"Mutant 59: The Plastic Eaters". I thought it was by Michael Crichton, but apparently not.
The book is by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis from 1972. I've read it and it's pretty good (for its time, anyway) -- things do *not* go well in the world, remember that electrical wiring is insulated with plastic. I usually reference this whenever something like this comes up, but you beat me to it.
From the article, it's when a cell phone is not in range of service but someone calling it still hears a ring tone as though it's ringing on the other end of the line, rather than a "that device is not available currently. Please try back later" message.
Thanks, but why wouldn't the call just go to voicemail in those cases? (assuming voicemail was setup and enabled)
I said that everyone doesn't and shouldn't need to talk with *everyone-else" on the team, not that they shouldn't communicate at all as needed. There's a difference and I'm perplexed that you don't understand that. Furthermore, even well-designed code can need various types of work - also perplexed that you don't understand that. I imagine you're being contrary and/or obtuse to just be so - or simply lack any real-world experience. In any case, I think we're done here. Cheers...
Team members don't -- and shouldn't -- interact with everyone else on the team; that's inefficient
Then why are they on a team? Perhaps you've just never worked on a team of more than three people or on a tightly coupled codebase that is very easy to step on other peoples toes without knowing it.
I have and when things are well designed -- code and team -- no one is, or should be, stepping on any toes. Teams are for things that are too big for one person, or require more skills and experience than one person can provide, in the time allotted. Delegation and compartmentalizing are important.
Daily standup was great. No more than the team and 1-3 product owners or managers in the room, 10 people, 1 minute each. What did you accomplish yesterday, what are you working on today, and any issues you're having or expecting. That was it....
What happened in there was that everyone on the team knew...
While presumably a nice idea, it's still a waste of time. Everyone on the team doesn't *need* to know what everyone else is doing - and certainly not every freaking day. It's simply a way to ensure everyone is working like the busy little bees management wants. Team members don't -- and shouldn't -- interact with everyone else on the team; that's inefficient. Perhaps getting everyone together is appropriate for milestone events, but there are better, more flexible and productive, ways for people to interact as needed in normal situations. This becomes more true as people become more experienced -- said with 30+ years experience.
Agile and scrum are about generating metrics for management so they can have some feeling of control over the development process -- answers to things like "how far along are we?" and "when will it be done?" The real, truthful answers of, "this far" and "when it's done" make their butts twitch. I imagine many think they can give good estimates of progress and for completion, but that doesn't make it so -- shit happens and good project coding is, in many ways, more art than science.
Agile, or more specifically Scrum is pointless. When you have a daily stand-up meeting that can take six hours...
Well... Daily scrum meetings are *suppose* to only be 15 minutes, but either (a) they aren't and are a waste of time (as you described) or (b) actually are and are a bigger waste of time. What it does ensure is that everyone is micro-managed into being at (or dialed into) that meeting every day at, like, 9:30am -- even though many (most?) companies have "flextime" -- 'cause management loves managing people.
Look. I *imagine* these meetings could be useful if you have a team of inexperienced people that need constant "guidance", but otherwise, working with experienced, responsible people, I've never run across anything that couldn't be more simply handled with emails to the appropriate people *if* something *isn't* on track.
And seriously, TEN YEARS to write a compiler? If he has a grammar (and if he doesn't, he has NOTHING) then just slap it into a parser generator such as Bison, and connect that to the gcc backend, or an existing parse tree interpreter, and you're done. That is a couple of weekends.
The reasons US life expectancy is lower are not much related to the health care system unless you think drug overdose, suicide, car accidents, etc. are failures of the health care system.
You can either educate yourself and learn the truth, or continue following your beliefs because they agree with your political views. Which will you choose?
Ya, but with the lower life expectancy, by the time he educates himself, he'll probably be dead.:-)
That means musicians like Drake, Justin Bieber, and Rihanna, who were Spotify’s most streamed artists last year, need to get comfortable with the idea that their royalties are going to be tracked on a blockchain—and maybe even paid out on one—before the fantasy of music on the blockchain takes shape.
... it "caught 29 leakers," last year and noted that 12 of those were arrested. "These people not only lose their jobs, they can face extreme difficulty finding employment elsewhere,"...
They would have to disable IMAP/POP for those messages. Then they would have to enforce gmail usage via their chrome browser only so that they can lock down the copy-n-paste hole.
The years-long interrogations and insinuations by Republicans -- resulting in no actionable charges of any wrongdoing
That's the party line from the D side of the aisle, you know that, right? Think for yourself, don't parrot things you heard.
Um, no. It's an objective fact, not hearsay, ding-dong. Contrary to the chants of "Lock her up", she has never been charged or convicted of anything. The whole point of the years-long smear campaign by the Republicans was to tarnish her so badly so as to prevent her from becoming President. Worked pretty well too.
Stop watching Fox News and reading Breitbart and think for *yourself*.
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Is this the "Embrace" or "Extend" step in the sequence?
That's absolutely right. And because they didn't, they were fined
Seems pretty dumb, especially with the $40M fine. First-world company problems ... :-)
"Mutant 59: The Plastic Eaters". I thought it was by Michael Crichton, but apparently not.
The book is by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis from 1972. I've read it and it's pretty good (for its time, anyway) -- things do *not* go well in the world, remember that electrical wiring is insulated with plastic. I usually reference this whenever something like this comes up, but you beat me to it.
The recorded message could say the device is unavailable and then redirect to voicemail...
From the article, it's when a cell phone is not in range of service but someone calling it still hears a ring tone as though it's ringing on the other end of the line, rather than a "that device is not available currently. Please try back later" message.
Thanks, but why wouldn't the call just go to voicemail in those cases? (assuming voicemail was setup and enabled)
I said that everyone doesn't and shouldn't need to talk with *everyone-else" on the team, not that they shouldn't communicate at all as needed. There's a difference and I'm perplexed that you don't understand that. Furthermore, even well-designed code can need various types of work - also perplexed that you don't understand that. I imagine you're being contrary and/or obtuse to just be so - or simply lack any real-world experience. In any case, I think we're done here. Cheers...
Team members don't -- and shouldn't -- interact with everyone else on the team; that's inefficient
Then why are they on a team? Perhaps you've just never worked on a team of more than three people or on a tightly coupled codebase that is very easy to step on other peoples toes without knowing it.
I have and when things are well designed -- code and team -- no one is, or should be, stepping on any toes. Teams are for things that are too big for one person, or require more skills and experience than one person can provide, in the time allotted. Delegation and compartmentalizing are important.
Can we get other qualified experts to confirm this before news sites like slashdot start publishing it as scientific breakthrough? Oh wait.
At least they didn't proclaim, "Mission Accomplished!" -- 'cause that always goes over well ... :-)
I'm sure they will soon discover a much more profitable long--term treatment option instead. /cynical
Sorry. I was being so sarcastic, it didn't apparently come across that way. :-)
Daily standup was great. No more than the team and 1-3 product owners or managers in the room, 10 people, 1 minute each. What did you accomplish yesterday, what are you working on today, and any issues you're having or expecting. That was it. ...
What happened in there was that everyone on the team knew ...
While presumably a nice idea, it's still a waste of time. Everyone on the team doesn't *need* to know what everyone else is doing - and certainly not every freaking day. It's simply a way to ensure everyone is working like the busy little bees management wants. Team members don't -- and shouldn't -- interact with everyone else on the team; that's inefficient. Perhaps getting everyone together is appropriate for milestone events, but there are better, more flexible and productive, ways for people to interact as needed in normal situations. This becomes more true as people become more experienced -- said with 30+ years experience.
The best immediate option for netizens may be to opt out of social media entirely.
Posting that on /. Are you going to hit up Facebook and Twitter too, or should one of us do it?
[ RT to take back control. #OptOut ]
Agile and scrum are about generating metrics for management so they can have some feeling of control over the development process -- answers to things like "how far along are we?" and "when will it be done?" The real, truthful answers of, "this far" and "when it's done" make their butts twitch. I imagine many think they can give good estimates of progress and for completion, but that doesn't make it so -- shit happens and good project coding is, in many ways, more art than science.
Just my $0.02 after 30+ years.
Agile, or more specifically Scrum is pointless. When you have a daily stand-up meeting that can take six hours ...
Well... Daily scrum meetings are *suppose* to only be 15 minutes, but either (a) they aren't and are a waste of time (as you described) or (b) actually are and are a bigger waste of time. What it does ensure is that everyone is micro-managed into being at (or dialed into) that meeting every day at, like, 9:30am -- even though many (most?) companies have "flextime" -- 'cause management loves managing people.
Look. I *imagine* these meetings could be useful if you have a team of inexperienced people that need constant "guidance", but otherwise, working with experienced, responsible people, I've never run across anything that couldn't be more simply handled with emails to the appropriate people *if* something *isn't* on track.
And seriously, TEN YEARS to write a compiler? If he has a grammar (and if he doesn't, he has NOTHING) then just slap it into a parser generator such as Bison, and connect that to the gcc backend, or an existing parse tree interpreter, and you're done. That is a couple of weekends.
Even faster if you hook it all up to the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain and an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea).
The reasons US life expectancy is lower are not much related to the health care system unless you think drug overdose, suicide, car accidents, etc. are failures of the health care system.
You can either educate yourself and learn the truth, or continue following your beliefs because they agree with your political views. Which will you choose?
Ya, but with the lower life expectancy, by the time he educates himself, he'll probably be dead. :-)
I meant to imply that reality, not The WP, is retaliating against Trump. Sorry if that was ineptly done.
A think we need to update Drake equation and add a parameter for crypto mining.
I didn't know he was into Math, but Drake might have to collect his Spotify royalties with a bitcoin wallet in the future:
That means musicians like Drake, Justin Bieber, and Rihanna, who were Spotify’s most streamed artists last year, need to get comfortable with the idea that their royalties are going to be tracked on a blockchain—and maybe even paid out on one—before the fantasy of music on the blockchain takes shape.
... it "caught 29 leakers," last year and noted that 12 of those were arrested. "These people not only lose their jobs, they can face extreme difficulty finding employment elsewhere," ...
The Post is pretty good with facts. They also have a strong anti-Trump bias. Most reasonable people do, ...
Reality has a strong anti-Trump bias. Probably retaliation for Trump's strong anti-reality bias.
They would have to disable IMAP/POP for those messages. Then they would have to enforce gmail usage via their chrome browser only so that they can lock down the copy-n-paste hole.
And two more words: Screen Capture
Energy is transferred from two tracks of rail in the road via a movable arm attached to the bottom of a vehicle.
Still trying to understand why this is on slashdot. News for financial wonks?
The TPP comes with plenty of technology-related changes as well, especially in the realm of copyright law and copyright protection.
Including Chinese IP -- packets, as well as TCP packets. They're much cheaper than US packets, even if you feel like re-sending them an hour later.
Cyber-Espionage Groups Are Increasingly Leveraging Routers in Their Attacks
I'll panic when they get around to the bigger stuff, like band-saws and drill-presses.
The years-long interrogations and insinuations by Republicans -- resulting in no actionable charges of any wrongdoing
That's the party line from the D side of the aisle, you know that, right? Think for yourself, don't parrot things you heard.
Um, no. It's an objective fact, not hearsay, ding-dong. Contrary to the chants of "Lock her up", she has never been charged or convicted of anything. The whole point of the years-long smear campaign by the Republicans was to tarnish her so badly so as to prevent her from becoming President. Worked pretty well too.
Stop watching Fox News and reading Breitbart and think for *yourself*.