizations, as depicted in Neal Stephenson's concept of "phyles". With enough people banding together worldwide, we can protect human rights with force, yet without violence.
"It's funny when you look back how suckered in Americans were vs Russians."

Were they, though? There's a difference between "the bad thing didn't happen" and "the bad thing couldn't happen". Perhaps we were too concerned about it back then, but I sometimes fear we're too casual about it today. History strongly suggests the "total extinction" scenarios are overblown ("nuclear winter" is likely not a viable threat, though things could be cooled for a while, we know because other big particulate events didn't result in anywhere near the scary predictions, the dangers of fallout are generally grossly overstated), but they can still end civilization as we know it in mere minutes. They may "only" be able to wipe out all major cities on Earth rather than actually kill every human, but... that's still a bit of a problem.
We've pushed a stopgap fix to the calendar code to stop it from hanging while we investigate/repro the issue.
Mailgun is now owned by Rackspace, so I don't think it's still considered an active member of the YC family.
Not to sound arrogant, but I took a few MBA courses which included Enterprise Finance and Operations Management. There is some rigor to the courses, and I found the finance class in particular interesting and applicable. However, the level of difficulty was at least one order of magnitude below the engineering courses I had taken, when compared EE & Physics courses. Aside from some term memorization the math was really easy and "coasting through" was definitely possible if you're used to stuff like semiconductor physics.
Of course! I did know for certain there was no monetary benefit. A t-shirt would have been nice, but I investigated for the fun of it.
I'm a little disappointed in HN for the fact that this is on the front page. The wikipedia article on Gall-Peters is much more accurate and informative, and even the whole (misleading) "oh look what I just found out but barely anyone else knew" thing with projections has been done before, and better (e.g., by Arno Peters himself).

I might take up the project of posting the relevant wikipedia links as stories, and in turn linking those in the comments of all shoddily written blog posts, in the hope of righting these wrongs.
Nicely done! Do you consider synchronizing scores with recordings on YouTube?

We've built a similar thing at http://particellissima.net at the Classical Music Hack Day in Vienna.

It's a demo, but you may find some UI ideas interesting, for example synchronization and navigation through a video, flowing score, hiding the instrument parts that are not playing for a while, and assembling a score from small pieces with measure images hosted on multiple subdomains to improve the fetching performance in the browser.

And of course more music would be great!
given that we don't yet know the full range of nutrients the human body needs to function, it'll be completely impossible to live off Soylent & stay healthy in the long term. it's really that simple.
I dont think its a matter of functional vs imperative. In fact, functional languages give some of the best tools to avoid having to write callbacks by hand. For example, in LISPs the language tends to have explicit support for converting non callback code to CPS (call/cc and thigns like that) and in Haskell you have do-notation to get rid of the nesting and hide the callbacks behind some syntax sugar.
There's plenty of business motivation in fields that combined exceed PCs monetarily, such radio, military, space, automotive, aeroplanes, power grid, anywhere you use energy
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I prefer the entrancing visualization done by this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRgXUFnfKIY (his YouTube channel has much more). As a semi-trained musicians, I do see value in showing the full score, but purely as an audiovisual experience I think removing some of that information and just using colors for instruments and y-axis for relative pitch is more mesmerizing.
How? Because of a vicious cycle that begins with the low wages. You pay someone low wages so:
1) their kids can't pay for college => they can't get a proper education => lack of education/skillset in the kids
2) their kids have to work at these 'corporations' because of lack of education so they can put food on the table
3) their kids resort to stealing or some other illegal activity because they didnt have much of a choice => go to juvenile detention => no college => no skillset that you claim is not your fault

Is that enough or do you want me to go out and get some case studies as well?
That's too bad. When I was getting started, the best documentation available to me was the man pages (this was before I had an "always-on" broadband connection) and TLDP's "Linux HOWTO's". I printed many of them and took them with me to high school to study in class.

It's great that we have blogs and such nowadays where anyone and everyone can contribute their own documentation, guides, tutorials, etc., but there was something awesome about having a single, centralized, authoritative HOWTO covering a particular topic.
Wow, that's the best I've felt all day. Truly lost myself in the piece trying to follow the red line and tease the individual notes out of my perception.

Here's the example I was using:
http://notezilla.io/p/bach/air-on-the-g-string

[edit: I agree with crazygringo that it can be distracting if you are worried about the red line being slightly off.]
Wow this is so great. As a musician listening to a classical piece (well and an engineer too) I often think, "How does this work? I hear a clarinet here, is that what it is or something else?" So yeah, very cool.
Happy birthday, old steady. I haven't always been faithful, but always end up coming back to Debian--it was the first distro I could stand to use (after attempting floppy-based Slack, net-install FreeBSD before I knew how to netinstall over a dialup connection, a brief experience in learning how awful RPMs were, and then the absolutely fantastic magic that was and still is Apt), and it's the only one I can ever stand to use for more than a few months.
Read the parent comment.
Can a Country Dodge the NSA by Rebuilding Its Internet?
... It's not like we have any clear examples where the world was moments away from nuclear war or anything.

Now you might say that this was a result of American paranoia and that it was a self-fulfilling prophecy.

But thinking that Russian expectations on the matter weren't naive is somewhat naive.
For some customers it may make sense to stay on their current pricing, which we allow for.
I like how Grace Hopper is making a bug report. Nice touch.
You have to adjust your evaluation with the volume. If you're heading for the winning team, then alright, good intelligence on performance will be rewarded. But if you are three investors on the entire competition, it is very likely that skills advantage fades, since all your competitors have strong (if not mandatory) incentive to get top intelligence on the investment. In the end, your performance will be average, and your value earnings volumes will be your share of the entire market value creation for the invested period.
I drilled several of the water wells at Area 51 and TTR.

I guess I can talk about it now. :-)
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Transit directions have been a big reason why some people prefer Google Maps to (say) Apple's maps. In places like New York or Tokyo, it's a huge win for users. It's also spawned an open specification (Google Transit Feed Specification) that has sparked a ton of innovation in the public transit space, including real-time location updates from public transit authorities.

Full disclosure: one of the big leaders of the Google Transit project was Avichal Garg, who was a PM for the webspam team when he ramped up Google Transit in his 20% time.
Yeah, Russians thought better of Americans and also of themselves. (Nuclear war is suicidal for everyone, no matter who attacks first.)
And hence Google's slow descent into becoming what Microsoft is today.
Thanks for your input, didn't know that.

I, for one, went from a /r/php lurker to real user at that time so I thought there was dozens of us, dozens !
>They want the security of someone else taking care of them.

Performing a job, even a "simple worker bee" job, is still a job, not charity. As a worker, you perform a function, and the company pays you for your time/expertise/ideas/efforts/output/etc. What the hell part of that is charity, or being "taken care of"?

I find your implication that the employer is somehow doing the employee a favor by paying them for their work baffling and wrong-headed.
> The meme of "Restore the Constitution" can either be seen as a first step towards that goal, and/or a realistic low bar for what can actually be achieved.

But it's not a first step towards that goal. A significant number of people who chant "Restore the Constitution" mean "before the Fourteenth Amendment".

> If we could somehow pass a new constitutional amendment

That's not restoration.

> I think the most urgent matter is electoral reform: instant run-off, and publicly financed elections.

That's fine. You don't need to rally behind "Restore the Constitution" to advocate for that.
I love it ! :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3L4spg8vyo
First reaction was "wow, that is a ballsy move." Then realized it was for some other silkroad and not the Craigslist for Meth & blow on Tor.
I have considered that, actually. There are certain advantages with it - although, one thing that I like in particular with hosting the audio myself is that for example, I can slow it down to 25% speed and still have it sound great! Not possible with Youtube at the moment (if you slow down their videos, the results are deplorable).

Interesting demo! I definitely like the hiding of the instruments not playing.... also, lots of people seem to prefer a flowing score.

As for fetching more quickly, yup, also worth addressing.

More music? You can be sure about that ;)

Thanks.
Each component is isolated in just the way you describe, the only requirement is the base X-Tag Web Component library.
Hi seiji, I'm the author of Docker.

There is hype around docker, for sure. The optimist in me likes to think that it's because people find the project useful and are excited about the possibilities of containers in general - which I believe are huge.

Me and the dotCloud team have been working on container technology since 2008. For a long time it felt like preaching in the desert - mostly because it required exotic patches to the kernel which made widespread adoption difficult. So it's very rewarding to see more people adopt containers, and of course it's great to be on the right side of the hype for a change. But if we hadn't been at the right place at the right time, someone else would have done it instead. Containers are just too important and useful to not blow up.
Mailgun was purchased by rackspace. I don't see them going out of business any time soon.
Same here. I come to the comments first hoping for a non-QZ link.
ICANN bans dotless domains
Ok, how do you explain stripe and priceonomics? I'm sure I'm missing others.
Find customers.

Trying to win on price is a bad idea, it's a painful race to the bottom. It's a much better idea to speak to people who need your product and understand what are the major pain points with the current solutions they're using and figure out how to solve them.
Make Hymns to praise God. That's all there is to do in Heaven.

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\QUIX.TXT

Quixote, thou art serving, summed up in
one, the whole host of knights that have ever borne arms in the world. I
conjure thee, by what thou owest to thy most loyal goodness, that thou
wilt become my kind intercessor with thy master, that he speedily give
aid to this most humble and most unfortunate countess."

To this Sancho made answer, "As to my goodness, senora, being as long and
as great as your squire's beard, it matters very little to me; may I have
my soul well bearded and moustached when i
Like it or not, democracy requires coalitions to get things done, most especially in a country as culturally diverse as the US. While I also find some parts of the Tea Party abhorrent, I belive they are a necessary ally against the overreach of government. Note that that the first significant pushback against drones, and genuine use of the filibuster, came from none other than Rand Paul.

We can keep bickering over our disagreements, or we can unite over our common ground. The latter is bound to have much higher efficacy.
The problem is fundamentally that fund managers consume a large portion of the returns, after you factor the cost of the fund manager the result is negative.

To put it succinctly: On average fund managers reduce ROI.

As an alternative measurement, if you take the funds managed by most managers and look at the portfolio 1 year ago the fund would be better off with the previous year's portfolio. (This time mostly because of transaction costs)
As for the page turning - I think you could alleviate a lot of the issues by just slowing it down somehow. I can't remember if it was animated, but, if not, I think it would be less jarring if there was an animated scroll effect, starting slowly and then getting very fast, to cue the viewer that we're about to change pages. Similar to how the iPhone transitions screens, but maybe a bit slower since with the iPhone the user initiates the action and is therefore more prepared, perceptually.

[edited for clarity]
Might I suggest that your sample was a bit narrow? I can remember being pretty troubled at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis (yes, I'm that old), seeing that our city was thought to be in range of said missiles by the chart on the front page of the paper.

But from then on, most of the scare stuff seemed to be from the disarmament advocates--think of Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth and the nuclear winter it envisioned. Yes, there were the survivalist nuts, but there weren't that many.
The truck was crawling along while a guy was out in front probably just checking out the road or getting stuff out of the way. If you've ever seen a house or large sections of bridge being moved the same thing happens.