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  1. Re:Do older programmers even need help? on Ask Slashdot: What Training Helps Older Programmers Most? · · Score: 1

    But it wouldn't hurt to do some things like learn some basic things - are they married, what's their spouse's name, kids names, what they like to do, etc.

    You are silly.

    Why should I do that with "strangers"?

    At the very worst, you shoot them an email every few months asking how they're doing. That's it.
    Yeah, and they would file me to the junk mail. Sorry ... if that works in your world: fine. In my world writing an ex colleague every few month "hi how are you doing" would raise extreme suspicious eye brows.

  2. Re:Do older programmers even need help? on Ask Slashdot: What Training Helps Older Programmers Most? · · Score: 1

    Networking is a form of communication. If they're not good at this form, what others are they bad at?
    First of all, you have to come to the idea to do networking.
    And my first 20 years of being a software developer, that idea never occurred to me.

    And after it was several times proposed: I simply refuse to do that. It is a waste of time for me, and frankly I would not know "how to do it".

    So, if that leads you to your question: "what others are they bad at?"

    I don't know. I only want people to be abel to talk about our software and be able to implement it. I don't need them to be god in networking to Âpull me with them if they leave to another job.

    Also: I'm freelancer. I can not simply pull people with me into another job. On top of that, I live in Europe. People rarely change jobs here.

    Can you name 10 people that you've worked with in the last decade who you'd want to hire?
    Yes, but for that I don't need to network or stay with them in "professional contact".

  3. Re:The propblem is bad accounting practices. on App Developers Spend Too Much Time Debugging Errors in Production Systems (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    What is the point of what? DevOps?
    Someone has to provide the infrastructure. Instead of having mediocre admins or forcing the developers to do that themselves and hence subtracting some of their work time, you have DevOps. And that is a "role" as in a position in a team and not a method, agile or not.

    The point I was making is that every time some one tries to improve process and therefore hopefully the end result, it gets subverted.
    Then stop the developers subverting it, plain and simple.

  4. Re:Parliament should approve on UK's Brexit Cannot Pass Without Parliament Approval (aljazeera.com) · · Score: 1

    My parent used it, the term "sovereignty". And he does not know what it means. I do ...

    My parent claimed also the vote was a super clear one, which it wasn't. No idea why you side track with "supermajrority" when this never was the question or point made.

  5. Re:inability to fully recreate production environm on App Developers Spend Too Much Time Debugging Errors in Production Systems (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    If someone is "fragile" it is hardly a problem of the "method" used ... such teams will be producing bad software ... or good software in a badly way produced, regardless of method.

  6. Re:Give up on Ask Slashdot: What Training Helps Older Programmers Most? · · Score: 1

    Because they earned enough money?
    Are tired of training 6h aday or more?
    Tired of spending the weekend traveling to events/games instead of spending them with family or friends?

    There are probaby plenty of reasons.

  7. Re: Are linux adverts still bad adverts? on MacBook Pro (2016) Disappointment Pushes Some Apple Loyalists To Ubuntu Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Most likely not Warcraft or Starcraft, games like that don't use much computing power.

    Why my laptop can run 6 eVe online clients without hassle, but puts the vents on already when only one is running is beyond me :), I guess the vents not only react on temperature but also on CPU load.

  8. Re:Poor Nick Denton on Hulk Hogan Settles With Gawker For $31 Million (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Does mot make it leagal when the photos or phone records are aquired by illegal means ...
    And no, I don't read those magazines ... I'm to concerned about my next hardware I want to acquire :)

  9. Re:The propblem is bad accounting practices. on App Developers Spend Too Much Time Debugging Errors in Production Systems (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Tge development method as in agile or waterfall has absolutely nithing to do with the bugs you oroduce, fund or ship.
    (*facepalm*)
    If you are 30 years in business and can't graps the difference between an opcode (method) and its operands (data, reuslts) then you are since 30 years in the wrong business.

    And btw. devops, they have nothing to do with software development, they provide infrastructure, and are 'required' for every orgamizations, ragardless what process you use. Again you are mixing up 'tools' and how they are used 'process' ...

  10. Re:inability to fully recreate production environm on App Developers Spend Too Much Time Debugging Errors in Production Systems (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Why is it that since lately people who obviously have no clue about agil methods are bashing them on /.?

    Actually every point you bring up are corner stones of all agile methods I'm aware about.

  11. You must be prodyct manager then.
    Otherwise your post is incomprehendable.

    In 90% of the shops I worked, the developers knew the business better than any product manager ever will.

  12. Re:Poor Nick Denton on Hulk Hogan Settles With Gawker For $31 Million (go.com) · · Score: 1

    You seem to miss the point that we are talking about a sex tape here.

    Reporting about public figures only matters for public events, not for their private live or their sex life.

    Perhaps you should reread your court rulings very carefully to understand the difference.

  13. Re:Parliament should approve on UK's Brexit Cannot Pass Without Parliament Approval (aljazeera.com) · · Score: 0

    1. You had a referendum that was clean.
    It was not. It was a kind of 48% versus 52% matter ...

    2. Your sovereignty is worth more than the conveniences the EU provides.
    The EU is not interfering with the sovereignty of any of its members at all. So this is an idiotic argument.

  14. Re: Are linux adverts still bad adverts? on MacBook Pro (2016) Disappointment Pushes Some Apple Loyalists To Ubuntu Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    That is incorrect.
    Most OS X updates lead to a faster Mac. Especially on old Macs.

  15. Re:Apps, Apps and more Apps on MacBook Pro (2016) Disappointment Pushes Some Apple Loyalists To Ubuntu Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    using MacBooks are developers who wanted a desktop Unix that IT would be willing to support.
    There is no IT support necessary for MacBooks, or Macs.
    What exactly would an IT guy do on my Mac that I can not do myself and what exactly wÂmight break that I might need support? (*facepalm*)

  16. Re:Are linux adverts still bad adverts? on MacBook Pro (2016) Disappointment Pushes Some Apple Loyalists To Ubuntu Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    because my 2010 Macbook was getting to the point where it was unusable
    Sorry, that is not only an idiotic comment it is impossible.
    Perhaps you should remove some movie files or hand it in at store to fix it?
    What should be wrong with an 2010 Mac is beyond me, it should run better than ever with new OS upgrades.
    You are likely a troll.

  17. Re: Are linux adverts still bad adverts? on MacBook Pro (2016) Disappointment Pushes Some Apple Loyalists To Ubuntu Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    and the guy two seats over had a Mac and I could hear his fan more than mine.
    Then he was not working but playing a game.
    (*facepalm*)

  18. Re:Maybe both have their place. on Air Force Says F-35 Glitches Mean the A-10 Will Keep Flying 'Indefinitely' (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the "lock" is a function of the craft.
    The "flight range" is a function of the missile.

    The parent wants to make the point that if both sides had the same missile one side can see and lock the other one up, while the other can't.

    Imagine a target lock as some "bar code that is painted on you" ... one radar/sensor system is strong enough to paint a code on the target that the missile can lock on to. The other sensor system can't. Partly because of lack of the sensors/radar and partly because you are stealth-ed.

  19. Re:KGFY on Ask Slashdot: What Training Helps Older Programmers Most? · · Score: 1

    It surpasses a school kid by far.

    http://chinese.stackexchange.c...

  20. Re:Give up on Ask Slashdot: What Training Helps Older Programmers Most? · · Score: 1

    The simple fact is that as we age we become less able to pick up new things easily.
    That is a myth. Especially in programming ...
    With lots of background information every new thing is easier to pick up and much faster to learn and master than it was when you where younger.

    This is a biological limitation that no amount wishing is wasn't so will fix.
    That is a myth, too.
    Body and mind degeneration starts a few years before you die ... and plenty of people are in perfect health till their last days. It is a matter of lifestyle and food, sports, smoking or not etc. that has a big influence on your health and finally your mind.

  21. Re:Do older programmers even need help? on Ask Slashdot: What Training Helps Older Programmers Most? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Some people are not good at networking.

    And frankly it goes both ways, asking an ex colleague about job opportunities (when I'm vacant) is probably the least thing I ever would do.

    Also, it is probably a culture problem, but in Germany it is often impossible to bypass HR. So a network would not help. And another culture problem is "friendship". My colleagues are not my friends. Regardless of job I had. I never would invite one to my birthday e.g. And for the same reason: I don't see any point to stay in contact with a colleague after he or I leave the company. Sorry, I'm a developer, not a marketing droid or Dilbert like manager who *needs* a network and is nothing without it. I don't nourish colleagues to have a network, for that I have linkedin and Xing.

    If that makes me "non hire able" for you ... I wonder what else you miss :D

  22. Re:Wrong question on Ask Slashdot: What Training Helps Older Programmers Most? · · Score: 1

    Actually I was modding but if one writes bullshit like this I thought I had to answer:

    But... How will the product owner stay in the loop as you work through your backlog items
    He has no need to.

    so they know what to put in the plan for you to do during the next sprint?
    That is not the job of the product owner.

    If you have problems with agile methods the main reason might be you don't even grasp the basic nomenclature ...

  23. But you know that the traditional ESC key is on the upper left corner of the keyboard: which is the perfect place for it? Or why are you suggesting to use the _traditional_ ctrl key for ESC?

  24. No, we have mapped caps lock to ctrl.
    Mapping it to ESC makes no sense.

  25. Re:Making America Great again - with wind power! on Renewables Overtake Coal As World's Largest Source of Power Capacity (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    But before that it produced more energy and ran longer than the german multi million dollar 1980s disaster called Growian.
    Seems you are bad in history.
    First of all, Growian was not a disaster. It was a research project.
    Secondly, its result is what powers now Germany. The big wind mills we have in our days are based on that research.