I've always thought (and I think there are some Scrum related papers to back me up on this) that the instant malleability of software design has substituted for formal practices.
There's nothing as malleable in the real world so we don't know how to formalise it.
Instead, on most of the system I've worked on, management have tried to introduce formalities just so they feel happier - when there's no real point.
Example: I'm trying to figure out how to strip UTC from a bunch of fields in a system - make them date only instead of time-zone aware date-time. The answer is easy (change the data type), the analysis is horrible (find all the other fields and operations that are touched by the field concerned), but the management overhead is outstanding - I've had to write two document, an hour long presentation, and a video-cap of a demonstration, a risk assessment probably too; and still people won't leave me alone to get on with it.
Bah! Having slogged my way through medical records libraries many times in the past to look for a patient's records I can tell you that a few days down-time in an electronic system is nothing compared to the damage caused by lost, stolen, damaged, badly-written, 'in-transit' paper records.
I wish I'd never gone to university - I regretted the first time and the second time - I should have been a plumber, met a not-so-nice girl and settled down to a real life.
Instead I play at being an IT consultant and post to Slashdot.
... and cancelled your last.fm account the moment this story first surfaced a couple of months ago. CBS can't be trusted; they own last.fm; so last.fm cannot be trusted. How hard is that to understand? Not their fault, but last.fm was "people" and now it's a "corporation" and as such it gets to break the laws of common human decency whenever it wants...
Well i won't hassle you too much about your sarcasm about Stallman (hopefully other people have done that:) - suffice to say that he is a man of principle and there is much to admired about him. Here - read his home page - http://www.stallman.org/.
Sometimes the "real" world is what we make of it; and Stallman is really trying to make it a better place in the long run.
"Sushil Bansal, the contractor who owns Advanced Integrated Technologies Corporation."
"Seventeen of the contractors work for AITC"
That's where the problems lies - a contractor hiring other contractors through his own company. Interferes with the proper chain of management and encourages bad practices and fraud.
Last year recently turned down a contract at a very large supplier to a UK government agency in part because I was being compelled to work through the company owned by one of the other contractors on the project. From colleagues on the project I heard that the guy was a hard task master and never allowed his team to engage in any upfront design work. Of course they did what he asked because he was paying them directly, when they should have acted more professionally and insisted on some proper design work.
A year later - he's been let go, not sure what's happened to the people who worked through him - and the project is collapsing.
- HR departments will not help you (I complained about the astounding bullying of a female colleague my our manager - nothing was done) - Lawyers will not help you without it costing you (I was dicked out of considerable money by a client and it would have cost MORE to get the money back via lawyers than I was owed)
Just stick out the two weeks and then leave, as per the company policy. Don't leave a bit later out of goodwill, or fear, just stick to the rules as specified by your company.
I've been bad mouthed AND given good recommendations by past employers (and girlfriends...) and there's f**k all you can do about either, except note that most people who want ot bad mouth you will already be well known for being dicks and no one will listen to them (that's what happened to me...)
... should have done it at the CBS buy-out but I got lazy. Last.fm has denied the rumour, but really, reality check time... a pig in a skirt is still a pig, even if you f**k it some of the time... How I will miss recommending totally inappropriate drum and bass tracks to my French classical music loving friend ("you have the music tastes of a 15 year old") and weird novelty songs to my sensible sister ("my brother is an idiot") and recording all the crap I play in Amarok on the last.fm playlist
I've always been fascinated how the Debian (and derivatives) releases have functioned. Each branch is like a snake in a box in the storage area of a plane; as it reaches 'stable', it escapes from the box and kills people on the plane.
(And then I assume some agent of the FBI/ATF/CIA/NSA/KFC kills the snake and is the reluctant hero).
"SIDE EFFECTS: Propranolol is generally well tolerated, and side effects are mild and transient. Rare side effects include abdominal cramps, diarrhea, constipation, fatigue, insomnia, nausea, depression, dreaming, memory loss, fever, impotence, lightheadedness, slow heart rate, low blood pressure, numbness, tingling, cold extremities, sore throat, and shortness of breath or wheezing. "
Lot of patients who I've dealt with who took this drug suffered from impotence and had to be changed to alternative medication - wonder if in fact all that happened is that they forgot what do with it:)
I vaguely remember being told by a gynae doc that Pethidine had some memory loss effects too
The article linked above also goes on to say: "Kindt's team has already tested whether the propranolol effect lasts longer than three days--a key requirement for therapeutic use--but she declined to give the results because they have been submitted for publication."
So continuous treatment might be required? Side effects of prop. can be worse than the memories maybe?
Really, what's wrong with spending money on counselling instead?
Sadly believable! I remember a very old Peter Ustinov interview where he stated that his United Nations Passport saw him welcomed at every country he visited, the only exception being US immigration, where they treated him with disdain.
Cloud! Cloud? I'm an insensitive cloud? How dare you! I have never been a cloud... all fluffy and (even worse) white and full of either recycled urine or recycled tears... not me sir/madam I am, and always will be, a clod...
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Weirdly tho', I can get more money working on IE-only non-OO systems than I can get for working on any-browser OO software...
I've always thought (and I think there are some Scrum related papers to back me up on this) that the instant malleability of software design has substituted for formal practices.
There's nothing as malleable in the real world so we don't know how to formalise it.
Instead, on most of the system I've worked on, management have tried to introduce formalities just so they feel happier - when there's no real point.
Example: I'm trying to figure out how to strip UTC from a bunch of fields in a system - make them date only instead of time-zone aware date-time. The answer is easy (change the data type), the analysis is horrible (find all the other fields and operations that are touched by the field concerned), but the management overhead is outstanding - I've had to write two document, an hour long presentation, and a video-cap of a demonstration, a risk assessment probably too; and still people won't leave me alone to get on with it.
for me ... it said "Heartless"
Bah! Having slogged my way through medical records libraries many times in the past to look for a patient's records I can tell you that a few days down-time in an electronic system is nothing compared to the damage caused by lost, stolen, damaged, badly-written, 'in-transit' paper records.
Yeah, it is a trap. Thank gawd for Rockbox.
Son: Mum, is Lindsay Wagner really bionic?
Mother: No, of course not. Why?
Son: Because Dad said he could screw the ass of her any-day...
apart from mytwo friends who are in the trade of course...
... and they get to have a van full of tools
I wish I'd never gone to university - I regretted the first time and the second time - I should have been a plumber, met a not-so-nice girl and settled down to a real life.
Instead I play at being an IT consultant and post to Slashdot.
- Bah
... and cancelled your last.fm account the moment this story first surfaced a couple of months ago.
CBS can't be trusted; they own last.fm; so last.fm cannot be trusted. How hard is that to understand? Not their fault, but last.fm was "people" and now it's a "corporation" and as such it gets to break the laws of common human decency whenever it wants...
Well i won't hassle you too much about your sarcasm about Stallman (hopefully other people have done that :) - suffice to say that he is a man of principle and there is much to admired about him. Here - read his home page - http://www.stallman.org/.
Sometimes the "real" world is what we make of it; and Stallman is really trying to make it a better place in the long run.
Good luck!
"Sushil Bansal, the contractor who owns Advanced Integrated Technologies Corporation."
"Seventeen of the contractors work for AITC"
That's where the problems lies - a contractor hiring other contractors through his own company. Interferes with the proper chain of management and encourages bad practices and fraud.
Last year recently turned down a contract at a very large supplier to a UK government agency in part because I was being compelled to work through the company owned by one of the other contractors on the project. From colleagues on the project I heard that the guy was a hard task master and never allowed his team to engage in any upfront design work. Of course they did what he asked because he was paying them directly, when they should have acted more professionally and insisted on some proper design work.
A year later - he's been let go, not sure what's happened to the people who worked through him - and the project is collapsing.
... because, from personal experience:
- HR departments will not help you (I complained about the astounding bullying of a female colleague my our manager - nothing was done)
- Lawyers will not help you without it costing you (I was dicked out of considerable money by a client and it would have cost MORE to get the money back via lawyers than I was owed)
Just stick out the two weeks and then leave, as per the company policy. Don't leave a bit later out of goodwill, or fear, just stick to the rules as specified by your company.
I've been bad mouthed AND given good recommendations by past employers (and girlfriends...) and there's f**k all you can do about either, except note that most people who want ot bad mouth you will already be well known for being dicks and no one will listen to them (that's what happened to me ...)
How unbelievably inhuman of you.
... should have done it at the CBS buy-out but I got lazy.
Last.fm has denied the rumour, but really, reality check time... a pig in a skirt is still a pig, even if you f**k it some of the time...
How I will miss recommending totally inappropriate drum and bass tracks to my French classical music loving friend ("you have the music tastes of a 15 year old") and weird novelty songs to my sensible sister ("my brother is an idiot") and recording all the crap I play in Amarok on the last.fm playlist
I'm just going to leave this info there and walk away
I've always been fascinated how the Debian (and derivatives) releases have functioned. Each branch is like a snake in a box in the storage area of a plane; as it reaches 'stable', it escapes from the box and kills people on the plane.
(And then I assume some agent of the FBI/ATF/CIA/NSA/KFC kills the snake and is the reluctant hero).
OK, so this may be a dumb question, but what if the human was wearing Polaroid sun glasses?
It's so much fun, lots of other players, and it is free. So yes, games cost too much. They should be free. Hell, they are free.
"SIDE EFFECTS: Propranolol is generally well tolerated, and side effects are mild and transient. Rare side effects include abdominal cramps, diarrhea, constipation, fatigue, insomnia, nausea, depression, dreaming, memory loss, fever, impotence, lightheadedness, slow heart rate, low blood pressure, numbness, tingling, cold extremities, sore throat, and shortness of breath or wheezing. "
Lot of patients who I've dealt with who took this drug suffered from impotence and had to be changed to alternative medication - wonder if in fact all that happened is that they forgot what do with it :)
I vaguely remember being told by a gynae doc that Pethidine had some memory loss effects too
The article linked above also goes on to say:
"Kindt's team has already tested whether the propranolol effect lasts longer than three days--a key requirement for therapeutic use--but she declined to give the results because they have been submitted for publication."
So continuous treatment might be required? Side effects of prop. can be worse than the memories maybe?
Really, what's wrong with spending money on counselling instead?
(IANAD - but IWAP)
Yeah, so right.
Corporations have a lot of legal rights but very little responsibility.
What a mess.
from the article: "although they worry that it may undermine the generics industry which currently supplies the cheapest drugs in poor countries"
I'm pretty sure Spock talked to rocks - and Kirk may have made love to one
Sadly believable! I remember a very old Peter Ustinov interview where he stated that his United Nations Passport saw him welcomed at every country he visited, the only exception being US immigration, where they treated him with disdain.
Cloud! Cloud? I'm an insensitive cloud? How dare you! ... not me sir/madam ...
I have never been a cloud... all fluffy and (even worse) white and full of either recycled urine or recycled tears
I am, and always will be, a clod
I hate to admit it but I was fibbing - there is no nude woman in the picture --- oh how I hate 4chan and the LOLs mentality it has instilled in me ...