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Preferably, limit announcements to the bare minimum and use pre-recordings. There is too much variability in voice intensity. A pre-warning chime before an announcement would reduce stress and allow time to cover our ears. It would also spare me from apologizing to passengers since I scream when I am awoken abruptly. Thanks for the data Darren.
Not right now, but from 2018 manufacturers selling in Europe will have to provide information and tools to independent mechanics.

http://cema-agri.org/publication/access-vehicle-repair-maint...
I have always naturally thought about what I'm going to complete during a day over the commute to work. I'm convinced that successful people tend to do this. Standups are nothing more than formalizing this process for small teams, which is especially useful for members who may not already be planning their days' work in advance.
Goodbye, Turing Test; Bring on the Turing Decathlon
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It's the same reason most bars are set up to be cramped spaces, it forces people to be closer together which makes people uncomfortable which makes them drink more.
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This excerpt seems to lack perspective. What email scam has taken people for over a dozen billion dollars[1]? And that's just a single example.

The OP article also seems to be highly colored nostalgia. Really, a "market" with numerous "rules not written in any book that you adhered to, or else" is believed to be a paragon of efficient markets?

I do believe it was a party in there, just not one that anyone but the most well connected and capitalized had any access to.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff
If you are stalled on something, AKA blocked in agile terms., then its the job of the scrum master to have people unblock you. Stand ups and agile are put in place to help people. Its sounds like the people in comment thread have had poor scrum masters/managers. I'm an engineer and scrum master and love the process of helping and being helped. Thats the whole point, not accountability.
Sorry, but having every comment here coming from an account that is hours old doesn't exactly instill confidence.
I used to work for a major jet engine manufacturer. Noise reduction is right up there with fuel consumption in consideration with new model development. Not because of complaining passengers though.. A lot of the push comes from certain airports that aren't far enough outside of major cities (I can't remember which ones exactly, I think it was mostly a few major asian cities). They actually restrict certain models from using their airport.
I'm sorry that standups have been like an interrogation for you. They should really be for the team's benefit. The team as a whole should care about delivering the product, and should use standup to communicate about current progress, and especially to help each other with any blockers.

It sounds like these engineers have tasks they think are important: I don't think anyone spends several days setting up a VM for fun. Does everyone have a say in what user stories are worked on? Do they have a mechanism to suggest improvements, and help prioritize them against the rest of the backlog to figure out what's most important?
Get your app users where you want them: how to nudge users through funnels
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It's well known there's no such thing as a 5 minute interruption. It usually turns into 45 minutes by the time you get back in the groove. Next thing you know it's lunch time and someone is bothering you again.

And yet, open offices are all the rage at the moment chasing after ever-elusive collaboration.
Also code produced by LLVM-based languages can be linked with low-level modules written in pure C/C++, or even assembly, if necessary. So one may quickly prototype and then slowly rewrite the software for performance, module by module. No such thing is possible for JIT-based languages or platforms.
Well, after all most games are commercial projects using which you have to feed a lot of people(investors, programmers, designers, composers etc.). Therefore you cannot expect them to present really serious and deep stories, in the way authors are able to do personally in literature. Therefore trying to interpret too much into the story/taking them too seriously mostly won't get you anywhere. There might be occasional strokes of excellence but in general storywriters for games were just rushing to meet deadlines. In this case, bringing back the last Meteor could be a touching story, however for the sake of commercial production they couldn't really produce a coherent narrative for it across all Meteor series games, and in the end Samus just ended up being a self-conflicting and basically brainless and senseless character. Yeah, games played at certain stages might bring deep nostalgia, but those most likely come from personal experiences instead of the stories themselves.

By the way, quite a remarkable story in terms of personal experience.
mostly because of patents. but changing this year. here is one company http://www.norgesystems.com/
Building an open-source anti-virus engine
"Unlike the original proposal, the handset does not become a desktop PC when plugged into a monitor."

This is what I found most interesting about the device. I loved the idea of how the OS transformed when other things were attached to the phone. There were questions about background tasks and apps running, but your phone turning into your computer via a dock did make sense and seemed like the future.
You know, I actually didn't know about Zareason. Their website seems to have pretty reasonable price for the hardware you are getting, and I love having a choice of my preferred distro to run (I'm a Fedora guy).

I run full-time linux on my laptop and my goto hardware has typically been a Thinkpad T series.
They do it on purpose. The less patrons talk to each other the more alcohol they drink. That's why the music volume is increased as the night progresses. They get them into the establishment, customers start drinking, eventually it gets to a point where they can't hear each other so they just focus on drinking. Not all places do this, just the places that are strongly focused on the profits.
I hate 95% of "Agile" (i.e. wolf-in-sheep's-clothing micromanagement) but I actually think that a daily standup is often a good thing or, at least, a necessary evil.

In organizations, people will form suspicions, e.g. "does that guy actually pull his weight?" It's not a good thing. It's not what people should do. It's what they will do. Standups allay that suspicion. Of all the political games that an office environment can make you play, standup is one of the easiest ones, and that's good because even with the losses you mentioned (such as regaining focus) it's limited in the amount of time it takes, and you still have 50-65 percent of your time for real work, which is 3-4x what many programmers get.

One way managers could minimize disruption is to walk up and ask developers what is going on as often as necessary on a per developer basis.

Impromptu status pings are more disruptive (and, in some companies I've seen, obnoxiously frequent, like 1-4x per day) than scheduled status meetings. If you've decided that you need status updates, you should have the standup instead of having the whole office on edge all fucking day.
Verizon's attempts to divest itself of its FiOS assets is an important counterpoint to the tech media narrative of lucrative wireline monopolies protected by lobbying muscle. Nobody actually in the market thinks that: http://seekingalpha.com/article/2886186-verizon-fools-fronti.... The other two companies that bought wireline assets from Verizon ultimately went bankrupt: http://www.informationweek.com/business/verizons-former-hawa....

It's also interesting to note that at the same time Verizon is selling off wireline assets, it's returning money to shareholders via stock buybacks: http://www.cnbc.com/id/102402418. The signal is of course that the return on investing that money into network upgrades wouldn't be worthwhile.
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It's not "obvious" though: there is no proof that your electron didn't (via tunneling) exit whatever trap you put it in only to get replaced by some other electron from the environment which jumped in a short moment after (also via tunneling). The best you could say is "it's highly probable that at least at one time it was at least a two-electron universe."
> I would guess that when an industry gets as disrupted as pit trading was, then the center of gravity would tend to move. In this case, Chicago did well to hang onto it.

Absolutely. At the beginning of 1997, the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) had 65% of the market for trading German Government Bond futures (known in the market at Bunds), its most-traded product. Eurex (the German futures exchange in Frankfurt) had the other 35% of the market. Throughout 1997, Eurex slowly grew its market share by slashing trading fees and extending access to its electronic platform to clients in the US and London. By contrast, LIFFE was slow to embrace technology, preferring to rely on the traditional, open outcry trading floor model. However, in January 1998, for the first time, Eurex captured a larger share of the Bund market than LIFFE. This marked a tipping point and by the end of 1998, virtually all Bund trading had shifted to Eurex (and stayed there).

Coincidentally, the Streetwise Professor himself wrote a paper on the topic: http://www.bauer.uh.edu/spirrong/dtbtip2.pdf
Disconnecting numerous times throughout a long flight (e.g., LAX–LHR) is not only massively inconvenient and also repeatedly ineffective. By the time I've yanked the cord out, I've already been deafened (and scared shitless) by the beginning of the announcement.

I do like the headphone-level filtering idea, though, and might look into this for my traveling needs.
White House's report on Big Data and privacy suggests squat
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I've stopped using the in-flight systems because of this. I use in-ear earphones on flights, as the design of them (basically ear plugs with speakers in the middle) blocks out sound and as a result I can have the volume lower, with the idea of preserving what's left of my hearing. Because of that design I not only _can_ have the volume low, but _have_ to have the volume low - and when the PA announcements override the volume to max, it's very loud indeed. On Virgin Atlantic flights, it hits the physical pain threshold, so I've stopped plugging in to these systems entirely and use my phone/iPad/whatever instead.
There is some brain plasticity research that seems to indicate that the more you challenge your brain with new activities and problem sets, the more resilient it is against decline in old age.

Do you do a lot with your mind during the day? Take up wood working, knitting, or sewing as a hobby. Work with your hands.

Do a lot with your hands during the day? Do something that engages your mind more. Take up art, writing, etc.

Take dance lessons. If you are not a dancer already, learning to dance and then doing it has a lot of health benefits, social benefits (see below) and makes your mind work in different ways.

I highly recommend trying square dancing (as corny as it may sound). Square dancing is very intricate and requires careful attention to called queues in order to maintain a steady stream of dance transitions. It is the fastest way to get into "flow" that I have ever experienced and have heard of number of other writers and technical types that rely on flow express the same sentiment.

Learn, teach, and play more board games. Modern board games have a vast array of different mechanics and strategies in them offering lots of different problem spaces for your brain to tackle. There is also a good social aspect to them that is inter-generational (we have board game nights with ten year old kids regularly playing with retirees) and some decline in cognitive ability is linked to the lack of social engagement people experience as they age.
I wasn't being critical, I was being compelled. Hanselman's analysis is reasonable and not misleading. The $600 product easily solves the 95% case.

And for a consumer oriented product probably the 99.9% case since most will sit on the shelf because it's still printing and how much stuff do people download off the internet and print with their color printers these days?

The idea that we will all be making our personalized LPS (Little Plastic Shit)[1] to our snowflake's content is true. But only because most snowflakes are content without doing it as a hobby. It's Buck Rodgers cool when it's on the screen, but the reality of waiting 8 hours for maybe getting a widget only appeals to some people.

It's like raytracing silver balls above a red and yellow checkerboard. Amazing to see it come out line by line over four hours at 320x200 in 1989. Not worth setting up a Blender scene to do it in the blink of an eye today.

For most people, there are better options than doing it themselves. For a few use cases doing it yourself is the best option. And doing it yourself is a great option for people who want to do it themselves. That's the same class of people who put their recipes on floppy disks in C64 days.

Done ranting. Get off my lawn anyway.

[1] or plastic crap : https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Plastic_crap
Disclaimer: I have no financial or other interest in the company that produced this. I think it contains many good insights, and so I'm sharing a link to it here.
I think issuing trademark infringements notices is fine as far as handling this problem for free software.

If people want to bundle "my" GNU Octave and modify it randomly delete the users hard drive, that's ok. Free software allows this. Just don't call it GNU Octave, call it GNU DiskDestroyer or something.
15 minute standup meetings right before lunch are an ideal way for a team working on scattered parts of a big project to stay connected to reality. They shouldn't be structured as interrogations. Rather, each team member (works for non-programmers too) gives a brief summary of recent and near-future work, their longer term trajectory, and anything they need another person to review. Other team members then have the opportunity to point out they are working on similar things and need to make sure integration of the separate parts goes smoothly.
It's pretty amazing how the difference in object quality between the enthusiast and professional systems has evaporated.

I would be interested to hear how frequently the Printrbot gets a clogged extruder vs. the Stratasys, what print quality on ABS looks like between the two units, what happens when you have a more complex shape with a lot of overhangs, etc. Aside from warranty service, what are the advantages of the professional system?
Having many, many years of travel experience leads me to one Occam's Razor type observation:

If people would actually pay attention to a safety briefing instead of playing with their gadgets / not taking off their headphones, then the flight crew wouldn't be trying so hard to get the attention of the passengers.

With this unpopular opinion, I'll see myself out the nearest exit, which is actually located behind me.
coughs I'm not sure what time zone you're in, but my folks have been scammed like this since tulips were a thing.
I don't know, do you have data to claim the printer price must scale at least linearly with cubic resolution? There are plenty of much cheaper printers out there with .1mm res. (https://www.3dhubs.com/best-3d-printer-guide)

You picked the most generous aspect for comparison but it still looks rough.
The article states
"Unlike the original proposal, the handset does not become a desktop PC when plugged into a monitor."
There is no need for a PC interface therefore.
As a boy, the word "retard" was part of my vocabulary. I used it to describe concepts that were dumb or irrational. I continued to use it into adulthood without thinking. I did not realize how offensive it was until my girlfriend called me out on it. So now I just use the word "dumb." I hope I am not offending any groups now.
If there wasn't a commensurate increase in price, then yes it is free. If you are receiving service X for a certain amount of cash each month, and then suddenly begin to receive service Y without paying more, service Y is free.

You guys sure love to argue over semantics...
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In SF, waking around, the sirens seem so ridiculously loud. I have a hard time believing that loudness level was derived by research versus just going as high as possible without causing immediate physical damage.
Maybe we can get Morgan Freeman to narrate the source code of TeX.
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It's not something that only happens abroad, but to my (admittedly limited) knowledge the US is a less severe problem for a US company.

That is, they snoop on you, yes. But they don't sell you shoddy knock-offs instead of real parts, they don't give intel on you to your competitors, and they don't actually attack you Stuxnet-style. (that I know of)

I could be way off base, but as a US company I'd much prefer a US gov't backdoor to a Chinese gov't backdoor, and supply chains contaminated by knock-offs is a nightmare unto itself.

P.S. Yes, I'm in the US, and yes, you're right about "domestic"

P.P.S. IBM's fab (to my knowledge) mostly exists to serve the US gov't anyway. At least for the NSA themselves, the advantages to domestic production are there :)
I think the equation should also factor in cost of finding good software engineers, especially the risk of getting bad hires.

If you worked 3-6 year at Apple already or another company renowned for its quality oriented processes, there is probably a reduced risk in poaching you which offset the higher salary you can command.

I see that more as a way of outsourcing the cost of vetting personnel.
Casetext (YC S13) is hiring front-end and back-end engineers, as well as attorneys
Hacker News: Is It Really Just a Marketer's Lottery?
These are great for concerts (assuming your ear canals are long enough - these are far too long for mine) but not so great for a flight situation like in the article. For blocking out as much noise as possible, foam plugs are much better than these.
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I suspect people without kids or other similar obligations tend to work more in any industry or location; it's not specific to the Bay Area.

They might work "more", but that doesn't mean that their actual output is any better than that of their family-raising peers.
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The bit that goes in your ear is also shorter than the Etymotics, which is good for me as my ear canal seems to be too short for the ER20s to fit. I tried about ten different ear plugs and the DownBeats were the only decent-quality ones that I could comfortably wear for hours.
Except the safety briefings are a useless bureaucratic formality. We don't need to hear them.
If the announcements were safety related they would he repeated several times and FAs would single out individuals who needed to react.
If you're open to commercial solutions, there are several SaaS choices that are quite cheap at low log volume. For instance, Scalyr (500MB/day for $19/month), LogEntries (free up to 167MB/day), or Papertrail (33MB/day for $7/month). All will provide centralized logging and full text search, and some form of dashboards and alerting.

Scalyr provides especially powerful features for log parsing and analysis, as well as integrating system and application metrics, and it's wicked fast -- most searches run in well under 1 second. (Disclosure: I am the founder of Scalyr.)

If you're interested, the respective web sites are easy to find, or drop me a line (my email address is in my profile).
idiot -> moron -> retard -> special -> mentally challenged
-> person with learning difficulties
>the core idea behind Curtis' work is perhaps simply that ideas can be extremely dangerous or powerful

That's as good a description as I'm likely to come up with. Aside from the delivery, which is at once engaging and completely lacking the nuisance necessary for a topic like this, my issue is that the core idea is a truism and I'm not sure he actually makes an interesting point, much less offers alternatives (he'd have to make that point first).

He does however touch on interesting topics. He then attempts to find causal relationships between events, but I believe doing this to arrive at a conclusion is intellectually dishonest. He must know that, which makes me more frustrated. That's personal preference. If I was trying to convince someone of something, this is not how I'd go about it.

Re NHS: ask anyone who designs incentive programs and they'll tell you that it's a cat and mouse game. I fail to see how hospital managers gaming the system implies "KPI + autonomy about how to achieve it" is a dud idea entirely, and that proponents of such systems are paranoid RAND Corp game theory psychopaths stuck in the Cold War.

Incentives need to be tweaked just like anything else, and the rational agent model need not be a complete description of human behaviour for it be useful. It need only be sufficiently descriptive of portions of workplace behaviour that designing incentives raises KPIs. If those KPIs aren't working you tweak them, using those dreaded numbers Curtis despises so much.

Models are useful until they aren't. But as someone said- they're all wrong. We modify them or replace them as necessary. Sometimes that takes longer than we'd like. We'd still be bashing each other with clubs without them. I'm not sure what Curtis proposes, which is perhaps why I watch these movies over and over again- trying to get the point. Or maybe it's just soothing to hear vague thoughts about economics and systems theory set to music and stock footage.

As others have said, perhaps it's more useful as a conversation starter than a thesis. Don't get me wrong. I love the damn movies.
Your system will probably accumulate small breakage here and there over time, dependency hell, etc. I'd recommend to schedule a few hours for a proper install of Debian, to me it sounds like a much more pleasant approach. Source: hanging out in the Debian IRC channel and seeing desperate people who tried to switch repos.
You can debate different ways of applying management theory and practices, but in the end there really are great differences in the ability of individuals to think clearly and work toward a goal. I have worked with and led many different kinds of programmers over the years, and I've run into this time and again. Some people will accept a goal, dig into every relevant aspect of the requirements, overcome the issues that arise, and create a solution that works and is robust. You learn to trust these people and their judgement because they produce good results. Others may have just as strong a grasp of syntax and tools. They are "programmers" too, but they simply don't think clearly, proceed logically, or arrive reliably at good solutions. This is always going to be the case. If you want to build a world class team then one of the things you need to do is identify the first type of person, rely on them more, and try to duplicate them as often as necessary. You also identify the second type of person and move them out. It may sound harsh, but you can't change the fact that humans are different, and that some perform better than others. There is a place for that person, but it doesn't have to be on your team.
Looks like he added "trying to" to the title.
The phone it is based on is probably this: http://www.bqmobile.com/products/details/0e5e9019-78e8-4d44-...