Those fresh out of uni have yet to see the executive suite cut back on (or eliminate) quality assurance because it's "too costly" and it "slows down development".
Amazing how many managers think you can save time by cutting quality isn't it? (Because what I see happen pretty much every time is it would have been quicker just to do it right the first time. You end up having to repeatedly fix the half-ass version until you get a working version.)
So this is made worse by the fact that any time anybody has actually checked they've found that long term overtime does not actually work. (IE you don't actually get any more work out of people by having them work more than 40 hours a week for long periods of time.) Us older workers (30+) already know this and don't play this game because it's pointless.(And apparently has been known for about a century so it's not a new concept.) However managers still want you to do that, mostly because far too many managers are completely stupid. (Something I feel justified in saying because I've seen way too many mind bogglingly stupid decisions from managers.)
When you think of people who teach at a college, you probably imagine moderately affluent professors with nice houses and cars.
You must be thinking of a different institute than I do. Professors don't teach, they're too busy doing their real job of research. The teaching is done by adjuncts and grad students.
Hell I'm one of the guys that harps on how quickly you can learn a language and even I agree with this. I mean I know I say that since I know C++ I was able to learn C# very quickly since the syntax is largely the same. But I'd still say it was at least a couple of weeks before I was pretty comfortable in C#. (No, I don't think it'd take any decent C++ guy months or years to get as good in C# but still it's not nothing either.) Mod the parent up. (I know I know, the mods can't because they're too busy modding down pointlessly, they have no points left.)
But since they're doing education with it, damn med students could use this to look at a virtual cadaver if they wanted to put in a little extra studying. (Since I bet seeing it in VR is a lot better than Grey's anatomy. Not as good as the real thing but they'll still be doing that.)
There's been less than 300 cases of this disease ever so this is a super rare disease.(I wouldn't be surprised if you're more likely to die from being crushed by a vending machine than ever knowing someone who died of VCJD) Or I could point out that it's actually extremely rare in US cattle not because of testing but because letting the cows graze is so cheap farmers in the US never really got into feeding their animals ground up animal parts. (Hey, doesn't the feds let these rangers graze their animals on federal land for a really cheap price? That's probably done more to keep this disease in check than anything else. I could have sworn some jack-ass was in the news a month or 2 ago because he didn't want to pay his grazing fees.)
Others point to the corporatization of universities, which are increasingly inclined to hire part-time, 'adjunct' professors, rather than full-time, tenure-track ones, to teach undergrads.
This is from the Modern Language Association? Hell when I was an undergrad 20+ years ago they didn't have professors teach language courses. That was done by wet behind the ears grad students in charge of classes of 15-20 students.(Oh and it didn't seem like it was a new thing.) I know, I know. The language professors couldn't do it because they were too busy with research. You know, if you're a Spanish prof well you have to do that research of eating Serrano ham in Spain or maybe you're a French prof. Damn it, you can't teach, you've got to drink your coffee by the Seine river, oops I mean do research.
“If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, then the CEO is to blame. But, if orders are clear and the employees nevertheless disobey, then it is the fault of their managers.”
BTW my big rule of thumb now. If interview and there's literally nobody in your group who is actually American just walk away. Either they just want H1B's and won't hire you or the employees just want their friends and won't hire you. (I'm guessing this works for any country btw. If you're in England and you don't have a couple of English in your interview group that's not a healthy company.)
In many H1B shops, particularly those with *ahem* immigrant managers it's usually the white workers who aren't a good culture fit.
Actually you're forgetting something, Russians. I've interviewed at a couple places where the H1B's were a stream of Russians.(Yes, in the US) Yeah, no good culture fit there either.
If you ever go into academia and become a professor. (Steal from your grad students then knife'em in the back if they say boo, blow off your undergrad students since let's be honest you're reputation is your research, etc. Why yes, I am cynical.)
Tycho Brahe considered the idea that the Earth wasn't the center of the universe and actually moved. However when he tried to measure stellar parallax he found he couldn't. So given the evidence he had he either had to go with the Earth doesn't move or the stars are really far away.(Apparently he considered the simpler explanation to be the Earth doesn't move.)
I realize this is a tangent to what the post is talking about. However there is a related feedback that's a big problem for me. Getting feedback from "user". So at least in my company it often turns out one manager is a big user of the software. Guess which office door is closed pretty much all day and no answering e-mails of any kind? It's very difficult to give mangers like that what they want when the only time they'll tell you is they pop-up behind you while you're doing something else, give you a 3-5 minute explanation that they've not really fleshed out, then run silent for 3 weeks. (Yes, I've literally developed something that was requested and it got used for a couple of minutes and got "This isn't what I wanted." talk. It's very aggravating.)
Mostly so if you ever go into management you'll have a clue, unlike the vast majority of managers. (Unfortunately after reading it you see just how much stupid stuff management does.)
At the far end you've got cowboys/hacks/architects*, who drop thousand line steaming piles into source control as soon as they get it to compile, then go on vacation.
You were lucky with such luxury. I have seen those cowboy/hacks refuse to use source control at all and just take their dump into a folder on a server. Then I had to merge that code into the current branch and hope he didn't forget anything.
bombing. The response to this was to have about 3-4 thousand police soldiers(DEA, FBI, staties, and local) show up and shut down about 3 cities here in Massachusetts for a day. I've heard the cost of the shut down was on the order of 300-400 million dollars. Should I point out this was to stop 2 idiots(with little training) with a couple of pressure cooker bombs, some pipe bombs, and a pistol. Wonder what that cost, maybe a thousand dollars? (Geez, if Al-Qaeda wants to hurt us by warfare on the cheap that response given to how much it must of cost would be absolutely no deterrent.
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Those fresh out of uni have yet to see the executive suite cut back on (or eliminate) quality assurance because it's "too costly" and it "slows down development".
Amazing how many managers think you can save time by cutting quality isn't it? (Because what I see happen pretty much every time is it would have been quicker just to do it right the first time. You end up having to repeatedly fix the half-ass version until you get a working version.)
So this is made worse by the fact that any time anybody has actually checked they've found that long term overtime does not actually work. (IE you don't actually get any more work out of people by having them work more than 40 hours a week for long periods of time.) Us older workers (30+) already know this and don't play this game because it's pointless.(And apparently has been known for about a century so it's not a new concept.) However managers still want you to do that, mostly because far too many managers are completely stupid. (Something I feel justified in saying because I've seen way too many mind bogglingly stupid decisions from managers.)
When you think of people who teach at a college, you probably imagine moderately affluent professors with nice houses and cars.
You must be thinking of a different institute than I do. Professors don't teach, they're too busy doing their real job of research. The teaching is done by adjuncts and grad students.
Hell I'm one of the guys that harps on how quickly you can learn a language and even I agree with this. I mean I know I say that since I know C++ I was able to learn C# very quickly since the syntax is largely the same. But I'd still say it was at least a couple of weeks before I was pretty comfortable in C#. (No, I don't think it'd take any decent C++ guy months or years to get as good in C# but still it's not nothing either.) Mod the parent up. (I know I know, the mods can't because they're too busy modding down pointlessly, they have no points left.)
But since they're doing education with it, damn med students could use this to look at a virtual cadaver if they wanted to put in a little extra studying. (Since I bet seeing it in VR is a lot better than Grey's anatomy. Not as good as the real thing but they'll still be doing that.)
There's been less than 300 cases of this disease ever so this is a super rare disease.(I wouldn't be surprised if you're more likely to die from being crushed by a vending machine than ever knowing someone who died of VCJD) Or I could point out that it's actually extremely rare in US cattle not because of testing but because letting the cows graze is so cheap farmers in the US never really got into feeding their animals ground up animal parts. (Hey, doesn't the feds let these rangers graze their animals on federal land for a really cheap price? That's probably done more to keep this disease in check than anything else. I could have sworn some jack-ass was in the news a month or 2 ago because he didn't want to pay his grazing fees.)
Others point to the corporatization of universities, which are increasingly inclined to hire part-time, 'adjunct' professors, rather than full-time, tenure-track ones, to teach undergrads.
This is from the Modern Language Association? Hell when I was an undergrad 20+ years ago they didn't have professors teach language courses. That was done by wet behind the ears grad students in charge of classes of 15-20 students.(Oh and it didn't seem like it was a new thing.) I know, I know. The language professors couldn't do it because they were too busy with research. You know, if you're a Spanish prof well you have to do that research of eating Serrano ham in Spain or maybe you're a French prof. Damn it, you can't teach, you've got to drink your coffee by the Seine river, oops I mean do research.
“If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, then the CEO is to blame. But, if orders are clear and the employees nevertheless disobey, then it is the fault of their managers.”
BTW my big rule of thumb now. If interview and there's literally nobody in your group who is actually American just walk away. Either they just want H1B's and won't hire you or the employees just want their friends and won't hire you. (I'm guessing this works for any country btw. If you're in England and you don't have a couple of English in your interview group that's not a healthy company.)
In many H1B shops, particularly those with *ahem* immigrant managers it's usually the white workers who aren't a good culture fit.
Actually you're forgetting something, Russians. I've interviewed at a couple places where the H1B's were a stream of Russians.(Yes, in the US) Yeah, no good culture fit there either.
Watching him hop up and down court-side like a rabbit on crack because the Clippers just scored.
Damn I really should double check it "If this is the guy that ends up with the Clippers I would have preferred if they left it with the racist."
when I say "If this the guy that ends up with the Clippers I would have preferred if they left it with the racist."
What a rotten fucking disease.
Which is the plane that's the low-level penetrator. (Man, that sounds dirty.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
If you ever go into academia and become a professor. (Steal from your grad students then knife'em in the back if they say boo, blow off your undergrad students since let's be honest you're reputation is your research, etc. Why yes, I am cynical.)
Tycho Brahe considered the idea that the Earth wasn't the center of the universe and actually moved. However when he tried to measure stellar parallax he found he couldn't. So given the evidence he had he either had to go with the Earth doesn't move or the stars are really far away.(Apparently he considered the simpler explanation to be the Earth doesn't move.)
You know, since both were known for throwing chairs.
Here's the only video you need to see about this (Yes it's long but it's interesting) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Oh that's easy, your cisco hardware actually works. I'll be here all night folks. Try the fish.
I realize this is a tangent to what the post is talking about. However there is a related feedback that's a big problem for me. Getting feedback from "user". So at least in my company it often turns out one manager is a big user of the software. Guess which office door is closed pretty much all day and no answering e-mails of any kind? It's very difficult to give mangers like that what they want when the only time they'll tell you is they pop-up behind you while you're doing something else, give you a 3-5 minute explanation that they've not really fleshed out, then run silent for 3 weeks. (Yes, I've literally developed something that was requested and it got used for a couple of minutes and got "This isn't what I wanted." talk. It's very aggravating.)
Well that and they thought a joke wasn't funny or simply didn't understand the joke in the first place.
Mostly so if you ever go into management you'll have a clue, unlike the vast majority of managers. (Unfortunately after reading it you see just how much stupid stuff management does.)
At the far end you've got cowboys/hacks/architects*, who drop thousand line steaming piles into source control as soon as they get it to compile, then go on vacation.
You were lucky with such luxury. I have seen those cowboy/hacks refuse to use source control at all and just take their dump into a folder on a server. Then I had to merge that code into the current branch and hope he didn't forget anything.
bombing. The response to this was to have about 3-4 thousand police soldiers(DEA, FBI, staties, and local) show up and shut down about 3 cities here in Massachusetts for a day. I've heard the cost of the shut down was on the order of 300-400 million dollars. Should I point out this was to stop 2 idiots(with little training) with a couple of pressure cooker bombs, some pipe bombs, and a pistol. Wonder what that cost, maybe a thousand dollars? (Geez, if Al-Qaeda wants to hurt us by warfare on the cheap that response given to how much it must of cost would be absolutely no deterrent.