IMO the big problem isn't Agile (or any other methodology). Its the time sinks of arguing "this isn't agile" or what not, and adhering to a process because "we do [this methodology]" regardless if it is productive. Do what works! Do what saves time AND delivers value and quality to the stakeholders!.

The porn is back.

IMO the real detractor from tumblr is all of the half baked, half done features. For example, some porn is blocked but most gets through. Lately I have noticed the date/time of posts in my queue are wrong, mostly for later evening posts.

One time, as a joke, I thought about creating youtube videos for all of the bugs and half done stuff. I had list of 30 (no joke there) items to start with too. But I was too lazy ;)

My apologizes for the duplication. It looks like there's some other similar comments made before or while I was making mine.

I have been thinking about Unity's new licensing and plan and wonder how it will work. I realize Unity will not want to give out too much for details on their plans. It seems like uninformed such as me this plan is just doomed for problems and failure. First of all is the revenue count. As a indie developer I am not a publicly traded company, so how will unity validate if my sales for any 12 month period reach a threshold. Is it on me to report it? If so, how does unity validate my report? Will I be required to provide audited tax records? Unity could scour distribution systems like Steam and Google play but that is time intensive not to mention a bunch of other issues like using different developer/publisher names on different platforms. What about private contract sales such as to a school where they wouldn't want to get updates through an engine like steam? It seems like there's a lot of ways one could obscure the reporting. Then there is the install counter. It sounds like to me unity runtime will be reporting home about an install. What information is it collecting? Did the person installing the game agree to that collection of information? If the runtime is calling home, and there is not an internet connection (possible if I am selling a unity built product in a private transaction such as to a school which locks down the computer infrastructure), what happens? And as a developer, could I not make my installer fanagle the system to redirect a call home elsewhere (localhost or my own service)? It seems like someone will find ways around it.

Yes, you are right. Maybe its just the trade mark names: "ring"......

When I read this my first thought was "i Robot"----where someone in a big powerful corporation has nefarious plans to take over the world through seemingly innocent technologies that everyone lets into their homes.

That was my question as well. And the article doesn't say.

I feel the problem with generating electricity through nuclear generators is size. We make this humongous generators which require tremendous amounts of money and people and, when they fail, create an even larger problem. Why not think smaller? like this one.

I've seen other articles about this idea, but can't find them any more. I remember the articles mentioning due to their size, the radiation is completely contained because he amount of fissionable material is so small.

Given the same side of the moon always faces the earth, the "far side" of the moon is always opposite of the earth.....meaning when on the surface of the far side, the moon is between the rover and earth.

If I am correct in understanding positions of the rover to earth, how does it communicate back to earth? Do the Chinese have their own satellites to assist?

I'd love to know more....

I would rather a plane get to its destination on time than late since if affects other plans. Thus, if they are padding flight times and this means the plane gets to its destination at the scheduled padded time, I'm fine with it. My schedule isn't affected. Nothing worse than missing a connecting flight because of a delay.

This is completely contrarian to marketwatch report

Job numbers are so hard to follow because there's different ways of counting them, reporting them etc.

I'm a little surprised its taken this long before this has happened. Math is ideal for computer computations. Music is math. Relationships between notes and chords is all math. Tempo is math. Meter is math. Change up the tempo and instruments and you go from trance to rock.

It's not just the horrendously designed system to detect porn that's the problem. Most of the features only work some of the time. (try the archive URL as in this example: "http://pick-a-name.tumblr.com/archive/" .....it works for some accounts, not for others). That's just one example. If I cared enough, I could document at least a dozen more. I'm confident in that number and its probably even higher when accounting for differences in functionality between browsers, operating systems and apps.

I have this same problem with Google Home. "Hey google, what the temperature with windchill" gives me a wiki page about windchill (google recently fixed this but it's a good example). I tried asking google what would be my mortgage on 300k 30 year loan. Google could only reply it couldn't help me.

Probably the most needed and useful book for programming.