Six months ago I joined an "agile" team. The team is completely disconnected from any reasonable interpretation of agile.
No sprints.
No stand-ups.
No prioritized backlog.
No sprint planning.
No sprint reviews.
There is a product owner, who is a BA, but I never speak to her. She's on a different floor.
If I want to work on something, I literally have to ask the other developers if anyone has anything they need done.
When I joined the team, we had a project manager who would create tasks in jira and assign them to individuals. When the task was finished, we assigned them back to the PM so he could assign them to a tester. The tasks were already broken down from user stories so I would often get "implement REST service for X" and someone else would get "implement web page for X".
We have a new project manager who doesn't like agile. He is currently "resetting" the project by forcing the business to write a complete set of detailed requirements. They have until June 30 to finish that. In the meantime, the team will continue in a kind of limbo of "agile" but the PM has already committed the team to completing the project by Dec 31st even though the requirements won't be finished until Jun 30th. The budget is also fixed.
I've asked the team why we don't do any of the agile things. Normally you'd at least get cargo cult stand-ups. They said they don't see the value in it. They've all been working on the project for 2+ years so they know what needs to be done. I pointed out that it makes it impossible for me to participate in the project in any meaningful way since I'm reduced to begging for work. They don't see a problem with that. "Just ask".
Because it's "agile" there is no up-to-date technical documentation. So to get anything done (once I have work to do) involves finding out who in the team knows what I need to know and interrupting them. The guy who knows the most is a terrible communicator. "Just ask".
I have an interview at another place on Friday. I think people will be genuinely surprised when I tell them I'm leaving.
“There exist algorithms like BBP to directly compute arbitrary binary digits without the memory cost of computing all the digits before it. These are called "digit-extraction" algorithms. However, these algorithms require roughly O(N*log(N)) time to compute a small number of digits at offset N. Using this approach to compute all the digits from 1 to N will result in a quadratic run-time algorithm. This alone makes it unsuitable for large N.”
I think you might be confusing "Inter" with "Intel". This font is named "Inter UI" since its design goal is for use in user interfaces. It doesn't have anything to do with Intel.
Not necessarily. If TPMs/Trusted Execution Cores come into play, Microsoft can ensure that only trusted software can understand server communications. Most modern systems already have the hardware for this, as it is required for Secure Boot.
See: Netflix 4K requiring Kaby Lake processors for their on-die DRM solution.
The only way for this to work would be for Microsoft to provide the hardware to begin with. As it stands, all the "security" technologies are still under the control of the user, which means the only barrier is the time it takes to reverse-engineer how they work.
> Netflix 4K requiring Kaby Lake processors for their on-die DRM solution.
Just a matter of time before it's reverse engineered. It's not secure by any means. You can prove this by using the same technologies to allow anyone to download (but not use, due to DRM) a private key associated with a lot of cryptocurrency, and see how little time it takes before someone steals the money.
l-forms of amino acids tend to be tasteless, whereas d-forms tend to taste sweet.[7] Spearmint leaves contain the l-enantiomer of the chemical carvone or R-(−)-carvone and caraway seeds contain the d-enantiomer or S-(+)-carvone.[10] These smell different to most people because our olfactory receptors are chiral.
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19025-terminals-prop.pdf
This is great! Lots of nostalgia.