User: terryjamesduffy

Note worth the total cost

On: Are Quirky Developers Brilliant Or Dangerous?

Programmers like Josh always cost more than they are worth because eventually someone has to maintain their code. The mistake that managers who employ Josh's make is they only cost the initial development of the brilliant code, which if it never needed changing would be correct. We live in a changing world. Who has ever encounted code that never needed changing ? The true cost of code must include maintenace of that code and that is where using the Josh's of this world really costs you because their code is, more often than not, unmaintainable and then what will you do, redevelop using another Josh.

Personality Tests

On: Personality Testing For Employment

I find it interesting that theses companies are doing the personality testing first and then checking if they can do the job applied for. Kind of explains a lot.

Private Sector.

On: Pieces Coming Together For NASA's New Spacecraft

They should just sub-contact to thoes people already building the newest spaceplane system.

Re:Threshold protocol activated

On: Triple Helix — Designing a New Molecule of Life

Never ascribe to malice or paranoia what can easily be explained by incompetence.

It's a simple calculation

On: What the Papers Don't Say About Vaccines

What's the chance of your child suffering significant harm if you don't immunise verses the chance of harm if you do. I'm sure the the greator chance of harm is if you don't immunise, unless you go the bubble child path ( just think of the film rights ).

Re:Um, global thermonuclear war?

On: This Is the Way the World Ends

My favorate has always been all thoes bioweapons the government destroyed. Human Species : Self correcting Mistake.

Goverment Tracking

On: Indiana Bans Driver's License Smiles, For Security

The government wants to be able to track you aka Minority Report.