Don't be silly, she couldn't possibly have hallucinated your dog. Instead, she wasn't wearing her tin-foil hat and you planted the idea in her mind through remote hypnotic suggestion!
In my 10 years experience, I've seen that most companies don't even *try* to let developers care.
No attempt is made to grow "teams" dedicated to the product or project. People are treated like expendable resources that have to be flexible and reassigned at the drop of a hat.
Hell, most of the time I think the company doesn't even care about the project or product itself. It's just a means to earn a living.
That doesn't really inspire great software.
And I think the lesson is: The developer who cares is much, much more valuable than the developer that doesn't. So if your company is not inspiring your developers to care, you're going to hit a brick wall.
I think most users would have surprisingly few problems on a 64-bit vista.
I know I don't, and I'm not a common user. I do heavy audio recording, production editing in the 32-bit version of Cubase on 64-bit Vista and I'm pretty happy. Of course, I'll be happier when I can move up to the 64-bit Cubase without losing my most important, plug-ins but the whole thing has been relatively painless so far, besides a performance problem in Ableton Live and the fact that I can't ReWire the thing.
Vista Home Basic pretty much is Vista with all the bullshit removed. Then again, it's also pretty much Windows XP with decent 64-bit support.
Note that this an actual selling point - the 64 bit support. I don't understand why people are going with 32-bit Vista, that's just setting you up for one more expensive upgrade, unless you bought ultimate, in which case you already paid about 10 times too much anyway.
What I do 100% agree with is that if you want to use yesterday's hardware (because lets face it, most of the time it's more than good enough) you should be able to get yesterday's perfectly operational OS still too.
I meant to use "euro" but apparently that's eaten by Slashdot (must be that deflation going on).
Currently it's down to 299Euro retail but I remember it being over 500Euro at launch.
I got Home Basic 64 OEM for 85Euro instead, retail is 179Euro still.
Oh hell, mediocre developers reinventing the wheel...
I can't even remember the number of times I've told a hot-shot young developer "you know, you could google it before trying to impress me with a bunch of waffle"...
Another gem is them trying to make something "as complicated as can possibly be mustered in the time alotted". Why don't these people understand "the simplest thing that could possibly work", I wonder...
But I have to work with the average developers because we simply can't find enough of the good and excellent ones - and that too is a great learning experience.
I'm learning to teach, coach, and coax the best out of these people, and often one of the "average" guys will really surprise you if you have a bit of guidance and a bit of trust in them.
And that's mostly because Windows is incredibly expensive unless it's OEM. Then it's just really expensive.
Vista Ultimate was what, like â600 retail when it first came out?
The problem is that those projects are few and far between.
Rather, it's "right people" who are rare. Not every project can hire only programmers that are in the top 10%. There just aren't that many to go around. Maybe as low as 1 in 10, by some estimates...
That can't be right - over 75% of the developers that I've asked rate themselves in the top 10%!
I think the most effective test would be to keep throwing terrible programmers at a problem and see which methodology fails the least badly.
Because in real life you rarely find enough of the top 10%-ers to do all the work that needs to be done.
Sure it wasn't a failure because the engineers involved wanted it to fail? Because the number one thing that should be added to a team is responsibility - those engineers should have been screaming at management that it was failing.
Of course, they probably did, and management probably ignored it because the Agile Consultant had a nice suit and a cool car...
"For" is indeed possible in that sentence position, but it does not mean "instead" like it the grandparent seems to intend.
Dictionary.com: For: by reason of; because of.
What's important is how the sampling is done - in the case of PCM audio this is a linear sampling of the voltage of the input signal.
The "decibels" are relative to "full scale" i.e. maximum voltage. The actual power levels are linear. The "last bit" is a difference of 6dBFS with the "next bit".
I suspect that the sampling for imaging is rather different, and also as far as I know the human visual range is larger than can be captured with any one optical system. I am very wary of comparing the two unless I really research both, and I don't have time to do that:).
Still, it's a great discussion and it's teaching me a lot about audio and video sampling.
You can hope that Obama isn't in it for the popularity, and that he'll burn through popularity in 4 years to set things right.
Then again, that risks a swing-back election for Palin in 2012.
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That's silicone heaven. Adding a little e always makes a pretty big difference in that kind of experience.
75% of statistics are made up on the spot anyway.
Won't somebody please think of the old evil people!
IANNYCLBMHWCIOTT.
(I Am Not New York Country Lawyer But Maybe He Will Chime In On This Thread).
Or more succinctly:
Left is the New Right.
But seriously, that's creepy.
In my 10 years experience, I've seen that most companies don't even *try* to let developers care.
No attempt is made to grow "teams" dedicated to the product or project. People are treated like expendable resources that have to be flexible and reassigned at the drop of a hat.
Hell, most of the time I think the company doesn't even care about the project or product itself. It's just a means to earn a living.
That doesn't really inspire great software.
Cool, that's a typical TOBAS* error.
(*Taken Out Back And Shot).
And I think the lesson is: The developer who cares is much, much more valuable than the developer that doesn't. So if your company is not inspiring your developers to care, you're going to hit a brick wall.
/stack_overflow
I think most users would have surprisingly few problems on a 64-bit vista. I know I don't, and I'm not a common user. I do heavy audio recording, production editing in the 32-bit version of Cubase on 64-bit Vista and I'm pretty happy. Of course, I'll be happier when I can move up to the 64-bit Cubase without losing my most important, plug-ins but the whole thing has been relatively painless so far, besides a performance problem in Ableton Live and the fact that I can't ReWire the thing.
Vista Home Basic pretty much is Vista with all the bullshit removed. Then again, it's also pretty much Windows XP with decent 64-bit support.
Note that this an actual selling point - the 64 bit support. I don't understand why people are going with 32-bit Vista, that's just setting you up for one more expensive upgrade, unless you bought ultimate, in which case you already paid about 10 times too much anyway.
What I do 100% agree with is that if you want to use yesterday's hardware (because lets face it, most of the time it's more than good enough) you should be able to get yesterday's perfectly operational OS still too.
I always figured he was rapping "Alright, stop to listen". I never got beyond that part in the song.
Well I can certainly confirm that many of the terrible programmers I've seen work in Java, if that's what you mean ;-)
(I jest, I jest).
I meant to use "euro" but apparently that's eaten by Slashdot (must be that deflation going on).
Currently it's down to 299Euro retail but I remember it being over 500Euro at launch.
I got Home Basic 64 OEM for 85Euro instead, retail is 179Euro still.
Oh hell, mediocre developers reinventing the wheel...
I can't even remember the number of times I've told a hot-shot young developer "you know, you could google it before trying to impress me with a bunch of waffle"...
Another gem is them trying to make something "as complicated as can possibly be mustered in the time alotted". Why don't these people understand "the simplest thing that could possibly work", I wonder...
But I have to work with the average developers because we simply can't find enough of the good and excellent ones - and that too is a great learning experience.
I'm learning to teach, coach, and coax the best out of these people, and often one of the "average" guys will really surprise you if you have a bit of guidance and a bit of trust in them.
And that's mostly because Windows is incredibly expensive unless it's OEM. Then it's just really expensive.
Vista Ultimate was what, like â600 retail when it first came out?
Rather, it's "right people" who are rare. Not every project can hire only programmers that are in the top 10%. There just aren't that many to go around. Maybe as low as 1 in 10, by some estimates...
That can't be right - over 75% of the developers that I've asked rate themselves in the top 10%!
I think the most effective test would be to keep throwing terrible programmers at a problem and see which methodology fails the least badly.
Because in real life you rarely find enough of the top 10%-ers to do all the work that needs to be done.
Sure it wasn't a failure because the engineers involved wanted it to fail? Because the number one thing that should be added to a team is responsibility - those engineers should have been screaming at management that it was failing.
Of course, they probably did, and management probably ignored it because the Agile Consultant had a nice suit and a cool car...
"For" is indeed possible in that sentence position, but it does not mean "instead" like it the grandparent seems to intend.
Dictionary.com: For: by reason of; because of.
No it's gravity that sucks.
What's important is how the sampling is done - in the case of PCM audio this is a linear sampling of the voltage of the input signal. :).
The "decibels" are relative to "full scale" i.e. maximum voltage. The actual power levels are linear. The "last bit" is a difference of 6dBFS with the "next bit".
I suspect that the sampling for imaging is rather different, and also as far as I know the human visual range is larger than can be captured with any one optical system. I am very wary of comparing the two unless I really research both, and I don't have time to do that
Still, it's a great discussion and it's teaching me a lot about audio and video sampling.
Especially if it's a DIGITAL watch that has subsequently gone extinct.
You can hope that Obama isn't in it for the popularity, and that he'll burn through popularity in 4 years to set things right.
Then again, that risks a swing-back election for Palin in 2012.