A friend of mine is working on one of those government projects you can't talk about. What he can say is that they are in a 'bake off' with other projects where his project is using OSS, quasi-Agile (*cough* SAFe *cough*) , automated testing (apparently an unknown concept to the beltway bandits, perhaps because there are huge billable hours to be made fixing bugs), CI, etc.
All the critics here who are chorussing "oh, Gates is so stupid, he doesn't know that Arizona is uninhabitable" are silly: we already know it's possible because 1.6 million people *already* live there.
You are committing a fallacy. You are assuming the past and the future will always resemble each other. It will not in this case as there are resource limits and the resources are shrinking see: https://uanews.arizona.edu/sto...
Jared Diamond wrote a nice book on what happens to societies when a critical resource(s) are depleted.
The difference here is that there is a mechanistic explanation, the physical properties of CO2, while in trading you just have people twiddling knobs getting functions to fit or AI to converge. That is what makes climate research science and trading voodoo.
India, China, and other advancing nations had a prefect opportunity to learn from the mistakes the west made in terms of health, safety, and environmental damage. They threw that opportunity away. Stupid.
Ummm no. Most of them were solidly middle class and went to suburban schools. There was the occasional exception but most of them were born during or shortly before WWII, average age in the mid 20's. The pilots went to Academy's the engineers and managers went to 4 year schools.
So what if they're assholes. You just have to embrace diversity in the workplace. Look at it this way, there are doctors who are jerks. There are lots of good PhDs who are jerks. There are lots of Sys Admins who are jerks. As long as you know how to take them and put them into roles which they are effective who cares.
Compromising position? Just do what I do, do not consider them compromising.
WTF is wrong with people? Showing war movies or action movies where people get blown away is OK, but if you were to show a married couple having sex to create a child it would be considered "dirty".
Companies tend to be fascist institutions. You follow the leader, obey the hierarchy, and do what you are told. You have no input into how things work and are punished for deviating.
FTFA: "The Hungry Beast team had read about the South African experiment and assumed that as a developed western country, Australia would have higher speeds. The experiment had the team transfer a 700MB file via three delivery methods to determine which was the fastest: A carrier pigeon with a microSD card, a car carrying a USB Stick, or a Telstra (Australia's largest telecom provider) ADSL line. The data was to be transferred from Tarana in rural New South Wales to the western-Sydney suburb of Prospect, New South Wales, a distance of 132 km by road. Approximately halfway through the race the internet connection unexpectedly dropped and the transfer had to be restarted, the pigeon won the race with a time of approximately 1 hour 5 minutes, the car came in second at 2 hours 10 minutes, while the internet transfer did not finish, having dropped out a second time and not coming back. The estimated time to upload completion at one point was as high as 9 hours, and at no point did the estimated upload time fall below 4 hours.[12] "
Cars have to be recalled. If there is a serious defect cars get recalled. In software it gets swept under the rug and when a fix is available you have to pay extra for it. "Software Engineering" my ass.
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A friend of mine is working on one of those government projects you can't talk about. What he can say is that they are in a 'bake off' with other projects where his project is using OSS, quasi-Agile (*cough* SAFe *cough*) , automated testing (apparently an unknown concept to the beltway bandits, perhaps because there are huge billable hours to be made fixing bugs), CI, etc.
We'll see if they win the bake off.
Dammit. I was hoping for the old /. I new and loved so well. Just a teaser. Will anyone think of the children?
You might want to look at Open BSD. Much of what they have done has been adopted by lesser OSS projects.
All the critics here who are chorussing "oh, Gates is so stupid, he doesn't know that Arizona is uninhabitable" are silly: we already know it's possible because 1.6 million people *already* live there.
You are committing a fallacy. You are assuming the past and the future will always resemble each other. It will not in this case as there are resource limits and the resources are shrinking see: https://uanews.arizona.edu/sto...
Jared Diamond wrote a nice book on what happens to societies when a critical resource(s) are depleted.
The difference here is that there is a mechanistic explanation, the physical properties of CO2, while in trading you just have people twiddling knobs getting functions to fit or AI to converge. That is what makes climate research science and trading voodoo.
I'm not sure why this is a troll. All I did was point out a failure in progressing counties to learn from the past.
India, China, and other advancing nations had a prefect opportunity to learn from the mistakes the west made in terms of health, safety, and environmental damage. They threw that opportunity away. Stupid.
How much of it s squandered due to poor health, early deaths, lost productivity etc?
You mean there would be fewer externalized costs.
Ummm no. Most of them were solidly middle class and went to suburban schools. There was the occasional exception but most of them were born during or shortly before WWII, average age in the mid 20's. The pilots went to Academy's the engineers and managers went to 4 year schools.
Then don't look.
There's one other metric they are effective at. So I hear. I was told about it, by a friend.
So what if they're assholes. You just have to embrace diversity in the workplace. Look at it this way, there are doctors who are jerks. There are lots of good PhDs who are jerks. There are lots of Sys Admins who are jerks. As long as you know how to take them and put them into roles which they are effective who cares.
Or you can have employee owned and operated paradigms. Duh.
Compromising position? Just do what I do, do not consider them compromising.
WTF is wrong with people? Showing war movies or action movies where people get blown away is OK, but if you were to show a married couple having sex to create a child it would be considered "dirty".
We live in a death culture.
Companies tend to be fascist institutions. You follow the leader, obey the hierarchy, and do what you are told. You have no input into how things work and are punished for deviating.
apartment or trailer park?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
FTFA:
"The Hungry Beast team had read about the South African experiment and assumed that as a developed western country, Australia would have higher speeds. The experiment had the team transfer a 700MB file via three delivery methods to determine which was the fastest: A carrier pigeon with a microSD card, a car carrying a USB Stick, or a Telstra (Australia's largest telecom provider) ADSL line. The data was to be transferred from Tarana in rural New South Wales to the western-Sydney suburb of Prospect, New South Wales, a distance of 132 km by road. Approximately halfway through the race the internet connection unexpectedly dropped and the transfer had to be restarted, the pigeon won the race with a time of approximately 1 hour 5 minutes, the car came in second at 2 hours 10 minutes, while the internet transfer did not finish, having dropped out a second time and not coming back. The estimated time to upload completion at one point was as high as 9 hours, and at no point did the estimated upload time fall below 4 hours.[12]
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The term is buttload. ISO standard buttload.
In the Netherlands
Journey on electric trains
I ride on the wind
Cars have to be recalled. If there is a serious defect cars get recalled. In software it gets swept under the rug and when a fix is available you have to pay extra for it. "Software Engineering" my ass.
That's poetic in a way. Riding on the wind.
Here we go:
https://www.nrdc.org/trump-wat...
Nope. You can't legislate or decree away reality. Reality always wins.
I would say believe the opposite of corporate propaganda.