Yes let's. I actually enjoy the pedantic arguments, being a terrible person. Because it's not like 0 is the bottom of IQ tests, anyways. It's just 6.5 standard deviations from the norm, which, by the way, would be less than the population of Canada, but more than zero.
Being an expatriate of another country(especially a rival) is pretty much universal cause for suspicion by the CIA/NSA/FBI. Just try and get security clearance if you are one(it'll never happen).
As long as you don't mind being one of those species. Sure. Guess what: your species depends on its environment to a greater degree than others like cockroaches or jellyfish.
Well, actually, no one in the upper levels of Washington enjoy the end of finger-pointing. Cable news networks love to bring "experts"(politicians) on to describe the problem(blame someone). The politicians love to be on TV, because name recognition is the top indicator of electability in this stupid-damn-country.
Thank you for the answer. I found similar assertions after a bit of sifting through news searches(with the caveat that they haven't yet actually answered the FOIA requests about the bidding process).
That $600MM figure is, naturally, a fabrication. That's the total amount of all software contract work by the entire department of health and human services in the time-frame of 2009-2013. Needless to say, if you can't imagine what other outlays that might include, you're crazy. $93MM(the real number) is still a lot, but 9 women can't delivery a baby in a month.
It doesn't matter, because the people raising the complaints don't understand software engineering in the slightest. If anyone here has ever released a first version of entire multi-function web-application without a lot of bugs on release day, they almost certainly spent a positively absurd amount of time(like a year or more) on nothing but QA.
Every single person inside our industry ought to know that software engineers produce 10x as many features as other engineers with 1000x as many defects(and that's low balling it) in a given timespan.
Plllleeeeeeeease. Off the top of my head: The War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and the Spanish-American were all department of war era unprovoked land-grabs by the U.S. Not to mention the Texan revolution wherein a bunch of foreign-born terrorists overthrew a legitimate government in order to establish a slave state.
Your being unfair. They're blindingly obvious to 60% of the people involved in the right industry. Software/hardware illiterate people would have no idea what you're talking about.
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Yes let's. I actually enjoy the pedantic arguments, being a terrible person. Because it's not like 0 is the bottom of IQ tests, anyways. It's just 6.5 standard deviations from the norm, which, by the way, would be less than the population of Canada, but more than zero.
Being an expatriate of another country(especially a rival) is pretty much universal cause for suspicion by the CIA/NSA/FBI. Just try and get security clearance if you are one(it'll never happen).
Usually you normalize IQ tests to an appropriate population taking the test.
For now. I don't trust the world's biggest advertiser to control my "user experience". There's a ghastly conflict of interest there.
average IQ in Canada just hit one...
...hundred. Definitionally.
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And sometimes the long-term consequences of those changes make the environment substantially less livable.
As long as you don't mind being one of those species. Sure. Guess what: your species depends on its environment to a greater degree than others like cockroaches or jellyfish.
I forgot that the library of Alexandria had a big pile of archived cat photos.
Okay, I'm going to have to re-re-consider my position, in light of that much more detailed investigative evidence.
Something else for the environment list to get all uppity about. When are they going to realize we live on a dynamic planet!?
What does this even mean? Do you even know?
You'd be surprised at just how much competitive benefit a central nervous system provides.
Well, actually, no one in the upper levels of Washington enjoy the end of finger-pointing. Cable news networks love to bring "experts"(politicians) on to describe the problem(blame someone). The politicians love to be on TV, because name recognition is the top indicator of electability in this stupid-damn-country.
And if we hadn't overfished turtles(with their incredibly long life cycle), the jellyfish population would likely be in check.
Thank you for the answer. I found similar assertions after a bit of sifting through news searches(with the caveat that they haven't yet actually answered the FOIA requests about the bidding process).
A bit of news searching eventually answered my question. The answer is: if there was a bidding process, it was kept secret.
That $600MM figure is, naturally, a fabrication. That's the total amount of all software contract work by the entire department of health and human services in the time-frame of 2009-2013. Needless to say, if you can't imagine what other outlays that might include, you're crazy. $93MM(the real number) is still a lot, but 9 women can't delivery a baby in a month.
Sorry for contradicting what your post said instead of blindly agreeing with whatever nonsense you clearly meant.
Was this no-bid? I'm given to understand it was standard federal bidding process, but I haven't actually looked into that particular facet.
It doesn't matter, because the people raising the complaints don't understand software engineering in the slightest. If anyone here has ever released a first version of entire multi-function web-application without a lot of bugs on release day, they almost certainly spent a positively absurd amount of time(like a year or more) on nothing but QA.
Every single person inside our industry ought to know that software engineers produce 10x as many features as other engineers with 1000x as many defects(and that's low balling it) in a given timespan.
Plllleeeeeeeease. Off the top of my head:
The War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and the Spanish-American were all department of war era unprovoked land-grabs by the U.S. Not to mention the Texan revolution wherein a bunch of foreign-born terrorists overthrew a legitimate government in order to establish a slave state.
Either people are free to murder, or we're in a totalitarian state. It's not a strawman when it's exactly what you just implied.
Yeah, I realized that too. Can I have partial credit for showing my work?
Like tulip bulbs then?
Your being unfair. They're blindingly obvious to 60% of the people involved in the right industry. Software/hardware illiterate people would have no idea what you're talking about.