The value of experience is very hard to explain to a person whos choices are, "Do I please my investors and get a 7 million dollar bonus this year" or "Do I invest time and money in a team that can do this right the first time". For them, younger workers means more cogs (lines of code) off the assembly line, and those young engineers often don't have the experience to know any better. That's just how bean counters think.
My advice, try to find work at a company that isn't run by an MBA (unless they were an engineer first).
I mean... yea that's awesome... running lots of "other stuff" was good when I had a 286, too. I was a Newton fanboy, so I'm just bitter about the whole thing. Don't mind me.
Well, give those a name so strikingly similar to a feminine hygiene product that even my nine year old makes the association, then only allow one instance of them at a time... wait no... no, only allow one instance of other stuff because those won't be supported, throw an ungainly dongle here and there, and then yes. Yes - that's exactly what I mean.
Hmmm, and yet, I'm pretty sure not that many people went, "Ohhh I've got this great cotton gin now, you salves can go free!".
I feel that not promoting responsible solutions is exactly what's going to leave us in the dust of other nations. We can adapt our economic system to more responsible living, without having to stoop to exhausting resources and polluting the air we kind of need for, I dunno, breathing.
Let's forget climate change for a minute, what would be the end result of solving this problem be? A cleaner world, less pollution, less illness resulting from pollution, and potentially slowing what a good deal of scientists point to as a global catastrophe?
We all have to make sacrifices to make the world a better place, for instance, the south had to give up having slaves, would any of you short sighted mo-rons go back to that? No, because it was a stupid and barbaric practice. Did it hurt economically? Sure it did, but it was the right thing to do.
Pissing in your pants only keeps you warm for so long - pollution is the same thing - we effing live here people - yet that's exactly what you're actually fighting for the right to do. We should've stopped doing it just on principle, but for the sake of "economics" we're just going to keep right on doing it anyway. That's some lame and stupid bullshit.
At this point, I've kind of lost all hope in you people. I used to be against global warming, but honestly, if this is the best humanity can come up with - the next ice age can't get here soon enough. I hope you enjoy bitching about this big "conspiracy" to clean-the-fuck-up-after-ourselves when it hits. Maybe you can do it from your girly pansy ass SUVs. Sho nuff, I'm sure you probably will.
That's really quite beuatiful.
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I was going to ask my wife to push me off to sea in a flaming viking boat for my funeral, but this seems both more practical, and surprisingly touching.
Thank you for sharing this with us. I'm sorry for your loss, I bet he was a great guy.
There's a place for only Duct Tape Programmers...
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It's called the video game industry. That kind of methodology works there because you're generally not going to be maintaining the code base once it ships.
There are three types of people you need to have a viable and successful team:
1. People who can do abstractions, design, and estimation.
2. People who can implement those designs (Duct Tape
programmers are perfect for this).
3. People who can do a little of both.
I call bullshit on any one of these groups pointing the finger to the other and saying, "My way is best". If you had an office of nothing but designers you'd have a different but similar set of problems.
I've seen projects run only by duct tape programmers fail miserably in the field when extensibility and maintenance are required, but when we added a designer to that same team and rewrote the same project we delivered a bug free implementation with a 10 fold performance increase, and no significant bugs. That wasn't magic, it was just taking the time to do the damn thing right (and no more time than that).
I'd just like to say that the "War on Drugs" has been a great use of our taxpayer dollars. Very effective. Good thing we're spending so much money keeping people in prison instead of paying for medical care. Yay us.
Ok, all these guys who are telling you self help books are useless are mostly right. There's one book that will help you both. It's cheesy, and stupid, and totally right about girls. It's called "Women are from Mars, men are from Venus". You don't even need to read the whole thing, just the chapters about how to *listen* during an argument, and what women expect in those situations.
It'll save your ass over, and over, and over again!
Congrats, and good luck making it work in your marriage!
It's really all about the goals of the player. Personally I'm glad they added this feature - I've always liked the traditional style of mario genre - but because they're so frustrating the only one I ever finished was SMB2/Galaxy. The performance goals were always so steep and never gave me a measure of how I was improving.
This is a nice compromise between the two that'll keep players playing longer. It's better than putting down the controller and giving up - which is what I would normally do by the third "Game Over". Miyamoto made a good call IMHO.
There's a lot wrong with instilling fear, when you could be instilling responsibility. It all depends on how these are used - if you ask me it's too easy to abuse.
'Just wondering if anyone has seen links to other examples of this glitch? I mean, I imagine if it's a flaw in their sonar system that it would've shown up somewhere else, right?
Media is held by publicly owned companies that participate in the market. As far as I'm concerned any party that purports that the free market and deregulation are the solution to all our economic woes, shouldn't cry foul when the market doesn't work in their favor.
Obama was just flat out a better story, and the better story sells. Suck it up republicans, and figure out how to make your story better in 4 years.
Seriously. Claiming media bias is just a lame excuse for having done a piss poor job running a campaign.
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I am. I was really just making a joke, though.
But it was Windows - remember when everyone thought it was just a fad?
*This* is why we environmentalists want to protect marine life. It kicks ass.
Really? You're choosing VB6 over C#? I mean... really?
I'd watch youtube in ASCII all day every day! I hope it doesn't go away after the 1st >..
for you darn kids and your "science" no one would have ever known that global warning deniers are totally FOS.
And google is all out of bubble gum.
Although that same vicious circle lead to me being a career programmer, even though I failed Algebra 2 - Because, really, seriously, it *was* boring.
The value of experience is very hard to explain to a person whos choices are, "Do I please my investors and get a 7 million dollar bonus this year" or "Do I invest time and money in a team that can do this right the first time". For them, younger workers means more cogs (lines of code) off the assembly line, and those young engineers often don't have the experience to know any better. That's just how bean counters think.
My advice, try to find work at a company that isn't run by an MBA (unless they were an engineer first).
I mean... yea that's awesome... running lots of "other stuff" was good when I had a 286, too. I was a Newton fanboy, so I'm just bitter about the whole thing. Don't mind me.
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Well, give those a name so strikingly similar to a feminine hygiene product that even my nine year old makes the association, then only allow one instance of them at a time... wait no... no, only allow one instance of other stuff because those won't be supported, throw an ungainly dongle here and there, and then yes. Yes - that's exactly what I mean.
How could something no one wants to buy have competition?
Because then she could flaunt it like an, "I 3 NY" teeshirt, horn rimmed glasses, and fluorescent sneakers.
Hmmm, and yet, I'm pretty sure not that many people went, "Ohhh I've got this great cotton gin now, you salves can go free!".
I feel that not promoting responsible solutions is exactly what's going to leave us in the dust of other nations. We can adapt our economic system to more responsible living, without having to stoop to exhausting resources and polluting the air we kind of need for, I dunno, breathing.
I guess it's all moot now, anyway.
Let's forget climate change for a minute, what would be the end result of solving this problem be? A cleaner world, less pollution, less illness resulting from pollution, and potentially slowing what a good deal of scientists point to as a global catastrophe?
We all have to make sacrifices to make the world a better place, for instance, the south had to give up having slaves, would any of you short sighted mo-rons go back to that? No, because it was a stupid and barbaric practice. Did it hurt economically? Sure it did, but it was the right thing to do.
Pissing in your pants only keeps you warm for so long - pollution is the same thing - we effing live here people - yet that's exactly what you're actually fighting for the right to do. We should've stopped doing it just on principle, but for the sake of "economics" we're just going to keep right on doing it anyway. That's some lame and stupid bullshit.
At this point, I've kind of lost all hope in you people. I used to be against global warming, but honestly, if this is the best humanity can come up with - the next ice age can't get here soon enough. I hope you enjoy bitching about this big "conspiracy" to clean-the-fuck-up-after-ourselves when it hits. Maybe you can do it from your girly pansy ass SUVs. Sho nuff, I'm sure you probably will.
I was going to ask my wife to push me off to sea in a flaming viking boat for my funeral, but this seems both more practical, and surprisingly touching.
Thank you for sharing this with us. I'm sorry for your loss, I bet he was a great guy.
It's called the video game industry. That kind of methodology works there because you're generally not going to be maintaining the code base once it ships. There are three types of people you need to have a viable and successful team:
1. People who can do abstractions, design, and estimation.
2. People who can implement those designs (Duct Tape programmers are perfect for this).
3. People who can do a little of both.
I call bullshit on any one of these groups pointing the finger to the other and saying, "My way is best". If you had an office of nothing but designers you'd have a different but similar set of problems.
I've seen projects run only by duct tape programmers fail miserably in the field when extensibility and maintenance are required, but when we added a designer to that same team and rewrote the same project we delivered a bug free implementation with a 10 fold performance increase, and no significant bugs. That wasn't magic, it was just taking the time to do the damn thing right (and no more time than that).
I'd just like to say that the "War on Drugs" has been a great use of our taxpayer dollars. Very effective. Good thing we're spending so much money keeping people in prison instead of paying for medical care. Yay us.
Ok, all these guys who are telling you self help books are useless are mostly right. There's one book that will help you both. It's cheesy, and stupid, and totally right about girls. It's called "Women are from Mars, men are from Venus". You don't even need to read the whole thing, just the chapters about how to *listen* during an argument, and what women expect in those situations.
It'll save your ass over, and over, and over again!
Congrats, and good luck making it work in your marriage!
It's really all about the goals of the player. Personally I'm glad they added this feature - I've always liked the traditional style of mario genre - but because they're so frustrating the only one I ever finished was SMB2/Galaxy. The performance goals were always so steep and never gave me a measure of how I was improving. This is a nice compromise between the two that'll keep players playing longer. It's better than putting down the controller and giving up - which is what I would normally do by the third "Game Over". Miyamoto made a good call IMHO.
There's a lot wrong with instilling fear, when you could be instilling responsibility. It all depends on how these are used - if you ask me it's too easy to abuse.
Queue snide remarks below.
'Just wondering if anyone has seen links to other examples of this glitch? I mean, I imagine if it's a flaw in their sonar system that it would've shown up somewhere else, right?
Even if they were safe before, they won't be for long. That's just asking for it!
Media is held by publicly owned companies that participate in the market. As far as I'm concerned any party that purports that the free market and deregulation are the solution to all our economic woes, shouldn't cry foul when the market doesn't work in their favor.
Obama was just flat out a better story, and the better story sells. Suck it up republicans, and figure out how to make your story better in 4 years.
Seriously. Claiming media bias is just a lame excuse for having done a piss poor job running a campaign.
I was thinking more like a half fish half humanoid eight armed sea monster from an ancient and extinct civilization.
What's wrong with me? Have I really reached a point in my life where a subscription to national enquirer might be in order??