Tom DeMarco talks about the air traffic control software project in one of his books. The description of the hopeless situation in that case supports your idea.
I think when you have a lot of people's butts on the line and so failure is not an option but stagnation IS, what we would perceive as failure is almost certainly coming. You can retire without any fallout so long as you make sure nothing happens for 15 years. It's easy to do: Just make the specs vague, self-contradictory, and long. Very, very, long.
The project won't fail, but it won't succeed either. And you're safe, which is all that matters.
They would do much better to set up a few small teams and have them compete to build something with enough in common so one can be replaced by the other. And starting with the open source base would make sense there.
Java lacks high-level control structures written in simple, understandable ways. This means that java programs are longer than they need to be. YES, you can look at three lines of java code and know just what they do. CONGRATULATIONS. But when the java program is 300+ lines long and only needed to be 30 in R, for example, which one will a person with any competence in a language understand faster?
C# (an MS trap language you shouldn't use) is better than java. It has better syntax and makes things cleaner and shorter.
Java is getting praise here because of its success. If it were put out today, it would be ignored. The fact that we would not have the VM-based code world we have without java is immaterial to an evaluation of the language. We should not lie to ourselves. Java programs are too long. This makes them hard to read and hard to pass on to other programmers. Period.
Python's no fun to work in at all. But it's the right choice for business coding for precisely this reason.
Boring is good. Rigid is good. The next person who works on your code is not going to understand anything you did. He/she will need to pore over your code and figure it out. The easier you make that, the more you can accomplish and walk away from -- leaving a trail of success in your path. Otherwise, you're either bound to the code and swamped with old projects, or trivial issues you missed never get fixed, leaving a trail of unhappy clients/users behind you.
I'd put it differently: When you keep legibility and understandability in mind as a goal when writing in perl, the many syntax constructs available in it which are not in Java (for example) allow you to write much more understandable code in perl than you could in most other languages.
The fact that it also allows you to write stuff non-perl people cannot fathom is a problem, and any coding projects started in perl need a day-two code review and some conversations with the people involved. They need to know they're coding for the next user of the software more than they're coding for themselves. If they have trouble with that, then they're too young to be trusted with your business.
3. I suspect - but cannot prove - that US education costs from the study include the cost of providing health insurance to educators and other school staff, while most countries with nationalized health care budget those expenses separately. Even if the comparison does include health care costs from both countries, the US spends three times as much on health care per capita as most countries with nationalized health care. So that could account for the complete cost difference all by itself.
This is an excellent point. Our absurd healthcare system is a cost factor we have to fold into everything. Add to this the (arguably much smaller) costs of dealing with sickness/absences amongst children with no healthcare, or who spend time helping parents with no healthcare.
Below you get a lot of flack for your choice of words. I understand where you're coming from. Use the term "Statesers", which Canadians who don't like the implicit land grab of "Americans" sometimes use.
Read Tom DeMarco on this -- I think the book is "Managing Programming People". In order to be productive, people need quiet and unmolested time. This means offices.
Also read "Slack" by DeMarco. In order to be happy, they need PROGRESS. And in order to get progress, they need time to solve the problems which come up which are not directly related to the deliverables. If you give them slack, you get less deliverables in the first part of any project, and way more by then end. You also have programmers not quitting.
I agree with all this and think this is a fun project idea. I'd go cheap, because you'll fail, and then you fix it and repeat. So you should have something reliable backing this thing up.
That said, make a case out of furnace hepa filters and duct tape. You can just mount everything on a board to be one wall of the 6-walled box. Hang that from the ceiling with wire to reduce visits by crawlers. Spray some raid around the top where the wire (and any cables) hits the board.
Just to be certain about the humidity, put a chemical humidty-wick in there. If humitity is a problem, you'll know in a while. If it's not, no harm done. Here's an example of one: http://www.wayfair.com/Humydry...
Windows NT was VMS. They hired VMS guys to build it. Yes, it wasn't bad at core (until Microsft decided it was slow and broke the security model for drivers) but don't make out it was not based on older OS ideas.
No, by this plan, it's not "In the first example, this administration says both." It's "In the first example, this administration says either, up to a total of 19%, with the foreign state having the right to collect first." The US will initially not be getting any of the money. All foreign states would be insane not to immediately raise taxes to 19%: their tax-haven clients will be paying that one way or the other and wouldn't care.
The point is not to tax the foreign money. It's to remove the ability of corporations to push their money to foreign countries to avoid taxes. If you push money to someplace with a 5% tax, you'll still owe 14% to the US. So why bother pushing the money anymore?
It doesn't repatriate the money already gone, but it stops the untaxed out-flow.
Hey, stop saying my president wasted seven years and is only proposing this and other things he should have proposed at least five years ago now that they have zero chance of passing!
That's my job!
Next you'll be saying that he only changed immigration policies five years too late after deporting more people that any other president in history and that his proposals are arguably less generous than George Bush's were, even though he knows his party desperately needs the support of Latinos who are not quite as stupid as some people think and who notice that this big change is kinda milque-toast.
Don't even think of saying he's basically a right-wing corporate shill who preaches a liberal world-view while enacting/enabling a right-wing agenda.
If you say he's either completely incompetant or trying to get Republicans elected, you are dangerously close to my turf, Buster!
"I've got three witnesses that put you there, DNA evidence, and some video with someone wearing jeans and a white hoodie, just like you wear, though the face isn't visable. You'll get the death penalty. If you give me a confession, we can get it down to manslaughter. First offense. You'll probably just get probation. Here's some paper."
Yeah, police being able to lie is a great idea. I'm sure it benefits somebody. Other than the owners of for-profit prisons, I'm not sure who.
This is a stupid response. A great product where the maker insures you're going to get pushed to other things you'll have to pay for from that same maker is a product there's a darn good argument against.
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Tom DeMarco talks about the air traffic control software project in one of his books. The description of the hopeless situation in that case supports your idea.
I think when you have a lot of people's butts on the line and so failure is not an option but stagnation IS, what we would perceive as failure is almost certainly coming. You can retire without any fallout so long as you make sure nothing happens for 15 years. It's easy to do: Just make the specs vague, self-contradictory, and long. Very, very, long.
The project won't fail, but it won't succeed either. And you're safe, which is all that matters.
They would do much better to set up a few small teams and have them compete to build something with enough in common so one can be replaced by the other. And starting with the open source base would make sense there.
I think there's an answer in that. We should make it illegal as an over-the-counter remedy. It should only be available as a prescription.
Java lacks high-level control structures written in simple, understandable ways. This means that java programs are longer than they need to be. YES, you can look at three lines of java code and know just what they do. CONGRATULATIONS. But when the java program is 300+ lines long and only needed to be 30 in R, for example, which one will a person with any competence in a language understand faster?
C# (an MS trap language you shouldn't use) is better than java. It has better syntax and makes things cleaner and shorter.
Java is getting praise here because of its success. If it were put out today, it would be ignored. The fact that we would not have the VM-based code world we have without java is immaterial to an evaluation of the language. We should not lie to ourselves. Java programs are too long. This makes them hard to read and hard to pass on to other programmers. Period.
Python's no fun to work in at all. But it's the right choice for business coding for precisely this reason.
Boring is good. Rigid is good. The next person who works on your code is not going to understand anything you did. He/she will need to pore over your code and figure it out. The easier you make that, the more you can accomplish and walk away from -- leaving a trail of success in your path. Otherwise, you're either bound to the code and swamped with old projects, or trivial issues you missed never get fixed, leaving a trail of unhappy clients/users behind you.
Two more words: pretty print.
I'd put it differently: When you keep legibility and understandability in mind as a goal when writing in perl, the many syntax constructs available in it which are not in Java (for example) allow you to write much more understandable code in perl than you could in most other languages.
The fact that it also allows you to write stuff non-perl people cannot fathom is a problem, and any coding projects started in perl need a day-two code review and some conversations with the people involved. They need to know they're coding for the next user of the software more than they're coding for themselves. If they have trouble with that, then they're too young to be trusted with your business.
Bingo.
3. I suspect - but cannot prove - that US education costs from the study include the cost of providing health insurance to educators and other school staff, while most countries with nationalized health care budget those expenses separately. Even if the comparison does include health care costs from both countries, the US spends three times as much on health care per capita as most countries with nationalized health care. So that could account for the complete cost difference all by itself.
This is an excellent point. Our absurd healthcare system is a cost factor we have to fold into everything. Add to this the (arguably much smaller) costs of dealing with sickness/absences amongst children with no healthcare, or who spend time helping parents with no healthcare.
Very much agreed. Works like a charm.
I'm not sure if I saw a buggy whip, I'd know what it was.
Below you get a lot of flack for your choice of words. I understand where you're coming from. Use the term "Statesers", which Canadians who don't like the implicit land grab of "Americans" sometimes use.
Read Tom DeMarco on this -- I think the book is "Managing Programming People". In order to be productive, people need quiet and unmolested time. This means offices.
Also read "Slack" by DeMarco. In order to be happy, they need PROGRESS. And in order to get progress, they need time to solve the problems which come up which are not directly related to the deliverables. If you give them slack, you get less deliverables in the first part of any project, and way more by then end. You also have programmers not quitting.
Take a weekend and read everything DeMarco wrote.
What good is very fast last mile when their peering is crap AND their routers are dropping traffic?
I agree with all this and think this is a fun project idea. I'd go cheap, because you'll fail, and then you fix it and repeat. So you should have something reliable backing this thing up.
That said, make a case out of furnace hepa filters and duct tape. You can just mount everything on a board to be one wall of the 6-walled box. Hang that from the ceiling with wire to reduce visits by crawlers. Spray some raid around the top where the wire (and any cables) hits the board.
Just to be certain about the humidity, put a chemical humidty-wick in there. If humitity is a problem, you'll know in a while. If it's not, no harm done. Here's an example of one: http://www.wayfair.com/Humydry...
Windows NT was VMS. They hired VMS guys to build it. Yes, it wasn't bad at core (until Microsft decided it was slow and broke the security model for drivers) but don't make out it was not based on older OS ideas.
No, by this plan, it's not "In the first example, this administration says both." It's "In the first example, this administration says either, up to a total of 19%, with the foreign state having the right to collect first." The US will initially not be getting any of the money. All foreign states would be insane not to immediately raise taxes to 19%: their tax-haven clients will be paying that one way or the other and wouldn't care.
The point is not to tax the foreign money. It's to remove the ability of corporations to push their money to foreign countries to avoid taxes. If you push money to someplace with a 5% tax, you'll still owe 14% to the US. So why bother pushing the money anymore?
It doesn't repatriate the money already gone, but it stops the untaxed out-flow.
Hey, stop saying my president wasted seven years and is only proposing this and other things he should have proposed at least five years ago now that they have zero chance of passing!
That's my job!
Next you'll be saying that he only changed immigration policies five years too late after deporting more people that any other president in history and that his proposals are arguably less generous than George Bush's were, even though he knows his party desperately needs the support of Latinos who are not quite as stupid as some people think and who notice that this big change is kinda milque-toast.
Don't even think of saying he's basically a right-wing corporate shill who preaches a liberal world-view while enacting/enabling a right-wing agenda.
If you say he's either completely incompetant or trying to get Republicans elected, you are dangerously close to my turf, Buster!
And when you order something on Amazon or New Egg, they charge you less because you live in the mid-west?
What an impossible to use clickie-map.
A test list would have been WAY easier to use.
The very first thing out of his mouth is a straw man.
This is not how to get people to change their minds.
Could someone with a little law school please respond to this? Is lying to instagram and violating their terms Civil or Criminal?
Anonymous Coward, I salute you.
Bingo. You're absolutely correct.
"I've got three witnesses that put you there, DNA evidence, and some video with someone wearing jeans and a white hoodie, just like you wear, though the face isn't visable. You'll get the death penalty. If you give me a confession, we can get it down to manslaughter. First offense. You'll probably just get probation. Here's some paper."
Yeah, police being able to lie is a great idea. I'm sure it benefits somebody. Other than the owners of for-profit prisons, I'm not sure who.
This is a stupid response. A great product where the maker insures you're going to get pushed to other things you'll have to pay for from that same maker is a product there's a darn good argument against.
Well, actually, he mostly did. But just "mostly".