akerro · HackerTrans

6 years agodiscuss

Agile, standup, iteration have became buzzwords with very little meaning now. Agile with had deadline for big project delivery (teams working in sprints, PO getting cold water for having major features late by a few days), standups that include breakfast and chit-chat, iteration on major features that take 3 months to deliver.

My ex-LM is now working for major finance processing company. They went trough major agile transformation everyone in the city was talking about how big success it was. He's a tech-lead. He has to estimate feature development in man-hours to the board and investors. Everyone below him (SM, PO, devs, QAs) estimate in story points. He gets shit for features being late by days (eg. sprint finishes on Thursday next week, board meeting is on Tuesday this week).

They cancelled something they were doing completely wrong, because they never reached for quality material how to do it right. Good for them, it was a waste of time to begin with.

akerro

6 years agodiscuss

Similarly to social networks, their profitability and existence is linked to them being unregulated. If VPNs are regulated, and we know what that means for their users, they will be close to useless for majority.

akerro

7 years agodiscuss

Facebook on mobile is only usable from Chrome

akerro

7 years agodiscuss

>pledge 10 years of support or something.

Totally gonna believe them

akerro

7 years agodiscuss

Facebook for a few weeks didn't want to remove video of a Mexican woman being beheaded. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/fa...

akerro

7 years agodiscuss

    dig @1.1.1.1 archive.is
    
    ; <<>> DiG 9.14.1 <<>> @1.1.1.1 archive.is
    ; (1 server found)
    ;; global options: +cmd
    ;; Got answer:
    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 46862
    ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0,     ADDITIONAL: 1

    ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
    ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1452
    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;archive.is.                    IN      A

    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    archive.is.             2998    IN      A       127.0.0.4

    ;; Query time: 52 msec
    ;; SERVER: 1.1.1.1#53(1.1.1.1)
    ;; WHEN: Sat May 04 21:03:36 CEST 2019
    ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 55

    dig @8.8.8.8 archive.is

    ; <<>> DiG 9.14.1 <<>> @8.8.8.8 archive.is
    ; (1 server found)
    ;; global options: +cmd
    ;; Got answer:
    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 5893
    ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0,     ADDITIONAL: 1

    ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
    ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;archive.is.                    IN      A

    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    archive.is.             299     IN      A       94.16.117.236

    ;; Query time: 79 msec
    ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
    ;; WHEN: Sat May 04 21:04:28 CEST 2019
    ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 55

akerro

8 years agodiscuss

>like some production moving somewhere else?

Sure, to US, UK, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, because we trust these countries not to backdoor software and hardware.

akerro

8 years agodiscuss

> When will this stuff finally have consequences for China?

Hahaha funny thing to say after disclosers from NSA/CIA/FBI/GCQH/BND...

akerro

9 years agodiscuss

90Mbps on speedtest, 5Mbps on fast.com... BT isn't any better than comcast.

akerro

10 years agodiscuss

>Also, the burden of being rooted, and of having to maintain a house, could be such a significant detraction to quality of life that it totally makes up the difference.

Yea, so I'm renting a house where my agreement states that I am not allowed to fix or improve the flat myself. All changes must be agreed and made by agency. Current faults in the flat include: leaking water from toilet flush since seal is broken, reported 2 weeks ago, reminded 3 times. Water bill is on me. I would be happy if I could fix it myself, I would save money on water, calls made to the agency and not have the noise of leaking water, it's annoying. Aver salary in my city is ~£22k, and average rent just hit £720 per month, if we add bills and council tax, it's ~£850 which is more than halt of average salary. Hopefully I work in IT-financial sector and my salary is higher. I would be much happier to buy a house and be rooted to this city than to depend on renting agencies and increasing population which pushes renting prices a lot.

I'm making savings now to save for a house, if I get a mortgage for 20 years, my average cost of it will be £440 which is 2/3 of my rent...

akerro

10 years agodiscuss

And on the opposite, I never understood how people can not own a house and waste money on renting for decades. Where market for houses in western countries is very limited due to stupid regulations and every year a few millions of people move to that country causing renting prices to increase by XX% each year. It decreases my financial stability. Losing a job for less than a month is a financial disaster, I still to have to pay for car-fuel, insurance, life insurance, pay bills. On the other hand, having a house without mortgage, yes, keeps me in one place, but value of my house due to the same reasons is increasing for my benefit, not for my landlords benefits.

akerro

10 years agodiscuss

As already mentioned, you're ignoring a fact that even by working there for 10 years, it's close to impossible to buy a part of land and build a house anywhere near a city. Land and house prices are too high to stay there for live. It's only profitable to live there, make savings and buy 2-3 houses in Uk/Germany for it. Like two of my co-workers did.

akerro

10 years agodiscuss

Yea, I know, I expected this answer. I needed something quick to install, not deb... and with latest versions of packages. I was thinking about Arch, but it's too long to install, I had ~20 minutes. Manjaro is ok to people how know what they're doing and who know how to setup basic features of OS.

akerro

10 years agodiscuss

I had to quit using Mint because a lot of packages in their repo are really, really, old. Just to give example that made me install Manjaro on friends PC is ownCloud client for file syncing. It's a few years old, contains a lot of security bugs and doesn't work with HTTPS. You need to add repo with opensuse in URL address. Mint developers were contacted by ownCloud developers to resolve the issue, a few years ago, and they ignored it.

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