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by vpeters25 12y ago
What if I tell you in exchange for 5 mins everyday you no longer have to attend any other daily/weekly meetings? Does it sound like a good trade off? > I had multiple other meetings daily but I felt these had more utility as they we
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by vpeters25 12y ago
Let me clarify: no team member should be working more than ONE TASK at a time. You can manage multiple small projects just fine this way. I just left a place where the team was doing just that. > Not everything fits into scrum. You are a
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by vpeters25 12y ago
Did you have to attend other meetings during the week besides the daily standup? 15 min is the limit of the standup but it should rarely get to that. A well run scrum team does daily standups in less than 5 minutes. In agile, the team self
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by vpeters25 12y ago
> The biggest gripe I have with daily stand-ups and I am sure there are others (including the author) who agree with me on this: they often run over and turn into meetings/debates. In my last job we rotated scrummasters every iterat
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by vpeters25 12y ago
I think it's actually the opposite: everybody is invited to the daily standup, even the janitor if she/he so pleases... but only developers can talk. I sell the daily standup to the developers as a tradeoff: we do a quick daily me
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by vpeters25 12y ago
I think they should: traffic through the Great Firewall of China has been compromised, it's getting injected with malware and therefore cannot be trusted. Browsers and all safe browsing software should treat any traffic through the Gre
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by vpeters25 12y ago
Confirming it works fine on ubuntu 14.04. Bought it on steam yesterday, been playing it since.
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by vpeters25 12y ago
> The future holds more use cases. Remote surgery, autonomous vehicles etc etc. This is the main argument Marc Cuban uses to justify his opposition to net neutrality and I think it's nonsense: any critical or life-threatening system
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by vpeters25 12y ago
I think you are missing the big picture: it is not about the net but about free flow of ideas (free speech). With these new rules governments can now decide which services are qualified as "specialized", with this they can for exa
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by vpeters25 12y ago
My lawnmower sat unused for about 4 years in a shed. Last year I tried to use it and gas leaked all around it. The ethanol left in the tank had eaten out all the little plastic pieces and seals in the ignition system.
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by vpeters25 12y ago
I've seen these before. Not sure it's the same, but in my case it was an elaborate way of follow-spam: they followed each other and a few levels deep there is a master node which tweets the spam link, all the others retweet it.
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by vpeters25 12y ago
I usually just ask the questions from the Joel Test. If they score high enough I get to other questions specific to their company. Back to OP: I personally don't see myself working for a place that needs to talk to me for more than 1 h
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by vpeters25 12y ago
btw, I took a look at google's cert in my corp network and we are getting the real one from google, so my corp is not MiTM SSL traffic from some sites right now.
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by vpeters25 12y ago
I usually start with an "it works" test that calls each method with expected inputs and asserts an expected result. The expected result most of the time is that it didn't throw an exception. I found that such tests usually co
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by vpeters25 12y ago
> Perhaps the biggest sin is showing me stuff I have already watched This please, if someone from Netflix is reading, please remove movies already watched from all but the "watch again" category. Also please put back "rand
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by vpeters25 12y ago
The goal is to slow them down, put as many barriers as possible allowing higher chances of detecting them. Intercepting and blocking known "phone home" messages is one way to slow them down.
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by vpeters25 12y ago
Correct, the firewall intercepts all traffic looking for potential compromises and blocks it. Given all these corporations getting hacked, such measures seem necessary.
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by vpeters25 12y ago
The company I work for has a strict policy of no direct outbound connections from the corporate network. This is to prevent (or just make harder) for compromised machines from "phoning home". This has the unfortunate side effect t
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by vpeters25 12y ago
At least in my case the apps for Netflix and Amazon get a lot of use. Netflix support was one of the key features I wanted when purchasing my current SmartTV.
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by vpeters25 12y ago
Could someone with legal background please explain the concept of "protected speech"? I thought the Constitution is "where the buck stops", the Supreme Law. It takes precedent over any law, legal theory, precedent, tradi
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by vpeters25 12y ago
There are many ways to deal with that if it becomes an issue. One way that has worked well for us is to nominate a rotating "support guy" who handles the interruptions, attend meetings, etc.
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by vpeters25 12y ago
Maybe you could try an agile approach where instead of assigning tasks you put them in a board and allow each team member pick the one they like to do. Our experience is this makes each team member pick tasks that fit their strengths, or ch
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by vpeters25 12y ago
I had managers yell at me when at the sprint review meeting we realize we were going the wrong way and decide to scrap some of the work of the last few weeks... Imagine politicians with a stake in the project's failure hearing that: th
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by vpeters25 12y ago
The article reads like a pro-copyright/pro-SOPA hit piece, I would take it with a grain of salt. I don't see anything too evil here, just reasonable business decision forced to them by the ridiculous copyright framework. Google ca
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by vpeters25 12y ago
Same here, if you ask anybody in South America if there is a something like Comcast in their country they will all answer Telefónica without thinking. Telefónica bought pretty much every South American national phone monopoly when the count
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by vpeters25 12y ago
> This is happening faster than people think, especially religious people as they can't see out of their bubble. I'm no psychologist but I think it might be pretty hard to break yourself out of a religion that makes you perform
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by vpeters25 12y ago
I think there are infinite ways to "meditate". Even coding "in the zone" could qualify as a form of meditation helping you to reach what they call enlightenment. Focusing on something (chants, breath, nostrils, etc) seem
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by vpeters25 12y ago
> Despite the claims of marketers everywhere, lag can't be eliminated. I understand Mercedes "solved" the lag problem with their F1 power unit from last year: they split the turbo into 2 and put an electric engine in betwe
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by vpeters25 12y ago
As frustrating as the lack of action by the white house might be, I think this petition accomplished something: I can almost bet Carmen Ortiz' name has been thrown to the hat for career advance nominations (federal judge, justice depar
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by vpeters25 12y ago
A lawyer could make quite a bundle by taking these lawsuits on commission, ambulance chasing / patent troll style. After securing power of attorney from actual owner, mail form letters requesting immediate withdrawal of dmca and payme

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