Posts by pcgeorge45

Re: Over-h(y/o)pped

Lagunitas stuff usually isn't over the top and quite good. But then I'm a colonial. Favorite is their occasional WTFO brew.

Re: Agile

Too hard or complex, no. It just has some assumptions or prerequisites that aren't often seen in the wild, so ends up being a buzz word meaning 'good' or 'modern'. E.g. A 5-10 person development team with full control of the product requirements, development, testing, and releases. No external certification or qualification testing. Works well for small web-apps, but doesn't scale well and runs into issues with customer, saftey, or health critical systems. There are attempts to make it work in such things as SAFe, but in practice the focus on a program office or portfolio level backlog development process.

DevOps runs into similar issues since it depends upon real test or behavior driven development and automated testing. Deploying garbage fast is easy.

Re: Safeguard elections from hacking - custom stuff

Nah. custom hardware not absolutely required, nor is a paper record. A WORM record and an isolated mechanism for transmitting results to a central location should be sufficient. Avoiding hacked software and upgrades is a harder problem, particularly when the President of Diebold has stated he supported the GOP.

2nd Amendment

"2nd only provides for the National Guard to possess firearms".

That is subject to some significant debate. Further, the Supreme Court deemed it a private right to ownership. The NG isn't really a militia, it is a standing army of the State. Also, at the time the term 'well regulated' meant working, properly configured, or well designed. It did not mean subject to a high degree of government regulation. Also, a militia often meant all free males between 6 & 60 in the county or town. Personal arms were indeed kept in the home to allow for quick mustering and prevent there being seized by an invader. Some jurisdictions required eligible persons to purchase a weapon & ammunition.