myth2018

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by myth2018 6y ago
I started again to use RSS and Atom feeds last week. I used to use facebook as an aggregator, but its curated list has become too poisoned since the pandemics and "political outbreaks" that followed. The algorithms noticed that I&
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by myth2018 6y ago
In automotive, aircraft and many other industries, it's commonplace for them to manage multiple concerns and balance them more or less at the same level of importance. Comfort, internal space, manufacturability, safety, and so many oth
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by myth2018 6y ago
I agree and I think your ideas form a good model to explain so many issues we've been facing more and more often. Some days ago I wrote here in HN about the change my stock broker made on their default home broker. It immediately becom
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by myth2018 6y ago
I've made a comment some minutes ago about the difference between estimates and plans. Making the client aware of the difference may be useful. However, it's also a fact that most clients ask for being deceived. I've seen tha
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by myth2018 6y ago
I'm not at all experienced on the subject, but, so far, the mindset I liked most is the one presented on "Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art": one must be aware about the difference between an estimate and a plan
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by myth2018 6y ago
I think the slides are great, I've just learned something new and I got interested on knowing more about Alexander's work. Also, I've got that the point is that we need to take a fresh look at Alexander. But one thing I never
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by myth2018 6y ago
I think there's no single answer. I usually experiment with different methods and stick for a bit longer with the one showing the best results. But I often get "saturated" and, when I feel I reached a plateau, I start to try
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by myth2018 6y ago
How so? You could structure your IT department as a flat organization (and I think it's indeed a good idea), but how would you fully adopt agile principles when they consider users as part of the team? How would you favor interactions
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by myth2018 6y ago
> Agile/Scrum is great if done properly. and, I'd like to point out, Agile/Scrum is great IF applied on suitable organizations/projects. Some projects are too big by nature and, regardless of how much resources are av
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by myth2018 6y ago
> Manifestos do more harm then good because their vagueness enables reinterpretation. That totally relates to my experience. I've seen this scene repeated over and over: - project begins - something happens and delays the project (a
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by myth2018 6y ago
The pros and cons are typically thought of as intrinsic properties of Agile in general. But they are not. Agile has a number of assumptions regarding organizational culture and the people involved on the project. Those assumptions are usual
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by myth2018 6y ago
Harbour is really interesting and, last time I saw it some years ago, its development was pretty active. I have already messed around a bit with Harbour and even wrote some small tools for personal use. I was pretty happy with the combinati
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by myth2018 6y ago
And even if your application needs to show graphics, you could easily do that on a separate, graphics-enabled pop-up window, while the forms, tables etc. would still be rendered by the TUI engine.
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by myth2018 6y ago
Indeed, and this "back to the TUI" I advocate isn't restricted to developer tools. I actually think of such replacement with end users in mind. Maybe not necessarily something as radical as terminals, but anything providing t
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by myth2018 6y ago
> We need to get back to native UIs. Is it awfully hard? Yes it is. Do the users care? No, they don't. Many people want fast UIs. I wouldn't say native UIs necessarily, IMO, but I definitely agree that something has to change.
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by myth2018 6y ago
Indeed, but you are thinking on the business/supplier side. My point is that while many said by the time that smokers would simply not comply, especially considering how difficult it would be for the government to enforce such law. How
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by myth2018 6y ago
Actually, I don't agree that this isn't true. I just say this isn't _necessarily_ true, since other factors beyond the firearm policy must be taken in account. Then, brazilian data could be applied to other countries, provide
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by myth2018 6y ago
The comparisons show that the amount of firearms alone doesn't explain the number of deaths.
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I would put poverty and income disparities on the first positions. Countries like USA have a huge prison population and they still face high crime rates on some regions. I suspect that historic criminality may play an important role too, si
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by myth2018 6y ago
I don't want to sound harsh, seriously, but the participation in the topic is voluntary, and many commenters here are backing their opinions with data and reasoning. I think the debate here is going pretty sane and technical.
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by myth2018 6y ago
In my opinion, those homicide rates shouldn't be compared directly and quantitatively. I'm not aware of the other countries but, in Brazil, homicides are mainly caused by imbalances of power between different criminal organization
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by myth2018 6y ago
On the other hand, forbidding smoking in indoor spaces in Brazil significantly reduced the number of smokers. It's complicated.
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by myth2018 6y ago
I would agree with you if and only if firearms were a good defense mechanism when it comes to citizens dealing with day-to-day crime. Experience shows that, on such situations, firearms are good for attacking but terrible for defending. It
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by myth2018 6y ago
There are some other important variables that differ between Brazil and Switzerland. Poverty, income inequalities, just to name a few. So it's hard to apply the same logic. Also, most of the industrialized nations didn't adopt the
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by myth2018 6y ago
I disagree with you about a particular point. It hasn't actually been virtually impossible to legally own a gun. In fact, since the bill passed, the number of legal guns has increased substantially, especially along the last three or f
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by myth2018 6y ago
There might be some comparable points, but I believe that the overall social situation and the extensive activity of violent criminal organizations in the latter make those two countries hardly comparable in general.
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by myth2018 6y ago
What concerns me most about studies like these, which correlate guns vs deaths, is that there are a number of other VERY important variables which affects the death by firearms rate. The banning in Brazil has definitely decreased the death
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by myth2018 6y ago
I've had the opportunity of participating on the design phase of an application to control the distribution of ostomy bags for a network of public hospitals. I was a bit shocked when I knew that the decision-makers were about to cut fu
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by myth2018 6y ago
Thank you so much for the information. In case you have any links to share about how DSN works, I'd appreciate. And thank you also for mentioning coherent averaging. I'm more or less familiar with the concept but I've been tr
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by myth2018 6y ago
Yes, you can. There are a number of supressed-carrier modes, e.g. single side band.

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