I can think of a lot of projects which support back-ported bug fixes. Even I support 90%+ of my own Open Source project from the first release version to the current state. The only exception is Beta and Alpha releases, hence the 10% variation. To be honest if the bug exists in an earlier version, chances are either it's been fixed already and hence a patch exists or it still exists and you can still fix it in the new version back to the problem version. Most software packages, at least the good one, build on themselves, so when you find a bug in an earlier version, chances are it's still there in the new one. At least this is how I develop and I know a number of other awesome developers that follow this method as well. There are 900 billion different ways to do everything so if you have your own style and method all the power to you but it's not the way I work.
You should teach a car to drive like you teach a human, equip the system with vision and analyse the visual input to control output. Granted I'm not working auto driving systems but it would seem to me that you just need to analyse the road surface to figure out if your centred in your lane and then analyse the environment around you to figure out what your close to. I've done a bit of image / video computer autonomous analyse system design in the past and the technology exists to do this, it's not overly expensive or hard to learn so my question is why aren't they using a system closer to this for the auto drive car?
If I'm completely wrong then okay but could someone describe why it's not possible or who's already doing it.
I think closed source company's should absorb the extra cost, it's just me but when I have option that generally provide the support I want and the releases I want then why would I pay extra. I'll pay the same, and I'm willing to pay for open source software so match the price and provide the same service. It's like an abstraction layer, I don't care how it works under the hood, I just want the face value to work the same at all times and charge me the same money in the end.
This is why I support open source, I want my software to work, get support, be rock solid, get review and serve the public! So do I want to spend a ton of money, no, but I will in turn just pick the better development model. If I'm not willing to go / use open source then I think I should have to swallow the costs.
This is why open source is the best software model on the market! You find a bug and you know how to fix it, go ahead, if you can't fix it but submit a bug report your almost always guaranteed another programmer can fix it. If your company adapts a closed software model then you should offer the same level of support as open source, meaning if someone finds a bug the company offers a fix. The lifetime of the software shouldn't matter, a bug today is a bug in 30 years and should be treated the same way. Yes most people will upgrade but for the few that have no need they should still get support.
I agree and I believe it's currently being attempted. No user can read, remember and process all the legal BS in a EULA, it would be like asking a child to read a college textbook and write a test, some will be able to but most will fail.
I think it's BS personally, if I build a bridge and it fails I'm held responsible. If I build a electronic system that fails and it hurts someone I'm responsible. If I'm a doctor and hurt someone same deal, if I'm a programmer and someone gets hurt from me code I wipe the chips from my beard, tuck my Hawaiian shirt in and go home.
They could be running Windows 3.1 and IE 1.0 and it shouldn't matter. If a bug is found 20 years after your software is released then there is still a bug and you should still offer a patch. I hate when software company's issue the "It's out of service and support", basically you don't want to take responsibility for the fact you might have buggy software floating around.
If I make a medical device that has a serious software bug and goes awall and kills people I'm held responsible. If I start a company who dumps oil into the ocean by accident and it kills people / animals I'm held responsible. So shouldn't company's who release buggy software be held responsible for damages and compensation?
Some programmers can work in contests, Some can work alone in a cubical and some can work in a team or fit into all three groups. Holding a contest is a great way to spot the programmers who can think quickly on there feet and jam it into high gear but can lead to missing the other types of programmers. Just because I can't program in a contest doesn't mean I can't write great programs. If you put Linus, creator of Linux, into a contest and he doesn't win does that mean he's not a great programmer?
The more eyes that can view a piece of code the more bugs can be spotted and the better the algorithm development can be. Open source code is also a great way to teach young developers because the best way to learn to programming to is to read code and program, something which can't be easily done by locked down software.
I have little respect for most rappers, I'm not a rap fan and I'll never be a rap fan. Well some of them are very talented and really do have a great skill with words, a lot of them also just make lyrics that make me wonder how they graduated elementary school, for instance anything by 50 cent. As for this guy....... I'm lost for words on why he would write something like that this soon after the bombing.
When you outright say you want to surpass a bombing and then you go and say you want to challenge the white house, what did you think was going to happen. This isn't a case of free speech or even the right to be expressive, it's the plain and simple fact that this kid wanted to act like a thug and right a song which any reasonable homo sapien would know would land you in hot water. I would treat this kid like the hardened rapper he wants to be, throw him in jail cell with some real life gangster and he can deal with it. This is a great example of not only bad lyrics but also an untalented rapper not thinking before he speaks.
It would be worth, and maybe I missed it, at taking a look into what is worse for your liver, drinking or Tylenol. If both can cause the same general side effect of easing social distress then maybe it would be worth figuring out which one is less damaging. Now I'm not trying to calm that I support people using medication to try and hide pain brought forth from social rejection, but if it comes down to it I think picking the less of two evils is always better at least from a substance view point.
Windows 8 made to many changes to fast without the support of legacy add-ons. Forgoing my own feeling about the Windows 8 interface and window management, not including a start button or a way to add the start button back and not allowing a user to boot to the desktop were both huge mistakes.
You can try to change the way things are done but at least provide a way back to the old methods, at least for the first release of a new system, then you can go ahead and start removing features slowly. It's like getting into a cold pool, you slide in gently to make sure you don't get a shock, this is what Microsoft should of done, not a running cannon ball and later have to suck the water back out.
I never really considered this but when I think about it, it's true, my Prius doesn't really get the same km/L it should. Shouldn't the car company's be held to the same standard for data as everyone else aka is they lie it's fraud?
Oh I agree to that, but in that case the engineers should be sitting in on the meetings about the external pressures. My issue is when I was given deadlines that didn't make sense or were to short based on the fact the engineers weren't sitting in on the right meetings. The reality is that sometimes the company just starts to late getting to work on the new product and that shouldn't cause engineers to work hard at getting an underdeveloped product to market.
The content doesn't cause the violence, the people taking the content offensively does. Over reacting is a serious issue that is usually caused by people being immature and childish, your allowed to have beliefs and freedoms as long as they don't harm others. Just because I see Jesus eating a hotdog doesn't mean I'm entitled to go and start a war or demand Google shutdown, I'm allowed to look at it and take it how I ever I want and leave it at that. If it offends me I can deal with it and realize that I'm going to be offended from time to time so just take a chill pill and calm down, which is the problem, some people take faith and belief way to far, when it starts hurting other people or effecting your life to the point your willing to go to war I think you need to readjust. I'm not saying you can't have strong beliefs and take them seriously but you need to make sure other people don't get involved. It's not Google's or Facebook's fault that you took a simple picture out of context, it's your's and you should deal with it on your own.
When I started working at my company I know the market budget was several times what the engineering budget was, I actually use to get my deadlines given to me by marketing employees. It was during my first software major project when I went to my director and told him this is bullshit, I can't have a marketing guy set a deadline for our product when he has no clue how much work I need to do, the fact was he had under estimated the amount of work "writing a firmware was" by about 10 fold. My director agreed and asked me to sit in on a meeting with the marketing team.
The meeting started off with me asking one question, "Steve ( the head of marketing ), Can you tell me how long it takes to write a full firmware in C for the xxx product", he looked at me and said, "I don't know, I don't program, why would you ask me that!", my response was "Well how about tomorrow you do all the marketing for the new product and have it ready for me, I want it by 5pm", again he looked at me and said, "WTF is wrong with you, I need at least a few months to get that done", my response was, "Oh, I didn't know that, I thought you can do anything in the time set by someone who doesn't know what you do", he sat back and I could tell he was thinking about it and said "Oh wow, I get it, sorry, how long do you actually need?". The next day I got called into the SVP's office and he said, "I heard you caused a shit storm yesterday, well done, because now your incharge of sending deadlines to the marketing team".
My point is that marketing should never out rank engineering and on the same right engineering shouldn't out rank marketing, both sections need to work together and market should NEVER EVER NEVER set deadlines for an engineer. With in the course of the next 6 months my budget got increased and I got to hire some new people to help me. I think a lot of this has to do with the fact business guys just don't understand that engineering isn't sitting down and waving a wond, you need to let the other teams know that you need the right amount of time and that shoe string budgets and impossible deadlines don't work.
In my case I work in a small company so it was easier to deal with but if I ever leave and go to a bigger company I'll have the point to make, if you can't market the product over night then why would I be able to build the system over night, I need to listen to marketing for what there timelines are just they need to listen to me for mine. Under no circumstance should another team tell you when to have work done by, they can ask you to have it completed by such and such a date and invite you to sit in to all the meeting that matter and involve planning, but they shouldn't set your dates or budgets.
It's actually not that new hearing how an online submission / program can't be ran on Linux or Mac and needs IE to run. When I was in school there was this online software called "Angel", to spite the fact it was a horrible pile of a software to begin with, the company wouldn't even talk with you if weren't using Windows. You can tell a lot about a developer simply by looking at how the software they develop, web and desktop, works across all the major platforms, including the kind of support they deliver. Any company who makes a web based product and wants to tell me it needs browser X on OS Y to run gives me the vibe that they have some pretty junior developers on staff or some really lazy and brain dead ones. I don't think it's acceptable to in this day and age segment programs and the Operating Systems they run on.
If Blackberry really thought they would hold the market forever they were crazy. They had the first super secure smart phone but that really just couldn't last. If I were the CEO of Blackberry or the CSO I would of quickly been finding new ways to capitalize other markets for my phones. Thinking you can remain on top of the world forever will cause you to become IBM or Microsoft, eventually you're bound to fall, the smart people are the ones who planned for it and can keep on rolling, Blackberry I really don't see being able to.
I have one big problem with this and that is that a company's infrastructure wont always support the device I bring. Right now where I work you get to use an iPhone, Blackberry or Android, if your use an Android, in my case the S3, then you can't connect to the main Wifi system in the workplace. This is an issue because it forces me to use mobile data or the open Wifi, which leaves me open to security issues. So well I support bring your own device, I only support it if the workplace can make sure everything works with all the major bands.
I'm all for equal gender rights but that key to that is equal rights. If a mother can get 18 months off then a father must be able to get 18 months off, if a father gets 8 weeks the mother gets 8 weeks. What bothers me about this mostly is the fact that women will complain until it's mandated it but the second men speak up it's sexist and suppresses women's rights. If your going to fight for things to be equal then make them equal, tipping the sea-saw over to the other side just shifts the problem. So again I support gender equality but that means being equal as in 1 == 1.
A phone message is in fact the same concept as an Email or Private conversation, therefore it should be awarded the same level or privacy and protection. It's also interesting to note that just by reading a phone message you're not going to get the entire story most of the time. I can't count how many of phone messages are extensions of conversations I've had over email and in person, if you read the message on my phone with out the context it will either make no sense or make me / them look bad, when in reality your missing a good portion of what you need to know. I fully support blocking phone snooping from the police, if they want what I have then they can legally obtain it.
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I can think of a lot of projects which support back-ported bug fixes. Even I support 90%+ of my own Open Source project from the first release version to the current state. The only exception is Beta and Alpha releases, hence the 10% variation. To be honest if the bug exists in an earlier version, chances are either it's been fixed already and hence a patch exists or it still exists and you can still fix it in the new version back to the problem version. Most software packages, at least the good one, build on themselves, so when you find a bug in an earlier version, chances are it's still there in the new one. At least this is how I develop and I know a number of other awesome developers that follow this method as well. There are 900 billion different ways to do everything so if you have your own style and method all the power to you but it's not the way I work.
You should teach a car to drive like you teach a human, equip the system with vision and analyse the visual input to control output. Granted I'm not working auto driving systems but it would seem to me that you just need to analyse the road surface to figure out if your centred in your lane and then analyse the environment around you to figure out what your close to. I've done a bit of image / video computer autonomous analyse system design in the past and the technology exists to do this, it's not overly expensive or hard to learn so my question is why aren't they using a system closer to this for the auto drive car?
If I'm completely wrong then okay but could someone describe why it's not possible or who's already doing it.
I think closed source company's should absorb the extra cost, it's just me but when I have option that generally provide the support I want and the releases I want then why would I pay extra. I'll pay the same, and I'm willing to pay for open source software so match the price and provide the same service. It's like an abstraction layer, I don't care how it works under the hood, I just want the face value to work the same at all times and charge me the same money in the end.
This is why I support open source, I want my software to work, get support, be rock solid, get review and serve the public! So do I want to spend a ton of money, no, but I will in turn just pick the better development model. If I'm not willing to go / use open source then I think I should have to swallow the costs.
This is why open source is the best software model on the market! You find a bug and you know how to fix it, go ahead, if you can't fix it but submit a bug report your almost always guaranteed another programmer can fix it. If your company adapts a closed software model then you should offer the same level of support as open source, meaning if someone finds a bug the company offers a fix. The lifetime of the software shouldn't matter, a bug today is a bug in 30 years and should be treated the same way. Yes most people will upgrade but for the few that have no need they should still get support.
I agree and I believe it's currently being attempted. No user can read, remember and process all the legal BS in a EULA, it would be like asking a child to read a college textbook and write a test, some will be able to but most will fail.
I think it's BS personally, if I build a bridge and it fails I'm held responsible. If I build a electronic system that fails and it hurts someone I'm responsible. If I'm a doctor and hurt someone same deal, if I'm a programmer and someone gets hurt from me code I wipe the chips from my beard, tuck my Hawaiian shirt in and go home.
They could be running Windows 3.1 and IE 1.0 and it shouldn't matter. If a bug is found 20 years after your software is released then there is still a bug and you should still offer a patch. I hate when software company's issue the "It's out of service and support", basically you don't want to take responsibility for the fact you might have buggy software floating around.
If I make a medical device that has a serious software bug and goes awall and kills people I'm held responsible. If I start a company who dumps oil into the ocean by accident and it kills people / animals I'm held responsible. So shouldn't company's who release buggy software be held responsible for damages and compensation?
Some programmers can work in contests, Some can work alone in a cubical and some can work in a team or fit into all three groups. Holding a contest is a great way to spot the programmers who can think quickly on there feet and jam it into high gear but can lead to missing the other types of programmers. Just because I can't program in a contest doesn't mean I can't write great programs. If you put Linus, creator of Linux, into a contest and he doesn't win does that mean he's not a great programmer?
The more eyes that can view a piece of code the more bugs can be spotted and the better the algorithm development can be. Open source code is also a great way to teach young developers because the best way to learn to programming to is to read code and program, something which can't be easily done by locked down software.
My dad is an iPad user and his one complaint is that he can't save documents.
I have little respect for most rappers, I'm not a rap fan and I'll never be a rap fan. Well some of them are very talented and really do have a great skill with words, a lot of them also just make lyrics that make me wonder how they graduated elementary school, for instance anything by 50 cent. As for this guy ....... I'm lost for words on why he would write something like that this soon after the bombing.
When you outright say you want to surpass a bombing and then you go and say you want to challenge the white house, what did you think was going to happen. This isn't a case of free speech or even the right to be expressive, it's the plain and simple fact that this kid wanted to act like a thug and right a song which any reasonable homo sapien would know would land you in hot water. I would treat this kid like the hardened rapper he wants to be, throw him in jail cell with some real life gangster and he can deal with it. This is a great example of not only bad lyrics but also an untalented rapper not thinking before he speaks.
It would be worth, and maybe I missed it, at taking a look into what is worse for your liver, drinking or Tylenol. If both can cause the same general side effect of easing social distress then maybe it would be worth figuring out which one is less damaging. Now I'm not trying to calm that I support people using medication to try and hide pain brought forth from social rejection, but if it comes down to it I think picking the less of two evils is always better at least from a substance view point.
Windows 8 made to many changes to fast without the support of legacy add-ons. Forgoing my own feeling about the Windows 8 interface and window management, not including a start button or a way to add the start button back and not allowing a user to boot to the desktop were both huge mistakes.
You can try to change the way things are done but at least provide a way back to the old methods, at least for the first release of a new system, then you can go ahead and start removing features slowly. It's like getting into a cold pool, you slide in gently to make sure you don't get a shock, this is what Microsoft should of done, not a running cannon ball and later have to suck the water back out.
I never really considered this but when I think about it, it's true, my Prius doesn't really get the same km/L it should. Shouldn't the car company's be held to the same standard for data as everyone else aka is they lie it's fraud?
Oh I agree to that, but in that case the engineers should be sitting in on the meetings about the external pressures. My issue is when I was given deadlines that didn't make sense or were to short based on the fact the engineers weren't sitting in on the right meetings. The reality is that sometimes the company just starts to late getting to work on the new product and that shouldn't cause engineers to work hard at getting an underdeveloped product to market.
The content doesn't cause the violence, the people taking the content offensively does. Over reacting is a serious issue that is usually caused by people being immature and childish, your allowed to have beliefs and freedoms as long as they don't harm others. Just because I see Jesus eating a hotdog doesn't mean I'm entitled to go and start a war or demand Google shutdown, I'm allowed to look at it and take it how I ever I want and leave it at that. If it offends me I can deal with it and realize that I'm going to be offended from time to time so just take a chill pill and calm down, which is the problem, some people take faith and belief way to far, when it starts hurting other people or effecting your life to the point your willing to go to war I think you need to readjust. I'm not saying you can't have strong beliefs and take them seriously but you need to make sure other people don't get involved. It's not Google's or Facebook's fault that you took a simple picture out of context, it's your's and you should deal with it on your own.
When I started working at my company I know the market budget was several times what the engineering budget was, I actually use to get my deadlines given to me by marketing employees. It was during my first software major project when I went to my director and told him this is bullshit, I can't have a marketing guy set a deadline for our product when he has no clue how much work I need to do, the fact was he had under estimated the amount of work "writing a firmware was" by about 10 fold. My director agreed and asked me to sit in on a meeting with the marketing team.
The meeting started off with me asking one question, "Steve ( the head of marketing ), Can you tell me how long it takes to write a full firmware in C for the xxx product", he looked at me and said, "I don't know, I don't program, why would you ask me that!", my response was "Well how about tomorrow you do all the marketing for the new product and have it ready for me, I want it by 5pm", again he looked at me and said, "WTF is wrong with you, I need at least a few months to get that done", my response was, "Oh, I didn't know that, I thought you can do anything in the time set by someone who doesn't know what you do", he sat back and I could tell he was thinking about it and said "Oh wow, I get it, sorry, how long do you actually need?". The next day I got called into the SVP's office and he said, "I heard you caused a shit storm yesterday, well done, because now your incharge of sending deadlines to the marketing team".
My point is that marketing should never out rank engineering and on the same right engineering shouldn't out rank marketing, both sections need to work together and market should NEVER EVER NEVER set deadlines for an engineer. With in the course of the next 6 months my budget got increased and I got to hire some new people to help me. I think a lot of this has to do with the fact business guys just don't understand that engineering isn't sitting down and waving a wond, you need to let the other teams know that you need the right amount of time and that shoe string budgets and impossible deadlines don't work.
In my case I work in a small company so it was easier to deal with but if I ever leave and go to a bigger company I'll have the point to make, if you can't market the product over night then why would I be able to build the system over night, I need to listen to marketing for what there timelines are just they need to listen to me for mine. Under no circumstance should another team tell you when to have work done by, they can ask you to have it completed by such and such a date and invite you to sit in to all the meeting that matter and involve planning, but they shouldn't set your dates or budgets.
It's actually not that new hearing how an online submission / program can't be ran on Linux or Mac and needs IE to run. When I was in school there was this online software called "Angel", to spite the fact it was a horrible pile of a software to begin with, the company wouldn't even talk with you if weren't using Windows. You can tell a lot about a developer simply by looking at how the software they develop, web and desktop, works across all the major platforms, including the kind of support they deliver. Any company who makes a web based product and wants to tell me it needs browser X on OS Y to run gives me the vibe that they have some pretty junior developers on staff or some really lazy and brain dead ones. I don't think it's acceptable to in this day and age segment programs and the Operating Systems they run on.
Thats actually a really good idea.
If Blackberry really thought they would hold the market forever they were crazy. They had the first super secure smart phone but that really just couldn't last. If I were the CEO of Blackberry or the CSO I would of quickly been finding new ways to capitalize other markets for my phones. Thinking you can remain on top of the world forever will cause you to become IBM or Microsoft, eventually you're bound to fall, the smart people are the ones who planned for it and can keep on rolling, Blackberry I really don't see being able to.
I have one big problem with this and that is that a company's infrastructure wont always support the device I bring. Right now where I work you get to use an iPhone, Blackberry or Android, if your use an Android, in my case the S3, then you can't connect to the main Wifi system in the workplace. This is an issue because it forces me to use mobile data or the open Wifi, which leaves me open to security issues. So well I support bring your own device, I only support it if the workplace can make sure everything works with all the major bands.
I'm all for equal gender rights but that key to that is equal rights. If a mother can get 18 months off then a father must be able to get 18 months off, if a father gets 8 weeks the mother gets 8 weeks. What bothers me about this mostly is the fact that women will complain until it's mandated it but the second men speak up it's sexist and suppresses women's rights. If your going to fight for things to be equal then make them equal, tipping the sea-saw over to the other side just shifts the problem. So again I support gender equality but that means being equal as in 1 == 1.
A phone message is in fact the same concept as an Email or Private conversation, therefore it should be awarded the same level or privacy and protection. It's also interesting to note that just by reading a phone message you're not going to get the entire story most of the time. I can't count how many of phone messages are extensions of conversations I've had over email and in person, if you read the message on my phone with out the context it will either make no sense or make me / them look bad, when in reality your missing a good portion of what you need to know. I fully support blocking phone snooping from the police, if they want what I have then they can legally obtain it.