Lets wait for a study from a place that isn't in the business of educating 'addiction counselors' before we throw away all the studies they claim to have debunked.
Right now. The congress and the president have passed a law preventing the DEA from spending any money enforcing federal pot laws against users.
That could change, but it won't make it cheap and it won't help the fed find jurors willing to convict. Which has also been a big problem for them when charging growers/sellers. Won't find a jury willing to convict a user, anywhere, not even 'bumfuck' Kansas. All defendants refuse to plea, system grinds to halt.
I've spent a good part of my career wiping the floor with competitions large teams. Of course KISS has it's limits, but if I can do it with an 8 person team and I'm competing with a 50 person team, I win 99%+ of the time. I've been hired to put in interim systems that are still running years later while the 'permanent solution' is on it's second restart.
I have been blessed with incompetent competition, and of course, I've got good instincts regarding walking away early if the client is already been blown by one of the big consultancies.
People make accommodations. They lie to cover each other, pad hours, sleep at meetings, always shit at work etc etc etc.
Nobody is working productively for 80 hours/week. All the theater has it's costs.
At 5 years in, they are all _useless_. I bet the business case shifted away from them years ago, but they were too focused on the next stupid task in front of them to realize. It will take a year or more to recover from that kind of deathmarch.
The worst thing about 'being there', is that one really bad thing happening can make the whole thing spiral in. When you're already there 80 (actually working maybe 30), you can't dig deep and find another 10 in an emergency. Usually 80 also means you're constantly in fire fighter mode. Not a sign of planning.
Which isn't to say that planned death marches never work. They just need to be of controlled length and scope. It is possible to go from one to the other in a business, you just need multiple teams and death march relays. But that leaves the second team sitting and waiting, death marches never end on schedule.
Mostly I assess claims of 'constant 80s' as BS. It means they tell each other that. Sometimes by counting golf with coworkers as 'work'. They said 'work sucks' hence an 18 hole/9 drink/9 bowl business meeting.
Of course some professions 'work 80', hotel management. But that 80 includes a ton of 'standing watch'.
It has to suck to be them. Particularly one of the 52 D senators that voted to change the rule. We should send them all nice 'thank you' notes, perhaps with a pacifier.
So the Ruskys can't find anything in the dataset critical of 'fearless leader', more correctly, so they can't tell which server it indirectly came from when they look at the data (at least without extensive traffic analysis).
How did he get string concatenation operators into the SQL string?
He didn't know the language, he couldn't keep quotes matched. Just useless.
Yes, it should have been a parameterized stored procedure, which should have been behind a middleware object. But working in the real world with imperfect code bases is also reality. IIRC He was being asked to modify the code to add an additional, optional filter ('where' clause on already joined table, based on a control having a selection).
It was a symptom of growth. They put in professional HR and we got seats filled. They were 'seat fillers' alright.
At least three backups, Iceland, Russia and China. Not that Russia and China are great, their data will likely have to be encrypted...but they are among the few that won't just take an American order and execute.
Each should have a provision for marking part of its dataset 'edited by court order' (in the foreign copies, so out of the crooked courts reach).
Canada's hate speech laws are awful, almost rival Muslim nations for 'worst practice'.
I'm saying you can tolerate someone struggling but getting by on a sideshow (e.g. a crystal reports person, a DBA (backup monkey, not backend programmer much less DB designer) etc).
You have weird, private definition of 'just hard enough to not get fired'.
I'm saying that communication overhead is a function of team size squared at best. Keeping core team size down is critical. I do this by doing everything possible to maintain individual productivity.
70-80 hour weeks are less productive than 40-50 hour weeks. In anything but the very short run.
In pure rote roles it might work for a little longer, but in a couple of months the 80/week worker is a net negative producer.
Willingness to work 80 hour weeks is a sign of someone who doesn't care about doing good work. Companies full of 80 hour/week people are waiting to implode.
Lawyers don't actually work 80 hours/week, they might bill 160 but work 50. Also note: (many/most/all) law firms have a business plan that involves not telling associates they will never make partner, purely to work them into the ground.
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If I can connect, you have made your computer available in whatever jurisdiction I live in.
I just hope some banana republic crashes it's currency soon.
I'm almost out of $0.99/750ml Brazilian rum. It's been a good run.
Find TYT coverage of election night. It's comedy gold.
The Rs don't need to touch the rules now. Just leave them as they are.
Suggested drink: 'Restraint Chair' Bacardi 151 and Pepsi Max.
Lets wait for a study from a place that isn't in the business of educating 'addiction counselors' before we throw away all the studies they claim to have debunked.
Simple solution, put the 7.3 turbo diesel into the tiny convertible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Right now. The congress and the president have passed a law preventing the DEA from spending any money enforcing federal pot laws against users.
That could change, but it won't make it cheap and it won't help the fed find jurors willing to convict. Which has also been a big problem for them when charging growers/sellers. Won't find a jury willing to convict a user, anywhere, not even 'bumfuck' Kansas. All defendants refuse to plea, system grinds to halt.
Gotta wonder if they will have a system to challenge wrong data behind their 'no fly' list.
You'd be amazed what a two pizza team can do.
I've spent a good part of my career wiping the floor with competitions large teams. Of course KISS has it's limits, but if I can do it with an 8 person team and I'm competing with a 50 person team, I win 99%+ of the time. I've been hired to put in interim systems that are still running years later while the 'permanent solution' is on it's second restart.
I have been blessed with incompetent competition, and of course, I've got good instincts regarding walking away early if the client is already been blown by one of the big consultancies.
The Ds repealed the filibuster dimwit.
They also nominated the worst candidate for president in the history of the USA.
They made their bed, now they can enjoy the ride.
People make accommodations. They lie to cover each other, pad hours, sleep at meetings, always shit at work etc etc etc.
Nobody is working productively for 80 hours/week. All the theater has it's costs.
At 5 years in, they are all _useless_. I bet the business case shifted away from them years ago, but they were too focused on the next stupid task in front of them to realize. It will take a year or more to recover from that kind of deathmarch.
The worst thing about 'being there', is that one really bad thing happening can make the whole thing spiral in. When you're already there 80 (actually working maybe 30), you can't dig deep and find another 10 in an emergency. Usually 80 also means you're constantly in fire fighter mode. Not a sign of planning.
Which isn't to say that planned death marches never work. They just need to be of controlled length and scope. It is possible to go from one to the other in a business, you just need multiple teams and death march relays. But that leaves the second team sitting and waiting, death marches never end on schedule.
Mostly I assess claims of 'constant 80s' as BS. It means they tell each other that. Sometimes by counting golf with coworkers as 'work'. They said 'work sucks' hence an 18 hole/9 drink/9 bowl business meeting.
Of course some professions 'work 80', hotel management. But that 80 includes a ton of 'standing watch'.
Too bad the Democrats put the nuclear option into the rules. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It has to suck to be them. Particularly one of the 52 D senators that voted to change the rule. We should send them all nice 'thank you' notes, perhaps with a pacifier.
Doesn't matter what the law says.
In practice, if you are charged with 'hate speech' in Canada, you are broke even if you clear yourself.
So the Ruskys can't find anything in the dataset critical of 'fearless leader', more correctly, so they can't tell which server it indirectly came from when they look at the data (at least without extensive traffic analysis).
How did he get string concatenation operators into the SQL string?
He didn't know the language, he couldn't keep quotes matched. Just useless.
Yes, it should have been a parameterized stored procedure, which should have been behind a middleware object. But working in the real world with imperfect code bases is also reality. IIRC He was being asked to modify the code to add an additional, optional filter ('where' clause on already joined table, based on a control having a selection).
It was a symptom of growth. They put in professional HR and we got seats filled. They were 'seat fillers' alright.
Powerpoint users can get into a real time edit war, deadlock, than starve while waiting.
Can I dream?
At least three backups, Iceland, Russia and China. Not that Russia and China are great, their data will likely have to be encrypted...but they are among the few that won't just take an American order and execute.
Each should have a provision for marking part of its dataset 'edited by court order' (in the foreign copies, so out of the crooked courts reach).
Canada's hate speech laws are awful, almost rival Muslim nations for 'worst practice'.
What were their food imports #s?
They remember lots of things that never happened.
I'm saying you can tolerate someone struggling but getting by on a sideshow (e.g. a crystal reports person, a DBA (backup monkey, not backend programmer much less DB designer) etc).
You have weird, private definition of 'just hard enough to not get fired'.
I'm saying that communication overhead is a function of team size squared at best. Keeping core team size down is critical. I do this by doing everything possible to maintain individual productivity.
How much ethanol can you distill off the average Finnish corpse? I bet it's significant.
Now that Is a pathetic cry for help.
70-80 hour weeks are less productive than 40-50 hour weeks. In anything but the very short run.
In pure rote roles it might work for a little longer, but in a couple of months the 80/week worker is a net negative producer.
Willingness to work 80 hour weeks is a sign of someone who doesn't care about doing good work. Companies full of 80 hour/week people are waiting to implode.
Lawyers don't actually work 80 hours/week, they might bill 160 but work 50. Also note: (many/most/all) law firms have a business plan that involves not telling associates they will never make partner, purely to work them into the ground.