If it's a major bug on a production system, hack it and enter a new bug that it needs to be properly fixed later. Keep it on your boss' desk. If people don't understand that adding work makes the project take longer, argue with them. Argument is how pushy people get stuff from the world. So push back. Hard, if you have to.
I'm not blaming Microsoft. They did a great job making it possible for mediocre programmers to produce something useful (if not elegant/supportable/extensible). I'm blaming the people who manage the process and substitute hours for thought.
Yes and no. We live on a curve in flatland. Most of the time, we can't tell the difference between a local maximum and an absolute maximum. It's a human trait. While I agree that 100% perfect engineered code is often overkill, I have had WAY too many experiences where someone with adequate expertise walks into a team and says, "WHY are you doing it this way?" and then radically improves the quality of the system with a very low time investment (less than 6 man months).
Decades ago, companies which developed technology were...technology companies. With real engineers, and highly technically skilled management. Today, companies with business-oriented management and zero technology background own and develop systems. They often do it poorly, with insufficiently empowered engineering teams, and insufficiently skilled engineers.
So today we've got a lot of Java and.Net shops filled with junior-level programmers and no disciplined, experienced systems engineers. Is it a surprise that when MS brought programming to the masses that the masses failed to learn engineering?
Maybe it's just me, and maybe it's because I'm not a junior level UI guy, but I've never had someone give me a deadline like that. Weeks, maybe, for big chunks of problem/functionality/integration, but I am starting to think that's just a cop-out junior-ish programmers give to excuse not taking the responsibility. Who gives the hour deadline? Based on what? Are they technical managers, or just small-company tyrant CEOs pulling time out of the air to assign for the fix? Is this taken seriously? Not trying to be sarcastic, I just don't see this. My managers give me respect, and generally always have. I think you're doing something wrong (but I could be mistaken).
Your experience is normal. Most people have a very hard time with Calc, and need to take it multiple times (I did, especially integrals [Calc 2]).
The problem with mainstream academics is that failure is no longer considered a normal, required part of learning. And you want people working for you who can bounce back from failure, find a way to succeed, and show they can operate a level or two above the workaday drudgery they'll often perform. That's why you need to do advanced math for a CS degree.
Of course folks taking classes in Liberal Arts don't really have this problem, and since they dominate the clientele of the typical university today, their experience (automatically parroting the prof and moving on to the next semester) is considered normal. So people who challenge themselves with calc II feel defeated and abnormal.
It's called SIP (Session Initiation Protocol). The idea there is that you've got an address (like a phone number, but more generic), and anyone can use the SIP gateway to push content to you. Can be used for email, VOIP, whatever. The SIP gateway stands between public internet and your wireless network, more or less. I can't remember exactly as it's been a few years since I read up...help anybody?
The Zoombak device, at least, uses A-GPS which corrects for atmospheric and other error-inducing factors. You should get to within a few meters reliably with that particular device.
A-GPS devices also have a much faster time to first fix under a variety of conditions, because the GPS receiver is only responsible for getting the pseudorange signals and solving them; it doesn't have to get the ephemeris (satellite position in space) and other error-correcting data on the satellite downlink. That data is provided over a cellular data connection.
Ok. Do you think you (or anyone else) has the right to make that decision for them? I've noticed a tendency for those (particularly with a liberal bias, though not exclusively) to take that responsibility on their own shoulders. Right or wrong. I had an Obama campaigner admit that he felt people need to be "forced" (his word) to act in an environmentally sensitive way.
Is there a test we'll give people to determine whether they get to manage their own affairs? Who's the arbiter?
That sounds like a strong argument for less centralization of government authority, and a return of decision-making power to localities and private citizens (who have a bigger voice in local government).
Exactly. Wouldn't it be sensible for future municipalities to look at this and think twice before allowing an outside corporation to extract profit and turn their town toxic? That would help manage the environmental impact. Oh, wait, it would also require people to think things through. Unrealistic.
Ahh! You are quite, quite correct! I completely missed it. Thanks. That said, IF the networks were truly privately owned, I'd support the property rights of the owners. In this case, I'm kind of screwed, because there's no "pure" point of view for an anarcho-capitalist approach in this situation.
Perhaps the network owner could buy [back from the taxed/trespassed citizens] full outright ownership over any sections of the network they wanted to control? Otherwise, it seems, the parts that are build with the tax dollars (or use of eminent domain) would be subject to partial ownership of those taxed/trespassed. Interesting.
I don't know. I'm a FO$$tard, to some extent, but I do NOT support net neutrality, for the reasons I gave above. A lot of people like the "free as in beer" part of FOSS, including, apparently, RMS, but don't understand that you can't make other people give you beer (or in this case, bandwidth), and still respect their rights. I think to some extent they live in a fantasy world. The hackers at MIT in the early 60s loved the "openness" of their system but didn't admit it was being funded by tax dollars allocated to DOD. Selective cognition, I suppose.
Net neutrality uses government regulations to enforce policy on a network which is privately owned and leased. It is a violation of the property rights of the network owner. This is unrelated to, and separate from, FOSS, in which the ownership is provided freely (which has some different meanings given the particular license/copyright). Two different issues philosophically, and poorly understood in TFA.
There have been various Rockbox and iPodLinux packages available for this for several years. You can get an old iPod or other device and burn your own for a fraction of the cost of this new device. Maybe not as efficient, but certainly cheaper. I'm going to do this on an old iPod Mini.
On the religious side, many people understand the concept of "parable", I think, as it was a primary means for the biblical Jesus to explain things. Though I'll admit, a lot of fundamentalists are rather antagonistic to C.S. Lewis in general.
I see no reason why the secular crowd would object; most every literature class I took used multiple interpretative theories that were influenced by nihilism, Freud, Jung, Nietzsche, feminism, to reader-response, deconstructionism, and more.
In lit classes, you apply modes of thought without needing to "believe", it's kind of an understood.
Wow. That this has been allowed to continue at the expense (primarily) of the middle class is disgusting. The textbook companies are a cartel, they've enlisted the help of the academic community, and I will rejoice the day they are made obsolete.
First Hand Evidence: I had a textbook for a music theory class that was two years old. It was IDENTICAL to the current edition; they were switching two chapters in the front of the book every year as a means of planned obsolescence, so as long as you had an odd-year printed book during an odd year (or even/even) you were ok.
I would put a couple of these together. How about get them to control a simple electrical device (lamp, motor, laser) from a PC? At a very simple level, this would include basic electronics, the transistor switch project, some programming, and wiring up a parallel port adapter. This is a nice introduction to robotics and physical computing.
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If it's a major bug on a production system, hack it and enter a new bug that it needs to be properly fixed later. Keep it on your boss' desk. If people don't understand that adding work makes the project take longer, argue with them. Argument is how pushy people get stuff from the world. So push back. Hard, if you have to.
I'm not blaming Microsoft. They did a great job making it possible for mediocre programmers to produce something useful (if not elegant/supportable/extensible). I'm blaming the people who manage the process and substitute hours for thought.
Yes and no. We live on a curve in flatland. Most of the time, we can't tell the difference between a local maximum and an absolute maximum. It's a human trait. While I agree that 100% perfect engineered code is often overkill, I have had WAY too many experiences where someone with adequate expertise walks into a team and says, "WHY are you doing it this way?" and then radically improves the quality of the system with a very low time investment (less than 6 man months).
Well, that too.
Decades ago, companies which developed technology were...technology companies. With real engineers, and highly technically skilled management. Today, companies with business-oriented management and zero technology background own and develop systems. They often do it poorly, with insufficiently empowered engineering teams, and insufficiently skilled engineers.
So today we've got a lot of Java and .Net shops filled with junior-level programmers and no disciplined, experienced systems engineers. Is it a surprise that when MS brought programming to the masses that the masses failed to learn engineering?
Maybe it's just me, and maybe it's because I'm not a junior level UI guy, but I've never had someone give me a deadline like that. Weeks, maybe, for big chunks of problem/functionality/integration, but I am starting to think that's just a cop-out junior-ish programmers give to excuse not taking the responsibility. Who gives the hour deadline? Based on what? Are they technical managers, or just small-company tyrant CEOs pulling time out of the air to assign for the fix? Is this taken seriously? Not trying to be sarcastic, I just don't see this. My managers give me respect, and generally always have. I think you're doing something wrong (but I could be mistaken).
Your experience is normal. Most people have a very hard time with Calc, and need to take it multiple times (I did, especially integrals [Calc 2]).
The problem with mainstream academics is that failure is no longer considered a normal, required part of learning. And you want people working for you who can bounce back from failure, find a way to succeed, and show they can operate a level or two above the workaday drudgery they'll often perform. That's why you need to do advanced math for a CS degree.
Of course folks taking classes in Liberal Arts don't really have this problem, and since they dominate the clientele of the typical university today, their experience (automatically parroting the prof and moving on to the next semester) is considered normal. So people who challenge themselves with calc II feel defeated and abnormal.
It's called SIP (Session Initiation Protocol). The idea there is that you've got an address (like a phone number, but more generic), and anyone can use the SIP gateway to push content to you. Can be used for email, VOIP, whatever. The SIP gateway stands between public internet and your wireless network, more or less. I can't remember exactly as it's been a few years since I read up...help anybody?
The Zoombak device, at least, uses A-GPS which corrects for atmospheric and other error-inducing factors. You should get to within a few meters reliably with that particular device. A-GPS devices also have a much faster time to first fix under a variety of conditions, because the GPS receiver is only responsible for getting the pseudorange signals and solving them; it doesn't have to get the ephemeris (satellite position in space) and other error-correcting data on the satellite downlink. That data is provided over a cellular data connection.
no, politicians don't care enough about long term damage if they think they can get away with it.
There, fixed that for you
Ok. Do you think you (or anyone else) has the right to make that decision for them? I've noticed a tendency for those (particularly with a liberal bias, though not exclusively) to take that responsibility on their own shoulders. Right or wrong. I had an Obama campaigner admit that he felt people need to be "forced" (his word) to act in an environmentally sensitive way.
Is there a test we'll give people to determine whether they get to manage their own affairs? Who's the arbiter?
That sounds like a strong argument for less centralization of government authority, and a return of decision-making power to localities and private citizens (who have a bigger voice in local government).
Exactly. Wouldn't it be sensible for future municipalities to look at this and think twice before allowing an outside corporation to extract profit and turn their town toxic? That would help manage the environmental impact. Oh, wait, it would also require people to think things through. Unrealistic.
Agreed.
Ahh! You are quite, quite correct! I completely missed it. Thanks. That said, IF the networks were truly privately owned, I'd support the property rights of the owners. In this case, I'm kind of screwed, because there's no "pure" point of view for an anarcho-capitalist approach in this situation.
Perhaps the network owner could buy [back from the taxed/trespassed citizens] full outright ownership over any sections of the network they wanted to control? Otherwise, it seems, the parts that are build with the tax dollars (or use of eminent domain) would be subject to partial ownership of those taxed/trespassed. Interesting.
I don't know. I'm a FO$$tard, to some extent, but I do NOT support net neutrality, for the reasons I gave above. A lot of people like the "free as in beer" part of FOSS, including, apparently, RMS, but don't understand that you can't make other people give you beer (or in this case, bandwidth), and still respect their rights. I think to some extent they live in a fantasy world. The hackers at MIT in the early 60s loved the "openness" of their system but didn't admit it was being funded by tax dollars allocated to DOD. Selective cognition, I suppose.
Net neutrality uses government regulations to enforce policy on a network which is privately owned and leased. It is a violation of the property rights of the network owner. This is unrelated to, and separate from, FOSS, in which the ownership is provided freely (which has some different meanings given the particular license/copyright). Two different issues philosophically, and poorly understood in TFA.
There have been various Rockbox and iPodLinux packages available for this for several years. You can get an old iPod or other device and burn your own for a fraction of the cost of this new device. Maybe not as efficient, but certainly cheaper. I'm going to do this on an old iPod Mini.
On the religious side, many people understand the concept of "parable", I think, as it was a primary means for the biblical Jesus to explain things. Though I'll admit, a lot of fundamentalists are rather antagonistic to C.S. Lewis in general.
I see no reason why the secular crowd would object; most every literature class I took used multiple interpretative theories that were influenced by nihilism, Freud, Jung, Nietzsche, feminism, to reader-response, deconstructionism, and more.
In lit classes, you apply modes of thought without needing to "believe", it's kind of an understood.
Why not religion? Try C.S. Lewis' "Out of the Silent Planet" for an interesting sf take on the Judeo-Christian theology.
Right on for inflation. And the in-game inflation can be easily explained: It's too cheap to mine gold.
Wow. That this has been allowed to continue at the expense (primarily) of the middle class is disgusting. The textbook companies are a cartel, they've enlisted the help of the academic community, and I will rejoice the day they are made obsolete.
First Hand Evidence: I had a textbook for a music theory class that was two years old. It was IDENTICAL to the current edition; they were switching two chapters in the front of the book every year as a means of planned obsolescence, so as long as you had an odd-year printed book during an odd year (or even/even) you were ok.
Forrest Mims. http://www.forrestmims.com/
I would put a couple of these together. How about get them to control a simple electrical device (lamp, motor, laser) from a PC? At a very simple level, this would include basic electronics, the transistor switch project, some programming, and wiring up a parallel port adapter. This is a nice introduction to robotics and physical computing.