Look, I don't doubt that engineering is important. But none of the engineers I know talk THIS meta.
It's a lot like Steven R. Covey's habits of highly successful people. Stuff like CMMI (Six Sigma comes to mind too) are self-help books for corporate feel-goodness. They are a product.
Are standards important? Sure. But we have created an entire economy of people whose sole contribution is to generate checklists and sell them. What happens when another company wants to sell their standards checklist? They must make the language even more abstract and convoluted, make the list longer, invent some new terms maybe... in the end: no one really knows what the fuck this list really means, but everyone will act like they do to avoid looking stupid. Now everyone is leveraging the proactive paradigm.
Looking over http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMMI I have to wonder how many people must be employed just to accomplish all of this. How many committees must be formed and have meetings to ensure that "Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination" makes to to the "Engineering Process Group" and the "Process Action Teams".
Is this just the pendulum swinging the other way? From IBM's OS/360 project hiring more and more programmers now we hire more and more meta-managers?
If you watched the link I gave you, an infomercial of a scientologist program, and didn't recognize the similarities in the utter bullshit they spew, you are either a scientologist or you've been drinking the CMU SEI coolaid a little too much.
Of course I was rude and trolling, but for fucks sake. Their meta-meta-process makes me glad I can't find a job in that career field. It sounds a little like six sigma MBA's crossed with scientologists.
I was expecting a treatise on Prussian cavalry tactics and their use in battles up-to-but-not-including Waterloo. Written in part by Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (with foreword by Tom Clancy).
Yeah. Naturally any ship that uses a sail must be made of wood, right?
Not only that, but modern society is woefully ill-prepared to produce peg legs, eye patches, and parrots on the scale we would need to retrofit the modern fleets of today.
So, what you are saying is that because Moodle runs solidly on the web server-client-pageview system, it doesn't work well? I'll take a simple, solid, easy-to-manage, easy-to-use course management system over some bullshit 2.0 ajax monstrosity.
I'll take Moodle over Blackboard ANY day.
Someone up there mentioned how assignments are hidden ALL over blackboard, and that's pretty much exactly right.
Web 2.0 offers NOTHING but a high-latency compatibility minefield that lags behind JAVA web applications from the late 90s.
Ever seen a 50-year-old ER nurse? 90% of the time, they are callused to the suffering around them. It comes with repeated exposure to the environment, and although their demeanor may seem rough to others, they are extremely efficient and skilled.
Sometimes, I think what some mistake for IT snobbishness is just a natural consequence of exposure to the lifestyle.
I thought it would be fun to post some things in answers.yahoo.com in the IT-ish categories... after a while you realize that the REALLY good questions are drowned out by people who REALLY just need to GTFO and RTFSomething.
I work in public ed IT, and can say with NO uncertainty that most people don't want the right answers, they want the nice answers. It's hard not be rude in some cases.... it just comes out your pores after enough exposure to the environment.
core i7 980 3.33 GHz http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html 12 gigs of ram 2TB HDD 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive same video card Dual Drive: Blu-ray Disc Drive (BD/DVD/CD burner w/double layer BD write capability)+16X DVD+/-RW mouse, keyboard, users guide (lol, good thing you put that there)
Of course, without the smug-ass attitude that comes out-of-the-box with the Mac...where would you be?
This is why every douche who wants Macs in public education or enterprise needs to be punched in the face.
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Most of the people on the "IPCC panel of unanimous experts" aren't climate scientists either.
You do Jiu Do?
They typically feature a bell or alarm that alerts the driver if an object is within the camera's field of view.
When, exactly, is NO object in the cameras field of view?
Amazing what NASA can achieve when they give up on space exploration.
The HMS Pretty-Good-All-Things-Considered was already in service with the Canadian Navy.
Now I see why formalin sensitivity is so common... a little exposure to you and I'm already irritated.
Here here.
MS is many things, but the enemy of a patent troll is.... useful.
It says something when The Apache Foundation sides with you. God forbid you code a way to edit XML!
You are welcome.
Look, I don't doubt that engineering is important. But none of the engineers I know talk THIS meta.
It's a lot like Steven R. Covey's habits of highly successful people. Stuff like CMMI (Six Sigma comes to mind too) are self-help books for corporate feel-goodness. They are a product.
Are standards important? Sure. But we have created an entire economy of people whose sole contribution is to generate checklists and sell them. What happens when another company wants to sell their standards checklist? They must make the language even more abstract and convoluted, make the list longer, invent some new terms maybe... in the end: no one really knows what the fuck this list really means, but everyone will act like they do to avoid looking stupid. Now everyone is leveraging the proactive paradigm.
Looking over http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMMI I have to wonder how many people must be employed just to accomplish all of this. How many committees must be formed and have meetings to ensure that "Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination" makes to to the "Engineering Process Group" and the "Process Action Teams".
Is this just the pendulum swinging the other way? From IBM's OS/360 project hiring more and more programmers now we hire more and more meta-managers?
If you watched the link I gave you, an infomercial of a scientologist program, and didn't recognize the similarities in the utter bullshit they spew, you are either a scientologist or you've been drinking the CMU SEI coolaid a little too much.
Thanks to you for the tip on pyside. I was looking around at this stuff and didn't know where to start.
This really IS pretty cool.
Seriously? Please read all of these posts about CMMI levels. Read how they talk about their processes. Read the lingo.
Now check out his video:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=715_1284690354
Of course I was rude and trolling, but for fucks sake. Their meta-meta-process makes me glad I can't find a job in that career field. It sounds a little like six sigma MBA's crossed with scientologists.
All you motherfuckers sound like scientologists.
Wouldn't it be nice to tell the public BEFORE you let the coyotes run wild?
Oh, and by the way, we had to release some tigers to deal with the bugroeoning coyote population....
Yo dawg, I haerd you like frameworks.
So I made a framework for your frameworks so you can code while you...learn another framework.
I was expecting a treatise on Prussian cavalry tactics and their use in battles up-to-but-not-including Waterloo. Written in part by Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (with foreword by Tom Clancy).
I "fear" that somali pirates won't be able to safely operate a nuclear reactor.
I'm not sure you want AQ getting one either.
Yeah. Naturally any ship that uses a sail must be made of wood, right?
Not only that, but modern society is woefully ill-prepared to produce peg legs, eye patches, and parrots on the scale we would need to retrofit the modern fleets of today.
So, what you are saying is that because Moodle runs solidly on the web server-client-pageview system, it doesn't work well? I'll take a simple, solid, easy-to-manage, easy-to-use course management system over some bullshit 2.0 ajax monstrosity.
I'll take Moodle over Blackboard ANY day.
Someone up there mentioned how assignments are hidden ALL over blackboard, and that's pretty much exactly right.
Web 2.0 offers NOTHING but a high-latency compatibility minefield that lags behind JAVA web applications from the late 90s.
Ever seen a 50-year-old ER nurse? 90% of the time, they are callused to the suffering around them. It comes with repeated exposure to the environment, and although their demeanor may seem rough to others, they are extremely efficient and skilled.
Sometimes, I think what some mistake for IT snobbishness is just a natural consequence of exposure to the lifestyle.
I thought it would be fun to post some things in answers.yahoo.com in the IT-ish categories... after a while you realize that the REALLY good questions are drowned out by people who REALLY just need to GTFO and RTFSomething.
I work in public ed IT, and can say with NO uncertainty that most people don't want the right answers, they want the nice answers. It's hard not be rude in some cases.... it just comes out your pores after enough exposure to the environment.
I dominate.
...with chopsticks?
Looks like we just found "that guy".
No way Bells is bigger than Waimea brah.
To be precise, they didn't lose liberty. They simply never had it.
What makes you say this post was written by a robot?
Yes!
Get the children involved!
I sometimes get that confused with 667.
The Neighbor of the Beast.
Hmm. For 400 bucks less from dell:
core i7 980 3.33 GHz http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
12 gigs of ram
2TB HDD 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive
same video card
Dual Drive: Blu-ray Disc Drive (BD/DVD/CD burner w/double layer BD write capability)+16X DVD+/-RW
mouse, keyboard, users guide (lol, good thing you put that there)
Of course, without the smug-ass attitude that comes out-of-the-box with the Mac...where would you be?
This is why every douche who wants Macs in public education or enterprise needs to be punched in the face.