Until they mandate everyone validate their identity. Things like requiring a mobile number for account creation is already becoming popular. It's depressing but not using your real name is going to become harder and harder, all so they can show you ads that are still probably going to be irrelevant.
Give extlinux a try. It's still around and is very lilo like, simple config file vice a huge maze of support scripts generating the actual complex configuration files that grub2 uses.
Well, in scrum specifically that's what all the rebalancing is about. You ask "does this amount of work make sense for the window we've got (2 weeks)" and if the answer is no, you add/subtract stuff as required.
I'm not saying it solves all the problems or has to be rigidly adopted to see any benefit, but I feel like it legitimately does address a lot of very common problems in software dev teams in a reasonably effective way.
Chunking stuff up into managable pieces has always been good practice for schedule management, all scrum does it provide a well thought out and consistent way of doing it. The caveat is you have to accept that not every task is going to fit into this model. Sometimes you need to just have a dev pound on something for a month until he figures it out, and breaking it up into "deliverables" just adds overhead, but I feel like if you can get _most_ of your stuff into a "small deliverable/demonstratable pieces" mindset, it's a good thing.
I think it's a little less "wool over their eyes"-y and more about creating a process where the high level stuff managers care about is easier to track and control and giving developers space to do their thing without managers meddling too much. It creates a clear(ish) demarcation point. Managers worry about things at the sprint and maybe story level, developers make it actually happen. Once it's decided that it's happening, developers (in theory) are left alone to actually do it.
Contrast that to "pre-agile" style where managers would just poke in and out and ask about whatever random bit of functionality they happened to care about at the moment or re-prioritize stuff because someone send them an email. What agile does for the developer is codifies "I have 2 weeks to code this specific thing, go away and let me do it".
Agree it's about people and shitty programmers are gonna be shitty regardless of process.
That said, as someone who's seen adoption of agile make a huge (mostly positive) difference, I do think changing methodologies can sometimes be a good idea... if for no other reason than it gets people into a "doing something different" mindset rather than a "business as usual" mindset.
I'll also say that software as a business has changed dramatically. It was never just about programming, but I certainly feel that the code itself was a far bigger factor in the overall success of a project than it is now. These days the actual code seems to just be a minor detail amongst contracts, requirements, licensing, and layers of internal and external bureaucracy. A lot of newer methodologies and tools seem discretely aimed at getting middle and upper management out of the developers way and letting programmers sit down and work on the same thing for a few weeks without some higher-up making them switch to whatever their biggest fire is at the moment.
There was a show called Dark Matters that did a segment on this. The show itself had shitty production values, sometimes went a bit heavy with sensationalism, and the facts were a bit dubious... but some of the segments were decent, and the Theremin one was one of them.
News to me. Possibly true, but I doubt that's the main reason for MySQLs popularity.
MySQL is simply easier to use and administer. Postgres has a sharper learning curve. This made MySQL the go-to for shared web hosting (back before you could have a VPS for pocket change) and so it's what everyone ended up using for anything web related.
Personally I prefer postgres, but I get the appeal of MySQL. It has a much warmer and fuzzier user experience.
Even excluding performance, this is majorly at play in the shape of phones. They are all now flat rectangles, sized for use as a touchscreen rather than holding to the side of your head and talking. That alone makes them pretty shitty for making an actual phone call. Add in a protective case to muffle the speaker and mic, and yeah, my old Motorola clam shell was much better as a straight phone.
I won't argue that moc and the voodoo it does it's scary, but the thing is.. it works really damn well. By contrast the weird crap GTK does (with things like glade) is simpler but often causes problems that are a headache to sort out (at least for me).
Trying to write anything using GTK after using Qt feels like going back in time. It's amazing that GTK is still around and so popular, it really is shit.
Dunno if I'd stretch it as far as you have, but definitely agree that as a toolkit Qt kicks GTK's ass and always has.
Watching old interviews of Lucas is kinda depressing. The guy does have a talent. Maybe he's like Tarantino and needs people holding the leash and a limited budget for it to really work, but I do think a lot of the original trilogy was him. It's sad to see a guy go from being revered to being almost universally mocked.
"A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing."
He once said that! How does a guy go from that to a mind numbing scene that's basically 2 characters smashing light-sabers together on a CGI backdrop for like 20 minutes.
When a company is getting out of a line of business and no longer needs the skills those people brought. When a project downscales and there's nothing new for everyone to do. When a company looks at their workforce and realizes they've got too many of one skillset and not enough of another.
There are legit reasons, but often it's about firing your skilled local (and more expensive) workforce and bringing in cheaper replacements. Shuffle everything around under the guise of a "restructuring" so it's not as obvious, but you end up with the same number of people only a lot cheaper and less local.
If your testers, upper management, and customers arn't on board, you end up with exactly what you said.
Personally I think scrum works if you arn't religious about it. Take the bits that work, introduce it slowly, don't get hung up on the "proper" way of doing something. As you said, the core principles are sound, and I'll add that a lot of the management tools built around scrum are pretty decent. Building often makes sense, testing incrementally makes sense, letting the customer see things early (usually) makes sense, etc.
Yup. In Canada (at least with the bank I dealt with) it was 2 sources for 3 years. In my case I had a 3 year car loan (paid off) plus my credit card so I was good. No idea if having 2 credit cards would do it or not.
Yup, and having just gotten a mortgage this year, my bank required: - a list of my current expenses / bills - my income for the last 2 years - proof and history going back 6 months of the money I was using for a down payment
For all that people rail on about how stupid and illogical the credit score system is, it does generally seem to work in most cases. People who are financially responsible do tend to end up with good credit scores, and those who arn't tend to have bad ones.
The only area it's weak in is people who manage to get into their adult life without needing credit, but then if you've never had a car loan, a credit card, or any kind of debt, even if it's because you're financially well off, it's still probably a bad idea to hand you a 300k mortgage.
And building credit isn't hard. You don't have to pay interest, just get a no fee credit card, use it for some of your purchases and pay it off every month. Most banks will give you a credit card if you leave a deposit covering the limit with them for a certain amount of time, or you can get someone to co-sign (usually a parent).
Yeah, the whole prophets thing goes a bit off the rails for sure, definitely my least favourite aspect of the series, though they do kinda bring it back down to earth a bit later on.
By intro I meant the opening title/music, and I would even expand it to include the launch speech. Agree that the premise of the first episode was absolutely horrific.
Thing is I really tried to like it. I went in knowing exactly what you said, that no matter what the internet was gonna tear it to shreds and I was going to give it a legitimate chance (I can say the same about the Matrix sequels).
The intro definitely got me excited, in retrospect that and the setting (as was already mentioned) are pretty much the only thing they got right. There were a few episodes I would describe as ok, but most range from mediocre to terrible. I kept watching in the hopes that it would get better, because as you said, starting shitty and improving is kinda the sci-fi way, but unlike most I feel like the show actually got worse as it progressed. The more they explored of the Vulcans, the whole temporal war, it just wasn't pleasant to watch.. and the characters didn't really develop so much as randomly and awkwardly change as required to fit the story. It lacked the warm cuddliness of TNG and the original series but didn't pull off the darker tone the way Deep Space 9 did. You had a bunch of characters you didn't like, didn't care about, and a situation that had no tension because of the time travel element.
TLDR: I don't buy that internet hate destroyed it, it was objectively terrible from beginning to end.
For sites that provide a service, or sites which provide new (good) content on a regular basis, I wouldn't mind paying a subscription for them. The two main problems are getting the audience in the first place, and all the sites that are useful but you might only hit once or twice in your lifetime when you were looking for that thing.
But ultimately I don't have a problem with ads either in principle... if only they wern't so shitty. Back in the 90s when sites would hand pick ads, it made sense. The ads were often relevant because the webmaster (we're in the 90s remember!) knew their audience. The ads were also often locally hosted, which meant they didn't slow down the page load. Todays overloaded ad networks serve you at best ads that arn't relevant at all, and at worst scams/malware... and in either case, they'll certainly slow down the page load time and come with all kinds of privacy implications.
Entirely this. In my opinion grub 2 is where they really went off the rails. When you have a set of configuration files that configure the set of scripts that generate the _actual_ configuration, something has gone horribly, horribly wrong.
Personally I use extlinux and have been very happy with it. You get the classic "single and really simple configuration file" feel of LILO with the subset of bells and whistles that you actually need.
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Only works if everyone else plays along. The problem with securing email has never been a lack of means but a lack of popularity.
and there's fuck all anyone can do about it
Until they mandate everyone validate their identity. Things like requiring a mobile number for account creation is already becoming popular. It's depressing but not using your real name is going to become harder and harder, all so they can show you ads that are still probably going to be irrelevant.
Give extlinux a try. It's still around and is very lilo like, simple config file vice a huge maze of support scripts generating the actual complex configuration files that grub2 uses.
Well, in scrum specifically that's what all the rebalancing is about. You ask "does this amount of work make sense for the window we've got (2 weeks)" and if the answer is no, you add/subtract stuff as required.
I'm not saying it solves all the problems or has to be rigidly adopted to see any benefit, but I feel like it legitimately does address a lot of very common problems in software dev teams in a reasonably effective way.
Chunking stuff up into managable pieces has always been good practice for schedule management, all scrum does it provide a well thought out and consistent way of doing it. The caveat is you have to accept that not every task is going to fit into this model. Sometimes you need to just have a dev pound on something for a month until he figures it out, and breaking it up into "deliverables" just adds overhead, but I feel like if you can get _most_ of your stuff into a "small deliverable/demonstratable pieces" mindset, it's a good thing.
I think it's a little less "wool over their eyes"-y and more about creating a process where the high level stuff managers care about is easier to track and control and giving developers space to do their thing without managers meddling too much. It creates a clear(ish) demarcation point. Managers worry about things at the sprint and maybe story level, developers make it actually happen. Once it's decided that it's happening, developers (in theory) are left alone to actually do it.
Contrast that to "pre-agile" style where managers would just poke in and out and ask about whatever random bit of functionality they happened to care about at the moment or re-prioritize stuff because someone send them an email. What agile does for the developer is codifies "I have 2 weeks to code this specific thing, go away and let me do it".
Agree it's about people and shitty programmers are gonna be shitty regardless of process.
That said, as someone who's seen adoption of agile make a huge (mostly positive) difference, I do think changing methodologies can sometimes be a good idea... if for no other reason than it gets people into a "doing something different" mindset rather than a "business as usual" mindset.
I'll also say that software as a business has changed dramatically. It was never just about programming, but I certainly feel that the code itself was a far bigger factor in the overall success of a project than it is now. These days the actual code seems to just be a minor detail amongst contracts, requirements, licensing, and layers of internal and external bureaucracy. A lot of newer methodologies and tools seem discretely aimed at getting middle and upper management out of the developers way and letting programmers sit down and work on the same thing for a few weeks without some higher-up making them switch to whatever their biggest fire is at the moment.
There was a show called Dark Matters that did a segment on this. The show itself had shitty production values, sometimes went a bit heavy with sensationalism, and the facts were a bit dubious... but some of the segments were decent, and the Theremin one was one of them.
News to me. Possibly true, but I doubt that's the main reason for MySQLs popularity.
MySQL is simply easier to use and administer. Postgres has a sharper learning curve. This made MySQL the go-to for shared web hosting (back before you could have a VPS for pocket change) and so it's what everyone ended up using for anything web related.
Personally I prefer postgres, but I get the appeal of MySQL. It has a much warmer and fuzzier user experience.
This is textbook "form over function" design.
Even excluding performance, this is majorly at play in the shape of phones. They are all now flat rectangles, sized for use as a touchscreen rather than holding to the side of your head and talking. That alone makes them pretty shitty for making an actual phone call. Add in a protective case to muffle the speaker and mic, and yeah, my old Motorola clam shell was much better as a straight phone.
I won't argue that moc and the voodoo it does it's scary, but the thing is.. it works really damn well. By contrast the weird crap GTK does (with things like glade) is simpler but often causes problems that are a headache to sort out (at least for me).
Trying to write anything using GTK after using Qt feels like going back in time. It's amazing that GTK is still around and so popular, it really is shit.
Dunno if I'd stretch it as far as you have, but definitely agree that as a toolkit Qt kicks GTK's ass and always has.
Watching old interviews of Lucas is kinda depressing. The guy does have a talent. Maybe he's like Tarantino and needs people holding the leash and a limited budget for it to really work, but I do think a lot of the original trilogy was him. It's sad to see a guy go from being revered to being almost universally mocked.
"A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing."
He once said that! How does a guy go from that to a mind numbing scene that's basically 2 characters smashing light-sabers together on a CGI backdrop for like 20 minutes.
Off the top of my head:
When a company is getting out of a line of business and no longer needs the skills those people brought.
When a project downscales and there's nothing new for everyone to do.
When a company looks at their workforce and realizes they've got too many of one skillset and not enough of another.
There are legit reasons, but often it's about firing your skilled local (and more expensive) workforce and bringing in cheaper replacements. Shuffle everything around under the guise of a "restructuring" so it's not as obvious, but you end up with the same number of people only a lot cheaper and less local.
Definitely A.
If your testers, upper management, and customers arn't on board, you end up with exactly what you said.
Personally I think scrum works if you arn't religious about it. Take the bits that work, introduce it slowly, don't get hung up on the "proper" way of doing something. As you said, the core principles are sound, and I'll add that a lot of the management tools built around scrum are pretty decent. Building often makes sense, testing incrementally makes sense, letting the customer see things early (usually) makes sense, etc.
Indeed, been using palemoon for awhile and very happy with it. Basically Firefox before it started to suck with the improvements that actually matter.
I really hope the project keeps on trucking, for now it's definitely the best option for the Firefox user who's getting tired of all the bullshit.
Yup. In Canada (at least with the bank I dealt with) it was 2 sources for 3 years. In my case I had a 3 year car loan (paid off) plus my credit card so I was good. No idea if having 2 credit cards would do it or not.
Yup, and having just gotten a mortgage this year, my bank required:
- a list of my current expenses / bills
- my income for the last 2 years
- proof and history going back 6 months of the money I was using for a down payment
For all that people rail on about how stupid and illogical the credit score system is, it does generally seem to work in most cases. People who are financially responsible do tend to end up with good credit scores, and those who arn't tend to have bad ones.
The only area it's weak in is people who manage to get into their adult life without needing credit, but then if you've never had a car loan, a credit card, or any kind of debt, even if it's because you're financially well off, it's still probably a bad idea to hand you a 300k mortgage.
And building credit isn't hard. You don't have to pay interest, just get a no fee credit card, use it for some of your purchases and pay it off every month. Most banks will give you a credit card if you leave a deposit covering the limit with them for a certain amount of time, or you can get someone to co-sign (usually a parent).
Yeah, the whole prophets thing goes a bit off the rails for sure, definitely my least favourite aspect of the series, though they do kinda bring it back down to earth a bit later on.
By intro I meant the opening title/music, and I would even expand it to include the launch speech. Agree that the premise of the first episode was absolutely horrific.
Thing is I really tried to like it. I went in knowing exactly what you said, that no matter what the internet was gonna tear it to shreds and I was going to give it a legitimate chance (I can say the same about the Matrix sequels).
The intro definitely got me excited, in retrospect that and the setting (as was already mentioned) are pretty much the only thing they got right. There were a few episodes I would describe as ok, but most range from mediocre to terrible. I kept watching in the hopes that it would get better, because as you said, starting shitty and improving is kinda the sci-fi way, but unlike most I feel like the show actually got worse as it progressed. The more they explored of the Vulcans, the whole temporal war, it just wasn't pleasant to watch.. and the characters didn't really develop so much as randomly and awkwardly change as required to fit the story. It lacked the warm cuddliness of TNG and the original series but didn't pull off the darker tone the way Deep Space 9 did. You had a bunch of characters you didn't like, didn't care about, and a situation that had no tension because of the time travel element.
TLDR: I don't buy that internet hate destroyed it, it was objectively terrible from beginning to end.
Pretty much this.
Anything popular is going to attract all manner of crazy from the general public.
There's a handful that I entirely would.
For sites that provide a service, or sites which provide new (good) content on a regular basis, I wouldn't mind paying a subscription for them. The two main problems are getting the audience in the first place, and all the sites that are useful but you might only hit once or twice in your lifetime when you were looking for that thing.
But ultimately I don't have a problem with ads either in principle... if only they wern't so shitty. Back in the 90s when sites would hand pick ads, it made sense. The ads were often relevant because the webmaster (we're in the 90s remember!) knew their audience. The ads were also often locally hosted, which meant they didn't slow down the page load. Todays overloaded ad networks serve you at best ads that arn't relevant at all, and at worst scams/malware... and in either case, they'll certainly slow down the page load time and come with all kinds of privacy implications.
Look into extlinux, it's what I switched to when grub totally went off the rails.
Entirely this. In my opinion grub 2 is where they really went off the rails. When you have a set of configuration files that configure the set of scripts that generate the _actual_ configuration, something has gone horribly, horribly wrong.
Personally I use extlinux and have been very happy with it. You get the classic "single and really simple configuration file" feel of LILO with the subset of bells and whistles that you actually need.