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There are no longer QA people - the team is cross-functional and testing is done as part of the scrum. At least, that's the expected 'way'.

shift-left (aka put all of the work on the developer)

I was intrigued by the text I had as a subtitle in one run:

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It may be an 'intended' (short term) reaction, so Odey et al can profit from shorting the pound in the near term, considering the tight relationship.

Exactly. Boris has much he can legitimately be blamed for, but he rarely speaks on behalf of the US (as much as I'm sure he'd like to).

You could look at the other side of things - following on from remembering how high interest rates had been, when I bought my house 20 years ago, I fixed for 5, then 10 years and am currently in the middle of a second 10-year fixed rate of around 3.5% - it was previously around 5%.

I've been paying 'over the odds' if you look at how interest rates have since turned out, as you mention most people paying around 1.5->1.7% for many years, and so I've often seen myself as 'losing out'.

However, I fixed the rate to ensure I had a known amount of expenses that I could afford.

Neither is 'stupid' - they just have different volatility and risk.

That's what happens when you have governments that only care about themselves and their friends, and not the people they are governing - even if not everything is their fault, experience tells people that they're likely to blame in some part as they've lied so much everywhere else.

I suspect you also have detailed specifications and requirements to allow estimation and planning. Outside of hardware-based environments, this is often missing and engineers that push for it are dropped because they are not 'autonomous' enough.

And then the refactoring may never happen.

'Phase 2 never happens'

We just need AI to judge the competitions, then we have gone full circle.

There are a ton of Java engineers who maybe don't want to have to use Javascript though.

So you also wouldn't expect to be paid when a company has less work than it has employees during a week ?

"Praise in public, criticize in private"

So no transparency then.

How about keeping it all public but providing a critique, so everyone can learn and nobody is inappropriately targeted.

The people who care are those supporting customers who are 'too big' and engineers left trying to make it scale later, when it's falling over and no thought to scalability was included earlier because nobody cared.

Isn't this exactly the same approach as the majority of the Software industry ?

Or they use docker for mac

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Small print about small print.

If most of the websites, that most people rely on for their day-to-day functionality, use Cloudflare, it's effectively a central point of failure.

Sure, there are alternatives and not everything uses it, but if it's enough to greatly affect a large proportion of internet users, it's a problem.

Just like if google mail went away for ever. There are plenty of other email providers, right ?

The DNS seems much slower for me, but is working.

Was just about to post. Many sites returning 500 in the UK, and cloudflare seems to be the point of failure, including itself.

I totally agree with most of what you have said, and it would be crazy to expect the world to just change overnight because of a new plugin format.

However, this is another opportunity to allow change - to break the "chicken and egg" situation and unlock the potential for others to come along and ride on that change.

As with any change, it needs support and nurturing to grow and become something that will have a greater impact. It's a foundation to allow more innovation to sit upon without being constrained by licensing and legacy.

This discussion is an excellent point as to why things need to change. The situation as you have so eloquently summarised, is locked-in and controlled by a few big companies, with little space for innovation in the first place.

It may not be a big or rapid change, but it has the potential to make a difference. In the spirit of your sentence:

> I would love to see more change in music and audio

Encourage the change, and don't decide there's no point because of how it's previously been.

I see the proliferation of bespoke sample players as both a good thing - it drives innovation, as can be seen in some aspects of Orchestral Tools SINE player - and a reflection that Kontakt just hasn't kept up (perhaps as NI has spread itself too thin across many interests).

I also think that the industry could change - After all, Hans Zimmer has been instrumental (!) in bringing more plugin instruments into the mainstream scores, and may well be one who'd appreciate the potential (especially being fond of u-he instruments).

I'm sure that everything won't suddenly change, and indeed I doubt the landscape will change much over the next 12 months. However, everything has to start somewhere and CLAP is well designed and connected to be able to make a difference.

I also think that a realistic approach needs to be taken with the open source aspect. It opens more doors, rather than closing them - that's what's important. The business side will need more work, but just bringing the ecosystem to more people with less barriers to entry, as well as looking to progress the status quo and allow for more innovation without being dependent on a single vendor, is a fantastic start.

I don't disagree with your current view of the world. I just believe that it's just as ripe for change as other tech industries - perhaps more. Blender is another example of how sentiment can change - it may not be an Industry Standard yet, but it's gaining a lot more use and respect, and even the industry at large is now funding research and development into it.

There is change happening. It just needs encouragement.

I think this is a very negative and old-fashioned opinion, especially within HN that is usually focused on 'disrupting the industry' and 'innovation'.

Every day we see a new project written in the latest 'cool' language, and it receives praise and encouragement, yet try to suggest that a new audio plugin format has value and it's knocked back because 'industry standards'.

Just to give one simple example, if Native Instruments were to add CLAP to Kontakt player, and suddenly orchestral samples could have more variance per note, making the realism better - there would be huge demand from composers.

Would they switch DAW ? Maybe not for their current work, but you can guarantee it would have a lot of interest and they would be pressuring companies to add it.

For too long, audio software has been stuck in the monopoly of a few big companies. It's absolutely time to disrupt that even more and open it up to more independent developers, in the same way open source has helped in other industries.

Rather than doom CLAP to not being adopted, perhaps look to the benefits and help encourage diversity and change.

Are you saying you've never clapped in your lifetime, whether musically or not ?

You only need an editor if you're trying to sell your work.

What is the difference between 'training data' and 'memory' ?

They don't believe pay transparency is the way forward - they're just fending off some US laws and trying to gain kudos for doing so.

As you mention, if they really wanted to be transparent, it would be global, but I doubt they want to expose those differences.

> An interesting thing about developers is that we are lazy, and prefe to write as few lines of code as possible

This says so much about what is wrong with modern software development. It definitely wasn't the sentiment I studied and progressed through my career with over the last 30 years.

Convenience. It's the reason for most mass-market uptake.

Exactly.

Maybe - just maybe - children with ADHD, aggression and/or anxiety find a world they understand or can escape into with whatever they are watching - something that makes more sense or helps them deal with the world.

Correlation vs causation.

I would likely pay for youtube premium if the TV app wasn't so absymal.

However, having something that does not allow sorting by 'new' (and constantly recommending videos that are many years old), regularly re-introducing channels that have been marked as 'do not show' along with injecting the popular junk into 'for you' despite me having constantly marked similar as 'not interested'.

There is no way I will pay premium for such a terrible experience, even if it does remove ads. The TV experience - where I consume most content - is fast becoming the biggest reason to never use youtube.