You don't know my friend. He can forget his keys, his phone and his wallet, or any combination thereof, and irrespective of whether he placed them last in his house, on a restaurant table, in someone else's car or anywhere else.
I pay a tip because I earn four times as much as people working service jobs and I recognise the effort they have to put in for the income they earn.
If they're young it's a virtuous cycle, they'll get older and get better jobs and tip people. If they're not young then they're probably living financially on the edge so the money will be useful for them anyway.
The only person that loses out is me. If they don't want the tip, they can always stick it in the charity jar.
That's going to be a comical police report. "The customer offered us legal tender and we refused to take his money. Please arrest him for failing to pay."
The only uncertainty here is whether they'll be prosecuted for wasting police time or whether they'll be allowed to reach court and get done for wasting court time instead.
There exist in the UK an entire cohort of men that can give you directions to any destination within 40 miles (and sometimes beyond) without referencing anything other than the pubs you'll pass on the way.
My former manager is one, it was a marvel to listen to him give directions. Never tried following them mind..
Which is why knowing which customers are willing to visit you and spend several million dollars a year for the entertainment you provide is so important.
They know they're going to lose that much money, and they expect something in return. You look after them, give them the best room in the hotel for free, have aesthetically pleasing person bring them whatever the fuck they want to drink, 24 hour concierge service and tickets to Penn & Teller.
Actually skip the last one, you want to keep them in your casino.
There's a third choice, which is rather more correct: Capture the risk, put in place mitigations, ask that the risk gets reassessed at a reasonable frequency.
If you want to be secure switch the damn server off. Anything else, you're already compromising, so just do what you do for any security risk.
What the fuck does development methodology have to do with library, engine and other component reuse?
Do you write your own OS from scratch and refuse to use anybody else's? Did you release the language you've created and its compiler so we can use it too? Are you really wasting your company's time writing web server technology instead of just configuring one of the dozens of perfectly capable ones out there?
you have people that can't fucking code
I have people that can code, but better yet, know when and how to code and when and how not to.
I'm not deflecting, but you are continuing to fail to understand. I pity your colleagues.
- Ageism; no company rejects people who have more experience
They do reject people that are more expensive though, there is evidence that older workers find it harder to find jobs and there is evidence in the US that higher health premiums for older workers puts employers off.
- Immigrants; you can't lose out on a job to an immigrant when you have the benefit of a 1st world education, and all the relative benefits of your upbringing in a 1st world nation unless you're a complete and utter fuckup.
That's such total bullshit. My 1st world education counts for shit if the racist cunt running the company only hires people from his home country.
- Females; it's pretty clear the violent hatred for females amongst the dregs of Slashdot
Slashdot has a large and varied community so it's quite likely that there will be idiots here. Even so I just don't see violent hatred for females, and I browse at 0.
You seem to have strong views that are generally full of shit, maybe you can help improve the site quality by fucking off to reddit or somewhere more your level.
Putin's regime lost all credibility when they lied through their arses about their invasion of Ukraine. So when they tell me there wasn't a chemical weapons attack I don't trust them.
It's not the first chemical weapons attack in Syria either.
I don't need to call you a Russian or a troll to point this out, although I do feel the need to highlight that you're using stupid terms like McCarthy-era red-baiting which will get you 'troll' mods.
Well, I was doing agile development 16 years ago and delivering high quality working software.
More recently I don't program and I don't tell teams how to program. They tell me what's working for them. I let them take ownership and responsibility for their own output, timelines and quality.
If they're struggling I introduce them to people that can help. If they want to work another way I just don't give a shit as long as they're delivering and doing it well.
I just don't recognise this weird incompetent inability to make a high discipline delivery approach work, this lack of autonomy in how people work and this need to reject ideas that I've made work myself, seen others make work and find to be a better way of working.
I certainly don't fucking understand your slavery analogy. Where the fuck do you get that from?
That's wholly your fault for not using your brain to think of what features your desired customer base might want.
It's quite hard to plan for internet banking when you're writing a core banking system in 1975.
That's BASIC BUSINESS PLANNING ONE OH FUCKING ONE
Is it fuck. Basic business planning 101 is 'Everything will fucking change'.
Wait until you see how much money you're losing with all those useless meetings wasting man-hours.
Who the fuck asked for lots of meetings? Not me.
Your fault for not starting with an extensible and flexible in-house framework.
Wait? You started by telling us to get it right in the first place, now you're telling us that we have to have flexibility? Make up your fucking mind.
Not to mention the excessive cost, performance challenges and systems management overheads of trying to be flexible and extensible.
Literally every problem you've just mentioned would not have been solved by AGILE. It would be solved with a proper fucking coding class.
Literally every problem I've just mentioned has sweet fuck all to do with the code. But feel free to entirely fucking misunderstand every single fucking point, I kind of guessed you didn't have a clue before writing my first response. I'm doing this for the benefit of others, you appear to be a lost cause already.
Look, spend the time (and if needed, money) to actually make a solid product from the get-go instead of relying upon adaptability. This is what will net you the best results, customer satisfaction, and fewest warranty/support issues (thus saving TONS OF MONEY.)
Are you shitting me?
Why are we losing market share? Our competitors are releasing new features faster than we can keep up. Why are we losing money? Our cost of change is eating up our margins. Why are we being shut down by the regulator? We couldn't change the system to stay compliant.
I've seen these things at multiple companies, include a $700m IT write-off because the management team kept ignoring issues with the programme but knew they had to replace the legacy system because of all of the above.
What I don't get, and it applies to so many people posting in this topic, is why people accept this.
Just turn down the meetings. Take ownership of your own productivity. Educate and train your manager. Learn how to fucking run a project without needing a project manager. Constantly assess what you're doing and how to improve it, and work as a team to do exactly that.
Too many people that think their job is programming then blame other people for the poor processes they follow. Be more professional!
While true and necessary, it's also where the police in the US go very fucking wrong.
Train to avoid a gunfight. Train how to de-escalate a situation. Train how to resolve a conflict without having shoot someone. Train how to interact with members of the public without murdering them.
Also stop having elected DAs because it just looks like a situation rife with corruption.
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You don't know my friend. He can forget his keys, his phone and his wallet, or any combination thereof, and irrespective of whether he placed them last in his house, on a restaurant table, in someone else's car or anywhere else.
He's a total fuckwit, yes.
I pay a tip because I earn four times as much as people working service jobs and I recognise the effort they have to put in for the income they earn.
If they're young it's a virtuous cycle, they'll get older and get better jobs and tip people. If they're not young then they're probably living financially on the edge so the money will be useful for them anyway.
The only person that loses out is me. If they don't want the tip, they can always stick it in the charity jar.
That's going to be a comical police report. "The customer offered us legal tender and we refused to take his money. Please arrest him for failing to pay."
The only uncertainty here is whether they'll be prosecuted for wasting police time or whether they'll be allowed to reach court and get done for wasting court time instead.
What an impressively arrogant and ignorant post.
Rural America has restaurants easily the match of the city ones. You're clearly just too full of yourself to try them. Your loss.
Did anybody, ever?
Hence Dogpile, which called on all of them and returned combined results.
Then came Google..
Not just for new games. Haven't you seen the 1986 documentary about an American teenager called Ferris?
There exist in the UK an entire cohort of men that can give you directions to any destination within 40 miles (and sometimes beyond) without referencing anything other than the pubs you'll pass on the way.
My former manager is one, it was a marvel to listen to him give directions. Never tried following them mind..
I have a friend that does. The problem is that when he says, "ten minutes away" it tends to be somewhere between 15 and 45 minutes away.
Don't ask how accurate his 'about an hour away' is..
Which is why knowing which customers are willing to visit you and spend several million dollars a year for the entertainment you provide is so important.
They know they're going to lose that much money, and they expect something in return. You look after them, give them the best room in the hotel for free, have aesthetically pleasing person bring them whatever the fuck they want to drink, 24 hour concierge service and tickets to Penn & Teller.
Actually skip the last one, you want to keep them in your casino.
There's a third choice, which is rather more correct: Capture the risk, put in place mitigations, ask that the risk gets reassessed at a reasonable frequency.
If you want to be secure switch the damn server off. Anything else, you're already compromising, so just do what you do for any security risk.
doing like agile idiots do and use pre-made shit
What the fuck does development methodology have to do with library, engine and other component reuse?
Do you write your own OS from scratch and refuse to use anybody else's? Did you release the language you've created and its compiler so we can use it too? Are you really wasting your company's time writing web server technology instead of just configuring one of the dozens of perfectly capable ones out there?
you have people that can't fucking code
I have people that can code, but better yet, know when and how to code and when and how not to.
I'm not deflecting, but you are continuing to fail to understand. I pity your colleagues.
- Ageism; no company rejects people who have more experience
They do reject people that are more expensive though, there is evidence that older workers find it harder to find jobs and there is evidence in the US that higher health premiums for older workers puts employers off.
- Immigrants; you can't lose out on a job to an immigrant when you have the benefit of a 1st world education, and all the relative benefits of your upbringing in a 1st world nation unless you're a complete and utter fuckup.
That's such total bullshit. My 1st world education counts for shit if the racist cunt running the company only hires people from his home country.
- Females; it's pretty clear the violent hatred for females amongst the dregs of Slashdot
Slashdot has a large and varied community so it's quite likely that there will be idiots here. Even so I just don't see violent hatred for females, and I browse at 0.
You seem to have strong views that are generally full of shit, maybe you can help improve the site quality by fucking off to reddit or somewhere more your level.
Putin's regime lost all credibility when they lied through their arses about their invasion of Ukraine. So when they tell me there wasn't a chemical weapons attack I don't trust them.
It's not the first chemical weapons attack in Syria either.
I don't need to call you a Russian or a troll to point this out, although I do feel the need to highlight that you're using stupid terms like McCarthy-era red-baiting which will get you 'troll' mods.
the US gov't wages propaganda wars against the American people.
Don't be silly. The term is 'uses propaganda'. It's not waging a fucking war.
Well, I was doing agile development 16 years ago and delivering high quality working software.
More recently I don't program and I don't tell teams how to program. They tell me what's working for them. I let them take ownership and responsibility for their own output, timelines and quality.
If they're struggling I introduce them to people that can help. If they want to work another way I just don't give a shit as long as they're delivering and doing it well.
I just don't recognise this weird incompetent inability to make a high discipline delivery approach work, this lack of autonomy in how people work and this need to reject ideas that I've made work myself, seen others make work and find to be a better way of working.
I certainly don't fucking understand your slavery analogy. Where the fuck do you get that from?
That's wholly your fault for not using your brain to think of what features your desired customer base might want.
It's quite hard to plan for internet banking when you're writing a core banking system in 1975.
That's BASIC BUSINESS PLANNING ONE OH FUCKING ONE
Is it fuck. Basic business planning 101 is 'Everything will fucking change'.
Wait until you see how much money you're losing with all those useless meetings wasting man-hours.
Who the fuck asked for lots of meetings? Not me.
Your fault for not starting with an extensible and flexible in-house framework.
Wait? You started by telling us to get it right in the first place, now you're telling us that we have to have flexibility? Make up your fucking mind.
Not to mention the excessive cost, performance challenges and systems management overheads of trying to be flexible and extensible.
Literally every problem you've just mentioned would not have been solved by AGILE. It would be solved with a proper fucking coding class.
Literally every problem I've just mentioned has sweet fuck all to do with the code. But feel free to entirely fucking misunderstand every single fucking point, I kind of guessed you didn't have a clue before writing my first response. I'm doing this for the benefit of others, you appear to be a lost cause already.
I'm fascinated by this. How limited is your exposure to the industry?
I've worked with agile teams in the UK, Bulgaria, multiple parts of the US, France, Germany, Costa Rica, Malaysia and Brazil.
I wonder how they can repeatedly deliver quality software but none of the companies you've worked for manage.
Look, spend the time (and if needed, money) to actually make a solid product from the get-go instead of relying upon adaptability. This is what will net you the best results, customer satisfaction, and fewest warranty/support issues (thus saving TONS OF MONEY.)
Are you shitting me?
Why are we losing market share? Our competitors are releasing new features faster than we can keep up.
Why are we losing money? Our cost of change is eating up our margins.
Why are we being shut down by the regulator? We couldn't change the system to stay compliant.
I've seen these things at multiple companies, include a $700m IT write-off because the management team kept ignoring issues with the programme but knew they had to replace the legacy system because of all of the above.
Lower wage bills look bloody fantastic when you show the accounts to investors.
To think of it, I don't know anyone who is not a muckety-muck manager who -likes- Agile/Scrum.
I do. I've worked with many of them. I've been inspired by many of them. I've met them at conferences and read their books.
I've also tried implementing the things they do, adapted them to work in my environment and made a success of it. But that's because I can think.
What I don't get, and it applies to so many people posting in this topic, is why people accept this.
Just turn down the meetings. Take ownership of your own productivity. Educate and train your manager. Learn how to fucking run a project without needing a project manager. Constantly assess what you're doing and how to improve it, and work as a team to do exactly that.
Too many people that think their job is programming then blame other people for the poor processes they follow. Be more professional!
(not targeted at you, sorry)
You're pretending the local boy scouts don't have full control of the local meth supply?
You have been trained for a gunfight.
While true and necessary, it's also where the police in the US go very fucking wrong.
Train to avoid a gunfight. Train how to de-escalate a situation. Train how to resolve a conflict without having shoot someone. Train how to interact with members of the public without murdering them.
Also stop having elected DAs because it just looks like a situation rife with corruption.
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