The understanding agreement after the first war was not unconditional and was full of vagueness. Saddam would never had signed it otherwise. After all, he was the King of Persia. Also, UNSCOM had an attitude which enraged the entire region. Things were bound to get complicated.
Country leveled? The amount of blood thirst on display here today is frightening.
The entire UN did NOT agree at all with "what was going on". What kind of bullshit is that?
So if you don't let me peek into your home, then you are hiding something?
Also, in the end, Saddam HAD opened the doors for inspections and the inspections were, as we now know, being really effective.
YOU make ME sick.
You are still comparing the US to a hideous dictatorship.
Ample evidence? Most? Comparing to developed countries?
So, this Maurice Strong has mislead the entire scientific community? Through his fake university in Costa Rica?
Do you realize how many scientists there are that has come up with the CO2 answer? Independently?
Do you know how much scientists love to point out flaws in each others result?
Global warming through carbon emissions is nothing new. It has even happened before, you know when we weren't 6 billion inhabitants and had room and resources to just move elsewhere.
Yes, there are other factors, like sun cycles and so forth.
But what matters is that we can do something about carbon emissions. We can't do shit about the sun.
Even if it's about sun cycles. Which it also is, but to a lesser degree(pun indended).
Uh, "China is now poised to pass the US and the EU as the world's largest emittor of CO2"...
Yeah, but there are many times the amount of people there. And they're not even there yet.
If the US was held to the same standards as the rest of the DEVELOPED world(please stop comparing to hideous dictatorships/developing countries), there would be sanctions galore.
Hidebound? No. More like extremely greedy and corrupt.
Smokescreen? Back room boys in the UN? Funny how both scientific results and the UN is always being bashed by the US and practically no one else.
You should sleep more or you'll snap one day. I have seen that happen and it isn't pretty, people don't see it coming.
Imagine two years(or maybe the rest of your life) of not being able to turn on the lights in the room you're in, because of the headaches.
Hm, i can't remember giving you any advice on being passive on meetings.
Sounds like a really stupid advise and if anything I have said could possibly be interpreted in such a way, i apologize.
Of course one should be totally brilliant at meetings.
I'm just saying that to really impress a customer you say brilliant things without emphasis.
Like there was no effort and this is nothing like what is to come.
And I care about what I am doing, don't get me wrong.
If you write most of the product specifications, yes. However in the last few years more and more customers have, for many reasons, started to used their own consultants to make the initial specifications, which lessens the amount of listening dramatically.. Which is both a good and a bad thing, better specifications but less ideas from the developer to the client.
Regarding code quality, I would say spaghetti coding and workarounds happens is when a framework doesn't suit the needs of the project. In these cases, we would either one use another framework or make one from scratch. There would always be some form of framework in place. Unless of course it is a really small project.
Regarding self confidence, i have a small country's worth. I am just careful so that i merely hint that to the customer.... It is so easy to step over the line into bragging and when that happens, the eat you alive. Maybe not always in front of you.
Ok, if we only talking about the architecture-part of the project, sure then there are obviously fewer people involved. I am not sure if i'd say small teams, but ok.
Of course the whole team has to be divided into smaller teams. It's just that i found it seldom that the architecture work can be easily contained and defined like that..Other systems but mostly policies, rules and laws tend to grow solutions and their architectures beyond a simple tree of sub-applications. Half the team isn't supposed to know what the other does for some strange security reason, and so on.
And generic frameworks are many times a requirement, the customer says it is "good enough" and don't want to be locked in. They want to be able to tell you to go away. But that is a quite new trend. Kind of.
But regarding rock star attitude: Nowadays I work in a the financial sector, which means small companies(headcount-wise), and where the customers themselves are the "rock stars" and on occasion makes more money than heads of fortune whatever companies.
If I would go in on a meeting with a big ego telling them how good I am, I would be wasting their time and they would be telling me just that and to get to the point.
They would not even be talking to us if we hadn't a solid history and name. So acting that way would be pointless. Relaxed and professional, that's what they like. According to me.
But that may well be a cultural thing and probably very different depending on the sector.
Anyway, i am at another TZ so i need to go to bed now. Really tired now.
And don't misread me here, I don't mean that banks are great at IT or something, actually they s...never mind.. But it's just that in my experience, the customer implicitly sets the "agility-level" of a project through the level of detail it chooses in the specifications. I have never really gotten to choose the level of "frameworking" to be done in those kinds of projects. It has always been a clear consequence of the specifications.
You're welcome. I learned a lot from your humble post.
A small team of senior coders can choose weather they should use frameworks or not. When projects grow beyond what small teams(or even one company) can produce, frameworks stop being optional and discipline becomes critical.
When the specifications alone reach more than 2000 pages(try making stuff for something like a larger bank, for example) and includes demands of transactions per seconds, there is no agility left, i promise you.
Myself, on the other hand, is part of a positively minute CRACK TEAM OF CODING COMMANDOS that in a constantly record-breaking pace makes fortune 2-company-software that is so good that it makes our fathers able to easily kick the fathers of elite team members asses.
While writing this, i noticed that my 9-month old daughter solved a couple of np-complete problems using only the autonomous neurons of her right index finger. I remember having to use my entire hand myself.
And yes, obviously it has some Ajax stuff to. Forgot to mention, i am currently making a specification for some client-server communication to enable a client to make multiple edits, undo:s and whatnot and then posting the changes to the server...You know like a real desktop client. It should not be as hard as it sounds since JSDC stores edits in its undo-history. It SHOULD not be much harder than just posting that data to the server and have a stub translating it into simple inserts, updates or whatever.
JSDC, Javascript Data Components(http://jsdc.sourceforge.net/docs_refere nce.php) has some really interesting stuff.
I'd say it's somewhere in between a library and a framework..It doesn't force you into anything. It is actually not very GUI-oriented, it is more application-centric. If you know what i mean.
It features: * Client-side datasets with nested transactions(or maybe it is more of an undo history), master-detail. * Input verification * Data-aware treeviews, tableviews and other stuff * A quite interesting non-blocking animation class. * A simple code generator * And more.
JSDC, Javascript Data Components(http://jsdc.sourceforge.net/docs_refere nce.php) has some really interesting stuff.
I'd say it's somewhere in between a library and a framework..It doesn't force you into anything.
It features: * Client-side datasets with nested transactions(or maybe it is more of an undo history), master-detail. * Input verification * Treeviews, Table views and other stuff * A quite interesting non-blocking animation class. * And more.
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The understanding agreement after the first war was not unconditional and was full of vagueness.
Saddam would never had signed it otherwise. After all, he was the King of Persia.
Also, UNSCOM had an attitude which enraged the entire region. Things were bound to get complicated.
Country leveled? The amount of blood thirst on display here today is frightening.
I was joking.
No interest?
You mean like when he's not the vice president anymore, he won't go back?
Oh come on.. Also, the info came from his attourney...
Like when the words freedom and democracy are used? :-)
The entire UN did NOT agree at all with "what was going on". What kind of bullshit is that? So if you don't let me peek into your home, then you are hiding something? Also, in the end, Saddam HAD opened the doors for inspections and the inspections were, as we now know, being really effective. YOU make ME sick.
You are still comparing the US to a hideous dictatorship. Ample evidence? Most? Comparing to developed countries? So, this Maurice Strong has mislead the entire scientific community? Through his fake university in Costa Rica? Do you realize how many scientists there are that has come up with the CO2 answer? Independently? Do you know how much scientists love to point out flaws in each others result? Global warming through carbon emissions is nothing new. It has even happened before, you know when we weren't 6 billion inhabitants and had room and resources to just move elsewhere. Yes, there are other factors, like sun cycles and so forth. But what matters is that we can do something about carbon emissions. We can't do shit about the sun. Even if it's about sun cycles. Which it also is, but to a lesser degree(pun indended).
Uh, "China is now poised to pass the US and the EU as the world's largest emittor of CO2"... Yeah, but there are many times the amount of people there. And they're not even there yet. If the US was held to the same standards as the rest of the DEVELOPED world(please stop comparing to hideous dictatorships/developing countries), there would be sanctions galore. Hidebound? No. More like extremely greedy and corrupt. Smokescreen? Back room boys in the UN? Funny how both scientific results and the UN is always being bashed by the US and practically no one else.
You should sleep more or you'll snap one day. I have seen that happen and it isn't pretty, people don't see it coming. Imagine two years(or maybe the rest of your life) of not being able to turn on the lights in the room you're in, because of the headaches. Hm, i can't remember giving you any advice on being passive on meetings. Sounds like a really stupid advise and if anything I have said could possibly be interpreted in such a way, i apologize. Of course one should be totally brilliant at meetings. I'm just saying that to really impress a customer you say brilliant things without emphasis. Like there was no effort and this is nothing like what is to come. And I care about what I am doing, don't get me wrong.
If you write most of the product specifications, yes.
However in the last few years more and more customers have, for many reasons, started to used their own consultants to make the initial specifications, which lessens the amount of listening dramatically.. Which is both a good and a bad thing, better specifications but less ideas from the developer to the client.
Regarding code quality, I would say spaghetti coding and workarounds happens is when a framework doesn't suit the needs of the project. In these cases, we would either one use another framework or make one from scratch. There would always be some form of framework in place. Unless of course it is a really small project.
Regarding self confidence, i have a small country's worth.
I am just careful so that i merely hint that to the customer....
It is so easy to step over the line into bragging and when that happens, the eat you alive. Maybe not always in front of you.
Ok, if we only talking about the architecture-part of the project, sure then there are obviously fewer people involved. I am not sure if i'd say small teams, but ok.
Of course the whole team has to be divided into smaller teams. It's just that i found it seldom that the architecture work can be easily contained and defined like that..Other systems but mostly policies, rules and laws tend to grow solutions and their architectures beyond a simple tree of sub-applications. Half the team isn't supposed to know what the other does for some strange security reason, and so on.
And generic frameworks are many times a requirement, the customer says it is "good enough" and don't want to be locked in. They want to be able to tell you to go away. But that is a quite new trend. Kind of.
But regarding rock star attitude:
Nowadays I work in a the financial sector, which means small companies(headcount-wise), and where the customers themselves are the "rock stars" and on occasion makes more money than heads of fortune whatever companies.
If I would go in on a meeting with a big ego telling them how good I am, I would be wasting their time and they would be telling me just that and to get to the point.
They would not even be talking to us if we hadn't a solid history and name. So acting that way would be pointless. Relaxed and professional, that's what they like. According to me.
But that may well be a cultural thing and probably very different depending on the sector.
Anyway, i am at another TZ so i need to go to bed now. Really tired now.
Good night.
And no fun left either, by the way.
And don't misread me here, I don't mean that banks are great at IT or something, actually they s...never mind..
But it's just that in my experience, the customer implicitly sets the "agility-level" of a project through the level of detail it chooses in the specifications.
I have never really gotten to choose the level of "frameworking" to be done in those kinds of projects. It has always been a clear consequence of the specifications.
You're welcome. I learned a lot from your humble post.
A small team of senior coders can choose weather they should use frameworks or not.
When projects grow beyond what small teams(or even one company) can produce, frameworks stop being optional and discipline becomes critical.
When the specifications alone reach more than 2000 pages(try making stuff for something like a larger bank, for example) and includes demands of transactions per seconds, there is no agility left, i promise you.
Elite? Shouldn't that spell l33t?
Myself, on the other hand, is part of a positively minute CRACK TEAM OF CODING COMMANDOS that in a constantly record-breaking pace makes fortune 2-company-software that is so good that it makes our fathers able to easily kick the fathers of elite team members asses.
While writing this, i noticed that my 9-month old daughter solved a couple of np-complete problems using only the autonomous neurons of her right index finger. I remember having to use my entire hand myself.
Hell, why not try the link without them spaces??
http://jsdc.sourceforge.net/docs_reference.php
And yes, obviously it has some Ajax stuff to.
Forgot to mention, i am currently making a specification for some client-server communication to enable a client to make multiple edits, undo:s and whatnot and then posting the changes to the server...You know like a real desktop client.
It should not be as hard as it sounds since JSDC stores edits in its undo-history.
It SHOULD not be much harder than just posting that data to the server and have a stub translating it into simple inserts, updates or whatever.
You would probably like JSDC.
e nce.php) has some really interesting stuff.
JSDC, Javascript Data Components(http://jsdc.sourceforge.net/docs_refer
I'd say it's somewhere in between a library and a framework..It doesn't force you into anything.
It is actually not very GUI-oriented, it is more application-centric. If you know what i mean.
It features:
* Client-side datasets with nested transactions(or maybe it is more of an undo history), master-detail.
* Input verification
* Data-aware treeviews, tableviews and other stuff
* A quite interesting non-blocking animation class.
* A simple code generator
* And more.
Check it out!
Ok, so that link's got a space in it. This one works.
http://jsdc.sourceforge.net/docs_reference.php
I gather some of you haXx0rz# out there already figured that out, though.
Especially since it is my pet project.
e nce.php) has some really interesting stuff.
JSDC, Javascript Data Components(http://jsdc.sourceforge.net/docs_refer
I'd say it's somewhere in between a library and a framework..It doesn't force you into anything.
It features:
* Client-side datasets with nested transactions(or maybe it is more of an undo history), master-detail.
* Input verification
* Treeviews, Table views and other stuff
* A quite interesting non-blocking animation class.
* And more.
Check it out!