I just finished reading Adaptive Software Development. While the method isn't for everyone one interesting point he makes is that employees are not human resources, e.g. cogs in a giant machine to turn out some desired productivity level at least not in technical work. To ignore the productivity impacts of forcing a team or individual to nose to the grindstone every hour of every day is a sure shot at turnover, which means a loss of productivity because of a steep learning curve to the next employee at the wheel.
Actually no, that was a joke. I just threw some of the worst ones I've seen in there. Artistically speaking, there are very few good movies in comparison to all the artistically void or just plain bad ones. Taking into account the differences in the age of the industries and the experience time difference between the two genres, the game industry isn't doing half bad.
What? You are right. I can't think of the last time I've played a game that was the equivalent of Dumb and Dumberer, Six String Samurai, Troll 2, Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, Santa with Muscles,... I can't believe how much time I've wasted on movies. I need to play more games.
Sidenote: Movies aren't truely art because the book is always better.
From the article: "S. Derek Turner, research director of Free Press, said in a statement. 'If Comcast has oversold their network to the point of creating congestion problems, then well-disclosed caps for Internet use are a better short-term solution than Comcast's current practice of illegally blocking Internet traffic.'"
The only problem this isn't going to be a short-term solution until Comcast can beef up its infrastructure to meet its advertisements. It is going to just be a standard business practice for them. Not just for them, there will be many copycats as well, and we won't get the benefit of an alarming news article to warn us; it will be hidden deep in a 20 page legalese document.
Apart from the other things employers make credit checks during the hiring process. Wouldn't it be great to miss out on a great job because you had no clue that someone falsely put a black mark on your credit report?
I used to contract to a network hardware company. The company attitude was that software folk were not engineers and didn't have a place anywhere but in the software (network management) division. I can't imagine how they kept market share with all the time lost to basic repeated errors. Every product contained a hackfest of self-taught EEs "making things work". Of course the circuitry was at least top notch.
If after repeated attempts to get them to understand how valuable good software practices will be over the course of a project and into the future, maybe its time to work for a more forward-thinking company.
Surprisingly few people get it even laid out in terms as simply as that. "Its just software." is a running joke because thats how lots of non-technical (and even technical people) think.
After a full day of work plus two hours of grad school classes, what I would love to do is fix the kdevelop bug that lost my last half hour of coding (or insert similar problem.) Sometimes when my car breaks it sits in my garage 2 weeks waiting on me to have time to fix it, I can't imagine how long my computer would have to sit if I had wait to have the time necessary to search for repeatable conditions for the error, trace through someone else's code with which I'm not familiar, and code a fix for it without breaking something else important. I get the fun of the whole hobby thing. However, don't suggest I use something, and then when it doesn't work just say here is a hammer and screwdriver fix it yourself. Stroke for stroke, I've never had a linux distro be any more stable than a windows box in at least 10 years. Nor have I had a linux distro be easier to secure or maintain in the past 10 years. That is my anecdotal experience.
We could have the government just hand out our tasks at birth. They could then give out our training based on the need of our task. We might call it something...I don't know communism sounds good. Then we can have a decades long standoff with the capitalist pigs and then collapse under the weight of our leaders' selfishness.
I get why you were modded troll but you touch an important point. The RPG community has been fragmented now. For those who delight in making a character and sharing it with your friends real or otherwise the MMORPG is sweet, sweet candy, but for those who enjoy the deep and rich story which has previously followed RPGs MMORPGs just feel hollow. I've taken quite a few steps into MMORPGs and while they are improving over time, there are just some things that have to be sacrificed for balance. There will always be a place for the single(or well developed small group)-player RPG.
Well the next step is C++ and Java. Then we can write OS layers, networking layers, web browsers, and scripting languages that run on top of OS layers, networking layers, web browsers and scripting languages because RAM is now cheap...
My college experience was modeled after your thinking. After I graduated I spent some time working by myself on a project for my employer at the time. I had learned all the basic data structures but had not been informed there were standard, tried and true data structures available. I wasted hundreds of man-hours and introduced countless errors just because I didn't know standard, free, industry-accepted tools existed to do what I needed.
A tool is not an excuse to gloss over the critical thinking needed to reach the conclusion, but denying your students the practical tools to solve problems is a fast track to employment uselessness compared to people who can use the tools to do it both fast and correct.
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I just finished reading Adaptive Software Development. While the method isn't for everyone one interesting point he makes is that employees are not human resources, e.g. cogs in a giant machine to turn out some desired productivity level at least not in technical work. To ignore the productivity impacts of forcing a team or individual to nose to the grindstone every hour of every day is a sure shot at turnover, which means a loss of productivity because of a steep learning curve to the next employee at the wheel.
The least she could do was get out post too...
Actually no, that was a joke. I just threw some of the worst ones I've seen in there. Artistically speaking, there are very few good movies in comparison to all the artistically void or just plain bad ones. Taking into account the differences in the age of the industries and the experience time difference between the two genres, the game industry isn't doing half bad.
What? You are right. I can't think of the last time I've played a game that was the equivalent of Dumb and Dumberer, Six String Samurai, Troll 2, Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, Santa with Muscles,... I can't believe how much time I've wasted on movies. I need to play more games. Sidenote: Movies aren't truely art because the book is always better.
From the article: "S. Derek Turner, research director of Free Press, said in a statement. 'If Comcast has oversold their network to the point of creating congestion problems, then well-disclosed caps for Internet use are a better short-term solution than Comcast's current practice of illegally blocking Internet traffic.'" The only problem this isn't going to be a short-term solution until Comcast can beef up its infrastructure to meet its advertisements. It is going to just be a standard business practice for them. Not just for them, there will be many copycats as well, and we won't get the benefit of an alarming news article to warn us; it will be hidden deep in a 20 page legalese document.
Apart from the other things employers make credit checks during the hiring process. Wouldn't it be great to miss out on a great job because you had no clue that someone falsely put a black mark on your credit report?
I used to contract to a network hardware company. The company attitude was that software folk were not engineers and didn't have a place anywhere but in the software (network management) division. I can't imagine how they kept market share with all the time lost to basic repeated errors. Every product contained a hackfest of self-taught EEs "making things work". Of course the circuitry was at least top notch. If after repeated attempts to get them to understand how valuable good software practices will be over the course of a project and into the future, maybe its time to work for a more forward-thinking company.
Surprisingly few people get it even laid out in terms as simply as that. "Its just software." is a running joke because thats how lots of non-technical (and even technical people) think.
And in two weeks it will be in all HDTV sets to plug the analog hole...
Definitely maybe?
So this is going to apply equally to music, movies, magazines, and books as well, right?
After a full day of work plus two hours of grad school classes, what I would love to do is fix the kdevelop bug that lost my last half hour of coding (or insert similar problem.) Sometimes when my car breaks it sits in my garage 2 weeks waiting on me to have time to fix it, I can't imagine how long my computer would have to sit if I had wait to have the time necessary to search for repeatable conditions for the error, trace through someone else's code with which I'm not familiar, and code a fix for it without breaking something else important.
I get the fun of the whole hobby thing. However, don't suggest I use something, and then when it doesn't work just say here is a hammer and screwdriver fix it yourself. Stroke for stroke, I've never had a linux distro be any more stable than a windows box in at least 10 years. Nor have I had a linux distro be easier to secure or maintain in the past 10 years. That is my anecdotal experience.
We could have the government just hand out our tasks at birth. They could then give out our training based on the need of our task. We might call it something...I don't know communism sounds good. Then we can have a decades long standoff with the capitalist pigs and then collapse under the weight of our leaders' selfishness.
I get why you were modded troll but you touch an important point. The RPG community has been fragmented now. For those who delight in making a character and sharing it with your friends real or otherwise the MMORPG is sweet, sweet candy, but for those who enjoy the deep and rich story which has previously followed RPGs MMORPGs just feel hollow. I've taken quite a few steps into MMORPGs and while they are improving over time, there are just some things that have to be sacrificed for balance. There will always be a place for the single(or well developed small group)-player RPG.
He was trapped in the closet.
Well the next step is C++ and Java. Then we can write OS layers, networking layers, web browsers, and scripting languages that run on top of OS layers, networking layers, web browsers and scripting languages because RAM is now cheap...
My college experience was modeled after your thinking. After I graduated I spent some time working by myself on a project for my employer at the time. I had learned all the basic data structures but had not been informed there were standard, tried and true data structures available. I wasted hundreds of man-hours and introduced countless errors just because I didn't know standard, free, industry-accepted tools existed to do what I needed. A tool is not an excuse to gloss over the critical thinking needed to reach the conclusion, but denying your students the practical tools to solve problems is a fast track to employment uselessness compared to people who can use the tools to do it both fast and correct.
"Hmmm. What should we try to fix? World Peace Hunger Global Warming Intellectual property protection" "Hey that last one sounded good..."