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by buff-a 15y ago
I don’t even know what I am working for at the moment since everything seems so unpredictable. Every feature that I design and code may just get changed or scraped upon completion. Even if I do complete it, when am I going to get paid for
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by buff-a 15y ago
And indeed the market has spoken, and most android developers have listened: Apps Should Be Free(mium). That's the difference between startups and Big Music. Startups figure out how to make money out of free apps.
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by buff-a 15y ago
so surely if it is possible to develop a processor which is so much better than x86 then why don't they already exist? Suppose I invented a new chip that was awesome for gaming, spreadsheets, word processing, databases and power consumpti
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by buff-a 15y ago
That you claim that this is far from trivial would seem to support his argument.
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by buff-a 15y ago
There are number of classic failure modes for Scrum. One of them is to not have a Product Backlog at all, or to only plan it out a few weeks. Since you claim that in your experience, Scrum de-emphasizes forward thought and big-picture think
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by buff-a 15y ago
What good is a methodology that gets so often misimplemented? Scrum is simple. Its not misimplemented because its complicated. Its misimplemented because organizations are fundamentally not good at developing software. Scrum just puts it
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by buff-a 15y ago
Scrum is designed to empower the business, not the developer What do you mean by "empower the business"? I assume you don't believe that a non sentient legal entity can be empowered. In which case can I assume you are talking about empowe
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by buff-a 15y ago
Well, either people are doing Scrum right, and it isn't working, or they are trying to do Scrum but failing. Which is it? Is it the case that no matter what situation is presented, a Scrum zealot can always find a reason to say "Ah, you're
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by buff-a 15y ago
Some people say that this should never happen – once the Sprint is planned, it’s sacred, and that any changes to it need full team buy-in – any significant number of changes need a complete replan of the Sprint. I’ve not seen this so far i
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by buff-a 15y ago
And it has a browser that renders on the cloud. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u7F_56WhHk&feature=playe...
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by buff-a 15y ago
Well my C# libraries on github have got some fucking catching up to do.
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by buff-a 15y ago
Lets hope none of them create a device with four rounded corners, and common design principles like equidistant spacing.
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by buff-a 15y ago
When I was asked to justify flagging this code Good grief. You are in a sorry environment. What are you doing there? I will fire anyone that writes code like that and checks it in, and then fire anyone who objects to me flagging it in a c
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by buff-a 15y ago
Indeed. If you want a kid to learn to ride a bike, remove the fear of failure. Do it on a gently sloping grassy hill that levels out, for example. When I first learned to ice skate I learned that falling on ice fucking hurts. I didn't learn
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by buff-a 15y ago
Clearly you have free will. You have chosen to give the meme influence. Still a meme. Still influence. EDIT: And in fact, you may not have free will in this case. If you have free will, why is it that most Christian children have Christian
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by buff-a 15y ago
Thanks. I put it to you, however, that the activities you have listed: a) you do because your organization told you to do them. b) are effective at maintaining your membership of the organization. That is, these activities, ritual
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by buff-a 15y ago
Does this apply to Congresspersons?
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by buff-a 15y ago
THIS. And in fact because of this, religions actively cause poverty and hardship.
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by buff-a 15y ago
What is their purpose?
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by buff-a 15y ago
Great, informative read. Have to complain about this bit tho: But learning from experience is the worst possible way to learn something. Learning from experience is one up from remembering. That's not great. The best way to learn something
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by buff-a 15y ago
I would like to buy your friends' iPads if they are not using them. Please have them put them on ebay or craigslist.
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by buff-a 15y ago
If there is one thing that readers of HN should appreciate, it is the value of Influence. Facebook had value simply because it could put a message in front of 500 million people. Organized Religion's primary purpose is Influence. Argue that
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by buff-a 15y ago
You did it just there with that "AND". Clearly not that hard.
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by buff-a 15y ago
They don't appear to be making any value judgments, at least from what I read in the article. If you have an entity that provides a charitable purpose, and nothing else, then you get lower costs. If you have an entity that is involved in so
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by buff-a 15y ago
Were these for- profit companies suddenly to decide that churches were not eligible for their largesse, the lunch program would almost certainly be shut down. Perhaps to be replaced by secular organizations, instead of organizations that
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by buff-a 15y ago
It emphasizes separating logic from presentation: it is impossible to embed application logic in this template language. StringTemplate for C++ then. http://www.stringtemplate.org/ Its distinguishing characteristic is that it strictly
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by buff-a 15y ago
Bought by hard and soft dollars, disloyal, incompetent, and wasteful interests have usurped our nation’s civil and military power, spawning a host of threats to liberty and national security This is true. So If I were such interests, I wo
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by buff-a 15y ago
Microsoft and Sony are direct competitors with XBox and Playstation and they have a history of doing the exact opposite of each other. Unity3D is a third party system, in the same way Unreal Engine is, and what third parties do isn't surpri
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by buff-a 15y ago
He's changed it =) This is what it said originally: That means they would like to know if there are any problems where the answer cannot easily be found by a computer, but if someone says he has the answer, it is easy to use a computer to
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by buff-a 15y ago
My 2c: Don't write "Problems in P", write "P Problems". Also you definition of "why its interesting" conflicts with the other Wikipedia page which says: The P versus NP problem is a major unsolved problem in computer science. Informally, i

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