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> My current project feels more sluggish. Long planning meetings where just one or two people decide on the story points. Somehow we never really get all our stories done in our sprints. This isn't a big problem, but it makes you wonder how we plan this, and why we plan this.

When you raise this at retros, what sort of response do you get? I believe you can measure the health of a Scrum team by a) what issues get raised in a retro and b) do they get addressed?

The iterative aspect of Scrum is also very much about iteratively improving process.
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Do you feel that speed reading hurts your enjoyment of fiction? I'm a slow reader and one the one hand I want to improve so that I can read more stuff but on the other hand I feel that it will ruin literature for me. Some sentences lose all impact when you blaze through them at 100KMH.
Ah, then I happily stand corrected on that point!
i think the real worry is the long-term impact of having your eyes focused at infinity (as they are in the rift). there have been a bunch of reports of people having focusing weirdness after using the rift for a while. not a big deal, sure, but what happens after using the oculus for 5, 10 years?
It absolutely can be an attack on a much larger movement because those statistics are cited over and over and over again in said movement. Similarly, the Duluth model has directly shaped domestic violence policy and support despite being contradicted by any study that asked the same questions of women and men.

When said movement further has an absolute monopoly on the gender discussion and has been known to politically pressure the media to suppress dissent (see: Warren Farrell), I'm pretty happy in just stating the actual facts and letting someone else do the googling for a change.
"These are not just academic exercises. We’re not analyzing the media on Mars or in the 18th century or something like that. We’re dealing with real human beings who are suffering and dying and being tortured and starving because of policies that we are involved in. We, as citizens of democratic societies, are directly involved in and are responsible for." (Eminent MIT political activist)
If you believe in karma then you know this doesn't bode well for future Americans. I doubt the next few generations of Pakistani will like them.

That said there's so much room for improvement at this point. Eventually people are going to start losing faith in these 20th century institutions and ideas, and hopefully the Millennials and future generations will fix it.

Unfortunately for the baby boomers and gen x, history will look back on them as morally bankrupt, hypocritical and selfish.
Yeah, you're right, not the same. I was generalising and lumping them together as the same thing though for the sake of praising the Trello way of doing it and encouraging more people to keep the data and presentation separate. I personally like the single page app approach though for reasons other than the fact that it just creates the separation.
I would imagine hosting vast amounts of crawl data and email would give them plenty of experience building inexpensive storage at scale. Giving people vast amounts of space for email also gives them plenty of data on how much space people are likely to actually use.
You didn't read the article so you have no idea about the 'feel' of it. You're judging it based on the title (which is on par with judging a book by it's cover).

As with most advice, you should take it with a pinch of salt but it is worth examining it and taking things that seem relevant to you. If you never read anything then you'll certainly close off the opportunity to find something useful.

In this case, the claim about 'hours per day' is something I'll dismiss. However, the idea of 'No templates' for emails is quite useful as is the idea of keeping Playbooks (purely because it's another word for 'documentation' but people don't get excited about that one).
The Live Analytics stuff has been a big hit so far. Even internally we have had a hard time not staring at it! This is what is looks like with activity: http://s.swiftypecdn.com/assets/email/live_analytics.gif
> That said, I agree that making something into a single page app just to get this separation isn't going to be useful.

I agree, but there are other benefits too :)
guess you'll just have to sustain yourself on real food till then :)
Everything you wrote resonnates with my experience.

Youtube still gets my love because of the amount of obscure old songs you can find there (forgotten videos, LP). AFAIK SoundCloud is full obscure recent songs :)
There is no shortage of good, mature developers.
Dropbox is based on Amazon S3 which at their cheapest advertised rate costs 4x more than than what Google is offering. (although with Dropbox's usage they can probably get a volume discount)

I wonder if Dropbox have plans to start utilizing their own data center to get costs down...
That sounds like a bad feature to me. If I'm trying to read a document or watch a video file, I need instant access to it. I don't want to activate a download and then wait for the download to finish.
We have a team that is made up of 1 person from each of our three teams. It rotates on a weekly basis, and that team does the bug fixes / investigations / support queries that come in.

The advantage is that disruption to a sprint is amortised to a constant instead of being a variable. The weekly rotations ensure that people who are writing bugs aren't isolated from the fixing of them - it also maintains morale, being stuck on a bug-fixing team is a bit of a gulag for devs IMO.
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This might be a completely crazy thought:

Given technological enablement, why cant govt be more run as a StackOverflow tempered by the elder wisdom of the Supreme Court? Rip the executive branch out and make the president more of a city manager than the political emperor. Absolute power corrupts...
As for every legal argument on the internet: Surprise, there are different countries with different laws.

But I guess you are mostly right, for many countries this is the case. OTOH there is a reason OSM prohibits scanning and tracing other commercial maps.
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Did you find your Facebook ads profitable? We've experimented with them a lot, and have never been able to get a reasonable return on them. However, our goal has been driving actual sales of a product, not just getting Likes (as many ads seem to be doing).
Thank you for giving me that freedom ;-,

It saves me from playing games that are not in my favor. It also helps me avoid & call out people's bullshit. Life is too short to play someone else's bullshit game.

Good luck being exploited or exploiting other people ;-)
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If PHP was the language you knew best and your goal was to launch a product - then PHP would be a reasonable choice.

If your goal was to be cool, then obviously PHP would be a terrible choice.
There is a lot off good advice here. The key is get rid of work. Leaders lead. Do BS work 1-3 times and get rid of it. That's what you have employees for.

If you cannot afford to do that, you're short changing yourself and your company, because you should be out there selling and building, not dicking around with salespeople or linkedin.
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Some of them are really entertaining reads, if you have the time you might want to check it out:

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/04/08/mr-money-mustaches...
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/04/10/post-4-what-am-i-s...
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/04/11/getting-started-2-...

Just the first few, it goes on.

To specifically answer your questions, you will find the answers in various posts on that site, but you will have to put in the time to read them.

And I agree with the sentiment expressed in one of these above links that the boilerplate of the advice will be found in many personal finance/retire early books. To me, this is a confirmation of what I would consider basic elements or basic truths. And much of it can be common sense, like paying off a high interest rate loan before lower interest rate loans. Or making due with the car/house I currently have, rather than saddling myself with a newer/bigger car/house. I have heard someone refer to this as the process of "striving," rather than the process of "arriving:" It can seem like we never have enough.

I am very fortunate to be male and in the United States, as I have read repeatedly that the world is not fair and I have it far better than many other humans. For this, I am thankful. But I also put in the work.

My wife and I are using the methods we learned from Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad/Poor Dad series (which also has it's fans and detractors) and doing quite well. A four-plex we bought two years ago allowed us to pocket US$8000.00 last year, and yet legally claim a loss of $800 due to IRS rules for deferred taxes.

But the same core lessons can be found (for free) at http://www.financialintegrity.org. And as I said, when I see the same basic guidelines being repeated by so many different people, I conclude that there is likely to be some basic truths buried therein.

Good reading to you!
Apple already uses OSM data in their maps app: http://gspa21.ls.apple.com/html/attribution.html
Oh... I've been just starving while I wait. :) I'm just eager to get it and try it.
> Even that sentence needs work: They can't distinguish between correlations and causes.

Fair enough, that's correct and important. My original didn't encompass the issue of tertiary causes, i.e. causes not accounted for in the correlation.
> "I'd love to see an ad campaign (billboards in DC, Virginia and Maryland, for instance) imploring government and intelligence workers to leak."

Would that possibly run afoul of "inciting imminent lawless action"? I would also love to see such an advertising campaign, but I suspect you would get some pretty fierce and heavy-hitting push-back on it.
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My mom recently got diagnosed with a terminal illness. This was a very sad eye-opener for me. Having lived that in the family it has made me think about many things and how suddenly life can pull the rug from under you.
I can say from my own experience that being happy and enjoying every day as much as you can are the best gifts you can give to your loved ones.
My heart goes out to you and to your family.
OTOH, now your LCD's gamma can't make the ads invisible. My guess is this change makes ads more recognizable because they say the word "ad" on them.

I visited my family over the holidays and was shocked to see that the ad background was completely invisible on their crappy Dell LCDs.
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I have to say I disagree. It is worth it for sure.

The reflection "hack" allows a very clean and fast way to program js apps without needing to bootstrap them with a whole bunch of wiring code you get in things like backbone (also love in any case).

The choices you're left with:

- write clean easy to read code with a few conventions and use an ng-min call in gulp / grunt or w/e, if you're accustomed to live reload and watch this won't hurt at all.

- write in the annotations yourself and deal with it

- use something else and put up with having to write all the extra code

I've left out the other option, don't minify your code because I think thats a bit of a moot point.
Digital Ocean is great.... I've been using them for a bunch of stuff. Make for great dab/staging servers and low cost platforms.
Where did the CSS colors come from?
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> It's about imperative vs declarative styles in DOM modification, animations, etc.

I don't understand. I mean, Angular doesn't seem any more "declarative" than the Behavior.js you could write 7 or 8 years ago.

And jQuery made setup a bit different, but you could easily still keep doing the same thing with declarative decoration.

When talking about directives (specifically) Angular doesn't appear (to me) to really offer anything new outside of some questionable conventions for structure.
From looking at their security, they're really going to need that insurance.
Actually, I'd like to see what happens when you apply Google's antispam measures to research papers. There are some researchers who constantly reference one another, like a link farm, in order to boost their credentials.
Is monitoring Go applications on the road map somewhere?
As another really fast reader: if I get to the end of a sentence/paragraph/page and feel like I must have missed something, I just read it again. If you read really fast, it's not that much of a penalty. It's much like how slow typists will arrow back to correct typos, but fast ones will quickly delete all of the words back to the typo and just retype from there.
> It does mean that the particular causal link in question is marginally more likely than if the correlation had not been observed.

Not really -- it fails to consider the possibility that B caused A rather than the reverse, or that an unevaluated cause C caused both A and B. This is why I hate hearing the common phrase, "In a recent study, (something) has been linked to (something)". The words aren't false, but they're misleading to an untrained person.

> That again, though, doesn't really tell us enough to be useful.

That's certainly true.
Why go with an exotic, new protein source like brown rice when there're others available in huge quantities and very good quality like whey protein isolate ?

Whey protein may not be 100% for vegans, I guess. But then, it's something so remote from milk, just as rice isolate is remote from rice.
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The psychological precept of projection on an institutional level effectively inspiring terrorist behavior, to further continue what the institution was doing. It's as diffuse and pointless as Vietnam.
I ditched Grails for Play in 2011, definitely prefer Scala over Groovy any day of the week.
Just uninstalled FB from my phone to make space for 7.1. I think I'll just keep it off.
Those arguments aren't very convincing.

Launching in just 16 out of 190+ countries isn't very impressive. That's well under 10% of the entire world.

Likewise, having more market share than the 4th or 5th place competitor, but still being significantly far behind the leaders, isn't very impressive either. It's even less impressive when this is in a rather small and irrelevant market.

And the web argument isn't very good, either, given that Android, iOS, BlackBerry OS, and the other major players support the same technology.

All I see here is Mozilla spending a lot of time and effort on a product that's seeing very little adoption, while only being able to do a fraction of what its competitors are able to do.

That's just not a way to gain influence, and it's not a way to maintain whatever influence they still have thanks to their success with Firefox in the distant past.
Putting aside the new dynamic of not having an elected executive...what exactly does StackOverflow run, i.e. execute? The job of the executive branch is to execute the laws of the land. StackOverflow is for fostering discussion and finding answers.

I'm not sure what a StackOverflow that has the ability to take action would look like...though judging by HN's frequent unhappiness with SO's moderation actions, I'm thinking it would not be optimal.
This. The very obvious thing in the $10 terabyte offer is, Google wants Dropbox and all data hosters out of business.

So I trust that Dropbox _will_ be out of business very soon.
> our lab is a photon vacuum.

Parts of it, anyway. My desk was next to one of those huge glass walls facing Kiva. We also got reflections from the mirror-like metal paneling on the opposite side of the tower.
This article lacks so much information that it could just be said in one Tweet. Are the 'reporters' at Bloomberg so scared to attempt getting into the technical details ? A big of tech-insight would have been a nice read.

It's definitely interesting to note the phenomenal increase of money being thrown at those innovating on the edges of bitcoin. The financial world are starting to grasp the disruptiveness of the invention and now they want in.
ng-min won't catch some cases, like resolvers or some cases of inline controllers, which were not fun to debug.
Seems like a great crossover opportunity for Lyft/Uber drivers who have downtime.
$25/mo minimum at DO's current pricing structure, 2GB minimum RAM ($20) plus enough disk space (40GB minimum) and a SPLA license ($5-10/mo for Server 2012 standard, IIRC)
> My arrows also weren't meant to be implication, just a causal relationship.

But in the typical case of a measured correlation, no causal relationship can be implied based on the data alone, regardless of the direction. This is especially true in examples of data mining, where many correlations are located that arise purely from chance rather than design.
Having nearly finished my first real-world project in NodeJS/MongoDB, I gotta say, it's better than sliced bread.

Papa just found himself a brand new hammer. Now to go find some more nails.
Uh huh. And the important part of Access is the front-end. And no one from the open source or hacker community has even come close, not even in the same ballpark, not in 20 years now. Twenty years!

So clearly there is, in fact, a big deal. If you think you can write Access in a weekend, feel free, post it here when you're done. Good luck!
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That's a completely reasonable policy for OSM to avoid getting sued by commercial map data providers -- plus I'm sure OSM would hate to make an argument in court that could be used to invalidate OSM's copyright.

Switching to an open-but-not-share-alike license makes all of this easier.
You question was addressed in the article. Apparently the protein source they choose has the best mouth feel.
Pretty big bias issue with the choice of options. Would like to see a tally of Other broken down on the home page of results.
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Man, I would love to see this done yearly so we can examine the trends.
Half? More like 1/5th or even less. Ruby is the real horse power.
If you have to read a document multiple times in order to understand it then you have to divide your WPM claim accordingly.
That's simply not true. Public playing means that you cannot go to a part and project on a screen (as an example). In the confines of your home is not considered public playing.
My favorite take away was Gates presuming that Microsoft would have been interested in buying WhatsApp.

What do you want to bet that Ballmer first heard of the company when the deal was announced?
The Kutsuplus van operators are required to have either a taxi permit or a public transport permit, which is also granted by ELY but much easier to get: http://www.ely-keskus.fi/en/web/ely-en/trafik

Ajelo Oy has projected that the service would be sustainable at 100 vans and profitable at 1000 vans.
http://discourse.soylent.me/t/new-soylent-feedback-category/...

There's the stated reason.

Personally given threads like that I wouldn't touch this stuff with a ten foot pole as a complete meal replacement.
Google (or read Company X with deep pockets) offers Dropbox N billion dollars and then Dropbox is no longer Dropbox that you are hoping to see in coming 5 years.
Appreciate the feedback guys - i should be clear though that the site was designed & built by one developer (me) in one week with a total spend of around $90 on the ssl cert. more of an experiment initially but is evolving into potentially a new concept. Not necessarily trying to create the perfect architecture/semantics for a debate, more aiming to make it fun & constructive - a place where people can quickly see the best ofboth sides of a topic/argument. But as i say its still evolving
Its usability has gone down a bit. http://teacheralanblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/2004.j... Now some of those links are hidden behind that vague square button thing at the top-right. It took me a while at first to figure out that's supposed to be like a phone's app screen and thus that's where you find the rest of the apps. It was better as a text link that said "More applications" or something. The current square thing doesn't even invite me to try clicking on it; it looks nothing like a button.

The lack of underlines doesn't really impact the usability at all except that it's an unneeded change that some are going to find jarring. Looking at google results myself now, it feels "off". That's a lot more "distracting" than the presence of admittedly not really necessary underlines. But change for its own sake, especially in UI, does more harm than good often.
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i call selection bias on this. he keeps saying studies have shown. i always use that terminology when i want to prove a point, and i want to shut up the other side without arguing

the linked documents are the book the causes of high and low reading[1]. and the paper by rayner[2]

i don't really have access to most papers, but from my quick search on google scholar i'd say there are way more than a handful of papers on reading comprehension at high speeds.

also, don't forget that you can train the human brain like a muscle. so it's not surprising that reading comprehension on untrained people immediately suffers when you move outside of their comfort zone.

another thing that's ignored is what graeme mentioned about subvocalization. a lot of the speed reading practice aims to remove subvocalization from your reading process. it's the crap they teach us in school.

if you ask me these are all hacks though. our encoding ie. language and text is incredibly inefficient. in theory chinese characters are a much better at encoding, ie. have higher entropy than our english language.

ideally someone would throw a couple million at me, and a couple of neuroscientists, and nano engineers, and we build you the ultimate reading hack(team applications welcome :P)

[1]: http://books.google.de/books/about/The_Causes_of_High_and_Lo...

[2]: http://csi.ufs.ac.za/resres/files/Rayner%20(1998).pdf
Bobby, you said every app is a client of the API. I notice Trello.com consumes API from https://trello.com/1/xx while an OAuth client (from one of your Jsfiddle examples) consumes from https://api.trello.com/1/xx?key=xx&token=xx. I suppose the former just passes through to the later? If so, does the former needs to pass over the key and token (I suppose you can generate on the fly based on auth cookie)? I'm trying to get my head around the fact that your app provides OAuth for other clients and at the same time (from what you're saying) your app is also one of such clients. Not sure how it really works.
IMO you are underestimating that AWS expands all the time in _every_ direction.

When they added cloudfront, RDS or elastic beanstalk they were offering "something less flexible but very simple" even while they were adding glacier or MFA through IAM which are for more "complex" customers.
I felt the same way the latest SPA projects I did jquery didn't even need to be included.
I remember that discussion. When these wars "come home" then there'll be cries to stop the torture.
ArcGIS provides an API that does this, which is apparently used by all of the major shippers. They occasionally show up at hackathons and give out free low-usage accounts.
The bigger problem is societal acceptance of torture. There are countless fictionalized portrayals of the "good guys" participating in torture and not only remaining good but also getting benefit from it. That points to a deep seated cultural acceptance of torture. And you see it in practice as well. Many people believe that torture is acceptable if it's used towards important ends (stopping terrorism).

Even if we put the brakes on the use of torture in an official capacity in the here and now so long as it's culturally accepted to any degree it's only just a matter of time until it creeps back to the forefront.