I have lived in Aussie for the last 8 years and am grateful every time I leave the doctor's office without having to fill out one stinking form. This is a wonderful country.
Support the Australia economy where you can. There are some good online bookstores like Booktopia. If you can't find any joy there, try the Bookdepository and Abesbooks in the UK (owned by Amazon?) They have low shipping costs. There is a large online electronics industry here. Maybe it won't be quite as cheap as buying from the US, but if you have a problem with the order, it won't take months of overseas troubleshooting to figure out. Australian ebay will give you access to the China markets.
You must be joking. Many scientific papers out there have results based on prototype or proof of concept software written by naive grad students for their advisors. These are largely uncommented hacks with little, if any, sanity checks. To sell these prototypes commercially, I have had to cleanup after some of these grads. I take great sadistic pleasure in throwing out two years of effort and rewriting it all from scratch in a couple of weeks.
For your boss to try to dictate how you work like this is a form of micromanagement which demonstrates distrust.
Yes, I agree it is micromanagement but not that it is motivated by distrust. From my experiences, I think it is a power trip which driving this. Some people seem to enjoy plying their subordinates with ridiculous decrees. While we are having this banal conversation, the boss is thinking up yet another way to make the ant hill boil with frustration. Giving this management person credibility is the worst thing you can do. Stand on your hind legs and demand respect.
I currently have a child in school in New South Wales. By and large the teachers are great, but it only takes one bad teacher to undo the work of ten good teachers. From participating in the local P and C (like PTA in the US) we found that once a poor teacher or administrator gets into the system, it is almost impossible to get rid of them. The children themselves have no say at all in the matter. Naive parents assume that all teachers are professionals and would hesitate to believe little Brucy when he comes home saying that the teacher is awful. I think students need a place to vent their spleen. Parents and teachers would do well to listen.
You are handing your entire code base to an off shore firm to port to java. You are supporting your C++ product while giving this outside firm your technical expertise on all your coding decisions. When this rewrite is done, what is the point of having your development team around? Get your affairs in order!
- Veg
This article gives figures of present graduates, but fails to address present enrollments. From what I understand, this is a four year pipeline, and that pipeline is drying up. Over the last two years enrollments have dropped dramatically in the field of computer science and it will be two more years before we see the full effects of this drop.
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I can't see how Franz's idea is materially different from "Randomized instruction set emulation" by Barrantes, Ackley, Forrest, and Stefanovic (2005).
I have lived in Aussie for the last 8 years and am grateful every time I leave the doctor's office without having to fill out one stinking form. This is a wonderful country. Support the Australia economy where you can. There are some good online bookstores like Booktopia. If you can't find any joy there, try the Bookdepository and Abesbooks in the UK (owned by Amazon?) They have low shipping costs. There is a large online electronics industry here. Maybe it won't be quite as cheap as buying from the US, but if you have a problem with the order, it won't take months of overseas troubleshooting to figure out. Australian ebay will give you access to the China markets.
You must be joking. Many scientific papers out there have results based on prototype or proof of concept software written by naive grad students for their advisors. These are largely uncommented hacks with little, if any, sanity checks. To sell these prototypes commercially, I have had to cleanup after some of these grads. I take great sadistic pleasure in throwing out two years of effort and rewriting it all from scratch in a couple of weeks.
For your boss to try to dictate how you work like this is a form of micromanagement which demonstrates distrust.
Yes, I agree it is micromanagement but not that it is motivated by distrust. From my experiences, I think it is a power trip which driving this. Some people seem to enjoy plying their subordinates with ridiculous decrees. While we are having this banal conversation, the boss is thinking up yet another way to make the ant hill boil with frustration. Giving this management person credibility is the worst thing you can do. Stand on your hind legs and demand respect.
I currently have a child in school in New South Wales. By and large the teachers are great, but it only takes one bad teacher to undo the work of ten good teachers. From participating in the local P and C (like PTA in the US) we found that once a poor teacher or administrator gets into the system, it is almost impossible to get rid of them. The children themselves have no say at all in the matter. Naive parents assume that all teachers are professionals and would hesitate to believe little Brucy when he comes home saying that the teacher is awful. I think students need a place to vent their spleen. Parents and teachers would do well to listen.
You are handing your entire code base to an off shore firm to port to java. You are supporting your C++ product while giving this outside firm your technical expertise on all your coding decisions. When this rewrite is done, what is the point of having your development team around? Get your affairs in order! - Veg
This article gives figures of present graduates, but fails to address present enrollments. From what I understand, this is a four year pipeline, and that pipeline is drying up. Over the last two years enrollments have dropped dramatically in the field of computer science and it will be two more years before we see the full effects of this drop.