When someone brings up labor laws as why we work 40 hours a week. My understanding is that efficiency experts were brought in to factories by employers such as Ford and tried to figure out what the most amount of manual work they could get out of people a week. At least from those studies it was 40 hours a week over the long term. I'd expect for intellectual, IE creative work, such as engineering the max is probably less than 40. (Hence my opinion if an employer really thinks he's getting 50-60 hours of work a week for an extended period of time they are just kidding themselves.)
That's true however the company I work(not video games FWIW) for makes their own hardware and firmware internally and that stuff is all spec'd out and the guys that worked on it are a short 20 second walk. I've had to bring over QA people that have worked for us longer than I have over to the firmware/hardware department and show them that they do need to ask firmware/hardware if this is expected functionality and if they agree that software did what it should have. (More than once btw.)
Actually I find it's true of black box testers too. I mean I've had issues where QA would black box test my code by just banging away at it but literally have no idea what the code was supposed to do. (and then write bugs because they didn't know the result actually matched the expected behavior.) This is things like code written to interface with a piece of hardware. The hardware returned an error which the software displayed and they didn't bother to trouble shoot the result from the hardware to find out the software was reporting an error because that's what the hardware was telling them. (And yes, you could see the raw message from the hardware so they should have taken that message apart before writing the bug that the software showed an error.)
Actually here's a good one where they didn't trouble shoot. They were complaining that the time stored in a database was messed up and didn't match the current time. So I did the easiest check I could and what did I see? The time on the database server was off and that's why the values being stored were wrong. (An easy thing to check for but you'd think they'd do a little troubleshooting before writing a bug.)
My opinion on QA is that if you weren't capable enough to be a software developer then you weren't capable of being in QA either. Unfortunately it seems quite a few companies think that QA should be staffed with people who weren't up to being developers and pay accordingly. (This doesn't work and just annoys us developers.)
Which if you're a decent developer you find out reasonably quickly which people in QA have a clue and which don't. With bad QA I've found I'm way more likely to find actual bugs than the QA person will.(Which means I need to find bugs anyway.) Here's an example. I was working on a legacy product and QA filed a few bugs that the text of a few labels on a dialog were wrong. Easy fix, just go into the resource editor and change them. However after double checking I had to point out something that the QA person missed. The dialog didn't actually work. (I mean it was useless since you couldn't use it to search for anything.) Unfortunately in the end they just had me fix the labels (that was the product managers call) instead of actually fixing the dialog.
Really when you get down to it it's about 4 things
Talking- nobody can go weeks out of communication
Trusting - you have to trust that your teammates arnt idiots
Respect- don't waste others time or resources
Reflect - yes you need to go over what happened and what went wrong and right
What I find is agile is some times go fast and stupid and breaks the above ideas but the name agile makes it sound like the point is speed when it's a side effect
If you live in California, it doesn't matter what you think. If the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the state have their way, nobody who currently owns one of these vehicles will be able to re-register them with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), which means that these vehicles are (or will be) no longer legal to drive in California on public roads.
I guess business opportunity would be to start a company in a neighboring state, "buy and register" them in the other state and then let the original owner rent them for a nominal fee. (Not sure if there's a law stopping something like that but if there isn't by the time there was a law the company could have made a bit of money.)
I had an interview that was straight out of Seinfeld or something. I had a lunch interview. We went to the cafeteria, got something to eat and then went to a conference room so they could interview me while we ate lunch. Simple, right?
Fairly early on my interviewer spilled a little bit of food on their clothes. My instinct was to offer a napkin to help with the clean up. But this is where the comedy truly begins. This person didn't notice but instead turned things up a notch before I could do anything. There was no stopping either eating or the interviewing. Instead they continued simultaneously. Here's a handful of food, whoosh into the mouth while asking me questions about my current job. Down the hand goes back for more food, the questioning continues, the food unable to withstand the speech while in the mouth plops straight out back on the plate. Another handful and this cycle continues, food in mouth, the interviewer never stops talking to actually chew the food and it all inevitably falls out, back on the plate. I was utterly disgusted, tried to answer while not looking much like George would, knowing full well if I did look at this at this train wreck I'd probably vomit. The sight of half chewed food, almost bouncing back and forth between the interviewer's plate and mouth in a surreal ridiculousness.
Ahh, but that's not quite enough to qualify for Seinfeld. You need that little extra bit to put it over the top, Jerry is the master of that. Some how even though the food kept falling out of the mouth, with repeated tries it was eventually swallowed. I mistakenly thought it'd be ok to look now. Nope of course not, now my interviewer started licking their hand. No, not their fingers, the entire hand, repeatedly straight from wrist to fingertip. Some how I managed to get out of there without barfing everywhere. I was lucky, I'm certain many couldn't help but rubberneck this episode. Their eyes drawn moth like to the flame of utter repulsiveness.
If this was actually on Seinfeld I could see myself laughing at it. The seriousness when I started the interview that morning and yet how bizarrely it actually turned out, that would be one people would be talking about around the figurative water cooler for weeks. Of course it's not funny when something like this happens to you in real life. I was happy when they rejected me. I mean I should never work at a place that would actually employee someone like that. Hell, I can hardly believe it actually happened and yet it actually did. (I should have walked out right after that part but I'm a schmuck so I didn't. I still wonder if it was really a test of some sort.)
your life expectancy goes up with age because that evidence of you being healthy. IE if you have a 1 year and his 81 year grandfather the one with the best chance to live to 82 is the grandfather since he's already lived 81 years. The grandchild might die from childhood cancer, being self destructive in his teens/twenties. etc.
gravitons exist? (I remember reading the problem with gravitons is that they were basically impossible to detect because their interactions were so weak.)
You know, like hiring people over the age of 35, paying more, or not require exact matches. Stuff like if you've done C++ for 10 years there's a good chance you know something about OOP and can pick up another language pretty quickly. But like I say, that crazy, way out of there shit.
Really? According to this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There's been more mass killings in Australia in the 10 years after Port Arthur than the 10 before it.(But hey, at least those people were only burned to death, not shot.)
Just pointing out if you're allowed to use slipstreaming (you pedal behind a car which is blocking the air for you) the world record is actually 167 mph
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
2. They bring in people on green cards for 5-10 years for any employer instead of this H1B nonsense where they bring people in with a leash around their figurative nuts and hand the nut leash to one company.
You know what's even weirder? If you went by what he said (instead of what you said) a lot of venomous snakes wouldn't actually be venomous
http://www.sciencedaily.com/re...
Come to think of it, the sun is a yellow dwarf star... *KAPOW*
Yellow dwarf despite being bigger and more massive than something like 90% of all stars in the universe. (Oh and it's white too but astronomers still say it's a yellow dwarf.)
You might get the idea person who codes horrifically badly who decides it’s a better idea jobwise for them to horde those idea and code things themselves. (This is to make it hard for the company to fire them and there’s no oversight since they’re usually a manager so they can do it their way.) Then after 5 years of their coding monstrosity they dump their “Critical program” on software engineering because they’re so important they can move on to better things.
I've got to second this. I've seen so many people where I currently work get laid-off but we all know they were really fired. (The company didn't feel like building up the case for termination with cause. Since they're an at-will employee that's ok, the company just had to pay for unemployment.)
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Its monatomic form (H) is the most abundant chemical substance in the Universe, constituting roughly 75% of all baryonic mass.
The vast majority of the universe is thought to be composed of dark energy and dark matter, whatever those are.
When someone brings up labor laws as why we work 40 hours a week. My understanding is that efficiency experts were brought in to factories by employers such as Ford and tried to figure out what the most amount of manual work they could get out of people a week. At least from those studies it was 40 hours a week over the long term. I'd expect for intellectual, IE creative work, such as engineering the max is probably less than 40. (Hence my opinion if an employer really thinks he's getting 50-60 hours of work a week for an extended period of time they are just kidding themselves.)
Antifungal apparently will though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That's true however the company I work(not video games FWIW) for makes their own hardware and firmware internally and that stuff is all spec'd out and the guys that worked on it are a short 20 second walk. I've had to bring over QA people that have worked for us longer than I have over to the firmware/hardware department and show them that they do need to ask firmware/hardware if this is expected functionality and if they agree that software did what it should have. (More than once btw.)
Actually I find it's true of black box testers too. I mean I've had issues where QA would black box test my code by just banging away at it but literally have no idea what the code was supposed to do. (and then write bugs because they didn't know the result actually matched the expected behavior.) This is things like code written to interface with a piece of hardware. The hardware returned an error which the software displayed and they didn't bother to trouble shoot the result from the hardware to find out the software was reporting an error because that's what the hardware was telling them. (And yes, you could see the raw message from the hardware so they should have taken that message apart before writing the bug that the software showed an error.) Actually here's a good one where they didn't trouble shoot. They were complaining that the time stored in a database was messed up and didn't match the current time. So I did the easiest check I could and what did I see? The time on the database server was off and that's why the values being stored were wrong. (An easy thing to check for but you'd think they'd do a little troubleshooting before writing a bug.)
You stated this better than I could.
My opinion on QA is that if you weren't capable enough to be a software developer then you weren't capable of being in QA either. Unfortunately it seems quite a few companies think that QA should be staffed with people who weren't up to being developers and pay accordingly. (This doesn't work and just annoys us developers.)
Which if you're a decent developer you find out reasonably quickly which people in QA have a clue and which don't. With bad QA I've found I'm way more likely to find actual bugs than the QA person will.(Which means I need to find bugs anyway.) Here's an example. I was working on a legacy product and QA filed a few bugs that the text of a few labels on a dialog were wrong. Easy fix, just go into the resource editor and change them. However after double checking I had to point out something that the QA person missed. The dialog didn't actually work. (I mean it was useless since you couldn't use it to search for anything.) Unfortunately in the end they just had me fix the labels (that was the product managers call) instead of actually fixing the dialog.
Really when you get down to it it's about 4 things Talking- nobody can go weeks out of communication Trusting - you have to trust that your teammates arnt idiots Respect- don't waste others time or resources Reflect - yes you need to go over what happened and what went wrong and right What I find is agile is some times go fast and stupid and breaks the above ideas but the name agile makes it sound like the point is speed when it's a side effect
If you live in California, it doesn't matter what you think. If the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the state have their way, nobody who currently owns one of these vehicles will be able to re-register them with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), which means that these vehicles are (or will be) no longer legal to drive in California on public roads.
I guess business opportunity would be to start a company in a neighboring state, "buy and register" them in the other state and then let the original owner rent them for a nominal fee. (Not sure if there's a law stopping something like that but if there isn't by the time there was a law the company could have made a bit of money.)
Fairly early on my interviewer spilled a little bit of food on their clothes. My instinct was to offer a napkin to help with the clean up. But this is where the comedy truly begins. This person didn't notice but instead turned things up a notch before I could do anything. There was no stopping either eating or the interviewing. Instead they continued simultaneously. Here's a handful of food, whoosh into the mouth while asking me questions about my current job. Down the hand goes back for more food, the questioning continues, the food unable to withstand the speech while in the mouth plops straight out back on the plate. Another handful and this cycle continues, food in mouth, the interviewer never stops talking to actually chew the food and it all inevitably falls out, back on the plate. I was utterly disgusted, tried to answer while not looking much like George would, knowing full well if I did look at this at this train wreck I'd probably vomit. The sight of half chewed food, almost bouncing back and forth between the interviewer's plate and mouth in a surreal ridiculousness.
Ahh, but that's not quite enough to qualify for Seinfeld. You need that little extra bit to put it over the top, Jerry is the master of that. Some how even though the food kept falling out of the mouth, with repeated tries it was eventually swallowed. I mistakenly thought it'd be ok to look now. Nope of course not, now my interviewer started licking their hand. No, not their fingers, the entire hand, repeatedly straight from wrist to fingertip. Some how I managed to get out of there without barfing everywhere. I was lucky, I'm certain many couldn't help but rubberneck this episode. Their eyes drawn moth like to the flame of utter repulsiveness.
If this was actually on Seinfeld I could see myself laughing at it. The seriousness when I started the interview that morning and yet how bizarrely it actually turned out, that would be one people would be talking about around the figurative water cooler for weeks. Of course it's not funny when something like this happens to you in real life. I was happy when they rejected me. I mean I should never work at a place that would actually employee someone like that. Hell, I can hardly believe it actually happened and yet it actually did. (I should have walked out right after that part but I'm a schmuck so I didn't. I still wonder if it was really a test of some sort.)
your life expectancy goes up with age because that evidence of you being healthy. IE if you have a 1 year and his 81 year grandfather the one with the best chance to live to 82 is the grandfather since he's already lived 81 years. The grandchild might die from childhood cancer, being self destructive in his teens/twenties. etc.
gravitons exist? (I remember reading the problem with gravitons is that they were basically impossible to detect because their interactions were so weak.)
You know, like hiring people over the age of 35, paying more, or not require exact matches. Stuff like if you've done C++ for 10 years there's a good chance you know something about OOP and can pick up another language pretty quickly. But like I say, that crazy, way out of there shit.
Really? According to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... There's been more mass killings in Australia in the 10 years after Port Arthur than the 10 before it.(But hey, at least those people were only burned to death, not shot.)
The pope was literally Galileo's old college buddy and the Pope actually was the one to tell him he should publish.
Just pointing out if you're allowed to use slipstreaming (you pedal behind a car which is blocking the air for you) the world record is actually 167 mph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This is not a carbon capture technique
Wait, you can't use it to extract "Fuel" and then pump it back into the ground where the oil used to be?
I mean it just seems too true to not be real https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
1. Wages increase
2. They bring in people on green cards for 5-10 years for any employer instead of this H1B nonsense where they bring people in with a leash around their figurative nuts and hand the nut leash to one company.
It just pretends it thinks it's funny because it doesn't want it's friends to think it's dumb.
You know what's even weirder? If you went by what he said (instead of what you said) a lot of venomous snakes wouldn't actually be venomous http://www.sciencedaily.com/re...
Come to think of it, the sun is a yellow dwarf star... *KAPOW*
Yellow dwarf despite being bigger and more massive than something like 90% of all stars in the universe. (Oh and it's white too but astronomers still say it's a yellow dwarf.)
You might get the idea person who codes horrifically badly who decides it’s a better idea jobwise for them to horde those idea and code things themselves. (This is to make it hard for the company to fire them and there’s no oversight since they’re usually a manager so they can do it their way.) Then after 5 years of their coding monstrosity they dump their “Critical program” on software engineering because they’re so important they can move on to better things.
I've got to second this. I've seen so many people where I currently work get laid-off but we all know they were really fired. (The company didn't feel like building up the case for termination with cause. Since they're an at-will employee that's ok, the company just had to pay for unemployment.)