In the article, the only specific problem stated with "faux-agile" is that teams aren't allowed to decide on their own process. Why is this the deal-breaker?
As teams scale and multiple, if each one is using it's own unique process, it makes it impossible for the company to see the whole picture.
Many enterprises have chosen Scrum. It's not perfect, but it's not bad either. It's CERTAINLY better than Waterfall! So why not take the good that comes with moving to Scrum, and run with it, instead of wanking about the loss of pure agile?
No, not unpredictable, unless you don't understand how AI and neural networks work!
Are there edge cases where input generates unexpected results? Absolutely! And that's no different from any kind of programming since the computer was invented.
For that matter, when we used to ride horses everywhere, there were edge cases that caused horse brains to freak out, such as gun shots nearby, or the sight of a wild animal. That didn't stop people from making safe use of horses for transportation, with accidents occurring only once in a great while.
The key was to learn to understand and anticipate the kinds of things horses would react to. Likewise, with time and testing, we will learn to anticipate and compensate for things that make AI "freak out." It's certainly not unpredictable.
Sometimes, procrastination is the best thing to do. Many tasks seem important at the time, but procrastination might make it clear that the task really didn't need to be done in the first place. This is healthy.
Unhealthy procrastination--waiting to do things that REALLY need to be done promptly--this is a problem.
Our tendency to procrastinate sometimes saves us from doing unnecessary work.
Yes. Sometimes, inaction turns out to be the BEST course of action. Not everything is as important as it first seems. Sometimes, thinking about it--procrastinating--can make this clear.
When it comes to politics, is open source really different from close-source or commercial software? Is it different from any other kind of product?
What if a US state wants to use certain drugs in lethal injections? Should the pharmaceutical company care about how it's product is being used? How is the answer to this question different from the answer to the question regarding open source software?
The Bay Area has a reputation for being a great place for startups to find talented developers. Now that the frenzy of the dot-com boom is simmering down, companies are finding out that there are talented people everywhere. Often, in other parts of the country, those talented people can be hired for a lot less than in California because the cost of living is lower. For companies that want to create new software-based businesses deliberately instead of frantically, there are lots of great cities around the country!
Google has a huge number of employees (around 10,000) working on Google Maps. They are highly motivated to make it as accurate as possible, because they want businesses to advertise on it, and this advertising is highly dependent on accuracy.
OSM may be getting better, but can you really see them locating businesses or homes so precisely that it shows pins centered in the area of the buildings they occupy? Then of course there's street view...
A counter-example is Wikipedia, which has achieved a very high level of quality without commercial incentives. I guess we'll see!
This and other similar stories are starting to make me wonder if the "gig economy" was at least partly manufactured as a marketing ploy by Uber and Airbnb and cousins, as a way of getting people to jump on the bandwagon.
The App Stores make headlines every so often when they catch somebody stealing your data, or inserting malware. But they only catch a tiny, tiny amount of what really goes on. For one example, see https://mashable.com/2018/07/2...
back in the day, it didn't seem all that unreasonable to pay Apple a 30% tax on the software you distributed
Yes, it always seemed unreasonable to pay a 30% tax. Remember shareware sites? They were typically free, or asked for a low flat fee. Before that, AOL did essentially the same thing for free (if you were a subscriber). Windows and Linux software developers did, and still do, get to distribute their software with no "tax," and if you want a landing page, you can get those for next to nothing. Advertising? Hardly. Being on the AppStore puts you in the middle of a huge pile of copycats.
A listing fee would be much more appropriate and reasonable. If processing your payments through the store, a 5% fee is more in line with what other merchants charge.
I think that it comes down to the fact that the thing deciding CEO compensation is other CEOs.
Yes. It's like your real estate broker pulling comps in the neighborhood you want to buy. If others are getting more, there is incentive for you to move on. If the board wants to keep you, they are going to try to keep up with the competition for fear of losing you. If the fear of losing you is less than the compensation you would receive, they'll just let you jump. But then, they'd have to hire somebody new, and they would be competing with other companies for someone who knows what he can get elsewhere.
It's not simple, and some CEOs are clearly overpaid, to be sure.
In a nutshell, you are paid based on how hard it would be, and how much it would cost, for the company to replace you.
If your skills are commonplace, and it's easy to find other who will do it for minimum wage, you'll get minimum wage.
If your skills are rare enough, and important enough, that it would cost a lot for the company to replace you, they'll make sure they pay you enough to stick around, even if that's a lot of money.
Remember Steve Wozniac, co-founder of Apple? Steve Jobs was once fired, and Wozniac ran the company...into the ground. Jobs came back and turned the company into the most valuable brand on earth. Whether or not you're an Apple fanboy, it's pretty clear that Steve Jobs was worth more to the company than hundreds of its other employees.
My company specializes in serving subpoenas for documents related to car accident cases, and collecting documents to deliver to the court. There is absolutely no legal advantage of fax over email, when it comes to contract enforcement or other court purposes. Legally, a simple email (signed or not) carries the weight of a signed contract.
Where fax DOES have an advantage is in HIPAA compliance. Fax is considered "secure" because it is (or was) so seldom hacked. This allows physicians and lawyers to transmit protected health information electronically, without having to worry about password-protected files. It's lazy, but effective.
Slashdot Mirror
...the whole encyclopedia publishing system.
In the article, the only specific problem stated with "faux-agile" is that teams aren't allowed to decide on their own process. Why is this the deal-breaker?
As teams scale and multiple, if each one is using it's own unique process, it makes it impossible for the company to see the whole picture.
Many enterprises have chosen Scrum. It's not perfect, but it's not bad either. It's CERTAINLY better than Waterfall! So why not take the good that comes with moving to Scrum, and run with it, instead of wanking about the loss of pure agile?
No, not unpredictable, unless you don't understand how AI and neural networks work!
Are there edge cases where input generates unexpected results? Absolutely! And that's no different from any kind of programming since the computer was invented.
For that matter, when we used to ride horses everywhere, there were edge cases that caused horse brains to freak out, such as gun shots nearby, or the sight of a wild animal. That didn't stop people from making safe use of horses for transportation, with accidents occurring only once in a great while.
The key was to learn to understand and anticipate the kinds of things horses would react to. Likewise, with time and testing, we will learn to anticipate and compensate for things that make AI "freak out." It's certainly not unpredictable.
Sometimes, procrastination is the best thing to do. Many tasks seem important at the time, but procrastination might make it clear that the task really didn't need to be done in the first place. This is healthy.
Unhealthy procrastination--waiting to do things that REALLY need to be done promptly--this is a problem.
Our tendency to procrastinate sometimes saves us from doing unnecessary work.
Yes. Sometimes, inaction turns out to be the BEST course of action. Not everything is as important as it first seems. Sometimes, thinking about it--procrastinating--can make this clear.
How does this concept square with copyleft? Isn't copyleft an attempt to control the terms of use for "free" software?
When it comes to politics, is open source really different from close-source or commercial software? Is it different from any other kind of product?
What if a US state wants to use certain drugs in lethal injections? Should the pharmaceutical company care about how it's product is being used? How is the answer to this question different from the answer to the question regarding open source software?
The Bay Area has a reputation for being a great place for startups to find talented developers. Now that the frenzy of the dot-com boom is simmering down, companies are finding out that there are talented people everywhere. Often, in other parts of the country, those talented people can be hired for a lot less than in California because the cost of living is lower. For companies that want to create new software-based businesses deliberately instead of frantically, there are lots of great cities around the country!
Google has a huge number of employees (around 10,000) working on Google Maps. They are highly motivated to make it as accurate as possible, because they want businesses to advertise on it, and this advertising is highly dependent on accuracy.
OSM may be getting better, but can you really see them locating businesses or homes so precisely that it shows pins centered in the area of the buildings they occupy? Then of course there's street view...
A counter-example is Wikipedia, which has achieved a very high level of quality without commercial incentives. I guess we'll see!
https://money.cnn.com/2018/06/...
This and other similar stories are starting to make me wonder if the "gig economy" was at least partly manufactured as a marketing ploy by Uber and Airbnb and cousins, as a way of getting people to jump on the bandwagon.
Twitter IS suspending millions of accounts...of bots!
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07...
You can trust in any app there
Really!!! I've got a bridge to sell you!
The App Stores make headlines every so often when they catch somebody stealing your data, or inserting malware. But they only catch a tiny, tiny amount of what really goes on. For one example, see https://mashable.com/2018/07/2...
back in the day, it didn't seem all that unreasonable to pay Apple a 30% tax on the software you distributed
Yes, it always seemed unreasonable to pay a 30% tax. Remember shareware sites? They were typically free, or asked for a low flat fee. Before that, AOL did essentially the same thing for free (if you were a subscriber). Windows and Linux software developers did, and still do, get to distribute their software with no "tax," and if you want a landing page, you can get those for next to nothing. Advertising? Hardly. Being on the AppStore puts you in the middle of a huge pile of copycats.
A listing fee would be much more appropriate and reasonable. If processing your payments through the store, a 5% fee is more in line with what other merchants charge.
Really? I could have sworn Trump was still allowed to post messages there!
I think that it comes down to the fact that the thing deciding CEO compensation is other CEOs.
Yes. It's like your real estate broker pulling comps in the neighborhood you want to buy. If others are getting more, there is incentive for you to move on. If the board wants to keep you, they are going to try to keep up with the competition for fear of losing you. If the fear of losing you is less than the compensation you would receive, they'll just let you jump. But then, they'd have to hire somebody new, and they would be competing with other companies for someone who knows what he can get elsewhere.
It's not simple, and some CEOs are clearly overpaid, to be sure.
Lots of claims, no reproducible results.
CVS has been selling a generic version of the EpiPen since the beginning of 2017.
https://www.pharmacytimes.com/...
In a nutshell, you are paid based on how hard it would be, and how much it would cost, for the company to replace you.
If your skills are commonplace, and it's easy to find other who will do it for minimum wage, you'll get minimum wage.
If your skills are rare enough, and important enough, that it would cost a lot for the company to replace you, they'll make sure they pay you enough to stick around, even if that's a lot of money.
Your hazard would be incorrect.
Remember Steve Wozniac, co-founder of Apple? Steve Jobs was once fired, and Wozniac ran the company...into the ground. Jobs came back and turned the company into the most valuable brand on earth. Whether or not you're an Apple fanboy, it's pretty clear that Steve Jobs was worth more to the company than hundreds of its other employees.
"Storing" and "sharing" are not the same thing. It might not be illegal to store location data, even if location sharing is turned off.
No.
My company specializes in serving subpoenas for documents related to car accident cases, and collecting documents to deliver to the court. There is absolutely no legal advantage of fax over email, when it comes to contract enforcement or other court purposes. Legally, a simple email (signed or not) carries the weight of a signed contract.
Where fax DOES have an advantage is in HIPAA compliance. Fax is considered "secure" because it is (or was) so seldom hacked. This allows physicians and lawyers to transmit protected health information electronically, without having to worry about password-protected files. It's lazy, but effective.
They are selling it!
...they'll keep going with the annual announcements.
I vote for no emails or phone calls DURING office hours!
I used to work for!