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  1. Re:Betteridge's law on Should Developers Abandon Agile? (ronjeffries.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet, you can do lots and lots of stories, and in the end you have a big steaming pile, because the stories don't add up to anything. This is not a problem of "agile" but bad requirements engineering (business analysis) and specifications.

  2. Re:One problem: no normative definition of "Agile" on Should Developers Abandon Agile? (ronjeffries.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds pretty like "agile" to me, and no one ever said a sprint should be 1 week. A sprint usually is 6 weeks to 3 month. Only hardcore agile teams that _do agile correctly_ can manage sprints shorter than 3 weeks.

  3. Re:One problem: no normative definition of "Agile" on Should Developers Abandon Agile? (ronjeffries.com) · · Score: 1

    "You're not doing it right" has become a mantra for explaining away any shortcomings ...
    If something does not work, there are two options:
    a) it can not work
    b) it would work if done right: but you don't do it right ... shortcomings, of which there are more than a few.
    So, which are the short comings of "agile" and which agile method do you refer to?

    I always here the mantra that "agile" has shortcomings, but never anyone is able to point some out.

  4. Re:Grids are already 90-95% efficient ... on Can An 'OS For Electricity' Double the Efficiency of the Grid? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    No. Power flows the other way making it not an exact same thing.
    The power does not flow the other way, it flows the same way.

    I get it that the sun doesn't shine in Germany (though it has been a lovely week) and there are very few solar panels here
    Germany has the biggest solar installations per capita of the world.

  5. That's not surprising, as nearly 30% of West Virginia is without internet access
    I really wonder how many people in Bangladesh have no internet access. In absolute numbers it might be more than in West Virginia, but percentage wise ...

  6. Re: Lesson learned on Should Apple Let Competitors Use FaceTime? (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Facetime is based on open standards:

    The FaceTime protocol is based on numerous open industry standards[9] although it is not interoperable with other videotelephony systems:

    H.264 and AAC-ELD â" video and audio codecs respectively.
    SIP â" IETF signaling protocol for VoIP.
    STUN, TURN and ICE â" IETF technologies for traversing firewalls and NAT.
    RTP and SRTP â" IETF standards for delivering real-time and encrypted media streams for VoIP.
    Upon the launch of the iPhone 4, Jobs stated that Apple would immediately start working with standards bodies to make the FaceTime protocol an "open industry standard". While the protocols are open standards, Apple's FaceTime service requires a client-side certificate.[10]

    FaceTime calls are protected by end-to-end encryption so that only the sender and receiver can access them. Apple cannot decrypt this data.[11]

    Compared to most SIP implementations, Facetime adds techniques that enhance performance at the cost of breaking interoperability:[12] port multiplexing, SDP minimization and SDP compression.

    See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  7. Re:Only two features... on Should Apple Let Competitors Use FaceTime? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Use a system that is cross platform.
    I don't get it. Why do people who are so smart as you are write such bollox, nonsense, bullshit?

    If you only speak english, I have to address you in english, I can not sent you a letter in german or mandarin.

    If you only have WhatsApp, and I find you sexy, obviously I install WhatsApp instead of pestering you with begging you to install a cross platform app.

    If someone gives you his phone number you call him, if he gives you his eMail, you sent him an email. You are not pestering to give him the other just because it is more convenient for you (or do you?)

  8. Re:Only two features... on Should Apple Let Competitors Use FaceTime? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The failure of google is: the apps don't work, or to be fair: work barely.
    And more important to me: they are so ugly it hurts my eyes to use them. (Looking at you: Hangouts)

  9. Re:Only two features... on Should Apple Let Competitors Use FaceTime? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I know no one who as "find my friends" switched on.

    Who is using such a privacy breach? And what actually makes it so interesting for you? Tracking your kids? Your wife, do really all your friends know where you are?

  10. Re:Who cares about facetime? on Should Apple Let Competitors Use FaceTime? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It is the opposite around.
    As soon as they realize how cool an Apple Software is, they might switch devices.

  11. Re:Who cares about facetime? on Should Apple Let Competitors Use FaceTime? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    On my iPhone I have: Skype, Threema, Telegram, WhatsApp, Viber and Line. So have most of my friends.
    How exactly do you chat with an Android friend who has no iMessenger but only Viber or WhatsApp, without installing Viber or WhatsApp?
    Actually it is the opposite way around, most iPhone friends have switched off iMessenger as it does not work reliable cross devices.

  12. Re:A polite no thank you on Should Apple Let Competitors Use FaceTime? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't want any software on my devices not written by me! I'm working right now with my soldering iron to fix the firmware so that the machine boots cleanly into nothing. Then I will build a switchboard to hack together and rudimentary "monitor" like OS to boot into. Then I will start writing my assembler ... just not sure from where and how to feed it its source code ... USB is still to far away, a file system out of scope ... I guess as a one man project, spending about4h a day, it will take roughly 48 years to finish. But then my laptop will boot into a clean command line based OS ... /. I will miss you ... I doubt I ever will come to the point to implement my own browser on top of my own OS and wifi driver ... but well, I likely learn a lot, write books, give interviews, become a software marxist etc. p.p. you know the drill.

  13. Re:An answer to the question on Should Apple Let Competitors Use FaceTime? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Skype 15 years ago worked superbly.
    No idea why several vendor/owner changes and rewrites fucked it up so badly.
    However I still use Skype for video calls.

  14. Re:An answer to the question on Should Apple Let Competitors Use FaceTime? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Since when is the protocol proprietary? It is Jabbar, you moron!

  15. Re:Grids are already 90-95% efficient ... on Can An 'OS For Electricity' Double the Efficiency of the Grid? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    It may be a small efficiency problem for you if all your customers turn off loads, but it becomes a big problem if all of them backfeed 2kW into the system.
    No it is no problem: it is EXACT the same thing.

    Power transformers typically have been compensated to work efficiently in one direction only.
    Yes and no. Feeding in e.g. solar power is not supposed to go via a transformer in your block into a higher voltage level. If you want to feed solar power into the grid on a higher level, every installation has to transform to that level and be connected to it.

    Then you have to consider if the switchgear has been designed not to detect the backfeed
    There is no back feed ...

  16. Re: An answer to the question on Should Apple Let Competitors Use FaceTime? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, they are friends - second class - but still are friends. You are so silly ...

  17. Re:Phones Are HELPFUL! on French School Students To Be Banned From Using Mobile Phones (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and so want the other 300 parents of those 300 kids.
    So, one minute per kid to inform the parent ... adds up to 5hours of phone calls. Sure, if the teachers have mobiles probably 10 teachers can call 30 parents each, still takes half an hour.

    It makes much more sense each child calls on its own, and only those who have no phone are covered by other kids or teachers.

  18. Re:Not a drill on French School Students To Be Banned From Using Mobile Phones (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    And when was the last school shooting in France? 2017 happened 1 with 4 injured, the one before that was 2012 ... 4 dead.

    Interesting list: https://www.infoplease.com/us/...

    Shootings every month, sometimes more than once a month in the US ... and you think more die in France, ha ha ha ha.

  19. You can also take notes on a laptop or tablet ...
    And if you insist on handwriting, just take a tablet that is suited for that (or an eBook reader).

  20. Re:Grids are already 90-95% efficient ... on Can An 'OS For Electricity' Double the Efficiency of the Grid? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    not to mention major losses due to backfeeding from end users generation like solar through systems that were designed to be efficient feeding the other direction.
    That is nonsense.
    The grid does not know if you:
    a) switch of your AC, or
    b) feed in 2kW with your solar panel

    A) and b) look exactly the same.

  21. Re: I would love it on Google Facing Billions in EU Antitrust Fines (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I will vote for any politician that is in favor of a total ban on Eurovision Song Competition.
    Me too!

  22. Re:An opportunity missed on Oracle Lays Off Java Mission Control Team After Open Sourcing Product (infoq.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you mean this Kotlin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ?
    I used it significantly before 2011.

    Scala was not developed to "fix" any "shortcomings" or "design issues" of Java. It was developed because the inventor is a language freak. The same guy who developed the Java 1.4/Pizza compiler: Martin Odersky.

    but the JVM is far too slow for any of the kind of work that I do these days.
    That is ridicules.

  23. Re:Would it cost them less to just stop serving EU on Google Facing Billions in EU Antitrust Fines (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Ha ha ha ha ...

    You must have had a bad school education ...

    However you have a nice nick, if the /. number would be 6502, I would consider to buy it.

  24. Many companies, in Europe, use job offerings as a kind of "advertizement". In other words: there is no such job, no idea if that also happens in the US:

  25. What exactly is a "Millenial"? Most certainly not one who was born around 2000 ... he would have trouble to be 18 now.