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by vannevar 2y ago
>Apart from the impact on team motivation and the incentive to inflate estimates... Why would story points affect team motivation, and why would a team have any incentive to inflate estimates? The team isn't judged externally by the
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by vannevar 2y ago
Story points are also "an approximation of size/dimensions." If my team has consistently deployed 25-35 story points per sprint for the last three sprints, it's reasonable for me to assume that next sprint they will also
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by vannevar 2y ago
But at that point you should be at a higher level of abstraction, looking at the number of sprints that will probably be needed to clear the backlog (hopefully understanding that the backlog itself should always be regarded as incomplete).
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by vannevar 2y ago
One is a fuzzy and subjective measure of how much software a team can develop in a sprint, the other is a precise measurement in a single dimension. I could sit there and try to calculate how many expertise-adjusted person-hours each team m
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by vannevar 2y ago
>My experience is that story points get a bad rep because they don't mean anything unless you use them as an explicit proxy for time. So when you shop for clothes, Small/Medium/Large are useless? You require precise measur
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by vannevar 2y ago
Just because they're not time, doesn't mean you don't want to add them. Imagine you have an empty basket, and you're not sure how much fruit you can toss in it. So the first time, you just start tossing stuff in until it
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by vannevar 2y ago
>In terms of having utility of estimating how long something will take, I personally have never been able to translate story points into a reliable indicator for that for many reasons (e.g team changing, domain changing, variability in o
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by vannevar 2y ago
Not a fake mission to Mars, but a Hollywood movie about a fake mission to Mars.
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by vannevar 3y ago
If it's really true that they only needed a "cursor streaming binary file feed with a very limited set of functionality", then why claim in the headline they wrote their own database and begin the article with the observation
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by vannevar 3y ago
>For an efficient enough company, a project like this needs just one or two dedicated engineers. Maybe for a research project or a hobby project, but not for a real, high performance database to be used in a business-critical application
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by vannevar 3y ago
If you read The Lean Startup, you'll have the answer to your question. AI startups don't generally provide AI, they solve some problem using AI. Now, if the only advantage your AI startup has is that your solution costs less at
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by vannevar 3y ago
I understand the point, I just disagree with your hypothesis. The automotive market was overwhelmingly dominated by a few massive players. Tesla pushed into that market with innovation, not mass marketing. Do they even have advertising now?
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by vannevar 3y ago
The automotive market before Tesla, the smartphone market before the iPhone, bookstores before Amazon, social media before TikTok, etc. And those are just high profile examples, there are thousands of new businesses launched every year into
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by vannevar 3y ago
With reports of a federal criminal investigation under way, very suspect. Civil judgments and penalties are one thing, the possibility of prison time is a whole different level of motivation.
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by vannevar 3y ago
Not only do they receive money for hosting the ad, they actually select the potential scam victims for the scammer and preferentially display the ad to the people that are algorithmically determined to be most vulnerable to the scam. It has
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by vannevar 3y ago
A simpler solution would be to eliminate the downvote entirely. As the poster points out, it doesn't add much to the site. Mathematically, it just increases the contrast between favored and disfavored posts---the same thing could be do
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by vannevar 3y ago
Facebook is not "being overrun." Facebook is collaborating with a variety of scammers and manipulators to promote fraud, racism, sexual innuendo, and misinformation to their users. Facebook is getting paid to promote spam content
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by vannevar 3y ago
The innovation test they use relies heavily on reasoning, something that the stock LLMs tested are known to be deficient in. Adding reasoning to large language models is an active research area (see e.g. https://arxiv.org/ab
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by vannevar 3y ago
If you're a major on-line ad distributor like Google/Meta, and broadcast malicious ads to consumers... It's actually worse than that. If they were neutrally broadcasting, they'd at least have the argument that they wer
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by vannevar 3y ago
You've answered your own question here. It's not so much about what precludes you from selling something digitally, as it is about what precludes that person from simply making copies and distributing them for the marginal compute
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by vannevar 3y ago
Yes, I thought you were pretty clear on this: >To a layman, purchased means "I bought the thing" not "I bought an ephermeral license to the thing".
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by vannevar 3y ago
Yeah, they definitely pretend you've purchased the content. But you've only purchased a license, and even the license is so weak that it effectively says "you can use this as long as we arbitrarily decide you can, and we can
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by vannevar 3y ago
The way the law is currently structured, there is no such thing as digital ownership, only licensing. And since there is an enormous disparity in negotiating power between consumers and massive copyright owners, the prevailing licensing ter
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by vannevar 3y ago
Back in the late 70s/early 80s there was a nuclear reactor simulator for the Atari 400/800 personal computers called SCRAM. I played it on my 400 when I was in high school. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scram_
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by vannevar 3y ago
They might be telling that to the administration, but the problem is apparently not so severe as to get them to drop their prices. I'll believe them when I see deep dealer discounts on EVs.
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by vannevar 3y ago
Hypocrisy is spending billions of dollars to convince people to buy sugar water and then complaining about their weight. I guess you could call it savvy, but I think predatory is a more apt description.
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by vannevar 3y ago
It seems unlikely that everyone learns at an identical rate, and the article itself seems to contradict that conclusion: "The fastest quarter of students improved their accuracy on each concept (or knowledge component) by about 2.6 per
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by vannevar 3y ago
Even if you assume that the value of fast food workers has not increased but has remained flat, the Federal minimum wage has declined over time in real dollars. So this is just an overdue correction. The companies chose to raise prices rath
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by vannevar 3y ago
Other examples of "luxury beliefs" not mentioned by the author include the idea that all the poor need to do is work harder, and the idea that unregulated capitalism provides the best outcome for all.
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by vannevar 3y ago
Unfortunately, neither finished software nor durable hardware are compatible with the imperative for growth that firms operate under in a capitalist system with unlimited marketing. Once the market is saturated, next year's revenue mus

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