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  1. Re:WTF Is Agile? on New Analyst Report Calls Agile a Scam, Says It's An Easy Out For Lazy Devs · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia has a brief, general description.

    One example of Agile approach is named Scrum. c.f Beginners Guide to Scrum - my referring t Scrum as an agile approach, considering that it's not, per se, a formal process model.

    Another example, which has perhaps been around for longer, is named Extreme Programming c.f Extreme Programming, at the Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc. Wiki

  2. Did RTA. It doesn't sound too dismissive on New Analyst Report Calls Agile a Scam, Says It's An Easy Out For Lazy Devs · · Score: 2

    "[...] Agile, which may not be appropriate for all organizations or projects"

    That's fair.

  3. Re:sorry on Objective-C Overtakes C++, But C Is Number One · · Score: 2

    To my understanding, HTML5 and JavaScript are the driving technologies behind frameworks such as PhoneGap and appMobi. Just sayin' - those languages are mobile platform compatible. (Objective C and Java, each, maybe not so much so)

  4. Re:six hundred dollars? on Apple Forces Google To Degrade Android Features · · Score: 1

    I'd like to think that that could be open to negotiation between Samsung and Apple, if Samsung's lawyers were to present the topic to Apple's lawyers, both for purchasing the rights to it and so in order to end the continuing case (and - implicitly - its resultant legal fees, etc).

    Then again, if it could possibly be that easy to resolve, I wonder how the courts might feel about how their time has been spent, on the case?

  5. Re:Try to get First Post on Slashdot on Ask Slashdot: Old Dogs vs. New Technology? · · Score: 1

    So, how scalable can an agile process be, I wonder?

  6. Re:Try to get First Post on Slashdot on Ask Slashdot: Old Dogs vs. New Technology? · · Score: 1

    Yes, you're young; and yes, you don't get what it's like to be in the trenches for many years. And yes, you also don't understand why ad hoc but smart answers may not be scalable and thus turn out to bite you in the butt.

    I like how that serves to shed some light, candidly, in regards to the possible effects of naivete - not to put a mint on the proverbial pillow, y'know, just to draw a highlight on the matter.

    Taking up the side of the FNG, I think that the discussion may serve to draw to light: A concern about some kinds of complacency in the workplace, frankly. I suppose that to drop the name, "Agile process", then, it might *not* serve to resolve that immediately, but maybe it could serve to shed some more light on the matter, in turn? as far as how a workplace *can* function....?

  7. Rechargeable car ... on a stick on Ford Predicts Self-Driving, Traffic-Reducing Cars By 2017 · · Score: 1

    Ross Lovegrove might have some designs for that future.

  8. Online gaming as a part of TLD creation process? on ICANN Cancels 'Digital Archery' Program · · Score: 2

    Seriously? I mean, seriously? ICANN, even briefly, introduced online gaming into the process of creating new top level domains? I knew that the Internet could resemble a circus, but that really stretches the limits of believability.

    Pardon me while I file a registration for .barnum.

  9. Taking on the Atlantic seas with a phone boat? on FishPi: Raspberry Pi Powered Autonomous Boat To Cross the Ocean · · Score: 1

    I hope he has insurance on that ;)

  10. New PSAs would be the least controversial on Fires Sparked By Utah Target Shooters Prompt Evacuations · · Score: 1

    I would suggest that the government of the state of Utah may at least develop a plan for some new and ongoing Public Service Announcements, to address the concerns of the matter to the public, before any more controversial measures could ever be taken to more serious consideration for civil discussion and possible legislation, in the state.

    It seems to stand to reason that the fires could have all been prevented, if the individual recreational shooters having started each respective fire would've been aware of the additional dangers posed when discharging firearms in a dangerously dry climate, and would've been aware that they were in a dangerously dry climate, and moreover if they would've been personally responsible enough to then avoid discharging their firearms in that climate - and if they would feel they must get some firearms practice, nonetheless, then to use use controlled ranges, as the state had so wisely suggested.

    I'd say it could be more effectual for the state to suggest to individual gun owners and gun enthusiasts in Utah they must all exercise their own respective senses of knowledge and personal responsibility, more effectively - and for the state to perhaps set the example, as such - to the point of preventing those wildfires, specifically. I think that that should be far more effectual than any too impassioned arguments, in regards to the many popular concerns of the matter, in the overall democratic climate of the state and the broader nation.

    That's my two cents, just thinking to the broader scope of the matter - erm, so to speak.

  11. Re:Makes perfect sense. on Free Speech For Computers? · · Score: 1

    In one rendition, and in some abstraction: Google processes a search query by executing an algorithmic function onto a limited data set, then displaying the results of that function. Though, for purposes of philosophical rhetoric, I may be willing to limit the concept of "opinion" to such a matter of algorithmic selection, I don't know if the concept of opinion could be either judicially or legislatively defined as such, and the definition be accurate to all of: The lexicon; the systematic function of a search engine; the principles on which the system was designed. So, in short, I don't know if the concept of "Opinion" would apply to that, in the courts.

    Separately: Though I am not a lawyer, I would like to think that you could claim that the Offend-o-tron would be an expression of your right to free expression. No comment about 4chan ;)

    Cheers, ser!

  12. Software is an expression of the programmer[s] on Free Speech For Computers? · · Score: 1

    I would think that the measure of "free speech by an item of software" would boil down to a matter of the rights and limits for free expression by the programmer[s] of the item of software. Granted, DNRTA - with apologies, will get to it shortly...

  13. Sounds like warp drive for boats on The World's First Supercavitating Boat? · · Score: 1

    ...mmm, kinda?

  14. Re:Another question... on Could Insurance Coverage Hobble Commercial Space Flights? · · Score: 1

    Thanks, but I really didn't ask such an oblique question.

  15. Another question... on Could Insurance Coverage Hobble Commercial Space Flights? · · Score: 1

    Do oil refineries have to pay insurance to the surrounding communities, for the possibility of a catastrophic failure at a refinery? I don't suspect so. Oil refineries in the US, then, implement security protocols, checkups, and more checkups, to prevent the possibility of refinery failure.

    I'd like to mention, then, that NewSpace companies will have more on the line than any governmental space agency even possibly could. I'm sure they must all well understand the full extents of the importance of launch vehicle safety and launch site safety, thoroughly.

  16. Scary if they, Scary if they don't on Could Cops Use Google As Pre-Cogs? · · Score: 1

    I hope that someone will be able to frame that theory in a more rational light, perhaps not directly associating it with any grisly details of such a tragedy. I think that the theory is so possibly dangerous, on any angle, the discussion of it should brook no sensationalism.

  17. predicted outcomes don't always occur as predicted on Finding the Downside In San Francisco's Tech Boom · · Score: 1

    I think it just makes for a nice conversation piece - intriguing news, at that, honestly. Certainly, an economic change in any area may serve to create some related cultural shifts, in that area and surrounding areas. Whether in the abstract, or in any more pragmatic details, why should we be so concerned about it, at that?

    Do we want the city to stop developing a stronger technological entrepreneurship base? Probably not the best of goals.

    Do we want real estate agents to stop increasing prices, if that trend continues? "Good luck with that."

    Or do we simply not want to replace all the struggling artists with entrepreneurs? Is that the expected outcome? Maybe some of those new businesses will support the local arts communities - "problem solved," lol.

    I'm certain that the city of San Francisco, and of her neighboring metropolitan areas, can constructively adapt to such change, in however it goes.

  18. Tests, Opinions, and Other Things on Taking Issue With Claims That American Science Education is 'Dismal' · · Score: 1

    I understand that the matter of students' performance on standardized tests could serve to produce some statistical basis for discussion. It's my impression that for some points of view in which it would be held that national science education is lacking, those points of view may not be based so much on results of standardized tests, however, as much as on opinion and, perhaps, also experience - namely experience outside of the context of any predictable, standardized test.

    Then again, I'm also no fan of the idea, "We're doing good enough.* Let's do even worse, 'cos we can relax now, after all."

    * or well enough either.

  19. Sounds like they're positioning about Google on IE10 Will Have 'Do Not Track' On By Default · · Score: 1

    Google is the infamous search giant:
    1) to which Microsoft now presents some competition, in the search engine industry, with Bing
    2) already competing with Microsoft, in mobile operating systems industry
    3) rumored to have lots of user data, as in some relation to Google AdSense(tm) technology.
    4) which allows users to voluntarily opt in to browser history tracking, with such as Google Web History and the Google toolbar - and to my understanding, that feature is not enabled by default, the user actually has to opt into it, just as I've had to, for so much as search history tracking.
    5) all of the above

    It sounds to me like Microsoft may be suggesting some doubt towards companies collecting data about user browsing habits. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised, then, if Google may be the main FUD target they could have in mind, at that. Fortunately, though, no one company owns the discussion.

  20. Scissors - ultimatley a great design idea on Worst Design Ever? Plastic Clamshell Packaging · · Score: 1

    n/t

  21. It's all in the random acts of FUDness... on Judge Rules API's Can Not Be Copyrighted · · Score: 1

    ...but not suggest that a troll comment should launch a thread. It's all the same political FUD, to me.

    Lol omniprsident. Omnipresident is on the ___ watching ___ ___ ;)

  22. Woah. Wrong link. Whoops on 60TB Disk Drives Could Be a Reality In 2016 · · Score: 1

    I'd meant that in reply to this other article, but it seems I had clicked the wrong link for that. My mistake.

  23. Depressed People Surf the Web Indifferently on 60TB Disk Drives Could Be a Reality In 2016 · · Score: 1

    (FTFY)

  24. Context, plz? on Disentangling Facts From Fantasy In the World of Edison and Tesla · · Score: 1

    I like the humanist side of the argument, but I find that I'm compelled to ask: Who thought Tesla was a "god-hero" or Edison "the devil," to begin with?

  25. Is that anything like the the apples of oranges? on The Mathematics of Obesity · · Score: 1

    "The mathematics of obesity" doesn't parse, unless we're talking about statistical analysis.

    Mathematics is a matter of number systems and mathematical operations. Obeisity is a matter of anatomy - and I doubt there's any one special cause to it. If we would be concerned, rather, about how to address it as individual persons responsible for our own health - it being rather a personal matter - then I doubt that the discussion would continue to be relevant in the technical Slashdot forum. Dr. Phil is there for baggage, health scientists for dietary concerns, fitness instructors for recreational exercise, and one's own coworkers, family, and community are there for ... whatever they're there for, maybe for community.

    Me, I'm not one to try to judge my family, friends, and neighbors in terms of statistics. DNRTA.