Sure they built it in 4 months... But likely spent the last 9 years figuring out why SAP was bad. Hence they knew what they wanted (by now)... Hire some good s/w developers and voila... you'll have a better system from the get-go. That's business systems 101: it's all about domain knowledge. Sure they built it in 4 months, but I see it took them 8.6 years to create it... by understanding why the SAP solution sucked and the experience on what worked and what didn't.
If they started from scratch with no SAP experience.... well I'm sure we'd see a different story. The same story as Oracle, MS, HP, IBM, and SAP (i.e. their in-house systems suck big time).
Now some new MBA graduate will disagree: now new systems can be built in 4 months, muck did it... then again...
But all 3 companies listed will have those rock stars that will: a. look at the code and call is rubbish. b. ask to rewrite the whole thing c. charge an arm and a leg to do it within time. d. run it under agile (so THEY control the requirements, not the domain experts).
Really they should have hired the guys that do turbotax and such.... it works for the type of users on this healthcare system. The above 3 will struggle through it as well... but will milk it for all it's worth.
All I say to the Obamacare management team & Obama: TAKE A STEP BACK, WAIT.... ASSESS THE PROBLEMS one by one, THEN HIRE THE RIGHT FOLKS. This is a knee jerk reaction and will go down in flames. Of course, the valley and wall street is loving it....
Young MBA folks: this is your Y2K computer problem moment. Remember those times: the panic, the flooding of cash, and nothing happened afterall? Yeah, get ready for another internet boom/bust.
With upgrade cycles within months, why review something that gets added features within a year.
In the old days, you made an investment with s/w products, cause the refactor/version cycles were in years. Now it's in months--for cloud apps, maybe weeks.
I was there when the SSC was cancel, ready to move to Dallas and then found I didn't have a job start date (cause it was canceled).
Luckily for that time, The Internet showed up and 15yrs later from that detour I'm trying to get back into pure Physics.
For the younglings of today trying to excerise the power of the Force (literally, f=ma, mind that), I'm not sure what they'll drop into if they don't get a position at places like LHC since headcount is very tight and current senior positions are occupied in young PhDs with another 20yrs going for them. Social Media and Wall Street are dying out, but there maybe some hope with "Big Data".
All research currently is with these small bots, minipucks and such. But research as also shown that mass doesn't scale well in the algorithms used for collision avoidance and path planning. They just are not robust enough to handle non-linearity that occurs in the environment--which means that demo will not scale well.
Adding it to the dictionary has been reported on the mainstream news joints, like every 15 minutes all day today. It's been used enough today in the news to warrant the word to be lost for the next 5 years... only to be revived by a question in jeopardy. Thanks mainstream [advertising] media! Now I am late for my 9am home room class (right).
I guess dictionaries have gone social to be relevant. Cause I thought words get added when there's long term meaningfulness. I doubt Twerking is one of them considering technology dies out, i.e. becomes obsolete, for better tech and adding words based on stuff that will be obsolete is just plain illogical.
Otherwise, gosh, we live in a 'look at me!' world nowadays (I'm looking at you Oxford folks).
"The place I used to work for was re-engineering the C++ Source code of their biggest client, rewriting it into Java, and calling it their own..."
Basically what every SBA company does daily. Every SBA company... and typically copying from paid [by us tax payers] gov't work.
I remember working for a Chap11 company that basically took code from it's former self (chap 11 several times!), which originally came from some Wall Street Firm--messaging algorithms used for trades we were rewriting it for use in cellphone messaging.
This type of copying happens daily, nothing new here. Is it illegal--well it's up to what lawyers say.... in court. Ethically, it's wrong unless credit is given.
And there' the problem with his argument. Taking existing tech and retro fitting to the application. I rather have batteries constructed in space (via mining asteroids) and 'drop shipping' them to the ground. Then being recycled when used up. Hopefully by the time we have too much to recycle, space elevators will be created of the cost of shipping stuff back into space is 1/20th the current costs.
The current thoughts about space based power does not take an integrated approach, much like we are taking a bit from the river with a spoon rather than stepping into the river with a bucket.
Then imagine nearly unlimited common power and power generation in space? People will move up there... and that changes the whole game.
No it makes sense.... But depends on the public transportation system failing.
If so, by then, cars will be self-driving and likely disposable, just like every other mass-produced product, even those today. It's critical for it to scale (being disposable that is). And don't worry, they'll likely be highly recyclable too.
Information is already made disposable... Google deprecated links after a few years, your email gets deleted (anyone still have an email from 2004?), and inactive accounts get removed by every service within short time. It's all about achieving scale.
This makes some sense. Nearly all Fortune 500 companies offer some type of personnel training in the form of "University", aka Disney Univeristy, Oracle University, Cisco University, P&G University, etc... is typically what they are called. And if I recall can cost upto $2K (internal overhead) per course which lasts 2 weeks on avg.
"Off shoring" the corporate training basically to Academia removes the overhead costs and the companies can reducing training offerings as needed (during layoffs for instance). As for Academia, they would like to have the funding of this extra private money and will legitimize smaller schools that want to compete against the big dogs (Ivy, big state universities). Somewhat of a win-win short term, BUT will push training responsbility off corporations to individuals (we all might as well be contractors) and schools will push what businesses want rather than trailblazing or going against the status quo, as basis for a free thinking environment. Hence long term this is is likely bad.
First it was basically technology and development, where corporations (most from Silicon Valley, just program managed by the big DoD firms), abused the arrangement by just delivering vaporware and overpriced consultants. Of course the tech eventually got there (at least by 2006) with the aftermath...
And now with Snowden, it's shows the failure (?) of Eagle Alliance (EA was created to make IT into a COTS like effort, in the end to reduce IT costs and keep the agency 'current' in skillset); where it appears you had a group of competent IT admins, but regardless of right OR wrong, the bottomline truth is these admins had the same ethics as any IT guy in a Fortune 500 company. And we all know fortune 500 IT admins think with their convictions than follow the rules.
Trust is one of the biggest things in the intel community, hence why it's a tight knit group and honestly a bunch of really nice folks. It's the orders they get from the politicians that make things messy, but you take an oath to trust and execute.
point that we forget that leaders cannot do any good if they do not have good followers.
Hence why they want good leaders... cause the company you're interviewing with obviously has incompetent management and is bound to fail. A good leader knows he needs to build a team, and a team with good members, skill-wise and culture-wise. Most teams out there are just plain dysfunctional. And that's why business love military guys as managers--they can built a team out of anyone (in most cases).
FYI, 98% of companies out there suck, and likely will fail (or be bought). Hence why businesses always looks for leader/management skills: there's plenty to choose from, but few succeed. Where as there's plenty of guru hotshot workers, that are consistent, even down to the expert guy putting up the cable TV.
Folks, the game changed a long time ago with web and mobile apps.
Linux is still a desktop OS, it does what it does well. Android is a bandaid compared to a true mobile OS.... which doesn't exist yet (or did as in PalmOS/variants). Or none has presented itself until I can run a freaking google search without a 2GHz quadcore processor.
A former buddy of mine at 'the fort' (cough) once said information wants to be free.
Having worked not soley at the fort (like my buddy) but at SV companies to launching rockets, I found that his assertion was not true, but that information wants to be exploited. It's already free if you search "the right way" (as mentioned by another buddy at the 'other' agency).
Hence, How'd the government know what they were Googling?"
Easy. Just like every other company that does ads, they buy the info from Google.
Of course, once weak selectors have triggered from the google data, the gov't has other systems (e.g. let's say telco info) to get the location and possibly user of the IP address that google recorded. It's what's been known in all market analysis and the hollywood industry for awhile: federated metadata search. Big Data Analytics is the buzz word for it nowadays. Nothing new here.
Now what do we get out of this? That being anonymous is NOT anonymous anymore. We've hit the Uncertainty Principle in information sharing: if you touch "the system", you're identified. Period. Much like if you measure it, you effect the results. So to the tinfoil hat folks, either stay under your rock or quit complaining and 'work' the system (aka opt in or opt out).
Lastly, the Gov't takes actions that are threatening, where as the credit card companies do the exact same pattern matching, and take similar actions, of course less threatening to you by context. Think about it and you'd be more surprised if the gov't wasn't doing this in the 1st place.
They may be in the same hospital building, but they get very different treatment from what you or I get. That's because your average Joe is as valuable to a hospital as his insurance policy, but a rich guy is worth far more
Yes, the rich guy is worth 100x more. And typically has a floor/wing of the building named after so rich guy that later contributed to the facility.
Maybe it's because Linux [kernel] isn't the complete solution, but just part of the solution.
that's why MS, Apple, Android, BB, etc... still control the majority of the market, they provide the support tool, services, or features in a way that people find or think they have a complete solution. Linux by itself does not: hence why IBM and Redhat are doing so well and the Year of the Linux desktop has become nothing to the average consumer and the butt of a joke in this community.
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Sure they built it in 4 months...
But likely spent the last 9 years figuring out why SAP was bad. Hence they knew what they wanted (by now)... Hire some good s/w developers and voila... you'll have a better system from the get-go. That's business systems 101: it's all about domain knowledge. Sure they built it in 4 months, but I see it took them 8.6 years to create it... by understanding why the SAP solution sucked and the experience on what worked and what didn't.
If they started from scratch with no SAP experience.... well I'm sure we'd see a different story. The same story as Oracle, MS, HP, IBM, and SAP (i.e. their in-house systems suck big time).
Now some new MBA graduate will disagree: now new systems can be built in 4 months, muck did it... then again...
But all 3 companies listed will have those rock stars that will:
a. look at the code and call is rubbish.
b. ask to rewrite the whole thing
c. charge an arm and a leg to do it within time.
d. run it under agile (so THEY control the requirements, not the domain experts).
Really they should have hired the guys that do turbotax and such.... it works for the type of users on this healthcare system. The above 3 will struggle through it as well... but will milk it for all it's worth.
All I say to the Obamacare management team & Obama: TAKE A STEP BACK, WAIT.... ASSESS THE PROBLEMS one by one, THEN HIRE THE RIGHT FOLKS. This is a knee jerk reaction and will go down in flames. Of course, the valley and wall street is loving it....
Young MBA folks: this is your Y2K computer problem moment. Remember those times: the panic, the flooding of cash, and nothing happened afterall? Yeah, get ready for another internet boom/bust.
With upgrade cycles within months, why review something that gets added features within a year.
In the old days, you made an investment with s/w products, cause the refactor/version cycles were in years. Now it's in months--for cloud apps, maybe weeks.
I was there when the SSC was cancel, ready to move to Dallas and then found I didn't have a job start date (cause it was canceled).
Luckily for that time, The Internet showed up and 15yrs later from that detour I'm trying to get back into pure Physics.
For the younglings of today trying to excerise the power of the Force (literally, f=ma, mind that), I'm not sure what they'll drop into if they don't get a position at places like LHC since headcount is very tight and current senior positions are occupied in young PhDs with another 20yrs going for them. Social Media and Wall Street are dying out, but there maybe some hope with "Big Data".
Good point.
All research currently is with these small bots, minipucks and such. But research as also shown that mass doesn't scale well in the algorithms used for collision avoidance and path planning. They just are not robust enough to handle non-linearity that occurs in the environment--which means that demo will not scale well.
Cook from Apple becomes MS's new CEO.
Iger from Disney takes over the Apple spot.
And the musical chairs continue...
Enough with Twerking.
Adding it to the dictionary has been reported on the mainstream news joints, like every 15 minutes all day today. It's been used enough today in the news to warrant the word to be lost for the next 5 years... only to be revived by a question in jeopardy. Thanks mainstream [advertising] media! Now I am late for my 9am home room class (right).
I guess dictionaries have gone social to be relevant. Cause I thought words get added when there's long term meaningfulness. I doubt Twerking is one of them considering technology dies out, i.e. becomes obsolete, for better tech and adding words based on stuff that will be obsolete is just plain illogical.
Otherwise, gosh, we live in a 'look at me!' world nowadays (I'm looking at you Oxford folks).
"The place I used to work for was re-engineering the C++ Source code of their biggest client, rewriting it into Java, and calling it their own..."
Basically what every SBA company does daily. Every SBA company... and typically copying from paid [by us tax payers] gov't work.
I remember working for a Chap11 company that basically took code from it's former self (chap 11 several times!), which originally came from some Wall Street Firm--messaging algorithms used for trades we were rewriting it for use in cellphone messaging.
This type of copying happens daily, nothing new here. Is it illegal--well it's up to what lawyers say.... in court. Ethically, it's wrong unless credit is given.
"microwave link to the ground. "
And there' the problem with his argument. Taking existing tech and retro fitting to the application. I rather have batteries constructed in space (via mining asteroids) and 'drop shipping' them to the ground. Then being recycled when used up. Hopefully by the time we have too much to recycle, space elevators will be created of the cost of shipping stuff back into space is 1/20th the current costs.
The current thoughts about space based power does not take an integrated approach, much like we are taking a bit from the river with a spoon rather than stepping into the river with a bucket.
Then imagine nearly unlimited common power and power generation in space? People will move up there... and that changes the whole game.
No it makes sense.... But depends on the public transportation system failing.
If so, by then, cars will be self-driving and likely disposable, just like every other mass-produced product, even those today. It's critical for it to scale (being disposable that is). And don't worry, they'll likely be highly recyclable too.
Information is already made disposable... Google deprecated links after a few years, your email gets deleted (anyone still have an email from 2004?), and inactive accounts get removed by every service within short time. It's all about achieving scale.
This makes some sense. Nearly all Fortune 500 companies offer some type of personnel training in the form of "University", aka Disney Univeristy, Oracle University, Cisco University, P&G University, etc... is typically what they are called. And if I recall can cost upto $2K (internal overhead) per course which lasts 2 weeks on avg.
"Off shoring" the corporate training basically to Academia removes the overhead costs and the companies can reducing training offerings as needed (during layoffs for instance). As for Academia, they would like to have the funding of this extra private money and will legitimize smaller schools that want to compete against the big dogs (Ivy, big state universities). Somewhat of a win-win short term, BUT will push training responsbility off corporations to individuals (we all might as well be contractors) and schools will push what businesses want rather than trailblazing or going against the status quo, as basis for a free thinking environment. Hence long term this is is likely bad.
Until [lead] gamers stop referring to their profession to solving mankind's problems. This will continue.
First it was basically technology and development, where corporations (most from Silicon Valley, just program managed by the big DoD firms), abused the arrangement by just delivering vaporware and overpriced consultants. Of course the tech eventually got there (at least by 2006) with the aftermath...
And now with Snowden, it's shows the failure (?) of Eagle Alliance (EA was created to make IT into a COTS like effort, in the end to reduce IT costs and keep the agency 'current' in skillset); where it appears you had a group of competent IT admins, but regardless of right OR wrong, the bottomline truth is these admins had the same ethics as any IT guy in a Fortune 500 company. And we all know fortune 500 IT admins think with their convictions than follow the rules.
Trust is one of the biggest things in the intel community, hence why it's a tight knit group and honestly a bunch of really nice folks. It's the orders they get from the politicians that make things messy, but you take an oath to trust and execute.
Also, yes, leadership is overrated, cause who owns the podium? The leader/managers.
If the workers owned the podium, guess who would be overrated then? Scrum teams come to mind (cough/flamebait/cough)
point that we forget that leaders cannot do any good if they do not have good followers.
Hence why they want good leaders... cause the company you're interviewing with obviously has incompetent management and is bound to fail. A good leader knows he needs to build a team, and a team with good members, skill-wise and culture-wise. Most teams out there are just plain dysfunctional. And that's why business love military guys as managers--they can built a team out of anyone (in most cases).
FYI, 98% of companies out there suck, and likely will fail (or be bought). Hence why businesses always looks for leader/management skills: there's plenty to choose from, but few succeed. Where as there's plenty of guru hotshot workers, that are consistent, even down to the expert guy putting up the cable TV.
High security facilities don't use those keys anymore, nearly all Fortune 500 companies use them for office doors (looking at mine right here).
Just ask our agency buddies: it's all about spin-locks, electronics and CCTV for locks.
Bingo.
Folks, the game changed a long time ago with web and mobile apps.
Linux is still a desktop OS, it does what it does well. Android is a bandaid compared to a true mobile OS.... which doesn't exist yet (or did as in PalmOS/variants). Or none has presented itself until I can run a freaking google search without a 2GHz quadcore processor.
A former buddy of mine at 'the fort' (cough) once said information wants to be free.
Having worked not soley at the fort (like my buddy) but at SV companies to launching rockets, I found that his assertion was not true, but that information wants to be exploited. It's already free if you search "the right way" (as mentioned by another buddy at the 'other' agency).
Hence, How'd the government know what they were Googling?"
Easy. Just like every other company that does ads, they buy the info from Google.
Of course, once weak selectors have triggered from the google data, the gov't has other systems (e.g. let's say telco info) to get the location and possibly user of the IP address that google recorded. It's what's been known in all market analysis and the hollywood industry for awhile: federated metadata search. Big Data Analytics is the buzz word for it nowadays. Nothing new here.
Now what do we get out of this? That being anonymous is NOT anonymous anymore. We've hit the Uncertainty Principle in information sharing: if you touch "the system", you're identified. Period. Much like if you measure it, you effect the results. So to the tinfoil hat folks, either stay under your rock or quit complaining and 'work' the system (aka opt in or opt out).
Lastly, the Gov't takes actions that are threatening, where as the credit card companies do the exact same pattern matching, and take similar actions, of course less threatening to you by context. Think about it and you'd be more surprised if the gov't wasn't doing this in the 1st place.
They may be in the same hospital building, but they get very different treatment from what you or I get. That's because your average Joe is as valuable to a hospital as his insurance policy, but a rich guy is worth far more
Yes, the rich guy is worth 100x more. And typically has a floor/wing of the building named after so rich guy that later contributed to the facility.
"live up to its potential as an educational tool"
Thank business and advertisement industries for that. They have no care for the educational system aside from selling/exploiting it.
Why not a android phone and the ADK board? Sort of the best of both worlds with a sacrifice in footprint..
Why do you think Google is making self-driving cars?
To get you to the store after you see that sky advertisement.
Office productivity and a high tech software company:
Please refer to The Matrix, scene 5.
Maybe it's because Linux [kernel] isn't the complete solution, but just part of the solution.
that's why MS, Apple, Android, BB, etc... still control the majority of the market, they provide the support tool, services, or features in a way that people find or think they have a complete solution. Linux by itself does not: hence why IBM and Redhat are doing so well and the Year of the Linux desktop has become nothing to the average consumer and the butt of a joke in this community.
There is no cat.