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by Ovid 13y ago
Relevant: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2213
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by Ovid 13y ago
This is a one-hour "short version" of the talk that I gave as a keynote at a conference in Germany: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnUD8ed3-ok There are a couple of issues with that talk. It wasn't structured
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by Ovid 13y ago
That's a long and complicated story. The short answer is "we don't know". One company that hired me complained that every agile trainer they've spoken with has done a terrible job of explaining the role of managemen
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by Ovid 13y ago
I'm happy you used the military as an example because I'm talking about markets. A military is precisely the place where a command-and-control structure is paramount. They do not have, and should not have "price signals&quo
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by Ovid 13y ago
Internally Valve forms temporary hierarchies to shepherd projects along and there are also anecdotal accounts from ex-Valve employees that things aren't as "egalitarian" inside as they claim and that some people with seniorit
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by Ovid 13y ago
I have a huge section in my talks all about how Valve makes this work. They're damned impressive.
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by Ovid 13y ago
This is probably one of the hardest things for many companies to grasp today. One of the things I do for a living is give full-day presentations to companies looking at Agile from a "strategic" position. In short, companies often
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by Ovid 13y ago
You are absolutely correct. That being said, I "disliked" COBOL as I used to be a mainframe programmer. It's a foul, foul language, but ironically, owes much of its success to that (long story).
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A Beginner's Guide to Moving Abroad(overseas-exile.com)
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by Ovid 13y ago
More and more of our data is being stored online. Many things that you might want to keep confidential is nonetheless behind a poorly designed "firewall" of passwords. That's the problem. Demanding that someone never forget
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by Ovid 13y ago
A little brother using Chrome regularly won't know about keyloggers, how to write a clever bookmarklet, or even be allowed to be around when his big sister is typing in her password. But there's a good chance he does know about
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Ask HN: Best Agile process for using with continuous delivery?
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by Ovid 13y ago
Agreed. I've spoken at quite a few conferences, including a couple of talks at OSCON. While I've been to disorganized conferences, I've never been to one that would have treated me so poorly.
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How to fake a database design(blogs.perl.org)
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by Ovid 13y ago
As the author of the original blog post, this is good to know. When I have some more time, I'll get around to contacting you if you're willing to do a similar interview.
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Should voter intimidation laws apply to political parties and party-line votes?(dailykos.com)
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by Ovid 13y ago
More information at: http://mashable.com/2013/07/12/snowden-russia-asylum/
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Snowden to apply for asylum in Russia and then travel to South America(cri.ch)
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by Ovid 13y ago
SVN is in that URL: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3567-a-refresher-course-in-em... Does 37signals still use SVN and uses it to host their content directly?
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Swedish Copyright industry gets fee for consoles sold since they MIGHT infringe(falkvinge.net)
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A look at startups using Perl: The Lacuna Expanse(blogs.perl.org)
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Homeland Security considering weaponized drones to immobilize targets(blog.syracuse.com)
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by Ovid 13y ago
If true, then you have a valid point. What a sorry state the US is in that nuances like this are considered.
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by Ovid 13y ago
It's horrifying. Might as well force-feed them pork. And the US knows that this is illegal, too: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/05/forcefee...
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Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) force-fed under standard Guantánamo Bay procedure(guardian.co.uk)
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by Ovid 13y ago
Depends on whether or not the states check it for validity and my knowledge is so out of date that I can't say if they do. You'd have to avoid any SSN which exists in an illegal range and you'd want the first three numbers to
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by Ovid 13y ago
What license number? Making an interstate license request is one thing, but all of the following are acceptable: - State-issued driver's license - State/city/county ID card - Student ID - Government employment badge or card -
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by Ovid 13y ago
The SSDI is based on a self-reporting mechanism. If you acquired the birth certificate of someone who had never acquired a social security number or whose death had not been reported, it shouldn't be in the SSDI. Thus, while it might b
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by Ovid 13y ago
Source: a long time ago I read several books on this topic because I collected odd books and I found three of them in an estate sale. The instructions below are how this was done in the early 90's and earlier, but today, with increased
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by Ovid 13y ago
I agree with much of what you say, but I'm not sure I agree that "Americans won't accept that". - Obama has a secret "kill list" and has bragged about killing Americans without due process of law. - We have wid

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