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So I'll start by saying I detest the snake-oil salesmen professional scam artists that are "Agile consultants", as they have now begun to leach onto DevOps which honestly is in large part has the same end goal of agile. These people are largely talentless hacks and parasites that extract value from coporations that are making money and then move onto the next victim while the actual engineers deal with the infection their ideas have left.

That being said the issue I've seen and read with waterfall is that it is very slow and cannot adapt very well. Which honestly is a super great thing in certain fields, like avionics, NASA moon landers, those kinds of things, because with this lack of speed and rigour you also get a certain level of assurance and quality and predictability, assuming things retain a certain level of consistency.

However in the world of newly emerging markets and the .com bubble and the new SAAS bubble being slow is a death sentence because at this point it is better to spray and pray because their are plenty of VCs willing to handle you fistfuls of cash to shoot at the wall because they are hoping to get in on the next big Facebook or Google (in reality now they are just hoping you will get bought by FB or Google which is another rant for another time.)

That being said agile offers flexibility and adaptability in return for offering less predictability. This causes a huge rift however when you have in house tech resources, that are part of a larger organization that needs all the assurances and predictability promised by waterfall, but the in house resources have to compete against SaaS opponents that management is all to happy to use a credit card to purchase.

The end result is tech teams saying they are agile by which they mean they respond to whoever is yelling the louadest and success is determined not by value but instead by politics and in the meantime no one is taking care of the customers because and you end up with everyone's data getting resold a dozen times, having more security holes than an Alabama "don't shoot at signs" sign, and companies spending several million dollars a year to keep some rusting old COBOL application running because it is the only thing they know for sure works right now.

Sorry I might've been unloading some baggage in this post.

Counterpoint. In our org we'd eliminate pretty much every security incident if users would not download attachments on suspicious emails, give out their password and try and click on the monkey to win the iPad.

To quote James Mickens "most of the security reasearch community seems to be obssesed with avant-garde horrors such as the ability to induce a heart attack in those wearing pacemakers during a solar eclipse with a pringles can."

At this point it seems that most of it really is just security theater and most really security actually comes from proper training.

And if you want the non-Google version https://duckduckgo.com/?q=five+whys+site%3Anews.ycombinator....

I thought M$ was asking questions about how many piano tuners does it take to fit a manhole cover in MTN fugi or something like that?

I just remember too many dumb questions like that and am a bit salty.

That may be true in SV or something like that, but I am guessing in Alabama, for someone making $15-$20 an hour six figures seems like quite a bit. Heck I'd consider myself upper middle class and I make low six figures.

Well since it went up 500% in just 2021 it seems really suspect to blame climate change as that would lead to a ramp up over time rather than a sudden change in one year.

Is it possibly an unaccounted for side effect of the vaccine?

Having worked with the "fraud prevention" departments of the most advanced nation on earth in cases where they screwed up I can guarantee you they aren't that advanced.

I personally kind of hate that idea because of HOAs at least with the government I have constitutional guarantees. I can't imagine the HOA having that kind of visibility, and using it.

No, there is a slight but subtle distinction. The government license is what allows me to use the public roads, however I can drive and use my car however I want as long as I am on private roads. In this case I am not allowed to operate my vehicle if not approved by the government.

And I am sure these devices will soon be connected to a network.

Soon if it breaks "you tried to disable it, that's a crime." If you potentially say something someone powerful doesn't like or your social credit score drops low enough "Sorry your driving privileges have been revoked."

I know it sounds good on the surface but this then recognizes that the government has a legitimate right to arbitrarily revoke your access to a motor vehicle that you've purchased and owned.

EDIT: Better yet since it is for "saving lives" and "safety" let's just ban alcohol all together that way we completely eliminate the risk of drunk driving altogether.

This is the biggest reason I use ad-block. I read a book Pre-suasion by Robert Calidini and he talks about how online ads often don't registry consciously but will subconsciously effect decision making.

He ended the book by flipping people's voting preferences with a 64% effectiveness rate using only some subtle online ads. My brain is my own.

I'm going to take a minute to plug WGU I got my undergrad and grad from there and it is fantastic. I would recommend it for anyone that is already working and needs a piece of paper.

They work on a competency based model where you either take a test, or do a project/paper (or both) for the class to pass it. If it takes you 3 weeks to study and pass the test it takes 3 weeks, if it takes 2 days you can pass the class in 2 days. The major benefit though is that you pay a flat price for a semester and then you can do as many credits as you want in that semester for a flat fee, so if you want you can get 24 credits done in one semester.

Additionally this isn't an ITT Tech or DeVrye type scam where they just push you through, a lot of the classes are based around industry certs as the final test for the class, and they give a through grounding in a lot of areas.

The flip side is they are very focused on practical job skills and not so much theory, I personally think it results in a more well rounded engineering student who is able to work in Networking, Software Development or Systems Admin reasonably competently.

Again I am a fun I recommend it, I wish everyone would start doing it because I think it is a game changer. Feel free to AMA if you have more questions about it.

But now the question isn't specific technologies it's in entire domains.

The counterpoint is that if I am proficient in Ruby, and senior level in Node, and work well in Java, I can figure out and be fluent in Python or PHP within a week or so.

Sure if you had someone that was working as an aeronautics engineer designing planes for years they probably would require more ramp up before being able to work on ICBMs, but they would do just fine moving from Lockheed to Boeing.

Interestingly enough that is what Daryl Davis decided to do to start fighting racism, got over a dozen members, including a grand wizard, to leave the Klan. I'd recommend watching his TedTalk it really helped me understand how to better work with others, and how to bring about understanding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORp3q1Oaezw

Proof that the inflation we are experiencing is structural not transient.

We already have all the agile consultants have rebranded themselves "DevOps" consultants, or even better at this point "DevSecOps" all well ignoring completely everything DevOps is supposed to be about.

These false priests of technology substitute their tools for their lack of understanding and ignore completely that just having a pipeline and doesn't mean you are doing DevOps.

What do you mean by mix of political backgrounds? Do you have people that are registered Republicans, are any of them in leadership positions? Or registered libertarians for that matter?

Anyone that has similar involvement in politics like working directly for a major political party?

EDIT: Checked out the site and darn, I'll give them credit they do have a Republican and someone who worked with the RNC, so that is something. So I'll give you that one, I'm still suspicious but can't knock you for being completely lacking in diversity.

I mean I still don't love the idea, and don't think it won't be used to ensure that "misinformation" is stamped out, but I'll give credit where credit is due.

If you don't mind me asking what incident let to you to taking to such a hardline stance? I don't necessarily disagree or agree I just would love to hear that kind of perspective?

Well I found my new favorite word of the week antepenultimate. Thanks FabHK.

Just out of curiosity do you use a VPN, I always browse with a VPN on my phone for precisely that reason and am wondering if it actually works to help protect my privacy.

We already have that language but people keeping getting whiny about parentheses, and refuse to use it.

Satire? I am offended, this is a real solution I'd dare say a final solution to the dangers of misinformation and people who think that they should be able to do what they want because of "freedumb".

I think at very least we should mark people who are unvaccinated so that other people can know to stay away from them since we shouldn't make innocent people suffer because they are too evil to do the decent thing. Maybe we could make them all wear brightly colored armbands or something so everyone knows who the dangerous individuals in society are.

You are 100% right, I'm sick and tired of these damn Republicans first it was an unnecessary war then it was discriminating against blacks, not to mention the open collusion with foreign powers to get their person in the White House, now they are actually killing people with their stupid illterate anit-vacc stances, enough is enough I say. We need to do something about these dangerous people that subscribe to dangerous ideals.

I think we should start tracking them. Maybe we could force them to attend re-education, it would be a pain to implement and enforce on a wide societal level but maybe we could concentrate them in some sort of camp or something. I think this would be a good solution we could finally be rid of these dangerous ideas, and the people who hold them.

So two points: First you advocate special people should get special protections for being in a special job, I am sure that will work out real well.

Second all of these arguments seem to suggest just letting the government know you identity as some sort of compromise, but what about when it is the government I am trying to avoid, sure someone can dox me, or can tell my employer to fire me, but only the government can arrest me and execute me if they determine I've done something to upset someone powerful enough within the government. Sure the government can eventually track me down with their resources, but anything that makes it harder is better.

So since my early days I've been doing multiple languages, started in Java at school then picked up JavaScript and Ruby pretty quickly, as well as being a bash Unix cli afficiando, since then my list of languages numbers in the double digits.

One of the things I am always astounded by is developers that only know one language, having multiple languages has changed the way I understand programming in general. At that point when I approach a problem I start by reasoning what the appropriate paradiagm or approach is to solve the problem and then decide the language from that. At this point when I see requirements that list X years in specific language I am confused as to why people don't just want programmers since languages seem so easy to pickup.

Their is a dark side to this I will admit though I do struggle a little bit more approaching a new language and then trying to find ways around concepts that I feel should be there, or I struggle sometimes to deal with language specific details.

Counterpoint: The greatest human atrocities in history were generally carried out with the explicit oversight of "legitimate" viewpoints.

I think something should be done but a lot of the suggestions I see seem like "this is something therefore this must be done."

I agree however it does seem that giving everyone the ability to push whatever they want has seemed to cause problems.

Well for starters you'd be eating nothing but canned vegetables and jerked meat for most of the winter if you live far enough north to regularly get snow.

This only is true if you accept that additional money gets equally shared; however additional money benefits those with assets the most, whereas those with fewer assets (the middle and lower class) are punished in inflation as they are dependent upon income which often does not change in response to inflation.

Or in other words, if I have multiple properties, stocks, investements etc, inflation is good for me because those things increase in value; however if the primary source of capital I have is a paycheck I get each week that I then have to immediately spend on housing, food, groceries, gas etc, inflation hurts me because my boss isn't going to raise my pay, meanwhile everything has gotten more expensive in the meantime, and if my boss does eventually give me a COL increase that will have lagged to the point the rest of the economy has already caught up with it.

Pretending that inflation is good for debtors is like pretending that economically speaking we are all spherical cows in an airless frictionless vacuum.

So I recently had a realization that the money the US government spends has absolutely no relation to the money the government receives they can spend whatever they want in any quantity they want.

The only barrier is inflation; however that instead means that taxes at the federal level have nothing to do with income or revenue but only inflation control. So the IRS should be the Internal Inflation Control Service.

I am still working on the full implications of that understanding but it has definitely changed the way I look at things.

EDIT: Updated to make clear I am discussing the US government, not governments in general.

EDIT EDIT: To make clear I think this is a bad thing, it is a lever that the more powerful in society have the ability to pull, in order to move wealth from the lower class to themselves as inflation is generally only positive for the asset owning class.