I don't think there are many rational people who could draw parallels between the soft-nap that comes with lethal injection and the serial beheading happening at the hands of ISIS.
No, the beheading is far quicker and far less painful to the executed person. It also requires the executioner to acknowledge the gravity of the act, unlike pressing a button from out of sight.
I'd rather be beheaded than subjected to the torture-to-death approach of the US execution industry.
No, my grandfather would've congratulated me on being the first member of my extended family to go to university, on getting a safe secure job, on earning a good living.
He was in the army, drove a bus, worked on the production line in a factory. He didn't recommend any of that to me.
My grandmother worked elbow-deep in a restaurant cooking food for 80 people at a time. She could punch out a donkey. She lived long enough to see how my sister and I turned out, and never criticised either of us for taking well paid office jobs.
You're just making shit up and it makes you look stupid.
The problem is that your analogy sucks donkeys. To extend it nearer to the reality, feminists are demanding the 2' stools for women only, while ignoring all the 4' tall men that work in sewers.
Right now everybody gets a ladder. Women choose not to stand on theirs, and instead enter the 3' tall liberal fucking arts career from which they bitch about the inherent sexism stopping women standing on their ladder.
The ladders already exist. It's not sexism that women choose not to stand on them. It is sexism that feminists are demanding ladders only for women.
Yeah, fair point. All those brainwashed fresh faced computer science graduates charging with fixed bayonets at the artillery of the "40 years of mainframe development worked for me" brigade and dying needlessly on the barbed wire of function point analysis, with the few that see the light and turn back being executed by a silver bullet.
Such a waste, a terrible waste. Decades of software engineering advances destroyed in one single statement of hope in a better world.
Hmm. Sales want instant change because it earns them a bonus. Management don't want to wait three years to see benefits because they're measured by the quarter.
Both are very happy to communicate and collaborate, especially when the feedback loops help them see tangible swift outcomes.
I'm not sure how you interpret that as strict waterfall.
No. A specific methodology does, and "These scrum meetings are strictly time-boxed to 15 minutes."
So you're clearly not following Scrum, and you appear to be in a very poor place to suggest someone else isn't "doing real Agile". You don't appear to have the slightest fucking clue what that means.
it drains software engineering of the things that make it a satisfying and enjoyable activity, turning it into the software equivalent of grunt factory work
I'm confused. The satisfaction and joy of software engineering is turning a problem into a working solution.
The agile methods I followed let me realise that joy multiple times a day - checking in working code, and see it pass the automated test bed on the build server.
What is it that you perceive to be satisfying and enjoyable, and how are you losing that?
That confuses the hell out of me. As a software engineer I was begging to use agile approaches because they reduce the amount of friction getting from 'business need' to 'happy user'.
What do you want? Ok, here it is. Did you want documentation? Ok, here that is. What's next?
I had to convince management to let us just fucking get on with adding value, they were sat there amazed that people could work so efficiently.
And the end result was a project which produced a random subset of required functionality, was abysmally late, what it did do it did poorly, and then the project was cancelled. And as often as not the developers were writing the eye candy before the functionality, and adhering to the published interfaces was non-existent because the people involved decided to reinvent the wheel and decided that the existing stuff didn't matter... because apparently the existing stuff would magically take care of itself.
I'm confused. What the fuck does any of that have to do with Agile development?
Adopt any fucking methodology you like and it would've gone wrong because you were clearly employing clowns.
The Agile Manifesto highlights the increased communications, but it also highlights a number of other tenets. None of them involve adopting a specific methodology, and most development teams and projects are utterly shit at following any methodology anyway, agile or not.
Just do agile waterfall. It's possible. It works.
Don't throw out the other agile benefits just because your team couldn't cope with methodology du jour.
No, just recognition that getting knee deep in shit can't be done remotely from India.
That doesn't mean we're jealous of people getting knee deep in shit, and personally I'd prefer to risk my job being outsourced and stick with my comfortable office based role.
Of course, in the UK the plumbers are all immigrant labour anyway these days - word is it's harder to find a Polish plumber in Poland than it is in England at the moment.
What's also known is that the CIO will get a nice bonus for saving several million dollars in the first two years, then leave the company before the TCO kicks in and the subsequent loss of capability and increase in costs really takes effect.
Well, pulled across in front of them, slammed on the brakes, then it was a case of braking so sharply they couldn't brake sharper to pull out while not braking so sharply that they hit me.
Then I just got out and walked back to shout at them.
hmm, good question. I knew someone in Bristol that wanted to set something similar up, not heard whether he got it going or not.
To be fair, the prices I quoted involve professionals doing the measurements for you and glass lenses with a number of coatings on them - that definitely adds to the price.
Even so, not sure you can get prescription glasses for $15 here. Hell, even 25 years ago my first pair cost me £20, and that was a cheap pair.
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I'd rather be a bleeding heart cunt than have your outlook on life.
I don't think there are many rational people who could draw parallels between the soft-nap that comes with lethal injection and the serial beheading happening at the hands of ISIS.
No, the beheading is far quicker and far less painful to the executed person. It also requires the executioner to acknowledge the gravity of the act, unlike pressing a button from out of sight.
I'd rather be beheaded than subjected to the torture-to-death approach of the US execution industry.
Object density and complexity.
No, my grandfather would've congratulated me on being the first member of my extended family to go to university, on getting a safe secure job, on earning a good living.
He was in the army, drove a bus, worked on the production line in a factory. He didn't recommend any of that to me.
My grandmother worked elbow-deep in a restaurant cooking food for 80 people at a time. She could punch out a donkey. She lived long enough to see how my sister and I turned out, and never criticised either of us for taking well paid office jobs.
You're just making shit up and it makes you look stupid.
The problem is that your analogy sucks donkeys. To extend it nearer to the reality, feminists are demanding the 2' stools for women only, while ignoring all the 4' tall men that work in sewers.
Right now everybody gets a ladder. Women choose not to stand on theirs, and instead enter the 3' tall liberal fucking arts career from which they bitch about the inherent sexism stopping women standing on their ladder.
The ladders already exist. It's not sexism that women choose not to stand on them. It is sexism that feminists are demanding ladders only for women.
Yeah, fair point. All those brainwashed fresh faced computer science graduates charging with fixed bayonets at the artillery of the "40 years of mainframe development worked for me" brigade and dying needlessly on the barbed wire of function point analysis, with the few that see the light and turn back being executed by a silver bullet.
Such a waste, a terrible waste. Decades of software engineering advances destroyed in one single statement of hope in a better world.
Hmm. Sales want instant change because it earns them a bonus. Management don't want to wait three years to see benefits because they're measured by the quarter.
Both are very happy to communicate and collaborate, especially when the feedback loops help them see tangible swift outcomes.
I'm not sure how you interpret that as strict waterfall.
It requires you to do a daily scrum
No. A specific methodology does, and "These scrum meetings are strictly time-boxed to 15 minutes."
So you're clearly not following Scrum, and you appear to be in a very poor place to suggest someone else isn't "doing real Agile". You don't appear to have the slightest fucking clue what that means.
Pointing out that the Chinese person born in Hong Kong, raised in Taiwan and living in China isn't Scottish is not a fallacy.
Fuckwits going, "I'm agile!" while ignoring the basic elements are not agile.
it drains software engineering of the things that make it a satisfying and enjoyable activity, turning it into the software equivalent of grunt factory work
I'm confused. The satisfaction and joy of software engineering is turning a problem into a working solution.
The agile methods I followed let me realise that joy multiple times a day - checking in working code, and see it pass the automated test bed on the build server.
What is it that you perceive to be satisfying and enjoyable, and how are you losing that?
Yeah, Linux. No code review, source control, QA, standards, requirements, testing, merge or regular build.
Oh. Hang on. Maybe there's a fuckload of process taking place.
Nobody gives a shit _how_ you write your code, but don't keep pretending you're process free. You're not.
That confuses the hell out of me. As a software engineer I was begging to use agile approaches because they reduce the amount of friction getting from 'business need' to 'happy user'.
What do you want? Ok, here it is. Did you want documentation? Ok, here that is. What's next?
I had to convince management to let us just fucking get on with adding value, they were sat there amazed that people could work so efficiently.
And the end result was a project which produced a random subset of required functionality, was abysmally late, what it did do it did poorly, and then the project was cancelled. And as often as not the developers were writing the eye candy before the functionality, and adhering to the published interfaces was non-existent because the people involved decided to reinvent the wheel and decided that the existing stuff didn't matter ... because apparently the existing stuff would magically take care of itself.
I'm confused. What the fuck does any of that have to do with Agile development?
Adopt any fucking methodology you like and it would've gone wrong because you were clearly employing clowns.
The Agile Manifesto highlights the increased communications, but it also highlights a number of other tenets. None of them involve adopting a specific methodology, and most development teams and projects are utterly shit at following any methodology anyway, agile or not.
Just do agile waterfall. It's possible. It works.
Don't throw out the other agile benefits just because your team couldn't cope with methodology du jour.
Porn was available, but not easily, and certainly not in video format.
You shitting me? Every babysitting job I ever did, there was video porn in the house.
You call them 'jerks' not because they are real jerks. You call them 'jerks' because you are jealous of what they have and who they know
Some cunt acts like a cunt, it's not jealousy to point out they're a cunt.
I have my own home, a nice car, a great work-life balance, financial security - and integrity. Like I give a shit if they're playing power games.
They're still cunts.
If teachers all had a basic grasp of their subjects then you might well have a point. Sadly that's demonstrably not the case.
Ah, but the Irish aren't Great Brits.
They're backward religious fuckwits, and that's quoting a friend that's moved there.
North-west Iraq.
No, just recognition that getting knee deep in shit can't be done remotely from India.
That doesn't mean we're jealous of people getting knee deep in shit, and personally I'd prefer to risk my job being outsourced and stick with my comfortable office based role.
Of course, in the UK the plumbers are all immigrant labour anyway these days - word is it's harder to find a Polish plumber in Poland than it is in England at the moment.
Really?
Company I work for has most of its business in the US, its corporate HQ in Dublin and the CEO is in London. The previous CEO was in California.
This is known.
What's also known is that the CIO will get a nice bonus for saving several million dollars in the first two years, then leave the company before the TCO kicks in and the subsequent loss of capability and increase in costs really takes effect.
Oh, to live perpetually in a five year old's simplistic world.
Meanwhile, back on planet earth, gender isn't binary and genitalia are only mostly indicative of gender.
Failed biology in high school? Looks like you didn't even take it.
Well, pulled across in front of them, slammed on the brakes, then it was a case of braking so sharply they couldn't brake sharper to pull out while not braking so sharply that they hit me.
Then I just got out and walked back to shout at them.
hmm, good question. I knew someone in Bristol that wanted to set something similar up, not heard whether he got it going or not.
To be fair, the prices I quoted involve professionals doing the measurements for you and glass lenses with a number of coatings on them - that definitely adds to the price.
Even so, not sure you can get prescription glasses for $15 here. Hell, even 25 years ago my first pair cost me £20, and that was a cheap pair.