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Of course I agree. Al Qaeda doesn't have the capacity to really threaten world peace except by provoking a shortsighted response, which they did.

But the comparison is meaningless anyway. AQ is not a nation, it's an organization with a certain ideology. It's not comparable to a country, like Israel, which is a collection of various ideologies and worldviews.
I have my office at a friends house. I save him $75 a week in dog sitter fees and bring fire wood in for the fireplace in the winter. In return I get a nice office in the country with multiple windows, a Persian rug under my chair, and no distractions.
This is a great point. I try to get people to argue stuff on technical merits, and it's surprisingly hard to do. An example I work with now is the guy who bad mouths sql, non stop, and also promotes nosql non stop. He can't compare and contrast the two, even in general terms. Makes it impossible to have a discussion with him.

I try to be conginizant of where my biases are, and be able to support my assertions on technical grouds. When you do tht though, you often times see there are indeed many valid ways to do things.
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I don't think having a large number of relatively equal agents interacting freely is ever realistic. There will always be those at an advantage and they should choose what he pursue based on their abilities. Kind of like very tall people with an athletic disposition should consider playing basketball. On the surface it is unfair to those under 6 feet tall but the NBA, being a market, is most concerned with attracting the talent that should be playing basketball rather than providing a level playing field to those who aspire to play.

In that sense, the market isn't about providing fairness to all players but for allocating talent and abilities.

In regards to exploiting the poor, I think that sort of mind-set often results in a dangerous kind paternalism. Protecting the poor is an excuse used for all sort of policies that often keep the poor down (cigarette taxes, drug policy, etc).
If you're pushing code just to prove that you're getting something done, I'd suggest your management might be evaluating productivity in a short-sighted way. I encourage the guys on my team to work from home at least once or twice a week (and we have a couple permanently remote folks too) so they can avoid the inherent open floorplan distractions. By far the most important factor to me is that they're available online during normal office hours, actively responding to others and helping out with questions, offering suggestions, etc.

I'd much rather have someone who is communicating well with the rest of the team than someone I see a few commits from per day but isn't actively engaged with others. I don't mean to suggest this is you based on your brief comment - I just firmly believe that having a group that works well together is ultimately much more productive than isolated individual contributors.
It's a failure if any founders or employees took equity in lieu of significant salary.

Within the past year I had the experience of "oh, you wrote X? We used that all the time at my last company!" "So will you hire me." "No."
Those episodes would immediately be leaked to everyone after becoming available and HBO would lose a ton of viewership on its own platform.
Good point. It's always better to be there when decisions are made (unless you're important enough that people are scared to keep you out of the loop!).
HAHA, what? yes they are. what you're saying is that the at successful companies, individual contributors never get upset at the direction/architecture/decisions the executives and project managers choose - okay buddy.
because of risk, is in everybody interest of playing as safe as possible with the government assets (unless you channel them to your Swiss account using your cousin's fake company as a front
I didn't even think of that, that's a very different take on the poem, and possibly a more appropriate one, thanks!
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Bug fixes, R&D, and real feature development are the entirety of what we do.

If none of those fit into sprints, what is the point of having them? What is the benefit of describing a feature as an epic sliced into stories spanning sprints, instead of just, y'know, getting it done?
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I've been using the GistBox app (http://www.gistboxapp.com/) which ties in nicely with Github gists and that's served me quite well so far.
Why don't you just kick the agile nonsense overboard and switch back to your old way of doing things?
I always try to differentiate between Agile and agile. Agile (proper noun) is the overly defined practice of scrums and points and backlog grooming etc. agile is the practice of continuous iteration at all levels. Agile is a great starting point, but if you aren't challenging the prescribed format and iterating on your process itself then you are missing the point of agile.

We have found, for instance, that the 3 questions of standup are pretty useless. They make each person feel like they are justifying their existence at the company. By dropping those questions and framing it in terms of a deliverable we found the meetings to be far more productive and better for morale.

We've decided to give ourselves 1 day into the sprint to better guage progress so we can define achievable sprint deliverables, as we don't often know enough information during sprint planning.

Each of these is set up as an experiment, designed to solve an identified problem with our workflow. And the results are great.
I used to have back pain and i suspected the way i sit was not proper. Wait until I go to gym and mainly focus on yoga, it improves alot. I think having a strong muscle on back is quite essential.
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HBO doesn't want to encourage more people to go learn how to use bittorrent / usenet / streaming sites.

Someone who figures out how to get these episodes very well might just cancel HBO and get them all that way.

Though, a fairly credible rumor said that Showtime did strategic bittorent leaks. For a while almost every single season had the first two episodes leaked in high quality. Of course, it could have been one leaker just doing it each time.

I think it is pretty incredible that these leaks are not more common.
I've seen many criticism of agile/scrum as they (don't) apply to long-term or systems-software environments, but another disconnect I think people need to know about is with open source. Here's the "upstream first" development model typically used by Red Hat (my employer) and others.

(1) Company decides to devote resources to a feature.

(2) Developer writes code and submits patches upstream (e.g. to the Linux kernel).

(3) Upstream takes some indeterminate amount of time to get patches into a release.

(4) Company defines a downstream (i.e. commercial) release based on a particular upstream release.

(5) The possibly-pristine but also possibly-unrecognizable code from (2) is pulled from the upstream release into the downstream tree.

(6) More testing, debugging, tweaking, etc. on the downstream tree yields an actual release.

Just in (3) we see one part of the problem: upstream quite likely isn't agile/scrum themselves. Often they don't care about a particular vendors' release schedules; if they do, then someone would argue they're "dump and run" fake open source, and not a true independent upstream. They're almost certainly not going to give a crap about sprints or story points or anything else about the local agile/scrum process. These methodologies pretty much don't work unless everyone is completely committed, and with separate upstream/downstream that's just not the case.

Even with everyone on board, the disconnect between (2) and (4) is a problem. Pushing code upstream and pulling it downstream are two separate tasks, even if they're done by the same person, and there's this big gap between them. At best, this makes scheduling more complicated. More often, it makes agile/scrum style fine-grain scheduling and tight coordination impossible. Measuring "velocity" and all that isn't possible when there's so much externally imposed variability.

For something that's long term and systems-oriented and open source, these methodologies are practically useless. Actually they're worse than useless, as they misdirect effort and interrupt useful work. YMMV.
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More that that - do they have any curiosity at all? My first instinct was 'what is this?' and I waited and watched.

It's amazing how many people don't have that. Their first instinct is click oh, what have I done?
We're almost certainly talking about a period inside the next ten years. You think solar is good to go on a massive scale so soon? I don't.

The shale and tar sands stuff is a bit of a joke. We're talking total proven reserves equivalent to something like six years of US consumption. I'm sure it has made some people rich and will make others rich, but it means approximately nothing in the grand scheme of things.

Very few people understand the financial dynamics of Peak Oil. We're seeing them play out right now. As the cost of extraction goes ever upwards, there is tremendous deflationary pressure throughout the economy, because the issuance of new credit is intimately tied to the availability of cheap energy. A plunging oil price and bankrupt drillers is exactly what you would expect at Peak Oil.

http://www.economic-undertow.com/2015/02/09/fatal-ignorance/
I don't doubt that the number of mushroom types that can be cultivated is high and growing, but the problem is more precisely that a number of the most desirable mushroom types (at least the most desirable in Europe) are hard to cultivate.

Most of the mushroom types sold in Europe on the US are still wild mushrooms, I believe, and not because people prefer wild versions (the vast majority of button mushrooms/champignon are cultivated) but because most of the popular types are not yet reliably cultivated.

EDIT: Here's a post that indicates that there is in fact a company that may be possibly be close to cultivating chantarelles - the description of the process is a quite fascinating illustration of some of the difficulty compared to the relatively simple approach in this article: http://amateurmycology.com/?p=220
US production has gone up substantially:

http://www.eia.gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/iedindex3.cfm?tid=50&p...

I tend to think that there is some connection between the lack of production cuts from Saudi Arabia and ISIS/Russia politics, but it can also be the case that they can't afford to cut roughly 1/3 of their production.
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I am glad that you like it.

I don't know why you are trying to make it about Waterloo. You are totally missing the point of the discussion which is about UofT v. Harvard (as silly as it sounds).

It is not very productive to start a dick measuring contest on "which school is the best". Especially when the answer is obvious \joke.

More seriously, I know a pretty large sample of people going to UofT. Sorry if you felt like I was denigrating your school. I am sure that there is a lot of very bright student going to UofT.

I was talking about how the administration treat its students and the general atmosphere and malaise on-campus. Does that "TA strike" ring a bell? Everyone I know going to UofT is complaining about the heavy workload, poor school spirit and over-competitiveness of their peers (refusing to share course notes, spreading out fake informations on a test and other horror stories).

Also 50/60 per class for CS electives is definitely a lot of people. Most CS upper year courses at Harvard and Waterloo are ~10.

To compare the cities of Waterloo and Toronto is almost as silly as comparing Harvard and UofT. Obviously Toronto is better although being in a smaller, very connected community like Waterloo obviously has its perks.
Let's just agree to disagree.
Life is inherently meaningless -- all meaning must be created by human beings. So, you don't find meaning -- you impose it upon your life.

Decide what meaning you would like your life to have, then change your life to suit the meaning you've given it.
I’d love to see a permalink feature. If you don’t want to store poster definitions, put them in the URL.
If this is such a problem, why isn't there a large revolt (or at least some aggressive lobbyism) in the society against this kind of taxation?
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Let's not forget the daily leadership meetings and weekly all-hands standup. Those are a real hoot...
The point is that the product would be better for those millions of people too, they just don't realize it enough to ask. The same way people didn't realize they wanted an iPhone until Apple invented it - people were quite happy with their Blackberries.
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"er ist das" also sounds exactly like "he eats that".
No. The price has fallen as demand has waned, or at least did not match expectations as global GDP expectations fell.

Normally Saudi would reduce supply to keep the price up. But they've taken the opportunity to attack their biggest threat: US Shale oil. By keeping production up, the price has dropped and that is pushing shale oil extractors out of business: these guys need ~$60/barrel to be profitable. It's having a real impact - just look at the US High Yield sector. Firms are going bust, credit spreads are blowing wider and investment in the sector is dropping.

So when enough investment in Shale is killed off, the Saudis will reduce supply... jacking up the price and happy days for them.
One anecdote is not data and neither is multiple anecdotes Nobody would claim that you cannot have one successful company without managers. The question is, if you switch your company to this model, will it be more successful. Unlikely, in my opinion.
Oh, believe me, I'm trying.
the algorithm could tell exactly which sources are used in the final video?

impressive!
Well, it sounds like it was embedded in NASA culture, but this guy was able to brainwash the bosses because he was nearby. It's political games like this that make remote work nearly impossible. Did you notice the brainwashed victims were actual scientists? Good luck with your better culture.
In five words: fish rots from the head.
McDonald's should be managed entirely in this way and it's possible with the current technology.
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> This is aside from the fairly obvious aesthetic argument that looking at ugly things (like right justified text) inherently lowers your quality of life.

If ugly line endings even make your list of "things in my life that could be going better," you're living a pretty charmed life. :)
'PM' - well, there's a problem. We don't have project managers. Product -owners-, yes.

But you have a point; a lot of places try to 'be agile', as something the devs do, without also including management. As a number of others in this thread even indicate. Management has to also change, or else there's a mismatch in expectations.

As a dev doing SCRUM, we report point totals, and allow the business unit to prioritize stories based on that, and based on the need for the feature. Point totals above 8 or so we try and break down into more stories. The only guarantee we give is that if we include it in a sprint, we will get it done in that sprint. We can estimate it at ~8 hours (~two days of a single dev's time; we build in slack, for meetings, context changes, dev tasks, and the unexpected), but we aren't guaranteeing that you'll have it in two days; it'll be the end of the sprint. Any more exact estimate is only for other devs, in case they're reliant on it being in place for something they're working on.
Why would Saudi Arabia be against ISIS, except as a rival? Wahhabism originates in Saudi Arabia.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/iraq-crisis-how-...
> There should not be a discussion of every point. The only discussion should be "oh let's talk about that impediment after the meeting with a smaller group of people" or "let me follow up with you after lunch".

Guess what? Those things are still meetings. They still take up actual time that could be spent on getting shit done.
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I've been working from home for 5 years now and have a dedicated office at home. I don't go into it unless I am working and I leave my work there when I'm done. I have no problems with work/life balance or context switching. Of course you need to make an effort to get setup, but the benefits outweigh the risks 100x for me.
"...what everyone is so angry about"

It's Monday.
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"Demand destruction" is nonsense. There will always be demand for hydrocarbons. Oil and its distillates remain the only viable means of fueling most motor vehicles, Tesla's hype machine notwithstanding. Even if you could somehow find the trillions of dollars needed to electrify every railway in the world and the tens of trillions more to build enough lithium batteries to replace every auto on the world's roads with an electric one (assuming you didn't use that lithium for grid-tied residential storage instead), you would still have shipping, industrial processes, home heating, forklifts, barbecues, remote residential, mining, and forestry applications, trucking, job site, datacenter, and medical generators, legacy power plants, and countless other sources of demand for petroleum products. Plus some that probably don't even exist yet (many of which may well be carbon-neutral, unlike fuel applications). The notion that $150 oil's modest pinching of SUV drivers' wallets will magically make all of the above go away is lunacy.

This is great for all the shale and other high-cost producers, at least for those with patient investors. The Saudis are setting things up so that the folks with shale will be the last people with accessible oil. The sooner the shale producers shut down, the more oil they'll have available to sell later at prices vastly higher than any ever seen. Meanwhile, the Saudis will have pumped their fields dry at rock bottom prices, minimizing their total return. Economically speaking, this is the biggest gift to the US and Canada that the Saudis could possibly make. All that's left is for investors in shale to sit tight, or failing that to sell out to wiser ones at fire-sale prices. Keep careful watch on who buys up the leases from bankrupt shale producers over the next year or two; if they have the right attitude they will be worth a dozen fortunes a few decades down the road.

Thanks, Naimi!
That's an employers decision, my post was not meant to comment on how well someone can program, given their qualifications. Best programmer I know does not have an engineering degree.

Not sure why I got down voted. A quick google search will reveal my comment is factual. At least in Canada where I'm from.

https://archive.org/stream/TNVisaForSystemsAnalystsVsProgram...

"Many people do not realise that computer programmers do not qualify
under the TN Visa"

http://peo.on.ca/index.php/ci_id/2057/la_id/1.htm

"meet PEO's stipulated academic requirements for licensure (hold an undergraduate engineering degree from a Canadian Engineering Accreditation board (CEAB)-accredited program, or possess equivalent qualifications), and, if required, successfully complete any technical exams."
That's a specific case where their client base literally does not care about the cost. $30,000 or $40,000 makes no difference to them.

Or, to take it further, it's quite likely a Veblen good: because only families that can shrug at $30,000 a year for private school will be going there, your kid will only associate with other rich kids, creating valuable romantic and professional networks.
I refuse to use any software from bittorrent.com after what they did to utorrent.
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Amazon seems like Microsoft but without the massive profits from cash cows (windows+office) to subsidize R&D.
Wait until people find out how many of their emails travel in plain text.
If HBO is not making a good-faith effort to secure for George R.R. Martin all the royalties that he is entitled to (which deliberately leaking GoT to torrent sites certainly would not be), then there isn't a court in the world that wouldn't consider HBO to be in breach of contract and return the TV rights to Martin.
Replace CEO with "owner of small business" and this is what I see endlessly. The chops needed to build a business and sell a product are a long way along a spectrum from how to grow that business and how to keep the codebase stable.
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I would love to work from home again. I used to do a couple of days from home but now am office-based, a short distance from where I live so the commute isn't too bad.

But I would love to be back at home again.

Anyone who wants a remote-working developer for C++, let me know! I write under OSX/Windows/Linux and also do Android, SQL in various guises and some web stuff, but I prefer native to web - web is in constant flux. I did Qt a long time ago, now it's wxWidgets. I can do C# too if you want it.
Ok, who's the joker who went through and linked all the animal names, etc.?
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What I think is unique of the linked article (yup, I read it all and it was really interesting and related to my startup) is that the type of work being done by the telecommuters is easily measurable: they are telephone operators. So it is quite simple to compare the number of successful calls (depending on what the company is about) made by people both in site or telecommuting.
The participants have to pay for the data instead of their clients. A proxy would effectively cost them.
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Was talking to my partner about this and she had a pretty clever take:

"Seems like a simple idea would simply be to change just the spelling of one seemingly insignificant name near the end of each version of the credits and then by actually watching the credits you'd know the leaker straight away."

"Of course, you'd leave the watermark on there so the leaker doesn't know how you caught them and thinks that the watermark is still the tracking mechanism."
No, it's saying both are great but Linux constant desktop change and rewriting of underlying systems to break upgrades between OSes isn't for me at the moment (as a desktop system). It may be great for someone else though.

Great for servers.

Basically, each to their own. None is "better".
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The weaponization of oil, finance, commerce, internet, democracy and the list goes on and on for the US.
I actually think this is one of the better ideas/solutions to this problem I have yet seen in this thread. If you don't label this service as access to "the internet" then there should be little concern as far as net neutrality goes. As long as it is made clear to customers that they are not getting the full internet, and instead are paying only for access to a handful of services then I dont think this should be considered a violation of net neutrality.
and doesn't include accounts that were registered before April 1st, but did not log on yesterday. This potentially could be a lot since it is relatively common to have more than one account on reddit.