yankeehue's comments

Serious question: How to prepare for hyperinflation?

If the right to bear arms is required for protection against a potentially corrupt or abusive federal government, then so is the right to use end-to-end encryption.

Setting the term "facts" aside for a moment, I don't perceive a difference between "statements about the world that we believe to be true" and "opinions."

Actually, I think it's easier to remember it's always an opinion than to always be charitable. Maybe I really don't like a person and so it's very hard to be charitable in a given moment, but that person's statements are still their opinion and don't get to override my own experiences.

Regardless what they think they are doing, they are still stating their own opinion. If we can try to interpret things in this way, even "I am stating a fact" becomes "I believe I am stating a fact."

Here's one of my opinions: Everything anyone ever says is their own opinion based on their own experiences.

Here's another: We'd all be better off if we held the opinion above, and remembered it when assessing what people say. We'd be able to interpret statements like "Contributing to OSS is awesome!" as "In my own experience, contributing to OSS has been awesome", where such an interpretation doesn't erase or override one's own opinions and experiences. Not saying this is easy to do, just that it is beneficial.

Were the years Nelson Mandela spent imprisoned ones that would have been the "best years of his life" had he not been imprisoned, considering what occurred in the years after he was released? How do we determine value of time spent alive? Was it worth it and valuable to him to suffer through years of imprisonment in order to reach the later years? Was is worth it and valuable to society? Would he and/or society have answered differently during the years of his imprisonment than now? Whose answer (now-Mandela's or younger-Mandela's, now-society's or younger-society's) matters most?

> It seems to me that being a one product company runs a risk of another company choking you out in various ways.

One possible solution then is to change your company to be a multi-product company, instead of adding new-product features into your one product.

Government's move slowly. Security best practices are evolving quickly.

My team is working through FedRAMP/NIST compliance right now. We have sadly adopted the saying, "Security or compliance, choose one." We have literally rolled back a more secure implementation in order to be compliant. Regulations can't keep up.

I'm not ideologically against regulating the software industry, but I have doubts it can be done successfully.

I also found it very entertaining. But, that might just be my whiskey, err, Scotch.

Here's what I did. Sign in to gmail using my regular gmail account. In settings "Add a mail account" and provide gmail pop3 and smtp settings with your email address and credentials for your own domain. Now in gmail (signed in with regular gmail account) I have options for which account to send from (I can change the default for that).

I work from home. If I were single or if the kids had moved out of the house and my SO worked, your comment would probably be true for me (better to be in the office). But, I've had a chance to see my young children grow up in a way that couldn't have happened had I been in the office, all while doing significant meaningful work. Certainly that's more social with a closer group of people (family). So, it probably depends on circumstances.

Iridium NEXT satellites, to be launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, will be hosting Aireon’s ADS-B payloads.

http://aireon.com/2016/06/01/harris-completes-production-of-...

Yes I've tried both. It seems like a trade-off to me. Everyone now is completely into using electronic, asynchronous communication, following up verbal discussions with a quick email or IM listing highlights/decisions, etc. Imposing that handicap can help, but don't need to work on it so much anymore. Whereas getting everybody in the room for a quick status, a few jokes and good laughs, and some ranting about the customer seems to keep morale high. That non-trivial amount of time includes continuously assessing what is and isn't working.

I'm in a similar boat: remote team lead on a government project living in FL :)

Was the rest of the team local to each other? That can be difficult because the team may be accustom to conducting all communication verbally, where you need it to be electronic. I was a new-comer to the team when I became the remote lead, and one of the things I did was focus on getting folks to communicate electronically. Luckily for me, they were in individual offices spread around the building and two were in other buildings, so they were already using IM, chat, and email. I just needed to reinforce it.

Also from the beginning, I've focused on team cohesion and team communication. The team was in a bad state when I joined, so again lucky for me, it was something I knew needed extra attention. As a team lead, it's an important factor that you need to pay attention to, but perhaps don't have to spend a lot of time on when everyone is local. As a remote team lead, you need to spend a non-trivial amount of time on it.

And face time is still important. I travel twice a month for a day or two and try to meet with everyone during that time. I also conduct a daily standup where the rest of the team is in the room and I'm on the phone. It can be difficult to follow the conversations in the room from the phone, but really the goal is to make sure the team is talking to each other, and isn't about my control of the conversation or of the team.

Where in FL are you?

I've had the same exchange with my wife many times, and it always results in an argument. I guess there are some mistakes I make more than once.

Coincidentally, I am 35 and feel the same way :) Most of us are just working hard to get through the day and we're all going to screw up sometimes. I always try to offer understanding for others' mistakes, and hopefully I'll receive the same.

I think there's an evolutionary advantage to this. If you don't commit new memories when sleep-deprived, then you don't remember how rough the first few months of parenting a newborn can be (you get very little sleep during that time) and you're more likely to have more children.