We've got a couple folks with macs at work, personal machines that they use to access the internet via EV-DO. I've got a Dell Latitude with a D/Dock at home and work. Its a lot easier for me to dock in with my dell than it is for them to hookup their macs. I've got an external keyboard and monitor so I run dual head in both places. I take the Dell to every meeting. Hit the un-dock button and go. Later I just push it onto the dock and I'm ready to work again. Do that 3-4 times a day and you appreciate the dock. On top of that, you actually get to make full use of your notebook.
I've worked on Java teams at two large companies in the last year. Both companies had multiple projects some over 1M lines of Java code. None of the projects were on JDK 1.5 in production.
Company 1. Too much code was already in production. Switching to JDK 1.5 involved migrations through all 4 different environments and a full regression test. It's often hard to justify that amount of work to bookkeepers and business users.
Company 2. Moving from weblogic to WebSphere using IBM's JDK. Support wasn't there for the first 9 months of the project. All the environments are built out Websphere 6.0/jdk 1.4. Now we only have 3 months until production so we are going out on 1.4. Moving forward, a change to JDK 1.5 means we need twice as many Websphere instances because we need JDK 1.4 for all environments for production support and JDK 1.5 for all environments for the new development. It is a major logistical issue.
I've had problems purchasing anything the last two times I tried to buy something in the middle of the business day. There were no registers open either time. The only way out was through the customer service counter. They were either busy doing returns or some other paperwork. One time I left without buying anything and the other time I waited the 5+ minutes it took to find someone to open a register. I hope Gaithersburg MD is one of the ones being closed!
I wish I had mod points. You are dead on with your comment. We know some folks make a good 2nd income from ebay. I don't see any reason that they should be exempt from the income tax that the local shop owner or the local hourly worker has to pay.
Instant messaging can be a big help in telework situations. We've used it extensively on our development teams and during production support "events". It provides a way to capture detail information that phone calls do not while providing a level of interactivity that email does not. IM also provides an "out of band" method for holding sidebar conversations during conference calls. It lets you ask questions without impacting the whole group.
One of the administrators has answered your question in a polite and well articulated manner. He's described the policy, as he understands it, and agreed that part of the action taken by another administrator was incorrect.
We get the fact that you don't like it. I'm pretty sure you can keep hacking on him but I don't understand what action you expect to come out of this.
"Last November eBay changed its rules to conceal bidders' identity -- making it even more difficult for customers to see whether sellers are bidding on their own lots."
You used to be able to see the other bidder's names during the auction. Now they just say "bidder 1", "bidder 2", etc. The real identities were nice because you could see patterns especially when certain bidders appeared a lot or one seller's auctions had similar low feedback bidders.
Its a parent's job to have some idea what their kids are doing. Kids have to make mistakes but its silly to claim that parents have to let them make mistakes of all magnitudes without intervention.
Our setup is a squid proxy, limited hours for access, computer in the living room. The time wasted is more of a problem than anything else. 6 hours a day in your room staring at a screen isn't the kind of life I want for my kid. Wait, why does that sound familiar:-(
We've got plenty of other problems that need to be solved in less time than that. Lets park these things for a few hundred years and work on the stuff that will affect us in the next 20, pollution, overproduction of CO2, food production, disease, dutch elm disease...
These types of taxes are fine but they really don't affect the affluent. Folks that can buy a $40K SUV and pay for the gas aren't going to be turned off by extra taxes. (Aren't they already taxed extra by virtue of the gas tax?)
In my case the extra tax might have an unintended consequence. We've got a couple cars. One is a truck to haul trailers. Raise flat rate taxes on the truck and I'll sell one of my small cars and drive the truck full time.
I agree with just about everything you have to say. We are doing a lot of work at a big customer to convince them that they need to get on board with a list of actions that is almost identical to yours.
The only part I disagree with is a schedule. Its not that schedules are bad. Its that people aren't rewarded for being honest. We've tried to convince folks that they need to put everything they do on the schedule so that management can see the actual complexity and so that they get credit for what they do. Then, at the end-of-year review, they can go through some of the schedules/plans and say "I did this and that".
If your application is going to get shipped and then never looked at again, I guess "clean code" might not matter, but if you're building an enterprise system, or writing a custom application that has to be maintained by other people later (people who probably aren't going to be quite so much of an 1337 h4x0r as you), it's a must.
Agile is interesting but in conflict with some of the new S/OX mandates and with the staff realities in many companies. The energy/skill around a lot of enterprise applications goes down over time as people move off the project and as other priorities come up. We spend a year writing the software and then spend 7 years supporting it in production. Some/one member of the development team hangs around for a year but its all new folks after that. Does Agile generate code and documentaton that requires a high level of industry knowledge or experties?
We're having a discussion about this line right now. Do we build an application that requires high knowledge to troubleshoot and update or do we aim lower with the expectation that less skilled folks will be maintaining it? Will they even know how to right unit tests with mock objects and all that?
It is always a suprise when folks say that graphic violence in video games or media has no affect on the users when we have years of studies that show the opposite is true.
Most people agree that cigarette ads glamorize smoking and increase interest in smoking. We frown on smoking in movies and video games because it increases the risk of someone starting smoking.
Why is it that the same people claim that the glamorization of violence in video and music has no effect even though it is created by the same industry on the same media as cigarette advertisements? How is is violence any different?
What a bunch of bunk. The US forced Israel to agree to almost all of the public palestinean demands. They agreed to a Palestinean capital in Jerusalem, the return of lands and the return of 150,000 exiles from the camps in Lebanon. Strong Palestinean factions decided that Israel's pullout from lebanon showed that they would cave with enough pressure so they made sure the deal didn't happen. The israeli peace movement was destroyed and now Palestinean life sucks even worse than it did before.
As for the Iraqis. The Kurds get a percentage of the Oil-for-food money based on their percentage of the population. The Kurds are doing quite well with the money while the rest of Iraq starves with their same per-capita share.
The europeans need to decide if they want the US involved or not. Right now they demand that the US stay involved but complain when the US does or doesn't do anything. I didn't see the europeans rushing to save the Rwandans when a million were killed.
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We've got a couple folks with macs at work, personal machines that they use to access the internet via EV-DO. I've got a Dell Latitude with a D/Dock at home and work. Its a lot easier for me to dock in with my dell than it is for them to hookup their macs. I've got an external keyboard and monitor so I run dual head in both places. I take the Dell to every meeting. Hit the un-dock button and go. Later I just push it onto the dock and I'm ready to work again. Do that 3-4 times a day and you appreciate the dock. On top of that, you actually get to make full use of your notebook.
Why limit it to the last election? Every "build" seems to have its issues.
I've worked on Java teams at two large companies in the last year. Both companies had multiple projects some over 1M lines of Java code. None of the projects were on JDK 1.5 in production. Company 1. Too much code was already in production. Switching to JDK 1.5 involved migrations through all 4 different environments and a full regression test. It's often hard to justify that amount of work to bookkeepers and business users. Company 2. Moving from weblogic to WebSphere using IBM's JDK. Support wasn't there for the first 9 months of the project. All the environments are built out Websphere 6.0/jdk 1.4. Now we only have 3 months until production so we are going out on 1.4. Moving forward, a change to JDK 1.5 means we need twice as many Websphere instances because we need JDK 1.4 for all environments for production support and JDK 1.5 for all environments for the new development. It is a major logistical issue.
I've had problems purchasing anything the last two times I tried to buy something in the middle of the business day. There were no registers open either time. The only way out was through the customer service counter. They were either busy doing returns or some other paperwork. One time I left without buying anything and the other time I waited the 5+ minutes it took to find someone to open a register. I hope Gaithersburg MD is one of the ones being closed!
Intuit Vs MS Money. Intuit is till on top even though MS Money is given away on may OEM machines.
I wish I had mod points. You are dead on with your comment. We know some folks make a good 2nd income from ebay. I don't see any reason that they should be exempt from the income tax that the local shop owner or the local hourly worker has to pay.
Instant messaging can be a big help in telework situations. We've used it extensively on our development teams and during production support "events". It provides a way to capture detail information that phone calls do not while providing a level of interactivity that email does not. IM also provides an "out of band" method for holding sidebar conversations during conference calls. It lets you ask questions without impacting the whole group.
One of the administrators has answered your question in a polite and well articulated manner. He's described the policy, as he understands it, and agreed that part of the action taken by another administrator was incorrect. We get the fact that you don't like it. I'm pretty sure you can keep hacking on him but I don't understand what action you expect to come out of this.
I'm sure the Muslim members of the Knesset will be surprised to hear that
"Last November eBay changed its rules to conceal bidders' identity -- making it even more difficult for customers to see whether sellers are bidding on their own lots." You used to be able to see the other bidder's names during the auction. Now they just say "bidder 1", "bidder 2", etc. The real identities were nice because you could see patterns especially when certain bidders appeared a lot or one seller's auctions had similar low feedback bidders.
Its a parent's job to have some idea what their kids are doing. Kids have to make mistakes but its silly to claim that parents have to let them make mistakes of all magnitudes without intervention.
Our setup is a squid proxy, limited hours for access, computer in the living room. The time wasted is more of a problem than anything else. 6 hours a day in your room staring at a screen isn't the kind of life I want for my kid. Wait, why does that sound familiar :-(
We've got plenty of other problems that need to be solved in less time than that. Lets park these things for a few hundred years and work on the stuff that will affect us in the next 20, pollution, overproduction of CO2, food production, disease, dutch elm disease...
In my case the extra tax might have an unintended consequence. We've got a couple cars. One is a truck to haul trailers. Raise flat rate taxes on the truck and I'll sell one of my small cars and drive the truck full time.
The only part I disagree with is a schedule. Its not that schedules are bad. Its that people aren't rewarded for being honest. We've tried to convince folks that they need to put everything they do on the schedule so that management can see the actual complexity and so that they get credit for what they do. Then, at the end-of-year review, they can go through some of the schedules/plans and say "I did this and that".
I'd mod this up but I don't know what that means!
It is always a suprise when folks say that graphic violence in video games or media has no affect on the users when we have years of studies that show the opposite is true.
Most people agree that cigarette ads glamorize smoking and increase interest in smoking. We frown on smoking in movies and video games because it increases the risk of someone starting smoking.
Why is it that the same people claim that the glamorization of violence in video and music has no effect even though it is created by the same industry on the same media as cigarette advertisements? How is is violence any different?
What a bunch of bunk. The US forced Israel to agree to almost all of the public palestinean demands. They agreed to a Palestinean capital in Jerusalem, the return of lands and the return of 150,000 exiles from the camps in Lebanon. Strong Palestinean factions decided that Israel's pullout from lebanon showed that they would cave with enough pressure so they made sure the deal didn't happen. The israeli peace movement was destroyed and now Palestinean life sucks even worse than it did before.
As for the Iraqis. The Kurds get a percentage of the Oil-for-food money based on their percentage of the population. The Kurds are doing quite well with the money while the rest of Iraq starves with their same per-capita share.
The europeans need to decide if they want the US involved or not. Right now they demand that the US stay involved but complain when the US does or doesn't do anything. I didn't see the europeans rushing to save the Rwandans when a million were killed.