dudifordMann's comments

As a lefty who moves the mouse to the left side of keyboard, WADS is no more awkward than any other keyboard combination for left or right headed people. Just, you know, shift your keyboard a little bit more towards the right for comfortable spacing lol.

I agree that there are individuals and companies who have defined such ridged structure and expectation into their Scrum method that they can no longer be considered an agile approach missing two of the key purposes of agile approaches:

* Individuals and interactions over processes and tools * Responding to change over following a plan

Now, I cannot say that Scum abstractly is a bad approach to attempting to be more agile. Many of us have employed some form of it with varying degrees of success, but, the expectations on software developers from a business perspective are more rigid for business development and tracability purposes, which can,on occasion, omit the consideration of resource demands and complexities.

Often, i believe, it is that a lack of understanding the purpose of the agile manifesto and the poor implementation of a method at the top level of the developer and managment ladder which is the underlying cause.

In the post, the author cites 3 hour or more meeting where he feels there are too many people there. This would be an item for the retrospective feeding the next iteration, but he only says "Blergh" about the needed feedback.

He states that the standup is more ritualistic, but the point is to ensure each member understands where the sprint stands, inspire collaboration, but really take ownership of the code. It could be that the team size is too big, or that the team really has not taken ownership of their code.

When all is said and done, you have to buy into the Scrum process, the process has to be flexible, and the stakeholders have to not believe it is a magical development method that fixes all the issues of the software development process.

but in this case, the users, through the Power website, did give permission to receive, or send, the "snail mail".

From the article "Power users also authorized the software to send Facebook messages to other Facebook users for them"

So in your analogy. I created a business of sending snail mail to addresses I already had in my possession on my list of contacts. My contacts might not appreciate my snail mail, but I am not sending snail mail to the Facebook corporate Office -Or- if I am sending to the Facebook Corporate Office, then only though its mail routing department, which was set up to handle these very packages.

The C&D, I think, is equivalent to preventing contacts from communicating with each other, or, Postal Censorship[1], which I suppose is more a policy issue than a legal one. Which I suppose extends FB to be a governing body, which I guess leads us to CFAA...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_censorship

i think it relates to this:

[1] http://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere

[2]https://theamericangenius.com/business-news/farmers-cant-leg...

it seems to concern the idea, as mentioned above, of ownership vs a permanent license of the goods purchased or in their minds.. leased?

I disagree because "practically policy" is not policy.

http://www.logicalfallacies.info/presumption/tu-quoque/

Another great tool for touch-less interfaces. I think the odd aspect of this Google I/O demonstration is the novelty usage of the technology for a smart watch. This tech seems like it is more difficult than it's worth in that form factor, but for devices that must remain sanitary, say in a kitchen, or a medical device in an OR, I like the potential.

Perhaps this is good for feature development, or maintenance, but, what about contracts that deal with wholly new development of a complex system? It seems like you would want to operate in parallel at least for the initial push through the architecture and boilerplate structure. Perhaps I am being disingenuous.

I do love the idea of being able to not let the numerous tedious meetings interrupt progress.

[edit] Thanks everyone for adjusting my perspective. I am sure junior engineers (and seasoned stubborn ones) would learn a lot with cradle to grave development in such a fashion [/edit]

I am not sure if that is the right mind set:

"So around the time a lot of people have kids? ...you need to make a LOT of money to pay for daycare ... you might as well just stay home."

The "you" can be the other partner. Ensuring fair pay and opportunities for all qualified workers would encourage only a brief departure from a woman's career for maternity leave, allowing either partner to be the home support (as needed), instead of making the choice based on poor future earning opportunities vs their male peers.

0 is no more than 20,000

100 is no more than 20,000

i don't think verification is needed...

[edited for carriage return]

That is a lot of trust in a corporate entity who in all honesty trys to profit from you wherever possible, and they would not be sued if such items were spelled out in the TOS. In this plug in, the plug-in author placed a notice where it could be found by anyone, not hidden away. Here, just as dspillett said, do your own due diligence and select products accordingly.

At the same time,even large trusted corporations can impose interesting license agreements (runtime or otherwise) that you better be well versed on before you start creating releases of your product.

Right... so... if the coach is payed say less, than... could the students see a decrease in their tuition bill as the funds for the coach have freed up? Now, I am terrible at evaluating worth, especially for things as potentially complex as leading a sports team (was success due to the athletes? strategies? leadership? etc. Similarly for failure), but if Nick Saban is making 7.09 per year at Alabama, with a student population of 36k, the full salary divided by the population would be about $196 per year, which I am sure a student would love to see. (obviously my math is assuming full salary liquidation which is not realistic).

Tuition has been on the rise, from what I can tell, due to excessive, frivolous and/or unchecked expenditures[1][2] with the guise of benefiting the universities and their students.

One example is the ridiculous salaries payed to the athletic staffs of these universities. Even the research universities like UC Berkley pay upwards of 5.4 million contracted salary[3]. The counter argument to this is that these sports programs pay for the research( though some believe that is more often not the case[4]) So even if I grant that this may be true, and I understand supply and demand principals of "talented" coaches, come the on, these are just sports. And many athletic department, not all , are doing a great disservice to many of the athletes who are not encourage to reap the academic benefits the schools have to offer[5], when a scant percentage even move on to Olympic or professional sports careers[6]

I think step 0 of this article's intended plan should be to look at spending, and have accountability, remove internal bureaucracy and reduce some of the ridiculous salaries (coaches, presidents, etc) and determine what a fair tuition looks like.

[1]http://www.texaspolicy.com/blog/detail/more-outrageous-spend...

[2]http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-uc-spending-201...

[3] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6sm-b1X...

[4]http://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2014/dec/22/ji...

[5]http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/college/2014/06/01/Do-col...

[6]http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/research/estimated-proba...

Looks like this was the reason for the 2011 violation:

http://www.today.com/id/44708445/ns/today-today_news/t/forei...

with the court ruling of:

http://h1blegalrights.com/2011/07/md-countys-public-schools-...

Hmmm, this might just be a candidate for a conspiracy where they are in reality shorting the market?

wow... the grammar... what on earth did i write...

so... if a prosecutor has evidence has been gathered where a defendant has a drive with +n files that are encrypted. then the prosecutor has their evidence. However, if the files are when decrypted, then they have +n' -n files, which were not gathered during the initial investigation.

I recognize that the contempt is prior to formal charging, and thus "during" evidence gathering. but I feel like this is equivalent to the government saying: "hey, so we have no proof you did anything, but we have these 107374182400 items that might prove something. So, we want you to produce 107374182400 completely different items that might incriminate you because, well.... we cant". seems weird.

this is obviously not the first case that this has happened in[1][2]. each invoking the 5th, but it still seems strange.

[1] http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2012/01/decryp... [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_re_Boucher

I was just about to post that!

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira/advanced-searching-179...

As with any reported data item, you should always diversify your sources. I have found that I get bias from NPR one direction and bias from my local AM talk-radio station the other way, it helps balance out my perspective.

Great point, even if an artist had 'n' skilled people to facilitate those roles and produce the needed deliverables, what would happen to those people when the artist becomes unpopular? so even if there is no way around having these established entities for the purpose of essentially allowing the artist to create, then is it a matter of reform? which really means not signing to big labels in the hopes that if enough artists do the same that the face of the industry changes?

[grammar edit]

I always thought the age of the internet, especially with modern bandwidths, could be the end of large labels for the music industry (or publishing houses for literature). I understand (to a naive degree) that the labels establish large networks, and complex licensing with public avenues like the radio or concert halls.

It is also interesting that that most self published artists get the semi-derogatory term of "Indie-artist", and that there may even be a public opinion which has been molded into expecting a "quality filter" through labels.

The question I always come to is how big can you get without a label? and will there ever be a day when artists have full creative control of their craft? This would mean that the artist would need to value and understand business practices, distribution methods, contracting, etc.

[edit] and the artists that do appreciate this seem to start labels (see epitaph records or Bad Boy Entertainment)