Perhaps the forms were designed for the benefit of data entry clerks and financial personnel and are something of a usability horror (something that I've noticed with online systems for these sorts of things, too).
In addition, items such as travel requests or PO's can often be filled out very infrequently by lower-level personnel, making them always unfamiliar with the damn things. Plus, filling them out wrong means you can usually get someone who works with them all the time to deal with the mistakes for you - smart behavior if I do say so myself.
It's not both sides; It's not "the left's" issue, despite what your centrist heroes may tell you, you false equivalency spewing tool. All a "third party in the middle" would do is to continue to shift the Overton window further to the right, increasing income inequality, decreasing civil liberties, destroying what's left of the (very) ragged social safety net that remains for the elderly, infirm, and poor, and increasing our military adventurism. Of course, if you actually believe the "centrist" (actually, moderate right-wing reactionary) claptrap, that's probably what you want.
I was actually hoping not to see this, as it has already been referenced on Slashdot far too many times and, as such, is boring, trite, and redundant. Please don't put this up again.
According to the NCES, inflation has been most marked and correlated to Pell Grant availability within the for profit, private schools. Public colleges and private, not for profit schools show lower increases and less correlation.
The canard that school loans cause tuition increases is another right-wing canard, true mainly because the for-profits are skewing the numbers. As usual, it is another right-wing smoke-and-mirrors assertion, where the right's solution (the free enterprise, for-profit colleges) actually cause or exacerbate the problem.
The main reason not to take developers on sales calls is simple: The developer does not want to go...
Actually, there's more to it than this. Basically, the reason you don't want a programmer along is that a programmer (even one who wants to go) is unlikely to stick to the sales strategy, is likely to go into unnecessary and unhelpful (and terrifying) detail which derails the sales conversation, will often point out shortcomings as forcefully as benefits about the product you're selling, will not shade tough truths about the product, and, in general, will get in the way of an efficient sale. He adds randomness as well as depth. This is not necessarily a plus.
The best programmer to take along? One that will shut up unless an actual question is asked of him or her. And, frankly, this situation can be better handled with an IM or email. And I speak as one from the programming trenches who has been on sales calls, who noticed these tendencies in myself, and fixed them.
In general, although universities need to adhere to accreditation guidelines, quite often these are not checked frequently or at more than a superficial level. As such, the quality of actual education can vary greatly from school to school. And, there would seem to be minimal cost levels required to support particular curricula and/or evaluation in the same. Not many Master's level curricula can be supported (together with a rigorous student evaluation) for $100.
So the OP was quite right in choosing Harvard (vetted by many years of academic history and watched over by eyes intent on "protecting the brand") over MyCousin's$100 University.
Uh, no. They weren't. Pure science fiction has a fairly strict (and crisp) definition, having to do with extrapolary fiction based on changes in technological and scientific breakthroughs. From this point of view, at most, part of the Martian Chronicles and Farenheit 451 could be characterized at science fiction. Most of his other works were clearly of the fantasy genre.
And he never considered himself a science fiction writer - only a writer. Sort of like Harlan Ellison in that. In fact, I like to think of Harlan as a younger, edgier, more assholey Ray, although he's closer to worm food each day, too, God love them both.
You forgot the first two spirals, the shift from a corporate-wide central mainframe to department-/branch-located minicomputers in the late sixties to early seventies and the shift from minicomputers to workstation-level systems in the late seventies. Decentralization and re-centralization has been happening for quite a while.
Best cure for an open office plan is a white noise generator.
Yes. I often find a 5 MW gas turbine (I like Siemens SGT-100, myself), will drown out most office conversations (But not all - Connie, I'm looking at you!). The exhaust, unless well-vented, will also tend to deaden (in both senses of the word) office noise, as well.
I haven't seen a single comment here that wasn't rebutted in the original article. Of course, it's always better to mouth platitudes from talking points and say tl;dr than to actually read the thing and... you know... be challenged. It's the geek-arrogant way (also covered nicely in the article, BTW).
The other 9900 artists that weren't popular enough to get in the record industry are now getting heard. They're just starting to get a cut now, via spotify or whatever
Not really. Power laws still hold. And, unless you are signed with a major and get enough tracks played via Spotify, you don't get a check.
Of course, each response I've seen in this thread is covered with a rebuttal in the article, which in typical geek-arrogance manner (which is also covered in the article), will never be read - so much better to pontificate from your talking points than to be challenged.
It didn't gain support back then; it won't gain support now.
The bottom line is that people have an inherent distrust of those who are smarter than them, worrying that the other person might use superior intelligence to take advantage of them. They'd much rather have someone who might be less smart, but that they can understand, in charge than someone who might do a better job, but whose actions are incomprehensible (and, thus, unpredictable) to them. Welcome to our politics.
The article didn't cover any of his work with the agile methodology community and his role as one of the three inventors (with Kent Beck and Ron Jeffries) of the eXtreme Programming (XP) methodology and the practices surrounding it (many of which were used in agile methodologies other than XP). To me that's a lot more important than CRC cards.
But, having known Ward for a very long time, I think his most notable contribution is his being a nice guy - humble as well as brilliant, and always willing to share. He is one of the unsung geniuses of the computing world and deserves a lot more attention than he normally gets.
Compared to Masters degrees in other curricula, MBA degrees are a joke. Most schools will hand out an MBA to anyone with an asshole and a tuition check. Unless one comes from a highly selective program, about the only thing an MBA qualifies one to run is a Subway franchise - and even then, they'll still have to be trained to make the sandwiches and run the ovens. The only thing worthwhile in the MBA curriculum is the finance classes. Everything else about management either should have been known beforehand, can't actually be trained well, or is better learned via on-the-job experience. You'd be better off with a degree in Russian Literature - at least that would make you a more interesting person.
If there is anything discouraging STEM, its not Neal. He's not even on the radar screen.
No, it's not Neal. It's pessimistic asshats like you who whine about how "society/government/da man is out to get me" and make themselves victims, rather than taking responsibility for their own lives and doing interesting things. The bottom line is that government never takes more than you make; the lawsuits may make things unprofitable, but the things and the ideas for things are out in the world rather than locked away in your head; and being "canned for standing up for what I thought was right" is a badge of honor, if you wear it that way (of course, from your demeanor, I have the feeling that you were the only one who thought it was right and you were just generally being an asshat who decided his opinions were facts). In summary, the only person who can knock you down this hard is you. Stop whining, pull up your socks, and get back to work.
Just because you want to play victim doesn't mean we're making you one.
Who knows what the box in the upper left half of the screen during the last half of the video labeled "SKUNK APE" is? Is there some mike manufacturer who named a mike that? Is is a small amp head? Any ideas? It's a great name for some piece of audio kit, and I'd just like to know what it was.
I am sure there was a good reason to make the frequency range so small...
Yes. Back in the day, when lines were analog, copper, and expensive, putting multiple calls on one line was seen as economical. To do this, they needed to limit the frequency bandwidth of each call so that each call could fit into it's frequency allocation on the cable. Early research indicated that only a narrow band of frequencies were needed to make a call intelligible between normal persons, so they limited each call to this band. And, what do you know? It worked. In fact, it worked so well that it became standardized.
I'd assume that they'd have changed this by now with packet-switched networking, but maybe not.
Let's assume that White is down by 5+ points in evaluation. Even in this case, Black may still want to force perpetual check (e.g., because not doing so would lead to a forced line where he might lose even more points further down the line) or White may still be able to force stalemate. You cannot assume that just because an intermediate search tree node in the game search has an arbitrary value (other than specifically a win, loss, or draw), that the tree below it can be pruned. You can limit the issues by ensuring that the position is quiescent before the evaluation is pruned, but even then there may be resources further down the tree. This research is deeply flawed.
That being said, the King's Gambit is still probably a highly dubious opening for White.
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Perhaps the forms were designed for the benefit of data entry clerks and financial personnel and are something of a usability horror (something that I've noticed with online systems for these sorts of things, too).
In addition, items such as travel requests or PO's can often be filled out very infrequently by lower-level personnel, making them always unfamiliar with the damn things. Plus, filling them out wrong means you can usually get someone who works with them all the time to deal with the mistakes for you - smart behavior if I do say so myself.
It's not both sides; It's not "the left's" issue, despite what your centrist heroes may tell you, you false equivalency spewing tool. All a "third party in the middle" would do is to continue to shift the Overton window further to the right, increasing income inequality, decreasing civil liberties, destroying what's left of the (very) ragged social safety net that remains for the elderly, infirm, and poor, and increasing our military adventurism. Of course, if you actually believe the "centrist" (actually, moderate right-wing reactionary) claptrap, that's probably what you want.
I was actually hoping not to see this, as it has already been referenced on Slashdot far too many times and, as such, is boring, trite, and redundant. Please don't put this up again.
According to the NCES, inflation has been most marked and correlated to Pell Grant availability within the for profit, private schools. Public colleges and private, not for profit schools show lower increases and less correlation.
The canard that school loans cause tuition increases is another right-wing canard, true mainly because the for-profits are skewing the numbers. As usual, it is another right-wing smoke-and-mirrors assertion, where the right's solution (the free enterprise, for-profit colleges) actually cause or exacerbate the problem.
The main reason not to take developers on sales calls is simple: The developer does not want to go...
Actually, there's more to it than this. Basically, the reason you don't want a programmer along is that a programmer (even one who wants to go) is unlikely to stick to the sales strategy, is likely to go into unnecessary and unhelpful (and terrifying) detail which derails the sales conversation, will often point out shortcomings as forcefully as benefits about the product you're selling, will not shade tough truths about the product, and, in general, will get in the way of an efficient sale. He adds randomness as well as depth. This is not necessarily a plus.
The best programmer to take along? One that will shut up unless an actual question is asked of him or her. And, frankly, this situation can be better handled with an IM or email. And I speak as one from the programming trenches who has been on sales calls, who noticed these tendencies in myself, and fixed them.
Yes, you would be wrong in thinking that.
In general, although universities need to adhere to accreditation guidelines, quite often these are not checked frequently or at more than a superficial level. As such, the quality of actual education can vary greatly from school to school. And, there would seem to be minimal cost levels required to support particular curricula and/or evaluation in the same. Not many Master's level curricula can be supported (together with a rigorous student evaluation) for $100.
So the OP was quite right in choosing Harvard (vetted by many years of academic history and watched over by eyes intent on "protecting the brand") over MyCousin's$100 University.
... at the point he wrote them it was SF.
Uh, no. They weren't. Pure science fiction has a fairly strict (and crisp) definition, having to do with extrapolary fiction based on changes in technological and scientific breakthroughs. From this point of view, at most, part of the Martian Chronicles and Farenheit 451 could be characterized at science fiction. Most of his other works were clearly of the fantasy genre.
And he never considered himself a science fiction writer - only a writer. Sort of like Harlan Ellison in that. In fact, I like to think of Harlan as a younger, edgier, more assholey Ray, although he's closer to worm food each day, too, God love them both.
You forgot the first two spirals, the shift from a corporate-wide central mainframe to department-/branch-located minicomputers in the late sixties to early seventies and the shift from minicomputers to workstation-level systems in the late seventies. Decentralization and re-centralization has been happening for quite a while.
Best cure for an open office plan is a white noise generator.
Yes. I often find a 5 MW gas turbine (I like Siemens SGT-100, myself), will drown out most office conversations (But not all - Connie, I'm looking at you!). The exhaust, unless well-vented, will also tend to deaden (in both senses of the word) office noise, as well.
Finding a quite workplace is not as easy as it should be.
Yes! It's quiet difficult these days.
I'd be on board with this if I didn't so often see middle and upper management call "IT" a money-sink.
Oh, this line shows how far out of step you are with current management thought! The proper phrases are "cost center" or "outsourcing opportunity".
I haven't seen a single comment here that wasn't rebutted in the original article. Of course, it's always better to mouth platitudes from talking points and say tl;dr than to actually read the thing and... you know... be challenged. It's the geek-arrogant way (also covered nicely in the article, BTW).
The other 9900 artists that weren't popular enough to get in the record industry are now getting heard. They're just starting to get a cut now, via spotify or whatever
Not really. Power laws still hold. And, unless you are signed with a major and get enough tracks played via Spotify, you don't get a check.
Of course, each response I've seen in this thread is covered with a rebuttal in the article, which in typical geek-arrogance manner (which is also covered in the article), will never be read - so much better to pontificate from your talking points than to be challenged.
It didn't gain support back then; it won't gain support now.
The bottom line is that people have an inherent distrust of those who are smarter than them, worrying that the other person might use superior intelligence to take advantage of them. They'd much rather have someone who might be less smart, but that they can understand, in charge than someone who might do a better job, but whose actions are incomprehensible (and, thus, unpredictable) to them. Welcome to our politics.
The article didn't cover any of his work with the agile methodology community and his role as one of the three inventors (with Kent Beck and Ron Jeffries) of the eXtreme Programming (XP) methodology and the practices surrounding it (many of which were used in agile methodologies other than XP). To me that's a lot more important than CRC cards.
But, having known Ward for a very long time, I think his most notable contribution is his being a nice guy - humble as well as brilliant, and always willing to share. He is one of the unsung geniuses of the computing world and deserves a lot more attention than he normally gets.
He's dead, Jim!
Yeah, but he came back to life at the end of the third movie!
1/3 of a meter is how much exactly? 2/3 of a liter?
333.33333... mm and 666.66666... ml respectively. Simple.
How much is 1/3 of an ounce? 1/5 of a gallon? 2/3 of a pound? And is that an avoirdupois, troy, or apothecary's pound?
Methinks you have asked the wrong questions, son.
What is the fucking point of it all?
It is the "fucking point" - it's all about the replication, baby... Love, Your genes.
Compared to Masters degrees in other curricula, MBA degrees are a joke. Most schools will hand out an MBA to anyone with an asshole and a tuition check. Unless one comes from a highly selective program, about the only thing an MBA qualifies one to run is a Subway franchise - and even then, they'll still have to be trained to make the sandwiches and run the ovens. The only thing worthwhile in the MBA curriculum is the finance classes. Everything else about management either should have been known beforehand, can't actually be trained well, or is better learned via on-the-job experience. You'd be better off with a degree in Russian Literature - at least that would make you a more interesting person.
If there is anything discouraging STEM, its not Neal. He's not even on the radar screen.
No, it's not Neal. It's pessimistic asshats like you who whine about how "society/government/da man is out to get me" and make themselves victims, rather than taking responsibility for their own lives and doing interesting things. The bottom line is that government never takes more than you make; the lawsuits may make things unprofitable, but the things and the ideas for things are out in the world rather than locked away in your head; and being "canned for standing up for what I thought was right" is a badge of honor, if you wear it that way (of course, from your demeanor, I have the feeling that you were the only one who thought it was right and you were just generally being an asshat who decided his opinions were facts). In summary, the only person who can knock you down this hard is you. Stop whining, pull up your socks, and get back to work.
Just because you want to play victim doesn't mean we're making you one.
Who knows what the box in the upper left half of the screen during the last half of the video labeled "SKUNK APE" is? Is there some mike manufacturer who named a mike that? Is is a small amp head? Any ideas? It's a great name for some piece of audio kit, and I'd just like to know what it was.
It's a bitch.
I am sure there was a good reason to make the frequency range so small...
Yes. Back in the day, when lines were analog, copper, and expensive, putting multiple calls on one line was seen as economical. To do this, they needed to limit the frequency bandwidth of each call so that each call could fit into it's frequency allocation on the cable. Early research indicated that only a narrow band of frequencies were needed to make a call intelligible between normal persons, so they limited each call to this band. And, what do you know? It worked. In fact, it worked so well that it became standardized.
I'd assume that they'd have changed this by now with packet-switched networking, but maybe not.
Let's assume that White is down by 5+ points in evaluation. Even in this case, Black may still want to force perpetual check (e.g., because not doing so would lead to a forced line where he might lose even more points further down the line) or White may still be able to force stalemate. You cannot assume that just because an intermediate search tree node in the game search has an arbitrary value (other than specifically a win, loss, or draw), that the tree below it can be pruned. You can limit the issues by ensuring that the position is quiescent before the evaluation is pruned, but even then there may be resources further down the tree. This research is deeply flawed.
That being said, the King's Gambit is still probably a highly dubious opening for White.
Less internet access for porn.