This, so much this. Half time was just about right when I worked on a team that management required we still plan in hours (which I always thought was stupid). Even then we still tended to overestimate what we'd get done. Many tasks would end up with two hours remaining for like a week. Which I always blamed the hours formula for. If we just did a total tasks per sprint team limit or something like that I think we would have fared better.
With my most recent team I was able to set the standard and dump hours and only track in story points. Also dumped sprints and we do kanban. It has been the smoothest running project I've been on. No one is stressed about their projected hours being off and what we get done in a sprint because we don't have an artificial timebox. We keep the tasks small enough nothing can linger too long and that's good enough to keep us small, focused and not taking on too much at once. And for a two year project it's looking like we'll deliver about three months early, so that's a good thing as well.
I'm what you'd call a full stack dev. Most of my time is spent in Angular 2+ with plenty of messing around with Observables and the like. However, I also do work in Spring creating REST endpoints, entities, handling security and integrating with other web services. I also write SQL queries for use by Spring entities, and work with store procedures that inevitably are called by Spring. When I need a new table or column I'll discuss shape, form, naming of it and its relationships with the database folks and they'll put it. Then I'll write the sql to populate it.
We have a dedicated frontend design/developer. He's light on the Angular 2+ side, which allows the rest of us to focus on that part and he takes care of all the CSS. I could do the CSS if I needed to as I was a web developer as well further back in my career. However, while I'm good at user experience flow, I'm not good at the making it pretty part, so we're glad to have him handle that.
The rest of the devs (4) on the team are also what you'd probably call full stack though everyone has their strengths. I'm probably the strongest in Angular 2+ on our team. Two of the others are stronger on the stored procedure/database side of things. The other two are probably strongest in Spring, though one is getting pretty good with Angular 2+ now as well.
Inevitably the entire team, other than the frontend designer/developer, ends up working along all parts of the stack to varying degrees. And we all code review each other's work so we're all exposed to all parts of the system.
How about rather than handing out money to the corporations to "do the right thing" we tax the fuck out of corps paying primarily 1099 and use that to fund real benefits for people.
You are aware capital gains pays a much lower rate yes? And that's where most of the ultra rich get their income. That's why Warren Buffet in discussing how the rich needs to be taxed more talks about how percentage wise he pays less tax than his secretary. Most of his income is capital gains.
If they want a particular console between the two that is what you should get. If they are indecisive or that won't work for whatever reason, if it's within your budget, I would suggest building a Windows gaming PC. With Big Picture in Steam, and modern video cards outputting HDMI you can use it as a living room device and it will be superior to a console in pretty much every way. You can use any controller you want with it, xbox, dualshock, Steam Controller, etc. and your back catalog of potential games is insanely huge. Graphics of a well built gaming PC will always be superior to console. The modern economics of games has made it such that almost every game you'll want to play will be coming to all three platforms, PC, xBox, and Playstation.
As a personal anecdote, my wife bought me a PS4 just last month for my birthday, because I really wanted to play The Last of Us. Now that I have a PS4, I went searching for console exclusives to play. I'm not finding more than a handful of games worth playing that aren't already on PC as well. And the PS4 is two years old, same as the xBone. Most games worth playing are simply on all three platforms now.
Another huge bonus of PC gaming is access to mods. You don't like the way a particular game mechanic plays, you can often find a mod to change it. I've found this incredibly helpful in increasing my enjoyment of a myriad of games. Since this is for your kids, using and understanding modding might also be a gateway for them to become more engaged with the technology. Many times it's not hard to write at least a simple mod of your own. Having the power to change something in game the way you want could be very interesting to them.
That list is woefully inaccurate. A huge number of those games are on pc as well. I actually really like that I can find so few exclusives. The economics of video games have pushed developers to make their games available on all platforms and that's an awesome thing.
My wife got me a ps4 for my birthday because I wanted to play the Last of Us (which was amazing). Now that I have one I'm searching for exclusives (non exclusives I'd just play on pc because I can mod them.) I'm finding very very few good ones. Infamous, uncharted, rapture, and bloodbourne are pretty much it right now. And looking to 2016 I'm not seeing a ton either. Horizon Zero Dawn and Witness (which will probably come to pc later anyway) is all that looks that interesting. Everything else will be on pc as well.
Few days after getting it. Had to hold both buttons to do a forced reset for it to come back on. Hasn't happened again though so fingers crossed. Hopefully it's a software issue they can patch.
That would be because it's unreasonably dangerous in most cases to hand signal a stop. You need both hands on your brakes to do the stop and your stability decreases as you apply the brakes. Signaling a stop is more dangerous in the vast majority of cases for the cyclist. The laws and reality do not match.
Except that's precisely how the Netherlands laws have worked for decades. And they have some of the safest roads in the developed world. God forbid you have to take extra care looking out for someone who is far more vulnerable than you.
You should try EVGA. I've bought EVGA cards for several years now. I've always bought either a super-clocked of a FTW card from them. All the cards I've ever bought from them are still going strong, including two 8800GTs. By contrast the 8800GT that came with my MacBook Pro had to be replaced within the year. Luckily the replacement card has lasted since then.
All the best to you. However, I'm not going to deface the paper version of the book, especially a hard cover, just to get a free or cheaper e-book. I'm a reader who likes his books pristine, I don't highlight and I don't take notes in the margins. If I want to take notes that's what note cards or my phone is for. Scrawling in the book is anathema to me. Based on the reviews I saw in the Apple app store, I'm not alone in this. And like one of the other reviews I saw, I also have a largish paper book library. Take that for what you will.
This is a very sad day for the United States and for freedom of expression. It's so disappointing that we've allowed terrorist fear and propaganda to suppress our culture and art.
Strikes me they should angry at either the city of L.A. or the state of California for not investing in better road infrastructure. Waze is a symptom of overburdened roads, lack of proper infrastructure is the cause.
I'd also be curious to know how many of these folks may have voted against tax increases to fund road infrastructure.
I live in Washington. From what I have read it's pretty hard to convict indecent exposure. It requires several tests that must all pass. For one, someone must actually be affronted and complain, the police can't just arrest you for being nude without someone claiming actual alarm. It also has to be proven that the nude person intended to affront or alarm someone. Being naked in public is not enough to prove this. Reasonable people see nudity commonly enough. So just seeing someone nude is not reasonable alarm. The law is intended to target things like flashers, not general nudity.
For anyone reading this "Insightful" comment. Please follow the abc link and read the article. While I'm generally not a fan of contempt of court charges, the individual in this particular case seems to have gotten what he deserves.
This is as bad as the % category and number ranking Microsoft used to explicitly do. It encourages good people to work in dysfunctional groups so they won't be part of the bottom 5%. It also punishes high performing groups that actually drive the bottom line. Needing Senior VP approval to not cut folks because you have a high performing group is beyond ridiculous.
Those ratios are terrible. No wonder I had to snatch up someone soon after they moved in from out of town. If we have sons, they're sure be getting the stick and twist living here.
Doing what is most economically efficient is not always what's best for society as a whole. The bankers and deregulators that helped create the Great Recession were just doing what was most economically efficient at the time. Tunnel vision like that often leads to very huge negative unintended consequences. Doing what is most economically efficient readily contributes to the destruction of the commons, whereby all of us suffer in small and large ways.
Most strawberry farms won't be replaced with a Disneyland, they'll be replaced with just another shopping mall. As a counter thought, consider what would happen if you decided to sell off Central Park in Manhattan. It's prime real estate and a lot of folks could do some very economically efficient things with that land. However, it would absolutely gut the character of Manhattan and a huge portion of the appeal of living there.
Building a city worth living in and being a part of cannot be viewed in strictly economic terms. And what's best for the economy is not always best for the people inhabiting a society. Some level of balance should be struck.
Doing what is most economically efficient is not always what's best for society as a whole. The bankers and deregulators that helped create the Great Recession were just doing what was most economically efficient at the time. Tunnel vision like that often leads to very huge negative unintended consequences. Doing what is most economically efficient readily contributes to the destruction of the commons, whereby all of us suffer in small and large ways.
Most strawberry farms won't be replaced with Disney, they'll be replaced with just another shopping mall. As a counter thought, consider what would happen if you decided to sell off Central Park in Manhattan. It's prime real estate and a lot of folks could do some very economically efficient things with that land. However, it would absolutely gut the character of Manhattan and a huge portion of the appeal of living there.
Building a city worth living in and being a part of cannot be viewed in strictly economic terms. And what's best for the economy is not always best for the people inhabiting a society. Some level of balance should be struck.
This is actually one of the main things that keeps me on Macs. They're the only ones who's product line for laptops is primarily 16:10 for the displays. I abhor the general conversion to 16:9. That additional vertical resolution is important to me.
This! After Enigma was cracked in WWII, the allies went to great length to make sure it remained cracked. They would fly fake recon flights near the locations of subs they knew about. This would make it appear as though the subs where found through conventional means.
While I didn't have an entire curriculum dedicated to anti-piracy, I did have to take CompSci as a graduation requirement from my high school. One of our assignments consisted of writing a children's book on the evils of hacking and piracy. Naturally, I took the opportunity to make a complete mockery of the assignment. Mr Peepers and the MegaVirus was the result. Highlights included an over the top evil mastermind wearing an adamantium mask, a virus causing a computer to get so hot it exploded, and impalation on a mounted unicorn head. Oh good times.
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This, so much this. Half time was just about right when I worked on a team that management required we still plan in hours (which I always thought was stupid). Even then we still tended to overestimate what we'd get done. Many tasks would end up with two hours remaining for like a week. Which I always blamed the hours formula for. If we just did a total tasks per sprint team limit or something like that I think we would have fared better.
With my most recent team I was able to set the standard and dump hours and only track in story points. Also dumped sprints and we do kanban. It has been the smoothest running project I've been on. No one is stressed about their projected hours being off and what we get done in a sprint because we don't have an artificial timebox. We keep the tasks small enough nothing can linger too long and that's good enough to keep us small, focused and not taking on too much at once. And for a two year project it's looking like we'll deliver about three months early, so that's a good thing as well.
I'm what you'd call a full stack dev. Most of my time is spent in Angular 2+ with plenty of messing around with Observables and the like. However, I also do work in Spring creating REST endpoints, entities, handling security and integrating with other web services. I also write SQL queries for use by Spring entities, and work with store procedures that inevitably are called by Spring. When I need a new table or column I'll discuss shape, form, naming of it and its relationships with the database folks and they'll put it. Then I'll write the sql to populate it.
We have a dedicated frontend design/developer. He's light on the Angular 2+ side, which allows the rest of us to focus on that part and he takes care of all the CSS. I could do the CSS if I needed to as I was a web developer as well further back in my career. However, while I'm good at user experience flow, I'm not good at the making it pretty part, so we're glad to have him handle that.
The rest of the devs (4) on the team are also what you'd probably call full stack though everyone has their strengths. I'm probably the strongest in Angular 2+ on our team. Two of the others are stronger on the stored procedure/database side of things. The other two are probably strongest in Spring, though one is getting pretty good with Angular 2+ now as well.
Inevitably the entire team, other than the frontend designer/developer, ends up working along all parts of the stack to varying degrees. And we all code review each other's work so we're all exposed to all parts of the system.
How about rather than handing out money to the corporations to "do the right thing" we tax the fuck out of corps paying primarily 1099 and use that to fund real benefits for people.
You are aware capital gains pays a much lower rate yes? And that's where most of the ultra rich get their income. That's why Warren Buffet in discussing how the rich needs to be taxed more talks about how percentage wise he pays less tax than his secretary. Most of his income is capital gains.
If they want a particular console between the two that is what you should get. If they are indecisive or that won't work for whatever reason, if it's within your budget, I would suggest building a Windows gaming PC. With Big Picture in Steam, and modern video cards outputting HDMI you can use it as a living room device and it will be superior to a console in pretty much every way. You can use any controller you want with it, xbox, dualshock, Steam Controller, etc. and your back catalog of potential games is insanely huge. Graphics of a well built gaming PC will always be superior to console. The modern economics of games has made it such that almost every game you'll want to play will be coming to all three platforms, PC, xBox, and Playstation.
As a personal anecdote, my wife bought me a PS4 just last month for my birthday, because I really wanted to play The Last of Us. Now that I have a PS4, I went searching for console exclusives to play. I'm not finding more than a handful of games worth playing that aren't already on PC as well. And the PS4 is two years old, same as the xBone. Most games worth playing are simply on all three platforms now.
Another huge bonus of PC gaming is access to mods. You don't like the way a particular game mechanic plays, you can often find a mod to change it. I've found this incredibly helpful in increasing my enjoyment of a myriad of games. Since this is for your kids, using and understanding modding might also be a gateway for them to become more engaged with the technology. Many times it's not hard to write at least a simple mod of your own. Having the power to change something in game the way you want could be very interesting to them.
The PS4 has a fair amount of exclusive games
That list is woefully inaccurate. A huge number of those games are on pc as well. I actually really like that I can find so few exclusives. The economics of video games have pushed developers to make their games available on all platforms and that's an awesome thing.
My wife got me a ps4 for my birthday because I wanted to play the Last of Us (which was amazing). Now that I have one I'm searching for exclusives (non exclusives I'd just play on pc because I can mod them.) I'm finding very very few good ones. Infamous, uncharted, rapture, and bloodbourne are pretty much it right now. And looking to 2016 I'm not seeing a ton either. Horizon Zero Dawn and Witness (which will probably come to pc later anyway) is all that looks that interesting. Everything else will be on pc as well.
Few days after getting it. Had to hold both buttons to do a forced reset for it to come back on. Hasn't happened again though so fingers crossed. Hopefully it's a software issue they can patch.
That would be because it's unreasonably dangerous in most cases to hand signal a stop. You need both hands on your brakes to do the stop and your stability decreases as you apply the brakes. Signaling a stop is more dangerous in the vast majority of cases for the cyclist. The laws and reality do not match.
Except that's precisely how the Netherlands laws have worked for decades. And they have some of the safest roads in the developed world. God forbid you have to take extra care looking out for someone who is far more vulnerable than you.
Not sure what that says exactly. But hey, never thought I'd be part of the 1% of anything.
Meant Mac Pro.
You should try EVGA. I've bought EVGA cards for several years now. I've always bought either a super-clocked of a FTW card from them. All the cards I've ever bought from them are still going strong, including two 8800GTs. By contrast the 8800GT that came with my MacBook Pro had to be replaced within the year. Luckily the replacement card has lasted since then.
All the best to you. However, I'm not going to deface the paper version of the book, especially a hard cover, just to get a free or cheaper e-book. I'm a reader who likes his books pristine, I don't highlight and I don't take notes in the margins. If I want to take notes that's what note cards or my phone is for. Scrawling in the book is anathema to me. Based on the reviews I saw in the Apple app store, I'm not alone in this. And like one of the other reviews I saw, I also have a largish paper book library. Take that for what you will.
This is a very sad day for the United States and for freedom of expression. It's so disappointing that we've allowed terrorist fear and propaganda to suppress our culture and art.
Strikes me they should angry at either the city of L.A. or the state of California for not investing in better road infrastructure. Waze is a symptom of overburdened roads, lack of proper infrastructure is the cause.
I'd also be curious to know how many of these folks may have voted against tax increases to fund road infrastructure.
I live in Washington. From what I have read it's pretty hard to convict indecent exposure. It requires several tests that must all pass. For one, someone must actually be affronted and complain, the police can't just arrest you for being nude without someone claiming actual alarm. It also has to be proven that the nude person intended to affront or alarm someone. Being naked in public is not enough to prove this. Reasonable people see nudity commonly enough. So just seeing someone nude is not reasonable alarm. The law is intended to target things like flashers, not general nudity.
For anyone reading this "Insightful" comment. Please follow the abc link and read the article. While I'm generally not a fan of contempt of court charges, the individual in this particular case seems to have gotten what he deserves.
This is as bad as the % category and number ranking Microsoft used to explicitly do. It encourages good people to work in dysfunctional groups so they won't be part of the bottom 5%. It also punishes high performing groups that actually drive the bottom line. Needing Senior VP approval to not cut folks because you have a high performing group is beyond ridiculous.
Those ratios are terrible. No wonder I had to snatch up someone soon after they moved in from out of town. If we have sons, they're sure be getting the stick and twist living here.
Doing what is most economically efficient is not always what's best for society as a whole. The bankers and deregulators that helped create the Great Recession were just doing what was most economically efficient at the time. Tunnel vision like that often leads to very huge negative unintended consequences. Doing what is most economically efficient readily contributes to the destruction of the commons, whereby all of us suffer in small and large ways.
Most strawberry farms won't be replaced with a Disneyland, they'll be replaced with just another shopping mall. As a counter thought, consider what would happen if you decided to sell off Central Park in Manhattan. It's prime real estate and a lot of folks could do some very economically efficient things with that land. However, it would absolutely gut the character of Manhattan and a huge portion of the appeal of living there.
Building a city worth living in and being a part of cannot be viewed in strictly economic terms. And what's best for the economy is not always best for the people inhabiting a society. Some level of balance should be struck.
Doing what is most economically efficient is not always what's best for society as a whole. The bankers and deregulators that helped create the Great Recession were just doing what was most economically efficient at the time. Tunnel vision like that often leads to very huge negative unintended consequences. Doing what is most economically efficient readily contributes to the destruction of the commons, whereby all of us suffer in small and large ways.
Most strawberry farms won't be replaced with Disney, they'll be replaced with just another shopping mall. As a counter thought, consider what would happen if you decided to sell off Central Park in Manhattan. It's prime real estate and a lot of folks could do some very economically efficient things with that land. However, it would absolutely gut the character of Manhattan and a huge portion of the appeal of living there.
Building a city worth living in and being a part of cannot be viewed in strictly economic terms. And what's best for the economy is not always best for the people inhabiting a society. Some level of balance should be struck.
You're responding to a thread in which the person already stated they're on a disability budget. So kudos to you for calling a disabled person lazy!
This is actually one of the main things that keeps me on Macs. They're the only ones who's product line for laptops is primarily 16:10 for the displays. I abhor the general conversion to 16:9. That additional vertical resolution is important to me.
This! After Enigma was cracked in WWII, the allies went to great length to make sure it remained cracked. They would fly fake recon flights near the locations of subs they knew about. This would make it appear as though the subs where found through conventional means.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra#Safeguarding_of_sources
While I didn't have an entire curriculum dedicated to anti-piracy, I did have to take CompSci as a graduation requirement from my high school. One of our assignments consisted of writing a children's book on the evils of hacking and piracy. Naturally, I took the opportunity to make a complete mockery of the assignment. Mr Peepers and the MegaVirus was the result. Highlights included an over the top evil mastermind wearing an adamantium mask, a virus causing a computer to get so hot it exploded, and impalation on a mounted unicorn head. Oh good times.