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> Don't set deadlines, make them set deadlines, document it, then hold them to it. Make the penalty for missing their own deadline big.

Software time estimates are a legendarily hard problem. Experienced developers get better at it, but still frequently miss deadlines, often by large margins. And you're somehow not only expecting beginner-intermediate programmers to be able to set accurate estimates, but enact "big" penalties if they miss them?

And if your argument is that these are small tasks, and they should be able to figure out estimates for them, then I'd point you to the all the studies on software estimations that suggest that major project overruns are usually not due to lots of little tasks being 20% or 30% late, but rather on 1 or 2 tasks on the critical path being 1000% late. We're all familiar with this problem. If you've been programming long enough you've run into quite a few of these "gotcha" tasks, not matter how good you are.

I think your other ideas are very good. Actually, I'd take some of the ideas from your last two points, and apply to the first. Instead of penalizing the developer for overruns, have them write up brief case studies that outline why there was an overrun, and put it on the company wiki. I think having to write up a case study is probably an appropriate "penalty" for something that may have been out of their control (although I really wouldn't suggest portraying this activity as punishment, but rather as a critical response to overruns).

But "big" penalties for missed deadlines is just pointy-hair boss territory. Given the quality of your other advice, I have to believe you weren't referring to an actual big penalty, like docking pay or missing a promotion.
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No group of developers will ever be all at the exact same level of performance, there is no reason to freak out. Demanding that everyone work in the exact same way as you will probably do more harm than good. The important thing is how your team functions overall. Get to know the strengths and weaknesses of your team so you can better assign tasks and responsibilities.
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How about pairing the the "other two" developers with the two first two (deliberately avoiding being judgemental here) with the aim of getting the other two to learn from the first two?
I realize Verizon bought Edgecast last year but why is the post being promoted by Edgecast and not Verizon themselves? Edgecast doesn't own or operate a backbone, they are an edge provider so this is a completely separate concern. This is typical dirty Verizon/big telco PR in my opinion.

Edgecast is a great CDN and company, I'm curious to see how this new ownership plays out.
I'm finishing a WordPress theme I'm working on since 12 months as a side project. It was first build for my own necessity when needed to build clients website.
I'll sell it on ThemeForest. I've already submitted some themes in the past, and it went pretty well. I hope to be able to make a living out of this and have more freedom to built what I want (currently freelancing for clients).
I do, I run it on my MBP (two SSDs, one running OSX one with ARchbang).

I've run it now for quite a while and like it. I used to run vanilla Arch, and as is bound to happen with any Arch based distro there are the occasional breaking change. The archbang maintainers have dealt with them pretty well and they give advanced warning where possible.

Archbang and Crunchbang are fairly similar in feel -- they use essentially the same visual setup.
I had my parent's desktop running Linux Mint for a while, but now I have them on the latest Xubuntu LTS. No one's had Big problems, even with a HP printer/scanner.
They're pretty comparable, I like archbang a little better in terms of their defaults but that's only if I'm being picky.
Yeah, I don't object to suspecting our intelligence agencies have a habit of using information to benefit their budgets in that way, especially when there are opportunities to be technically accurate but let the media fill in the blanks (ie: "We think the hackers were Russian" becomes headline: "Russia involved in hacks").
Disclaimer: I've heard lots of great things about #!. However, I have never had the chance to try it myself.

I kind of figured distributing the distro over torrent only was a bad idea. For the kids sitting at home - torrenting isn't a bad thing (generally...usually). However, when you are sitting at work and they are monitoring traffic - downloading a torrent is a quick way to summon the overlords (even if you were in a technical position like I was - there are some things that they will look the other way, such as downloading the NT password reset disk, but downloading a torrent would not be one of them). And no, I wasn't about to "sneak" in a burned copy of #!.

In today's day and age of CDNs and cloud storage I found it highly suspect that they couldn't find someone to mirror it (even uploading to sourceforge). I'm not claiming there was anything wrong with #! but offering a torrent only download makes me cautious.
OK, I'd guess that the blacklist would only apply when said drone is operating in GPS navigation mode. Of course this does nothing to prevent manual operation in restricted airspace, but that has always been the case with RC aircraft.
>No, it's prudent.

Trigger the "tilt sensor" require a supervisory override. Call it uncalibrated operation. Now it's on the machine owner. Not your problem anymore.

>Because once there is a pile of money on the line people tend to forget that they moved the machine.

Fine, detect movement if you don't trust the owners (you shouldn't), stick it to the floor with a serial numbered bolt, whatever. Disabling the machine is a step too far.

>They tend to be less knowledgeable about electronics

Which makes them easy marks doesn't it?

>btw, no need to waste time on bypassing it. It is pretty solid. We have to make it so Iran, N. Korea, etc's best can't bypass it. "

/u/MoriGuy is a fool. Iran in particular has some very good schools, and no doubt could defeat this scheme in any number of ways. This is only hurting non-Iranian customers.

>miniaturization and such work even for expensive gear. That doesn't mean it's suddenly much less expensive though

Actually, it does. You may not be able to by them at Home Depot yet, but you can find them in tradesmen's tool kits, and in all manner of other uses that wouldn't be possible without relatively inexpensive equipment.

>Note how that job posting is for a maintenance mechanic and not for a machinist?

Pick ones that you like then. It was third in the list of results for me. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Laser+interferometry+millwright&t=...
Some might want a king but most of us want stability which you don't get by letting your leaders be assassinated at their opposition's earliest convenience. I'm not saying this is justified, I'm just saying that your king making argument is incomplete.
Of course it will be much easier to use if video sites like YouTube provide this feature. But I don't thinks its that widely needed for them to put it on the feature list.
Ask HN: Charge for development (and maintenance) vs. revenue sharing
Hello all, I have been approached by a company to build an application to manage their operations.

Due to the rather large scope of works the estimated development and maintenance cost is significantly high.

The platform will be used to process a significant amount of daily transactions, therefore i was contemplating suggesting a revenue sharing agreement with the client instead, so they won't be scared off by the prospect of a huge initial investment.

Any thoughts?
Really, in America, "God does not exist" is conventional wisdom? According to a 2007 Pew Research study[1], 71% of Americans have a belief in god. So if that's "conventional wisdom" then Peter Thiel's definition of conventional is about the same as my thoughts on PayPal's definition of "fair dispute resolution".

Questioning the theory of evolution (hint, it's not an -ism because it's not an ideological position, unless we're talking about the widely discredited concept of 'social darwinism') or the data on climate change is perfectly fine, but if you'd rather sling rumor and innuendo instead of backing up your claims with evidence then don't be surprised when people think you're a crank.

[1] http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/report-religious-landscape..., full study at http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/report-religious-landscape...
> I found it very interesting recently that the BBC has decided to stop using the word "terrorism" to report these attacks[1], and I hope that this will lead to a more nuanced argument over different events.

I agree that the "terrorist" label has become far too common. It's become so ridiculous that the BBC apparently considers "not terrorism" to be newsworthy, eg. from the first page of '"not terrorism" site:bbc.co.uk':

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30826554 - Arson != terrorism

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18725577 - Electronic cigarettes != terrorism

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-30423481 - Death threats != terrorism

The most interesting article in those results is the following:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/322301.stm - Nail bomb in London market != terrorism

That last one's from 1999, and provides a stark contrast. It's from a time when our home-grown terrorism mainly came from an organised guerilla army, who's achievements included blowing up government conferences. This kind of opportunistic maiming must have seemed inept in comparison.

It's interesting that the British terrorist attacks so far this millenium (7/7, Woolwich, etc.) are more akin to that "non-terrorist" nail bombing than to, for example, 9/11 or the Brighton Hotel bombing.
FYI:

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A playable version at archive.org [1]. And the Wikipedia page [2] has links to source listings. Apparently there was a Dylan port, but that 404s for me as well. And code listing for a BASIC version of it [3].

[1] https://archive.org/details/msdos_Hamurabi_1996

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamurabi

[3] http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/basicgames/HMRABI
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No, my question reads at face value. What I'm asking for is specifics rather than vague hand-waves at a lack of credibility, e.g.:

"They're well-crafted opinion pieces with narratives that (depending on your perception) may or may not be shoehorned into the shape of facts with a blunt instrument."

That's a statement which tends to be rather non-falsifiable. That doesn't make it right or wrong. But it makes showing it to be one or the other to be difficult at best.

If you've got specific cases of facts that are wrong, or can point to specific narratives you find less than credible, I'd appreciate it.
> Besides Sputnik, and some Linux-only end-user manufacturers like System76, there really isn't a lot of choice for pre-installed Linux end-user computers.

I've used System76 and Zareason. System76 are Ubuntu-only (and the hardware may have issue with other distros); Zareason will support any Linux.
My point wasn't that these are farms, but that "family owned" is a pretty useless descriptor to indicate scale.
Seconded. Your analogy is like a banana tree; no matter how many things vary, a horse is not an elephant.
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By weight a drone is trivial, but the other properties of the ingested material clearly matter -- water and ice are more malleable than, say, a steal beam. I guess most hobby drones are similar to a bird strike, which is a well understood thing.
why would you ever do a startup that was not "incorporated" being a joint stock company with limited liability has too many adavatges not to go that route
> And in my experience, very hard to reproduce after a couple of years.

Well, let's be honest with ourselves... this isn't limited to Python. Scientific code that isn't a mess is almost nonexistent. For a lot of scientists, writing code is totally secondary and many simply aren't skilled programmers (nor should we necessarily expect them to be).

It is however deeper than that. As a graduate student, I was involved in a government initiative to write a high quality large scale code package. This was (still is, the program just got extended) a well funded and well organized effort with hundreds of people, including literally dozens of people who can legitimately claim to be the best in the world at their specialties. This included some genuinely amazing computer scientists and software engineers who enforced well planned coding practices.

And yet, the code is still far from ideal. A big part of this is its scale - millions of lines of very technical numerics code and libraries all working together. Most of what I consider to be the toughest work was on integrating various disparate pieces and unifying them under one common input structure.

Point being, even with effectively unlimited resources using rigorous development standards and statically typed languages (primarily c++11) there are still tons of issues. A lot of it is because of incorporation of older codes, which is inescapable in any non-trivial scientific code.
When I rotate screen to landscape on my Android using Chrome 40.0.2214.89, it says North is about pi/2 anti-clockwise from where it says North is when my screen is portrait. Presumably It's not accounting for screen rotation.
This article makes no sense. All those services mentioned are pretty much third-party marketplace-style thing. What’s the point in insisting a “path upwards” or whatsoever when in all manners the marketplace just exists to connect customers with service providers? I don’t think it’s the marketplace’s duty to cater to the service providers who simply use the marketplace, just like it’s not an office space's duty to ensure that the companies which loan a space live long and prosper. And anyways I don’t see normal taxi drivers having a clear “path upwards” either. The arguments are quite invalid and TBH a bit sensational.
The volume is too damn high on flights
End up where? As one of the richest, most comfortable, most stable countries in the world?

The U.S. has always been a deeply conservative place, skeptical of dramatic change or threats to the existing order. Even the American Revolution was conservative--while the French were running around beheading people and switching to 10-day weeks, we decided to keep everything running pretty much the same, with a few tweaks.[1]

The value system of "we have a tremendous amount to lose and so are excessively cautious" doesn't need to be written down anywhere--it's the sociological default. We've gotten by fine without drones so far, and they hold the potential for disrupting a status quo that is at the end of the day pretty damn good. So why should people not be deeply skeptical?

[1] The difference between British Parliamentary monarchy and American democracy was, even in 1776, more significant in rhetoric than in substance.
AFAIK he made no money whatsoever out of it. If it's not necessary for him any more, and doesn't make him any value, it's hardly difficult to understand he doesn't want to continue working on it.
I think the part about backing off the level of detail is important. I've learned a lot about breaking down a large goal into smaller tasks by having it done for me a couple times. Even the first time I was laughing at how specific some tasks were, but it gave me a model to work from when I planned the next one myself.
I don't know, whenever I need to download a distro like Ubuntu I do it via torrent. For some reason it's way faster than downloading from the CDN.
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#! was Ubuntu based for a long time before it transitioned to Debian in 2011.
A much better source:

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2015/02/8561767/...

And this isn't actually a new thing. One of the criticisms of WikiLeaks is that a lot of the material they released put people in very real danger (agents in the field, informants, etc), and that's something newspapers have been weighing up for a long time.

Of course, the trouble with this is that we don't know what the stories are, so we can't judge if they should have been published or not. Another way of saying it is that any speculation we make in this thread is likely to be pretty pointless.
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I'm not really talking about an ontological problem though, I'm saying that an electron appearing on its own is a physical impossibility. Electrons must appear or disappear alongside a positron partner, which means that the idea of "local asymmetry" can't solve the symmetry problem.
Yeah, would love to read more. BTW where are you pulling the assets (images, info) etc ?
I have no idea, but maybe... by keeping the tube fixed, we know that it must be the toothpaste which will move?
As a Software Developer...this kind of scared me.
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Nonetheless, I think it would be better if the title had been worded such that this relationship was made clear.
Not to mention that many printed docs are expected to have a relatively short life span. Handouts for a meeting, shopping lists, address labels, etc.

For the person printing things on the average "cheap" printer, they're not typically concerned with the longevity aspect. Most 3D-printed things seem to be the opposite for mainstream applications. People keep using examples of printing "stuff you can't get at Walmart" and implying the printed parts are expected to be used for many years in an environment that will have some moderate amount of wear and tear.

3D printing not only needs to get faster by an order of magnitude, the quality of the output component needs to increase substantially as well. You need to be able to print in colors and wind up with a finished product that looks close to the quality of an injected molded piece.
The plane is moving, hopefuly with a velocity in the same direction you want your satelite to have.
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There are mirrors - I guess they're unofficial though and not being linked to on the download page because of that.
"changing direction on the time axis"

Thanks - you have now rendered me incapable of doing anything productive for the rest of the work day as I stare out the window contemplating that concept.
> assume that time loops back onto itself.

In that case there'd be no need to convert back-and-forth between electrons/positrons or forward/reverse time at all. The only requirement would be that the observed Universe is a fixed-point of this loop.
That has a name: Neutral Monism [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_monism
I am curious. What did you use to spec out your documentation? Have been using RAML lately.
> But 332(c)(2) makes clear that the FCC can apply Title II provisions only to the services that interconnect with the PSTN

But 332(d)(2) explicitly grants the FCC the authority to define, through regulation, what the terms "service that is interconnected with the public switched network" mean in the context of defining whether a service is a "commercial mobile service". Given that there is absolutely a sense in which the internet itself is interconnected with the PSTN through many gateways, its not entirely impossible that part of the the proposal at issue expands the existing regulatory definition of interconnection to include any general-purpose mobile broadband internet service, which would bring such services within the scope subject to common carrier rules.

Anyhow, the argument that mobile internet is outside the scope of what may be subject to common carrier status (and thus, Title II regulation) is a different one than the argument you made earlier that there are statutory provisions expressly requiring forbearance from "most provisions" of Title II for mobile services.
Indeed.

In our fairly strong President system, we have a temporary king, and very much related to your point, we solve the succession problem that has historically haunted hereditary systems of nobility with things like assassinations. FDR didn't respect that, so we fixed it with a Constitutional amendment.

That significantly weakens a lot of arguments for "killing the king", President for Life, etc., because you just have to wait 4 or 8 years and he's no longer has much power.
Thanks for the interesting feedback, hyperpape. I agree that this is tricky, or "delicate" as I prefer to call it.

What you cite is a classic example of academia vs. the real world. I am currently responsible for 19 offshore programmers of varying skill levels and work habits and this is exactly how I've been handling their assignments for 5 years. I have gotten better results this way than any other technical lead I know.

At first, they love the extra detail. Then over time, they push back. And without exception, they all want to be in my group.

Grandparent was my own heavy experience getting great results with issues similar to OP's. I know there are academic studies for just about everything, but remember, it's my ass on the line if the work doesn't get done, not the professors.
> Any given moment in time is represented by a slice across spacetime

Is this actually true when we take into account special relativity? I've always struggled with this.

I was taught that this sort of thing is not nearly so simple. For instance, if you fix a point in spacetime and have a timelike vector, representing the motion of an observer, then the set of events which that observer will perceive as simultaneous to the fixed point all lie in the plane orthogonal to that timelike vector. Even more bizarrely, because this is a non-Euclidean notion of orthogonal, this orthogonal complement rotates towards the vector as it deviates from the centerline of the future line cone at that point.

Given all this, I don't see how one can just say that a slice across spacetime somehow represents a particular moment in time. I thought the whole point of relativity is that there are no absolute time slices in spacetime.
The lama is a coax heli.
This is the heli in the article with training gear.
http://www.xheli.com/2blhokirtf.html
Washington lawmakers want computer science to count as foreign language
i was wondering about that my self. do not delete folder but ok to delete contents?
I agree that Curtis' arguments are often articulated in such a way as to make them easy to debunk or dismiss, however I think the germ of his arguments often highlight interesting or compelling ideas. I suspect that many others commenting here, however much they disagree with Curtis' ideas (or his articulations of ideas) feel the same.

From my perspective the common thread of his arguments is that over-reliance on specific models (generally of how the human mind works, but also of how systems work, e.g. ecology) can lead to unintended consequences. For example, the ways in which British hospitals skirted performance targets under New Labor, or the spectacular failure of the approach taken by the Defense Department in Vietnam.

To take another example, Curtis highlights in 'The Century of Self' the damage done by over-reliance on Freudian models of the mind, and then the subsequent follies of those who borrowed from Wilhelm Reich.

Perhaps stated more generally, I think the core idea behind Curtis' work is perhaps simply that ideas can be extremely dangerous or powerful.
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So, what impact, if any, does this have on Google Voice, and more specifically, the Asterisk connector (Motif)?
Thats an interesting idea. Any help looking up that article would be appreciated.
Seriously? Have you visited the internet?
I like this, a lot. I think you will get better traction in show instead of ask.
The web site is slow under the load.

https://archive.today/QhASD