And I'd like a pony. Well, no, not a pony, but there's lot of stuff I'd like. Heck, I'd like to be a space tourist and visit the ISS. But you know, just because you want something doesn't mean it makes sense. Right now space colonization doesn't make sense. For exploration, robots do a better job. For preserving the human race, there are many, many things we could do ahead of trying to plant a colony on another planet.
Actually the question is really really simple... do we focus on the immediate threats to our survival (nuclear war, climate change, etc)? Or do we worry about much lower probability threats?
I don't know about this. I see weird stuff every day... people opening car doors into traffic, people wandering out into traffic, cars wandering into my lane. I'd have to think if you recorded a month's worth of data you'd have seen a LOT of stuff. Not to mention you could even generate your own weird scenarios. The fact that the Uber car didn't respond to a major obstacle in front of it seems like there wasn't a lot of testing of any form done.
It's a disaster for consumers. You want to watch Netflix... ok get your service from this provider. You want to watch TV... get an extra service from that other provider. If you love TV bundles and having to buy a bunch of extra crap to see what you want, you're going to love this.
Except that the Agile Manifesto specifically says that it values "Responding to change over following a plan". Which tends to lead people to simply not plan at all. At my last company, my boss tried to plan, tried to groom, etc, but it all got thrown out the window then company owner zig-zagged. So we were "responding to change" but the end result was pretty random development.
Ideally, yes. My first 20 or so years as a dev I worked in environments where we were "self-organizing" but we weren't delivering small increments. Instead we have fairly long term goals (usually for a yearly release) and then each dev or small group of devs figured out how to get it done. And amazingly enough the work got done and the product was coherent.
Since I've started working in Agile groups for a number of years the development has been way more subject to "here's a feature that can be added in two weeks, let's go for it" w/o a coherent overall view of where we were headed. And this is at 3 separate companies.
Agile (whether Scrum, Extreme Programming, whatever) just seems to be one of those things that sounds good, that has some good ideas, but ultimately comes with its own set of problems. As Fred Brooks said, there's no silver bullet.
And yet, you can do lots and lots of stories, and in the end you have a big steaming pile, because the stories don't add up to anything. I recently worked on a product like that. There was one "feature" that I backtracked to about 8 different stories, each of which incrementally added a sub-feature that, ON ITS OWN, sounded like a good idea. But the sum total was almost impossible to understand, and I'm sure people blamed the devs, not the managers who insisted on the "stories".
Maybe we could blame him for appointing Pruitt and rolling back all the environmental regulations that we've so painfully established? Just so his buddies can make a profit while the rest of us drown in filth? How about blaming him for that?
Space travel is not a great way to preserve the human race. It would be far more cost effective to solve problems on earth, or even to establish scattered self-sufficient survival colonies, rather than hope you can create a self-sufficient colony on other worlds.
Trump specifically referred to the Nazi march. When a Nazi killed someone. And said "there are good people on both sides". He couldn't bring himself to just saying something like "Nazis bad".
The head of the Republican party says that there are "good people" among the Nazis. And his policies have emboldened the Nazis and similar extremist groups. Not all Republicans are Nazis, but certainly Nazis can now feel comfortable in the Republican party.
I remember listening to a co-worker argue with the insurance company over the phone. She had been to the doctor for some sort of "well-baby" pregnancy checkup. The office had coded it wrong so insurance denied the claim, even though it was clearly a covered visit. She was asking the insurance person how it should be have been coded, and the insurance person was accusing her of trying to commit "fraud" by getting it coded right so it would be covered. It was absolutely insane... "guess the code to get paid... no, that's not it, try again..."
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Says the clueless guy.
Da, Boris.
And I'd like a pony. Well, no, not a pony, but there's lot of stuff I'd like. Heck, I'd like to be a space tourist and visit the ISS. But you know, just because you want something doesn't mean it makes sense. Right now space colonization doesn't make sense. For exploration, robots do a better job. For preserving the human race, there are many, many things we could do ahead of trying to plant a colony on another planet.
Actually the question is really really simple... do we focus on the immediate threats to our survival (nuclear war, climate change, etc)? Or do we worry about much lower probability threats?
I don't know about this. I see weird stuff every day... people opening car doors into traffic, people wandering out into traffic, cars wandering into my lane. I'd have to think if you recorded a month's worth of data you'd have seen a LOT of stuff. Not to mention you could even generate your own weird scenarios. The fact that the Uber car didn't respond to a major obstacle in front of it seems like there wasn't a lot of testing of any form done.
Funny... I post in reply to a post that going for diversity is guaranteed to make a company fail.. and I get marked at flamebait.
Welcome to the echo chamber.
Because surely only white males are skilled.
So I guess Manafort getting thrown in jail is just more "fake news"?
It's a disaster for consumers. You want to watch Netflix... ok get your service from this provider. You want to watch TV... get an extra service from that other provider. If you love TV bundles and having to buy a bunch of extra crap to see what you want, you're going to love this.
I wish I had mod points to mod the parent up... absolutely correct. The "you aren't doing Agile right" argument is old and tired and just plain wrong.
Except that the Agile Manifesto specifically says that it values "Responding to change over following a plan". Which tends to lead people to simply not plan at all. At my last company, my boss tried to plan, tried to groom, etc, but it all got thrown out the window then company owner zig-zagged. So we were "responding to change" but the end result was pretty random development.
Ideally, yes. My first 20 or so years as a dev I worked in environments where we were "self-organizing" but we weren't delivering small increments. Instead we have fairly long term goals (usually for a yearly release) and then each dev or small group of devs figured out how to get it done. And amazingly enough the work got done and the product was coherent.
Since I've started working in Agile groups for a number of years the development has been way more subject to "here's a feature that can be added in two weeks, let's go for it" w/o a coherent overall view of where we were headed. And this is at 3 separate companies.
Agile (whether Scrum, Extreme Programming, whatever) just seems to be one of those things that sounds good, that has some good ideas, but ultimately comes with its own set of problems. As Fred Brooks said, there's no silver bullet.
And yet, you can do lots and lots of stories, and in the end you have a big steaming pile, because the stories don't add up to anything. I recently worked on a product like that. There was one "feature" that I backtracked to about 8 different stories, each of which incrementally added a sub-feature that, ON ITS OWN, sounded like a good idea. But the sum total was almost impossible to understand, and I'm sure people blamed the devs, not the managers who insisted on the "stories".
And maybe some people who are too stupid to know "It's" is a contraction rather than a plural didn't upvote it?
Even to wash dishes? A lot of jobs don't have customer interaction.
So the upshot of this study is that people who consume a lot of content consume a lot of content, and they consume some of that content legally.
That's it. There's no indication that people who download lots of contents are some huge fanbase.
Maybe we could blame him for appointing Pruitt and rolling back all the environmental regulations that we've so painfully established? Just so his buddies can make a profit while the rest of us drown in filth? How about blaming him for that?
ah, just like there's no liability with ocean going vessels or planes, got it.
Space travel is not a great way to preserve the human race. It would be far more cost effective to solve problems on earth, or even to establish scattered self-sufficient survival colonies, rather than hope you can create a self-sufficient colony on other worlds.
You mean the way trump rewards his loyal robots and cons his followers with "brown people bad"?
Guess you haven't heard of the twinkie defense.
Trump specifically referred to the Nazi march. When a Nazi killed someone. And said "there are good people on both sides". He couldn't bring himself to just saying something like "Nazis bad".
The head of the Republican party says that there are "good people" among the Nazis. And his policies have emboldened the Nazis and similar extremist groups. Not all Republicans are Nazis, but certainly Nazis can now feel comfortable in the Republican party.
I remember listening to a co-worker argue with the insurance company over the phone. She had been to the doctor for some sort of "well-baby" pregnancy checkup. The office had coded it wrong so insurance denied the claim, even though it was clearly a covered visit. She was asking the insurance person how it should be have been coded, and the insurance person was accusing her of trying to commit "fraud" by getting it coded right so it would be covered. It was absolutely insane... "guess the code to get paid... no, that's not it, try again..."
Depends on whether you want it done right or not.