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The post suggests that "freight trains have priority." By law, passenger travel is expected to have "precedence." Read: https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/p…

No comment along the lines of: "ew, Python."

Nice. The embedded querying is neat. I see the query language goes: `select ... from` One thing I like about query languages that start with the "from" class is that then it's easi…

One thing I like to do is try to get all stories to be (approximately / more or less) the same size. I.e., split and gather work so that you don't need to score them. Then you can …

It is worth noting that Scrum, for one, does not require (or even recommend, at least according to the latest Scrum Guide) story estimating or pointing. I would agree that in pract…

What is Facebook?

This has bugged me for a long time. My company complies with HITRUST. Many of the HITRUST controls are syntheses of controls found in NIST, ISO, and other organizations. In some ca…

Nice.

Are the things under "Things I've changed my mind on" things you believe now, or have stopped believing? (Can't tell which way the change of mind is.)

$8k/mo revenue is great, but what's the profit?

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2612112367?book_show_a...

Need to add Ann Wollrath to this list. (Primary author of the RMI whitepaper.)

No! How could that be?

True

Weird how the report itself doesn't have a date.

Frankly, this one patent is worth a lot of money. This is the magic by which Looker casts out duplicate records in joins. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2…

I knew Amazon was powerful, but didn't know they had the authority to raise the minimum wage "for all U.S. workers." Wow. Incredible. Other companies can only raise the wage for th…

I'm just impressed to see the name Niklas Luhmann in HN. Well played.

This is fine as an opinion piece and a close reading of parts of the scrum guide, but some kind of evidence (even reports via surveys) would help.

Yes, doctors should focus on the patient and the family, not the computer. Technology should be scrutinized to be more supportive. Yet a significant problem with this article is th…

I would strongly advise that we read carefully the language for Art. 3, "Territorial scope," which says: (2) This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subj…