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by anthonyb 14y ago
Google, please.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Time (of stories) is measured in points. You won't be talking about a 10 story sprint.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
No it's not. It's pretty well documented in the scientific literature that making people who've mastered something (eg. doctors, airline pilots) work from intuition a lot of the time, so following a set of prescriptive rules inhibits their
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by anthonyb 14y ago
No - because you're not the business owner and don't decide what order things go in the backlog. A better way is to just give a sufficiently large estimate: "That's 100 points* due to risk and uncertainty." If they want a more detailed esti
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by anthonyb 14y ago
In terms what they can do, Ruby and Python are very similar, yet Python generates about 1/100th the drama of the Ruby community. I'd say that points very strongly at ego, or at least the culture of the community. If that doesn't convince yo
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by anthonyb 14y ago
If you replace "are incredibly passionate" with "have incredibly huge egos" then I'd agree with you. I don't see much of this happening in the Python or Clojure community - they're all too busy programming.
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or their infographics...
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Surely buckling strength applies when you're taking off as much as when you're landing?
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Yep. Rule 11: Don't be a prickly, annoying, condescending, passive-aggressive git. aka. be liberal about your inputs, and strict about your outputs.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
No, because everything along these lines that appears on the front page gets killed. It's one of the major flaws of HN imo - a huge lack of transparency.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
There's also some more information here: https://lobste.rs/s/bkeYe9/about_lobsters
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by anthonyb 14y ago
update: I think the most striking thing about watching that pinch to zoom thing is that he's doing it idly while thinking/talking about something else - it's no big deal for him. I suspect that he's been using gestures like it for quite a
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by anthonyb 14y ago
It's a civil suit - they're not "breaking the law" since there's no clear right or wrong answer until you get to court.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
And yet Apple's legal team suggested that Samsung build smartphones and tablets without rounded corners in order to avoid being sued: http://www.pcworld.com/article/245493/apple_to_samsung_dont_... Legal brief here - section 2-40 (p 10):
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Well, you'll see what you want to see, I guess - but 50 seconds into http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmmxVA5xhuo&feature=playe... He makes a pinch gesture, and the circle on the CRT gets bigger and smaller. If that's not pinch to zoom,
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by anthonyb 14y ago
He's not explicitly saying that there's a correlation though, is he?
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Can you point me to where it says this in the article? Because I don't see it - he mentions talking to people from "all walks of life", but that's different to having no correlation.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Well if you stay biologically 22 forever, who's to say that your brain won't remain plastic? Also, you form new neurons throughout your life, not just when you're a baby. If you're learning new stuff, those neurons stick around.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
There may be some long-term bias going on here. It would be interesting to see what correlation there is between current age and preferred age of death. You'll might find that 60 year olds (with death only 20 years away) would answer differ
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by anthonyb 14y ago
I think security of data is where a lot of the open source networks have fallen down. (I'm thinking Diaspora and their SSL-encypted node). Because you shouldn't be trying to close the analog hole, it's essentially impossible (just look at s
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by anthonyb 14y ago
But not a problem with the tone or content of the original article? Maybe it's because I'm Australian, but if the OP is a wanker, I don't see a problem with calling him on it.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
On the contrary - I thought it was a pretty accurate description of the article, especially when you have statements like: Expect to spend 2 to 3 years learning how the company works, though it may be longer before opportunities arise
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by anthonyb 14y ago
If you're only a suspect, and haven't been charged, you don't have to talk to the police at all. Picking a venue seems minor in comparison.
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Amnesty International != The UK government
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Not to mention a much cheaper game and extra goodies like early beta access or shiny ingame stuff.
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TA Spring is fairly easily scriptable in Lua. A lot of the good players on multiplayer have scripts which will (eg.) skirmish and keep out of range of enemy defenses. Might be worth a look?
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by anthonyb 14y ago
And if you didn't have two monitors? Little icons zooming around. IMO, the best thing about TA and TA:Spring is the explosions - when you're under attack, you really know it. Supreme Commander lost all of that feel once you got more than a
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Non-violent action is far more effective than civil war.
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And then spend the next year supporting it because people have paid 99c and feel that they can now demand support instead of asking for it? No thanks.
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Engineers typically go the other way though: always write email and never meet. Then they wonder why their project goes south because the specs are incomplete or the users aren't happy. I think it's largely a knee-jerk reaction against

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