Exactly how many times do people get to vote on this? There has to be some sort of end to it. The original vote was fraught with.. Fake News? and what about the next vote and the next vote? no matter who wins, the loser can cry foul. Nothing will ever get done if a vote can be constantly in flux. It is why the referendum was done, it ended the speculation. The decision was made, its done. Live with the consequences as nothing so far has been unexpected.
Voting matters and each Vote should count and be respected. Now, if you are out of the EU and finished Brexit, then you can have a Vote to go back into the EU since you already accomplished the purpose of the first vote.
Not caring one way or another but I will point out that sounds like a Political Talking point. Take the money and hire.. How does Tax Incentives = Actual Money? your comment was insightful? There has to be money to be made for Tax Incentives to actually kick in.
Now there is ZERO new money.
Now, what would Amazon replace? Zero money? 3 billion dollar money? 10 billion money? Unless Amazon destroyed something, there was 25k in new jobs to be taxed by the city + anything over the Tax Incentives from amazon corporate. Guess how much Amazon would have made.. 17 billion is one number.. so then the City lost 14 billion in taxable revenues.
Any corporate landlord gives incentives to move in (in a good economy) such as "Configuration" help. ie: you move in, here is 100k for your new cubicles because we will make it up in 6 months.
In the deleted scenes from the Original Blade Runner discussion of MetaPhysics was a major focus. The original movie asked what is it to be alive, to be sentient, to be a slave, to meet your maker, to want more life, to kill your maker, to face death, to be nothing after you die.. etc. This movie dealt with this from the standpoint of the replicants being able to be "Fully Human".. ie: pure racism. However, no matter what the MetaPhysics and the "Isms" shown.. It is still about a man and his family.. personal interactions. the JOI bot, each replicant believing they were the child and wishing so much to be so.
This sequel was a slow rolling dramatic tale and I will say.. IT WORKED.
SPOILERS ahead.
I mean it!! Spoilers ahead!!
Seriously.. SPOILERS.
I have to say.. Spoilers cause spaces are removed.
Yes.. SPOILERs..
1. I loved that every Replicant felt that they were the "One" 2. The death scene at the end was just.. perfect. The falling Snow. 3. Everyone wanted a piece of the Child.. and yet... that is the real human condition... everyone wants to use you. 4. In the end, this is a story about a Dad and a daughter. What they represent, does not matter.
I wanted to cheer the ending as it was.. just perfect.
Seriously. I have both the NOTE 3 and 4 and love them. The NOTE 4 and 3 are fantastic. Modular pieces of hardware inside makes simple replacement of power/usb ports. Replaceable Battery and MicroSD card slot. Simple things that mean a whole lot. I use the Headphone Jack to fly on planes with my serious noise cancelling headset. The NOTE's are Rooted and easy to update.
So.. I am wondering: Is Samsung going to be smart and get my money back by putting simple things that make our life better? Did the NOTE 4 removable battery/MicroSD and easy maintenance cause Samsung to lose money? NO.. It just made life easier for the consumer. I blame Apple for "teaching" samsung to lock down hardware as a way to make money. I still use the older phones until I get a better NOTE!
Exactly my point. I use a rooted ROM to avoid that extra question plus the ROM increases the audio at least 33% for maximum loudness.
I am not sure if I am partially deaf, noise cancellation, or getting older it is harder to distinguish between background and other sounds. Metal 4ever:)
When will Android allow for the 100% + loudness increase? People who are partially deaf have a hard enough time with the ear pieces... but also the increasingly loud environment can override bluetooth earpieces. To combat that, ever increasing hardware is purchased and Rooting overrides some of the locks by Samsung, etc.
However, Allow android to overdrive the hardware would fix a lot of issues. Let the consumer, ME, make the choice.
VLC really is nice in Windows because it does somehow overdrive the sound. I get more out of it + Windows + max device than any other item.
Maybe others have solutions? See Root ROMS that have increased Audio to know that this is a problem.
Please site where CTE is rare among the general population?
If I suspect a person has had a concussion, could I then get the brain CTE testing? I think its significant that 1 NFL brain, suspected of having CTE, did not. The sample was of NFL brains that were checked because they were thought to have CTE. Where is the control group of samples in the NFL?
I just have to say, thanks for advertising this tool. Now I can admin my family without having to constantly travel, get them to meet me, get the phones, etc. It is cheap and well.. the developer is the owner. Pretty nice job so far.
Amazing: Try and make it sound bad.. and I love it.
There are many cases where the back end is more important than the GUI processing. This is a RT case problem where most of the products that have this issue just dedicate hardware to the backend processing and separate the GUI using message parsing, DDS, or some other way of clearly marking the boundaries.
Having a single hardware set with processors doing both GUI and high end back processing end up having issues. Graphics Chips are a result of taking the backend software and pushing it to hardware to speed it up. Either way, GUI processing is still limited.
Poor Dumb Human time becomes less important than auto detecting a Torpedo coming at you.
There are several things in the article that are true: Chiropractors do tend to push the envelope. However, there is a reason that they are on Staff with sports teams, etc.
I injured my right knee in College. Had trouble walking and pain in the knee. Went to my GP who sent me to a specialist who said surgery to fix it. I happened to go down to the beach where my mom sent me to her own specialist (free as she paid, heck was in university). The Chiropractor proceeded to inform me he was on staff with Atlanta Hawks (this was.. what 25 years ago now.. longer) and then worked on my knee for 6 sessions. I no longer had pain and had full strength. What he did was painful as he told me the problem was not the knee but the damage had not been removed in the supporting muscles. He basically pushed and did work that fixed the damage to almost perfect. I maintained a 5-10 degree outward angle as the support muscles had not healed exactly the original. It did not affect my sports, life, in fact I think the surgery would have been worse.
I also had a slipped disk in my back (twice) and time 1: went to regular doctor who gave me drugs... 3 days later I could walk again. The second time I went to chiropractor and walked out of the office. Reason? Slipped discs are back in place.. the problem is my body reacted to it, so she calmed my back and areas with electrical stimulation. My god.. it worked.
I have also had surgery on my elbow due to another sports injury. No pain, but I have lost strength. Before surgery I hit Homeruns regularly, After.. I have yet to hit one. I cant seem to get the speed/strength fully back into it. No pain so I dont complain. It was torn cartilage and so Chiropractor would not have helped I think.
So. Doctors are emergency medicine. I go to them all the time. Chiropractors are great for some things, just be careful... as with regular doctors you get a quack.
What do you call the person who graduated last in class in medical school? Doctor.
Law of Economics: Supply/Demand. In Virginia Beach, on the Tourist side of the area prices are way higher. Why? Because people are willing to pay the prices.
What we have to watch out for is the anomalies and the anti-societal prices. Meaning: Hurricane coming? Gas prices should not jump up 4 dollars a gallon. Predatory pricing is where Capitalism has to be reigned in just a little.
Here is a quandary: Some states/cities have no sales tax on food as the reasoning is: it is a basic necessity. Then people skip the Food Lion and go to Trader Joes and spend 3 times as much on a piece of fruit. Should these types of Taxes be equal and fair or should we tax premium products as they are not meeting the ideal here? If you dont want to pay for the taxes, go to the Piggly Wiggly. If you do, go to World Expensive Mart.
See Penn and Teller's BS episode on Hydroponics and other "Healthy Food" to see a pretty good demonstration of gouging.
Make me wonder though. Lets say you bought a business class ticket to Hong Kong from the US. It costs 8 grand. So now the airline then pulls you off the flight due to "overbooking" and put you on another flight that gets to Hong Kong within 2 hours or so. They give you 675 bucks but they put you in COACH. So coach would be 1300 cost, so now the airline just made 6 grand and can overbook all the business/First class flights they wish to do so.
So they can? pull you from a higher class and put you in a lower class seat.
Yes, open spaces make it easy to monitor, but that works against HPEs. Being able to deep thought a project is how these things get accomplished. Read that it takes upwards of 50 minutes to get back to Deep thought (see previous slashdot articles on distracted employees) and a minimum of 5-15 minutes to get back in rhythm just because of an email, phone call, question.
Now imagine distractions 2-3 times an hour at minimum. It is amazing work gets done.
This sounds more like a Copying issue. File corruption gets involved during Raid/Copying from older disks to newer ones and so data gets corrupted.
Also, using large USB archive drives can corrupt the drive due to bad USB implementation, Drivers, WORK blocks, etc. I have one drive that works everywhere but put it in this one Laptop and half of it works.. half does not and writing at that stage would corrupt the drive.
Try something else to get your answer. Consider that a good developer can write a bubble sort decently enough, a Great developer leverages Industry Standard Coding and finishes faster with code from someone else that is free. Simply put, A great developer will have long since forgotten how to do a Bubble sort because the developer will use something like "sorted()" in python or other things. If need be, a great developer will resurrect the knowledge by leveraging the great books of knowledge (Google, Man, stackexchange, friends, etc). Computer Science half-life knowledge was at one time 18 months. A bubble sort is probably last used in CS 101, meaning even a 4 year CS grad should have better techniques to get a "sort" out. qsort() was always my favorite.
Asking basic coding library functions now is like asking the following:
if (x == 2) y = 3; How does the if actually work? Show me the assembly code to do so.
Better question is: "You develop in Linux, according to your resume, how do you find out what commands can assist you in profiling your new code?" Learn how they solve before you toss them for not knowing a useless bit of coding.. you are TRYING to get someone who can do your JOB, not show they did go to CS 101 years ago.
Sigh. This is how great developers see bad managers and avoid them.
1. Defect Rate: The more experience, quality developers are given the more complex tasks generally and actually generate a large amount of defects. Defects are also a case of amount of humanity involved in the area developed. More defects in HMI code because of more eyes. Defects are also based on testing, so if a code is rarely used or testing only cursory, defects are not found. This information can be found and highlighted in the FREE Debugging course from Andreas Zeller at udacity.com (Nope not shilling but found this course very informational).
2. Just because someone is an experienced developer does not mean they can estimate a job. One of the hardest things that developers are asked to do is SWAG a job. The numbers are generally way underestimated due to our human overestimation of time in future (look it up, I dont have the time. heh). These times get filtered back through contracts and customers and come back even less time. Exactly how many projects have you been on that actually made time/budget exactly as estimated? There is a reason developers work a lot of unpaid overtime.
3. Testing as you go along. Are you stating all developers should do Test Driven Development? Okay, then provide hard, frozen requirements up front. Oh wait, you are AGILE so that cant happen for larger items. Oh.. there we go.. inch pebbles.. I think the best estimate is down to 3-4 hour chunks of time. Okay, so I established that ETC is hard enough, now do it constantly in a changing requirements weekly. Wait, Im almost done here.. give me some time to finish... I thought I would be done before lunch.. but Im not done yet. Management responsibility is to manage the developer to help them and the management to make realistic time.. so "almost done" is not done. - Is it Soup? That is what I heard from my bosses when I first started in the game. Is it Soup? 20 minutes from me being first assigned a task. No real concept of the entire task. You learn to answer "Shortly" and they stop asking. 2 weeks if they ask me now.. no matter what it is. They learned to give me real time to get a much better ETC out. One of my early ETC was "3 months" from spending 2 hours on the ETC. When given 3 days, the ETC was a year and it took... a year!
4. Development and constant need to have stuff explained. Verify they understand the first time. Language barriers exist constantly. Yes, this is a decent enough metric but if they can follow computer language logic, they are not dumb. I am at a place where it is expected for new developers to work 18-24 months before becomes productive. Still.. this is one that I can see if you want to cycle engineers to get better ones and do not have a large learning curve for your products.
5. This is general employee issue. Not specific to developers.
KLOC metrics and defect metrics are shown to have real faults when using them to judge a developer.
Things that managers (or leads, including myself) do that slow down/hurt development: 1. Not listen. Most of the time, as a lead, we know it all BUT we are NOT listening and not HEARING why some task will not come close to what we think will happen in the project. 2. Micro Manage. Start the task with a known stopping date and get buy in. Dont go every to them 4 times a day, put them in a fishbowl, look at your watch if they take a longer lunch or go to a doctor, and tell others you dont trust developers as they need to be lorded over (yes, had a manager do this). The developer will come to you when they realize they have issues or need help. You help them by resources, processes, talking, etc but If you then look at them like they are insane.. you will no longer have that trust and you will have way more "Surprises". Here is a metric: If a developer never needs help and has surprises on time and issues... if you are not micro managing them, this issue lies in the developer and they need help on personal time management s
I hope they are not going for patent on the idea. I got prior art as I presented this same idea back in 1991 as a presentation to a class. This is rather simple idea as well, Authorized Vehicle Interruption System. The thing that was funny was no one I presented the idea to believed it would be allowed by governments because it could be hacked pretty easily as the RF frequencies are not encrypted.
Anyways, It is always fun to see an idea you had like 20+ years ago start to be implemented. I bet this idea has been around since the Car Radio has been invented. The idea is simple enough.
All well and good, but does the old employer have the rights to your basic skillset? If you are a developer and know C/C++ and learned some really neat skills and tricks that make you a master of the craft, does that mean you cannot code somewhere else?
John Cormack is one of the deep mind behind many of the developments including 3D engines and the like. It would be stupid to expect that he would not continue to develop new technologies and build on his knowledge and skillset. The question is, did he take actual product (code, documents) that belong to the old company, and apply them to his new job?
If say, you wrote a bubblesort routine that is 10 times faster but you wrote it. Can you make a better bubblesort at a newer company?
Alas, I have a 60 LG Plasma 3D TV that is really nice. However, finding a specific set of glasses for it (active) was hard. So I found and obtained 3 pair and got my 3D on with Guardians of the Galaxy (best 3D movie IMHO). However, the glasses required recharging constantly. The 3D movie experience was far and few between due to content and the 3D glasses were not used/made well and ended up DEAD. So now I have no way of looking at the 3D experience like I expected to be able to do for years.
On a side note, a friend has Passive 3D TV and it seemed a bit less... quality. It could be the LCD/LED aspect since I still love Plasma as 600hz rate is better than 120hz but Plasma is harder to maintain supposedly.
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Exactly how many times do people get to vote on this? There has to be some sort of end to it. The original vote was fraught with.. Fake News? and what about the next vote and the next vote? no matter who wins, the loser can cry foul. Nothing will ever get done if a vote can be constantly in flux. It is why the referendum was done, it ended the speculation. The decision was made, its done. Live with the consequences as nothing so far has been unexpected.
Voting matters and each Vote should count and be respected. Now, if you are out of the EU and finished Brexit, then you can have a Vote to go back into the EU since you already accomplished the purpose of the first vote.
Not caring one way or another but I will point out that sounds like a Political Talking point. Take the money and hire..
How does Tax Incentives = Actual Money? your comment was insightful? There has to be money to be made for Tax Incentives to actually kick in.
Now there is ZERO new money.
Now, what would Amazon replace? Zero money? 3 billion dollar money? 10 billion money? Unless Amazon destroyed something, there was 25k in new jobs to be taxed by the city + anything over the Tax Incentives from amazon corporate. Guess how much Amazon would have made.. 17 billion is one number.. so then the City lost 14 billion in taxable revenues.
Any corporate landlord gives incentives to move in (in a good economy) such as "Configuration" help. ie: you move in, here is 100k for your new cubicles because we will make it up in 6 months.
In the deleted scenes from the Original Blade Runner discussion of MetaPhysics was a major focus. The original movie asked what is it to be alive, to be sentient, to be a slave, to meet your maker, to want more life, to kill your maker, to face death, to be nothing after you die.. etc. This movie dealt with this from the standpoint of the replicants being able to be "Fully Human".. ie: pure racism. However, no matter what the MetaPhysics and the "Isms" shown.. It is still about a man and his family.. personal interactions. the JOI bot, each replicant believing they were the child and wishing so much to be so.
To wish is to have a soul?
If he wasnt dead, that destroys the perfect ending now does it not?
The no breathing part kinda clued it in.
It was a story of a child and her father at the end... which is the core of all of the movies. Really cool.
Narrator? Nope. Just a bunch of words explaining what a Replicant was and some words to the affect at beginning of the movie.
Watching the 3 mini movies beforehand didnt really help all that much with understanding. Takes a good part of the movie to start making sense.
This sequel was a slow rolling dramatic tale and I will say.. IT WORKED.
SPOILERS ahead.
I mean it!! Spoilers ahead!!
Seriously.. SPOILERS.
I have to say.. Spoilers cause spaces are removed.
Yes.. SPOILERs..
1. I loved that every Replicant felt that they were the "One"
2. The death scene at the end was just.. perfect. The falling Snow.
3. Everyone wanted a piece of the Child.. and yet... that is the real human condition... everyone wants to use you.
4. In the end, this is a story about a Dad and a daughter. What they represent, does not matter.
I wanted to cheer the ending as it was.. just perfect.
Seriously. I have both the NOTE 3 and 4 and love them. The NOTE 4 and 3 are fantastic. Modular pieces of hardware inside makes simple replacement of power/usb ports. Replaceable Battery and MicroSD card slot. Simple things that mean a whole lot. I use the Headphone Jack to fly on planes with my serious noise cancelling headset. The NOTE's are Rooted and easy to update.
So.. I am wondering: Is Samsung going to be smart and get my money back by putting simple things that make our life better? Did the NOTE 4 removable battery/MicroSD and easy maintenance cause Samsung to lose money? NO.. It just made life easier for the consumer. I blame Apple for "teaching" samsung to lock down hardware as a way to make money. I still use the older phones until I get a better NOTE!
Exactly my point. I use a rooted ROM to avoid that extra question plus the ROM increases the audio at least 33% for maximum loudness.
I am not sure if I am partially deaf, noise cancellation, or getting older it is harder to distinguish between background and other sounds. Metal 4ever :)
When will Android allow for the 100% + loudness increase? People who are partially deaf have a hard enough time with the ear pieces... but also the increasingly loud environment can override bluetooth earpieces. To combat that, ever increasing hardware is purchased and Rooting overrides some of the locks by Samsung, etc.
However, Allow android to overdrive the hardware would fix a lot of issues. Let the consumer, ME, make the choice.
VLC really is nice in Windows because it does somehow overdrive the sound. I get more out of it + Windows + max device than any other item.
Maybe others have solutions? See Root ROMS that have increased Audio to know that this is a problem.
Please site where CTE is rare among the general population?
If I suspect a person has had a concussion, could I then get the brain CTE testing? I think its significant that 1 NFL brain, suspected of having CTE, did not. The sample was of NFL brains that were checked because they were thought to have CTE. Where is the control group of samples in the NFL?
I just have to say, thanks for advertising this tool. Now I can admin my family without having to constantly travel, get them to meet me, get the phones, etc. It is cheap and well.. the developer is the owner. Pretty nice job so far.
Amazing: Try and make it sound bad.. and I love it.
There are many cases where the back end is more important than the GUI processing. This is a RT case problem where most of the products that have this issue just dedicate hardware to the backend processing and separate the GUI using message parsing, DDS, or some other way of clearly marking the boundaries.
Having a single hardware set with processors doing both GUI and high end back processing end up having issues. Graphics Chips are a result of taking the backend software and pushing it to hardware to speed it up. Either way, GUI processing is still limited.
Poor Dumb Human time becomes less important than auto detecting a Torpedo coming at you.
There are several things in the article that are true: Chiropractors do tend to push the envelope. However, there is a reason that they are on Staff with sports teams, etc.
I injured my right knee in College. Had trouble walking and pain in the knee. Went to my GP who sent me to a specialist who said surgery to fix it. I happened to go down to the beach where my mom sent me to her own specialist (free as she paid, heck was in university). The Chiropractor proceeded to inform me he was on staff with Atlanta Hawks (this was.. what 25 years ago now.. longer) and then worked on my knee for 6 sessions. I no longer had pain and had full strength. What he did was painful as he told me the problem was not the knee but the damage had not been removed in the supporting muscles. He basically pushed and did work that fixed the damage to almost perfect. I maintained a 5-10 degree outward angle as the support muscles had not healed exactly the original. It did not affect my sports, life, in fact I think the surgery would have been worse.
I also had a slipped disk in my back (twice) and time 1: went to regular doctor who gave me drugs... 3 days later I could walk again. The second time I went to chiropractor and walked out of the office. Reason? Slipped discs are back in place.. the problem is my body reacted to it, so she calmed my back and areas with electrical stimulation. My god.. it worked.
I have also had surgery on my elbow due to another sports injury. No pain, but I have lost strength. Before surgery I hit Homeruns regularly, After.. I have yet to hit one. I cant seem to get the speed/strength fully back into it. No pain so I dont complain. It was torn cartilage and so Chiropractor would not have helped I think.
So. Doctors are emergency medicine. I go to them all the time. Chiropractors are great for some things, just be careful... as with regular doctors you get a quack.
What do you call the person who graduated last in class in medical school?
Doctor.
Lest we forget the truth of Democracies...
Eventually we elect a dictator. See Hitler.
To underscore this is a reference:
http://www.latimes.com/politic...
Law of Economics: Supply/Demand. In Virginia Beach, on the Tourist side of the area prices are way higher. Why? Because people are willing to pay the prices.
What we have to watch out for is the anomalies and the anti-societal prices. Meaning: Hurricane coming? Gas prices should not jump up 4 dollars a gallon. Predatory pricing is where Capitalism has to be reigned in just a little.
Here is a quandary: Some states/cities have no sales tax on food as the reasoning is: it is a basic necessity. Then people skip the Food Lion and go to Trader Joes and spend 3 times as much on a piece of fruit. Should these types of Taxes be equal and fair or should we tax premium products as they are not meeting the ideal here? If you dont want to pay for the taxes, go to the Piggly Wiggly. If you do, go to World Expensive Mart.
See Penn and Teller's BS episode on Hydroponics and other "Healthy Food" to see a pretty good demonstration of gouging.
I have had people pulled from trips after boarding for "Weight" reasons. This is not uncommon.
So add Overbooking, Weight, and other reasons... there are more than 0.008% of passengers being removed.
Make me wonder though. Lets say you bought a business class ticket to Hong Kong from the US. It costs 8 grand. So now the airline then pulls you off the flight due to "overbooking" and put you on another flight that gets to Hong Kong within 2 hours or so. They give you 675 bucks but they put you in COACH. So coach would be 1300 cost, so now the airline just made 6 grand and can overbook all the business/First class flights they wish to do so.
So they can? pull you from a higher class and put you in a lower class seat.
Yes, open spaces make it easy to monitor, but that works against HPEs. Being able to deep thought a project is how these things get accomplished. Read that it takes upwards of 50 minutes to get back to Deep thought (see previous slashdot articles on distracted employees) and a minimum of 5-15 minutes to get back in rhythm just because of an email, phone call, question.
Now imagine distractions 2-3 times an hour at minimum. It is amazing work gets done.
This sounds more like a Copying issue. File corruption gets involved during Raid/Copying from older disks to newer ones and so data gets corrupted.
Also, using large USB archive drives can corrupt the drive due to bad USB implementation, Drivers, WORK blocks, etc. I have one drive that works everywhere but put it in this one Laptop and half of it works.. half does not and writing at that stage would corrupt the drive.
Try something else to get your answer. Consider that a good developer can write a bubble sort decently enough, a Great developer leverages Industry Standard Coding and finishes faster with code from someone else that is free. Simply put, A great developer will have long since forgotten how to do a Bubble sort because the developer will use something like "sorted()" in python or other things. If need be, a great developer will resurrect the knowledge by leveraging the great books of knowledge (Google, Man, stackexchange, friends, etc). Computer Science half-life knowledge was at one time 18 months. A bubble sort is probably last used in CS 101, meaning even a 4 year CS grad should have better techniques to get a "sort" out. qsort() was always my favorite.
Asking basic coding library functions now is like asking the following:
if (x == 2) y = 3;
How does the if actually work? Show me the assembly code to do so.
Better question is: "You develop in Linux, according to your resume, how do you find out what commands can assist you in profiling your new code?"
Learn how they solve before you toss them for not knowing a useless bit of coding.. you are TRYING to get someone who can do your JOB, not show they did go to CS 101 years ago.
Sigh. This is how great developers see bad managers and avoid them.
1. Defect Rate: The more experience, quality developers are given the more complex tasks generally and actually generate a large amount of defects. Defects are also a case of amount of humanity involved in the area developed. More defects in HMI code because of more eyes. Defects are also based on testing, so if a code is rarely used or testing only cursory, defects are not found. This information can be found and highlighted in the FREE Debugging course from Andreas Zeller at udacity.com (Nope not shilling but found this course very informational).
2. Just because someone is an experienced developer does not mean they can estimate a job. One of the hardest things that developers are asked to do is SWAG a job. The numbers are generally way underestimated due to our human overestimation of time in future (look it up, I dont have the time. heh). These times get filtered back through contracts and customers and come back even less time. Exactly how many projects have you been on that actually made time/budget exactly as estimated? There is a reason developers work a lot of unpaid overtime.
3. Testing as you go along. Are you stating all developers should do Test Driven Development? Okay, then provide hard, frozen requirements up front. Oh wait, you are AGILE so that cant happen for larger items. Oh.. there we go.. inch pebbles.. I think the best estimate is down to 3-4 hour chunks of time. Okay, so I established that ETC is hard enough, now do it constantly in a changing requirements weekly. Wait, Im almost done here.. give me some time to finish... I thought I would be done before lunch.. but Im not done yet. Management responsibility is to manage the developer to help them and the management to make realistic time.. so "almost done" is not done.
- Is it Soup? That is what I heard from my bosses when I first started in the game. Is it Soup? 20 minutes from me being first assigned a task. No real concept of the entire task. You learn to answer "Shortly" and they stop asking. 2 weeks if they ask me now.. no matter what it is. They learned to give me real time to get a much better ETC out. One of my early ETC was "3 months" from spending 2 hours on the ETC. When given 3 days, the ETC was a year and it took... a year!
4. Development and constant need to have stuff explained. Verify they understand the first time. Language barriers exist constantly. Yes, this is a decent enough metric but if they can follow computer language logic, they are not dumb. I am at a place where it is expected for new developers to work 18-24 months before becomes productive. Still.. this is one that I can see if you want to cycle engineers to get better ones and do not have a large learning curve for your products.
5. This is general employee issue. Not specific to developers.
KLOC metrics and defect metrics are shown to have real faults when using them to judge a developer.
Things that managers (or leads, including myself) do that slow down/hurt development:
1. Not listen. Most of the time, as a lead, we know it all BUT we are NOT listening and not HEARING why some task will not come close to what we think will happen in the project.
2. Micro Manage. Start the task with a known stopping date and get buy in. Dont go every to them 4 times a day, put them in a fishbowl, look at your watch if they take a longer lunch or go to a doctor, and tell others you dont trust developers as they need to be lorded over (yes, had a manager do this). The developer will come to you when they realize they have issues or need help. You help them by resources, processes, talking, etc but If you then look at them like they are insane.. you will no longer have that trust and you will have way more "Surprises". Here is a metric: If a developer never needs help and has surprises on time and issues... if you are not micro managing them, this issue lies in the developer and they need help on personal time management s
I hope they are not going for patent on the idea. I got prior art as I presented this same idea back in 1991 as a presentation to a class. This is rather simple idea as well, Authorized Vehicle Interruption System. The thing that was funny was no one I presented the idea to believed it would be allowed by governments because it could be hacked pretty easily as the RF frequencies are not encrypted.
Anyways, It is always fun to see an idea you had like 20+ years ago start to be implemented. I bet this idea has been around since the Car Radio has been invented. The idea is simple enough.
All well and good, but does the old employer have the rights to your basic skillset? If you are a developer and know C/C++ and learned some really neat skills and tricks that make you a master of the craft, does that mean you cannot code somewhere else?
John Cormack is one of the deep mind behind many of the developments including 3D engines and the like. It would be stupid to expect that he would not continue to develop new technologies and build on his knowledge and skillset. The question is, did he take actual product (code, documents) that belong to the old company, and apply them to his new job?
If say, you wrote a bubblesort routine that is 10 times faster but you wrote it. Can you make a better bubblesort at a newer company?
Alas, I have a 60 LG Plasma 3D TV that is really nice. However, finding a specific set of glasses for it (active) was hard. So I found and obtained 3 pair and got my 3D on with Guardians of the Galaxy (best 3D movie IMHO). However, the glasses required recharging constantly. The 3D movie experience was far and few between due to content and the 3D glasses were not used/made well and ended up DEAD. So now I have no way of looking at the 3D experience like I expected to be able to do for years.
On a side note, a friend has Passive 3D TV and it seemed a bit less... quality. It could be the LCD/LED aspect since I still love Plasma as 600hz rate is better than 120hz but Plasma is harder to maintain supposedly.