No matter how thoroughly tested software is, there will be places where it breaks in production, through no fault of the developers and testers. If you don't believe this, you haven't worked on enough systems, or they haven't been complicated enough.
Most of the time the customer asks for xyz and doesn't tell the developer about w, and complains that it's not there. Or the customer forgets to tell the developer that their data integrity isn't checked, and that data outside the spec sometimes slips in. Sometimes the customer forgets to mention that other systems are used with the data and will sometimes make changes to the data that weren't documented in the spec. Putting all the blame on the developer is nice from a pure management perspective, but it breaks too often in the real world.
Not to mention that for any project maintenance is the largest percentage of the project's lifetime. It kind of sounds like this guy doesn't really understand what constitutes a "bug," at least doesn't understand that not all bugs are caused by developers making mistakes. There are bugs caused by invalid data entering the system by user error, or by parts of the system outside the control of the developers, or by bugs in the compiler or libraries used in the system that only show up during run-time, or by changes in the business rules after development starts, and many many other causes. To hold the developers responsible for finding these beforehand, and refusing to pay for any work needed to come up with fixes or work-arounds, sounds like he's not really interested in maintaining the systems he builds.
He also sounds like a real peach of a guy to work for in other respects, as well. I wish him good luck in finding his cheap experienced expert developer.
Thank you for making my choice for me, it's important to get society's input on my choices. Now if I was female, obviously my choices are my own, but I don't have that luxury.
So, this morning, should I eat breakfast? What if I don't, that could cause my blood sugar to crash and I'd make the wrong choice at the yellow light to run through it. On the other hand, if I eat breakfast I might eat the wrong thing like meat, which would elevate the worlds' carbon footprint by some amount, or I might eat cereal that would take grain from the mouths of children in some other country by not being exported. What should I do, o speaker for the "other people having a say in [my] choices"?
Hm, how about an "inverse steganography", hiding a message by selectively leaving out words or parts of words that should there, but that the brain fils in autmaticaly on casual reading?
Someone who's accomplished something once has a leg up on someone who's talking about doing something. It's why the guy who jumped out of the high-altitude balloon paid attention to the guy who did it first.
The same as all prosecutors do, presume guilt and keep enough exonerating information hidden as they can. And if they get caught hiding evidence or maliciously pursuing cases that can't be won, they can claim "prosecutorial immunity", AKA "we're just doing our jobs."
Hear that? That's the "whoosh" of a pun soaring just over your head. I'd say you probably get that a lot. "Some things are just too serious to joke about", right?
So, cybersquatting is basically a thought crime. So, would registering a "cool name", say "slabnork.com" years before someone else later thinks up the same name, is that cybersquatting? And how do you prove intent, or is proof not necessary, since "everyone knows" what cybersquatting is?
Best place to deliver it would be the easiest: Upper atmosphere. EMP on the West Coast would be pretty disruptive, and you don't even have to be concerned about targeting. We'll have to count on taking it out just after launch, otherwise "pop goes the infrastructure".
Yeah because identifying voters is a suppression of voting rights for those who aren't allowed to vote, or who feel so strongly that they want to vote multiple times in the same election, or who know how their dead relatives would have voted and so want to vote in their place, too.
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No matter how thoroughly tested software is, there will be places where it breaks in production, through no fault of the developers and testers. If you don't believe this, you haven't worked on enough systems, or they haven't been complicated enough.
Most of the time the customer asks for xyz and doesn't tell the developer about w, and complains that it's not there. Or the customer forgets to tell the developer that their data integrity isn't checked, and that data outside the spec sometimes slips in. Sometimes the customer forgets to mention that other systems are used with the data and will sometimes make changes to the data that weren't documented in the spec. Putting all the blame on the developer is nice from a pure management perspective, but it breaks too often in the real world.
Not to mention that for any project maintenance is the largest percentage of the project's lifetime. It kind of sounds like this guy doesn't really understand what constitutes a "bug," at least doesn't understand that not all bugs are caused by developers making mistakes. There are bugs caused by invalid data entering the system by user error, or by parts of the system outside the control of the developers, or by bugs in the compiler or libraries used in the system that only show up during run-time, or by changes in the business rules after development starts, and many many other causes. To hold the developers responsible for finding these beforehand, and refusing to pay for any work needed to come up with fixes or work-arounds, sounds like he's not really interested in maintaining the systems he builds.
He also sounds like a real peach of a guy to work for in other respects, as well. I wish him good luck in finding his cheap experienced expert developer.
Well, why not nationalize food care, and housing care, and transportation care? How are those so much less important than medical care?
Thank you for making my choice for me, it's important to get society's input on my choices. Now if I was female, obviously my choices are my own, but I don't have that luxury.
So, this morning, should I eat breakfast? What if I don't, that could cause my blood sugar to crash and I'd make the wrong choice at the yellow light to run through it. On the other hand, if I eat breakfast I might eat the wrong thing like meat, which would elevate the worlds' carbon footprint by some amount, or I might eat cereal that would take grain from the mouths of children in some other country by not being exported. What should I do, o speaker for the "other people having a say in [my] choices"?
Hm, how about an "inverse steganography", hiding a message by selectively leaving out words or parts of words that should there, but that the brain fils in autmaticaly on casual reading?
Did the mice with more brain sound like Orson Welles?
Riker: "So, about this Klingon ritual?"
Worf: "Yes?"
Riker: "You stick the pain sticks whhHOAAOOOOOH sweet mystery of life at last I've found you!"
Someone who's accomplished something once has a leg up on someone who's talking about doing something. It's why the guy who jumped out of the high-altitude balloon paid attention to the guy who did it first.
The same as all prosecutors do, presume guilt and keep enough exonerating information hidden as they can. And if they get caught hiding evidence or maliciously pursuing cases that can't be won, they can claim "prosecutorial immunity", AKA "we're just doing our jobs."
How do you think I feel, I only read your comment...
Hah!
I liked this story before, when it was called "Autofac" by Philip K. Dick.
Most of my friends spend their time pickled, so why not?
"Dumb": adjective. "Ass": noun. Usage: correct without punctuation. "That ass is dumb. It is a dumb ass."
Hear that? That's the "whoosh" of a pun soaring just over your head. I'd say you probably get that a lot. "Some things are just too serious to joke about", right?
It's routine for SWAT to shoot dogs, it happened to the mayor of Berwyn Heights in Maryland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayor's_residence_drug_raid
How do you know it was the first three?
So, cybersquatting is basically a thought crime. So, would registering a "cool name", say "slabnork.com" years before someone else later thinks up the same name, is that cybersquatting? And how do you prove intent, or is proof not necessary, since "everyone knows" what cybersquatting is?
Of course diving off a cliff is easy. It's the "missing the ground" part that's hard. Once you get that down, flying is easy...
(you should recognize this ref...)
Best place to deliver it would be the easiest: Upper atmosphere. EMP on the West Coast would be pretty disruptive, and you don't even have to be concerned about targeting. We'll have to count on taking it out just after launch, otherwise "pop goes the infrastructure".
So, a Democrat poll worker admits to voting twice, no big deal, but phantom "RightWingNuts" who want to prevent that, Nazis.
Riiiiight.
Yeah because identifying voters is a suppression of voting rights for those who aren't allowed to vote, or who feel so strongly that they want to vote multiple times in the same election, or who know how their dead relatives would have voted and so want to vote in their place, too.
What has NASA done for us lately?