Our dev and DevOps teams use Agile so there's a ridiculous two week minimum delay for any fix since you have to add the JIRA issue to a new sprint before you can fix it.
That's not "Agile", that's Scrum - also within Scrum there are ways of providing hotfixes without terminating the sprint, and without waiting 2 weeks. Sounds like your Scrum Master needs some education. The Agile Manifesto literally contains "Responding to change over following a plan."
Furthermore if you have lots of issues, you may want to consider a different Agile process, like Kanban, which is better equipped to provide rapid turnarounds of hotfixes. You may even consider a separate team for support.
most of our developers are on four scrum teams, they have four stand-ups per day where they need to talk about what they've accomplished and what they commit to doing before the next stand-up. Actually getting work done has suffered since you need to do something superficial each day for four times each day.
Nope! You don't have Scrum teams. I don't know what you have, or why you call them Scrum, but it is NOT POSSIBLE to be on more than one Scrum team at the same time. By definition.
"I would like your advice about buying something new, in a very particular size, but I'm not going to tell you what size it is! Instead you will all have to individually Google it. Mwuahahahahahah!"
Good job editors... couldn't have looked it up yourself and added it? What the fuck then, do editors get paid for? I think between that and the declining quality of comments recently, I'm done with Slashdot. I used to say "I come for the comments" because the editing was so shit - but after yesterdays Google Home mini story where I read 14 highly-moderated comments and every one of them - every SINGLE ONE OF THEM - criticized either the technology or the people buying it as stupid or morons (when it's clearly fucking interesting new tech being used in interesting new ways) I can't say this site has any value for me anymore.
Why not just tax them when someone sells them? We have something called Capital Gains Tax in the UK - when you sell something you made a profit on, if that profit is above a small threshold, you have to pay a percentage of all the gains you made... if you didn't make a profit, no tax. This makes investment more attractive by removing some of the risk.
In the USA do you have to pay tax on the estimated value of the shares every year or something?
95 times out of 100 these are all nothing. But you have to check them out.
No, no you really don't. *THAT* is the problem. If someone is bombing your plane with an intent to kill everyone, they aren't going to advertise it by changing their wifi SSID.
It's totally preposterous. We don't need to overreact to terrorists, fuck them, react appropriately.
In London the Heathrow Express is £25 which is almost exactly $33. It takes either 15 or 21 minutes depending which part of the airport it is connecting to.
The alternative is £5 and takes around 50 minutes, but can actually get you more central.
It makes a profit - or at least it did a few years ago (67 million in fares, 60 million costs to run)
If it's running in Javascript, Kendo UI, it's client-side. Whoever was responsible for the server-side developing ALSO fucked up here - the server should *NOT* have trusted a client input without validating it. If it had been validated on the server, this would have been impossible. When the Kendo Grid returned values, the API or handler should have checked that those values were correct for the logged in user.
You are correct that a myriad of tools/frameworks makes security more difficult, but most companies still don't invest in security. It's difficult, not impossible.
H1-B is total crap and needs to be eliminated ASAP. Oh, but that lobbyist money from Microsoft, Oracle, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.
Only ONE of those companies makes the top 10 H1B sponsors... and that is in TENTH place... the other 9 only have one "tech" company in them. The rest are "consultancies".
Globalism is one-sided, and makes our country weaker in every possible way. The wealth flows from the richer country to the poorer, where it is wasted.
Posted from your PC or phone which costs around $600 instead of $5000 - well played sir!
Awesome, coffee machine and companies will know what to serve me without me having to interact with them. Convenient!
are you an aggressive driver
Good, all aggressive drivers should be identified, and their insurance premiums modified appropriately to try to create a safer environment for all.
do you look at other members of the opposite sex
Superb, it can recognise when I sneak a glance at a girl, and if she has done the same while I was looking away it can send us both an alert and we will be able to drive aggressively in her car to shop which will serve us with our favourite coffee without asking me or getting the name on the cup wrong!
This sounds bloody awesome, where do I sign up?
But seriously, there are tons of people claiming loads of "harm" is being done by ads, but other than in a tiny handful of specific outliers I don't see it... where is the harm that has actually happened? Because people were saying this back in the 90s, and it wasn't happening then. But they claimed it was "just around the corner" - but tech has moved on advertising and data collection are even more technologically capable and accurate... but THERE'S STILL NO COMMON HARM.
As soon as you inherit code written by someone else you will waste a lot of time to understand how it works - and if it's not strongly typed you can easily miss something that previous coders did introduce.
Absolutely agree. Code should be written more than anything to not fail (or to only fail gracefully), following this it should be written for readability. Using strong types provides a huge amount of semantic meaning - both to future you (or future other maintainer) and also to your compiler and IDE - this semantic meaning is invaluable.
Why a government? Probably because lots and lots of people *trust national governments* a lot more than they do a "random group of hackers" (as they perceive it) and the Estonian government hopes to leverage this into goodwill resulting in more buys at their ICO, and a long-term raise in value - both of which generate a lot of revenue for their citizens.
The Ugly: Government agencies now have a valid excuse to obtain funding for exponentially increasing the number of exit nodes under their control.
Eh? Previously there were sites selling drugs, child porn, guns and materials to make boms from. But the agencies did *not* have a valid excuse to deal with them? Now, suddenly, there's a few random racist nutballs publishing a pseudo-newspaper on there and *NOW* that's enough to give them a valid excuse?
They have these people called locksmiths. Apparently they are really good at picking locks or making keys to get through locks.
Crazy I know. Much easier to physically break a door down.
I can see you have never worked in a large company on a Monday morning when there is a problem. One where the suggestion alone is enough to cause some "oohs" and "ummms" among people. When you query them what the noises are for, no-one is aware of which colleague would be the right one to sign off on such a purchase order. So it takes about 6 hours, but eventually someone finds an old print out of the regulations about circumventing access to buildings out of hours, and thinks it applies, and discovers who to contact. The next morning that contact gets back to you, and following a few phone calls and an email chain in the afternoon they finally agree a locksmith is appropriate in an email. You're then able to send the email to Purchasing from whom you get back a form email saying that they are busy and will respond ASAP. Phone calls to Purchasing are ignored because they are busy.
So now it's Tuesday evening, and time to go home. Wednesday you hear nothing from them, but finally on Thursday Purchasing get back to you before launch and authorise your request. You cannot use just any locksmith though, you *MUST* use a locksmith from the AUTHORISED SUPPLIER LIST, which they duly send you. The nearest locksmith on the list is a 3 hour drive away, too late to get to the office before 5pm so you reluctantly tell him to come tomorrow (Friday) but he is already booked and cannot do it before Monday. He has the contact details of three other locksmiths who could do it, but none are on the authorised supplier list. So you got back to the list, phone another one further away and they agree to come out on Saturday morning.
Fast forward to Saturday morning, you come into the office at 9am on your day off, the wife and kids are seething, and at 9.30 the guy isn't there. The office don't pickup the phone because the office is closed weekends and his cell number doesn't work. After waiting until midday you assume that he isn't coming and go home.
It's now Monday morning at 9.15 and you're on hold waiting to talk to the THIRD and final supplier on the authorised supplier list when your boss walks in back from his week off. With the key.
Now do you understand why breaking the door down is going to be preferable in most larger businesses?
Life expectancy is higher for liberals than conservatives? And life expectancy is going down for Red State voters and up for Blue State voters. So it'll all work out for the best.
Have you compared the average number of children per mother for Red and Blue voters? And what about the age at which they have those children? Cos it's quite possible to die 5 years younger than peers from another group, but outbreed them trivially by starting at 19 and having 6 kids...
The Information Technology Industry Council, which represents companies including Amazon, Apple, Adobe, Dell, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard, Google, Visa, Nokia, and Microsoft railed against the bill
Are you kidding me? I would say yes, and most people I know would say yes, too. That's $300 - anyone I know already knows my interests, the locations I've been the past don't really matter, and my browsing history? Why the hell would I be worried about that? There's little "embarrassing" in there except perhaps the stuff I've watched on Pornhub, and for $300 you are VERY welcome to know what my particular interests are. If you searched hard enough on some forums you could find that out anyway.
So... how often are we going to do this transaction? Can I get $300 a year? A month? Every day?
Yes, I am a Brit trying to get into the US on the H1B program because my girlfriend is there. It is now significantly harder to get companies to even talk to me since they defunded priority applications. My best shot is to apply in April, for a visa that *may* start in October. My chances of getting it are very slim though.
Note that I'm in software, in London, earn a very good salary and have 20 years of experience - I'm a model candidate - and I've been told by some people over there that I may as well not bother and to "explore other options"...
the energy source they believe to be cheap, safe and clean is neither cheap, nor safe, nor clean
Actually, it certainly is SAFE and CLEAN - but you're right that it's not cheap. Not until you take into account the cost of the CO2 emitted by LNG-burning plants which are what you get if you don't choose nuclear. Then suddenly they look real cheap.
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That's not "Agile", that's Scrum - also within Scrum there are ways of providing hotfixes without terminating the sprint, and without waiting 2 weeks. Sounds like your Scrum Master needs some education. The Agile Manifesto literally contains "Responding to change over following a plan."
Furthermore if you have lots of issues, you may want to consider a different Agile process, like Kanban, which is better equipped to provide rapid turnarounds of hotfixes. You may even consider a separate team for support.
Nope! You don't have Scrum teams. I don't know what you have, or why you call them Scrum, but it is NOT POSSIBLE to be on more than one Scrum team at the same time. By definition.
https://www.scrum-institute.or...
"I would like your advice about buying something new, in a very particular size, but I'm not going to tell you what size it is! Instead you will all have to individually Google it. Mwuahahahahahah!"
Good job editors... couldn't have looked it up yourself and added it? What the fuck then, do editors get paid for? I think between that and the declining quality of comments recently, I'm done with Slashdot. I used to say "I come for the comments" because the editing was so shit - but after yesterdays Google Home mini story where I read 14 highly-moderated comments and every one of them - every SINGLE ONE OF THEM - criticized either the technology or the people buying it as stupid or morons (when it's clearly fucking interesting new tech being used in interesting new ways) I can't say this site has any value for me anymore.
So long and thanks for all the fish.
Why not just tax them when someone sells them? We have something called Capital Gains Tax in the UK - when you sell something you made a profit on, if that profit is above a small threshold, you have to pay a percentage of all the gains you made... if you didn't make a profit, no tax. This makes investment more attractive by removing some of the risk. In the USA do you have to pay tax on the estimated value of the shares every year or something?
No, no you really don't. *THAT* is the problem. If someone is bombing your plane with an intent to kill everyone, they aren't going to advertise it by changing their wifi SSID. It's totally preposterous. We don't need to overreact to terrorists, fuck them, react appropriately.
In London the Heathrow Express is £25 which is almost exactly $33. It takes either 15 or 21 minutes depending which part of the airport it is connecting to.
The alternative is £5 and takes around 50 minutes, but can actually get you more central.
It makes a profit - or at least it did a few years ago (67 million in fares, 60 million costs to run)
Why does it not say "sponsored content" or similar?
If it's running in Javascript, Kendo UI, it's client-side. Whoever was responsible for the server-side developing ALSO fucked up here - the server should *NOT* have trusted a client input without validating it. If it had been validated on the server, this would have been impossible. When the Kendo Grid returned values, the API or handler should have checked that those values were correct for the logged in user.
You are correct that a myriad of tools/frameworks makes security more difficult, but most companies still don't invest in security. It's difficult, not impossible.
Only ONE of those companies makes the top 10 H1B sponsors... and that is in TENTH place... the other 9 only have one "tech" company in them. The rest are "consultancies".
https://www.myvisajobs.com/Rep...
The companies you mentioned don't really care, and probably want Visa reform too.
> Why do people keep referring to viewing works created by others as "consuming" them? A work isn't "consumed", or used up, in the act of viewing it
Probably because we speak English, and that's the colloquial and accepted term for using content.
Language evolves, if you insist on living in the past, you only make yourself look stupid, not others.
Err.... lulwut? That's complete rubbish.
Awesome, coffee machine and companies will know what to serve me without me having to interact with them. Convenient!
Good, all aggressive drivers should be identified, and their insurance premiums modified appropriately to try to create a safer environment for all.
Superb, it can recognise when I sneak a glance at a girl, and if she has done the same while I was looking away it can send us both an alert and we will be able to drive aggressively in her car to shop which will serve us with our favourite coffee without asking me or getting the name on the cup wrong!
This sounds bloody awesome, where do I sign up?
But seriously, there are tons of people claiming loads of "harm" is being done by ads, but other than in a tiny handful of specific outliers I don't see it... where is the harm that has actually happened? Because people were saying this back in the 90s, and it wasn't happening then. But they claimed it was "just around the corner" - but tech has moved on advertising and data collection are even more technologically capable and accurate... but THERE'S STILL NO COMMON HARM.
Absolutely agree. Code should be written more than anything to not fail (or to only fail gracefully), following this it should be written for readability. Using strong types provides a huge amount of semantic meaning - both to future you (or future other maintainer) and also to your compiler and IDE - this semantic meaning is invaluable.
As a non-USian who might move there soon, is my credit "open" by default? And with how many agencies?
Sweet, what's the API like?
Why a government? Probably because lots and lots of people *trust national governments* a lot more than they do a "random group of hackers" (as they perceive it) and the Estonian government hopes to leverage this into goodwill resulting in more buys at their ICO, and a long-term raise in value - both of which generate a lot of revenue for their citizens.
Isn't Bitcoin backed by the full faith and credit of all Bitcoin owners?
Eh? Previously there were sites selling drugs, child porn, guns and materials to make boms from. But the agencies did *not* have a valid excuse to deal with them? Now, suddenly, there's a few random racist nutballs publishing a pseudo-newspaper on there and *NOW* that's enough to give them a valid excuse?
I can see you have never worked in a large company on a Monday morning when there is a problem. One where the suggestion alone is enough to cause some "oohs" and "ummms" among people. When you query them what the noises are for, no-one is aware of which colleague would be the right one to sign off on such a purchase order. So it takes about 6 hours, but eventually someone finds an old print out of the regulations about circumventing access to buildings out of hours, and thinks it applies, and discovers who to contact. The next morning that contact gets back to you, and following a few phone calls and an email chain in the afternoon they finally agree a locksmith is appropriate in an email. You're then able to send the email to Purchasing from whom you get back a form email saying that they are busy and will respond ASAP. Phone calls to Purchasing are ignored because they are busy.
So now it's Tuesday evening, and time to go home. Wednesday you hear nothing from them, but finally on Thursday Purchasing get back to you before launch and authorise your request. You cannot use just any locksmith though, you *MUST* use a locksmith from the AUTHORISED SUPPLIER LIST, which they duly send you. The nearest locksmith on the list is a 3 hour drive away, too late to get to the office before 5pm so you reluctantly tell him to come tomorrow (Friday) but he is already booked and cannot do it before Monday. He has the contact details of three other locksmiths who could do it, but none are on the authorised supplier list. So you got back to the list, phone another one further away and they agree to come out on Saturday morning.
Fast forward to Saturday morning, you come into the office at 9am on your day off, the wife and kids are seething, and at 9.30 the guy isn't there. The office don't pickup the phone because the office is closed weekends and his cell number doesn't work. After waiting until midday you assume that he isn't coming and go home.
It's now Monday morning at 9.15 and you're on hold waiting to talk to the THIRD and final supplier on the authorised supplier list when your boss walks in back from his week off. With the key.
Now do you understand why breaking the door down is going to be preferable in most larger businesses?
Have you compared the average number of children per mother for Red and Blue voters? And what about the age at which they have those children? Cos it's quite possible to die 5 years younger than peers from another group, but outbreed them trivially by starting at 19 and having 6 kids...
Top 100 H1B Visa employers (companies who profit through the program): https://www.myvisajobs.com/Rep...
...
#16 Amazon
#22 Apple
#60 Dell
#33 Facebook
#100 HP
#12 Google
# 9 Microsoft
Are you kidding me? I would say yes, and most people I know would say yes, too. That's $300 - anyone I know already knows my interests, the locations I've been the past don't really matter, and my browsing history? Why the hell would I be worried about that? There's little "embarrassing" in there except perhaps the stuff I've watched on Pornhub, and for $300 you are VERY welcome to know what my particular interests are. If you searched hard enough on some forums you could find that out anyway.
So... how often are we going to do this transaction? Can I get $300 a year? A month? Every day?
Yes, I am a Brit trying to get into the US on the H1B program because my girlfriend is there. It is now significantly harder to get companies to even talk to me since they defunded priority applications. My best shot is to apply in April, for a visa that *may* start in October. My chances of getting it are very slim though.
Note that I'm in software, in London, earn a very good salary and have 20 years of experience - I'm a model candidate - and I've been told by some people over there that I may as well not bother and to "explore other options"...
Actually, it certainly is SAFE and CLEAN - but you're right that it's not cheap. Not until you take into account the cost of the CO2 emitted by LNG-burning plants which are what you get if you don't choose nuclear. Then suddenly they look real cheap.
But no-one is taking that into account...
How do you propose paying for steps 2, 3 and 4? Or should only incredibly rich people be allowed to start a company?