ranandtoldthat

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ranandtoldthat , to Programming in How to find truth in Agile?

Someone probably knows the answer. Ask around. This should include either customers or customer advocates. If nobody knows the answer, then do the simplest thing that accomplishes what you need in order to proceed. Sometimes that means doing nothing. If there are multiple ways to accomplish what you need, do the one that leaves you in a more flexible state for future changes. You can bring up your choices or decisions to team members if you need, possibly during a standup or just ad-hoc.

If you aren't empowered to take one of those steps, then you are in a dysfunctional environment, in that case, collect your salary and keep your head down, and if you are so inclined, try to find a new company or team to join.

ranandtoldthat , to Chat in How to Deal With Cyclists

Also cyclists, don't cut off other cyclists. Ever. Whether it's out of selfish convenience or to prove something, don't do it. Pass safely and ride defensively.

ranandtoldthat , to Politics in Nearly 3 in 5 incorrectly believe US is in economic recession

Wait. Neoliberalism is literally a set of fiscal practices that that online folks refer to as late-stage capitalism. They're practically identical in meaning. Without neoliberal policy, the phrase "late-stage capitalism" likely never gets coined.

ranandtoldthat , to Technology in Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue

BBQ sauce works with pineapple pizza.

ranandtoldthat , to Politics in How to Make a Genocide Disappear

Their news room has been this way for ages. They were the Bush administration's biggest supporter in the lead up to the Iraq War. They've been anti trans for years, they were all in on opposition to Bernie.

I guess you just hire one Paul Krugman for some opinion pieces and people assume you're not a right wing mouth piece

ranandtoldthat , to Technology in Substack Competitor Ghost Announces ActivityPub Integration

Activity Pub is much more flexible, the tradeoff being that it's more complex. ActivityPub is basically a flexible CRUD API specifically designed for social networking, with support for federation.

You could fulfill the purpose of RSS with ActivityPub. But, it doesn't supercede RSS/atom, because the simplicity is valuable for the cases those protocols handle.

ranandtoldthat , to U.S. News in Are American progressives making themselves sad?

Economist so often is just amoral false equivalence.

ranandtoldthat , to AskBeehaw in You are going to be stuck in a room for 24 hours with no internet access and you can bring one item, what do you bring?

A pillow.

ranandtoldthat , to Technology in Emotion-tracking AI on the job: Workers fear being watched – and misunderstood

This is another sign of what's already going on. It's getting into backlash territory.

ranandtoldthat , to Technology in A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO

r/confidentlyincorrect

ranandtoldthat , to Technology in Amazon’s $1.4B iRobot deal is dead. Now what? | TechCrunch

When done properly it is indeed a great practice.

But so many don't. The way the modern tech industry functions makes it hard to consistently get right, sadly. I've left two companies in the past two years where computational resources for automated testing and validation were simply not available. One didn't have any manual QA beyond the implementing developer. I'm in a better situation now, but those companies still exist. They're not exactly tiny startups either.

For all its strengths, without any amount of validation, RWD is very likely to lead to such issues. Unfortunately many industry execs are unsympathetic, seeing RWD as little more than a way to get two things for the price of one.

ranandtoldthat , to Technology in Amazon’s $1.4B iRobot deal is dead. Now what? | TechCrunch

Responsive design was a neat idea, but has failed in the context of the modern web and tech industry.

ranandtoldthat , to World News in The biggest sci-fi/fantasy award held in China for the first time has been accused of censorship on the part of China

Reading that, any winner of the affected awards, however deserving, should decline their award. This year's Hugos are clearly illegitimate.

ranandtoldthat , to World News in Rejection of two-State solution by Israeli leadership 'unacceptable', says UN chief

This is a misunderstanding of the UN's primary purpose. The UN is a diplomatic organization meant to enable a baseline minimum amount of diplomatic interaction. It's primary raison d'etre is preventing a world war / nuclear war. If military might was not respected, then nations would leave the negotiating table and large wars would be harder to avoid. The veto was instrumental in establishing the UN in the first place.

ranandtoldthat , to Technology in You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds

Amazingly Google is still the best unpaid search engine, as bad as it has become. Terrible websites have completely taken over the web. To find actual information you need access ProQuest or EBESCOhost or something like that, though their indexes are much smaller.

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