1960s, actually. NASA came up with the underwater training after Cernan's near-disastrous EVA on Gemini 9. I believe that Buzz Aldrin developed the idea.
I didn't mind the particular IT policies, they made sense, but, I felt like a sense of scale was lost when it came to our projects
This.
For large scale projects, process is absolutely necessary, if only to manage the issues that Brooks pointed out back in the Dark Ages (The Mythical Man-Month). And they are definitely needed when DO-178B or other field-specific qualification is required.
I was at a major defense contractor when a CMMI level 3 process was imposed from above. There was a lot of rebellion, but we gave it a go.
We had a skunk-works type project that was 4 developers. Upper Management insisted we follow the process to the letter. This included Fagan-style formal inspections of all documents. Of course, they didn't give us enough time to do it right. We were doing 2-a-days, for 10 days straight, without enough prep time, or enough people to do it right. It wound up being useless nitpicking, with no useful results. On top of that, we lost 2 weeks to this exercise, and the developers were totally drained for about 2 days after it.
A more traditional-style document review would have worked much better, but The Holy Process had to be followed.
Process is great, but it needs to be fine-tuned to the particuar project.
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
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Steven J. Vaughan Nichols disagrees with you.
Can someone provide a translation between "Rogers Centers" and a unit of measurement that I'm more familiar with, such as a VW Beetle?
Have they fixed the Virtual Server Linux clock skew bug in Hyper-V?
That whooshing sound you heard was the joke going right over your head.
1960s, actually. NASA came up with the underwater training after Cernan's near-disastrous EVA on Gemini 9. I believe that Buzz Aldrin developed the idea.
They're trying to catch gnomes.
Either that, or they're trying to figure out what step 2 is.
Yeah, but the latency sucks.
Anything that costs Disney money (and by extension, power) is a Good Thing(tm)
The FSM will protect me from the Invisible Pink Unicorn.
Unfortunately, in the courts it seems to be the other way 'round.
"Guilty unless you're rich"
I didn't mind the particular IT policies, they made sense, but, I felt like a sense of scale was lost when it came to our projects
This.
For large scale projects, process is absolutely necessary, if only to manage the issues that Brooks pointed out back in the Dark Ages (The Mythical Man-Month). And they are definitely needed when DO-178B or other field-specific qualification is required.
I was at a major defense contractor when a CMMI level 3 process was imposed from above. There was a lot of rebellion, but we gave it a go.
We had a skunk-works type project that was 4 developers. Upper Management insisted we follow the process to the letter. This included Fagan-style formal inspections of all documents. Of course, they didn't give us enough time to do it right. We were doing 2-a-days, for 10 days straight, without enough prep time, or enough people to do it right. It wound up being useless nitpicking, with no useful results. On top of that, we lost 2 weeks to this exercise, and the developers were totally drained for about 2 days after it.
A more traditional-style document review would have worked much better, but The Holy Process had to be followed.
Process is great, but it needs to be fine-tuned to the particuar project.
Dammit! There's an XKCD for EVERYTHING!!!!
I would, but I'm not Randall Munroe.
Fuck their "Cultural Identity". I don't need my fucking house to shake when they drive by.
This is NEEDED for automotive applications.
The rest of us do NOT want to hear your 1200 watt bass line on whatever it is you're playing.
If we wanted to hear it, we'd be listening to the same CD or station.
And when you drive through my neighborhood and cause the windows in house to rattle.... don't get me started (I know.. .too late).
Not if you're going to Mars
[VOICE type="Prof. Farnsworth"]
And that's what would have happened if I'd invented the nose-longer. A man can dream...
[/VOICE]
Cool! Now we can use you as part of the Human CentiPad!
Please fix your sarcasm and humor detector.
I'm 48.
That was Buzz Aldrin, not Armstrong.
I thought it was a bunch of Jewish US partisans and a Jewish Frenchwoman who burned Hitler in a movie theatre?
While I do NOT like this decision, it does seem Constitutional.
May I refer you to the Seventh Amendment?
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
(Emphasis mine).
Turns out this is just another case of mother nature wanting to kill everything.
Bender: Hey hot mama, wanna kill all humans?
Mother Nature: Sure!
and make those two redundant.
Funny thing. When my job was "made redundant", I got laid off...
Amazing how the same phrase means two different things.
through the use and abuse of stupid patents.
You do realize that this is about Trademarks and not Patents, right?