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I think someone jumped the gun about this TOS. It also says something to the effect of, "there is objectionable material on the 'net.....use the net at your own risk." There is nothing that limits you to what you download. Now hosting stuff is prohibited, but they also state that they might not enforce strict compliance. Most of this is just lawyer-speak for the event that someone decides to sue them for getting busted when they host a kiddie-porn server on IRC.
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Now that was funny.
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Yeah, but CIS people can make really unimpressive SQL querys! (If they can understand relational databases)
I don't count myself all that great in math, but I got through all the math and theory classes without a problem. Maybe I just have too high of an expectation about what good math skills are. If you just plow through the classes and do your best, the pain pays off in the end.
Yeah, the CS majors being hired for the same money as the CIS majors are those annoying bastards that are always part of a "team" while contributing nothing to the project. These are the people with the C average in CS.
Of course, some people hate programming but like the thought of being a sys admin. Sys admin is by no means a bad job, but if you think its like running a starship you've got a rude awakening coming. You get to teach all the computer-illiterates in the company how to push buttons.
We have flex time. It works great for me since I not only live a fair distance from work (I can never get here at a specific time), but I am also finishing my degree while I work.
The only problem is that some employees think that flex time means working from 9am-1pm PST and taking off from 1pm-6pm and then working from home from 6pm-whenever. Some of our tech support issues need to get escalated to this particular developer, and it totally screws over people on the east coast.
Flex time should have the caveat that you are at work during business hours 75-80% of the time, not just working the night shift all the time.
The guy is a professor at a university in Israel. He probably has a lot of religious bias written into this thing. Sure, computers won't do a lot of things that people expect them to be able to do at some point. The problem is that when claiming they will "never" do "this list of things" is that someone will be able to figure out a way to make it do some of the things on the list of impossibilities.
Computational complexity or not, there are ways that problems can be solved in more efficient ways. Wasn't it in recent history that is was said that modems would never get above 2400, 14.4k, 28.8k, etc? Then someone came along and figured out a way to encode multiple bits into a baud and that "never" was, uh, wrong.
Gee, you mean the moron programmer we have here who is always spouting off about "don't limit my ability to be creative!" is what we really want? He is so damn creative that fixing one bug breaks 3 other fixes that were done a week previously! His code seems to function mainly on global variables, and this is the result of "creative freedom."
I'm not really familiar with a lot of those models mentioned in the original posting, but I am familiar with the CMM. It seems to me that the CMM is not followed but is attained by the methodology used to make the software process work correctly. Attaining the ability to plan a project and execute it in a reasonably repetitive fashion is not a bad thing. It still doesn't protect the project from idiots who claim to be programmers. (This particular guy is even totally baffled by source code control!)
Of course, these methodologies don't apply to open source since the whole cathedral vs. bazaar thing. The fact is that an IT consultant shouldn't be the one talking about software methodologies....it should be a computer scientist. Another fact is that idiot programmers are not the rouge programmers following their own star in their basement. Idiot programmers go to training classes for languages and expect a skill to be served to them on a plate after paying the price. A computer scientist is trained to make software happen and is often writing software for the pure joy of seeing the result. A person such as this could see who the project needs to be protected from and who should be babysat.
I also should probably mention that this guy goes into these wild rants when he gets slapped with a ton of problem reports about his software. It isn't uncommon for him to walk around the office claiming, "This IS NOT what I do!" He wrote the code, so I still am uncertain what exactly it is that he does since he seems to write the code, doesn't document it (because it "restricts freedom") and then doesn't think he should be expected to fix his own bugs. This is perfect example of an "idiot programmer."
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I think someone jumped the gun about this TOS. It also says something to the effect of, "there is objectionable material on the 'net.....use the net at your own risk." There is nothing that limits you to what you download. Now hosting stuff is prohibited, but they also state that they might not enforce strict compliance. Most of this is just lawyer-speak for the event that someone decides to sue them for getting busted when they host a kiddie-porn server on IRC.
Now that was funny.
I don't count myself all that great in math, but I got through all the math and theory classes without a problem. Maybe I just have too high of an expectation about what good math skills are. If you just plow through the classes and do your best, the pain pays off in the end.
Yeah, the CS majors being hired for the same money as the CIS majors are those annoying bastards that are always part of a "team" while contributing nothing to the project. These are the people with the C average in CS. Of course, some people hate programming but like the thought of being a sys admin. Sys admin is by no means a bad job, but if you think its like running a starship you've got a rude awakening coming. You get to teach all the computer-illiterates in the company how to push buttons.
The only problem is that some employees think that flex time means working from 9am-1pm PST and taking off from 1pm-6pm and then working from home from 6pm-whenever. Some of our tech support issues need to get escalated to this particular developer, and it totally screws over people on the east coast.
Flex time should have the caveat that you are at work during business hours 75-80% of the time, not just working the night shift all the time.
Computational complexity or not, there are ways that problems can be solved in more efficient ways. Wasn't it in recent history that is was said that modems would never get above 2400, 14.4k, 28.8k, etc? Then someone came along and figured out a way to encode multiple bits into a baud and that "never" was, uh, wrong.
I'm not really familiar with a lot of those models mentioned in the original posting, but I am familiar with the CMM. It seems to me that the CMM is not followed but is attained by the methodology used to make the software process work correctly. Attaining the ability to plan a project and execute it in a reasonably repetitive fashion is not a bad thing. It still doesn't protect the project from idiots who claim to be programmers. (This particular guy is even totally baffled by source code control!)
Of course, these methodologies don't apply to open source since the whole cathedral vs. bazaar thing. The fact is that an IT consultant shouldn't be the one talking about software methodologies....it should be a computer scientist. Another fact is that idiot programmers are not the rouge programmers following their own star in their basement. Idiot programmers go to training classes for languages and expect a skill to be served to them on a plate after paying the price. A computer scientist is trained to make software happen and is often writing software for the pure joy of seeing the result. A person such as this could see who the project needs to be protected from and who should be babysat.
I also should probably mention that this guy goes into these wild rants when he gets slapped with a ton of problem reports about his software. It isn't uncommon for him to walk around the office claiming, "This IS NOT what I do!" He wrote the code, so I still am uncertain what exactly it is that he does since he seems to write the code, doesn't document it (because it "restricts freedom") and then doesn't think he should be expected to fix his own bugs. This is perfect example of an "idiot programmer."