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The developer needs to fulfil as many of the requirements of the client as possible, given available time and resources. It is not the developer's place to dictate the requirements to the client.
Technical debt is not just incompetence: sometimes, there is no optimal solution, and you cannot know which tradeoff is the best. Then as you have a deadline, you get something out, and you hope that iterating to a better solution will not be too painful. Sometimes, I write code that is there purely because it might be needed later -- and this time ends up sometimes having been a waste, and sometimes a saviour. In general, it is not wasted, but I have the luxury to do such developments.
I often see technical debt emerge when the world around an application changes. This can put even the perfectly architected system out of position. You could argue that a competent engineer would have implemented a design flexible enough to adapt to change, but accounting for all possible long-run outcomes would be very expensive if not impossible. In civil engineering, this results in things like traffic jam.
Transfers involve bandwidth and so cost money. It seems that an easy and free option to permanently delete would suffice. If you care about the data and don't have a copy under your own control then that's your problem.
The bulk of legislators and judges are/were lawyers. The entire system is designed to perpetually create work for lawyers.
Supply and Demand be damned, this is a command economy in this respect with the legislators and judges creating more demand every day.
That's the demand side. On the supply side bar associations dream up achaic rules (state-by-state bar exams, continuing legal education, etc.) to restrict the supply of labor and prevent wages from falling significantly.
My dad spent most of his career as a developer for a federal agency. He always lamented that the direction of the organization would change according to electoral results. Not so much because R's and D's disagree on how to run IT, but because a new regime means new appointees at the top. The tendency is for them to advocate for the latest and greatest (buzzword) so that they can show cool bullet-points for their bosses. In reality, the IT planning/testing/implementation cycle in a federal bureaucracy turns out to usually be longer than the election cycle so the impact is minimal. By the time it's conclusively proven that the.NET/Java/Oracle/Cloud solution does not work, there's a new boss in place and a new hype-cycle to chase.
Words are cheap, including (often deserved) anti-MS comments on/. MS could very easily go the Apple/Sony route and push updates in an attempt to break third-party software that uses Kinect. If they do not do this, they deserve some credit for defying the 'my use case only' approach that appears to be the trend in consumer electronics these days.
Nope. I've taken tons of business and econ classes and have never seen a mid-term or final that came from the textbook publisher. It's a pretty mediocre prof who would rely on such a crutch.
Streaming Netflix has NOTHING last time I used it on my Roku box. I only found some of the worst b-rated movies and documentaries and a tiny amount of semi-new releases. No Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark...nothing.
1. It is getting better. Roku also has a new Netflix interface that makes things way easier to find. 2. Selection is WAY better than basic cable, which comes in at at least twice the price.
Let me give you just one example. A doctor goes to NK to treat cataracts using a simple procedure. He cures the blindness of a hundred people in one sitting. When they take the bandages off, the first thing they do when they can see is rush past the doctor to worship the pictures of the Dear Leader and the Great General and thank them for the gift of sight.
Parent is referring to "Inside North Korea", a National Geographic documentary by Lisa Ling. It's on Netflix instant right now. Happened to catch it last night, and it's a rare and interesting view inside the country.
Where's the lovable characters that just make bad decisions.
More importantly where's the robot fighting?
This show had such promise, origin of life in the cylons and all.. Unfortunately they instead decided to do 20 hours of grieving parent scenes bookended by a scattered story about religious revolutionaries.
This show was not canceled because of the business model of the cable networks as suggested in TFA. It was can canceled because it sucked.
I'm usually not an end-of-the-empire cynic, but really? $1.5B just for the House? Think I read somewhere that it's like $3B when you add in Senate and Governors races. This seems to me to be the fakest of fake economy.
Most companies who gross over $500 million per year are Microsoft Shops. Open Source is for the other 95% of small businesses (rule of thumb, not always).
Citation needed. I think the statement that most of the big guys are 'Microsoft shops' is a bit strong. MS is always there obviously, but so is *nix. I would actually be willing to bet that the opposite is true. Large corps maintain big expensive IT teams that have the ability to customize, automate, and integrate making the free OSes very useful. Small companies tend to need plug and play solutions, which is not exactly FOSS' strong suit.
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Want some hot sauce?
The developer needs to fulfil as many of the requirements of the client as possible, given available time and resources. It is not the developer's place to dictate the requirements to the client.
FTFY
Technical debt is not just incompetence: sometimes, there is no optimal solution, and you cannot know which tradeoff is the best. Then as you have a deadline, you get something out, and you hope that iterating to a better solution will not be too painful. Sometimes, I write code that is there purely because it might be needed later -- and this time ends up sometimes having been a waste, and sometimes a saviour. In general, it is not wasted, but I have the luxury to do such developments.
I often see technical debt emerge when the world around an application changes. This can put even the perfectly architected system out of position. You could argue that a competent engineer would have implemented a design flexible enough to adapt to change, but accounting for all possible long-run outcomes would be very expensive if not impossible. In civil engineering, this results in things like traffic jam.
Transfers involve bandwidth and so cost money. It seems that an easy and free option to permanently delete would suffice. If you care about the data and don't have a copy under your own control then that's your problem.
The bulk of legislators and judges are/were lawyers. The entire system is designed to perpetually create work for lawyers.
Supply and Demand be damned, this is a command economy in this respect with the legislators and judges creating more demand every day.
That's the demand side. On the supply side bar associations dream up achaic rules (state-by-state bar exams, continuing legal education, etc.) to restrict the supply of labor and prevent wages from falling significantly.
It's a trap! I already own the Golden Gate Bridge and it is definitely not for sale.
My dad spent most of his career as a developer for a federal agency. He always lamented that the direction of the organization would change according to electoral results. Not so much because R's and D's disagree on how to run IT, but because a new regime means new appointees at the top. The tendency is for them to advocate for the latest and greatest (buzzword) so that they can show cool bullet-points for their bosses. In reality, the IT planning/testing/implementation cycle in a federal bureaucracy turns out to usually be longer than the election cycle so the impact is minimal. By the time it's conclusively proven that the .NET/Java/Oracle/Cloud solution does not work, there's a new boss in place and a new hype-cycle to chase.
So, he should just create jobs for the sake of creating jobs? What would the job description be, "Head of Wall Staring?"
"Head of Road Building" seemed to work out pretty well for the country in the New Deal.
Except of course when a large North American army is passing through Kamchatka.
er.. well.. yeah not so much.
Words are cheap, including (often deserved) anti-MS comments on /. MS could very easily go the Apple/Sony route and push updates in an attempt to break third-party software that uses Kinect. If they do not do this, they deserve some credit for defying the 'my use case only' approach that appears to be the trend in consumer electronics these days.
Linux servers also have Linux admins who are paying attention to security. Windows desktops for the most part, do not.
I guess that's just a business school thing?
Nope. I've taken tons of business and econ classes and have never seen a mid-term or final that came from the textbook publisher. It's a pretty mediocre prof who would rely on such a crutch.
And it really does load 2TB drivers.
Streaming Netflix has NOTHING last time I used it on my Roku box. I only found some of the worst b-rated movies and documentaries and a tiny amount of semi-new releases. No Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark...nothing.
1. It is getting better. Roku also has a new Netflix interface that makes things way easier to find.
2. Selection is WAY better than basic cable, which comes in at at least twice the price.
Guards! Take this man away.
Let me give you just one example. A doctor goes to NK to treat cataracts using a simple procedure. He cures the blindness of a hundred people in one sitting. When they take the bandages off, the first thing they do when they can see is rush past the doctor to worship the pictures of the Dear Leader and the Great General and thank them for the gift of sight.
Parent is referring to "Inside North Korea", a National Geographic documentary by Lisa Ling. It's on Netflix instant right now. Happened to catch it last night, and it's a rare and interesting view inside the country.
Because nowadays most Americans only watch/read sources that they already agree with.
I guess the travesty that was Caprica makes more sense now. Thanks for posting this. Reminds me of this PA.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/10/10/
Where's the lovable characters that just make bad decisions.
More importantly where's the robot fighting?
This show had such promise, origin of life in the cylons and all.. Unfortunately they instead decided to do 20 hours of grieving parent scenes bookended by a scattered story about religious revolutionaries.
This show was not canceled because of the business model of the cable networks as suggested in TFA. It was can canceled because it sucked.
You stole my joke.
I'm usually not an end-of-the-empire cynic, but really? $1.5B just for the House? Think I read somewhere that it's like $3B when you add in Senate and Governors races. This seems to me to be the fakest of fake economy.
You wouldn't find it odd if the Pope called a news conference to announce that he is Catholic?
The story is in the announcement, not the underlying fact.
+ the cost of maintaining a support organization to answer the phone once the software is in the field
Most companies who gross over $500 million per year are Microsoft Shops. Open Source is for the other 95% of small businesses (rule of thumb, not always).
Citation needed. I think the statement that most of the big guys are 'Microsoft shops' is a bit strong. MS is always there obviously, but so is *nix. I would actually be willing to bet that the opposite is true. Large corps maintain big expensive IT teams that have the ability to customize, automate, and integrate making the free OSes very useful. Small companies tend to need plug and play solutions, which is not exactly FOSS' strong suit.
Pretty sure I'm below average on all of those metrics. Finally it pays off to be a smoker.