With no math knowledge your available problem scope is tiny.
With little math knowledge your available problem scope is basically 'computer bean counting'.
If you ever want to use a float after you finish school. Study your math, not so much the CS discrete math; Calcuseless, diffeq, controls. (I'll go ahead and say it, switch to EE if you can hack it.)
CS isn't coding, But 'CS people' that don't (and especially can't) code are useless. If you can't already program in two or more languages when you are finishing HS and considering a college major, drop CS from your list, do yourself a favor. The girls are rare and almost as odd as your male classmates.
In waterfall (as practiced), when a design flaw is identified the process goes back one or two steps to design/analysis before dropping back to coding. You aren't forced to code to release before updating design (just as you constantly go back to coding from testing). In a working group, those 'formal steps' are just within the team, but do generate updated design documents.
You don't sit there 'imagining software'. You sit with the client staff, examining their current process and sort 'essential' things from 'things they've always done that way'. More often than not you have to learn a bunch of stuff about the industry. Then you have to understand what about the process is currently broken and how a computer will fix that.
Have you ever worked on a commercial software project?
The agile manifesto is a pretty useless collection of platitudes. To deliver working software in the real world, you have to follow old fashioned waterfall steps like 'testing'.
Agile as practiced, isn't. It's an excuse for PHBs to feature creep and never, ever plan anything. PHBs will use agile as an excuse for giving out partial specs when they know better (so the coders will build them a simple system first, not knowing the model is broken).
The first part of the Agile manifesto referred to 'motivated enthusiastic individuals' (para from memory)...those people are well paid. If a company pays 'industry average' it _cannot_ be agile (per the manifesto).
Except that's not how it works. Nobody, not even beltway bandits, can afford to do the analysis for free. If they don't know what exactly their problem is, the contract is time and materials. With milestones around completing the design.
What incompetent electricians will do is use the cold water pipe as a ground. Still more incompetent electricians will attach a hot wire to the the cold water pipe (that isn't even grounded because it's attached to plastic pipe).
It's like watching a slow motion train wreck. Dotcom 1 all over again. I even saw a TV ad for a website that sells dog food. Those of us that went through this before should remember that business model...how did it get funded...again?
In America a Taxi also needs a dispatch service. A number the customer calls to get 'a cab', not a different cell# for each cab.
Many cabbies will give you a better rate if you call their cell phone, obviously the dispatch company isn't taking a piece. But then you have to chase one that's available.
Not every city has a medallion system like NYC. Truth is, I'm surprised the big German cities don't have a problem with too many cabs. Does it work as you describe in Hamburg?
I once knew an old drunk who bought a used cab, on the theory that the cops wouldn't fuck with him on the way home from bars. Didn't work.
Waterfall doesn't have analysis and planning phases?
You're just wrong, waterfall handles 'honestly new' just fine. Virtually every piece of software used was built with waterfall.
What it doesn't handle is 'constantly shifting demands', but agile doesn't handle that at all well either, nothing does. If the customer doesn't understand the problem, you have an analysis problem, no methodology will solve it.
If the problem changes faster than you can release, the best move is not to automate that part until it settles down.
Agile is just waterfall with all the roles and phases renamed and with a fixed, very rapid, iteration cycle.
Cruz was right down the middle standard 'dumb as a rock, bible thumper republican'. Analogous to Sanders, from the lunatic wing of the party and not very electable in the general but still 'same old same old'.
The Republican establishment candidates got no traction this year. I think they all saw it down as a loser year and didn't want to 'take the hit' so didn't really try. Cruz was just blinded by his religion, so did try. I think Trump started out to troll the system and now has a tiger by the tail.
Apparently about 1/3 of Sanders votes were simply protest votes. Those are going to Trump.
Which still leaves Sanders with more than the usual 'vote for whoever promises me more free shit' voters. Who knows where they will land. Likely many will stay home as not enough 'free shit' is being offered by anybody.
The dirty secret is: Of all the mismanaged currencies in the world, the British Pound is _by far_ the worst.
England is an economic canary. How the 'powers that be' engineered the delma of 'Pound vs Euro' as 'the referendum' on the euro has to be a deeply interesting story.
All props are consumable items and eventually become wall art.
Those look like they were bought out of the giant scale RC plane market.
At least they have six, gives the computer a chance at a controlled crash landing if one fails. Of course the passenger is sitting more or less in rotating plane, so good broken prop catching fun potential.
They would be buried, along with the bones that we do find.
If there had been a successful intelligent dinosaur, we would find the toilets. Millions of intelligent creatures would require millions of toilets.
You long argument could also be used to claim that we would never find any fossils, at all. Clearly any single find had low odds, but their is a large numerator in play as well.
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There are two kinds of people in the world. Those that have studied math until it gets hard for them and those that haven't.
Anybody that tells you 'math is not hard' is really telling you 'I'm lazy and unmotivated'.
With no math knowledge your available problem scope is tiny.
With little math knowledge your available problem scope is basically 'computer bean counting'.
If you ever want to use a float after you finish school. Study your math, not so much the CS discrete math; Calcuseless, diffeq, controls. (I'll go ahead and say it, switch to EE if you can hack it.)
CS isn't coding, But 'CS people' that don't (and especially can't) code are useless. If you can't already program in two or more languages when you are finishing HS and considering a college major, drop CS from your list, do yourself a favor. The girls are rare and almost as odd as your male classmates.
One further thing.
In waterfall (as practiced), when a design flaw is identified the process goes back one or two steps to design/analysis before dropping back to coding. You aren't forced to code to release before updating design (just as you constantly go back to coding from testing). In a working group, those 'formal steps' are just within the team, but do generate updated design documents.
You don't sit there 'imagining software'. You sit with the client staff, examining their current process and sort 'essential' things from 'things they've always done that way'. More often than not you have to learn a bunch of stuff about the industry. Then you have to understand what about the process is currently broken and how a computer will fix that.
Have you ever worked on a commercial software project?
The agile manifesto is a pretty useless collection of platitudes. To deliver working software in the real world, you have to follow old fashioned waterfall steps like 'testing'.
Agile as practiced, isn't. It's an excuse for PHBs to feature creep and never, ever plan anything. PHBs will use agile as an excuse for giving out partial specs when they know better (so the coders will build them a simple system first, not knowing the model is broken).
The first part of the Agile manifesto referred to 'motivated enthusiastic individuals' (para from memory)...those people are well paid. If a company pays 'industry average' it _cannot_ be agile (per the manifesto).
Except that's not how it works. Nobody, not even beltway bandits, can afford to do the analysis for free. If they don't know what exactly their problem is, the contract is time and materials. With milestones around completing the design.
Why would you have to? It's plenty broken, mostly by the do gooders trying to make it do stupid things.
You don't ground a showerhead.
What incompetent electricians will do is use the cold water pipe as a ground. Still more incompetent electricians will attach a hot wire to the the cold water pipe (that isn't even grounded because it's attached to plastic pipe).
That's not waterfall. That's 'off the cliff'.
And yet their market cap is?
It's like watching a slow motion train wreck. Dotcom 1 all over again. I even saw a TV ad for a website that sells dog food. Those of us that went through this before should remember that business model...how did it get funded...again?
In America a Taxi also needs a dispatch service. A number the customer calls to get 'a cab', not a different cell# for each cab.
Many cabbies will give you a better rate if you call their cell phone, obviously the dispatch company isn't taking a piece. But then you have to chase one that's available.
Not every city has a medallion system like NYC. Truth is, I'm surprised the big German cities don't have a problem with too many cabs. Does it work as you describe in Hamburg?
I once knew an old drunk who bought a used cab, on the theory that the cops wouldn't fuck with him on the way home from bars. Didn't work.
In the real world Agile is more often an excuse than a methodology.
Waterfall doesn't have analysis and planning phases?
You're just wrong, waterfall handles 'honestly new' just fine. Virtually every piece of software used was built with waterfall.
What it doesn't handle is 'constantly shifting demands', but agile doesn't handle that at all well either, nothing does. If the customer doesn't understand the problem, you have an analysis problem, no methodology will solve it.
If the problem changes faster than you can release, the best move is not to automate that part until it settles down.
Agile is just waterfall with all the roles and phases renamed and with a fixed, very rapid, iteration cycle.
Lawyering requires good memorization, not so much smarts.
Anybody who can buy into his particular flavor of christian IS DUMB. He's from the gibberish talking, demon expelling lunatic fringe.
When flying, altitude gives you time to deal with the unexpected. 30 ft is the last altitude you'd want to cruise at.
Toilets wouldn't have to fossilize though.
You can't prove a negative. But if there was a successful, technological, intelligent species of dinosaurs they would have left signs.
Cruz was right down the middle standard 'dumb as a rock, bible thumper republican'. Analogous to Sanders, from the lunatic wing of the party and not very electable in the general but still 'same old same old'.
The Republican establishment candidates got no traction this year. I think they all saw it down as a loser year and didn't want to 'take the hit' so didn't really try. Cruz was just blinded by his religion, so did try. I think Trump started out to troll the system and now has a tiger by the tail.
Clinton is the obvious winner. Yeah for gridlock.
Apparently about 1/3 of Sanders votes were simply protest votes. Those are going to Trump.
Which still leaves Sanders with more than the usual 'vote for whoever promises me more free shit' voters. Who knows where they will land. Likely many will stay home as not enough 'free shit' is being offered by anybody.
The day the UK leaves the european economic zone, it join NAFTA.
The dirty secret is: Of all the mismanaged currencies in the world, the British Pound is _by far_ the worst.
England is an economic canary. How the 'powers that be' engineered the delma of 'Pound vs Euro' as 'the referendum' on the euro has to be a deeply interesting story.
He took over enough of German industry to put 'the fear' into the rest. But he was enough of a realist to not fully implement socialism while at war.
All props are consumable items and eventually become wall art.
Those look like they were bought out of the giant scale RC plane market.
At least they have six, gives the computer a chance at a controlled crash landing if one fails. Of course the passenger is sitting more or less in rotating plane, so good broken prop catching fun potential.
They would be buried, along with the bones that we do find.
If there had been a successful intelligent dinosaur, we would find the toilets. Millions of intelligent creatures would require millions of toilets.
You long argument could also be used to claim that we would never find any fossils, at all. Clearly any single find had low odds, but their is a large numerator in play as well.
Persians were very much into math and science, Arabs not so much.
Islam taking over Persia was a historic disaster.
If there were intelligent dinosaurs they would have had to deal with sewage to prevent disease.
In their efforts to deal with sewage they would have discovered porcelain. It's simply the best material to make toilets out of.
Porcelain is stable for geologic timescales. Assuming a large population of intelligent dinosaurs, there would be toilets in the fossil record.
That's not how orbital mechanics works. Two bodies passing pretty much won't capture each other.