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I couldn't make heads or tails of it. There's an interesting point about Lean development coupled to Taylorism, but I saw no ties with how agile is tied to unionization.

The article says: [Agile] does this by limiting the number of working hours, demanding autonomy and self-management, rejecting the arbitrary dominating power of the boss, preventing their jobs from being shipped overseas, and ensuring that software engineers are involved in their workplace as decision makers.

1) "limited working hours" - the essay quotes Beck on prohibiting more than 40 hours of work per week, and says of crunch time that "Agile methodologies rightly reject this as inhumane and unsustainable." However, waterfall methodology also rejects this as unsustainable. The reference I have is for Jones 1991, which says that Voluntary Overtime is effective up to about 44 hours per week, and beyond that effectiveness is likely to get worse.

So, you're doing agile. Your boss wants mandatory overtime, with 50 hour weeks for the next 3 months, in order to beat some deadline promised to the board. In a union, you talk with your union rep (who may have been involved in your contract), and present a united front against the arbitrary and fundamentally poor decision.

In an agile shop you ... point to a book which says that 40 hours is enough? Then when your boss points out that the industry average is 48-50 hours, you say ... ? And you are effective because ... ?

2) "rejecting the arbitrary dominating power of the boss"

I didn't see where that was really developed, other than some specifically project related decisions. Can agile prevent the boss from firing an employee any more than waterfall can do so? Can agile fight towards getting the salary increase you were promised for working 60 hour weeks, but never got? Not that I'm aware of.

While unionization is supposed to offer that sort of protection, agile only rejects certain limited forms of boss power.

3) "preventing their jobs from being shipped overseas"

The point here is that outsourcing can't happen with a methodology which requires co-location with the customer. "The forth and fifth principles mandate co-location of the engineering team and daily interaction with business people" where from the Agile Manifesto: "4) The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation. 5) Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project."

Except that those principles don't require on-site work, only say that on-site is the "most efficient and effective method." There are any number of web page which talk about "distributed agile", for example.

For example, here's a page talking about how to build an agile off-shore http://www.agilebuddha.com/agile/distributed-agile10-good-pr... . It argues that frequent travel for in-person contacts is essential, and still requires daily meetings, only through videoconferences and other means.

While agile would say this not as effective, it doesn't reject this outright, so it cannot be anti-offshoring.
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So that's what Comic Sans is for[0].

[0]: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole (I'm aware.)
Further on this, most people who don't really keep up with racing don't realize just how fast F1 cars.

Here's[1] a fantastic overlay of a very famous corner at Spa. FIA GT cars are not slow cars[2] but the differences are tremendous.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex5dhhpSHCw
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIA_GT_Championship
[BONUS IN CAR FOOTAGE] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2cNqaPSHv0
Well, there's some unsubstantiated optimism if I've ever seen it. Let's hope you're right, but right now the physics and economics do not support your exuberance.
>Nobody's going to be focusing on the coffee, just the dessert.

I think that's actually a common misconception. Maybe it's relevant only in coffee-heavy cultures, but a coffee is (often) the very last thing one will taste before leaving the restaurant. You want your customers to leave on a high note, right? This is why so much effort is spent on the dessert, the final dish. But the coffee will follow the dessert! That's the final dish.

When an otherwise decent meal is followed by a terrible coffee, to me it's depressing; it forces me to re-evaluate the experience. Maybe those dishes weren't as good as I thought, maybe they got them right by accident... This is why many restaurants will actually offer you liquor at the very end; it's an easy way to make you leave happy. If you don't go down that route, then you should invest some time in making sure the coffee is good. Or at least get a Nespresso :)
Since you asked so politely, I'll attempt, albeit somewhat hesitantly, to offer some feedback.

So looking back on my encounters with Aubrey, I can only say he seems perfectly content appearing old and wise. In fact he's well known to be anti-interventionist (for the meantime) and does not endorse supplementation or other strategies other than basic obvious health advice (eat well, exercise). This is in contrast to his friend Ray Kurzweil, who on the other end of the spectrum is ingesting 100+ pills daily.[1]

In terms of the HN reaction, I too admit at first, to an immediate emotional desire to downvote. On the one hand, I respect your breadth of knowledge and am grateful to your usually educational summations, but on this occasion, the dismissal seems shallow. The sense one gets, is that you're not really taking him seriously as a biomedical gerontologist, as a researcher studying senescence for the last 20 years. Instead it feels (at least to me) like a dismissal more slightly more appropriate, to a salesman peddling snakeoil.

So lastly, and perhaps most importantly, setting aside emotion, the dismissal was logically flawed. If a researcher produces findings and chooses not to follow them (by your implication the reason for his old and haggard appearance), it has little bearing on the validity of said findings. There may be many good (and not so good) reasons for not following the immediate implications of ones own research: Akrasia[2], lazyness, "wait and see". For example, theoretical research (eg murine models -- such as FTA) occurs long before a drug, has passed all the relevant safety tests in humans, and enters the market.

hth

[1] http://bigthink.com/videos/the-top-3-supplements-for-survivi...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akrasia
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It's much the same way my k1200r is pushing out 180HP from a 1.2 liter normally aspirated engine. RPM + flow. Most supersport bikes have even more HP on tap from a smaller engine. The key, however, is torque, that's what you want to look at. For instance, though my k1200r may have 180HP, it wouldn't do a very good job pushing around your 4 door car because it has only about 100 ftlb of torque. Torque is the rotational force of the engine.
I'm about 7-10 years myself, I've gotten pretty bored and unmotivated as well. But what I've learned is: Programming for money and programming for passion are two very different motivators. They don't have to be exclusive, but regularly are. And often it can become over extended.

So, here are somethings you can consider: Try finding work you're passionate about first, that also pays. Maybe work for a non-profit? Try to find a role that lets you expand from where you currently are, perhaps management, business analysis, marketing, design or whatever pet preference you have. The point is not to over extend a single skill. Consider less hours, I've personally found 30 hours a week to be tolerable. Relax that skill more often. Try working on different projects regularly, I work on different projects every 2-6 weeks. The change in pace & direction keeps me excited & interested.

Also consider: building passive income generators, you've been programming for 15 years (why isn't the code working for you?).

All in all, keep changing your angle until you're happier.

Just my two cents.
I probably found a good portion of the gear heads like myself on here -- I wanted to reach out for your support in my campaign!
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I don't mean after roast (whole beans should be good for a couple of weeks). The author had ground his beans 4 days previous to the test.
Should be entering with the concept of drivers literally switching cars mid-way through the race due to the current battery power.
I would suspect you are probably less bored with programming but probably bored with your job as a whole. It's likely time to move from day-to-day programmer to a management role. If you are as experienced as you seem you should really consider it. It will present a number of new challenges and leading your peers to do great work will likely be a whole new challenge.
Great to see teams like Andretti Autosport at the forefront of the series reppin' USA!
This is just adding an extra layer between your data and redis, which defeats redis' purpose of being fast for particular use cases.
I really agree on this: "Humans are imperfect, and so a world of perfection that denies the human element can never be truly perfect after all.".. Nice post!
Hm, Github is blocked, Python.org too. Microsoft.com is permitted though. Wikipedia is permitted, including pages about coprophilia, tentacle erotica (illustrations) and decapitation (photographs).

Sorry parents, censorship is still no alternative to actual parenting and may just get in the way of your kid becoming the next amazing Python hacker.
While I would be glad if people would stop using that unnamed OS, what I meant isn't that everybody should just hop to some *nix. What I meant is that pretty much every OS out there does security completely wrong, for no discernible reason.
Hell something even more minor than that is the ability to have 5 icons on the dock...
Here's a link to the SO question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20734835/scalable-nodejs-...
For the remaining 3G users, 80% are likely TD-SCDMA disguised as land line telephones.

It's a Chinese thing, where you pay for a "fixed line" telephone set, but no need for actual wires to your home. Communication were done via wireless TD-SCDMA.
Knossos: Redis and Linearizability
If you cannot use libraries in a typical dynamic language, stuff is almost always just as inconvenient as in Java or C++.
I won't spoil it, but I will say one thing: this is a marvel of software engineering. Bravo.
Blackmail fail
I find it sad that people are so obsessed right now with small engines. Small engine does not necessarily mean good efficiency. For instance, I have a C5 Corvette with a 5.7L V8 engine. It gets 29-30MPG on the freeway, and I usually get combined rating for about 27MPG. My friend had an M3 with a much smaller engine but same HP. It was getting maybe 16MPG combined, on a good day. Large engine does not necessarily equal good efficiency.

That's why I find all these rules idiotic. I personally would like to see a rule where each car gets X amount of fuel (adjusted in BTUs) per race. So say you can get 100 liters of gas or 85 liters of diesel, because diesel has more BTU/liter. That's all. Leave the rest up to the teams, let them figure out the most efficient way to spend their fuel. For instance, maybe hydraulic or nematic energy systems are better than electric. Let them try that. Maybe someone want's to do an all electric car with a diesel generator onboard for power, let them try that. Maybe someone want's to try going at it with hydrogen generator / electric combo. Let them try that too.

Millions of dollars are spent on F1, and all that money is being wasted on fiddling with exhaust positioning, rather then trying new and innovative technologies. The "Prius" layout is old news, there are better solutions to efficiency.

You can reword the most efficient cars by allocating an artificially low amount of fuel per race, and then holding cars in the pits for additional "penalty" time for each liter of fuel they take in over the baseline. That way the most competitive car would be the fastest car with the best fuel economy.
How can one be bored with programming? Am I the only one never bored when left alone somewhere? There's always more to learn, more to do, to experiment with, etc.
It's really a shame to read such a question. I don't even want to work with you.
Nespresso is best described as not bad and not good

Per the article, in this blind taste test, the opposite appears to be true:

In distant last place came the ground coffee I had brought, a very good quality, single-estate bean, but not roasted for espresso and ground four days earlier, a little too coarsely for Bruno’s machine. The traditional house espresso scored 18 points, and was the favourite of one taster. But the clear winner with 22 points was the Nespresso, which both scored most consistently and was the favourite of two of the four tasters. Of course, these were just four people’s opinions. But their consensus fits the judgment of top chefs and Nespresso’s own extensive testing, which must have been conclusive enough for them to have the confidence to agree to my challenge in the first place.

If you have better data, cite it!
Crap now we're going to go through the whole word parsing game again. This is not a fun place to be
> The non-technical iOS users I know would never change a setting in Settings they do not understand

I wish I had your circle of non-technical folks. I've been called (from other people's phones, no less) numerous times asking why data doesn't work (they deleted all the APNs from an Android phone), why their picture messages don't go through (they changed the MMSC URL to their homepage), why voicemails stopped (they set the voicemail service number to their own number), and several more. Changeable settings are like mountains; they're messed with because they are there.
That may be (although it amounts to a gross oversimplification), but it's still a functional government and a self-interested bureaucracy. Daily life goes on in Iran much as anywhere else. Council of religious fanatics notwithstanding, and its occasional grandiloquent pronouncements also notwithstanding, Iran's government is mostly full of administrators and workers that implement things like water treatment, motor vehicle registration, low-income housing, zoning, meat inspection, and energy. There is most definitely logic to Iran, much as to any other actually-existing government.

There's even logic to its foreign relations, underneath the ideological veneer. Imagine if someone thought US policy actually worked literally as presidential speeches suggest; you'd think they're an ignorant tool. "Everyone knows that speeches are just speeches," you'd say, with no connection to the actual practice of governance. It may surprise you to learn that it's like that in any state, including Iran.

Disclaimer: US citizen living in Armenia, NW of Iran. None of the very numerous Iranians here leave one with the impression that they are from a place with "no logic". Turn off Fox News.
That's very insightful. There is a website just for you:

http://www.reddit.com/
The magic bullet is the Turbo. Turbo helps push ridiculous amounts of pressure (psi) via compression into the motor (increasing compression ratio) to create a nice big bang to spin it really fast.

But like anything that burns brighter, the wick shortens faster. So these motors won't stand more then few hours of operation vs a consumer car that is made to withstand few years.

Look at rotor engines. Those were great small 1.3L motors with huge power outputs. Obviously not as reliable as piston motors. However I always wonder why humanity complicated motors and created so many moving pieces when all we had to do is build an electric motor from the start.. a magnet wrapped around a coil under current. Less moving pieces, less things that can go wrong and longer life span.

Nethertheless one cannot beat the jet like sound of F1 piston engine under full power smashing down the straight!
exactly!!! Being bored with programming is like saying bored of life. There's a whole world of programming out there to be explored. I've been doing it for 28 years and love every day of it.
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> Levinson/Lavasoft stated that they would provide that pen register information for a development fee of some $2,000-$3,500. (Note: Verizon's price list says they charge about $700 for access to that data.)

plus

> The government refused to pay, saying that they were not aware of paying anyone else for pen trap data

So the government is not aware of paying anyone, despite Verizon having a (semi)public price list?
Yes, and he makes no mention of the disappointingly low angular resolution. Even the "improved" resolution on the consumer version is approximately equivalent to using a 1980s IBM PC with a 320x200 CGA display. You get a much wider field of view with the Rift of course but the individual pixels are huge.
Their own app store have lots pirated apps and they have their own ad platform. e.g. One app publisher pay xM Chinese yuan for making their app to the top n in a app store.
I was in same situation around a year back. Then I thought just coding will not give me financial freedom to do whatever I want and started my own tech company. It's been a great year I had lots of new experience, learning and making money as well.
Consider creating some products in your free time preferably in your domain to start with.
Connect me tapesh at vitallabs.in if you need any specific details on how to transition from engineer to entrepreneur.
So many regulations. You can't have that, and that. No, you can't have that either. I wonder what kind of engines the F1 engineers could come up with if they would enjoy the freedom to pursue more exotic designs.
I do think that Macs are nice to have and use, and that my school computers are only [i3, 4gb, 500gb] machines, some are even older. Weirdly so, there seems to be this one Tesla supercomputer in that lab that's off-limits...anyways, the rMBP is beyond my $1200 budget, more so the normal MBP specced with a 256 ssd, so I think I'll stick to Windows machines until I have more disposable income to afford one. Thanks for your input, it was helpful!

Which brings me back to my pc+tablet or laptop debate. This is starting to give me a headache.
It's entirely possible that the "crosstalk" happened way before the calls every made it into Skype's domain. Skype will have a PBX somewhere that bridges the gap between Skypes IP protocol and the outside world of POTS and cellular calls.
There's always more to learn, more to do, to experiment with, etc.

In some (many?) jobs, no there isn't. The work can become extremely repetitive and mundane, while still requiring enough physical and mental energy to make doing more creative programming in your spare time look unappealing.

It's a real problem, and not necessarily an indicator of the inherent passion of the person experiencing it.
> We have worked with the NSA, both as a vendor and an active member of the security community. We have never kept this relationship a secret and in fact have openly publicized it.

Liars. They publicized the $10 million deal?!
This is a documentary on the human cost of those pre-regulation years "Grand Prix: The Killer Years": http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00z8v18

Unfortunately the content doesn't really go into much detail on how things changed but focuses more on the events leading to the changes. I'm not a motor racing enthusiast but still found it interesting viewing.
The restaurants in question are automating the parts of their business not directly related to their core competencies. They have their specialty dishes, and those are still made by hand.
I'm full steam ahead myself. I am fascinated by the idea of Open Aging.

But anti-intellectualism is not cool. Saying "she did a little dance and that's all there is to it" or even "she's just being young" is more obnoxious than the fact that she did it.

There are cultural analyses to be made, if not merely to gain an understanding of how activities like this will affect culture and influence opinion.

Cultural nihilism and cultural solipsism are less sophisticated than cultural relativism, and these probably do more harm than good. No one should really critique from cultural apathy — I mean, just, why? "I don't care, so you shouldn't either"? Really? That's just picking your nose at the Weird Kids table.
Sue. Per. Idiot.
Have you skimmed through the PDF? I've found that even though I don't have any legal training, it's usually pretty easy to read at least the transcripts. Do that a few times, and things start to make some sense.

I've found court judgements are often quite easy to understand, if you don't mind skipping a lot of citation references. For example, Computer Associates v. Altai helped me understand the abstraction-filtration-comparison test as applied to copyright of software.
I had the same thought. But note that one is a development fee and the other is a service fee.
I am more worried about cryptolocker than the Silk Road or its derivatives.

These people must be getting the money out somehow via the visible blockchain.
Nespresso machines also can't make pretty latte art... though I don't know whether that's legit-Italian or just third-wave-American :)
That was the part of the article that jumped out at me.

I live in a university town. Various parts of the research arms of the university have various radiological materials on hand for experiments or ongoing work. There's an old, decommissioned nuclear reactor near the airport. ALL of the people who work in these facilities wear dosimeters that change color if an incident resulting in overexposure occurs. ALL of the emergency response teams in the area (campus police, county, city, city fire, and county volunteer fire) have a geiger counter on each truck -- there is a mini one that is just a box on the trucks, and the hazmat trailer with the chem suits has a bigger and more sensitive one with a wand. And this is just a small town research university kind of place, not a big government warship that's designed to fight nuclear wars.

On top of that, I'm 99% sure that distilling water removes the radioactive contaminants.
I always picture some poor guy who spends decades dreaming of the day he can buy a fancy sports car. Finally he can afford it, he buys the car he's wanted since he was 15, and people say "hey look, he's having a midlife crisis."
That's a fair point, and I don't claim to know him well enough to make any strong claim one way or the other, regarding whether he's a "cool guy" or a total asshole. All I can say is that, given my one brief encounter with him, he came off as an OK guy. Maybe that's natural, maybe it's manufactured, who's to say about such things?
They're just saying this because it's classified and will never see the light of day that they were actually adding a backdoor. Or maybe they're just playing word games. The only thing to go by are the facts. The facts are that RSA added an NSA backdoored feature as default into their products and were paid for it.
I think this is a fantastic response. You can do a lot with programming where the end goal isn't necessarily a program/app but rather to reach a conclusion or to find out something interesting (e.g. data science). It's a different take on programming if you will.

I think design is awesome and I would like to do it at some point. I think having a programming background would help me a lot when doing CSS/HTML/JS/UX stuff.
Maybe chinese new year coming soon. Its a sort of promotion or something
Wow. Truly a beautiful feat of engineering. This leverages capabilities I didn't even know python had.
Wheres the obligatory link to the screenshots? :(
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