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  1. Of which, none capture video of abuse of power by police.

  2. Where I work, one person does the initial spike work until the scope of work is well understood.

    Then, someone else does the work.

    No one contacts the first person to discover what's been learned.

  3. Client/Manager etc: "I once saw a car driving down the road, and this is what I remember about it... Exactly how long will it take to build one?"
    Dev: "It's not that simple"
    Client/Manager etc: An experienced developer could tell me using the estimating skills they've honed over their career...

  4. Estimates get better the closer one gets to delivery. At the point of delivery, the estimate is perfect.

    If one runs a simulation of development, to estimate well, one will have an excellent but incorrect estimate.

    It's almost as if "it'll be done when it's done" is the best answer. If one breaks down the product into chunks of functionality and builds them in priority order, starting with a set of tasks enough to get a minimum viable product, one can be connected to the real world and have continual opportunities to re-asses whether continuing is worth it.

  5. Re: Correcting myself on Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    lead -> leave

  6. Re: Correcting myself on Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The issue isn't whether he's jumped through hoops to prove his knowledge of maths and physics - his use of maths and physics in the claims are self-validating when read by someone competent.

    If Oregon choose to 'ignore' his claims, there is the possibility that the claims are valid which would lead the board no valid way to counter them.

  7. Re: Correcting myself on Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    This is an ad hominem. His application of maths and physics is correct or it isn't in a manner which is unrelated to registration.

    Did his claims have merit? If so, do they constitute an indirect criticism of the quality of the board's licencing process ?

  8. Re: Oregon law: Practicing means working, not sayi on Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Fuck you, Oregon.

    So, given this scenario, is it legitimate for the wider internet to consider that something is fundamentally wrong in Oregon ? I.e. Is the brand Oregon devalued by such acts?

  9. Re: Hmmmm Maybe Not? on Grand Theft Auto V Is Being Used To Help Teach Self-Driving Cars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Because you've not updated your videocard since you bought GTA3?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  10. Meh, it seems a common 'misunderstanding':

    https://english.stackexchange....

    Period in the context that you are referring to is used as an idiom of sorts. It means there is no counter argument.

    For example, "Chuck Norris will kick anybody's butt, period."

    or

    "Abstinence from sex is the best STD prevention, period."

    There is usually a pause after the sentence and before the word "period".

    Another thing that Americans say instead of "period" is "end of story".

  11. Maybe; maybe not - I'm not disagreeing - simply expressing that I am not inclined to check for myself.

    Use of the word 'Period' to indicate that the writer is interested in finalising the discussion after having made their point does little to persuade the reader, regardless of the truth of any assertion.

    It seems to me that a writer confident in their assertion would not seek additional pseudo-confirmation.

  12. Writing 'Period' doesn't make your stated position more believable or silence disagreement. Exclamation!

  13. Re: Alternate Vendors? No, I approve. on Burger King Won't Take a Hint; Alters TV Ad To Evade Google's Block (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    In this Nirvana, the companies would expend funds only to create advertising whose purpose is to draw attention to particular issues.

  14. Blocking the phrase 'Ok Google' might have broader utility.

  15. Re: Alternate Vendors? No, I approve. on Burger King Won't Take a Hint; Alters TV Ad To Evade Google's Block (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Umm. Right on. One step closer to the nirvana when companies make nothing but advertising.

  16. Re: "alternate vendors" on Burger King Won't Take a Hint; Alters TV Ad To Evade Google's Block (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed, it's highly insensitive of BK to avoid cautiously stepping around the trigger phrase of a well known in-home surveillance-feed device.

  17. Re: Wow, detailed instructions to achieve on YouTube Has a Secret 'Dark Mode' (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    It only plays videos during the hours of darkness.

  18. Re:Unwise to play by the rules? on Italy Bans Uber (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    One can sympathise - the government has the greatest coercive force - who would one appeal to if change is the agenda?

    Ticking a box once every four years is meaningless as it packages all future issues together such that there's no way to choose and just in case there were some way to choose, that will be nullified by the randomness in the selection process of the vast majority "She's a woman like me therefore believes in women's values", "I like his hair..."

  19. Re:Unwise to play by the rules? on Italy Bans Uber (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    It's good to know what the rules 'are' for real estate tax. For me, I wonder *why* they are that way and what is the moral justification ?

  20. Re:Unwise to play by the rules? on Italy Bans Uber (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Mr. Taxman, my salary isn't money I earn, it just reduces how much I need to pay for food, rent, Internet, booze, and gadgets. If you want, you can tax me on how much money I have left over. Yeah, I don't think that'll work.

    One of the many problems with taxation.

  21. Re: Appeal on Italy Bans Uber (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    maybe the rules for taxi are no longer needed. Great, let's petition the government to change or revoke them for everybody, not just some companies

    The government have such a concentration of power derived from coercive force that they are a target too tempting to pass up for anyone wanting more power. Want something? 'Donate to' (ha-ha) your local official to make it *required*.

  22. Re:Appeal on Italy Bans Uber (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    That's funny - here is a guy who cannot keep things in perspective. You're comparing Sweden with the USA or Russia? You can compare Sweden with a US City, not the whole country. You can also compare the USA with the EU. You have no concept of size, do ya... Let me help you out:

    Sweden, the country, has the population of what we in the US consider a city. Country > State > City. Your "country" is the size of our City.

    We also have stores and companies. A store called Walmart here, which is where I go to buy cheap plastic Chinese garbage cans, and discount tomatoes, has same amount of money per year in sales, as your country's GDP. You're not a country by our standards. You're the size of a city, and you don't exist in economic terms.

    American foreign policy condensed to a few paragraphs.

    Yay. USA USA

  23. But it also says security experts who examined the software are "inherently skeptical" of Huddleston's claim that the software was intended for legal use, since that's "a common claim amongst RAT authors."

    Welcome to the rest of the world's view of the justification for the existence of your internal arms industry.

  24. Stereotypes on More Than a Hoodie: How We Talk About Developers (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    After all, we're just like lawyers,

    We too are soulless corporate ghouls who have inveigled themselves into the midst of every action or decision taken in the public space, following the rules despite the wider consequences?

    Everyone loves a stereotype :P

  25. Give us cash