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  1. Re:"When one is lagging, one needs new approaches" on Germany, Seeking Independence From US, Pushes Cyber Security Research (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Germany has privacy protections for its citizens. Just like all the other 'eyes', they need other nations to spy on their people for them (and of course vice versa).

  2. Re:"Cyber security" on Germany, Seeking Independence From US, Pushes Cyber Security Research (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll take happy, drunk Bavarians over goose stepping Prussians with sticks up their asses.

  3. Re:they're Indian services after all. on India Pushes Back Against Tech 'Colonization' by Internet Giants (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    San Jose.

  4. Re:Use: Evading capital controls. on Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies Are Useless, The Economist Says (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    In and out in a day. Did you read the tread?

  5. Re:IBM in India on India Pushes Back Against Tech 'Colonization' by Internet Giants (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    x86 was 'off the shelf' when IBM selected it for the first PC. They licensed PC-DOS from Gates.

    The only thing they built was the bios, which Compaq reverse engineered for us.

  6. Re: A new pile. on The State of Agile Software in 2018 (martinfowler.com) · · Score: 1

    If you think "process' and tools" empower individuals, we don't have a common basis for discussion. I don't believe you work in software development, at least not in a technical role.

    'Process and Tools' (like scrum) are designed to empower PHBs who don't understand development. It empowers them alright...not in a good way.

  7. All the land in all the countries listed by GP were part of the Ottoman _empire_. AKA Turkey. It lasted till the end of WWI.

  8. You can feel a loose wire nut when you put it on. Hire better workers, yours don't care at all. Likely all fucked up on the job.

  9. If your really lucky. The breakers cost about 20x the sockets. You can wire a GFCI as the first socket in a chain to protect the whole circuit. Good luck finding it, if you don't already know.

    I knew an old man who's back patio was out of power for six months. That GFCI socket was behind shelves in the garage on the other side of the house. Near the panel. I found all the others first.

  10. Re:Use: Evading capital controls. on Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies Are Useless, The Economist Says (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Potato PotAto. The point is, it is personally and socially useful.

    It's only anon, if you only use the wallet for two transactions. Otherwise, one mistake.

    Nations that impose capital controls at their borders are never up to any good. This is a technical check and balance on that particular government overreach.

  11. Re:A new pile. on The State of Agile Software in 2018 (martinfowler.com) · · Score: 1

    That's scrum. Particularly the 'cog' feature, which is the most broken part of scrum.

    There is nothing in Agile that says: 'Don't do an initial design'. It does say (para): 'Don't expect you initial design to be right or complete. Expect to make frequent adjustments. Expect the client to realize they have additional requirements.'

  12. Use: Evading capital controls. on Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies Are Useless, The Economist Says (economist.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    'The Economist' might not see evading capital controls as useful, but they are wrong.

    Not an investment vehicle, but for 'in and out' in a day, good enough.

  13. From you, that's a compliment.

    Retarded trolls disagreeing with me is a sign I'm right again.

  14. Re: A new pile. on The State of Agile Software in 2018 (martinfowler.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that Agile IS done correctly, many places.

    Places that laugh at any scrummy people that apply.

    You have obviously never read the manifesto.

  15. Re:A new pile. on The State of Agile Software in 2018 (martinfowler.com) · · Score: 1

    Agile says explicitly that a good team will succeed despite the process and a bad team is useless, no matter what process is used.

    Lack of formal process rituals doesn't mean you don't have authority and responsibility on team members.

  16. Re:A new pile. on The State of Agile Software in 2018 (martinfowler.com) · · Score: 2

    You disagree with the authors of the Agile manifesto.

    I bet you have _never_ shipped code.

  17. Re:Handy cross-reference for job seekers on The State of Agile Software in 2018 (martinfowler.com) · · Score: 1

    Double the number and switch to the next larger unit.

    1 week = 2 months. etc.

  18. Re:YMMV on The State of Agile Software in 2018 (martinfowler.com) · · Score: 0

    Agile is a manifesto, not a process. The formal agile processes (e.g. Scrum) are never Agile in any meaningful sense of the word.

    Agile says (para), build a strong team and fuck formal processes. Talk to the client a lot. Hire competent enthusiastic individuals.

    The last part is my test: Someone claims to be agile, the immediate follow up is 'how do your salaries compare to industry average?' If they aren't paying well over industry average, they are not agile. 'Competent enthusiastic individuals' don't work for average pay.

  19. Re:A new pile. on The State of Agile Software in 2018 (martinfowler.com) · · Score: 1

    Agile != Scrum.

    That's the point, 99% of 'Agile' is actually Scrum or some other stupid, ridgid methodology.

    Agile has 'people over process' right in the manifesto.

  20. Re: A new pile. on The State of Agile Software in 2018 (martinfowler.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Agile is a manifesto full of truisms. Nothing to argue with, but PHBs are not the target audience and DON'T GET IT. Only take the parts they like, such as (para via PHB brain) 'specs are useless'.

    Scrum is just a bad idea and is often called 'Agile'.

  21. I've been reading Amature Doctor magazine for 25 years. If that doesn't make me a doctor, I don't know what does.

  22. An excess of BAD computer programmers.

    You can no more make 50% of the population good computer programmers than you can make 50% of the population symphony class musicians.

  23. Re:1st Amendment on AI Still Useless at Catching Hate Speech, Research Finds (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    What I said. Nerf the net with a whitelist of sites that protect you (and other children).

    Common carrier status matters. All the sites that filter, are _responsible_ for all content on their sites.

    There have been a whole list of, now ignored, sites that ended their viability with such rules. The surprise would be if the filtered sites survive for long.

  24. A good friend is in a similar situation. His son was doing breathing exercises to maintain his 'breathing score' and just squeaked into the study, despite being older.

    Now they are just scared that he was assigned to the control group and got placebo. There is at least one study accepting boys as old as 18.

  25. Organic pesticides are less effective and require higher doses and more frequent application.

    Those are facts on the ground.