One of the arguments as to why Civil (biased) is better than Mechanical: The mech gets paid for once for designing the weapon, but the civil gets paid twice, firstly to design the structure, then to tell you how to blow it up.
I remember Sky News did an interview with a guy who worked for the Iraqi's to build their bunkers, and then during Gulf War I worked with the US as a consultant.
You wore your sword on your left side - imaging trying to draw a sword with your right hand if it was on your right side. You would stab yourself.
Riders on horse back passed each other on the right hand side - so that they could fight against each other rather than across themselves. This was all changed by the French.
The IT Manager. Because of a skills shortage most of them are Know-It-Alls who are desperate to hold on to their phony-balony job. They are trying to learn the job faster than those around them so no one finds out the truth (they probably have a book called 'Computers' on their desk) and they manage to create a process mess by ignoring good practice and established procedures so that they can be the one the invented the 'new' system.
They are naturally terrified of the 'Twentysomething Whizzkid', who has forgotten more than they will every know, but they speak the same language as the 'Entitled' CEO, so because he understands them, he assumes they know what they're talking about - but it's definitely a case of ass-u-me.
They are also extremely patronizing to the 'Know Nothings' and the 'Dream Users'.
Sorry, no disrespect intended - but that is an awful attitude.
"does what it's supposed to" is a absolute excuse for writing the worst kind of crud. I see stuff every day that does what it's supposed to do, but it is the worst shite going. It does what it is supposed to do very badly, is buggy, extremely slow and is almost impossible to maintain without serious clean up.
Testing is always the first victim of break-neck development and the outcome is predictable.
Of course proper development can be taken to nonsensical level, but your example of the bajillion optimizer is an extreme; the majority of code that is written elegantly is written within the same timescales as non-elegant code, if you honestly measure the total time to delivery. It is well tested, low on bugs and easy to read and maintain.
The problem with a 'meet the need' point of view, is that it is short term gain at the sacrifice of long term cost. The immediate consequence of this is that myopic PHBs see the solution as a body throwing exercise, with more and more individuals all focussed on meeting the short term need. The result is rarely anything but a disaster.
"We are experiencing a little RIAA turbulence and so the Captain has turned on the no downloading sign. Please refrain from downloading anything until the airplane has come to a complete stop and you are safely within the terminal building."
The argument is always put that people who sponge free wifi should be prosecuted, under the analogy that leaving your front door open, doesn't mean people are entitled to steal from you.
Now, right or wrong, we can see that this is a double edged sword.
If you leave your front door open, and hookers and on-the-run criminals move in, then you'll probably go to jail for running a brothel or harboring a fugative (etc).
And in the previous photograph, entitled 'And this is our food cupboard': Some syrups, a bag of pretzels and instant coffee. Obviously, they don't take security problems that seriously.
<sarcastic> This rule is completely unnecessary. We don't need the FCC. Everyone knows that the magic of the free market can provide all our telephony needs, just as it provides all our healthcare, education, electricity, roads, water and national defenses. </sarcastic>
<not-sarcastic> All this big bad government regulation simply inhibits the market from reaching its optimal state; <unrealistic> which is not a monopoly</unrealistic> , despite what some pinko <unpronouncable> econmmunits</unpronouncable> and their "facts" would have you believe. The true patriot has faith in the Invisible Hand, Profit be Upon It. </not-sarcastic>
As he points out in his article HTML 4 comes from 1999 - at which time you were lucky if you had a browser, never mind anything else.
Now there are lots of different applications for HTML (or it's XHTML equivalent) and the browser while still important is just one of them. This kind of retro-HTML does not make it easier to create a ubiquitous web.
I think this is targeted at the Web-developer of 1999, as opposed to the application developer of 2007+.
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Trim the Mainsail lads! And fetch me me Parrot and a tot of rum.
We're back my hearties! Yo ho ho! Aaargh!
Boatswain, plot a course for treasure island - or Venezuela or somewhere.
And someone turn off them damnable engines, I can hardly hear meself think. Aargh...
Don't download it - that'll stick it to them for suggesting that there's no demand for Linux.
Of course, it will also prove their point.
Ok, what about we download the Windows version instead. Wait, no that won't work either.
I've got, go to ITV and download old episodes of Corrie. Yea! I'm off to the Rover's for a pint.
One of the arguments as to why Civil (biased) is better than Mechanical: The mech gets paid for once for designing the weapon, but the civil gets paid twice, firstly to design the structure, then to tell you how to blow it up.
I remember Sky News did an interview with a guy who worked for the Iraqi's to build their bunkers, and then during Gulf War I worked with the US as a consultant.
Study Civil Engineering
???
Profit
???
Profit
You wore your sword on your left side - imaging trying to draw a sword with your right hand if it was on your right side. You would stab yourself.
Riders on horse back passed each other on the right hand side - so that they could fight against each other rather than across themselves. This was all changed by the French.
Who you calling a 'Brit'! Do that again and I will slap you into the middle of next week.
One more...
The IT Manager. Because of a skills shortage most of them are Know-It-Alls who are desperate to hold on to their phony-balony job. They are trying to learn the job faster than those around them so no one finds out the truth (they probably have a book called 'Computers' on their desk) and they manage to create a process mess by ignoring good practice and established procedures so that they can be the one the invented the 'new' system.
They are naturally terrified of the 'Twentysomething Whizzkid', who has forgotten more than they will every know, but they speak the same language as the 'Entitled' CEO, so because he understands them, he assumes they know what they're talking about - but it's definitely a case of ass-u-me.
They are also extremely patronizing to the 'Know Nothings' and the 'Dream Users'.
100% agree. If these silly Americans would only learn to drive on the correct side of the road, then they wouldn't have this problem.
Merriam-Webster's word of the year would be in their dictionary.
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/w00t. Odd that.
...don't click on any of those links at work.
Now I'm all embarrassed. Why didn't someone warn me?!
Now that you have had all your computers confiscated, you are ripe for conquest...
Wait, they've got stick with a nail in it! Run for your lives!
Sorry, no disrespect intended - but that is an awful attitude.
"does what it's supposed to" is a absolute excuse for writing the worst kind of crud. I see stuff every day that does what it's supposed to do, but it is the worst shite going. It does what it is supposed to do very badly, is buggy, extremely slow and is almost impossible to maintain without serious clean up.
Testing is always the first victim of break-neck development and the outcome is predictable.
Of course proper development can be taken to nonsensical level, but your example of the bajillion optimizer is an extreme; the majority of code that is written elegantly is written within the same timescales as non-elegant code, if you honestly measure the total time to delivery. It is well tested, low on bugs and easy to read and maintain.
The problem with a 'meet the need' point of view, is that it is short term gain at the sacrifice of long term cost. The immediate consequence of this is that myopic PHBs see the solution as a body throwing exercise, with more and more individuals all focussed on meeting the short term need. The result is rarely anything but a disaster.
"We are experiencing a little RIAA turbulence and so the Captain has turned on the no downloading sign. Please refrain from downloading anything until the airplane has come to a complete stop and you are safely within the terminal building."
You will of course need a "TomTom" the size of a planet to find it.
"NetFlix has no problem."
WTF?
The argument is always put that people who sponge free wifi should be prosecuted, under the analogy that leaving your front door open, doesn't mean people are entitled to steal from you.
Now, right or wrong, we can see that this is a double edged sword.
If you leave your front door open, and hookers and on-the-run criminals move in, then you'll probably go to jail for running a brothel or harboring a fugative (etc).
Can't have it every way.
But what would happen if all the Chinese on Mars jumped at once?
sudo aptitude install kdebase
Where have I been? Living under a rock?!
So what you're saying is that there are worse places than Alabama.
As long as were straight on that; you're not knocking Alabama.
Oh I come from Alabama with an XO on my knee.
In exactly the same way that when pay my taxes, it's actually me giving my money to the government - not them taking their money from me.
It just doesn't feel that way, though, does it?
How ironic.
And in the previous photograph, entitled 'And this is our food cupboard': Some syrups, a bag of pretzels and instant coffee. Obviously, they don't take security problems that seriously.
...to give the next generation something to brag about.
Using the magic of XML:
<sarcastic>
This rule is completely unnecessary. We don't need the FCC. Everyone knows that the magic of the free market can provide all our telephony needs, just as it provides all our healthcare, education, electricity, roads, water and national defenses.
</sarcastic>
<not-sarcastic>
All this big bad government regulation simply inhibits the market from reaching its optimal state; <unrealistic> which is not a monopoly</unrealistic> , despite what some pinko <unpronouncable> econmmunits</unpronouncable> and their "facts" would have you believe. The true patriot has faith in the Invisible Hand, Profit be Upon It.
</not-sarcastic>
Now, that's much better.
Absolutely.
As he points out in his article HTML 4 comes from 1999 - at which time you were lucky if you had a browser, never mind anything else.
Now there are lots of different applications for HTML (or it's XHTML equivalent) and the browser while still important is just one of them. This kind of retro-HTML does not make it easier to create a ubiquitous web.
I think this is targeted at the Web-developer of 1999, as opposed to the application developer of 2007+.
We are getting closer and closer to the day where I actually feel sorry for Microsoft.