No no they don't propose using a different oil... just preprocessing the gasoline... I mean, who can imagine a car running one snake oil? How many snakes to the mile would that take?
Eh, no. It doesn't use a spark plug for ignition, having preprocessed the fuel so that it self-ignites. That, however, does not make the fuel diesel fuel, as diesel is another refinery product altogether from gasoline.
No problems, mate, you could outsource to China, they've got a nice headstart on that blacklist there. Oh, you'd need to skip the parts about Tibet and Taiwan and Tiamin Square and Democracy (not sure about this last one) but the porn & games section would probably suit you fine!
"Manage expectations, and don't let the customer down (particularly when things are outside my control)."
As interesting as the Anderson method for estimations is, I find it more usefull to present customers not with a single estimate but a range. It'll be done in 5-10 days e.g. The more unknowns, the wider the range. The farther into the project, the tighter the range.
This gives the client a usefull insight in the unknowns of software development, and sets his or her mind to the realities of it. Their expectations are more realistic, and if you manage to finish within the range; you've a happy customer.
"The sums that the Icelandic government was responsible for legally (approx 20k euros per account holder) was paid back in 2008."
The money needed to pay up this guarantee was forked over by the UK and NL governments, not by Iceland. This was done in the form of a loan to the Icelandic government and it's this money both governments are claiming back.
Please inform yourself before blurting out nonsense, even if as AC.
Blablabla. Lot's of the parts that go into coding a good application need high level abstract thinking, something the brain isn't designed to do for very long periods of time effectively, and your body is not built to support it very well.
Man, I wish I could alternate with some 'physically taxing' work, as now I sometimes have to go out and exercise just to get my body prepped up again and in balance.
And yes, as a programmer you need to step back once in a while to see wtf your doing, because working prolonged periods of time on coding alone causes tunnelvision and will produce inefficient applications and code. Also, working unconcentrated causes your code to be buggy, and finding and removing bugs costs more time than actually preventing them from creeping in the code in the first place.
But hell, you might have guessed, I am a coder. What are you, that you have such a succint opinion on coders being 'a bunch of lazy assholes?' Have much hands-on experience on writing and maintaining code?
Sure, you'd just have to stop running a deficit on your government balance as after that, noone in the whole wide world would ever consider giving a loan to the US anymore.
"C'mon the company does not exist to serve you, you exist to work for them and provide value at a minimum of expense."
Eh no. I most certainly do not exist for a company's sake.
Also, I consider myself to be a stakeholder in the company I work for too. When being contracted by a company, we enter a mutually beneficial relationship, notice the word mutual. Treat me well as employee and I will treat you well as employer.
Like jumping over a concrete barrier in a unguarded moment? Could've happenend to me too, I'd be hard pressed to believe it or something very much like it couldn't have happenend to every single poster present here.
The guy-needing-to-pee made a small mistake that costed him dearly. I see nothing funny there.
In the US, yes. In Europe, no. I'm not completely sure for other countries, but in the Netherlands bank transfers are done at no extra cost, as is money withdrawal from a debit card.
"If we program without prioritizing the computer, we may end up writing something that may look, to us and anyone else that reads it, like what we want the computer to do, but the computer my not take it that well..."
Computers are excellent in seperating comments from code. Pray tell me how using extensive commenting to inform other programmers of your intentions might confuse the computer...
"While men at large would default to settle disputes through violent means, women would do it peacefully by default."
Eh, no. Women just use a different kind of violence as they are not physically strong but are very good at finding your psychological weak points due to said emotional intelligence.
Just stop with the idealization of women, okay. Jeez, behind every fighting man you'll find a woman cheering him on.
"Women are far more likely than men to be motivated by intrinsic factors such as feeling that their work is doing some good.That means that fewer women reach the top because most women would rather be doing something they enjoyed."
Women enjoy usefull work but reaching the top is out of the question because apparantly you can't do meaningfull stuff at the top?
"In the real world, I've seen no correlation between education and programming ability, or communication skills, or planning skills."
I'll call your anecdotal evidence and raise with an anecdote of my own: in my experience, less educated ( lets not forget that education starts at kindergarten ) programmers tend to be happy at the point that a program or a piece of code 'works' while higher educated programmers tend to think about things like maintenance, errorchecking and elegant fallback on errors, modularity and reusability and more of such long term goals.
You can freely exchange higher educated with more experienced IMHO, but an education guarantees a minimum of experience and some formal training (thus the passing of knowledge that comes from experience).
"We all know dumb people with degree's, my point is just because someone went through school does not guarantee they are any good at what they do or that they learned much of anything while they were there."
Funny. I know dumb people with degrees, but actually I know of even more dumb people without them, dumb being your word of choice, not mine.
No, a degree doesn't garantee anything, but not having a degree guarantees even less. The odds of hiring a knowlegable and skilled person are better when they are in possession of a degree than when they are not.
But for all those insecure degreeless people out there (including article submitter) I'd say experience and references trump a degree any day.
yours truly,
a degreeless programmer (well, a degree in philosophy:D )
... when people feel they need to get rich. This guy phrases it as 'controlling his destiny' to get profits as soon as possible, which IMHO reeks of addiction to money. And lets face it, some of the really rich people who control or own more or less reputable companies now have probably done some pretty shady things in the beginning of their career just to get to that point. Some probably just get there by chance, because they happen to have a talent that more or less by coincidence generates money, but some start with a real _need_ for money and power, which is a good incentive to not be too picky about morals and ethics. Thinks about real estate e.g., where lots of people are speculating hoping to get rich and ruthlessness can give you a real advantage.
I read about a research a while ago (years, sorry no source) that states that acquiring large sums of money creates the same kind of euphoria as for instance using cocaine as it causes the same neurotransmitters to be produced in the brain. Irrational need for more and more money is a real addiction I think and should be treated as such.
The only remarkable thing this guys is doing is being open and forward about it.
And the allegations of rape and murder seem to be the internet equivalent of small-town gossip, which might have a seed of truth or might be an elaborate attempt by his political opponents to a smear campaign.
Any Americans care to extend the info on this controversy for all us non-Americans?
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No no they don't propose using a different oil ... just preprocessing the gasoline ... I mean, who can imagine a car running one snake oil? How many snakes to the mile would that take?
Eh, no. It doesn't use a spark plug for ignition, having preprocessed the fuel so that it self-ignites. That, however, does not make the fuel diesel fuel, as diesel is another refinery product altogether from gasoline.
Hi, I'd like to take a moment to inform you that the year is 2010, not 1995, the year you last seem to have used a linux system.
Thank you for your attention.
No problems, mate, you could outsource to China, they've got a nice headstart on that blacklist there. Oh, you'd need to skip the parts about Tibet and Taiwan and Tiamin Square and Democracy (not sure about this last one) but the porn & games section would probably suit you fine!
"Manage expectations, and don't let the customer down (particularly when things are outside my control)."
As interesting as the Anderson method for estimations is, I find it more usefull to present customers not with a single estimate but a range. It'll be done in 5-10 days e.g. The more unknowns, the wider the range. The farther into the project, the tighter the range.
This gives the client a usefull insight in the unknowns of software development, and sets his or her mind to the realities of it. Their expectations are more realistic, and if you manage to finish within the range; you've a happy customer.
"... and fit tall people quite well."
Eh, no. I'm 2 meters tall (6,5 feet), my dad has a '98 Saab 9-5 and I don't fit comfortably. Not enough headroom.
Which is a shame, because it's a great car to drive.
"The sums that the Icelandic government was responsible for legally (approx 20k euros per account holder) was paid back in 2008."
The money needed to pay up this guarantee was forked over by the UK and NL governments, not by Iceland. This was done in the form of a loan to the Icelandic government and it's this money both governments are claiming back.
Please inform yourself before blurting out nonsense, even if as AC.
Blablabla. Lot's of the parts that go into coding a good application need high level abstract thinking, something the brain isn't designed to do for very long periods of time effectively, and your body is not built to support it very well.
Man, I wish I could alternate with some 'physically taxing' work, as now I sometimes have to go out and exercise just to get my body prepped up again and in balance.
And yes, as a programmer you need to step back once in a while to see wtf your doing, because working prolonged periods of time on coding alone causes tunnelvision and will produce inefficient applications and code. Also, working unconcentrated causes your code to be buggy, and finding and removing bugs costs more time than actually preventing them from creeping in the code in the first place.
But hell, you might have guessed, I am a coder. What are you, that you have such a succint opinion on coders being 'a bunch of lazy assholes?' Have much hands-on experience on writing and maintaining code?
Sure, you'd just have to stop running a deficit on your government balance as after that, noone in the whole wide world would ever consider giving a loan to the US anymore.
Think y'all could manage that?
"C'mon the company does not exist to serve you, you exist to work for them and provide value at a minimum of expense."
Eh no. I most certainly do not exist for a company's sake.
Also, I consider myself to be a stakeholder in the company I work for too. When being contracted by a company, we enter a mutually beneficial relationship, notice the word mutual. Treat me well as employee and I will treat you well as employer.
If a company's position is so dire as to need to skimp on the coffee, it'll fall over sooner or later anyway ... better be off then and there.
"need to willfully bypass some safety measure"
Like jumping over a concrete barrier in a unguarded moment? Could've happenend to me too, I'd be hard pressed to believe it or something very much like it couldn't have happenend to every single poster present here.
The guy-needing-to-pee made a small mistake that costed him dearly. I see nothing funny there.
In the US, yes. In Europe, no. I'm not completely sure for other countries, but in the Netherlands bank transfers are done at no extra cost, as is money withdrawal from a debit card.
Dunno about other grandparents, but mine just shuffle on over to the bank and have it transferred directly on their grandchildrens accounts.
"Yeah , but Americans are pretty fucked when it comes to derogatory jokes about them."
Thanks for proving GP's point.
"If we program without prioritizing the computer, we may end up writing something that may look, to us and anyone else that reads it, like what we want the computer to do, but the computer my not take it that well..."
Computers are excellent in seperating comments from code. Pray tell me how using extensive commenting to inform other programmers of your intentions might confuse the computer ...
"While men at large would default to settle disputes through violent means, women would do it peacefully by default."
Eh, no. Women just use a different kind of violence as they are not physically strong but are very good at finding your psychological weak points due to said emotional intelligence.
Just stop with the idealization of women, okay. Jeez, behind every fighting man you'll find a woman cheering him on.
"We would just like things to be fairer becuae we tend to like thing to be fair."
LOL. Yeah right. I've seen too much women backstab each other in the most vile, ruthless ways thinkable by man to believe this.
Lets stop idealization of women, okay?
"Women are far more likely than men to be motivated by intrinsic factors such as feeling that their work is doing some good.That means that fewer women reach the top because most women would rather be doing something they enjoyed."
Women enjoy usefull work but reaching the top is out of the question because apparantly you can't do meaningfull stuff at the top?
I don't think that's the point you want to make.
You sound like a former wanna be poet trying to snub someone who still has a dream and maybe a chance to realise it.
Those are for unemployment benefits. Most of these so-called pirates are just fisherman out of a job, you know.
"In the real world, I've seen no correlation between education and programming ability, or communication skills, or planning skills."
I'll call your anecdotal evidence and raise with an anecdote of my own: in my experience, less educated ( lets not forget that education starts at kindergarten ) programmers tend to be happy at the point that a program or a piece of code 'works' while higher educated programmers tend to think about things like maintenance, errorchecking and elegant fallback on errors, modularity and reusability and more of such long term goals.
You can freely exchange higher educated with more experienced IMHO, but an education guarantees a minimum of experience and some formal training (thus the passing of knowledge that comes from experience).
"We all know dumb people with degree's, my point is just because someone went through school does not guarantee they are any good at what they do or that they learned much of anything while they were there."
Funny. I know dumb people with degrees, but actually I know of even more dumb people without them, dumb being your word of choice, not mine.
No, a degree doesn't garantee anything, but not having a degree guarantees even less. The odds of hiring a knowlegable and skilled person are better when they are in possession of a degree than when they are not.
But for all those insecure degreeless people out there (including article submitter) I'd say experience and references trump a degree any day.
yours truly,
a degreeless programmer (well, a degree in philosophy :D )
... when people feel they need to get rich. This guy phrases it as 'controlling his destiny' to get profits as soon as possible, which IMHO reeks of addiction to money. And lets face it, some of the really rich people who control or own more or less reputable companies now have probably done some pretty shady things in the beginning of their career just to get to that point. Some probably just get there by chance, because they happen to have a talent that more or less by coincidence generates money, but some start with a real _need_ for money and power, which is a good incentive to not be too picky about morals and ethics. Thinks about real estate e.g., where lots of people are speculating hoping to get rich and ruthlessness can give you a real advantage.
I read about a research a while ago (years, sorry no source) that states that acquiring large sums of money creates the same kind of euphoria as for instance using cocaine as it causes the same neurotransmitters to be produced in the brain. Irrational need for more and more money is a real addiction I think and should be treated as such.
The only remarkable thing this guys is doing is being open and forward about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck
And the allegations of rape and murder seem to be the internet equivalent of small-town gossip, which might have a seed of truth or might be an elaborate attempt by his political opponents to a smear campaign.
Any Americans care to extend the info on this controversy for all us non-Americans?