Obviously you've never worked for a ginormous corporation with competing divisions and a history of mergers stretching back a century or more. Suffice to say, it's really not that uncommon for there to be different bug tracking systems. I work for a large telecom company, and while I only work on about four or five projects, there are at least five different bug trackers, project management tools, and various other bits of e-bureaucracy that I deal with every day.
I could be wrong, but I think the person who asked this question is dealing with a situation where bugs have built up over time, and now he has to go in and clean them all out. Obviously dealing with bugs as they are reported is ideal, but not everyone finds themselves in an ideal situation at all times.
That sounds great, until a week in you get to a bug that you can't fix because something else is blocking it. Now you start working on that second one for about a week before you realize that it, too, is being blocked by another bug. And so, and so on. Pretty soon, you're six months in, haven't accomplished anything, and are no closer to solving those dependencies. And without mapping them out as you go, you might not know which ones to go back and fix in which order. Not to mention, not all bugs are created equal. Some you can ignore for now, some cause the entire project to stop dead in its tracks.
No, the best solution is always to stop what you're doing, back up, and make sure everything is mapped out. Better to spend two weeks doing that and get all your ducks in a row rather than running off and making things worse than they already are.
It's difficult for me to imagine how a German website would work well with authority figures instituting a complex bureaucratic system. It just doesn't seem to fit, somehow.
You're talking about a United States Senator getting Microsoft to do something. Like or not, if he doesn't put US citizens first, he won't remain a Senator past the next election cycle.
Not to mention, if someone has to lose their jobs, which one is better for the country as a whole? The one making $100k a year (and being taxed at that level, plus spending at that level) who when he loses his job will collect unemployment here and possibly have his home foreclosed here, or the guy making $50k a year, who when he loses his job goes back to his own country and takes his economic loses with him? If someone has to lose a job, then the US as a whole is better off if the second guy is the one to go.
Do you honestly think that the organization that tried to eradicate Native Americans, locked up its own citizens during WWII because of who their parents were, and has managed to bankrupt the strongest economy in world history would really bat an eye at a threat like that? Trust me, you do not want the Federal government angry, you wouldn't like it when it's angry.
Of course I don't know the real facts, but I agree with the grandparent... this does not sound like the kind of company where I would like to work.
Then both you and the grandparent are idiots who have never heard the phrase "any port in a storm". In a recession, you work where you can because if you lose this job you could lose your house and all of your savings. Then your wife will leave you, taking the kids with her, and without a job you'll never make your child support payments before the sheriff comes out and arrests you for being a deadbeat dad.
Besides which, you're forgetting that with cuts like these Kelly's more worried about keeping her own job than anything else. So yeah, having a dick subordinate who's willing to do some of the dirty work for her is a pretty prime consideration in this environment. In that regards, Doug sounds like the man for the job.
When you donate your time to something like this, you can claim your time as a tax deduction for the market value of your skills (disclaimer, check with your tax professional before actually doing this, if you take tax advice from someone Slashdot you deserve the interest and penalties that the IRS or other tax agency will hit you with). So if the going rate for a contract programmer is $100 per hour and you donate 10 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, you just got a $50,000 "donation" you can put on your 1040A.
Also, just because they're laying folks off in one division doesn't mean they're not actively hiring in others. In this case, they've laid off 100 full-time recruiters. Which reflects the fact that they've slowed their hiring, but not stopped it completely. And if they're hiring fewer people now than in the past, it makes it all the more important for them to find the right person for each job and to make sure that new hires exceed their already high standards. Having external constraints on their candidate pool, like they claim Prop 8 is, could be more detrimental to them now than when they were hiring like crazy, since each individual hired now represents a larger ratio of the total number of new hires in a year.
There's also a subset of people who are straight, but would not feel comfortable moving to a state/country that tramples on the civil rights of a minority. Can't forget about them.
Well said. If Halo 3 was the contributing cause to this murder, rather than just a whiny, petulant teenager who killed his parents for not giving into his demands, then there would've been a rash of parricides after the game's release. Since there weren't, it should be obvious the game had nothing to do with this one.
Whoever sent out the message replied to should be fired and criminally prosecuted for deliberately sabotaging the State Department's email system. But since the article doesn't mention this at all, I'm assuming it was some government employee somewhere who is immune to any form of discipline for anything, up to and including murder.
I used to work in small companies and thought it was great being the jack-of-all-trades. Now I'm at a huge company (100,000+ employees), and not only can I just focus on sysadmin specific work, I also get to spend a fair bit of time coming up with strategic plans, like for disaster recovery, which I find much more interesting than setting up yet another file server. Not only that, but I'm not even allowed to work more than 40 hours in a week; if I have to work late into the night on a release, then I take off early the next day to make up for those hours. There's no way I'm ever going back to being the lone IT guy in a small shop, ever again. That's a sucker's game.
A boyfriend is only a speed bump on the road to happiness. My wife was dating someone else when we met, and obviously I didn't let that stand in my way.
Not only that, but the company that's actually selling inside Iran is in Dubai. So how is this HP's fault in the first place? Last time I checked, we don't have any sanctions on Dubai, so it's perfectly legal for HP to sell its products to that middleman. Unless the sanction means that US companies can't even do business with people who do business with other people in Iran, but then how the hell do you police that?
All sanctions manage to accomplish is to give a dictatorial regime a convenient boogeyman for all their nation's problems. I'd like someone to list one time when sanctions actually accomplished anything useful beyond simply starving the innocent population of a nation of goods and services they might otherwise have bought.
Besides, if we removed the sanctions on Iran, they'd be covered in McDonald's, Starbucks, and Wal-Mart Supercenters with the latest American Idol blaring out of every speaker in the country so damn fast it would make your head spin. Now THAT's how you conquer another people without wasting money on bombs and bullets.
Did it escape your attention that some of these printers have lasers?! Now all the Iranians need are some sharks and they'll hold us all hostage for One Hundred Billion Dollars!
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What kind of freakin' "bug" takes a bloody week to work on?
A hypothetical one, obviously.
Obviously you've never worked for a ginormous corporation with competing divisions and a history of mergers stretching back a century or more. Suffice to say, it's really not that uncommon for there to be different bug tracking systems. I work for a large telecom company, and while I only work on about four or five projects, there are at least five different bug trackers, project management tools, and various other bits of e-bureaucracy that I deal with every day.
I could be wrong, but I think the person who asked this question is dealing with a situation where bugs have built up over time, and now he has to go in and clean them all out. Obviously dealing with bugs as they are reported is ideal, but not everyone finds themselves in an ideal situation at all times.
That sounds great, until a week in you get to a bug that you can't fix because something else is blocking it. Now you start working on that second one for about a week before you realize that it, too, is being blocked by another bug. And so, and so on. Pretty soon, you're six months in, haven't accomplished anything, and are no closer to solving those dependencies. And without mapping them out as you go, you might not know which ones to go back and fix in which order. Not to mention, not all bugs are created equal. Some you can ignore for now, some cause the entire project to stop dead in its tracks.
No, the best solution is always to stop what you're doing, back up, and make sure everything is mapped out. Better to spend two weeks doing that and get all your ducks in a row rather than running off and making things worse than they already are.
Hey, that's the combination to my luggage!
I wholeheartedly agree that there should be some mechanism for archiving millions, if not billions, of web pages. Someone should get right on that.
Somewhat more likely, apparently, we may send an aircraft to travel near the asteroid
If you have to wait for an aircraft to do the job, I think it's probably too late.
It's difficult for me to imagine how a German website would work well with authority figures instituting a complex bureaucratic system. It just doesn't seem to fit, somehow.
You're talking about a United States Senator getting Microsoft to do something. Like or not, if he doesn't put US citizens first, he won't remain a Senator past the next election cycle.
Not to mention, if someone has to lose their jobs, which one is better for the country as a whole? The one making $100k a year (and being taxed at that level, plus spending at that level) who when he loses his job will collect unemployment here and possibly have his home foreclosed here, or the guy making $50k a year, who when he loses his job goes back to his own country and takes his economic loses with him? If someone has to lose a job, then the US as a whole is better off if the second guy is the one to go.
Do you honestly think that the organization that tried to eradicate Native Americans, locked up its own citizens during WWII because of who their parents were, and has managed to bankrupt the strongest economy in world history would really bat an eye at a threat like that? Trust me, you do not want the Federal government angry, you wouldn't like it when it's angry.
Of course I don't know the real facts, but I agree with the grandparent ... this does not sound like the kind of company where I would like to work.
Then both you and the grandparent are idiots who have never heard the phrase "any port in a storm". In a recession, you work where you can because if you lose this job you could lose your house and all of your savings. Then your wife will leave you, taking the kids with her, and without a job you'll never make your child support payments before the sheriff comes out and arrests you for being a deadbeat dad.
Besides which, you're forgetting that with cuts like these Kelly's more worried about keeping her own job than anything else. So yeah, having a dick subordinate who's willing to do some of the dirty work for her is a pretty prime consideration in this environment. In that regards, Doug sounds like the man for the job.
When you donate your time to something like this, you can claim your time as a tax deduction for the market value of your skills (disclaimer, check with your tax professional before actually doing this, if you take tax advice from someone Slashdot you deserve the interest and penalties that the IRS or other tax agency will hit you with). So if the going rate for a contract programmer is $100 per hour and you donate 10 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, you just got a $50,000 "donation" you can put on your 1040A.
Hey, at least they stopped those stupid "the dot in dot-com" commercials that tried to pretend they were movie previews. Those things were annoying.
Also, just because they're laying folks off in one division doesn't mean they're not actively hiring in others. In this case, they've laid off 100 full-time recruiters. Which reflects the fact that they've slowed their hiring, but not stopped it completely. And if they're hiring fewer people now than in the past, it makes it all the more important for them to find the right person for each job and to make sure that new hires exceed their already high standards. Having external constraints on their candidate pool, like they claim Prop 8 is, could be more detrimental to them now than when they were hiring like crazy, since each individual hired now represents a larger ratio of the total number of new hires in a year.
Makes you wonder what they plan on doing to the employees who weren't laid off.
There's also a subset of people who are straight, but would not feel comfortable moving to a state/country that tramples on the civil rights of a minority. Can't forget about them.
Well said. If Halo 3 was the contributing cause to this murder, rather than just a whiny, petulant teenager who killed his parents for not giving into his demands, then there would've been a rash of parricides after the game's release. Since there weren't, it should be obvious the game had nothing to do with this one.
Boyfriend != husband, just like girlfriend != wife. One implies an elasticity to a relationship, the other implies a strong commitment.
Whoever sent out the message replied to should be fired and criminally prosecuted for deliberately sabotaging the State Department's email system. But since the article doesn't mention this at all, I'm assuming it was some government employee somewhere who is immune to any form of discipline for anything, up to and including murder.
FTFY.
I used to work in small companies and thought it was great being the jack-of-all-trades. Now I'm at a huge company (100,000+ employees), and not only can I just focus on sysadmin specific work, I also get to spend a fair bit of time coming up with strategic plans, like for disaster recovery, which I find much more interesting than setting up yet another file server. Not only that, but I'm not even allowed to work more than 40 hours in a week; if I have to work late into the night on a release, then I take off early the next day to make up for those hours. There's no way I'm ever going back to being the lone IT guy in a small shop, ever again. That's a sucker's game.
A boyfriend is only a speed bump on the road to happiness. My wife was dating someone else when we met, and obviously I didn't let that stand in my way.
Which sucks, because if you're going to have an intrusive government with no regard for civil liberties, you might as well have decent pork sausages.
Not only that, but the company that's actually selling inside Iran is in Dubai. So how is this HP's fault in the first place? Last time I checked, we don't have any sanctions on Dubai, so it's perfectly legal for HP to sell its products to that middleman. Unless the sanction means that US companies can't even do business with people who do business with other people in Iran, but then how the hell do you police that?
All sanctions manage to accomplish is to give a dictatorial regime a convenient boogeyman for all their nation's problems. I'd like someone to list one time when sanctions actually accomplished anything useful beyond simply starving the innocent population of a nation of goods and services they might otherwise have bought.
Besides, if we removed the sanctions on Iran, they'd be covered in McDonald's, Starbucks, and Wal-Mart Supercenters with the latest American Idol blaring out of every speaker in the country so damn fast it would make your head spin. Now THAT's how you conquer another people without wasting money on bombs and bullets.
Did it escape your attention that some of these printers have lasers?! Now all the Iranians need are some sharks and they'll hold us all hostage for One Hundred Billion Dollars!
Thanks a lot, HP.
The Irish use hydroelectricity? Color me surprised that the Irish turned to a liquid to solve their energy problems.