also, IIRC sperm are responsible for genetic diversity. Sperm carry unique genetic payloads, eggs are just clones of the mother. Thats some serious creativity going on!
Apart from agreeing with other replies about supporting the team and staying our of their way, the manager should also be pondering how they got to this mess in the first place. Having to work late is a screw-up, somewhere. Sometimes its because of things outside of the team's control but most of the time it isn't. If it happens regularly then there is definitely a systemic problem with the process that needs to be sorted out.
Perhaps if everyone in the slashdot community donated the price of a beer to the cause it will give Bletchley the resources needed for it survive, and show the British Government that people care about it.
There was never a time honoured waterfall model, I quote Winston Royce that wrote the following under the diagram of the standard waterfall process:
the implementation described above is risky and invites failure ⦠The testing phase which occurs at the end of the development cycle is the first event for which timing, storage, input/output transfers, etc., are experienced as distinguished from analyzed ⦠The required design changes are likely to be so disruptive that the software requirements upon which the design is based and which provides the rationale for everything are violated. Either the requirements must be modified, or a substantial change in the design is required. In effect the development process has returned to the origin and one can expect up to a l00-percent overrun in schedule and/or costs.
read craig lahman's overview of incremental and iterative methods to learn the real history.
Do not allow politics (childish posturing by senior management) to force technical decisions on the team. Seasoned programmers don't suffer such nonsense and will leave - I've seen it on several teams.
"In the latest study, researchers examined condoms that had been returned by users after they failed - can you picture the unlucky intern's face?-to pinpoint the cause of failure. "
What do they mean by 'identical'? I am not a physicist but I thought that the Pauli Exclusion Principle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_exclusion_principle) would apply here.
Are there any Relational databases available commercially? That is, a DBMS that actually implements the relational model? Not flaming, I genuinely want to know.
Here's an interesting site on the subject: DB Debunk.
Also, it's occasionally argued that it's good for developers to have underpowered machines, forcing them to avoid bloat. That depends what your app's platform is. Almost everything I have developed has been deployed on very different machines to the one I had to develop on.
Also, in corporate environments, the machines are so crippled by antivirus software (which we have to turn off), and other corporate apps that time is often spent waiting for a response from the computer. I'll take the most powerful computer I can just so I can work without freezes and other weirdness.
Where I work (a big investment bank in London), nearly all the techies in my project and another down the corridor have switched to macs. There are a few die-hard games players that want toys but they are in the minority. A lot of the techies I know outside work are also mac users. This has all happened over the last 2 years.
Most of these techies are really tired of putting up with the pathetic development environment that windows offers. Unfortunately we are forced to use windows in our day jobs. Of course, we have to switch off half the anti-virus software just so that we can compile code and work with our IDE's. We also need to reboot our machines regularly - although mostly done for us when emergency patches are applied overnight.
The fact is that there is nothing I do in my day job that wouldn't be improved by switching to a mac. It would certainly reduce the mismatch between dev and production environments which are all linux. But, I'm sure my employer got a great deal with M$...
I am sure there are a lot more but I think these would give you a good grounding, the rest is learning APIs, languages, religious arguments and experience.
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
> Although it may not be possiple to _prove_ without a hair of a doubt that global warming is occurring, there are way too many signs saying our climate is changing drastically.
I agree. Even if we eventually proved conclusively that global warming is a natural phenomena we had nothing to do with, there are still many reasons we should endevour to reduce carbon emissions etc.
This is one circumstance in which we can't afford to say "no one's proven its our fault so until they do we going to carry on regardless".
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also, IIRC sperm are responsible for genetic diversity. Sperm carry unique genetic payloads, eggs are just clones of the mother. Thats some serious creativity going on!
Apart from agreeing with other replies about supporting the team and staying our of their way, the manager should also be pondering how they got to this mess in the first place. Having to work late is a screw-up, somewhere. Sometimes its because of things outside of the team's control but most of the time it isn't. If it happens regularly then there is definitely a systemic problem with the process that needs to be sorted out.
Perhaps if everyone in the slashdot community donated the price of a beer to the cause it will give Bletchley the resources needed for it survive, and show the British Government that people care about it.
does any dbms implement the relational model properly?
The trouble comes when you get used to live performances with real instruments - then pretty much all of this technology sounds off.
There was never a time honoured waterfall model, I quote Winston Royce that wrote the following under the diagram of the standard waterfall process:
the implementation described above is risky and invites failure ⦠The testing phase which occurs at the end of the development cycle is the first event for which timing, storage, input/output transfers, etc., are experienced as distinguished from analyzed ⦠The required design changes are likely to be so disruptive that the software requirements upon which the design is based and which provides the rationale for everything are violated. Either the requirements must be modified, or a substantial change in the design is required. In effect the development process has returned to the origin and one can expect up to a l00-percent overrun in schedule and/or costs.
read craig lahman's overview of incremental and iterative methods to learn the real history.
Do not allow politics (childish posturing by senior management) to force technical decisions on the team. Seasoned programmers don't suffer such nonsense and will leave - I've seen it on several teams.
weights boosts testosterone considerably as well as having a lot of other benefits.
is the condom analyser intern position as described by ars technica: http://arstechnica.com/journals/science.ars/2008/05/21/robo-gigolo-discloses-the-nature-of-condom-failure
"In the latest study, researchers examined condoms that had been returned by users after they failed - can you picture the unlucky intern's face?-to pinpoint the cause of failure. "
What do they mean by 'identical'? I am not a physicist but I thought that the Pauli Exclusion Principle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_exclusion_principle) would apply here.
Ostriches worked this out ages ago.
perhaps they were herding insects or gaining altitude on thermals?
I personally like the new Dock but if you don't, just do this in a terminal:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
killall Dock
Are there any Relational databases available commercially? That is, a DBMS that actually implements the relational model? Not flaming, I genuinely want to know.
Here's an interesting site on the subject: DB Debunk.
Can I charge 3 times as much ?
:-p
Also, in corporate environments, the machines are so crippled by antivirus software (which we have to turn off), and other corporate apps that time is often spent waiting for a response from the computer. I'll take the most powerful computer I can just so I can work without freezes and other weirdness.
isn't pair programming just one long meeting ;-P
> No, the problem is that most Slashdotters - indeed, most "enthusiasts" - want a machine Apple refuses to sell:
It depends what your enthusiasm is for. I am an computer enthusiast and apple's products fit my needs exactly.
I couldn't agree more. However, you might find F# interesting: http://research.microsoft.com/fsharp/fsharp.aspx
Where I work (a big investment bank in London), nearly all the techies in my project and another down the corridor have switched to macs. There are a few die-hard games players that want toys but they are in the minority. A lot of the techies I know outside work are also mac users. This has all happened over the last 2 years.
...
Most of these techies are really tired of putting up with the pathetic development environment that windows offers. Unfortunately we are forced to use windows in our day jobs. Of course, we have to switch off half the anti-virus software just so that we can compile code and work with our IDE's. We also need to reboot our machines regularly - although mostly done for us when emergency patches are applied overnight.
The fact is that there is nothing I do in my day job that wouldn't be improved by switching to a mac. It would certainly reduce the mismatch between dev and production environments which are all linux. But, I'm sure my employer got a great deal with M$
What is the formal definition of maturity ? I RTFA and didn't see one so its impossible to agree or disagree with it.
I am sure there are a lot more but I think these would give you a good grounding, the rest is learning APIs, languages, religious arguments and experience.
--- Attributed to Socrates
> Although it may not be possiple to _prove_ without a hair of a doubt that global warming is occurring, there are way too many signs saying our climate is changing drastically.
I agree. Even if we eventually proved conclusively that global warming is a natural phenomena we had nothing to do with, there are still many reasons we should endevour to reduce carbon emissions etc.
This is one circumstance in which we can't afford to say "no one's proven its our fault so until they do we going to carry on regardless".