> Fashion retailer The Iconic is no longer running quality assurance as a separate function within its software development process,
You'll be sooorrrrreeee.
Grandy maintains that 'many OHA members are developing proprietary user experiences, which they are not contributing back into Android — as is standard for open source projects — for fear of losing competitive advantage in the marketplace.'
Whether or not developments are contributed back to the project depends on the license. The BSD style licenses, for instance, have no such requirement.
Well, I have a few suggestions. Try these in order:
(1) You could require that all of your candidates take a carefully
crafted programming test. The higher the mark that they get on
the test, the better programmer they are. Duh.
(2) You could ask them to bring a 5000 line sample of their code.
Just a glance should tell you whether or not thay are a super
star. After all, if their coding style looks like yours, they
must be good, right?
(3) You could get into a "design session" with them. Ask them
something like:
Q: how would you design a house?
Then let them talk and draw pictures for a few minutes. Pretend
to be paying attention, nod in agreement a few times, ask a few
clarifying questions --you get the idea. It doesn't really matter
what the candidate says here, because when they are all done, you
say something like:
"Oh, well that's pretty good, but I want a design that is
optimized for a family of giraffes" **
What you are looking for here is how they respond to the kind of
unexpected changes that happen in the real world.
At this point, if the candidate takes a swing at you then you have found the right one.
---
** some jackass actually suggested this on his website.
Just consider NBC's foray into the webspace in 2000: NBCi. It was an utter failure. The upper levels of management had no idea how to approach the internet space. It was laughable but some people made enormous amounts of money. See if you can find some archives from f*ckedcompany.com there are plenty of yummy stories there. NBC should stick to what they are good at --medium gray pap for the masses.
I spent the first 10 years of my career programming in assembler for various kinds of minicomputers and also for the PDP-10 (not really a mini). It was heavy sledding and I would do most of that work in C today (or possibly C++). That being said, I would not give up that early work in assembler for anything.
It was fun and illuminating to be so close to the hardware --I have written numerous device drivers in assembler and even an RTOS of sorts-- but, all in all, I suppose that you are right, it is unlikely that I will ever do that again.
My personal opinion is that Richard Stallman's relevance began to decrease as soon as he stopped programming. I think that he is a first class programmer but that he is an abject failure as a policy maker.
,---- | IMHO, there should almost be a pre-court judge that can take a look at | cases in advance as a checksum against stupidity, and throw them out | right away if they are as dumb as this one. I suppose that would be | rife for abusing too though. `----
I could be wrong here (IANAL) but isn't that what a municipal court judge is supposed to do?
You said:
It's been my experience that Perl sucks at this and PHP excels.
I think that you are fairly correct in your assessment. I would only add that it seems to fail to suck quite as strongly in this regard if you use petal
I hate to reply with a 'me to', but I've been a professional programmer for over 30 years and the single, crappiest hack job I've ever seen was written by a CS PhD. Tens of thousands LOC (tm), no comments, goto's, obtuse variable names, macro calls that couldn't be distinguished from function calls and harebrained logic.
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"The US coastline is X miles long at a resolution of Y centimeters". There. FTFY.
I'll tell you who cares: anyone who wants 1 billion customers, that's who. Still not tech, though.
> Fashion retailer The Iconic is no longer running quality assurance as a separate function within its software development process,
You'll be sooorrrrreeee.
number of possible positions as reported by Demis Hassabis.
Actually, the idea of a so-called "O'Niell Cylinder" was put forward in 1973 by Arthur C. Clarke in a book titled Rendezvous with Rama.
It is really easy to solve this problem. Hire more tech workers.
It is a strange thing that not one of the presidential candidates has even mentioned the H1B visa program.
I canceled my Chase card when I got a letter from them telling me that they were going to charge me a fee because I was not using my card enough.
Grandy maintains that 'many OHA members are developing proprietary user experiences, which they are not contributing back into Android — as is standard for open source projects — for fear of losing competitive advantage in the marketplace.'
Whether or not developments are contributed back to the project depends on the license. The BSD style licenses, for instance, have no such requirement.
I can see it now: "Microsoft Hall of Justice"
Well, I have a few suggestions. Try these in order:
(1) You could require that all of your candidates take a carefully
crafted programming test. The higher the mark that they get on
the test, the better programmer they are. Duh.
(2) You could ask them to bring a 5000 line sample of their code.
Just a glance should tell you whether or not thay are a super
star. After all, if their coding style looks like yours, they
must be good, right?
(3) You could get into a "design session" with them. Ask them
something like:
Q: how would you design a house?
Then let them talk and draw pictures for a few minutes. Pretend
to be paying attention, nod in agreement a few times, ask a few
clarifying questions --you get the idea. It doesn't really matter
what the candidate says here, because when they are all done, you
say something like:
"Oh, well that's pretty good, but I want a design that is
optimized for a family of giraffes" **
What you are looking for here is how they respond to the kind of
unexpected changes that happen in the real world.
At this point, if the candidate takes a swing at you then you have
found the right one.
---
** some jackass actually suggested this on his website.
Just consider NBC's foray into the webspace in 2000: NBCi. It was an utter failure. The upper levels of management had no idea how to approach the internet space. It was laughable but some people made enormous amounts of money. See if you can find some archives from f*ckedcompany.com there are plenty of yummy stories there. NBC should stick to what they are good at --medium gray pap for the masses.
I spent the first 10 years of my career programming in assembler for various kinds of minicomputers and also for the PDP-10 (not really a mini). It was heavy sledding and I would do most of that work in C today (or possibly C++). That being said, I would not give up that early work in assembler for anything.
It was fun and illuminating to be so close to the hardware --I have written numerous device drivers in assembler and even an RTOS of sorts-- but, all in all, I suppose that you are right, it is unlikely that I will ever do that again.
My personal opinion is that Richard Stallman's relevance began to decrease
as soon as he stopped programming. I think that he is a first class programmer
but that he is an abject failure as a policy maker.
,----
| IMHO, there should almost be a pre-court judge that can take a look at
| cases in advance as a checksum against stupidity, and throw them out
| right away if they are as dumb as this one. I suppose that would be
| rife for abusing too though.
`----
I could be wrong here (IANAL) but isn't that what a municipal court
judge is supposed to do?
In think that you may have meant 'heroine' instead of 'heroin'.
You said:
It's been my experience that Perl sucks at this and PHP excels.
I think that you are fairly correct in your assessment. I would only add that it seems to fail to suck quite as strongly in this regard if you use petal
Oh, and yes. PostgreSQL does support views.
>> There's no such thing as Gravity, the earth sucks ...or in this case, the whole universe sucks.
>> (attributed to Bill Nye the Science Guy)
Just a word on your attribution. I saw this line in an Army Latrine in 1968, I don't think that Bill Nye was around --although I could be wrong.
>> This was mostly true of the older white developers though, not the younger Asian ones.
what kind of horse shit is this?
I suppose that you could add a chemical signature to the ink.
onslouble unles crossing throuh a vertex counts as crossing both lines.
I hate to reply with a 'me to', but I've been a professional programmer for over 30 years and the single, crappiest hack job I've ever seen was written by a CS PhD. Tens of thousands LOC (tm), no comments, goto's, obtuse variable names, macro calls that couldn't be distinguished from function calls and harebrained logic.
Maybe it is a crap job in the UK.
Here in the US, where middle managers are treated with respect and dignity by executives and staff alike, it's a completely different story.
> What would it entail to develop such a program
> (for Windows)?."
you don't want to do that
Use emacs.