I was one of the Democrats who voted for Trump during the primary to sabotage the GOP. Screw game theory. Elections are too important to not vote your conscience.
Money is our livelihood in this system. We have to make choices in economic game theory fashion. It's a matter of survival. Your rhetoric is hippie idealism. I can appreciate it but that doesn't mean it's going to fly in the world we live in or ever will unless we arrive at a Star Trek-like future. It sucks but that's the reality we live in. Make the best of it!
I wasn't planning on voting; I planned on abstaining, but my wife begged me to vote. Ultimately, I voted for Trump because he can't do WORSE than Obama or Hilary.
And remember Trump is a LOT better the George W. Bush. Trump has run successful, profitable business ventures for years and those deals didn't negotiate themselves. George W. Bush tried to do that once and we can let the record speak for itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Trump also doesn't hear the voice of God or whatever in his head instructing him to take the country to war.
You know I was on the fence too then I realized who would you want to have negotiating with Vladimir Putin? Trump or Clinton? The choice was obvious at that point. It's not to say Hillary Clinton would have necessarily been a bad president but the circumstances we are in today seem to call more for a person more like Trump not Clinton. Let's be honest, the pressing issues of today are not about LGBT rights, gender equality, etc. Those are important issues but the top issue of today is THE ECONOMY folks. It's the foundation of our country and it needs fixed!
Until all competing products do the same thing. Then all you're left with is complaints. And make no mistake, if this is determined to be a success (or at least not a big disaster) then its almost certain the rest of the industry will follow suit, sooner or later.
If you're that concerned about this, complain: https://www.ftc.gov/. Venting on Slashdot is a waste of time.
You don't really believe that Putin has the best interests of the American voters in mind, do you?
I challenge you to show me any politician or political leader that doesn't have a bias towards some special interest or another. In that context, your question is irrelevant. Your question should be re-phrased as: Who has the best interests of the American voters most in mind? Everyone of a reasonable amount of intelligence is meta gaming. Show me someone in this space that isn't. You know why you can't? Because those that don't play the game well get kicked from the game. You can have all the disdain for the game you like but you'll be sulking in a corner like a little kid.
How do you feel about Russia meddling with the elections?
You mean when the Russians gave the American people accurate information that America's own leaders were trying to hide? Is that the "meddling" you are referring to?
Does it really make any difference? The term "honest politician" is an oxymoron is it not? For the idealists, isn't the politician you're searching for as rare as a unicorn? Finding discrepancies in what politicians say is like shooting fish in a barrel.
A boilerplate shrinkwrap EULA does not count as asking for it. There is no meeting of the minds.
Sorry, you'll have to supply case law for your claim. Brief research indicates there is case law ruling in favor and against whether EULA's are enforceable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's completely obvious but in order to get certain oblivious policy makers to pay attention, you need a real study with real scientific data. If we didn't do things like this, America would continue moving towards being a first world country that is a third world sweatshop with an abysmal quality of life (see OECD) just so the rich elite can get more rich at your expense by throwing average citizens into a metaphorical meat grinder.
The double standard is remarkable though. We just the US Chamber of Commerce's word for it that everyone needs to work like a slave in order to prop the economy up yet there is no data to back up this claim. However, because they have money and average citizens don't, we have to fight the uphill battle.
If you switch to a methodology where you're estimating in 6 month blocks and you're off by 100% like that, you're now 6 months off schedule instead of one week off -- that's even worse!
But, I think it shows the industry is just really poor at executing it and end up with Fragile instead.
Oh that would be a step up in the environment I'm in. It's all cargo cults here. You have it really good if you get at least Fragile. That means someone is actually trying to do it but failing at execution.
I have never seen a methodology survive its first contact with sales.
That's because sales always asks for flying, sparkly unicorns the defecate gold bricks without considering whether it's actually a reasonable expectation to have. Oh and they promised it to a client so if you could make that happen so they could get their commission and gain favor with the CEO, that would be great. k thx bye
That's not the most prevalent issue. The main issue is the malpractice of Agile methodologies. What happens when you jam a 2 week task into a 1 week time box? Corners get cut in the code, the unit tests, QA test plans and technical debt accrues creating unpredictable results when someone changes brittle code in the future. Most companies are not interested investing in REAL environments and continuous delivery pipelines with:
- Adequate infrastructure
- Adequate workstation and tools
- Adequate product training
- Reasonable time to do the work
- Reasonably well-defined work
- Development best practices: code reviews, unit tests, testing in general (yes dev's it's also your responsibility to test, you don't just throw your crap over the wall)
- Automatic builds either nightly or on commit with automatic unit and integration tests using Bamboo/Jenkins/whatever, perhaps even usage of source control at all!
- Investment in some type of test case database like TestRail or Zephyr so you actually know what your software is expected to do and it can actually evolve over time. This can replace traditional test plans that people put in Confluence that become stale almost immediately and lose value.
- Good documentation
All of this takes a lot of effort and you don't get it for free running around like a chicken with your head cut-off. Ignore it and you reap what you sow especially in larger scale software efforts.
Agreed. I think you're assuming I'm engaged in black and white thinking meaning conservative vs. liberal. Think again, friend. You know what they say about assumptions.
As a grumpy old bastard, is it possible for us to use our experience to help adopt new systems that benefit most people while harming few?
How do you know you can't do it? If you assert it can't be done, how would you prove such a thing? Think about that for a minute and let it sink in. That came from a former CEO I used to work for who is now an early retired millionaire.
Or will you try to re-infuse life into the word whipersnappers in you response?
I'm not sure what you mean by this...
I'm just wondering... when you retire, will you stand on your own principle and turn down social security?
I have planned my finances around not expecting social security to exist. If it does, it'll be a bonus and allow me to travel the world. If not, no big deal. See? You assumed I'm a type of personal that doesn't take personal responsibility. Think again. Who's engaged in black and white thinking again? It's all economic Game Theory dude. You're engaged in it too. You sent your Bush tax cut check back to the United States Treasury on a matter of principle right?
After all, you'll take out 3-4 times more than you put in. And what's worse is that you had the benefit of baring a much lighter burden than these little bastards you rant about. Your mommy and daddy popped out kids in full litters. While they worked, supporting one old fogy that lived to be 80 was easy. These little shits were popped out at 2.4 kids per household and will bare the burden of keeping you in internet porn until you're 100.
Sounds like more ad hominem mixed in with false assumptions that quite frankly don't apply to me or my immediate family.
Things have to change and you will live the last 30-40 years of your life for free...
No, I plan to live on my own money and if the money is available that I paid into medicare/medicaid/social security then I will certainly take advantage of it. Look, if there was a way to opt out of those social programs, I would do it in a heartbeat. There isn't and that's a failure of federal policy. That's not a failure of citizens that weren't around at the time that FDR's New Deal came into existence.
on welfare... because social security is precisely the same thing.
You could argue this might be logically true or not depending on how you look at it. Look at your pay stub. There are specific line items for medicare, medicaid and social security. There is not a specific line item for paying into welfare. What you're saying is that all these programs are paid for by tax dollars. I think it would more correct to say these are all federal social programs. You're just using emotional/polarizing language because that's what the media outlets like to do to get people like you riled up so you can make them advertising revenue.
When you don't ever leave your residence you are automatically safer from happening. There is a new study forthcoming that asserts people who use Facebook frequently tend to have more problems with obesity and heart disease though. They also seem to have incoherent thoughts that when observed appear to be an intricately connected matrix of various memes many of which contain cats.
the railroads were built by cheap government backed loans and the protection of the US Army. lots of other infrastructure was built by the government or with heavy government support. very few are dumb enough to risk their own money on risky business adventures
Conservative business people, they are the biggest hypocrites. They supposedly hate socialism but when it suits them they let the taxpayers foot the bill for transportation systems that they use for transportation of goods and make profits off of those goods. Who's not getting skin in the game again?
Millenials want everything for free without getting any skin in the game? What about businesses not wanting to succumb to the almighty cost of doing business but want to reap all the profits? Who's the free loader again? It's all selfish greed no matter where you look. Everyone trying to spin their own self interest into some crusade for principles to appear to be some hero while they take the shirt right off your back. We are a mess in this country.
Socialized medical care? That's evil unless it's for the military then it's noble.
Disclaimer: I'm MUCH older than the millenial generation
I mean really - just about everything except farming, housing, and medicine could be considered "superfluous" industries depending on how persnickety you feel like being.
Fight Club covered this topic pretty well "What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy’s name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra" Most products and services are solving "first world problems".
The hurdles in front of that evolving are people that are tightly held onto what I would refer to as out-dated systems. They served a important purpose in the evolution of human systems and cultures, but they are obsolete.
This is a very arrogant viewpoint and quite dangerous. You may not like traditional religious cultural values because they restrict your behavior, but they worked. They got us here. If you're going to start chucking those values overboard now you better be damn sure the unintended consequences are not catastrophic.
Read what I said regarding "They got us here". I said religion served a significant purpose at one time and we can respect its cultural significance. A lot of things got us here. We primarily use combustion engine vehicles now instead of horses. We realize the importance of horses and the positive effect they had on economic and agricultural development of our civilization at the time. We also can appreciate Greek Mythology and its cultural significance for Greek Civilization at the time but nobody believes Mount Olympus is real today nor does anyone believe we ought to follow the doctrines of that mythology. We may follow some lessons learned in some stories because we believe they still apply today and have utility.
Don't hide behind that thin veil. It is a fact the religion not only is not the epitome of morality but also condones many behaviors that we consider immoral in modern society. Some condone slavery, unequal treatment and discrimination based on gender and age, genocide and all sorts of other things that we would consider immoral and not productive for society. We have better ways to determine more positive collective behavior. You sound like a person of religious tradition that may have gotten a little bit butt hurt. That's the problem when you take something on faith without evidence otherwise known as delusion. At some point you have to confront reality and reconcile it with the fantasy world in your mind.
I choose reality and all its imperfections. You can choose what you like, just don't push it on others and don't expect anyone to agree with you.
I consider myself to be on the Autism Spectrum scale. When I tell stories I want to be detailed; but I have learned that people don't want the full story and prefer summaries.
The length of detail you tend provide by default in communication in general has nothing to do with being an indicator of Autism. It typically has more to do with personality profiles specifically related to the DISC profile. The higher you are on the D scale the more default preference you have for short, abrupt communication. The higher you are on the C scale, the more you prefer longer, detailed communication. This is why people tend to have communication problems both firmly believing something is wrong with the other party but that's simple not what's going on. Also, introverts tend to correlate with a high C whereas extroverts tend to correlate more with a higher D but that's not always case. Study DISC and MBTI and you'll have a better understanding and you'll also learn how to recognize different personality types and how to work with them better.
That's one of the purposes of systems of morality and religion, and parenting.
In order to have this conversation productively one must distinguish between the 3 concepts 1) a system of morality, 2) religion and 3) parenting. The only two of these that semi-directly correlated in some way is #1 and #2. However, most religions are not entirely composed of what we would understand as a modern system of morality. For example, apostasy. No one in their right mind is going to consider murdering someone for converting from religion A to B moral.
Perhaps you might put a strong sense of morality at the center of your parenting style but many parents don't. There are a lot of different parenting styles out there.
I think the universal thing that we can all agree on is that cooperation is better than division. We should all be able to agree that there is a universal basis for morality that has nothing to do with religion or parenting and it is largely based on cooperation for the benefit of everyone and the reduction of human suffering. This is essentially the concept of secular morality and/or secular humanism. The hurdles in front of that evolving are people that are tightly held onto what I would refer to as out-dated systems. They served a important purpose in the evolution of human systems and cultures, but they are obsolete. Also, with religion specifically in order to get them adopt secular morality some of their religious beliefs have to be dropped. Some people hold tightly to those because they want there to be an afterlife and they want it to be like whatever is described in their religious beliefs.
This is not a trivial problem and we have a long way to go and there is a lot of disagreement. Until we overcome these challenges we certainly will continue to have tragic wars, terrorist attacks, etc. about this sort of thing unfortunately. I do believe we can arrive at a better future but it's going to take a lot of work.
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I was one of the Democrats who voted for Trump during the primary to sabotage the GOP. Screw game theory. Elections are too important to not vote your conscience.
Money is our livelihood in this system. We have to make choices in economic game theory fashion. It's a matter of survival. Your rhetoric is hippie idealism. I can appreciate it but that doesn't mean it's going to fly in the world we live in or ever will unless we arrive at a Star Trek-like future. It sucks but that's the reality we live in. Make the best of it!
I wasn't planning on voting; I planned on abstaining, but my wife begged me to vote. Ultimately, I voted for Trump because he can't do WORSE than Obama or Hilary.
And remember Trump is a LOT better the George W. Bush. Trump has run successful, profitable business ventures for years and those deals didn't negotiate themselves. George W. Bush tried to do that once and we can let the record speak for itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Trump also doesn't hear the voice of God or whatever in his head instructing him to take the country to war.
You know I was on the fence too then I realized who would you want to have negotiating with Vladimir Putin? Trump or Clinton? The choice was obvious at that point. It's not to say Hillary Clinton would have necessarily been a bad president but the circumstances we are in today seem to call more for a person more like Trump not Clinton. Let's be honest, the pressing issues of today are not about LGBT rights, gender equality, etc. Those are important issues but the top issue of today is THE ECONOMY folks. It's the foundation of our country and it needs fixed!
Until all competing products do the same thing. Then all you're left with is complaints. And make no mistake, if this is determined to be a success (or at least not a big disaster) then its almost certain the rest of the industry will follow suit, sooner or later.
If you're that concerned about this, complain: https://www.ftc.gov/. Venting on Slashdot is a waste of time.
You don't really believe that Putin has the best interests of the American voters in mind, do you?
I challenge you to show me any politician or political leader that doesn't have a bias towards some special interest or another. In that context, your question is irrelevant. Your question should be re-phrased as: Who has the best interests of the American voters most in mind? Everyone of a reasonable amount of intelligence is meta gaming. Show me someone in this space that isn't. You know why you can't? Because those that don't play the game well get kicked from the game. You can have all the disdain for the game you like but you'll be sulking in a corner like a little kid.
How do you feel about Russia meddling with the elections?
You mean when the Russians gave the American people accurate information that America's own leaders were trying to hide? Is that the "meddling" you are referring to?
Does it really make any difference? The term "honest politician" is an oxymoron is it not? For the idealists, isn't the politician you're searching for as rare as a unicorn? Finding discrepancies in what politicians say is like shooting fish in a barrel.
This shit is spyware.
Here is who you register your complaint with: https://www.eff.org/
Give me a checkbox to disable it (even if it is enabled by default) and I'll not whinge. Make it a PITA to disable and I'm livid.
You can 1) complain to the manufacturer of the product or 2) switch to a competing product. That's the beauty of free markets. Vote with thy wallet.
A boilerplate shrinkwrap EULA does not count as asking for it. There is no meeting of the minds.
Sorry, you'll have to supply case law for your claim. Brief research indicates there is case law ruling in favor and against whether EULA's are enforceable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
For entertainment value, here's the Nvidia driver download page from 2001, with the driver weighing in at 6Mb.
Compare with 15 years later, driver is now 300Mb....
Software bloat at it's finest.
Even more entertainment value: https://sourceforge.net/projec.... The libraries that get linked in/to are much larger now as well.
How about an article on hacking an election? Oh wait that's what politicians normally do. No news there.
It's completely obvious but in order to get certain oblivious policy makers to pay attention, you need a real study with real scientific data. If we didn't do things like this, America would continue moving towards being a first world country that is a third world sweatshop with an abysmal quality of life (see OECD) just so the rich elite can get more rich at your expense by throwing average citizens into a metaphorical meat grinder.
The double standard is remarkable though. We just the US Chamber of Commerce's word for it that everyone needs to work like a slave in order to prop the economy up yet there is no data to back up this claim. However, because they have money and average citizens don't, we have to fight the uphill battle.
How about Global Thermonuclear War? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
If you switch to a methodology where you're estimating in 6 month blocks and you're off by 100% like that, you're now 6 months off schedule instead of one week off -- that's even worse!
You apparently have never worked at a place like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Trust me that happening once every 6 months is waaaay better than every 2 weeks.
But, I think it shows the industry is just really poor at executing it and end up with Fragile instead.
Oh that would be a step up in the environment I'm in. It's all cargo cults here. You have it really good if you get at least Fragile. That means someone is actually trying to do it but failing at execution.
I have never seen a methodology survive its first contact with sales.
That's because sales always asks for flying, sparkly unicorns the defecate gold bricks without considering whether it's actually a reasonable expectation to have. Oh and they promised it to a client so if you could make that happen so they could get their commission and gain favor with the CEO, that would be great. k thx bye
That's not the most prevalent issue. The main issue is the malpractice of Agile methodologies. What happens when you jam a 2 week task into a 1 week time box? Corners get cut in the code, the unit tests, QA test plans and technical debt accrues creating unpredictable results when someone changes brittle code in the future. Most companies are not interested investing in REAL environments and continuous delivery pipelines with:
All of this takes a lot of effort and you don't get it for free running around like a chicken with your head cut-off. Ignore it and you reap what you sow especially in larger scale software efforts.
but not old enough to be mature.
Ad hominem, nice. :)
There are at least 50 shades of gray I'm told.
Agreed. I think you're assuming I'm engaged in black and white thinking meaning conservative vs. liberal. Think again, friend. You know what they say about assumptions.
As a grumpy old bastard, is it possible for us to use our experience to help adopt new systems that benefit most people while harming few?
How do you know you can't do it? If you assert it can't be done, how would you prove such a thing? Think about that for a minute and let it sink in. That came from a former CEO I used to work for who is now an early retired millionaire.
Or will you try to re-infuse life into the word whipersnappers in you response?
I'm not sure what you mean by this...
I'm just wondering... when you retire, will you stand on your own principle and turn down social security?
I have planned my finances around not expecting social security to exist. If it does, it'll be a bonus and allow me to travel the world. If not, no big deal. See? You assumed I'm a type of personal that doesn't take personal responsibility. Think again. Who's engaged in black and white thinking again? It's all economic Game Theory dude. You're engaged in it too. You sent your Bush tax cut check back to the United States Treasury on a matter of principle right?
After all, you'll take out 3-4 times more than you put in. And what's worse is that you had the benefit of baring a much lighter burden than these little bastards you rant about. Your mommy and daddy popped out kids in full litters. While they worked, supporting one old fogy that lived to be 80 was easy. These little shits were popped out at 2.4 kids per household and will bare the burden of keeping you in internet porn until you're 100.
Sounds like more ad hominem mixed in with false assumptions that quite frankly don't apply to me or my immediate family.
Things have to change and you will live the last 30-40 years of your life for free...
No, I plan to live on my own money and if the money is available that I paid into medicare/medicaid/social security then I will certainly take advantage of it. Look, if there was a way to opt out of those social programs, I would do it in a heartbeat. There isn't and that's a failure of federal policy. That's not a failure of citizens that weren't around at the time that FDR's New Deal came into existence.
on welfare... because social security is precisely the same thing.
You could argue this might be logically true or not depending on how you look at it. Look at your pay stub. There are specific line items for medicare, medicaid and social security. There is not a specific line item for paying into welfare. What you're saying is that all these programs are paid for by tax dollars. I think it would more correct to say these are all federal social programs. You're just using emotional/polarizing language because that's what the media outlets like to do to get people like you riled up so you can make them advertising revenue.
That would be Yale and the University of California.
They should study Brawndo next. It sounds like a logical next step.
When you don't ever leave your residence you are automatically safer from happening. There is a new study forthcoming that asserts people who use Facebook frequently tend to have more problems with obesity and heart disease though. They also seem to have incoherent thoughts that when observed appear to be an intricately connected matrix of various memes many of which contain cats.
the railroads were built by cheap government backed loans and the protection of the US Army. lots of other infrastructure was built by the government or with heavy government support. very few are dumb enough to risk their own money on risky business adventures
Conservative business people, they are the biggest hypocrites. They supposedly hate socialism but when it suits them they let the taxpayers foot the bill for transportation systems that they use for transportation of goods and make profits off of those goods. Who's not getting skin in the game again?
Millenials want everything for free without getting any skin in the game? What about businesses not wanting to succumb to the almighty cost of doing business but want to reap all the profits? Who's the free loader again? It's all selfish greed no matter where you look. Everyone trying to spin their own self interest into some crusade for principles to appear to be some hero while they take the shirt right off your back. We are a mess in this country.
Socialized medical care? That's evil unless it's for the military then it's noble.
Disclaimer: I'm MUCH older than the millenial generation
I mean really - just about everything except farming, housing, and medicine could be considered "superfluous" industries depending on how persnickety you feel like being.
Fight Club covered this topic pretty well "What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy’s name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra" Most products and services are solving "first world problems".
The hurdles in front of that evolving are people that are tightly held onto what I would refer to as out-dated systems. They served a important purpose in the evolution of human systems and cultures, but they are obsolete.
This is a very arrogant viewpoint and quite dangerous. You may not like traditional religious cultural values because they restrict your behavior, but they worked. They got us here. If you're going to start chucking those values overboard now you better be damn sure the unintended consequences are not catastrophic.
Read what I said regarding "They got us here". I said religion served a significant purpose at one time and we can respect its cultural significance. A lot of things got us here. We primarily use combustion engine vehicles now instead of horses. We realize the importance of horses and the positive effect they had on economic and agricultural development of our civilization at the time. We also can appreciate Greek Mythology and its cultural significance for Greek Civilization at the time but nobody believes Mount Olympus is real today nor does anyone believe we ought to follow the doctrines of that mythology. We may follow some lessons learned in some stories because we believe they still apply today and have utility.
Don't hide behind that thin veil. It is a fact the religion not only is not the epitome of morality but also condones many behaviors that we consider immoral in modern society. Some condone slavery, unequal treatment and discrimination based on gender and age, genocide and all sorts of other things that we would consider immoral and not productive for society. We have better ways to determine more positive collective behavior. You sound like a person of religious tradition that may have gotten a little bit butt hurt. That's the problem when you take something on faith without evidence otherwise known as delusion. At some point you have to confront reality and reconcile it with the fantasy world in your mind.
I choose reality and all its imperfections. You can choose what you like, just don't push it on others and don't expect anyone to agree with you.
I consider myself to be on the Autism Spectrum scale. When I tell stories I want to be detailed; but I have learned that people don't want the full story and prefer summaries.
The length of detail you tend provide by default in communication in general has nothing to do with being an indicator of Autism. It typically has more to do with personality profiles specifically related to the DISC profile. The higher you are on the D scale the more default preference you have for short, abrupt communication. The higher you are on the C scale, the more you prefer longer, detailed communication. This is why people tend to have communication problems both firmly believing something is wrong with the other party but that's simple not what's going on. Also, introverts tend to correlate with a high C whereas extroverts tend to correlate more with a higher D but that's not always case. Study DISC and MBTI and you'll have a better understanding and you'll also learn how to recognize different personality types and how to work with them better.
That's one of the purposes of systems of morality and religion, and parenting.
In order to have this conversation productively one must distinguish between the 3 concepts 1) a system of morality, 2) religion and 3) parenting. The only two of these that semi-directly correlated in some way is #1 and #2. However, most religions are not entirely composed of what we would understand as a modern system of morality. For example, apostasy. No one in their right mind is going to consider murdering someone for converting from religion A to B moral.
Perhaps you might put a strong sense of morality at the center of your parenting style but many parents don't. There are a lot of different parenting styles out there.
I think the universal thing that we can all agree on is that cooperation is better than division. We should all be able to agree that there is a universal basis for morality that has nothing to do with religion or parenting and it is largely based on cooperation for the benefit of everyone and the reduction of human suffering. This is essentially the concept of secular morality and/or secular humanism. The hurdles in front of that evolving are people that are tightly held onto what I would refer to as out-dated systems. They served a important purpose in the evolution of human systems and cultures, but they are obsolete. Also, with religion specifically in order to get them adopt secular morality some of their religious beliefs have to be dropped. Some people hold tightly to those because they want there to be an afterlife and they want it to be like whatever is described in their religious beliefs.
This is not a trivial problem and we have a long way to go and there is a lot of disagreement. Until we overcome these challenges we certainly will continue to have tragic wars, terrorist attacks, etc. about this sort of thing unfortunately. I do believe we can arrive at a better future but it's going to take a lot of work.
I just saw this: http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/2.... Maybe Fossil didn't get the memo?