Agile's biggest problem is that it is bloated. It tried (tokenly) to be this lean development methodology but it keeps getting burdened with more and more cruft. Same problem every time: some company nobody has ever heard of announces that by forcing all developers to speak only in haikus during scrums, they increased productivity by 12.86%. Now every company feels the need to adopt that. A year and several increasingly-bullshit announcements later, we all have to have scrums from 9:18-9:33am Eastern Martian time, speak in haikus, address each other only by our given pirate nicknames, and sing all four verses to "God Save the Queen" at the start of sprint planning meetings (even though none of us live in the UK).
Time isn't hard to get right. We have just done done a wonderful job of making it complicated.
Also known as, we've made it hard to get right. We're not talking about time in the abstract, we're talking about our implementation of it being hard to get right because we have complicated the hell out of it.
This is a large part of the problem. More often than not these issues stem from people trying to roll their own time handling code / int'l address code / i18n / etc rather than using one of the standard (and well-tested) libraries available in their language.
Time is hard to get right, addresses are hard to get right, i18n is hard to get right. Don't roll your own. There's a thousand edge cases you haven't accounted for.
It is kinda unclear at first glance if you don't look really closely. I made the same assumption at first, that the line ending represented the cost of that item.
Figured that had to be a calculation error on the TV thing. That helps the numbers quite a bit. Now you're up to about $500 month left over. That's a much more reasonable value with some added wiggle room if needed in some of the other lines.
I'm a bit surprised your mortgage is still so high. My mortgage was for $110K when I bought (selling it currently for $170K, hooray market recovery!) and even with Florida's silly insurance prices my monthly payment is 60% less than yours for only a ~25% lower mortgage. And your prop taxes are only about $300/yr higher than mine. Do you have a really high interest rate? Or are you also in area with crazy insurance costs?
How in the hell are you spending $433 a month on TV/Internet/Phone? Is that even possible? I could get the best plan for each in my town and not even be half that.
And 19.2K for your mortgage? My 1500 sq ft house in a mid-size city of 1 million is only 9K including prop tax and insurance (and that's in Florida where insurance is absurd). You have no money left over because you chose to settle in an overpriced city. In most of the country 70K is a very comfortable number for two people.
You aren't paying regular income tax. You are paying short-term capital gains tax which mirrors the standard income tax rates. They are not technically the same tax, however. And the period where you go from short-term to long-term is one year, not two.
So if I buy an investment property for $80K, put $20K and months of sweat into renovating, then sell it for $140K, I didn't "earn" that profit that is subject to capital gains tax?
Capital gains covers a hell of a lot more than sticking money in an index fund and leaving it there for 40 years.
Agreed. For small / inexperienced teams, we've always recommended VisualSVN. GUI to manage most of the project admin tasks, easy integration with AD for user/group auth, and a fairly simple workflow.
Git is has some really nice features, but I wouldn't push it onto a team with no VCS experience.
There's a gas station 1/4 mile from my home that I buy from 2-3x a month using the same credit card. Once or twice a year one of those purchases would get flagged by Citi and locked my card, even though there was a clear pattern of use.
On top of that, I had an absolutely infuriating experience using a Citi card on a decent-sized Newegg purchase (~$600). I've made about a dozen purchases from there over the past couple years. They declined the charge as potential fraud and sent me a fraud alert. I confirmed it was a legit purchase and re-ran the order about 15 minutes later. Citi declined it again as potential fraud and sent me a second fraud alert.
At that point I called them up and closed every account I had. Will never use Citi again.
I've had/have credit cards with pretty much every major issuer. Chase, Citi, Barclays, BoA, Amex. Chase has by far been the best about not screwing up fraud detection. Citi is the worst. The rest are decent.
How many ad-containing sites give you the OPTION to pay for the content? That's the real question. I'm perfectly happy to toss a few bucks to the site if I get value from their content, but damn few even give me the option. It is either fund them through dodgy third-party ads or don't support them at all. And when those are my choices, sorry, no funding.
Essentially the same as how I used to work. My problem is that having that much stuff open to begin with ends up being counterproductive. Context switching is what I try to avoid. I don't want to manage many different applications simultaneously, I want to only have the applications I'm using right now open. If I have so much stuff open that I can't fit it on two monitors, that's a problem to me.
Nowadays: IDE on left screen, browser on right. Skype for talking to colleagues minimized in the tray. Mail client usually closed (I only check mail periodically during the day, usually when I take quick work breaks). Music player minimized to tray, but I just let it run on shuffle anyway so I seldom need to touch it. If I need two browsers open (one for docs, one for testing), I just split them on the screen.
First thing I do on any fresh install of Linux is to turn off virtual desktops. My experience has been that if I've got so much going on at once that it makes a single desktop instance seem too cluttered, that's a sign that I need to reconsider how I handle my time.
Having to close and reopen tools forces you to cut down on context switching. At least for me, that helps productivity.
Jetbrains makes a number of popular IDEs and related dev tools. IntelliJ (Java IDE), ReSharper (VS extension for inspection/refactoring), TeamCity (CI/build tool), etc. Their tools are pretty well known in certain segments of the development industry (Java, Python,.Net), and TeamCity is quite popular as a less painful alternative to tools like Bamboo.
According to the settings in OneNote, I'm not opted in to CEIP, but I can still see KB3068708 in the update list. Additionally, it is Optional, not Recommended.
Perhaps what the article meant is that it only shows up in Recommended if you are enrolled, and is Optional otherwise.
I'm kinda in the same boat. I've had subs for PyCharm and WebStorm both personally and through work for years. I don't think I'm gonna renew them when they expire. I'm finding more and more that the free alternatives are just as good now.
Latest problem: PyQt on Windows. There's no intellisense in PyCharm using the binary install of PyQt. Getting it working, as far as I can gather, requires grabbing the library's source, finding everything I need to build the source in VC2010 and then (hopefully) it works. I don't know, because after half a day I was stuck on build errors and said fuck it, I'm not putting this much work into something that should be simple. Fired up VS2015, installed Python Tools, it scanned my python modules and bam, intellisense out of the box. I've had this exact issue repeatedly over the years with different libraries in PyCharm.
VS turns out to be a great IDE for Python, and for web work I'm finding that Sublime Text is pretty damn good with the right plugins. Haven't touched Java in years, thank god, so I can't speak to IntelliJ.
JetBrains IDEs were the sweet spot between lightweight text editors and the clusterfuck that was Eclipse. As time has gone on, those lightweight tools now do most of what made Jetbrains products so awesome.
So if acronyms are always pronounced separately, do you mean I should say "enn aa ess aa" when referring to NASA? "arr aa emm" instead of RAM?
In the English language at least, acronyms are by definition pronounceable as words (if they weren't, they'd be initialisms), so why wouldn't you pronounce them that way?
BTW, out of curiosity, is there another query language in use called SEQUEL other than the one from the 70's that became SQL?
The only people I ever see who say "ess you" are the same ones who say "ess queue ell" instead of "sequel". Just like in DOS it was "dell" not "dee eee ell", "rem" not "arr eee emm", etc.
Commands and acronyms that can be pronounced as words usually are.
This. The standard worker smarter vs work harder dilemma.
I did the whole groove thing when I was in my twenties and just starting out. As I gained experience, it became obvious that the groove is far from ideal. I produce better code when I take frequent short breaks. Get up, stretch, take a quick walk, give your brain time to process everything you've been doing. Then you're in the right mindset to see what's what. So I don't work late, especially on Fridays. If I'm in the middle of a tricky bit and 5:00 hits, I'm gone. By the time Monday rolls around, I know how to proceed because the problem has been rolling around my subconscious for 2.5 days.
I see a few coworkers who work long hours in the groove, and they always seem to be rewriting four hours of work for the third time because they get into the groove, churn it out and a day later realize it isn't gonna work long-term. Meanwhile, if they'd just stopped an hour in and pinged one of their colleagues for a 5-minute sanity check they'd have realized it sooner and saved their evening.
Prime Music is even worse. I added a song to my library. It says it is there, but it isn't. And I can't remove it and add it again because while I can pull up a track through searching and see that it is in my library, I can only remove it from my library from within my library. But it isn't there, so I can't remove it. Can't play it, can't remove it, can't re-add it. This has happened multiple times.
I'd been trying it out as a possible replacement for other streaming services mainly because I already pay for Prime so why not use it, but the quality just isn't there at this point.
It isn't about "fixing" someone, any more than you "fix" an alcoholic or "fix" a schizophrenic. That latent trait will always persist. Treatment is about managing the condition, keeping it controlled to the point that it no longer presents a severely negative impact on your quality of life.
There are different treatment methods, but which one a person will respond to is largely a guess, even for an experienced therapist. The goal is avoid the process of spending months trying Method A to no effect, then months of Method B, then three years later finally finding a winner with Treatment G. The goal is to predict which treatment they are likely to respond positively to.
The scan ties to CBT in particular because right now that is the preferred treatment for SAD and is usually the first one tried.
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Agile's biggest problem is that it is bloated. It tried (tokenly) to be this lean development methodology but it keeps getting burdened with more and more cruft. Same problem every time: some company nobody has ever heard of announces that by forcing all developers to speak only in haikus during scrums, they increased productivity by 12.86%. Now every company feels the need to adopt that. A year and several increasingly-bullshit announcements later, we all have to have scrums from 9:18-9:33am Eastern Martian time, speak in haikus, address each other only by our given pirate nicknames, and sing all four verses to "God Save the Queen" at the start of sprint planning meetings (even though none of us live in the UK).
If dorm life is anything to go by, you penny his door every night. And on weekends you rig up the Flour Wall to really fuck with him.
Hey, if you're gonna live like broke college students, may as well go whole hog.
Time isn't hard to get right. We have just done done a wonderful job of making it complicated.
Also known as, we've made it hard to get right. We're not talking about time in the abstract, we're talking about our implementation of it being hard to get right because we have complicated the hell out of it.
This is a large part of the problem. More often than not these issues stem from people trying to roll their own time handling code / int'l address code / i18n / etc rather than using one of the standard (and well-tested) libraries available in their language.
Time is hard to get right, addresses are hard to get right, i18n is hard to get right. Don't roll your own. There's a thousand edge cases you haven't accounted for.
It is kinda unclear at first glance if you don't look really closely. I made the same assumption at first, that the line ending represented the cost of that item.
Figured that had to be a calculation error on the TV thing. That helps the numbers quite a bit. Now you're up to about $500 month left over. That's a much more reasonable value with some added wiggle room if needed in some of the other lines.
I'm a bit surprised your mortgage is still so high. My mortgage was for $110K when I bought (selling it currently for $170K, hooray market recovery!) and even with Florida's silly insurance prices my monthly payment is 60% less than yours for only a ~25% lower mortgage. And your prop taxes are only about $300/yr higher than mine. Do you have a really high interest rate? Or are you also in area with crazy insurance costs?
He isn't, he's paying $2K. Look at the line again:
$42K (start) - insurance ($2K) = $40K (remaining)
How in the hell are you spending $433 a month on TV/Internet/Phone? Is that even possible? I could get the best plan for each in my town and not even be half that.
And 19.2K for your mortgage? My 1500 sq ft house in a mid-size city of 1 million is only 9K including prop tax and insurance (and that's in Florida where insurance is absurd). You have no money left over because you chose to settle in an overpriced city. In most of the country 70K is a very comfortable number for two people.
His numbers are annual, not monthly. 3K annually for car loan, 18K annually for mortgage, etc.
He take the final number (2.2K) and divides it by 12 to get the effective monthly leftover.
You aren't paying regular income tax. You are paying short-term capital gains tax which mirrors the standard income tax rates. They are not technically the same tax, however. And the period where you go from short-term to long-term is one year, not two.
So if I buy an investment property for $80K, put $20K and months of sweat into renovating, then sell it for $140K, I didn't "earn" that profit that is subject to capital gains tax?
Capital gains covers a hell of a lot more than sticking money in an index fund and leaving it there for 40 years.
Agreed. For small / inexperienced teams, we've always recommended VisualSVN. GUI to manage most of the project admin tasks, easy integration with AD for user/group auth, and a fairly simple workflow.
Git is has some really nice features, but I wouldn't push it onto a team with no VCS experience.
There's a gas station 1/4 mile from my home that I buy from 2-3x a month using the same credit card. Once or twice a year one of those purchases would get flagged by Citi and locked my card, even though there was a clear pattern of use.
On top of that, I had an absolutely infuriating experience using a Citi card on a decent-sized Newegg purchase (~$600). I've made about a dozen purchases from there over the past couple years. They declined the charge as potential fraud and sent me a fraud alert. I confirmed it was a legit purchase and re-ran the order about 15 minutes later. Citi declined it again as potential fraud and sent me a second fraud alert.
At that point I called them up and closed every account I had. Will never use Citi again.
I've had/have credit cards with pretty much every major issuer. Chase, Citi, Barclays, BoA, Amex. Chase has by far been the best about not screwing up fraud detection. Citi is the worst. The rest are decent.
How many ad-containing sites give you the OPTION to pay for the content? That's the real question. I'm perfectly happy to toss a few bucks to the site if I get value from their content, but damn few even give me the option. It is either fund them through dodgy third-party ads or don't support them at all. And when those are my choices, sorry, no funding.
Essentially the same as how I used to work. My problem is that having that much stuff open to begin with ends up being counterproductive. Context switching is what I try to avoid. I don't want to manage many different applications simultaneously, I want to only have the applications I'm using right now open. If I have so much stuff open that I can't fit it on two monitors, that's a problem to me.
Nowadays: IDE on left screen, browser on right. Skype for talking to colleagues minimized in the tray. Mail client usually closed (I only check mail periodically during the day, usually when I take quick work breaks). Music player minimized to tray, but I just let it run on shuffle anyway so I seldom need to touch it. If I need two browsers open (one for docs, one for testing), I just split them on the screen.
First thing I do on any fresh install of Linux is to turn off virtual desktops. My experience has been that if I've got so much going on at once that it makes a single desktop instance seem too cluttered, that's a sign that I need to reconsider how I handle my time.
Having to close and reopen tools forces you to cut down on context switching. At least for me, that helps productivity.
Jetbrains makes a number of popular IDEs and related dev tools. IntelliJ (Java IDE), ReSharper (VS extension for inspection/refactoring), TeamCity (CI/build tool), etc. Their tools are pretty well known in certain segments of the development industry (Java, Python, .Net), and TeamCity is quite popular as a less painful alternative to tools like Bamboo.
Is the article correct?
According to the settings in OneNote, I'm not opted in to CEIP, but I can still see KB3068708 in the update list. Additionally, it is Optional, not Recommended.
Perhaps what the article meant is that it only shows up in Recommended if you are enrolled, and is Optional otherwise.
I'm kinda in the same boat. I've had subs for PyCharm and WebStorm both personally and through work for years. I don't think I'm gonna renew them when they expire. I'm finding more and more that the free alternatives are just as good now.
Latest problem: PyQt on Windows. There's no intellisense in PyCharm using the binary install of PyQt. Getting it working, as far as I can gather, requires grabbing the library's source, finding everything I need to build the source in VC2010 and then (hopefully) it works. I don't know, because after half a day I was stuck on build errors and said fuck it, I'm not putting this much work into something that should be simple. Fired up VS2015, installed Python Tools, it scanned my python modules and bam, intellisense out of the box. I've had this exact issue repeatedly over the years with different libraries in PyCharm.
VS turns out to be a great IDE for Python, and for web work I'm finding that Sublime Text is pretty damn good with the right plugins. Haven't touched Java in years, thank god, so I can't speak to IntelliJ.
JetBrains IDEs were the sweet spot between lightweight text editors and the clusterfuck that was Eclipse. As time has gone on, those lightweight tools now do most of what made Jetbrains products so awesome.
So if acronyms are always pronounced separately, do you mean I should say "enn aa ess aa" when referring to NASA? "arr aa emm" instead of RAM?
In the English language at least, acronyms are by definition pronounceable as words (if they weren't, they'd be initialisms), so why wouldn't you pronounce them that way?
BTW, out of curiosity, is there another query language in use called SEQUEL other than the one from the 70's that became SQL?
The only people I ever see who say "ess you" are the same ones who say "ess queue ell" instead of "sequel". Just like in DOS it was "dell" not "dee eee ell", "rem" not "arr eee emm", etc.
Commands and acronyms that can be pronounced as words usually are.
This. The standard worker smarter vs work harder dilemma.
I did the whole groove thing when I was in my twenties and just starting out. As I gained experience, it became obvious that the groove is far from ideal. I produce better code when I take frequent short breaks. Get up, stretch, take a quick walk, give your brain time to process everything you've been doing. Then you're in the right mindset to see what's what. So I don't work late, especially on Fridays. If I'm in the middle of a tricky bit and 5:00 hits, I'm gone. By the time Monday rolls around, I know how to proceed because the problem has been rolling around my subconscious for 2.5 days.
I see a few coworkers who work long hours in the groove, and they always seem to be rewriting four hours of work for the third time because they get into the groove, churn it out and a day later realize it isn't gonna work long-term. Meanwhile, if they'd just stopped an hour in and pinged one of their colleagues for a 5-minute sanity check they'd have realized it sooner and saved their evening.
Prime Music is even worse. I added a song to my library. It says it is there, but it isn't. And I can't remove it and add it again because while I can pull up a track through searching and see that it is in my library, I can only remove it from my library from within my library. But it isn't there, so I can't remove it. Can't play it, can't remove it, can't re-add it. This has happened multiple times.
I'd been trying it out as a possible replacement for other streaming services mainly because I already pay for Prime so why not use it, but the quality just isn't there at this point.
It isn't about "fixing" someone, any more than you "fix" an alcoholic or "fix" a schizophrenic. That latent trait will always persist. Treatment is about managing the condition, keeping it controlled to the point that it no longer presents a severely negative impact on your quality of life.
There are different treatment methods, but which one a person will respond to is largely a guess, even for an experienced therapist. The goal is avoid the process of spending months trying Method A to no effect, then months of Method B, then three years later finally finding a winner with Treatment G. The goal is to predict which treatment they are likely to respond positively to.
The scan ties to CBT in particular because right now that is the preferred treatment for SAD and is usually the first one tried.
Mistype, should have been 2.5mm