TFA may be ironic but it might help more if it was sarcastic. The number of sites at which I've worked where Warning messages are set to Ignore is ridiculous.
At one place, so many warning messages were being generated that when I eventually got a decent developer on board, after writing some scripts and working hard to reduce the number of messages, he got the overall compile time to go down significantly. Of course, despite my 'petty Hitler' rantings, most of the team decided not to fix the cause of these errors and the compile time started creeping up again. The arrogance of these guys was palpable, they had no intention of improving, they were, after all, the A-team (or so they said). I eventually moved on to running another team in another part of the company - who were prepared to listen (or were more afraid of me maybe) and, with other processes, productivity shot up over the course of a few months.
I've worked in a worldwide concern that was fairly aggressively taking over other well-known companies whose policies were entirely different. When going for lockdown on these new subsidiaries, their processes were severely interrupted until people and processes changed - which took about a year. I suspect an enterprise wide spy/virus etc. checker would have proved more efficient and would have been rolled out more quickly. Subsequently explaining and training people in the corporate way would have been less disruptive than just imposing our policies.
Yep, been banging on about this myself on/. and other boards for some time.
I call it 'skills leakage' because it is rare for software to be so completely and accurately designed that it can be just sent offshore and a perfect product is returned. Moreover, modern development is iterative and incremental, the whole team: product managers, project managers, teamleaders, BAs, coders, DBAs etc. are all involved in the process on a continual basis.
Splitting the team is often inefficient, especially when time zones are 12h apart. So designers and managers are shipped over to where the work is being outsourced and they gradually transfer their skills. I know this, I have run a team in Mumbai and to increase productivity, it was entirely necessary to train and mentor coders to become designers and project leaders so that they were not so dependent on people in Europe. It was also necessary for the domain experts to be present for considerable periods, so much so that some had been in India for 18 months until they had made themselves almost redundant and were eventually shipped back to Europe only to be 'let go'.
Also when college graduates see that their future jobs are likely to be shipped offshore, they do not eagerly enter the profession. It's happening here in the UK already, a large percentage drop in people taking Computer Science.
Welcome to the massive species extinction (well in a Western habitat anyway)...
The number of developers I've had who estimate x hours for their own little bit of a project without considering the bigger picture. For example, "I'll just code this bit with two variables, 'cos it's quicker [instead of an array]." A year later, I need five of the same, not two, but this two variable argument stream has leaked across the system and I now need x weeks extra to clear up and change everything to an array.
Some developers do take the little extra time to help future-proof their code, handle exceptions and errors correctly, use typed/extended classes instead of type variables, ensure all unit test procedures have been written, commented areas of code with accurate and relevant notes, written/edited the relevant deployment scripts (or whatever) and tested those etc.etc.etc.
But, to be honest, these guys have tended to be rare beasts indeed...
And some (too many) managers view developers as their own resource: "Can you help fix my email/browser/database, Mr. Very Busy Developer, it won't take long!" And half a day disappears.
So we end up adding on tons of contingency for 'unforeseen circumstances'. Or over-estimate, if you like.
Amazing coincidence! I'm a 'computer' scientist and informed and I'm convinced from all my research into the subject that we are on a course with disaster. Any other scientists care to comment?
We were suckered by the Home Secretary and the Extradition Treaty 2003 effectively allows the US to extradite anybody (including any foreign citizens) from the UK based on any flimsy 'statement of fact' (not evidence). This is how 3 bankers are facing ruin for a deal (legal in the UK, legal at the time, openly shown to NatWest bank, the FSA etc.etc.) for a quick buck deal with Enron which prosecutors in Texas are pursuing.
This treaty was never discussed in parliament, spent less than an hour in committee with a majority of the committee members never receiving a draft of the bill either. Democracy? Don't make me laugh...
In the very early days (before they became known as National Socialists, Nazis, or the NSDAP), they were the German Workers' Party with about 50-60 members and were considered to be on the left.
Soon after WWI, one A.Hitler was sitting in Munich with not much to do, still under military orders (there was not much work or food or anything in Germany given onerous reparations after WWI) when he was spotted as a charismtic speaker by officers who, at the time, were infiltrating political groups for various reasons (and there were a lot of disparate political parties given the circumstances).
Hitler was asked to go along to the German Workers' Party (curiously, he went reluctantly) and eventually ended up heading the party. Apart from its anti-semitic and virulent nationalist bent, many joined (including Goebbels) specifically because they considered the NSDAP to be a workers' party and essentially socialist.
It was not until the late 1920s, when the party was in danger of being split as a result of Hitler's directly opposing views to the socialist wing that the NSDAP became (effectively) Hitler's party in his own image. One of the reasons that Hitler opposed the socialist wing (besides his own convictions) was because he was being bankrolled by militaristic corporate owners. Does this ring any alarm bells?
Note that the GEZ is far more pernicious than the Beeb's licensing authorities. We lived in Germany for a while and our landlord had arranged and paid for the GEZ but, for some reason, put our name on the license. What no one told us was that, if you move out of the country, you have to notify the GEZ (amongst a bunch of other bureacracies). When we returned 18 months later, we got a TV installed and then got a bill for 18 months of license which we could not have used in the first place. Now that is crazy...
Get real, it's not a tax. You are paying for a service which has seven TV channels for the very great privilege of not having to watch mind-numbingly irritating and boring adverts.
All those in favor of making the murder of men a crime...
Obviously that would be a reasonable bill - but a rider on that same bill declaring that pi = 3.0 would be perfectly OK because you don't have time to read it? What fatuous nonsense. In any case, any sensible legislature creates bills that are specific to the title. Debates about that potential legislation then make sense, adding irrelevant riders makes them nonsense.
Amen brother! Mind-numbingly repetitive fatuous presentations for people who clearly have problems cleaning, cooking, washing and generally making informed decisions as to what products would be most suitable... Bricks have to be banned from our TV room otherwise we would never be able to watch commercial TV for more than 20 minutes without serious damage occurring.
There are plenty of other appalling governments around but straightforward regime change for no other reason than regime change is illegal for any member of the UN.
So a premise was cooked up in the US. Tony Blair was (willingly) brought on board in 2002, the Australian, Polish and other governments fell for the spin and Iraq was invaded and occupied for no good legal reason. The UK and US should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. The US (rightly) fought tooth and nail against imperialist adventures after WWII and twisted the UK government's arm accordingly. Sixty years later and these countries' governments seemed to have learnt nothing. As was pointed out elsewhere, the populations of the UK, Australia, Poland, Spain, Italy etc.etc. were massively against this adventurism but unfortunately, it is we who have to pay for this disaster in the long run...
It was effectively a colony that became independent. Same goes for India, Malaya, a host of African countries but never at any time did this halt the democratic process in the UK - because it was stable.
Here you go: Cornell University professor of government Walter Mebane argues that if the best possible voting machinery had been used, Al Gore would have won Florida by 30,000 votes.
And indeed, Sinn Fein (often dubbed the 'political wing' of the IRA) plus DUP, SDLP etc. opposing Sinn Fein all have political representation from a democratic vote on local councils and in the UK parliament. Sounds like a stable democracy to me. Soooo, what was your point?
Perhaps, if your representatives have to take any notice of their electorate. But:
"It was bad enough that in 2001 both Republicans and Democrats elevated incumbent protection in redistricting to new levels. In California, for example, incumbent U.S. House Democrats paid $20,000 apiece to a redistricting consultant"the brother of an incumbent"to have "designer districts" drawn for them. Republicans went along with this cozy arrangement in exchange for their own safe seats. The result was an unbroken parade of landslide wins, with no challenger to an incumbent winning even 40 percent of the vote. "
Funny that. I'm working had to get out of the UK (couple of months or so, if things go well). This country is such a poodle of the US. No, really, just take a look at our recent appalling and one-sided extradition treaty with the US. Dangerous stuff.
A coward and anonymous with no information to back up your puerile rant.
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The American worker, on average, works longer hours than any other country
Correct (and over a lifetime has worked 40% more hours than in other comparable countries), but it does not mean they are more productive. Both France and Germany have a higher GDP/head/hour than the US. See this based on an Economist article based on a Goldman Sachs report. In effect, it implies that working looong hours ain't doing you the world of good.
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TFA may be ironic but it might help more if it was sarcastic. The number of sites at which I've worked where Warning messages are set to Ignore is ridiculous.
At one place, so many warning messages were being generated that when I eventually got a decent developer on board, after writing some scripts and working hard to reduce the number of messages, he got the overall compile time to go down significantly. Of course, despite my 'petty Hitler' rantings, most of the team decided not to fix the cause of these errors and the compile time started creeping up again. The arrogance of these guys was palpable, they had no intention of improving, they were, after all, the A-team (or so they said). I eventually moved on to running another team in another part of the company - who were prepared to listen (or were more afraid of me maybe) and, with other processes, productivity shot up over the course of a few months.
I've worked in a worldwide concern that was fairly aggressively taking over other well-known companies whose policies were entirely different. When going for lockdown on these new subsidiaries, their processes were severely interrupted until people and processes changed - which took about a year. I suspect an enterprise wide spy/virus etc. checker would have proved more efficient and would have been rolled out more quickly. Subsequently explaining and training people in the corporate way would have been less disruptive than just imposing our policies.
Is it Murdoch owned by any chance?
Yep, been banging on about this myself on /. and other boards for some time.
I call it 'skills leakage' because it is rare for software to be so completely and accurately designed that it can be just sent offshore and a perfect product is returned. Moreover, modern development is iterative and incremental, the whole team: product managers, project managers, teamleaders, BAs, coders, DBAs etc. are all involved in the process on a continual basis.
Splitting the team is often inefficient, especially when time zones are 12h apart. So designers and managers are shipped over to where the work is being outsourced and they gradually transfer their skills. I know this, I have run a team in Mumbai and to increase productivity, it was entirely necessary to train and mentor coders to become designers and project leaders so that they were not so dependent on people in Europe. It was also necessary for the domain experts to be present for considerable periods, so much so that some had been in India for 18 months until they had made themselves almost redundant and were eventually shipped back to Europe only to be 'let go'.
Also when college graduates see that their future jobs are likely to be shipped offshore, they do not eagerly enter the profession. It's happening here in the UK already, a large percentage drop in people taking Computer Science.
Welcome to the massive species extinction (well in a Western habitat anyway)...
Oh dear, oh dear...
The number of developers I've had who estimate x hours for their own little bit of a project without considering the bigger picture. For example, "I'll just code this bit with two variables, 'cos it's quicker [instead of an array]." A year later, I need five of the same, not two, but this two variable argument stream has leaked across the system and I now need x weeks extra to clear up and change everything to an array.
Some developers do take the little extra time to help future-proof their code, handle exceptions and errors correctly, use typed/extended classes instead of type variables, ensure all unit test procedures have been written, commented areas of code with accurate and relevant notes, written/edited the relevant deployment scripts (or whatever) and tested those etc.etc.etc.
But, to be honest, these guys have tended to be rare beasts indeed...
And some (too many) managers view developers as their own resource: "Can you help fix my email/browser/database, Mr. Very Busy Developer, it won't take long!" And half a day disappears.
So we end up adding on tons of contingency for 'unforeseen circumstances'. Or over-estimate, if you like.
Amazing coincidence! I'm a 'computer' scientist and informed and I'm convinced from all my research into the subject that we are on a course with disaster. Any other scientists care to comment?
True.
We were suckered by the Home Secretary and the Extradition Treaty 2003 effectively allows the US to extradite anybody (including any foreign citizens) from the UK based on any flimsy 'statement of fact' (not evidence). This is how 3 bankers are facing ruin for a deal (legal in the UK, legal at the time, openly shown to NatWest bank, the FSA etc.etc.) for a quick buck deal with Enron which prosecutors in Texas are pursuing.
This treaty was never discussed in parliament, spent less than an hour in committee with a majority of the committee members never receiving a draft of the bill either. Democracy? Don't make me laugh...
It's not that simple.
In the very early days (before they became known as National Socialists, Nazis, or the NSDAP), they were the German Workers' Party with about 50-60 members and were considered to be on the left.
Soon after WWI, one A.Hitler was sitting in Munich with not much to do, still under military orders (there was not much work or food or anything in Germany given onerous reparations after WWI) when he was spotted as a charismtic speaker by officers who, at the time, were infiltrating political groups for various reasons (and there were a lot of disparate political parties given the circumstances).
Hitler was asked to go along to the German Workers' Party (curiously, he went reluctantly) and eventually ended up heading the party. Apart from its anti-semitic and virulent nationalist bent, many joined (including Goebbels) specifically because they considered the NSDAP to be a workers' party and essentially socialist.
It was not until the late 1920s, when the party was in danger of being split as a result of Hitler's directly opposing views to the socialist wing that the NSDAP became (effectively) Hitler's party in his own image. One of the reasons that Hitler opposed the socialist wing (besides his own convictions) was because he was being bankrolled by militaristic corporate owners. Does this ring any alarm bells?
Note that the GEZ is far more pernicious than the Beeb's licensing authorities. We lived in Germany for a while and our landlord had arranged and paid for the GEZ but, for some reason, put our name on the license. What no one told us was that, if you move out of the country, you have to notify the GEZ (amongst a bunch of other bureacracies). When we returned 18 months later, we got a TV installed and then got a bill for 18 months of license which we could not have used in the first place. Now that is crazy...
Get real, it's not a tax. You are paying for a service which has seven TV channels for the very great privilege of not having to watch mind-numbingly irritating and boring adverts.
All those in favor of making the murder of men a crime...
Obviously that would be a reasonable bill - but a rider on that same bill declaring that pi = 3.0 would be perfectly OK because you don't have time to read it? What fatuous nonsense. In any case, any sensible legislature creates bills that are specific to the title. Debates about that potential legislation then make sense, adding irrelevant riders makes them nonsense.
Amen brother! Mind-numbingly repetitive fatuous presentations for people who clearly have problems cleaning, cooking, washing and generally making informed decisions as to what products would be most suitable... Bricks have to be banned from our TV room otherwise we would never be able to watch commercial TV for more than 20 minutes without serious damage occurring.
New Scientist is a British weekly generally well-respected science mag that is quoted oh, at least every week on /.
There are plenty of other appalling governments around but straightforward regime change for no other reason than regime change is illegal for any member of the UN.
So a premise was cooked up in the US. Tony Blair was (willingly) brought on board in 2002, the Australian, Polish and other governments fell for the spin and Iraq was invaded and occupied for no good legal reason. The UK and US should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. The US (rightly) fought tooth and nail against imperialist adventures after WWII and twisted the UK government's arm accordingly. Sixty years later and these countries' governments seemed to have learnt nothing. As was pointed out elsewhere, the populations of the UK, Australia, Poland, Spain, Italy etc.etc. were massively against this adventurism but unfortunately, it is we who have to pay for this disaster in the long run...
But there's plenty of other beer fests such as Fasching, the StarkBeer (proper beer, unlike the crap served at the Oktoberfest) fest and so on...
It was effectively a colony that became independent. Same goes for India, Malaya, a host of African countries but never at any time did this halt the democratic process in the UK - because it was stable.
Here you go: Cornell University professor of government Walter Mebane argues that if the best possible voting machinery had been used, Al Gore would have won Florida by 30,000 votes.
And indeed, Sinn Fein (often dubbed the 'political wing' of the IRA) plus DUP, SDLP etc. opposing Sinn Fein all have political representation from a democratic vote on local councils and in the UK parliament. Sounds like a stable democracy to me. Soooo, what was your point?
...his religious delusions of granduer ("God speaks through me")... Oh really? Find me where and when he said that.
Ok: Bush & God
Perhaps, if your representatives have to take any notice of their electorate. But:
"It was bad enough that in 2001 both Republicans and Democrats elevated incumbent protection in redistricting to new levels. In California, for example, incumbent U.S. House Democrats paid $20,000 apiece to a redistricting consultant"the brother of an incumbent"to have "designer districts" drawn for them. Republicans went along with this cozy arrangement in exchange for their own safe seats. The result was an unbroken parade of landslide wins, with no challenger to an incumbent winning even 40 percent of the vote. "
Funny that. I'm working had to get out of the UK (couple of months or so, if things go well). This country is such a poodle of the US. No, really, just take a look at our recent appalling and one-sided extradition treaty with the US. Dangerous stuff.
A coward and anonymous with no information to back up your puerile rant.
The American worker, on average, works longer hours than any other country
Correct (and over a lifetime has worked 40% more hours than in other comparable countries), but it does not mean they are more productive. Both France and Germany have a higher GDP/head/hour than the US. See this based on an Economist article based on a Goldman Sachs report. In effect, it implies that working looong hours ain't doing you the world of good.
complaining about bush, but he inherited a recession
As they should. Bush did not inherit the recession, it started (officially) two months after he came into office. Revisionist history
Just on extra net job would count as a job rise but it wouldn't be much use to the 150,000 (or whatever) per month required for new job seekers.