There's a period between the "beginning" of the modern age and today where we had these strange interstitial technologies. It sometimes feels like we went from living in the dark to electricity to the digital age in big jumps, but there's been a lot of evolution in between. Today will seem quite quirky to people 10, 20 and 50 years from now.

Today already feels quirky to me now.

> These shipments have increased from 140 million per year to more than 1 billion over 10 years

So a decrease? Or is this saying that after 10 years its 1billion/year?

Over the past ten years, these shipments have increased from $140 million to over $1 billion annually.

the latter, it's just a bit ambiguously worded. In the past 10 years shipments have increased from 140 million per year to over 1 billion per year.

It's not ambiguous unless you count "open to HN pedantry".

Haven’t used it in a while but it was essential in helping me understand how the bcl and c# features behaved and worked. I love it

Read Jarry’s How To Construct a Time Machine, and then just move on with your life.

Thanks, just adding a link here - http://www.autodidactproject.org/bib/pataphysics_02.html

Also, I think that after reading this, I might now want to move backwards with my life.

How close did you have to be to the window for it to say “nearby”? With my airtags you have to be within several metres.

I was standing in the grass of apartment complex. Find My app says “distant” and I move phone over window “nearby” … back and forth it would toggle between distant and nearby.

Open and shut case, Watson.

“According to My Modern Met, her photos are created by transposing her 3D animated head onto a live-action body and background.”

Myomatosis from the album hail to the thief

> from the album hail to the thief

Ah yes, back when people listened to albums, not singles.

Thanks, brings back memories.

What’s a good alternative to Scrum?

1. Shape Up method, for feature delivery at a small product-led company (e.g. SaaS startup)

2. mini-Waterfall: design -> plan -> build (iterate) -> ship - for platform/infra, or any other heavy engineering work

3. informal SDLC combining modern best practices in SW Engineering

4. Kanban for reactive work (bug-fixes, maintenance, QA, support, ops, etc.)

5. RUP (Rational Unified Process) for Mission/Safety critical systems

6. GROWS method - more like a collection of patterns / best practices

7. The GIST framework (Goals, Ideas, Steps, Tasks) - mostly about product management, but can be combined with Kanban

There are many others, but they're either lacking communities (i.e. used by a single company only, no books/courses), and/or IMO not very good.

There’s more discussion in the other post. Thanks for providing it

Waterfall projects with sprints. Releasing every 2 weeks is still way better than releasing less frequently. Yes its not ‘true agility’, but as long as you find your weakness and learn from them every 2 weeks you’re going to be in a stronger position than if you have to wait 6 months to realise you stuffed up 5 months ago