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I very strongly disagree. This applies to programming and engineering as well as math you know... There is way too much "there is a right answer" focus on undergrad. An aspect of working with newly graduated people I really dislike is that they always ask "am I doing it right?" or "What's the right way" and not even faintly grasping the idea when I tell them "I don't know, that's why we're doing it - if there was a known good solution, we'd just buy it and move on".

Thing is - it's not these kids' fault, once they do grok the notion of "not yet solved", they are great. It's that they spend the last 16 years being punished for getting something wrong, in a context where there is only a right answer or wrong answer, and that fact is known - even in subjective topics.
Only because it's contrary to your own personal interest.

The owners of these properties have clearly determined that the actual value they can realize on the properties they own is maximized by Airbnb as opposed to a more traditional rental. They're certainly happy, as are -presumably- their short-term renters.
Uh,

I can't see how a person can have "goodness" without that goodness having a structure which could be studied, systematized and taught somehow.

Whether that could be made into the kind of system marketed by gurus is naturally a different question and I'd be skeptical about that.
You can't make a handgun with a lathe, though.

Look, I get the point - excessive regulation is silly. But the idea of a 3D printed gun is without comparison in today's society.
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"FUD". So you think that the worries are unwarranted?
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>> "people buy or rent residences in buildings expecting those buildings to be inhabited by long-term residents, then some part of the building gets converted to a hotel"

But isn't that what Home Owners' Associations and condo bylaws are for? If you don't want to risk this happening in your apartment, don't buy one that permits other residents to do this. Thank you Market.
Beyond this, if knowledge is leaked that the man is seeking help, he will lose respect in the eyes of his peers, likely making any existing problems worse. Also, there is the issue of ones psychological health being used against them (such as some people wanting to restrict one's job or rights based on their diagnosed mental health).
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Neighbors complain because outer doors are propped open, short-term tenants are loud (or throw parties), and common facilities (like lobbies) are trashed. These things in turn make true renters aware of the fact that the common space in the building have been opened up to strangers, which justifiably makes them feel less safe.

It's not complicated.

These aren't people patrolling every apartment in the building (some of these buildings are huge). They're tenants who are noticing the actual externalities of Airbnb tenants.
I totally agree with this from a renters perspective. From an owners perspective, though, I should be able to do what I want with my house or condo.
Never said it was men's fault. I said the problem is society's skewed definition of masculinity. It's perpetuated by both men and women. The solution is implied: redefine what it means to be a man.
Assets aren't forfeited without evidence of guilt.
The mindset enshrined in this comment will certainly kill any attempt to be Agile. But while common, thankfully it's not universal.
It more or less worked with bear gall bladders. Where I live, black bear poaching for gall bladder export to China was a major issue. Now the Chinese breed black bears on farms for this purpose (the farm conditions are another matter - predictably horrible). Black bears are still poached but not at the same rates.

To the Chinese, consuming these things (rhino horns, bear gall bladders) isn't crazy. It's more or less mainstream, though of course it has zero scientific credibility beyond the placebo effect.
Yes, I am guilty of this. I had too many bad experiences, so I never bothered.

This thread in general convinced me, I've done that now :)

I should have done this sooner, but I expected some tl;dr management stuff.
If I had done so sooner I could at least have told them they're not Agile, and back it up.
This is a pretty good example of how far computing hardware has come. I was able to eliminated 2 to 50k in 81ms in completely unoptimized C# just now. Makes me wonder who has taken this approach the farthest these days.
Why would a short term resident care about the outward appearance of the property? Why, really, would they care that a neighbour thinks their music is too loud? They've moving out in three days anyway.

Close quarters living like we have in major cities is a very delicate dance that involves building a relationship with your neighbours. Introducing someone not committed to that can absolutely cause huge problems.
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Good lord, those are ugly.
The greater point is that if Airbnb providers were already regulated this type of thing might not be an issue, ie: playing by the same rules hotels do.
> In the end, you'll find it more useful to acquire a thick skin and a "deal with it" attitude towards gratuitous negativity (down-voters included), but not an impermeable shell because sometimes there's some useful criticism behind rude negativity, just don't take it personal and master the art of spinning the conversation towards a constructive direction.

This is the most important lesson I was never formally taught about discourse. If you can mange to be Kind & Thick-skinned you will be capable of communicating with a far wider group of people than those who are missing one component of that pair.
I mean, of course it's their own datacenters. They're not going to be putting their corporate data in a competitor's data center. That said, they could be leveraging new things in their Google App Engine cloud, which would actually make it "the cloud" as people refer to it.
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"Agile process" is an oxymoron. Agile hasn't failed, process has.
Most people rent. Airbnb is mostly an externality to landlords, too; as long as the rent is being paid, they can afford to slow-roll complaints about Airbnb tenants.
Kind of amazing that Meta Lab, the UX design juggernauts behind Slack, don't mention on their website where the hell they're located, which, if applying for a job there, would be nice to know. And if remote is acceptable, it should be conveyed, maybe, not assumed. Answer - Victoria BC
Great talk OP, phoenix will probably become my go to alternative to my current hybrid rails+nodejs stack as I learn more about Elixir. But because Elixir (and Phoenix) is still rapidly changing, I find tons of stuff I've written even several months ago just sort of stops working if I don't upkeep it frequently. This is just the nature of using new things, but do you have a recommend elixir version manager you use?
Oh my god. I remember that "sizzle." That's the perfect way to put it!

... It is not missed.
There seems to be a general sense that short-term rentals make housing unaffordable. I disagree. We came up with the technology to scale a given piece of land to hundreds of residents at a low marginal cost a long time ago. Unfortunately, we've outlawed that technology in the vast majority of the American urbanized area. As a result, the demand to live on a particular piece of land far outstrips the supply of homes, and this competition makes prices skyrocket.

Build more homes. Build a lot of them. It's the only way to keep our cities affordable.
Without Airbnb, the only difference is that you'dmore shared disgusting hotel rooms.

And cheaper real estate, as fewer properties are bought up to rent out on a short term basis.
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> Then we do not lose information and might as well recreate this diversity in the future.

This is an understandable position, but difficult in practice. We're losing "information" in a lot of other ways as well. Habitat destruction is probably the most obvious part of that for many species. It's not enough to have a genome without knowledge of what I'll call that genome's "context of relevance". Which amounts to a vast web of climate, local environmental history, other organisms in that context, and so on. All of that will likewise affect any given organism's epigenetic expression, something else that a naive recording of genetic data will miss.

Likewise, we're destroying what amounts to animal "culture". Go read Elizabeth Marshall's The Tribe of Tiger[1], esp. the part that describes the extremely interesting relationship between the Bushmen tribes of the Kalahari desert and the resident prides of lions.

As far as we can manage, it's still best to preserve as much as possible of our "archives of life" in living form vs. recorded on media somewhere.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Tribe-Tiger-Elizabeth-Marshall-Thomas/...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forge_of_God
Summary: ponders the Fermi paradox, worries that AGI is the Great Filter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
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there are a couple.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scimitar_oryx
I have a friend in Santa Monica who rents 2 apartments. One he rents very cheap via some sort of rent control/housing assistance program. He then proceeds to rent the rooms out on AirBnB. He gets enough business to pay for the apartment he lives in and live frugally without having full-time employment.

It's hard to blame cities when this (and other) kind of abuse is going on.
Making money.

You don't know how to.
Seems like an easy fix - just make it prohibitively expensive to own multiple properties.

All these problems revolve around rich folks investing in real estate to make a buck - that that is even a thing, is insane.

Housing is for people to live in, not for you to buy, renovate, sell. Or buy, rent. Or buy, tear down, build new, sell/rent.

It's all part of a greater problem - when folks can become multi-millionaires by gaming the system instead of contributing to it and do so with impunity, we have what we have.

Housing prices are inflated by people who buy/sell for profit, coupled with retarded regulations that favor that over people trying to live their lives.

Capitalism yay in other words :)
"Agile methods ask practitioners to think, and frankly, that‘s a hard sell."

Wonderful point, and spot-on. But that's not just for agile newbies, I'd extend that to other groups that are immersed in something. The best example I can think of at the moment are MBAs. For whatever reason, smart people go off to charm school, earn their MBA, and then forget how to think.
Sure. But who's going to enforce that "should"? This is why regulation is popular; it's about recourse.
Hey so what does everyone think of them releasing multiple versions of Windows 10?
I haven't used Win10 yet. I'm curious if they've rewritten some of the core components like they did for the 2003-2008 jump. Things like IIS, Task Scheduler engine, & Security (UAC elevation).
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If you do it right (store the cert in a TPM) the device itself actually is a second factor so you don't need anything other than the device.
A VM escape vulnerability is pretty serious as vulnerabilities go!
You probably don't really believe that. For instance, if you buy a house in a sleepy residential neighborhood, you probably don't really believe it's reasonable to convert it into a noisy 24/7 tool and die shop.

The interesting question is, where do you draw the line at what should and shouldn't be regulated?
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Trademarking the name may be a way to prevent GROWS from being hijacked the way Agile has been. The reference to the Dreyfus model makes me suspect that (aside from rebooting to bypass the way Agile has been coopted) this may be an attempt to put some concrete guidance into the metamethodology of developing process in an Agile (in the Manifesto sense) organization, which was always a fairly big gap in the Agile literature, which tended to be largely principles plus the specific processes used by specific organization, without covering how the agility actually should work (though, if you got outside of the Agile brand into works on Lean, which is pretty much the same set of principles arrived at from a basis that has much stronger process engineering background, and so tends to feature a lot more work on concrete methods of process evaluation, there was quite a bit of that.)
> There are several unknown zero days in any application

Does this include the firewall and VPN?
Not yet, but we aspire for them to be covered in the future. Thanks for asking.
Maybe the company that replaces it will be based outside US borders, safe from any subpoena for rental records.

That only works when activity is online-only and difficult to trace. If you're renting your apartment out it's pretty easy to detect.
3D printing will have a "Napster" moment where some technology comes along and raises awareness to the mainstream level, and suddenly all the big IP holders will be up in arms and come after that technology.

But by then it will be too late, and the true disruption will happen and change everything about manufacturing small goods at home.
Then don't go to AirBnB places. Go to hotels.

It really is that simple. Don't deprive other people of choice because you don't want to choose.
I think they're betting on typical consumer being unaware of their electricity use. If their chargers and a router suddenly start using 4x the power, they won't notice because it still will be dwarfed by the fridge and washing machine, but scaled up this could bring some amount of money to the company. I'm not sure if that amount of money will be big enough to bother though.
"Regulations aren't even needed some buildings are just taking care of this issue on their own. "

Not necessarily.

In some cases the ability to have tenants able to rent out their units will allow the landlord to charge more rent for that unit, because the tenant is able to offset the rent. That is good for the landlord, but not good for the other residents who are bothered by the short term rental activity. As others point out it can also add to an increase in rental costs by creating artificial price pressure since tenants can afford to pay more.
Now I'm curious, is it guaranteed to terminate? Is there a name for this problem?

It needs to land on a power of 2 at some point.
Actually, he has a point. Too many choices can harm sales significantly. Granted, in Microsoft's position, it's not as applicable.

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/research-too-many-choi...

https://blog.kissmetrics.com/too-many-choices/
AirBNB is a very small part of the housing problem in Portland. As of 4/30/2015, Portland area had 1,110 properties categorized as "Entire home/apt". That same metric was 814 on 4/30/2014. Portland also has legislation specifically for AirBNB (they have to register with the city, pay taxes and get a "less than 30 days" lodging permit).

The primary housing problem here is an influx of people from more-expensive cities (LA, SF, Seattle, NYC) moving in and snapping up homes to actually live in. Meanwhile the city is making it difficult for developers to add any real housing density within the Urban Growth Boundary (and instead are thinking about expanding the UGB. Ugh.).

So there's no real "problem" aside from Portland is a desirable city to live in and people are flocking to here.
Anyway, feminists fight for women.

And this is the problem I have with feminists. We should be fighting for each other, not against each other. We are all on this planet together and we all deserve equal rights and opportunities.

The idea that we achieve this by having women fight for women's rights and men fight for men's rights is absurd. It might have been inevitable to begin with, but we're not living in the 60s any more, and if we don't move away from this adversarial position then of course people will start to feel threatened, retreat to fundamentalist positions, and react in the way you object to.
That's ridiculous, there are no yacht slips in St Barth, the only harbor is in Gustavia and even the superyachts Med-moor on the quay.
When your family was travelling, did you make extra noise at the houses and apartments you rented? Why do you expect most people to disrespect the people around them if they are only there temporarily?
The link worked for me.
> housing is getting bought purely to rent out

Why is this bad?
Completely agree. I'm just saying it's not a clear cut issue of the public vs. the hotels.

There are legitimate arguments for limiting someone's ability to rent out their living space to short term tenants that have nothing to do with the hotel lobby. As someone who lives in an apartment building with fairly thin walls, I can sympathize with some one not wanting a parade of short term tenants as their neighbor.
As noted in the article, Intel has been working on this for just under a decade, but still, it does seem highly optimistic.
You sound awfully angry. I'm not sure why. I'm not really saying either is better. Rather, each of us has an eternity of "not existing" waiting for us; there just doesn't seem to be any reason to rush into it. It's not going anywhere.
>these prejudice are a product of patriarchy.

A uesless hypothesis that isn't testable.

Women treated worse? Patriarchy.

Men treated worse? Patriarchy.

Consider that if you go back far enough, men were considered the better parent. I'm sure Patriarchy is to blame for that even though it was to blame for men being considered the worse parent as well.
> Why would a short term resident care about the outward appearance of the property? Why, really, would they care that a neighbour thinks their music is too loud? They've moving out in three days anyway.

Because they could be fined or otherwise penalized for violating noise ordinances, which apply just as well to short-term and long-term residents.
For an opportunity to stay in some random person's spare bedroom, a web site with reviews from people who have stayed there previously sounds like a perfectly reasonable level of guarantee. Requiring people to act like professional hoteliers in their spare time seems likely to kill the whole project, which would be a shame as it makes travel both cheaper and more fun.
If people are buying whole buildings to rent out, what argument do the neighbors have for shutting down airbnb activity?

I understand the argument for apartment buildings. If someone in your building buys/rents a unit, then puts it on airbnb, they decrease your security because strangers are going in and out of the building.

I do not understand the argument for an entire building. If I own a building, it should be my right to decide who stays there. As long as the airbnb guests are not throwing wild ragers, I don't see what argument the neighbors could have.
I'd guess that the structure would have to be really big to cover all kinds of situations and corner cases.
Has it ever occurred to you they know better what to do then you?
I'm glad you mentioned that. A full scale switch like this, if successful, would be great marketing ammunition and would simplify the administration of their datacenters.

No separation of their cloud hosting and internal services would greatly simplify administration at the cost of having to beef up security mentioned in the article.
And you are, provided you do not infringe on the rights of other owners.
Hi, Jeff

Will update as soon as I'm at a machine, but yes of course you're correct.
Here's their method:

>First, calculate a numerical value for the point of interest. Second, conjecture a closed algebraic form for this number. Third, express the algebraic number as nested radicals. Finally, check the conjectured form with many digits of accuracy.

But this isn't a proof. It's just empirical evidence. At least it seems to me - I'm no mathematician.
> We are also bringing the Xbox gaming experience to Windows 10, giving games and gamers access to the Xbox Live gaming community, enabling the capture and share of gameplay and giving Xbox One owners the ability to play their Xbox One games from any Windows 10 PC in their home.

I do not like the sound of this. It looks like another attempt at the loathed GWFL (Games For Windows Live)
And why should the government get involved? Find an apartment complex where the owner agrees to not do short-term leases, and expect to pay a slightly higher rent for the stipulation.

> It's not complicated.

Everything is complicated when the government gets involved and starts inventing regulations.
In the USA, you can deduct your business expenses (including building rental) from your profits for tax purposes. This creates a huge incentive to rent, as it's basically free - the company is basically paying part of their tax payment to their landlord.
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After a while we fired the Agile Evangelist and became a whole lot more agile :)
Essentially, there seem to be significant tax, accounting, and general financial incentives associated with office space and expenditures that come with it. Take, for example, during the recession, special corporate tax rules were set in place that rewarded and essentially subsidized capital expenditures and allowed for accelerated write-downs.

Those are not necessarily solely financial incentives, but they function to compound and combine with already established systems of corporate organization, personnel structures, and general status quo operations and processes. In that scenario, the co-located work paradigm was not only supported and strengthened where remote working was not, but it also set an expectation that thar be government breast milk in tumultuous times.

I am no corporate tax, accounting, or financial expert; but what I can say is that it seems to be the forest that can't be seen for all the trees.
So much marketing. It's sort of hard to take these companies seriously.

Couldn't you just disable the floppy device in the vm?
Finfet was also really hard , and took something like a decade(or more) from research to production with decent yield.

And EUV based lithography(printing finer circuits using xrays), which intel recently bought 10-20 machines of, also took a very long time.

So without a doubt, making chips is becoming much harder.
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> but it is not even a little bit hard to find loud, angry citizens complaining. Those complaints are entirely predictable: people buy or rent residences in buildings expecting those buildings to be inhabited by long-term residents, then some part of the building gets converted to a hotel. People aren't OK with that.

Why is the answer not "get over it"? What's their legitimate complaint about having short-term residents nearby? If people are complaining about bad behavior by those residents, punish that.

You own the property; rent it as you wish.
Oops. no, I overlooked that. I'm proven wrong.
isnt this what ipv6 is for?
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Thanks, though I can't take credit for it. I stole it from an epic anti-agile jeremiad on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-developers-at-strong-compan...
I just build from source as needed, and I find it refreshingly simple. This will probably break down on future Elixir versions, but for now it's my preferred approach. There are libs for switching elixir/erl versions, fwiw.

wrt fast changeds, Elixir has been 1.0 stable for 7 months, and Phoenix is targeting a July 1.0 release. We are quite close to 1.0 as it is, so things should be much smoother now if you checked us out several months ago.