Would you still keep that friend around if they broke into your house to sleep in the basement for a week? There's a lot of difference between trespassing and grand theft. Besides, an employer trusts their employees to follow the rules and cultivate trust. The driver broke the rules, didn't get permission to use the vehicle on personal time, and violated present and future trust that they could be relied on at all. It doesn't matter if they depend on that salary or not, because if it matter that much to them, they wouldn't have screwed up. Sounds to me like the individual in question had no qualms about breaking the rules and proved it, and is only sorry that they got caught.
I concur with your observation, and I agree with your approach to dealing with estimation. Estimates are definitely used as a bargaining chip between engineering and management, and there's some tricks of the trade to help maintain honest and reasonable estimates without sandbagging (overestimating out of self interest) the numbers. It does take some tenure to pull off, so the guy that just got hired a few months ago is likely not going to have a lot of bargaining power. It also takes intellectual honesty, the ability to clearly communicate the breakdown of the tasks step by step, and a credibility that only comes from a history of being professionally honest.
Reminds me of accounts of the colonial slave trade. Seriously, why don't they just design standing seats already and make everyone stand up for 8 solid hours? They already prove that they care nothing about human comfort! Could probably squeeze people into containers resembling coffins while they're at it like the Japanese hotels...
I agree wholeheartedly because this is the most visible departure point for people that aren't programmers. They want to know when your application will work, bug free, according to spec, and even handle the corner cases that no one thought about in the design meetings. They don't care about how to iterate over a list of elements in a collection or sort through config files or transition through states, but they damn sure want it to work within a reasonable amount of time even if they don't know how they think it should work.
2.4 and 5 GHz are ISM bands, not ham bands... Some of the higher frequency 5 GHz (5.8 particularly) are licensed for amateur use, but that's outside the ISM frequency range.
I really hope they're not planning on selling off part of the 1.2 GHz and 5.8 GHz bands, and I do intend to make use of those bands in the near future. I would be unaffected since I'm under FCC oversight here in the US, but it wouldn't be good for international equipment interoperability. Yeah, I haven't messed with D-STAR at all yet simply due to equipment costs, but it does seem a lot of local clubs and EmCom folks like it.
All money is imaginary. The value of currency only exists in the minds of the people participating in that economic system. It is a shared hallucination that gains power and force because of the perceptions of the people participating in the system. Gold is useful as a non-corrosive electrical contact material. Diamonds are useful for cutting tools and some exotic electrical applications. They're value as objects of value is because of their rarity and the demand for them from the people participating in the economy.
As a fellow ham, I understand your comment regarding RFI on HF, but I don't follow with your comment regarding UHF. I've used UHF with FRS radios and interoperating with my ham rig, but I'm not copying you regarding the ownership takeback. Can you elaborate, please?
The thermoelectric elements work by the Peltier Effect. They're not as efficient as cartridge heating elements for heating or vapor compression refrigeration for cooling, but they also don't require moving parts and can be use in places where either of the more efficient mechanisms can't (like pressed against a gel pad pressed against a human body). They're a polarized device that pushes heat in one direction with current flowing in one direction and pushes heat in the opposite direction with an opposite electrical polarity.
This whole line of conjecture is completely ignoring costs that are mandatory in general aviation that most people ignore or cheap out on with cars: regulations.
That plane doesn't run on 92 octane. You're going to be paying through the nose for jet fuel.
You're required to maintain a maintenance and operating log of the craft. You can't just "oh, I'll get the oil changed a few thousand miles more this time" because the local aviation regulatory body will ground you.
Maintenance and operations must be carried out be qualified and licensed experts. Joe Schmo at the local grease monkey can change your brake pads for cheap, but you can't take that approach with general aviation.
Insurance. Yeah, it's required. It's really expensive considering the increased risk of manned flight vs. manned ground vehicles.
Oh, you also need the time and money to prepare and submit flight plans of a sufficient level of quality to have the clearance to even taxi to the runway for takeoff.
Yes, it is. Wifi operates on the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz unlicensed Industrial/Science/Medicine (ISM). The higher the frequency, the closer the radio horizon and the lower the tendency of the signal to penetrate through solid materials. Cellular radio tech operates on 700, 800, 850, 1700, 1900, and 2500 MHz. The higher frequency cellular tech is typically used for higher speed data links (3G, 4G), so it degrades some at farther distances than the voice links but will go back to older operating modes when necessary. Voice communication over cellular typically runs at the lower frequencies since it's considered more critical than internet traffic.
Another reason why the ISM bands (particularly 2.4 GHz) are terrible for wide area wireless communication is because they're extremely crowded. If you look at 2.4 GHz on a spectrum analyzer, it's very noisy from surrounding traffic. 5 GHz is quieter since a lot of vendors cheap out by only providing the 2.4 GHz radio chains for their hardware, but it 5 GHz also exhibits shorter long range propagation patterns over 2.4 GHz.
Handwave it all you want, but there's huge difference between 30fps and 60fps, and "almost there" isn't good enough when you're still chasing frame rates that were common in native C++ applications in the late 90s and the customer wants your build yesterday.
Since OpenGL 3.0, the traditional OpenGL rendering pipeline (supposedly) has been implemented using shaders under the hood. Also, check out the OpenGL Mathematics (GLM) library for the matrix operations in userspace that used to be at the driver level before.
The silver lining in this is that it lets us dazzle the suits with just how fast our C++ apps are in comparison to the mess that the web stack has turned into.
Hardware RAID is complete crap unless you're throwing $500+ at Adaptec or LSI, and then it's still proprietary crap. Just get a board with multiple SATA connectors and do software RAID at the OS level (hopefully unix if you're targetting ARM), save a few hundred bucks, and save yourself a lot of headache when the board fries and the manufacturer has EOLed the hardware and you can't find a replacement.
You are purposefully neglecting to notice my mention of RHEL and CentOS and Debian as the option for production stable systems. I use Fedora for laptops and workstations so I don't have to be stuck in the hell of running "production stable" applications at a version that is 5 years old.
We came to that same conclusion in the US about 237 years ago on a little tax matter and a lack of representative seats in Parliament. I still refuse to believe that political authority is handed down from the appendages of God to a select few to then pass down to their children.
Your experience with arch sounds like my experience with gentoo. I use Fedora, but any of Fedora, RHEL (or CentOS or Scientific Linux), and Debian are stable enough to meet anyone's needs for a mission critical system.
There are great works like the Clavier that exist in all fields of studies, and it's a gift to all of mankind when a genius has the opportunity to complete a magnum opus of this calibre. Newton's Principia comes to mind as well as Da Vinci's Codex, but even newer and more modern studies have their own Book to follow. I have been criticized for my antiquated viewpoints on curating a library of masterpieces, but you either stand on the shoulders of the giants that came before you or you are forever doomed to recreate their process and most likely produce inferior results.
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Would you still keep that friend around if they broke into your house to sleep in the basement for a week? There's a lot of difference between trespassing and grand theft. Besides, an employer trusts their employees to follow the rules and cultivate trust. The driver broke the rules, didn't get permission to use the vehicle on personal time, and violated present and future trust that they could be relied on at all. It doesn't matter if they depend on that salary or not, because if it matter that much to them, they wouldn't have screwed up. Sounds to me like the individual in question had no qualms about breaking the rules and proved it, and is only sorry that they got caught.
Can I borrow your car to visit my sick relative? No harm, no foul, but ignore that sticky mess in the back...
I concur with your observation, and I agree with your approach to dealing with estimation. Estimates are definitely used as a bargaining chip between engineering and management, and there's some tricks of the trade to help maintain honest and reasonable estimates without sandbagging (overestimating out of self interest) the numbers. It does take some tenure to pull off, so the guy that just got hired a few months ago is likely not going to have a lot of bargaining power. It also takes intellectual honesty, the ability to clearly communicate the breakdown of the tasks step by step, and a credibility that only comes from a history of being professionally honest.
Reminds me of accounts of the colonial slave trade. Seriously, why don't they just design standing seats already and make everyone stand up for 8 solid hours? They already prove that they care nothing about human comfort! Could probably squeeze people into containers resembling coffins while they're at it like the Japanese hotels...
I agree wholeheartedly because this is the most visible departure point for people that aren't programmers. They want to know when your application will work, bug free, according to spec, and even handle the corner cases that no one thought about in the design meetings. They don't care about how to iterate over a list of elements in a collection or sort through config files or transition through states, but they damn sure want it to work within a reasonable amount of time even if they don't know how they think it should work.
2.4 and 5 GHz are ISM bands, not ham bands... Some of the higher frequency 5 GHz (5.8 particularly) are licensed for amateur use, but that's outside the ISM frequency range.
I really hope they're not planning on selling off part of the 1.2 GHz and 5.8 GHz bands, and I do intend to make use of those bands in the near future. I would be unaffected since I'm under FCC oversight here in the US, but it wouldn't be good for international equipment interoperability. Yeah, I haven't messed with D-STAR at all yet simply due to equipment costs, but it does seem a lot of local clubs and EmCom folks like it.
Yes, I wear my owl costume to them.
All money is imaginary. The value of currency only exists in the minds of the people participating in that economic system. It is a shared hallucination that gains power and force because of the perceptions of the people participating in the system. Gold is useful as a non-corrosive electrical contact material. Diamonds are useful for cutting tools and some exotic electrical applications. They're value as objects of value is because of their rarity and the demand for them from the people participating in the economy.
As a fellow ham, I understand your comment regarding RFI on HF, but I don't follow with your comment regarding UHF. I've used UHF with FRS radios and interoperating with my ham rig, but I'm not copying you regarding the ownership takeback. Can you elaborate, please?
The thermoelectric elements work by the Peltier Effect. They're not as efficient as cartridge heating elements for heating or vapor compression refrigeration for cooling, but they also don't require moving parts and can be use in places where either of the more efficient mechanisms can't (like pressed against a gel pad pressed against a human body). They're a polarized device that pushes heat in one direction with current flowing in one direction and pushes heat in the opposite direction with an opposite electrical polarity.
A man's body is his own. His water belongs to the sietch.
Fixed that for you.
This whole line of conjecture is completely ignoring costs that are mandatory in general aviation that most people ignore or cheap out on with cars: regulations.
That plane doesn't run on 92 octane. You're going to be paying through the nose for jet fuel.
You're required to maintain a maintenance and operating log of the craft. You can't just "oh, I'll get the oil changed a few thousand miles more this time" because the local aviation regulatory body will ground you.
Maintenance and operations must be carried out be qualified and licensed experts. Joe Schmo at the local grease monkey can change your brake pads for cheap, but you can't take that approach with general aviation.
Insurance. Yeah, it's required. It's really expensive considering the increased risk of manned flight vs. manned ground vehicles.
Oh, you also need the time and money to prepare and submit flight plans of a sufficient level of quality to have the clearance to even taxi to the runway for takeoff.
Yes, it is. Wifi operates on the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz unlicensed Industrial/Science/Medicine (ISM). The higher the frequency, the closer the radio horizon and the lower the tendency of the signal to penetrate through solid materials. Cellular radio tech operates on 700, 800, 850, 1700, 1900, and 2500 MHz. The higher frequency cellular tech is typically used for higher speed data links (3G, 4G), so it degrades some at farther distances than the voice links but will go back to older operating modes when necessary. Voice communication over cellular typically runs at the lower frequencies since it's considered more critical than internet traffic.
Another reason why the ISM bands (particularly 2.4 GHz) are terrible for wide area wireless communication is because they're extremely crowded. If you look at 2.4 GHz on a spectrum analyzer, it's very noisy from surrounding traffic. 5 GHz is quieter since a lot of vendors cheap out by only providing the 2.4 GHz radio chains for their hardware, but it 5 GHz also exhibits shorter long range propagation patterns over 2.4 GHz.
Handwave it all you want, but there's huge difference between 30fps and 60fps, and "almost there" isn't good enough when you're still chasing frame rates that were common in native C++ applications in the late 90s and the customer wants your build yesterday.
Since OpenGL 3.0, the traditional OpenGL rendering pipeline (supposedly) has been implemented using shaders under the hood. Also, check out the OpenGL Mathematics (GLM) library for the matrix operations in userspace that used to be at the driver level before.
POSIX has been around for a while. ISO/IEC also publish open standards for C and C++.
The silver lining in this is that it lets us dazzle the suits with just how fast our C++ apps are in comparison to the mess that the web stack has turned into.
Hardware RAID is complete crap unless you're throwing $500+ at Adaptec or LSI, and then it's still proprietary crap. Just get a board with multiple SATA connectors and do software RAID at the OS level (hopefully unix if you're targetting ARM), save a few hundred bucks, and save yourself a lot of headache when the board fries and the manufacturer has EOLed the hardware and you can't find a replacement.
You are purposefully neglecting to notice my mention of RHEL and CentOS and Debian as the option for production stable systems. I use Fedora for laptops and workstations so I don't have to be stuck in the hell of running "production stable" applications at a version that is 5 years old.
We came to that same conclusion in the US about 237 years ago on a little tax matter and a lack of representative seats in Parliament. I still refuse to believe that political authority is handed down from the appendages of God to a select few to then pass down to their children.
Funny that Motorola did the exact same thing except with Android instead of Windows Mobile and had resounding success.
Your experience with arch sounds like my experience with gentoo. I use Fedora, but any of Fedora, RHEL (or CentOS or Scientific Linux), and Debian are stable enough to meet anyone's needs for a mission critical system.
There are great works like the Clavier that exist in all fields of studies, and it's a gift to all of mankind when a genius has the opportunity to complete a magnum opus of this calibre. Newton's Principia comes to mind as well as Da Vinci's Codex, but even newer and more modern studies have their own Book to follow. I have been criticized for my antiquated viewpoints on curating a library of masterpieces, but you either stand on the shoulders of the giants that came before you or you are forever doomed to recreate their process and most likely produce inferior results.
Don't forget civil servants and politicians.