Is that, everyone gets so caught up in "hours burned" for each scrum, that what is actually getting burned takes a back seat to the deliverable. I was on a sprint where I had no hours burned for three days, which really, really sucked. But at the end, I was the only one that actually had a product that you could do sprint demo with.
Since a liberal is someone who wants personal freedoms protected but business regulated, I don't get the joke.
Both tend to be people who campaign on policies about the excesses of the rich and for redistribution of wealth. They argue that those who have money and seek it are somehow sinning, and yet, when it comes to their stack, they are just like any oil company.
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Agile Development is a monthly waterfall. You have short cycles, but if anything, there is even MORE up front planning than you would get for each sprint than a waterfall model and precious little time to change if things need to be retasked.
The only real advance in methodologies as of late has been to include automated testing.
The sad part is it could have prevented WWII, if only the US were to have ratified it and backed it solidly.
The League would not have prevented WWII. If the NAZIs had come to power the world would have found a way to try and ignore them the way they did, and Hitler would have invented some other reason to start to the war.
In any case, in order to have an effective League or UN, the only doctrine that CAN work is the Bush doctrine, which the world rejected. At this point, the UN is what it is, an overpriced relief organization.
Roosevelt's compromise to have ALL the countries in the United Nations wrecked it from day 1. The only way you can have a real UN is to have a league of democracies. The only way we would have a genuine and meaningful UN would be to have something like an EU + USA + Canada + Australia, and leave Asia and Africa out of it.
If Microsoft could not get a company that was building better and in many many cases FAR better software to allow themselves to be purchased then they would simply check in to a near by Hotel suite and start offering money that could not be ignored to the target companies best and brightest and destroying the company that way
Dude, what's so wrong with that. My dream is for Microsoft to give me millions of dollars to crush whoever I work for.
In any case, Phillipe Kahn, of Borland, actually started at this practice first.
The problem with Word vs Word Perfect was that Word Perfect for Windows was horrifically executed and extremely buggy. The Word Perfect people claim that MS lied to them. The MS people said that the WP people couldn't program in an event driven Windows world. Probably both are true.
Sorry, Windows 95 was not better than Mac OS 8. For one thing, Mac OS 8 was a hell of a lot more stable, which is pretty disturbing because
Windows 95 had a pre-emptive operating system with a genuine, if flaky, multitasking kernel. Architecturally, Mac OS 8 was closer to Windows 3.1 than it was to Windows 95. Sure OS 8 had some eye candy, but the interior of the OS was total crap.
So, instead of encouraging research to develop newer. safer products (which would obviously have a market if the unsafe stuff is banned), it's better to have his oil buddies just keep manufacturing the same old crap.
For the most part, relatively relatively unpolluted, rural areas are far safer
I would think that would speak to territorialism in humans. If you look at gangs in cities, they carve up territories in the stupidest things. In rural areas, people have "enough" territory. So, even if cities contaminated people and made them less "manly", there is still the crowding that gives you the worst of people. Isn't there some famous experiment that shows once you stuff a certain amount of rats into a cage, they all start killing each other?
Most people I know who skipped the 4-year college only know one language and aren't interested in learning others.
I would think it safe to say that a c/s degree gives you the ability to create a language, wheras a vocational education gives you the ability to use them.
The thing that undermines the c/s degree is the prevalence of Taylorist thought in the business community that decomposes everything into dumb specialties. So businesses invest highly in c/s degree people, then never really use them.
int flecks aren't tracked, they're too small. All we know is that they're out there, flying in random directions. So how do you match their velocities?
I would think we might luck out because so many craft are launched in the "same" orbital direction because they use the rotation of the earth to help them along. so, if a paint flek went counter to that direction, by virtue of some impulse, I would think it would be slowed down and ultimately would de-orbit.
Sure, I'm all for helping fix the planet, but if you don't have a clue about what the fuck you're saying, then how can I trust you to tell me what even needs to be done to fix it?
Well, the first step is to give all of your money to me, then after that, it will be much better.
I'm a blue collar developer but I had some CS in college pursuing a degree in English. Somehow I managed to BS my way into a graduate class on computing theory which I have to say was the most valuable education I've gotten in my life. Even if you do not get a degree, you will be richly rewarded if you make an effort to educate yourself.
I would recommend:
a) learn classic data structures. learn binary trees, learn hash tables. throw away the pre-built collections you get and try building them yourself. You'll gain a better appreciation of what your libraries do and a real sense of which might be appropriate.
b) learn some formal information theory. Learn what Big O notation means and understand the difference between O(1) O(n) O(logN), and so on. If you want to be a real snob, try and learn some set theory, at least relational algebra, and then you'll really get a grip on how to use a relational database effectively, and understand why things are the way they are.
c) I would highly recommend dabbling in assembly language. Writing snippets of code in assembly language is not that hard. You just have to be organized about what you do and keep track of things yourself.
d) If you want to get into it a bit more, it would not hurt to read Turing's classic paper where he defines the Turing machine. The thing about Turing and indeed, a lot of the foundational papers by the greats in computer science, is that they are remarkably readable.
e) Have a crack at an NP complete problem, just write a code to solve one, then ask yourself why, it is so ridiculous, and then read up on that.
f) Try and do a little bit with fractals. Write a mandelbrot set generator... Everyone does it.
All of those things are great things for any developer to do. Indeed, whether you finish college or not, your education in computer science should be a lifelong thing. Like any field, challenging yourself with problems solved and unsolved will not only make you a better programmer, but also, to some degree, a better human being. Your formal training is only the beginning of your obligation to educate yourself, lifelong.
Every velocity in space in orbit is super-bulletesque. It's the relative velocities that matter. I could catch the paint fleks with any old material, if, the relative velocities were reasonably close. Indeed, if you launched me out of a cannon next to a bullet fired out of a rifle, I'd almost be able to catch the bullet with no harm to myself. It's just the launching and the landing that would suck.
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Is that, everyone gets so caught up in "hours burned" for each scrum, that what is actually getting burned takes a back seat to the deliverable. I was on a sprint where I had no hours burned for three days, which really, really sucked. But at the end, I was the only one that actually had a product that you could do sprint demo with.
You can get all of that, if you pay for it. Most people would rather have features now, and never touch the code.
I have no idea who this self proclaimed expert is, and as far as I'm concerned, her sweeping statements suggest that nobody else should either.
Go away!
Since a liberal is someone who wants personal freedoms protected but business regulated, I don't get the joke.
Both tend to be people who campaign on policies about the excesses of the rich and for redistribution of wealth. They argue that those who have money and seek it are somehow sinning, and yet, when it comes to their stack, they are just like any oil company.
Agile Development is a monthly waterfall. You have short cycles, but if anything, there is even MORE up front planning than you would get for each sprint than a waterfall model and precious little time to change if things need to be retasked.
The only real advance in methodologies as of late has been to include automated testing.
Hello Apple? I have a problem with my iPhone. Every time it shows an advertisement, the screen gets smashed. Can you help?
arch liberals Don Henley and Babs scream "GIVE ME MY MONEY...."
That's too funny.
This is not feasible. Too much of our food (and opium) comes from the the third world
The USA has enough food to feed itself. Europe's problem is Europe's.
The sad part is it could have prevented WWII, if only the US were to have ratified it and backed it solidly.
The League would not have prevented WWII. If the NAZIs had come to power the world would have found a way to try and ignore them the way they did, and Hitler would have invented some other reason to start to the war.
In any case, in order to have an effective League or UN, the only doctrine that CAN work is the Bush doctrine, which the world rejected. At this point, the UN is what it is, an overpriced relief organization.
Agreed
Take v=(1,0), impulse=(-1,1). |v| = 1, |v + impulse| = 1. Same speed, different direction
That's a hell of an impulse though.
Roosevelt's compromise to have ALL the countries in the United Nations wrecked it from day 1. The only way you can have a real UN is to have a league of democracies. The only way we would have a genuine and meaningful UN would be to have something like an EU + USA + Canada + Australia, and leave Asia and Africa out of it.
If Microsoft could not get a company that was building better and in many many cases FAR better software to allow themselves to be purchased then they would simply check in to a near by Hotel suite and start offering money that could not be ignored to the target companies best and brightest and destroying the company that way
Dude, what's so wrong with that. My dream is for Microsoft to give me millions of dollars to crush whoever I work for.
In any case, Phillipe Kahn, of Borland, actually started at this practice first.
The problem with Word vs Word Perfect was that Word Perfect for Windows was horrifically executed and extremely buggy. The Word Perfect people claim that MS lied to them. The MS people said that the WP people couldn't program in an event driven Windows world. Probably both are true.
Sorry, Windows 95 was not better than Mac OS 8. For one thing, Mac OS 8 was a hell of a lot more stable, which is pretty disturbing because
Windows 95 had a pre-emptive operating system with a genuine, if flaky, multitasking kernel. Architecturally, Mac OS 8 was closer to Windows 3.1 than it was to Windows 95. Sure OS 8 had some eye candy, but the interior of the OS was total crap.
So, instead of encouraging research to develop newer. safer products (which would obviously have a market if the unsafe stuff is banned), it's better to have his oil buddies just keep manufacturing the same old crap.
The economics of this are just backwards.
Why are foreign companies even allowed to lobby in the United States? IT's a fricking invasion, is what this is.
For the most part, relatively relatively unpolluted, rural areas are far safer
I would think that would speak to territorialism in humans. If you look at gangs in cities, they carve up territories in the stupidest things. In rural areas, people have "enough" territory. So, even if cities contaminated people and made them less "manly", there is still the crowding that gives you the worst of people. Isn't there some famous experiment that shows once you stuff a certain amount of rats into a cage, they all start killing each other?
Most people I know who skipped the 4-year college only know one language and aren't interested in learning others.
I would think it safe to say that a c/s degree gives you the ability to create a language, wheras a vocational education gives you the ability to use them.
The thing that undermines the c/s degree is the prevalence of Taylorist thought in the business community that decomposes everything into dumb specialties. So businesses invest highly in c/s degree people, then never really use them.
int flecks aren't tracked, they're too small. All we know is that they're out there, flying in random directions. So how do you match their velocities?
I would think we might luck out because so many craft are launched in the "same" orbital direction because they use the rotation of the earth to help them along. so, if a paint flek went counter to that direction, by virtue of some impulse, I would think it would be slowed down and ultimately would de-orbit.
Sure, I'm all for helping fix the planet, but if you don't have a clue about what the fuck you're saying, then how can I trust you to tell me what even needs to be done to fix it?
Well, the first step is to give all of your money to me, then after that, it will be much better.
I'm a blue collar developer but I had some CS in college pursuing a degree in English. Somehow I managed to BS my way into a graduate class on computing theory which I have to say was the most valuable education I've gotten in my life. Even if you do not get a degree, you will be richly rewarded if you make an effort to educate yourself.
I would recommend:
a) learn classic data structures. learn binary trees, learn hash tables. throw away the pre-built collections you get and try building them yourself. You'll gain a better appreciation of what your libraries do and a real sense of which might be appropriate.
b) learn some formal information theory. Learn what Big O notation means and understand the difference between O(1) O(n) O(logN), and so on. If you want to be a real snob, try and learn some set theory, at least relational algebra, and then you'll really get a grip on how to use a relational database effectively, and understand why things are the way they are.
c) I would highly recommend dabbling in assembly language. Writing snippets of code in assembly language is not that hard. You just have to be organized about what you do and keep track of things yourself.
d) If you want to get into it a bit more, it would not hurt to read Turing's classic paper where he defines the Turing machine. The thing about Turing and indeed, a lot of the foundational papers by the greats in computer science, is that they are remarkably readable.
e) Have a crack at an NP complete problem, just write a code to solve one, then ask yourself why, it is so ridiculous, and then read up on that.
f) Try and do a little bit with fractals. Write a mandelbrot set generator... Everyone does it.
All of those things are great things for any developer to do. Indeed, whether you finish college or not, your education in computer science should be a lifelong thing. Like any field, challenging yourself with problems solved and unsolved will not only make you a better programmer, but also, to some degree, a better human being. Your formal training is only the beginning of your obligation to educate yourself, lifelong.
I'm not convinced that these chemicals are IMPREGNATING 10 year old girls.
Turns out that Elmer's Glue really is what we all used to joke that it looked like. Son of a gun!
Every velocity in space in orbit is super-bulletesque. It's the relative velocities that matter. I could catch the paint fleks with any old material, if, the relative velocities were reasonably close. Indeed, if you launched me out of a cannon next to a bullet fired out of a rifle, I'd almost be able to catch the bullet with no harm to myself. It's just the launching and the landing that would suck.