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I agree. There is also a danger in big, monumental releases in that they take big, monumental development efforts to create. It took Engelbart, et. al. 6 years to build this demo. Can you imagine any company today spending 6 years, in the dark, building something?

In our current financial and business climate, I just can't imagine anyone agreeing to that, and even if they did, there is a chance a small, plucky upstart could eat your lunch independently developing and releasing piecemeal everything you intend to release. But even worse, if you were working on something that was so cutting-edge that no competitor independently thinks of it and thinks it's a good idea to develop it, then you might lose the market when you release--they just plain might not understand the significance of what you've created.

Then, 5 years after you release, Facebook will copy you, but automatically post everything you do to your timeline, and everyone will love it and forget you had anything to do with it. The best you can hope from getting together a dedicated team of skilled, motivated individuals and giving them a long time to make something incredible is that you get to show up in The Verge and Ars Technica in 50 years as being "the first".
Another thing people seem to forget is that plastic requires oil. It's relatively easy to move from gas to electric cars, I don't know of an alternative for plastic production however.
I could have just as easily used "rent" instead of "mortgage". Spare me the political grandstanding.
> US is self sufficient so they don't fear supply crunch

The USA is a net importer of crude oil and petroleum products. At a level of 5 million barrels per day.

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This ..... redefines the concept of "ray tracing" as I know it. An interesting proposition. Wonder if you could write a pov-ray module for this.
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interesting, what framework was this built with? unity?
I think you're mistaken on a couple of points:

- VCs aren't interested in "revenue tomorrow" unless you mean a 10x+ exit multiple. VCs want you you to focus on your product because there's an invisible( and sometimes not so invisible) clock running as soon as you take the investment.

- VCs aren't interested in 5-10 year tails on their investments. Most are looking for an 18mo.-3.yr ROI. If you can prove revenue and 'market traction' they'll extend your runway accordingly, however that's a constantly moving target and generally the types of VCs who are interested in the 'long tail' aren't the same that want to give you money at the infancy of your company.

- There is definitely a big difference between a traditional consultancy and a product focused organization but only in the sense of the 'end goal'. If your entire plan is to bootstrap your company by building a consultancy, it's easy to keep a separation of concerns between the two halves of your organization. Usually the "clash" that you're talking about is when a consultancy based/focused organization decides to build a product, not when a product company decides to do some consultancy.

Developers (in fact, all of technology) are considered cost centers at ALL businesses. There's not an MBA on the planet that wouldn't jettison the entire technology cost-center of their business in a heart-beat if they could figure out how to do it and still achieve their monetary objectives.
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Probabilistic programming does in 50 lines of code what used to take thousands
For at least "important" uses of plastic you can make it from plants. I haven't looked to see how the volume of plastic consumed compares to, say, the corn crop though.
Self-organizing isn't hard at all. As a species, humans automatically self-organize in any group great than about 4 or 5 people.

The problem is that people self-organize to optimize some instinctual pattern, not to optimize towards business goals. The moment you start organizing towards some other goal than what we naturally do, you are no longer "self-organizing", period.

Holacracy and other mumbo jumbo choose to ignore this simple fact, and pretend like anybody can do anybody else's job and you'll find that once you start to map out how "self-organizing" organizations always work, they aren't in fact self-organized at all.

It's actually quite maddening.
Of all the clones/derivates/homages I have seen of hackertyper(of which I am the creator) this one is my favourite.
"which makes shipping apps a lot easier atm"

Yet, the windows and linux builds are not available?
People aren't perfect. It's easy to get distracted, get off track, think that you'd be able to get back on track if only you could get your head down for a couple of days, and suddenly two weeks have passed, you're miles behind, and the people waiting for your work are all thrown off track because it's not there yet.

Spending 15 minutes per day making sure that everyone knows how the team is doing strikes me as a very easy way to avoid that.

Heck, it can be significantly less than that, if you use a tool to keep your tasks up to date and can just say "I got the frobulator finished, and moved on to the doohickey. Dave's giving me a hand with a small holdup there, and it should be finished on time." at the standup then the whole thing should take less than five minutes total, except when there _are_ issues that need to be dealt with.
The title is completely mangled.

The original (rather long) title is "Why do some developers at strong companies like Google consider Agile development to be nonsense?", and it seems it was shortened. There's a spurious "at" left in there now which breaks it.
I think a lot of this disappointment at 40 comes from the fact that a lot of kids (especially in the US) were told silly things like "you are special" and "you can become anything you want to become". So a lot of boys grew up with the idea that they were going to be Richard Feynman + Bill Gates + Wayne Gretzky rolled into one. When that didn't pan out, they didn't understand what happened to them. Nothing happened - you were born human.

This whole "you're special" thing wasn't always here, it's a relatively new thing.
This was about one lesson, and yes that lesson needs reinforcement. But part of that was being done by those students who were inspired to try it with other mathematical "bases", such as base 3 -- a system with 3 digits.
Also, in a full course, if you consistently and frequently use the Socratic method or any method that questions students' logic, many of them begin to do that on their own about their logic or, usually, the logic of other people, even the teacher. I have had students come up with good flaws in my own logic, by the middle or end of the term. But yes, it takes reinforcement.
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The U.S. is not self sufficient at current production. The U.S. produces almost 9 million barrels a day and uses almost 19 million. The U.S. could be self sufficient but the permit restrictions on shallow water drilling as well as other political issues make self sufficiency a ways off. As far as Europe and renewables, I think the perception is far more positive than the reality. Windmills and solar provide a very small part of Europe's energy. Russian natural gas is by far the most important energy source. France has had good luck with nuclear but the anti-nuke crowd is rather robust, limiting expansion.
Is it Gawker? Please be Gawker.
Yes! A 10-second delay is enough to make me think, "Do I really want to spend time on this?" But not enough to make me circumvent the filter. I also really like its lockdown mode, so that I can say, "For the next 2 hours, no distractions."
I must be old. I don't get it. I mean, I understand what is going on. I don't get why people care. I don't get why people care so much that they are screaming at each other on the internet about it.
There are two points here.

1. Zero rating is good for customers. If Flipkart offers zero rating app, then other competitors like Amazon, Ebay, Snapdeal etc. too are forced to improve their service over Flipkart, or provide Zero Rating for them also. (But from a Business perspective, this can be bad).

2. Net Neutrality is a different thing. But here the telecom operators are confusing people with NN and ZR, tricking the users to believe that they are going to get internet for free once ZR is active. No, it's not like that. They are different things.

I believe that ZR for basic communication apps (like WhatsApp, Google Hangouts, Skype etc.) is an essential thing to do.

But still maintaining Net Neutrality is very very important.
He recently gave a very inspiring TED talk. That's how I've got to know about Semco. http://www.ted.com/talks/ricardo_semler_radical_wisdom_for_a...
The concept of peak oil is fine (almost self-evident), just the timing has been off. Theories are easier than predictions.
> Question: So Marissa Mayer, who famously banned working from home at Yahoo last year, was wrong?

> Answer: It’s not so simple. There are lots of factors that could lead to such a ban, including a culture where remote workers tend to be slacking because of low morale. Also, we were studying call center work, which is easily measured and easily performed remotely.

I let most of my team work from home when they want to and I think the above answer has a fair bit of truth to it. You need to start with some way of measuring productivity to know if an activity works for your team or not.

The nature of work my team does is very exploratory and by definition, alot of it won't pan out in the real world so we spend a lot of time thinking about how to track progress to figure out what types of activities pay off for us and what don't.

Not to suck up to Hacker News here, but the best predictor of success we've had is does a person have demonstrated startup success.
It's not a large fraction of the oil market. It's also less bad from a CO2 perspective as it ends up ""sequestered"" in landfills and oceans.
I don't get it. What's wrong with my question?
That's correct. The conversation, as seen by an eavesdropper will be:

- Client makes DNS request to example.com.
- DNS server (we hope the legitimate one) sends IP addr in response.
- Client connects to server IP.
- TLS negotiation including certs.
- Bunch of bytes that look like noise.
- Disconnect.
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Yup, of course this is no coincidence. The "poem" is straight-out antisemitic. Old habits die hard, after all Grass had an SS history (that he forgot to mention over decades).

[Edit] It's kind of obvious, but I'll say it since this is often missed by those applauding Grass for his late poem: If Israel wanted to destroy Iran, it had already done so, given its nuclear power. Instead, Israel has (so far successfully) used that nuclear power defensively to keep its neighbor countries from trying to destroy it.
Additionally, they had the opportunity to capitalize on Campfire in a way that they could have closed the market for realtime collaboration before Slack. Obviously Slack is a superior product (and given 37signals opinionated product philosophy I don't think they would have ever built something so comprehensive) but still... they had a 7 year head start on Slack. A lot of orgs used Campfire every day, and probably plenty still do.

But I appreciate their commitment to focusing on one thing.
It's not meant to be for that. It's meant to be let people know whats going on, because someone might know something that would save you time. I.e Collaboration.
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Because people DO care, but they generally don't show it much. Often it takes a shock like this for them to realize how much they actually do care.

It's easy to fall into the thought trap of "nobody cares", followed by "because there's no reason for them to care", to "because I'm / they're worthless", to "Nothing but parasites", to "We should all just go extinct."

We are all social beings, and deficiencies in social interaction can and do affect our psyche in very dramatic ways.
Or better still:

"This app would like to send data over the internet insecurely."

There would be a nice stampede to get SSL coverage for API endpoints if we called it what it really is.
Working at home is so incredibly context specific I wonder how applicable this data is to other industries. I'd love to see more studies done to figure out how good or bad working at home is in general and what industry(ies) it works in versus doesn't work in.

Personally I usually get more work done at home (especially since there is no commute time) but I also usually work more hours because I get constantly interrupted at home and context switching is hard (at least for me) (wife and kids = interruptions). Even though I love being able to see my family more, saving money on gas, etc I still prefer to work the majority of my time at an office mostly because it's far easier for me to avoid context switches at an office than at home (switching too much is exhausting).
Exactly. TLS is, as the name implies, at the transport layer (TCP). (TLS is the same thing as SSL, the "S" in HTTPS, unless someone wants to be pedantic.) Everything that is at the HTTP level gets encrypted. The only exception to this is (sometimes) the hostname through a process call SNI (Server Name Indication), which sends the hostname as part of the TLS setup before an encrypted session is setup so that the server knows which website's certificate it should be using. This is the only way that you can host more than one website on a single IP address (unless they all share the same wildcard certificate or a single cert has an alt-name for each).
Author here. This is a long but, but here's the gist:

- sha256 is required for Chrome 42+ (mid April 2015) not to show warnings.

- 2048 bit RSA is the new OpenSSL default and is required for EV certificates.

- The 'subject' (the thing being attested to by the CA) you actually get in your certificate may have a lot more detail than the subject line in your CSR.

- If you're using EV, and have at least www and non-www, the CN will never be used - your CA will put all the server names inside the SAN fields. Anything else won't work with current browsers.
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I just switched to a $50 ($40 for the third and subsequent lines) unlimited and supposedly uncapped mobile data plan. As long as such plans area available at reasonable prices, I don't think zero-rating some services on cheaper plans is very evil. As other commenters have pointed out, there are plans that restrict Web access, but that's not "zero rating." That's a walled garden.
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It's a fundamental law that the less important something is, the more people will scream at each other about it over the internet.
Haven't we been moving away from oil for at least 40 years, since the U.S. oil crisis in the 1970's? Carter put solar energy in the White House. Are we on the 100 plan to move away from oil?
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Ughs

* no linux version

* not open source

* announcement is very light on technical implementation

Unanswered questions

* Does it have any proprietory bittorrent protocol extensions?

* Will there be a possibility for open source community to produce alternative clients?

* Will there be firefox-like extensions?

* What about encryption/authorization/security/privacy?

It's frustrating to read about such an exciting concept with the most important details left out. I've searched around but wasn't able to find anything in depth.

Would appreciate a link or additional information from knowledgeable HN readers.
Indeed. Europe is still heavily reliant on coal and petroleum. Anti-nuclear crowd is incredibly robust and they are limiting expansion in numerous places. Windmills, solar and hydro are not capable of replacing fossil fuels without the help of nuclear, unless we want to cover all of Europe in windmills and solar panels.

But we are moving in the right direction, but Europe is not doing as well as we like to pretend.
That was the point I think. Just a button with no instructions. Do people blindly click a button for no other reason it is in front of them? Without knowing what it does?
Look to reduce friction wherever possible. Create a folder for me to start with, start me at a blank note... Let me name it later. Compare your flow to creating a Gist on Github. Every click and decision I must make takes an increasing toll.
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IF teams are using Agile like that there doing it wrong. It's meant to be recipe for collaborative, relaxed, friendly environment. Not a pressured hot house. If your goal is to use Agile to push developers to their limits, you've already failed the Agile Test.

You can twist Agile, based on your vision of good
team is. So you have to get the right people to implement it. You have to approach it from the idea of it being a collaborative, friendly, no blame etc for it to work.

I've only ever used estimates in story points to prioritize things(That's why its so abstract), not to monitor and push developers. If I wanted that, i'd use actual time.

The idea of everyone is junior is also bad implementation. It means even the most junior person is capable of contributing using their solution over a senior persons solution. The right idea wins, not the right person. I can understand why this pisses of senior people though.
One reason is that literally every programming language ever invented is a viable choice. Firmware is generally C. iPhone apps pretty much have to be Objective-C/swift. Android apps are Java, or occasionally another JVM language. WebDev? Take your pick...ruby, python, java, haskel, clojure, perl, etc. They're all relatively easy to use for web dev.
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Even including things like floating figure placement? I'll admit, I haven't kept up with all the features along these lines that Word provides these days: I know it's been catching up.

(In fact, I'm curious to know: do most folks using Word these days actually use the semantic elements like "title" and "heading 2"? Or is it still common for people to just hit "bold" and enlarge the font size?)
A game for Lundum Dare where you had to keep on clicking to keep the "girl" alive and when it was over it deleted itself? Can't find specific link.

edit: Apparently another thread is discussing this too. They posted [0] which is what I was talking about.

[0] http://dom.ink/post/59611971605
I like the opportunity to work from home but I'd rather be around people most of the time. Sadly the place I am working at is anal about people being in the office.
What this is saying is that open source startups are just a PaaS. Act accordingly.
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I think it's a stretch to assume that the way a presidential candidate's campaign webmaster chooses to configure a website will be any indication of how the candidate would lead the executive branch of government. It's probably better to look at the candidate's previous leadership performance and his or her positions (as indicated by voting records, not campaign rhetoric) on policy issues.
There's a phrase in German language, "eine harte Nuss zu knacken haben", literally "to have a hard nut to crack".

Maybe that means that he'll be cracking nuts (problems) even after he's buried?
I used to work in support at Rackspace and was fortunate enough to work on 2 presidential candidates and be the lead tech on another. I learned a ton.

The way they raise funds and advance through primaries made scaling out the infrastructure pretty interesting. It was basically, "If we make it through X with a big enough lead deploy gear by next Tuesday if not wait". Would have been a lot easier now that using "the cloud" is an option.
I love how science exists on a plane seemingly above religion and money. It seems that most leaders when behind closed doors, understand the value of education, science and the benefits it has to society long term. Even those flush with money, understand that sustainability long-term is dependent on attracting and fostering the top minds from around the world and within their own borders.
> the threat it poses to world peace

Some poeple are living in an alternative reality. Wars have been and are taking place all over the place without Israel's involvement. World peace doesn't exist, so the idea that Israel would threaten it is maniac.
It is built with Phyard Builder, which is written with ActonScript3. However, the editor is planed to be ported to c++ with html release target supported.
It's sad isn't it? The Islamic world was the pinnacle of scientific discover for the past millennium.
Dude, version name is a great vessel for branding and promotion. Most distros have version names and version numbers, it's not hard to dereference a version name and they serve a purpose.

More brand awareness for open source projects == good.
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I don't have sources on hand but I recently had my testosterone levels checked at a TRT office and they seemed to agree it's highest in your 20s and decreases after that. It was why they were so surprised to have me (24) getting my testosterone levels checked. Most of their clientele are men in their 30-40s+.
Oh yes, I agree, and I wasn't trying to imply that this would always be the case. I just meant that just because a civilization is simulated doesn't mean they have necessarily cut all ties with the physical universe. A civilization CAN be 100% simulated, but still be sending probes out to other stars etc.
One thing to be noted is, Airtel has always been pioneer of skewed business tactics to milk as much profit they can. I can't believe that even in this age, I can't have more than 1Mbps speed beyond their incredibly low FUP (Fair Usage policy).

I have seen charges of 2G data double in course of last two years or so. The picture, if Airtel goes through it, is very grim. They would force every major corporation to pay to allow access to their website / app for 'free' and the normal Internet packs would become very expensive to afford. I am sure most telcos would follow the same suit, once they get a nod.
Similar here, don't really want to do a full backup of all my personal files and such to dropbox.

Right now I only do a local backup to a usb HD. However, I'm considering getting an amazon EBS volume and setting up a Ruby script or something to put up a micro server, compress and encrypt my files and sent them out the the aws volume.

Backblaze/crashplan is cheaper, but they use a server side key, which is pretty pointless. Glacier would be cheaper but seems more complicated to set up.
Surely as late2part's sibling post sort of suggests without hearing your testimony the judge can't determine whether it's likely to incriminate you or not - you're called as witness to an RTA that you weren't involved in but you were running drugs at the time? Or you're called on a employment law issue but you should have been under a non-compete [which of course may not be legal, but you don't know that and you can't disclose it without potentially incriminating yourself]? Or ...

What's the measure for "self incrimination". For example if I'm called as a witness for a relatively minor offence (non-violent theft say) but it will mean giving evidence that I was cheating on my spouse; that's not criminal but it's potentially going to ruin my life, why would I testify?

What about the converse, there's almost always something you could decide was unlawful, you were speeding, you dropped litter, you jaywalked, you illegally parked - if your testimony might reveal such things then can you claim the fifth?