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by beat 8y ago
That's where it breaks down. If you strip the Scrum-Industrial Complex nonsense away, one of the basic concepts of Scrum planning is that the business gets to define the stories, and the developers get to assign the points (or whatever
842.
by beat 8y ago
Another bit of wisdom I got from Kent Beck is that there are three basic controls to every project... schedule, scope, and resources. You can only control two of them. And resources are generally fixed at the beginning of the project(1), so
843.
by beat 8y ago
Done that, too. I actually tried a startup in the monitoring space, but sadly failed (it was great fun losing $100k or so, tho... well worth the experience!). But the automation needs problem is more a consultancy thing than a product thing
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by beat 8y ago
It's not management's job to understand details of the code (and it's probably a problem if they do). And it's not their problem to understand the business perfectly (and it's probably a problem if they do). It&#x27
845.
by beat 8y ago
Yeah, I know. And I've read the book. But I work in enterprise devops. This is the reality of many, many teams. Which means there's a lot of unnecessary process that needs to get tossed and a lot of automation that needs to be bui
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by beat 8y ago
Decent iterations cannot be done without immediate management playing defense, period. As long as anyone is allowed to interrupt the iteration, then iterations are just going through the motions and won't solve any actual problems -
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by beat 8y ago
Yes, small releases are a huge part of making this work. "We can't do short iterations because iterations are so much work!" is the core of resistance. Something's going to go wrong, and we have this heavy bloated religi
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by beat 8y ago
One oddball case does not a "critical" make. That's part of it. Not every bug is a critical bug. Not every bug is worth wrecking your iteration over. And if you're seeing critical bugs that wreck iterations on a regular
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by beat 8y ago
This is another time to ask uncomfortable questions. Why are issues coming up in the middle of the iteration that "take higher priority"? Why can't they wait? Is it a production bug? If it is, can it wait ? Just because it
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by beat 8y ago
Apply the five whys. Why do you have a critical bug in the production release? Is is environment-specific? Did the released code not match requirements? Or were the requirements themselves wrong? It's not "What do you do about c
851.
by beat 8y ago
I am so used to getting downvoted for saying true things that don't fit the HN groupthink.
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by beat 8y ago
To be antipretentious, what about improvisation? It's an important part of many styles of music, and is a form of composition/performance.
853.
by beat 8y ago
Can I plead the fifth?
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by beat 8y ago
It's not so much red vs blue as state policy. Iowa has even more wind power than MN, and it's a lot more red. SD is definitely backwards in that regard. edit: Correcting myself, SD is getting 30% of its electricity from wind now.
855.
by beat 8y ago
"That's impossible!", say a whole lot of people who prefer their beliefs to measurable, objective reality.
856.
by beat 8y ago
I haven't seen serious blowback on our wind farms, and I live in MN. It's generally well embraced by the vast majority of the public and the political system.
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by beat 8y ago
12Gw == 12,000Mw. Off a quick lookup, 2Mw of wind requires 1.5 acres of land. A little arithmetic, some rounding up, and we need, say, 10,000 acres of wind power, around 15 square miles. But you'll raise an objection, so double that. A
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by beat 8y ago
Most buildings aren't new. They're old. My house is over 100 years old, and it could still be standing in another 100 years. The neighborhood is mostly these old houses, and lots of the people living here are retirees or young cou
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by beat 8y ago
If it was economically viable, it would be done. Forget the US and complaining about the darn treehuggers. Look at countries that don't particularly care about the environment. Russia gets about 20% of its power from nuclear, and is cu
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by beat 8y ago
Demanding a TOTAL ENERGY SOLUTION OR NOTHING is an endemic problem in these comments. Partial solutions rock.
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by beat 8y ago
Barter is even more of an absurdist corner case than Sowell's beach houses. It doesn't contribute to the question of whether UBI will grow the economy. Ok, let's take this from another angle. Does bankruptcy at a large scale
862.
by beat 8y ago
I have a 2011 MBP too. It's basically retired to desktop-only status, due to a dying keyboard (which had a good life, I'm not complaining) and a dying hinge. I don't want to risk $3000 on another Macbook that might be nothing
863.
by beat 8y ago
I'm not so sure. Right now, everyone uses the popup because there isn't an alternative. If there's an alternative, popup use will go down some - but how much?
864.
by beat 8y ago
Most of the internet is clickbait these days.
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by beat 8y ago
Without money to move, there is no economic growth. There are supply-side problems, and demand-side problems. Sowell's example is woefully incomplete. He's talking only of limited, unique physical goods. He's not talking abou
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by beat 8y ago
I'm round-numbering. Median individual income in the US is a bit over $30k, adding $12k to that is roughly a third. And your claim, which is nonsense, is that the VAT will eat 100% of that $12k.
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by beat 8y ago
Think about the math. Is a VAT actually going to take a third of the income of the average wage earner? No, no it will not.
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by beat 8y ago
All economic growth comes from money moving somewhere. It just seems absurd to me to think "may not result in any growth at all". Money in the hands of the poor and middle class moves faster than money in the hands of the rich, an
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by beat 8y ago
If you'd come in at the same point in the cycle in 2015, you'd have gotten the same blank stares for Bernie Sanders. Or in 2003, none would have known who Howard Dean was. Of course, six months later, Dean completely dominated the
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by beat 8y ago
Median income is currently a bit over $30k. I can't see how you can make the assumption that increasing median income by 30% or so would not result in extreme economic growth. There's nothing automagical about it. It's plai

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