Are remote software teams more productive than what? Than local software teams? That is an impossible question to answer without knowing much more about the teams, isn't it?
OTOH as a person running a software business with different types of teams (I have local, I have remote teams) I can say that as long as there is somebody in the remote team capable of understanding the requirement at the business level and capable of managing the team there shouldn't be any reasons for the remote team to be less productive.
Unfortunately as all things in life this also is not as simple, it is very difficult to ensure that the remote team understands the business really well, so rather than trying to achieve the unachievable you have to give out requirements in short, easier to manage portions and you have to coordinate daily.
I am fascinated by all this puke inducing collectivism and more importantly by the arms race between those, who want to steal and those who are stolen from. What is most fascinating is the mental acrobatics required not to see how the collectivist theft is destroying the economy and society, it is very much like the climate change denial, the same processes are at work I think.
Draconian budget cuts - what a fascinating turn of a phrase. Completely political, completely disregarding reality, the opposite of what the government Ilis actually doing, completely missingvthe point, but used as one of those proverbial dog whistles and used fairly successfully at that.
I am utterly fascinated to see what it will look like when the USA (or a large enough European state, or Japan) actually run out of cheap credit, it is a morbid type of curiosity in me, I know it is a train wreck that is very deadly and ugly, but I cannot take my eyes away, it is like a magnet, I want to see how the last century of collectivist policy of theft and destruction of individual freedoms at the hands of th e mob turns back against that very mob. The shitstorm is going to be epic! Fascinating
Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's do that, let's just so that. I want to see all of these attempts at stealing from fully automated businesses, I have morbid type of curiosity, which makes me wonder and muse about all the ways that company owners will find and use to get around all this collectivist theft. It is always interesting to observe arms races, this is probably the ultimate arms race: those who want to steal vs those who produce. It is fascinating.
"A newly discovered essay by Winston Churchill shows that the British statesman gave a lot of thought to the existential question that has inspired years of scientific research and blockbuster movies: are we alone in the University?"
Maybe building billions of small reflective satellites and putting them into orbit, all opening their reflective umbrellas would make more sense than this.
Nobody put me into chains and I am not interested in putting anybody into chains either, AFAIC the non-collectivism and non-initiation of violence by the collective against an individual is a winning principle.
No, my dear A. Coward, those principles are non-initiation of violence by the collective against an individual for the monetary advantage of the collective under any circumstances, so basically I am against slavery.
Nobody is forcing you to work anywhere at all. Also nobody owes you a job at all or a job that you would enjoy. There is 0 chance I would be pro union even if after losing everything I would have to live in the wild or on the streets. This is a matter of principle.
I hope Trump is in it for himself and not for anybody else, that's the only valid reason AFAIC to do anything, all other reasons are invalid instinctual tribal garbage.
He should sue everybody. The companies that lay down the roads, the government for hiring those companies, the taxpayers for paying the taxes for the money to lay down the roads, all car manufacturers for building cars, the oil companies for providing gasoline for the car that his daughter was swerving around, the metal ore miners for providing the metal for the cars, the oil companies for providing materials that the roads are built with, the alcohol makers obviously, the bars obviously, the glass companies for making glass bottles and shot/wine glasses, the Federal reserve bank for issuing the currency that serves as the means of exchange to acquire things like alcohol, cars, oil, metal, roads etc. (for good measure).
Just because you are not listening, it doesn't mean it's not happening. This time it is the hedge funds though, not individual home owners but companies that are buying properties by the hundreds and then either just holding them or renting them out.
What is even more stupid is that Freddie and Fannie are guaranteeing these as well, though the idea behind them was to promote individual home ownership (not that such a thing needs to be promoted by any government)...
OK, stop the presses, apparently the companies are creating the problems they are then solving and seeking you the solution. Those food companies make you hungry, those airlines first take you places and leave you no way out but yo buy their tickets. You have built a nice strawman there, I guess you are here to burn it.
So in your mind when a business (a company, a person) come up with a product that people want/need they are 'exploiting the society'? The current state of economics is tightly related to the current state of education and the current state of education is tightly related to the current desires of the dominant ruling class to keep their rule. Thus we have people whobthibk that somebody trying to make money by building useful products is exploiting them and the society.
Personally I hope we build the electronic bee and it works when we need it to work and does what we need it to do. Then again, I didn't think that the guy who first used the fire to Cook food, to keep warm and to win battles was 'exploiting the society'. Nor was the society exploited with the invention of a wheel.
100% with you. I only entered the comment section to say the same thing, I have no idea what this thing is, I still don't know, for a moment I thought it had to do with Leap Motion device but it is not it. I hope whoever it is that submitted this story is not involved in software development, analysis, architecture and project management.
I don't play powerball, but are you telling me that the chances of having a positive outcome with UBI are similar to chances winning in powerball? I agree.
Racketeering is racketeering. Longshoreman that were displaced by containers and automation should not have been allowed to claim that tax and that welfare, it only further displays the actual lack of American values - using collectivism to destroy private property rights of the people running the businesses (in case of shipping, the businesses of transportation). It is as if a formerly profitable business that was displaced by better rivals forced everybody to pay them to keep existing without learning to provide their customers with some other, newer, better, cheaper products. AFAIC there is no difference in these examples, people or businesses, everybody has to be useful to others to make their daily bread. Force and oppression are the opposite values to the idea of America, the idea that brought immigrants to its shore, the idea of individual liberty from some oppressive and tyrannical government. No taxation without representation, right?
A person that is not a family member is only of use to me if they can produce something that I can trade for with my productive output. Once you are not producing, you are of 0 use to me and your nationality is of 0 interest to me as well.
Since when is having money handed to you is a 'right'? It is an entitlement for some and an obligation for others. An entitlement for those who receive it and an obligation upon those who pay it. Having obligations imposed upon people by the collectivist system that uses entitlements to stay in power is the exact opposite of rights, it is oppression and slavery, oppression and slavery is quite unlike having rights.
Yours is the second reply to my comment that displays the same fallacy. My point is not that you need others to define your reason to exist, my point is that without being useful to others you are of no use *to them as well*, which also implies you shouldn't expect them to carry you. There is no issue with you existing, there is an issue if you expect something from others for nothing from you.
I see, but that is fine as long as you do not expect others to be slaves to your desires and demands for food, shelter, medicine, entertainment, transportation, communications and such. You are of no value to me if you will not produce anything I need or want, so make sure you take that into account. I have no reasons to give you anything if you have nothing to give to me, that is basically it. Your qualities as that of a talking, walking chunk of flesh are irrelevant to me in themselves. If you do not want to produce anything I need or want, make sure you don't expect anything of me.
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For those of us over 30, what does "snapchat treatment" mean? You can already send photos and video and make phonecalls.
- I am quite a bit over 30 but let me try this, isn't 'snapchat treatment' similar to hit and run treatment?
Are remote software teams more productive than what? Than local software teams? That is an impossible question to answer without knowing much more about the teams, isn't it?
OTOH as a person running a software business with different types of teams (I have local, I have remote teams) I can say that as long as there is somebody in the remote team capable of understanding the requirement at the business level and capable of managing the team there shouldn't be any reasons for the remote team to be less productive.
Unfortunately as all things in life this also is not as simple, it is very difficult to ensure that the remote team understands the business really well, so rather than trying to achieve the unachievable you have to give out requirements in short, easier to manage portions and you have to coordinate daily.
I am fascinated by all this puke inducing collectivism and more importantly by the arms race between those, who want to steal and those who are stolen from. What is most fascinating is the mental acrobatics required not to see how the collectivist theft is destroying the economy and society, it is very much like the climate change denial, the same processes are at work I think.
Draconian budget cuts - what a fascinating turn of a phrase. Completely political, completely disregarding reality, the opposite of what the government Ilis actually doing, completely missingvthe point, but used as one of those proverbial dog whistles and used fairly successfully at that.
I am utterly fascinated to see what it will look like when the USA (or a large enough European state, or Japan) actually run out of cheap credit, it is a morbid type of curiosity in me, I know it is a train wreck that is very deadly and ugly, but I cannot take my eyes away, it is like a magnet, I want to see how the last century of collectivist policy of theft and destruction of individual freedoms at the hands of th e mob turns back against that very mob. The shitstorm is going to be epic! Fascinating
Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's do that, let's just so that. I want to see all of these attempts at stealing from fully automated businesses, I have morbid type of curiosity, which makes me wonder and muse about all the ways that company owners will find and use to get around all this collectivist theft. It is always interesting to observe arms races, this is probably the ultimate arms race: those who want to steal vs those who produce. It is fascinating.
Who is that? If you have money, you buy a lavish life style.
We should just recognize that all human beings are due a good life
- due by who? Who owes them a 'good life'?
"A newly discovered essay by Winston Churchill shows that the British statesman gave a lot of thought to the existential question that has inspired years of scientific research and blockbuster movies: are we alone in the University?"
. Well, let me quote the guy:
What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.
Well, these are ethicists, so their job is always to stop people from doing things they are doing because of feelings, so come on, feelings.
Maybe building billions of small reflective satellites and putting them into orbit, all opening their reflective umbrellas would make more sense than this.
Nobody put me into chains and I am not interested in putting anybody into chains either, AFAIC the non-collectivism and non-initiation of violence by the collective against an individual is a winning principle.
No, my dear A. Coward, those principles are non-initiation of violence by the collective against an individual for the monetary advantage of the collective under any circumstances, so basically I am against slavery.
Nobody is forcing you to work anywhere at all. Also nobody owes you a job at all or a job that you would enjoy. There is 0 chance I would be pro union even if after losing everything I would have to live in the wild or on the streets. This is a matter of principle.
I hope Trump is in it for himself and not for anybody else, that's the only valid reason AFAIC to do anything, all other reasons are invalid instinctual tribal garbage.
He should sue everybody. The companies that lay down the roads, the government for hiring those companies, the taxpayers for paying the taxes for the money to lay down the roads, all car manufacturers for building cars, the oil companies for providing gasoline for the car that his daughter was swerving around, the metal ore miners for providing the metal for the cars, the oil companies for providing materials that the roads are built with, the alcohol makers obviously, the bars obviously, the glass companies for making glass bottles and shot/wine glasses, the Federal reserve bank for issuing the currency that serves as the means of exchange to acquire things like alcohol, cars, oil, metal, roads etc. (for good measure).
Did I miss anything?
Just because you are not listening, it doesn't mean it's not happening. This time it is the hedge funds though, not individual home owners but companies that are buying properties by the hundreds and then either just holding them or renting them out.
What is even more stupid is that Freddie and Fannie are guaranteeing these as well, though the idea behind them was to promote individual home ownership (not that such a thing needs to be promoted by any government)...
OK, stop the presses, apparently the companies are creating the problems they are then solving and seeking you the solution. Those food companies make you hungry, those airlines first take you places and leave you no way out but yo buy their tickets. You have built a nice strawman there, I guess you are here to burn it.
So in your mind when a business (a company, a person) come up with a product that people want/need they are 'exploiting the society'? The current state of economics is tightly related to the current state of education and the current state of education is tightly related to the current desires of the dominant ruling class to keep their rule. Thus we have people whobthibk that somebody trying to make money by building useful products is exploiting them and the society.
Personally I hope we build the electronic bee and it works when we need it to work and does what we need it to do. Then again, I didn't think that the guy who first used the fire to Cook food, to keep warm and to win battles was 'exploiting the society'. Nor was the society exploited with the invention of a wheel.
100% with you. I only entered the comment section to say the same thing, I have no idea what this thing is, I still don't know, for a moment I thought it had to do with Leap Motion device but it is not it. I hope whoever it is that submitted this story is not involved in software development, analysis, architecture and project management.
I don't play powerball, but are you telling me that the chances of having a positive outcome with UBI are similar to chances winning in powerball? I agree.
Racketeering is racketeering. Longshoreman that were displaced by containers and automation should not have been allowed to claim that tax and that welfare, it only further displays the actual lack of American values - using collectivism to destroy private property rights of the people running the businesses (in case of shipping, the businesses of transportation). It is as if a formerly profitable business that was displaced by better rivals forced everybody to pay them to keep existing without learning to provide their customers with some other, newer, better, cheaper products. AFAIC there is no difference in these examples, people or businesses, everybody has to be useful to others to make their daily bread. Force and oppression are the opposite values to the idea of America, the idea that brought immigrants to its shore, the idea of individual liberty from some oppressive and tyrannical government. No taxation without representation, right?
A person that is not a family member is only of use to me if they can produce something that I can trade for with my productive output. Once you are not producing, you are of 0 use to me and your nationality is of 0 interest to me as well.
Since when is having money handed to you is a 'right'? It is an entitlement for some and an obligation for others. An entitlement for those who receive it and an obligation upon those who pay it. Having obligations imposed upon people by the collectivist system that uses entitlements to stay in power is the exact opposite of rights, it is oppression and slavery, oppression and slavery is quite unlike having rights.
You are taking the comment out of the context of the story and of this thread for some reason then.
Yours is the second reply to my comment that displays the same fallacy. My point is not that you need others to define your reason to exist, my point is that without being useful to others you are of no use *to them as well*, which also implies you shouldn't expect them to carry you. There is no issue with you existing, there is an issue if you expect something from others for nothing from you.
I see, but that is fine as long as you do not expect others to be slaves to your desires and demands for food, shelter, medicine, entertainment, transportation, communications and such. You are of no value to me if you will not produce anything I need or want, so make sure you take that into account. I have no reasons to give you anything if you have nothing to give to me, that is basically it. Your qualities as that of a talking, walking chunk of flesh are irrelevant to me in themselves. If you do not want to produce anything I need or want, make sure you don't expect anything of me.