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Agile is not an "it", agile is not static. Application of agile principals means guiding and improving development processes. This is not a damned if you do damned if you don't scenario. As the article suggested, you have to "inspect and adapt". If something did not work for you, then capture the results, perform a lesson's learned, and try again.

To say "apply agile methods", is to apply a nimbleness of the mind. This is where not everyone "gets it" right away. If someone suggests a paradigm shift from what you as a developer are accustomed to, you may very well fall flat on your face. But to apply agile methods means to be able to get back up and try a different approach.
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I didn't see McCain proposing RomneyCare, hell didn't see Romeny proposing RomneyCare. So no we would not have had the same thing.
The McDonald's event must not be interpreted a normal circumstance. They almost certainly have marketing (or to use the older term, propaganda) reasons to promote and even hype the event. (It's odd that so many new sources had exactly the same comparison (see http://rt.com/usa/mcdonalds-applicans-america-middle-class/). It's almost as if there was a marketing campaign to push that comparison.)

Better would be to look at the yearly number of applicants vs. hires. Which I cannot find. I did find firm numbers on the world-wide number of employees:

approximately 400,000 as of year-end 2010 - http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/63908/000119312511046...

approximately 420,000 as of year-end 2011 - http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/63908/000119312512077...

approximately 440,000 as of year-end 2012 - http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/63908/000006390813000...

approximately 440,000 as of year-end 2013 - http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/63908/000006390814000...

If there were 60K+ new permanent jobs at McDonald's in the US in 2011 then I would have expected to see more than 20K new world-wide employees for 2011, or a report about significantly reduced employment positions overseas. Which I also didn't see.

This may indicate that people do not stay for a long time at McDonald's, so that 60+K new people isn't significant. (http://fistfuloftalent.com/2008/05/can-this-turnov.html suggets a turnover rate of about 44%/year.) It may also mean that franchisees were asked to hold off on hiring new people until that hiring day. There would well be other reasons to explain the disparity between 60K new jobs in the US and only 20K new employees worldwide.
One interesting question is: how many companies have enough public IP addresses to publish their applications to the internet? If you assume that there are multiple services and each one is hosted on their own server (or server farm), then you'd need many more public IP addresses. When we live in a world that is severely lacking free IPv4 space, how feasible is this? Or is this just a matter of pushing things from 10.0.0.0/8 land to IPv6 addresses? How many locally developed enterprise apps have good enough security to be put on a public facing site and have good IPv6 support?

I applaud the idea and the effect of forcing security to be dealt with. But I don't know how feasible it is for corporations without their own B or C blocks.
That article is so painfully sad. I have done nothing to cause their extinction, yet can't help but feeling guilty. It might be because I have done nothing.

"Human beings – we always kill the things we love."
> but their response, IMO, should be to embrace it

I simply do not see this happening. Before people ever do this, they will attempt to accomplish their goals by easier, more acceptable, less self-socially destroying means, like wrapping their complaints in traditional/religious roles or (likely reactionary) ideology. But I don't want to detract from this any longer. The point I was trying to make was far more succinctly put by marrs in anther reply to you.
If you Google for "what is my ip?" then Google will tell you. If it looks like "12.34.56.78" (known as "dotted quad") then your computer is using IPv4. If it looks like "FE80:0000:0000:0000:0202:B3FF:FE1E:8329" or "FE80::0202:B3FF:FE1E:8329" then you are using IPv6.
Hotel taxes are popular because they primarily tax non-residents, who don't have a say in local policy. As long as they're not so high that they counterproductively decrease tourism, they can be almost arbitrarily high.

That doesn't necessarily make them sensible, just less controversial because non-residents don't get to vote.
>95/100

Heh.
back in 2007 I did something similar on Travian[0], but my bot was made for taking game decisions. The game mechanics was send attacks, gather resources, and develop cities .. the bot was playing so automated that I lost the interest in the game itself, and stopped playing

I wish to have made a backup :)

0: http://www.travian.net/
It does. If you are concerned with safety issues, then don't go there.
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> It doesn't seem reasonable that my friend with the big house should have to jump through all the same hoops as the professionals running the Marriott or whatever.

I agree. The regulations were written for a different market; new regulations are needed that provide a level playing field for competition, which means hotels aren't at a 14% price disadvantage and short-term rentals can cost-effectively comply.

It's going to take some innovation.

(I'm assuming the hotel regulations are too onerous for short-term rentals, but I don't know much about them.)
Except that Game Boy games didn't look like that screenshot either. The point being that programmers and artists took advantage of the screens (be it a handheld LCD or CRT television) to compliment their artwork and achieve effects they couldn't pull off by their pixels alone.

One can see a Cg shader here that attempts to recreate the look of an actual Game Boy screen, complete with several characteristics including motion blur and contrast settings:

http://filthypants.blogspot.com/2013/04/customizing-harlequi...
By the way, there is an extension that removes overlays on any website and doesn't require any permissions, Behind The Overlay => https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/behindtheoverlay/l...

It's activated by clicking the icon or by using a keyboard shortcut (cmd+shit+x). So there is at least one single way to close any overlay on any website.
In the same vein... Windows Vista hadn't changed significantly since XP, or XP since 2000, or 2000 since NT 3.5.1, etc. It's all iterative and subject to perspective here.
Worked for me also.
I don't agree. If you are a hotel, you are a corporation who's primary business and income is renting out rooms. If you have what is usually just a sole proprietorship, you should not be subject to the hotel tax. What is it whit this damn country that people want to just start bending definitions and terms to fit their despotic little minds will.

What, next we're going to require Sally's lemonade stand comply with Sarbanes Oxley??? I can't stand it when people want to bend the rules just because things are not turning out how they had hoped or in their favor.
As soon as Dell has a dropdown for nomal vs pro, microsoft is selling windows directly to customers.

And guess what, "Inspiron Small Desktopwith Windows 7 Professional". http://www.dell.com/us/p/desktops?~ck=mn#!facets=153558~0~87... Not that I think the average user knows if they want window 7 pro or windows 8.1 which is what most of the desktops on that page are.
Are you sure you're not still waking up in the middle of the cycle? 90 minutes is just a loose generalization. Different people have different sleep cycles and take different amounts of time to fall asleep.

Personally, 2 hours works well for me but 90 minutes does not.
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I couldn't make it through the article with all the spam popping up for his book or newsletter or whatever else it was I was dismissing.
You may want to read Greg Morrow's UCLA dissertation on urban planning in Los Angeles for some context: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6k64g20f#page-1

This graph (p. 3) shows that zoning changes in LA since 1960 are many orders of magnitude more important than 7,000 short-term rentals: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HnkwzmO56vU/VQHurofJUUI/AAAAAAAABE...
It's been an honour to have used, experienced open source works of many people. This is my first input to the world of open source, on sharing and collaborating on works with collective experience and innovation.

Having observed curated lists on various technologies (like awesome-react, awesome-angular etc..), I thought a collection of best browser extensions that can be helpful to everybody, would be a good option to work on. I am not quite experienced to judge which ones are best but I made a list of extensions which I felt quite helpful.

Please checkout the project and feel free to suggest or raise issues. I will be happy to receive pull requests.
Biology startup idea:

Since Rhino horn is just like keratin and dirt or something, design a process to create spot-on fake rhino horns and flood the market with them.

You would make lots of money at first and eventually drop the price of rhino horn to the point where it wouldn't be economically feasible to harvest real Rhino horn.
His writings on the subject of the interaction between men and women scream "frustrated virgin." He's full of rage toward women and their place in families and society.
I can't see how a person can have "goodness" without that goodness having a structure which could be studied

If Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance isn't required reading anymore, this could be a sign that it should be.
"it's impossible to profitably mine bitcoins without screwing someone else in the process"

That is not true. Most mining is done professionally in data centers these days, by companies that all pay for their own electricity without screwing anyone:

This is KnC's facility: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/07/10/massi...

This is MegaBigPower: http://www.kplu.org/post/central-wash-home-nations-biggest-b...

21 Inc has a 26 megawatt facility: http://www.coindesk.com/21-intel-bitcoin-mining-strategy/

And so on. They certainly seem to be making a profit; it is much easier to do so nowadays (~5% monthly increases of the difficulty level) compared to last year (30-40% monthly increases).
You might be right, but does Windows 10 Pro include any features that have previously been exclusive to Windows 8/8.1 Pro, such as Bitlocker and Remote Desktop? The wording of the blog post is intentionally obfuscated to not name the technologies that are added to Windows 10 Pro, but I think it's clear they are keeping Bitlocker and Remote Desktop exclusive to the Pro edition from the following:

> Windows 10 Pro helps to effectively and efficiently manage their devices and apps, protect their sensitive business data, support remote and mobile productivity scenarios...

I use Bitlocker and frequently remote from any of my Windows PCs to any of the others. So I have Windows 8.1 Pro installed on (nearly) all of them, at non-trivial cost to me.

I agree with the grandparent that for any home user, there should be one edition, and that one edition should include Bitlocker and Remote Desktop. And any other feature that home enthusiasts and evangelists are likely to want. Microsoft desperately needs to stop punishing its evangelists. Evangelists should be courted and treated well.
There's a great deal of reluctance in the media to use anything but official terms for these things. For a widespread recent example, see the constant usage of "enhanced interrogation" and a complete absence of the word "torture" except when repeating its usage by someone else.
This is just niggling. The post was published yesterday but the event it describes was almost 10 years ago.
I'm fairly sure many consumers will know about Windows 10 Pro though.
I tried the everyman sleep schedule and made my first B+, ruining my 3 year run of straight As as a result of a sleep-deprived test.

I was 3 weeks in and still having trouble waking, and feeling groggy most of the time. I might try it again now that I'm out of school, but my boss will be pissy if I'm sleepy all the time.

That said, I was amazed at how much more I got done. The sense of time dilation comes on really fast. It starts to feel like everyone else is lazy when you describe everything you accomplished in a day or two. I've heard that it gets better after you adjust. We will see.
Is there a (freely available) online dictionary(?) which gives the pronunciation of English words?
Blech, this is not sexy marketing. How do you do a press announcement with no pictures of said greatness? Its pretty pointless to describe your software product with paragraphs.
sure. as a side project there're nothing wrong with it :)

I was just pointing out the pitfalls of lease parsing (i've been bitten by this over the course of time - it looks trivial to do until you look at what isc does under the covers)

side questions:
what happens with 50000 leases?
what about 50000 subnets - do you have support for hierarchically displaying subnets :)
how fast is the whole thing? can you handle malformed input?
So if Windows 10 home and pro are both free upgrades, why are they separate? I get the rest is so they can call their mobile OS the same as they call their desktop OS and segmenting enterprise, but why the home/pro distinction?
Because this way you recognize Firefox everywhere when you see it, that's their reasoning. There was a presentation about it few years ago but I'm too lazy to hunt after the link right now.
Ask HN: What motivates you?
Where do you find your drive and energy?
Curious about your burn rate in Nicaragua and level of safety. Care to share?
The only thing I can agree with and makes any rational sense is that this is grotesque government over reach because some degenerate officials don't like something.

I think this will need to be settled in court, but it is absolutely disgusting to try an apply a hotel tax to someone who is renting out a single place. Sure, classify a company that owns and rents out several places as a hotel, because they are at that point, but don't fucking tell me what I can do with my house on my land. It's disgusting.
> It does. If you are concerned with safety issues, then don't go there.

The 'free market' doesn't address safety well; that's why we have regulations. For example, it's not sufficient to say, 'if you are concerned about the safety of this restaurant's food, don't eat there'. No consumer has enough information to make that judgment reliably, and many consumers have additional challenges (consider the elderly, travelers from other countries who lack English or culture literacy, etc.). Also, the remedy (the Airbnb host gets bad reviews) is too late if someone is injured or loses their property; the system has failed at that point.
No shame in self promo, improving and sharing techniques is something very cool :)
If it's http, it doesn't matter much. You can put a thousand different sites on one (or probably a few) IP and have a load balancer distribute the requests to the appropriate set of backend servers.
You can use Telegram on any device you want at same time. PC, Phone, tablet, you name it.

WhatsApp on the other hand only works in one device (your phone). They released a webchat, that just works as a proxy to connect to your phone. So in order to use the WhatsApp web, you need your phone on and with internet connection.
None of the people who complain about agile offer any viable alternatives. I get the impression that these are developers who simply hate being managed period, and would prefer that management never spoke to them at all.
Congrats Kathryn and Alex!
Sort of, until you realize that 99% of all creatures that have ever lived on Earth are extinct. [1] It's not unnatural for animals to leave the planet and never return, but it's is still sad.

[1] http://www.endangeredspeciesinternational.org/overview.html
> Mind me asking what you use? :)

I find gear lists distasteful so I won't go into much detail about most things, but I will give you an idea of what I have going on.

The thing I mentioned in the post is the OP-1: https://www.teenageengineering.com/products/op-1 (built-in synths, samplers, mic, radio, 4-track, sequencers...) It's my workhorse.

I like sampling, so there's a turntable and cassette deck. I like sampling a lot, so I'm getting another sampler.

I also have a subsynth to cover the areas the OP-1 synths don't. (They're very good, but each is specialized and has only 4 or 8 parameters.)

I also use a cheap (but not noisy) DJ mixer since I only need to mix two channels, and doing cuts with the crossfader when sampling is handy. The rest of it is cables, speakers, headphones and a few things I never use.
Enterprise/Education will only be available through organization based license agreements... not really for individuals. As to Home/Pro, I mostly agree... I wouldn't mind seeing a base version that's effectively Pro... considering the domain is a server license with additional CALs required anyway (SAMBA aside).

That, or just sell the pro services as an upgrade package for windows, instead of a separate OS package... I know it's all in the details, just the same it can/should be more transparent.
New to programming? I've been coding since I was 12 and only recently have I become confident in the procedure to exit emacs.

I shouldn't have said paredit - I thought it had become a general term (is there one?) Most of my experience is with Cursive's 'Structural Editing' (sounds general, but is it?) features, and that's what I had in mind.

I wouldn't give a newcomer emacs (or vi) but I would give them the concept of paredit. The problem with that is fundamentally the keyboard, and it's a problem for the more seasoned of us too. I would kill for a programmable numpad-sized keyboard with removable caps that can be labelled by design so I can have a physical button for the operations I perform most often. I know similar things can be achieved with midi pads, but they're far from perfect. Programmable, configurable keyboards were a thing when I was at school (around the tail of the BBC Micro era) - where did they go?
My prof was also more impressed by my implementing it than by my attempted proofs. (Not the first time this has happened!)

I just implemented it too. I notice that by 100K, you get an intermediate result of size just less than 2^31, but at 1M, you get an intermediate result of size about 2^36. Maybe I went up above 100K.

For more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture#Experimental..., which includes some very nice plots, and a fractal construction when iterating an extension of the map to the complex plane. Whew! (On the other hand, https://xkcd.com/710/)
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4.1 billion people added. Make room! Make room!
> Scam a few cents each from a lot of people....

And the whole thing about customers collecting some of the currency for micropayments seems like a trick to incentivize gullible to prefer devices with this "feature".

RE morality of waste, I must say, you have me here. I need to give it some serious thought. But it feels to me that:

- if you can avoid waste, you should (that would make producers intentionally making wasteful but cheaper products shady, but I do think consumer market is basically flooded by crap and we could use some higher-quality stuff)

- the whole concept of that bitcoin-mining device is malicious, explicitly designed to be taking money from users behind their back, and I think the intent makes this evil
> Yes, and there is a more established community process to get consensus on how people will get along with each other, and mediate any disputes. Many condo buildings have monthly meetings of the owners, for example. Short-term residents have no real investment in being part of a group of neighbors who they get along with long-term.

And speaking as a long-term resident who has no interest in local politics, like who leaves their trash bin by the edge of the road for a day after trash pickup, or whether grass is two inches too long, personally I actively avoid places with a homeowner's association.
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The idea that we should temper our outrage at government misbehavior based on how much the target seemed to deserve it is an unbelievably dangerous one.

We should be just as outraged when the government violates the rights of a total scumbag as we are when they violate the rights of an upstanding citizen. To do anything less is to make a total lie of the idea that we have any rights at all.

Imagine if the government censored a movie and the response was, well, before we get all outraged at this blatant violation of freedom of speech, what if the movie was about really bad stuff? Well, there's no point in "freedom of speech" if it only protects the things everybody likes.
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That seems rather irrelevant to the issue at hand. That is a contractual dispute. What, are you going to write regulation that people have to disclose their cat ownership in case of allergies?
I find a lot of irony in people's anecdotal "I did the uberman sleep schedule, it works."

Key word: did. As in, past tense. Clearly it does not work better than the alternatives, or you'd still be doing it. Don't mistake short-term survival for long-term viability.
Yay, I'm in Victoria :)
In something that's novel and makes a difference. Everything else is drudgery (even if it pays the bills).
The funny thing is, they expect everyone else to put their corporate data in their datacenters! Google has an extremely one-sided view of where data should go. (In all cases, directly to their servers.)
It's a bit like when you have a survey and you have 5 or 6 options ranging from 'hate it' and 'love it'.

The difference is often very small and just adds not really necessary options which makes making a choice harder.

How about checking if a user downvoted more than e.g. average number of comments on some post, resulting in his downvotes carrying very little weight if it is true. Unless it's being done already.
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Right - the noise has already happened, though.

To choose a more permanent example - property damage. If the tourist damages the property, you make the property owner pay for repairs. OK. Maybe AirBnB can help the property owner track down the tourist to get the money for repairs, maybe not. But the point is that the damage still happened in the first place - a longer term tenant that faces their neighbours every day would be far less likely to have done the damage in the first place.
This short article about a rhino made me curiously sad. I'm not a die-hard animal lover, but it just somehow seems allegorical to many of humanity's problems...
Even if Drexler is wrong, nanotechnology will have far-reaching impacts
That's not correct - Tech Preview already shows the version 10.0.build#

Conceptually Windows 10 would/could have been 6.4, but it isn't.
Interesting. Did you click their link before clicking on the original WSJ link? I'm wondering if they try to detect people using this workaround when they hit the paywall or something.
No, he said that these things "can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of the political parties."

That is not the same thing as saying that they are indefensible.
I guess it seems odd to say that it's CP if the system is in an inconsistent state during a partition. What I'm getting at is that as users of the system, we are not happy to accept work until we have evidence that the work is verified by multiple different nodes of the system. While one node might accept transactions, as clients, we ourselves only "accept" those transactions once we observe that the system as a whole is consistent. Since the system does not "do work" for us while there is a partition, I'm saying that it's more CP than AP.
I still don't get it. Cloud services are a recent thing, and they are bringing hundreds of servers online every day. This is prime territory for ipv6.