And of course this is true in other languages too. So for example in my area there's quite a few people with the last name Haddad in my area. Sounds fancy an exotic but it's just arabic for Smith.
2. Not a midget. (How the hell did I end up on a blind date with a midget? It was like going out with a child, I think my 7 year old niece is taller. Before anybody asks it's true, I've actually been on a blind date with a little person, I'm not being sarcastic about that.)
Apparently it's going to be difficult to find both of those in 1 girl.
Realize "believe" is the wrong term when talking about science in the first place. (Man I hate it when people say that instead of "I accept evolution is a valid scientific theory as supported by reams of evidence and creationism isn't even science." )
I know I've brought this up before but I've had co-workers who were supposed to be tech savvy and couldn't successfully plug in a USB device and get it working. (Yes I was stupid enough to help them, I wanted them to go away.)
Don't plan ahead, try to foresee difficulties and solve issue way before they come up. Instead blow things off, leave out important details and try to solve everything at the last possible moment. That's good management, or at least a interesting movie
I would but we have a "help desk" that manages settings. (Pretty much they can push down software and put any settings they want on your system because we log into a domain. I've been tempted to take away domain admin's rights to my machine but I figured I'd get an earful from managers.) Also educating co-workers would be an utter waste of time. (Admittedly not the firmware or hardware team. They're so tech savvy they run Linux.)
I ask since that's what we use in work. It's one of the things that makes my system really slow(since it scans my hard drive constantly.) yet I've seen at least 2 people here that have gotten viruses anyway over the few years I've been here. (Considering the site is less than 50 people that sucks as far as I'm concerned.)
Where the really poor/stupid and the really rich/smart tend to vote democrat. The group that I've heard that tends to vote republican is the middle class, especially the upper middle class. (No I don't have a site for that. Also I'm not going to say lib/conservative because to be blunt they don't seem that different to me.)
The thing though is that I've seen people with experience write absolute shit code. (No comments, magic numbers, functions that are thousands of lines long.) I guess I lucked out when my first coding job the guy in charge kept pointing out all the shit things I was doing. (I thought he was a jack ass at the time but now, he was fucking right, the things I was doing was making it less readable.) I guess the big thing is that you have the attitude that you want to learn from others how to do it better.(The people that I see write shit code even though they've got experience don't want to learn from anybody else and won't listen.)
I wish they'd teach most people Software Engineering techniques instead. Basically I mean write code that is maintainable. IE actually write functions, use templates/generics, don't use magic numbers, don't have pieces of code for object A in object B, ETC.
He's of the opinion that you give your opinion once. If they choose not to listen to you well fuck them. (Admittedly my uncle is very smart, has an ivy league degree. Anybody that ignores his advice is royal fucked.) I'm guessing the best thing to do is start looking for a new job because some how I doubt they'll suddenly get smart. (They'll probably just manage the company into the ground and then blame you for it.)
Basically what I mean is that your company sounds like my company. Management has gotten away with doing everything half assed because "Hey we can dump this on software engineering and it's free!" So we basically do tech support for the rest of the company, drop things to take care of customer issues, manage servers, not to say managing releases as well. All this doesn't actually work that well but since we've been effectively shielding management from all their stupid incompetent decisions they aren't forced to do anything. So in the end until the shit hits the fan they're going to continue to be stupid. Admittedly you might get fired if you make them feel the results of their decisions. (I think one of the reasons they fired my manager was that he gave a lot of push back and tried to get them to understand how idiotic they were at times. But they didn't want to listen and just axed him and continued with the stupidity.)
Regrettably I've also seen agile/xp go wrong and quality drop. It was more of a management problem, the number of tasks completed were pretty much the only metric devs were evaluated on. So management got what they rewarded, fast task completions. Quality dropped. Management didn't consider in dev evaluations tasks reappearing in future scrums because they were not done quite right the first time. It was quite Dilberte-sque.
Which is what pretty much happens where I work. So for example we had this communication protocol that probably should have taken a month to design implement and a week to test. But oh no, we need it in 2 weeks even though the hardware doesn't actually work. That got pushed off to one dev who basically had a week to work on it. But of course the manager didn't notice the guy was sick and couldn't work on it.(He said he'd work from home but that was just a fantasy.) So guess what happened when it was decided hey you can finish it up since he's out today. Pretty much I implemented and unit tested what I could in a day.(Based off of a toy version of the protocol which basically only handled the perfect case.) Suffice it to say it doesn't really work and nobody seems actually interested in fixing it. (Even though I've given them some advice on some extra code that would actually solve a lot of issues with it. Should I mention the customers notice it doesn't actually work?) God I hate "agile"
Funny, that's not my experience up here in the north east. What I basically find is there's 3 or 4 jobs that every recruiter tries to drop on me. (Which makes for very short conversations.) I think I've been asked about 1 company from at least 5 interviewers.(I interviewed there and didn't like it btw.)
It seems like agile would be good if you need something quick. So management hears "Oh it's quicker than what you're doing" and dive on that like a pigeon on a French fry. Honestly the agile I do currently should just be called "go fast, be stupid" because that's how it works out.
Umm, sure since you interrupted me in the zone I might as well help you, what is it?
I can't install this USB device?
(thinking to self)You're supposedly a tech savvy IT professional with a decade of experience and the first thing you think of when you can't get a 3rd party USB device working is talk to software engineering since hey you know, co-location human interaction. Oh and you plug it in and it shows up as a serial port
I mean they say they want to tie CEO salaries to some multiple of the lowest paid employee. However I thought they made their big money through stock options and bonuses.(Hence once of the bigger complaints that CEOs do something that will boost stock price short turn and then take their stock bonuses and run, not caring that they fucked over the company long term.)
I mean these days it seems when the local press or politician needs an expert in some field they go talk to somebody there more than when I was there. (I guess they've build up their reputation since I was there. It would have been nice if they put some effort in education though.)
you could differentiate which ones are primarily research institutes and those that are actually focused on education. (I say that because the institute that I got my BA from pretty much has research as their primary goal. Finding the next generation of researchers is their secondary goal, politics and PR is their tertiary goal, but quaternary goal, oh yeah that's totally undergrad education.)
it might remove insurgency as a successful military strategy. I'm guessing that's what the US military is hoping for because it's given them so much trouble over the years. (Since the whole point of insurgency is that insurgents are troops so cheap that an expensive military can't fight them successfully. That would change if US robots are cost the government about the same as a given insurgent.) I guess that would make it more likely the US would get involved in foreign wars. (Since the populous wouldn't care.)
Because what I remember was that anything you ordered took weeks to show up.(This was back in the 80s) It took so long most of the time I had already bought it locally at another store. After doing that a few times I didn't bother ordering anything from Sears since it was a waste of effort.
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And of course this is true in other languages too. So for example in my area there's quite a few people with the last name Haddad in my area. Sounds fancy an exotic but it's just arabic for Smith.
1. Can not be bat shit crazy.
2. Not a midget. (How the hell did I end up on a blind date with a midget? It was like going out with a child, I think my 7 year old niece is taller. Before anybody asks it's true, I've actually been on a blind date with a little person, I'm not being sarcastic about that.)
Apparently it's going to be difficult to find both of those in 1 girl.
Realize "believe" is the wrong term when talking about science in the first place. (Man I hate it when people say that instead of "I accept evolution is a valid scientific theory as supported by reams of evidence and creationism isn't even science." )
I know I've brought this up before but I've had co-workers who were supposed to be tech savvy and couldn't successfully plug in a USB device and get it working. (Yes I was stupid enough to help them, I wanted them to go away.)
Don't plan ahead, try to foresee difficulties and solve issue way before they come up. Instead blow things off, leave out important details and try to solve everything at the last possible moment. That's good management, or at least a interesting movie
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I always figured they added extra ascorbic acid to get it up to the 25% daily recommended. (Which it actually said on the front of the can.)
Did you know Orange Crush used to have vitamin C in it? (It did in the 80s.)
I would but we have a "help desk" that manages settings. (Pretty much they can push down software and put any settings they want on your system because we log into a domain. I've been tempted to take away domain admin's rights to my machine but I figured I'd get an earful from managers.) Also educating co-workers would be an utter waste of time. (Admittedly not the firmware or hardware team. They're so tech savvy they run Linux.)
I ask since that's what we use in work. It's one of the things that makes my system really slow(since it scans my hard drive constantly.) yet I've seen at least 2 people here that have gotten viruses anyway over the few years I've been here. (Considering the site is less than 50 people that sucks as far as I'm concerned.)
Where the really poor/stupid and the really rich/smart tend to vote democrat. The group that I've heard that tends to vote republican is the middle class, especially the upper middle class. (No I don't have a site for that. Also I'm not going to say lib/conservative because to be blunt they don't seem that different to me.)
The thing though is that I've seen people with experience write absolute shit code. (No comments, magic numbers, functions that are thousands of lines long.) I guess I lucked out when my first coding job the guy in charge kept pointing out all the shit things I was doing. (I thought he was a jack ass at the time but now, he was fucking right, the things I was doing was making it less readable.) I guess the big thing is that you have the attitude that you want to learn from others how to do it better.(The people that I see write shit code even though they've got experience don't want to learn from anybody else and won't listen.)
I wish they'd teach most people Software Engineering techniques instead. Basically I mean write code that is maintainable. IE actually write functions, use templates/generics, don't use magic numbers, don't have pieces of code for object A in object B, ETC.
He's of the opinion that you give your opinion once. If they choose not to listen to you well fuck them. (Admittedly my uncle is very smart, has an ivy league degree. Anybody that ignores his advice is royal fucked.) I'm guessing the best thing to do is start looking for a new job because some how I doubt they'll suddenly get smart. (They'll probably just manage the company into the ground and then blame you for it.)
Basically what I mean is that your company sounds like my company. Management has gotten away with doing everything half assed because "Hey we can dump this on software engineering and it's free!" So we basically do tech support for the rest of the company, drop things to take care of customer issues, manage servers, not to say managing releases as well. All this doesn't actually work that well but since we've been effectively shielding management from all their stupid incompetent decisions they aren't forced to do anything. So in the end until the shit hits the fan they're going to continue to be stupid. Admittedly you might get fired if you make them feel the results of their decisions. (I think one of the reasons they fired my manager was that he gave a lot of push back and tried to get them to understand how idiotic they were at times. But they didn't want to listen and just axed him and continued with the stupidity.)
Regrettably I've also seen agile/xp go wrong and quality drop. It was more of a management problem, the number of tasks completed were pretty much the only metric devs were evaluated on. So management got what they rewarded, fast task completions. Quality dropped. Management didn't consider in dev evaluations tasks reappearing in future scrums because they were not done quite right the first time. It was quite Dilberte-sque.
Which is what pretty much happens where I work. So for example we had this communication protocol that probably should have taken a month to design implement and a week to test. But oh no, we need it in 2 weeks even though the hardware doesn't actually work. That got pushed off to one dev who basically had a week to work on it. But of course the manager didn't notice the guy was sick and couldn't work on it.(He said he'd work from home but that was just a fantasy.) So guess what happened when it was decided hey you can finish it up since he's out today. Pretty much I implemented and unit tested what I could in a day.(Based off of a toy version of the protocol which basically only handled the perfect case.) Suffice it to say it doesn't really work and nobody seems actually interested in fixing it. (Even though I've given them some advice on some extra code that would actually solve a lot of issues with it. Should I mention the customers notice it doesn't actually work?) God I hate "agile"
Funny, that's not my experience up here in the north east. What I basically find is there's 3 or 4 jobs that every recruiter tries to drop on me. (Which makes for very short conversations.) I think I've been asked about 1 company from at least 5 interviewers.(I interviewed there and didn't like it btw.)
It seems like agile would be good if you need something quick. So management hears "Oh it's quicker than what you're doing" and dive on that like a pigeon on a French fry. Honestly the agile I do currently should just be called "go fast, be stupid" because that's how it works out.
Umm, sure since you interrupted me in the zone I might as well help you, what is it?
I can't install this USB device?
(thinking to self)You're supposedly a tech savvy IT professional with a decade of experience and the first thing you think of when you can't get a 3rd party USB device working is talk to software engineering since hey you know, co-location human interaction. Oh and you plug it in and it shows up as a serial port
I said "Damn, do I look good?" in front of it. The thing laughed for 20 minutes.
speed and tailgate even when their lights aren't on. Because they're trained professionals. (Yes, I'm being sarcastic.)
I mean they say they want to tie CEO salaries to some multiple of the lowest paid employee. However I thought they made their big money through stock options and bonuses.(Hence once of the bigger complaints that CEOs do something that will boost stock price short turn and then take their stock bonuses and run, not caring that they fucked over the company long term.)
I mean these days it seems when the local press or politician needs an expert in some field they go talk to somebody there more than when I was there. (I guess they've build up their reputation since I was there. It would have been nice if they put some effort in education though.)
you could differentiate which ones are primarily research institutes and those that are actually focused on education. (I say that because the institute that I got my BA from pretty much has research as their primary goal. Finding the next generation of researchers is their secondary goal, politics and PR is their tertiary goal, but quaternary goal, oh yeah that's totally undergrad education.)
it might remove insurgency as a successful military strategy. I'm guessing that's what the US military is hoping for because it's given them so much trouble over the years. (Since the whole point of insurgency is that insurgents are troops so cheap that an expensive military can't fight them successfully. That would change if US robots are cost the government about the same as a given insurgent.) I guess that would make it more likely the US would get involved in foreign wars. (Since the populous wouldn't care.)
Because what I remember was that anything you ordered took weeks to show up.(This was back in the 80s) It took so long most of the time I had already bought it locally at another store. After doing that a few times I didn't bother ordering anything from Sears since it was a waste of effort.