perl is basically that weird old guy down the street who keeps trying to talk little kids into coming into his house to play with his new puppy. *shudder* There's just something *wrong* with that guy.
I'm a software engineer. We're all about the smugness.;)
A CEO doesn't have to "feel like his job is quantitative". That's ridiculous. A CEO needs to know you're not wasting his time with crap that should be handled by other people, quantitative or not.
My point was that any numbers you could give the CEO are fabricated, but he's probably used to that kind of thing by now. Think "projected sales", or "software development time". He goes with his gut, and hopefully he's right. The numbers for this kind of thing just serve as a sanity check, but they at least show that you've given the matter some serious thought and aren't just disgruntled.
Approaching any CEO unless you're a VP is likely to get you ignored, no matter what your reasons are. It's kinda' like trying to talk to the President of the US about a problem with your power bill.
Right. CEOs, like presidents, are used to being spoon-fed crap by people they trust, so they can turn around and feed it to the investors/electorate. A bitter pill like spending more money on something very difficult to measure and of questionable value to customers will take many coats of sugar before it's palatable, so it's probably best to send the suggestion up the chain and let the middle-managers do their jobs.
If you can show that the software development 'process' currently in place is costing the company $N a month and you will need to spend $X to improve the process, if you're going to be developing software for more than (X/N) months, it'll be more cost-effective to fix the process.
Right. The best way to deal with a CEO is to make up numbers, so he can feel like his job is "quantitative".
If you find yourself needing detail inside the function then you need to break the function up into sub routines, so you can use this generic logging on the sub routines instead, or as well as.
So, just to be clear: you're advocating breaking up your software into otherwise-unnecessarily fine-grained methods, because it's less intrusive than just adding logging statements? Sounds more like a recipe for spaghetti code.
If there is an unpredictability and free will, which seems to imply something metaphysical...
Why do unpredictability and free will imply something metaphysical? Define your terms please.
I go by the rule that someone has free will as long as they don't understand the factors that influence their choices. The child at recess believes he is free to choose the slide over the swingset, but the parent knows that the child is deathly afraid of heights and will choose the swings every time.
Anything we can do to lower the national debt will help the people of our country. Granted, it's not easy, but there guys and gals that we send to Washington are professionals...right? Fixing Medicare and SS (and getting out of Iraq) are the biggest targets. Anybody who comes through with a good plan for these problems gets my vote. Ms. Clinton seems to know what she's talking about, so putting her in the VP seat might be the best thing for America right now.
Seriously, the debt is the biggest threat to our continuing quality of life, IMO. Debt leads to inflation, which amounts to a tax on money itself.
But it's for your protection! If the government doesn't know when you're eating, watching T.V., or masturbating, how can they protect you? I'm usually doing at least one of those.
He also said he anticipates Microsoft becoming increasingly busy in open source, since it "has a vested interest in making sure open source works well on Windows." However, he noted it could be well into the next decade before we see something as dramatic as an actual Linux distribution from Microsoft.
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Well, it's kind of a matter of semantics, but some people are of the opinion that the iPhone isn't really a "smartphone", because you can't add 3rd-party apps or it doesn't have a QWERTY keyboard or no "enterprise" email connectivity, etc:
Point of order: Bush ain't dumb. He just says what Americans want to hear, and what Rove tells him to say. Starting wars and stuff is about achieving goals set for him and his cronies, but the rest of what he says is designed to reinforce support among the only Americans who still support him: the dumb ones.
The United States, where the internet was invented ...by Al Gore, who was subsequently discovered Global Warming and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Science.
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perl is basically that weird old guy down the street who keeps trying to talk little kids into coming into his house to play with his new puppy. *shudder* There's just something *wrong* with that guy.
Perl: The language of choice for pedophiles.
The stupid part is a vendor only supporting a broken version of a package.
Holy non sequitur batman!
How smug.
I'm a software engineer. We're all about the smugness. ;)
A CEO doesn't have to "feel like his job is quantitative". That's ridiculous. A CEO needs to know you're not wasting his time with crap that should be handled by other people, quantitative or not.
My point was that any numbers you could give the CEO are fabricated, but he's probably used to that kind of thing by now. Think "projected sales", or "software development time". He goes with his gut, and hopefully he's right. The numbers for this kind of thing just serve as a sanity check, but they at least show that you've given the matter some serious thought and aren't just disgruntled.
Approaching any CEO unless you're a VP is likely to get you ignored, no matter what your reasons are. It's kinda' like trying to talk to the President of the US about a problem with your power bill.
Right. CEOs, like presidents, are used to being spoon-fed crap by people they trust, so they can turn around and feed it to the investors/electorate. A bitter pill like spending more money on something very difficult to measure and of questionable value to customers will take many coats of sugar before it's palatable, so it's probably best to send the suggestion up the chain and let the middle-managers do their jobs.
If you can show that the software development 'process' currently in place is costing the company $N a month and you will need to spend $X to improve the process, if you're going to be developing software for more than (X/N) months, it'll be more cost-effective to fix the process.
Right. The best way to deal with a CEO is to make up numbers, so he can feel like his job is "quantitative".
If you find yourself needing detail inside the function then you need to break the function up into sub routines, so you can use this generic logging on the sub routines instead, or as well as.
So, just to be clear: you're advocating breaking up your software into otherwise-unnecessarily fine-grained methods, because it's less intrusive than just adding logging statements? Sounds more like a recipe for spaghetti code.
Somebody drank the AOP Kool-Aid...
If there is an unpredictability and free will, which seems to imply something metaphysical...
Why do unpredictability and free will imply something metaphysical? Define your terms please.
I go by the rule that someone has free will as long as they don't understand the factors that influence their choices. The child at recess believes he is free to choose the slide over the swingset, but the parent knows that the child is deathly afraid of heights and will choose the swings every time.
(!clue:"mechanical reasoning") -> (!valid(opinion:"esoteric Slashdot article"))
And what are these "tubes" I keep hearing about?
Here's a the Google cache of the print version of the article: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=clnk&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2F64.233.169.104%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcache%3AALncnayT_Y8J%3Awww.forbes.com%2Ftechnology%2F2008%2F07%2F24%2Fdoom-iphone-morris-tech-personal-cx_cm_0725doom.html%2Bhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Ftechnology%2F2008%2F07%2F24%2Fdoom-iphone-morris-tech-personal-cx_cm_0725doom.html%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26cd%3D1%26gl%3Dus%26client%3Dfirefox-a&ei=lq6PSPq8I5bSee79sbIH&usg=AFQjCNGJOL-RUzoZA3xuQrSgRaJK1w8_Bg&sig2=fFROWnLzLDdPLeIf70lAVw
Teenager, eh? Tell him chicks dig computer programmers.
Actually, if he buys that, he's probably destined for janitorial service anyway.
VoIP over satellite? How's the latency?
Pfft... It's a well-known fact that most filesystems are created by sociopaths. I think I heard someplace that Rémy Card dresses squirrels up in tiny little dresses and makes them re-enact his favorite episodes of The View.
Anything we can do to lower the national debt will help the people of our country. Granted, it's not easy, but there guys and gals that we send to Washington are professionals...right? Fixing Medicare and SS (and getting out of Iraq) are the biggest targets. Anybody who comes through with a good plan for these problems gets my vote. Ms. Clinton seems to know what she's talking about, so putting her in the VP seat might be the best thing for America right now.
Seriously, the debt is the biggest threat to our continuing quality of life, IMO. Debt leads to inflation, which amounts to a tax on money itself.
Webmonkey?
In the US, I don't think your employer can legally make you take any drug as a condition of employment.
At the moment, Apple has 7 od the top 8 spots on Amazon's MP3 bestseller list, including their 4 gig Nano at #1. The 2nd-gen 80-gig Zune comes in an #9. However, you'll note that the Yahoo article's a week and half old.
Or eyeballs?
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Well, it's kind of a matter of semantics, but some people are of the opinion that the iPhone isn't really a "smartphone", because you can't add 3rd-party apps or it doesn't have a QWERTY keyboard or no "enterprise" email connectivity, etc:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-iphone-is-not-a-smartphone/
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/11/08/smartphones_q/
However, Blackberries are pretty darn popular from what I can tell. I think Treos would be popular too if they weren't so crash-prone.
Point of order: Bush ain't dumb. He just says what Americans want to hear, and what Rove tells him to say. Starting wars and stuff is about achieving goals set for him and his cronies, but the rest of what he says is designed to reinforce support among the only Americans who still support him: the dumb ones.
I think that Subaru did/still does give away a year's membership to the SCCA (Sports Car Club of America) with new WRX's.