In that you can not consistently get more than 40 hours of work out of anybody except a very, very, small percentage of workers. As in I've worked in IT for almost 20 years and never actually met anyone that I saw produce anything like 40 quality hours worth of work a week. (A lot of them thought they were. Then again they also thought they worked far faster than they really did. Giving estimates that were actually half the real value.)
I can think of one thing in CS that I see gives people with little to no CS education a lot of trouble. Algorithmic analysis, to be specific big O notation. I've seen people not get algorithmic growth at all and end up implementing something that is O(n^2) when they could easily come up with something that's O(NLogN) or even O(N). Surprise surprise when they have to process even a middle amount of data they have problems. I have learned something else though. If someone tells you that their app runs in N^2, log(n), or nLog(n) time they probably know what they're talking about. If they say N! or even C^N they really know what they're talking about. If they tell you it's linear that could either mean it really is linear or that they don't know of any other running time.(Literally I saw code that was obviously N^2 but the developer said it was linear because he didn't know of any other type.)
If your developers are any good you basically don't need to do much. Give them a direction and the tech and they'll happily hack away. That's pretty much what my best manager tried to do. He made sure I had a good machine to develop on, would get them upgraded when they got old, and tried to prevent other divisions from using us as tech support. (Which can happen surprisingly easily since the devs tend to be some of the most tech savvy people around.) So he got that if I'm waiting 20 minutes every morning for my machine to start up or have to reboot once a day because my machine slows down because of all the corporate stuff on the computer that not only ticks me off but actually costs the company money. (Since developer time is actually very expensive so don't waste it.) I'm always surprised when managers can't get the budget for a new laptop or even just an SSD when they thing will pay for itself so quickly. (Back the envelope calculations even if you assume 30 minutes wasted a day a SSD pays itself off in a few weeks, the laptop pays itself off in a few months.)
The sad thing is that when the supreme court ruled this was ok then it didn't matter it was bullshit, it was case law that the dogs worked. At this point I would literally not be surprised if the supreme court actually ruled 2 + 2 was 7 and then as far as the courts were concerned 2 + 2 really is 7.
Of course I could point out that in the 10 years before PA 38 people were killed in mass killings. However in the 10 years after PA 48 people were killed in mass killings.(I use 10 years because that's what he said in the video. Yes, it reduced the number of shootings but dead is still dead.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
Well that's only true if you can see the entire screen at one time. If you were to simulate a 4k monitor but had the software display it closer then you'd have to turn your head to see the entire thing. (Admittedly maybe you'd have to simulate a 90" monitor at a couple of feet.)
Since in work I have a couple of 20" monitors. It looks like I could use this with the rift to simulate 50 or 60 inch 4k monitor. (Which would be kick ass for development.)
Since as a software engineer I completely admit you know way more about databases than I do.(You're worth every dollar you get paid.) The problem is so many managers think "Oh we don't need DBA's, you SE's can do it. It'll be just as good. Oh and we don't need release engineers either since we'll save money by having the SE's do that as well." (Yeah, right.)
The fact that the least successful division at Sega(SoJ) in the end was making all the business decisions. (You know, stuff like when to launch the Saturn in the US. They couldn't have did a worse job on that.)
Since he was generally referred to as that hip, edgy, young comic that appeals to college kids. That's was a problem when he was 40 but now he's in his 50's. (Getting old sucks btw) I'm wondering how his demographics are now. I wouldn't be surprised if to the college crowd he's now "The guy my parents like"
I mean since they had to reclassify Pluto given the new evidence. Lets see, the Sun is still classified as a yellow dwarf even though it's actually white(as viewed from space) and is bigger than 90% of all stars in the universe.(Since most stars are actually red dwarves and the Sun is much bigger than them.)
No the argument is this
1. The supposed reason we need Copyright law is to protect creators at the deficit of society to encourage them to create
2. Creators aren't actually being protected anyway
3. Society isn't benefiting since these works are being locked up by people that didn't create them
4. Solution either fix copyright law so creators actually are protected and do benefit or get rid of it so society doesn't get screwed over by having creative works locked up in perpetuity.
So pretty much if the law isn't doing what it's supposed to do either fix it or get rid of it.(I mean unless you're ok with all the crazy shit like the stuff I mentioned above or hey why don't I bring up that "Happy Birthday to You" copyright apparently doesn't expire until 2030. It's in the courts right now apparently.)
Which given the excuses for this stuff is really telling.(Since the whole "You're stealing from the creators" is one of the arguments you hear about this shit.) So these days you have shit like Hollywood accounting and things like the author of Forrest Gump literally not getting paid royalties for the movie.(Because it supposedly didn't make a profit.) Of course there's the whole thing screwing of musicians by record labels. Basically if you record an album don't expect to get any profits at all. If you make any money it will be off touring. Here's one, just to show how much of a bunch of scum bags they really are.
https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
Yes, my same rant and yes I realize school is largely day care for older kids. Good, got that out of the way. So I look at this the same way I look at hours at a job. You can't get more than 40 hours a week of physical labor and you probably get far less than that with knowledge based labor.(Yes, that means overtime is actually pointless.) I wonder how many hours of school they should shoot for to maximize learning, my guess is it's probably less than 6 hours and most likely more time won't result in more learning. (I suppose they could be ridiculous like the president of a local university who expect 10 hours a day out of students. This was of course based off of nothing and was probably counter productive.)
You know besides all the weird stuff you experience browsing with IE. I did a bunch of upgrades this past week (new AMD drivers, these MS patches) on my Win7 PC and I saw that the settings in IE kept getting reset. Security was cranked up so I couldn't download anything and it blew away my history by setting it to 0 days. I'd reset that stuff, reboot my PC and come back and see everything had been set back. I could only get rid of the problem by restoring my PC to last week. I thought I picked up a virus or that it was that Raptr junk in the AMD drivers but now I'm thinking it's this patch. (I know, I should use Chrome more. It's installed here and I do use it but I use IE as well.)
Exactly right. I like to bring it up because in order to get in the Olympics you need to be really good and have every little edge you can get.(To get the most out of their training they've realized they need to consider rest as part of that.) Even in this extreme scenario overtime is counter productive for exactly the reasons you mention. (Which leads me to think in less extreme scenarios, such as IT professionals just doing their job, overtime probably doesn't work either. From what I know everybody who's studied the end result of overtime on workers finds that you don't actually get more work but you do get pissed off employees.)
Olympic athletes. The usually train anywhere from 15-30 hours a week.(Really, google it.) They may train really hard but even they know that doing your best and doing overtime do not go together.
That it's pointless to make your workers work over 40 hours a week because over the long term (IE more than 2 or 3 weeks) you literally can't get more than 40 hours a week worth of work out of anyone? I think I've mentioned this before. (Actually I agree with other Slashdot posters that you should expect 20-30 hours of week of real work.
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In that you can not consistently get more than 40 hours of work out of anybody except a very, very, small percentage of workers. As in I've worked in IT for almost 20 years and never actually met anyone that I saw produce anything like 40 quality hours worth of work a week. (A lot of them thought they were. Then again they also thought they worked far faster than they really did. Giving estimates that were actually half the real value.)
Being able to write readable code. It's a very rare skill.
I can think of one thing in CS that I see gives people with little to no CS education a lot of trouble. Algorithmic analysis, to be specific big O notation. I've seen people not get algorithmic growth at all and end up implementing something that is O(n^2) when they could easily come up with something that's O(NLogN) or even O(N). Surprise surprise when they have to process even a middle amount of data they have problems. I have learned something else though. If someone tells you that their app runs in N^2, log(n), or nLog(n) time they probably know what they're talking about. If they say N! or even C^N they really know what they're talking about. If they tell you it's linear that could either mean it really is linear or that they don't know of any other running time.(Literally I saw code that was obviously N^2 but the developer said it was linear because he didn't know of any other type.)
If your developers are any good you basically don't need to do much. Give them a direction and the tech and they'll happily hack away. That's pretty much what my best manager tried to do. He made sure I had a good machine to develop on, would get them upgraded when they got old, and tried to prevent other divisions from using us as tech support. (Which can happen surprisingly easily since the devs tend to be some of the most tech savvy people around.) So he got that if I'm waiting 20 minutes every morning for my machine to start up or have to reboot once a day because my machine slows down because of all the corporate stuff on the computer that not only ticks me off but actually costs the company money. (Since developer time is actually very expensive so don't waste it.) I'm always surprised when managers can't get the budget for a new laptop or even just an SSD when they thing will pay for itself so quickly. (Back the envelope calculations even if you assume 30 minutes wasted a day a SSD pays itself off in a few weeks, the laptop pays itself off in a few months.)
It would have to act very quickly since for most people if you do nothing it's over in 7 days.
It would have to be very safe because for most people if you do nothing it's over in 7 days.
It would have to be very cheap because for most people if you do nothing it's over in 7 days.
The sad thing is that when the supreme court ruled this was ok then it didn't matter it was bullshit, it was case law that the dogs worked. At this point I would literally not be surprised if the supreme court actually ruled 2 + 2 was 7 and then as far as the courts were concerned 2 + 2 really is 7.
Or this one from Plato which doesn't end well either. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
Of course I could point out that in the 10 years before PA 38 people were killed in mass killings. However in the 10 years after PA 48 people were killed in mass killings.(I use 10 years because that's what he said in the video. Yes, it reduced the number of shootings but dead is still dead.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
Well that's only true if you can see the entire screen at one time. If you were to simulate a 4k monitor but had the software display it closer then you'd have to turn your head to see the entire thing. (Admittedly maybe you'd have to simulate a 90" monitor at a couple of feet.)
Since in work I have a couple of 20" monitors. It looks like I could use this with the rift to simulate 50 or 60 inch 4k monitor. (Which would be kick ass for development.)
Since as a software engineer I completely admit you know way more about databases than I do.(You're worth every dollar you get paid.) The problem is so many managers think "Oh we don't need DBA's, you SE's can do it. It'll be just as good. Oh and we don't need release engineers either since we'll save money by having the SE's do that as well." (Yeah, right.)
One problem with CO is if the concentration isn't high enough you will get symptoms of headache and nausea before the person dies.
The fact that the least successful division at Sega(SoJ) in the end was making all the business decisions. (You know, stuff like when to launch the Saturn in the US. They couldn't have did a worse job on that.)
Since he was generally referred to as that hip, edgy, young comic that appeals to college kids. That's was a problem when he was 40 but now he's in his 50's. (Getting old sucks btw) I'm wondering how his demographics are now. I wouldn't be surprised if to the college crowd he's now "The guy my parents like"
Well then they still get a choice, left arm or right arm.
Whether their kid gets the vaccine in the arm or the thigh.
I mean since they had to reclassify Pluto given the new evidence. Lets see, the Sun is still classified as a yellow dwarf even though it's actually white(as viewed from space) and is bigger than 90% of all stars in the universe.(Since most stars are actually red dwarves and the Sun is much bigger than them.)
No the argument is this 1. The supposed reason we need Copyright law is to protect creators at the deficit of society to encourage them to create 2. Creators aren't actually being protected anyway 3. Society isn't benefiting since these works are being locked up by people that didn't create them 4. Solution either fix copyright law so creators actually are protected and do benefit or get rid of it so society doesn't get screwed over by having creative works locked up in perpetuity. So pretty much if the law isn't doing what it's supposed to do either fix it or get rid of it.(I mean unless you're ok with all the crazy shit like the stuff I mentioned above or hey why don't I bring up that "Happy Birthday to You" copyright apparently doesn't expire until 2030. It's in the courts right now apparently.)
Which given the excuses for this stuff is really telling.(Since the whole "You're stealing from the creators" is one of the arguments you hear about this shit.) So these days you have shit like Hollywood accounting and things like the author of Forrest Gump literally not getting paid royalties for the movie.(Because it supposedly didn't make a profit.) Of course there's the whole thing screwing of musicians by record labels. Basically if you record an album don't expect to get any profits at all. If you make any money it will be off touring. Here's one, just to show how much of a bunch of scum bags they really are. https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
Yes, my same rant and yes I realize school is largely day care for older kids. Good, got that out of the way. So I look at this the same way I look at hours at a job. You can't get more than 40 hours a week of physical labor and you probably get far less than that with knowledge based labor.(Yes, that means overtime is actually pointless.) I wonder how many hours of school they should shoot for to maximize learning, my guess is it's probably less than 6 hours and most likely more time won't result in more learning. (I suppose they could be ridiculous like the president of a local university who expect 10 hours a day out of students. This was of course based off of nothing and was probably counter productive.)
You know besides all the weird stuff you experience browsing with IE. I did a bunch of upgrades this past week (new AMD drivers, these MS patches) on my Win7 PC and I saw that the settings in IE kept getting reset. Security was cranked up so I couldn't download anything and it blew away my history by setting it to 0 days. I'd reset that stuff, reboot my PC and come back and see everything had been set back. I could only get rid of the problem by restoring my PC to last week. I thought I picked up a virus or that it was that Raptr junk in the AMD drivers but now I'm thinking it's this patch. (I know, I should use Chrome more. It's installed here and I do use it but I use IE as well.)
Exactly right. I like to bring it up because in order to get in the Olympics you need to be really good and have every little edge you can get.(To get the most out of their training they've realized they need to consider rest as part of that.) Even in this extreme scenario overtime is counter productive for exactly the reasons you mention. (Which leads me to think in less extreme scenarios, such as IT professionals just doing their job, overtime probably doesn't work either. From what I know everybody who's studied the end result of overtime on workers finds that you don't actually get more work but you do get pissed off employees.)
Exactly, rest is part of their training. (And if you're a knowledge worker not getting your rest makes you significantly less intelligent.)
Olympic athletes. The usually train anywhere from 15-30 hours a week.(Really, google it.) They may train really hard but even they know that doing your best and doing overtime do not go together.
That it's pointless to make your workers work over 40 hours a week because over the long term (IE more than 2 or 3 weeks) you literally can't get more than 40 hours a week worth of work out of anyone? I think I've mentioned this before. (Actually I agree with other Slashdot posters that you should expect 20-30 hours of week of real work.