Not everybody chooses a hobby based on possibility to meet chicks trough it. I recall those few that I met trough go tournaments were rather how to say it politely... Och never mind. You can have two or more hobbies. Some nerds, that I know, even apply nerdy tricks to hunt chicks too - like analysis of herd and individual mating behaviour etc it even worked in some cases...
The same pattern as any industry that matured actually. AT some point you have few specialized houses doing good stuff and the rest of cheap stables where stuff is made 'well enough'. Users (by which I mean not only the humans using mobile devics for chatting trough FB etc) want it to have it cheap so they get cheap. Those few that want to get it right, pay for it.
I recall getting a task and making a new module fulfilling it. Most of the time I spent on making it simple. I checked a half a year after release and to my surprise my code was full of patches - I look at all the tickets (these were old times where if you fixed anything then only because it was ordered by an architect or trough maintenance channels. All tickets but one were done in my module because it apparently was simpler to do. These also were times when design centers were paying fines to HQ for too high fault quotes which explained actually all of the tickets then. This was when I was young. I am an old fart and:
I know very few guys as old as me who did not leave hoops - they are minority. The rest of surviving 50+yo guys go as far as refusing to cooperate with 'youngsters' like me or producing incomplete documentation (if any is produced at all). The resulting mess can be made working on customer premises in an emergency after weekend of well paid time in a hotel, by heroes and only by them. I did not believe any sane corporate management would allow it but in fact they appreciate it - all they have to say is this "I hired this guy who saved our arses so many times!" They do not of course mention that a simple industrialized fix could be cheaper. Why should they....I was fighting it for years until I understood. You just have to learn stop worrying and love the bomb.
I also knew a guy who after 9.11 picked up a job in airport security at Heathrow - steady job and you can feel a lots of fresh warm bodies - would this mean he was behind the attacks? Come to think of it - modern airplanes have lots of software that make them to fly. Maybe he obfuscated a piece of code that did fly them into WTC and Pentagon?
there are many things that should be part of software design - communication techniques, decision making, decision making in a group, project management techniques, product life cycle, maintenance, fault management and few others. If one concentrates on memory management one can teach about manual ways, semi manual ways and garbage collector that contrary to what some think is not some Aztec god that does things automagically but something that usually counts references thus can release your objects only if they are not linked from anywhere. GC has also consequences on performance and ways to tune it other than hoping it works.
OTOH that is probably pointless anyway and if all software was maybe not first time right but say 3rd time right than the world would be less funny.
It depends on the job. The discussion about legally allowed work loads in EU was quite informative and sometimes funny. There was a guy there for instance - a president of a small country, claiming that he is putting more than 100h/week and all is well. OC this job was including dinners with other assholes from other states etc on which they stuffed themselves with expensive, tax payer funded food. I do not care about the food, his job is doing that but comparing that to any other job (operating table personnel in a hospital) may be quite idiotic. In other words: being a president is good. At least in civilized world where you do not get killed in a process.
There are some out there who believe that your working time is only when you press the keys and move the mouse. Gosh there is even SW that provides such metrics for the bosses if they so wish. I guess then he is not working 100h/week or his hands would fall off and his heart would just stop. But if you count thinking and discussing things at 'coffee machine' then it is manageable for some at least. Not for me tho - I did 60h/week few months in a row and this is it. Never again. It is 20ya now and it probably would kill me (and let my ex take custody of the kids away from me before that).
Ach this 'proper' deescalation technique - you mean this one. I see. That reminds me about many other things which if done 'properly' work well.
You know what the difference between practice and theory is? I think there was a guy here with a proper sig for that, IIRC it went like: in theory, practice is like theory, in practice.... well think about that.
What I think the actual problem of police violence in US is (besides what the other police forces in say Europe have) is war on drugs combined with well armed population. You get rid of both and I am pretty certain that a need for swat teams, heavily armed police officers and general readiness for violence will decrease. Alas that is not what is going to happen, is it? I mean you need your well organized militia and all this other nonsense because it allows you to err - well what exactly does that do besides increasing murder rates and general level of violence in your country? Not sure really. But it is good to hold an assault rifle and shoot something with it- I admit it myself, I liked the feeling. Still I do not need a gun at home and I hope times of failing states in Europe are not imminent.
you mean firemen are to jump into fire because you say so? Wow. I thought it is rather so that they mitigate the risk by training, equipment and company of other firemen and if that is not enough they just get out. Read for instance what firedep during PEPCON accident did - they stopped as soon as they were informed about what is burning and did not enter the fire zone which is good because they survived the following explosion.
They are supposed to take a risk they can mitigate. Accidents happen, firemen die and police officers get shot but that is neither a requirement nor it is expected of them to go into situation where their death is almost certain. This said if you want to avoid police force shooting people because they take precautions then go and think hard about need of firearms everywhere and this well organized militia that is supposed to protect you from tyranny. There does not seem to be any relationship between how well a population is armed and how they can avoid tyranny or do you think say Syria (what is left of it) is well of because anybody can and mostly has some weapons?
Alternatively get your army to patrol the streets - seems that you like the idea. I am sure people all around the world would applaud if US military stopped helping them to achieve democracy and prosperity as it usually involved heavy blood toll and mayhem. They did quite well In Fallujah too or?
Looking at some of do-gooders one has to wonder if the world were not better if they kept making more money and being generally asshats instead. This is how far our societies came.
I thought there were a meme for that?
I have to objections to the bod statements from the summary and TFA.
Firstly the subjective judgment of the pictures of clocks etc made by patients is indeed subjective if done by a human. So far so good. But then I know from my own painful experience that my drawing skills have been showing Parkinson in grand school already. My drawings and those of other kids in the class showed a massive difference similar to that in TFA. It changed drastically after I attended technical drawing course (then technical drawing was done by hand!). I see almost the same with my oldest kid. So judging on pictures made by patients is good but comparing those to whatever external norm has to be calibrated for the person. This problem seems to be addressed more easily by humans than machines. It may change if the comparison is done over time to own pictures of the same object I guess.
The second objection is formal - if we either way judge on the quality of picture made by a patient then the actual diagnostic method does not change only the tool used does thus making it big flat 'NO' as an asnwer.
Maybe I see it wrong but the answer to the question in summary and TFA is NO even if new method is diagnostically better than the old one (which it may or not be). Good to know tho - if I see that my drawings go back to old times I will know problems ahead. If this is early stage I will still be able to do the right thing then if so I wish.
Engineers are creative people.
This is off topic but I have this urge: if software creators and computer scientists (SCCS) were to build bridges there would be far fewer still standing. The art of engineering is based on process and creativity to use it. There is also this another thing.
SCCS tendency to despise any methodology borders on silly. The fact is we all need methods and processes. Even the geniuses among us that work on the very cutting edge of technology need them (or perhaps especially they do). Only for any rule we need exceptions sometimes. These exceptions may have their own rules too making it all quite complex. For these exceptions we need exceptions too - it is like fractals. To see the beauty of it you need to see it from greater and smaller perspective and not many of us can change focus like this, so the majority either tries to follow the simple rule-set to the letter, without thinking about it too much or discard them altogether. I sometimes wonder why resulting mess actually works but then we do quite a lot of make,test,fix,repeat cycles before shipping the product and judging on big companies of today we ship mostly before the cycle is more or less finished.
They used this strategy before - claiming the Russ was armed to the teeth and god so powerful... We should not underestimate the Russ or Chinese but we shall also never underestimate the desire of the (ever more words)-mililtary-complex to transfer public money into the private pockets. It is for public good,prosperity and we defend democracy this way too!
Actually no, it was not. From all destruction like events that are known for us today or that we suspect they happened the creation of the moon by collision with Theia which is what your link says. If that happened then still earth was not destroyed but changed. The change was significant and would most likely remove all existing life (if any) on the surface but it was not destruction or else we would not be walking more or less happily on earth's surface doing silly things.
If you smash it with enough speed like those damned asteroids that wipe up dominating species every 65my there will be terrible kaboom still. I would even suspect that it would be fast enough for most of the short attention span moviegoers of today to watch the planet vanish in real time.
Probably true and it even is as disgusting and slow motion as other weapons of biological mass destruction. OC in the movies you can even make virus that works in seconds (world war z for instance) so maybe the speed is not an issue but disgusting it still is.
It is still better than what was a standard procedure for US in the first half of last century. Some officers of USMC were not so happy about that back then. Seems justice dep. has jurisdiction over the whole world. Just about like US IRS.
That works only until the judge finds out that damage that your activities cause weight more than the benefits of your company as a parent. That works everywhere in the West. It also has its side effects - when one party accuses the other of something unthinkable and gets benefits from the judge or authority that deals with kids welfare. Seen that happening to parents. Kids get most hit but parents suffer there too. Sometimes it works of course and drug abusing sex offenders may be prohibited from abusing their children.
They all are alike. Some have nicer slogans than the others and I admit I'd prefer to rot in GITMO listening to loud, shitty music than to die of polonium poisoning. Judging on my experience it works better to be an expert in a poor but not too poor country than in well developed one where your salary gets you less goods but a better chance to get replaced by cheap boyz from Zamunda. I accept them governments and their torture boyz because this is the best we can do not because I like it.
You could get charged for conspiracy to grow and sell. You could read how that worked in case of charges of conspiracy to produce pr0n that mr. Zappa was once a victim. You do not have to do the actual thing. Sometimes expressed wish can do. Even if get away with it - you may incur significant losses in the mean time unless you are Frank Zappa.
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Not everybody chooses a hobby based on possibility to meet chicks trough it. I recall those few that I met trough go tournaments were rather how to say it politely... Och never mind. You can have two or more hobbies. Some nerds, that I know, even apply nerdy tricks to hunt chicks too - like analysis of herd and individual mating behaviour etc it even worked in some cases...
The same pattern as any industry that matured actually. AT some point you have few specialized houses doing good stuff and the rest of cheap stables where stuff is made 'well enough'. Users (by which I mean not only the humans using mobile devics for chatting trough FB etc) want it to have it cheap so they get cheap. Those few that want to get it right, pay for it.
I recall getting a task and making a new module fulfilling it. Most of the time I spent on making it simple. I checked a half a year after release and to my surprise my code was full of patches - I look at all the tickets (these were old times where if you fixed anything then only because it was ordered by an architect or trough maintenance channels. All tickets but one were done in my module because it apparently was simpler to do. These also were times when design centers were paying fines to HQ for too high fault quotes which explained actually all of the tickets then. This was when I was young. I am an old fart and:
I know very few guys as old as me who did not leave hoops - they are minority. The rest of surviving 50+yo guys go as far as refusing to cooperate with 'youngsters' like me or producing incomplete documentation (if any is produced at all). The resulting mess can be made working on customer premises in an emergency after weekend of well paid time in a hotel, by heroes and only by them. I did not believe any sane corporate management would allow it but in fact they appreciate it - all they have to say is this "I hired this guy who saved our arses so many times!" They do not of course mention that a simple industrialized fix could be cheaper. Why should they....I was fighting it for years until I understood. You just have to learn stop worrying and love the bomb.
I also knew a guy who after 9.11 picked up a job in airport security at Heathrow - steady job and you can feel a lots of fresh warm bodies - would this mean he was behind the attacks? Come to think of it - modern airplanes have lots of software that make them to fly. Maybe he obfuscated a piece of code that did fly them into WTC and Pentagon?
Maybe the GP was being sarcastic and we just miss the massive whooooooooosh sound?
there are many things that should be part of software design - communication techniques, decision making, decision making in a group, project management techniques, product life cycle, maintenance, fault management and few others. If one concentrates on memory management one can teach about manual ways, semi manual ways and garbage collector that contrary to what some think is not some Aztec god that does things automagically but something that usually counts references thus can release your objects only if they are not linked from anywhere. GC has also consequences on performance and ways to tune it other than hoping it works.
OTOH that is probably pointless anyway and if all software was maybe not first time right but say 3rd time right than the world would be less funny.
It depends on the job. The discussion about legally allowed work loads in EU was quite informative and sometimes funny. There was a guy there for instance - a president of a small country, claiming that he is putting more than 100h/week and all is well. OC this job was including dinners with other assholes from other states etc on which they stuffed themselves with expensive, tax payer funded food. I do not care about the food, his job is doing that but comparing that to any other job (operating table personnel in a hospital) may be quite idiotic. In other words: being a president is good. At least in civilized world where you do not get killed in a process.
There are some out there who believe that your working time is only when you press the keys and move the mouse. Gosh there is even SW that provides such metrics for the bosses if they so wish. I guess then he is not working 100h/week or his hands would fall off and his heart would just stop. But if you count thinking and discussing things at 'coffee machine' then it is manageable for some at least. Not for me tho - I did 60h/week few months in a row and this is it. Never again. It is 20ya now and it probably would kill me (and let my ex take custody of the kids away from me before that).
You are being sickly sarcastic, are you? I am asking because there are many evil people around so maybe you are serious.
I thought liberals in US are people that dispense bullets liberally?
Ach this 'proper' deescalation technique - you mean this one. I see. That reminds me about many other things which if done 'properly' work well.
You know what the difference between practice and theory is? I think there was a guy here with a proper sig for that, IIRC it went like: in theory, practice is like theory, in practice.... well think about that.
What I think the actual problem of police violence in US is (besides what the other police forces in say Europe have) is war on drugs combined with well armed population. You get rid of both and I am pretty certain that a need for swat teams, heavily armed police officers and general readiness for violence will decrease. Alas that is not what is going to happen, is it? I mean you need your well organized militia and all this other nonsense because it allows you to err - well what exactly does that do besides increasing murder rates and general level of violence in your country? Not sure really. But it is good to hold an assault rifle and shoot something with it- I admit it myself, I liked the feeling. Still I do not need a gun at home and I hope times of failing states in Europe are not imminent.
you mean firemen are to jump into fire because you say so? Wow. I thought it is rather so that they mitigate the risk by training, equipment and company of other firemen and if that is not enough they just get out. Read for instance what firedep during PEPCON accident did - they stopped as soon as they were informed about what is burning and did not enter the fire zone which is good because they survived the following explosion.
They are supposed to take a risk they can mitigate. Accidents happen, firemen die and police officers get shot but that is neither a requirement nor it is expected of them to go into situation where their death is almost certain. This said if you want to avoid police force shooting people because they take precautions then go and think hard about need of firearms everywhere and this well organized militia that is supposed to protect you from tyranny. There does not seem to be any relationship between how well a population is armed and how they can avoid tyranny or do you think say Syria (what is left of it) is well of because anybody can and mostly has some weapons?
Alternatively get your army to patrol the streets - seems that you like the idea. I am sure people all around the world would applaud if US military stopped helping them to achieve democracy and prosperity as it usually involved heavy blood toll and mayhem. They did quite well In Fallujah too or?
Looking at some of do-gooders one has to wonder if the world were not better if they kept making more money and being generally asshats instead. This is how far our societies came.
I have to objections to the bod statements from the summary and TFA.
Firstly the subjective judgment of the pictures of clocks etc made by patients is indeed subjective if done by a human. So far so good. But then I know from my own painful experience that my drawing skills have been showing Parkinson in grand school already. My drawings and those of other kids in the class showed a massive difference similar to that in TFA. It changed drastically after I attended technical drawing course (then technical drawing was done by hand!). I see almost the same with my oldest kid. So judging on pictures made by patients is good but comparing those to whatever external norm has to be calibrated for the person. This problem seems to be addressed more easily by humans than machines. It may change if the comparison is done over time to own pictures of the same object I guess.
The second objection is formal - if we either way judge on the quality of picture made by a patient then the actual diagnostic method does not change only the tool used does thus making it big flat 'NO' as an asnwer.
Maybe I see it wrong but the answer to the question in summary and TFA is NO even if new method is diagnostically better than the old one (which it may or not be). Good to know tho - if I see that my drawings go back to old times I will know problems ahead. If this is early stage I will still be able to do the right thing then if so I wish.
Engineers are creative people.
This is off topic but I have this urge: if software creators and computer scientists (SCCS) were to build bridges there would be far fewer still standing. The art of engineering is based on process and creativity to use it. There is also this another thing.
SCCS tendency to despise any methodology borders on silly. The fact is we all need methods and processes. Even the geniuses among us that work on the very cutting edge of technology need them (or perhaps especially they do). Only for any rule we need exceptions sometimes. These exceptions may have their own rules too making it all quite complex. For these exceptions we need exceptions too - it is like fractals. To see the beauty of it you need to see it from greater and smaller perspective and not many of us can change focus like this, so the majority either tries to follow the simple rule-set to the letter, without thinking about it too much or discard them altogether. I sometimes wonder why resulting mess actually works but then we do quite a lot of make,test,fix,repeat cycles before shipping the product and judging on big companies of today we ship mostly before the cycle is more or less finished.
They used this strategy before - claiming the Russ was armed to the teeth and god so powerful... We should not underestimate the Russ or Chinese but we shall also never underestimate the desire of the (ever more words)-mililtary-complex to transfer public money into the private pockets. It is for public good,prosperity and we defend democracy this way too!
Actually no, it was not. From all destruction like events that are known for us today or that we suspect they happened the creation of the moon by collision with Theia which is what your link says. If that happened then still earth was not destroyed but changed. The change was significant and would most likely remove all existing life (if any) on the surface but it was not destruction or else we would not be walking more or less happily on earth's surface doing silly things.
If you smash it with enough speed like those damned asteroids that wipe up dominating species every 65my there will be terrible kaboom still. I would even suspect that it would be fast enough for most of the short attention span moviegoers of today to watch the planet vanish in real time.
not if we get this planet blowing device to work.
Probably true and it even is as disgusting and slow motion as other weapons of biological mass destruction. OC in the movies you can even make virus that works in seconds (world war z for instance) so maybe the speed is not an issue but disgusting it still is.
It is still better than what was a standard procedure for US in the first half of last century. Some officers of USMC were not so happy about that back then. Seems justice dep. has jurisdiction over the whole world. Just about like US IRS.
That works only until the judge finds out that damage that your activities cause weight more than the benefits of your company as a parent.
That works everywhere in the West. It also has its side effects - when one party accuses the other of something unthinkable and gets benefits from the judge or authority that deals with kids welfare. Seen that happening to parents. Kids get most hit but parents suffer there too. Sometimes it works of course and drug abusing sex offenders may be prohibited from abusing their children.
They all are alike. Some have nicer slogans than the others and I admit I'd prefer to rot in GITMO listening to loud, shitty music than to die of polonium poisoning. Judging on my experience it works better to be an expert in a poor but not too poor country than in well developed one where your salary gets you less goods but a better chance to get replaced by cheap boyz from Zamunda. I accept them governments and their torture boyz because this is the best we can do not because I like it.
C'mon - somebody has to play Judas. If we do not have well divided roles the world falls apart.
You could get charged for conspiracy to grow and sell. You could read how that worked in case of charges of conspiracy to produce pr0n that mr. Zappa was once a victim. You do not have to do the actual thing. Sometimes expressed wish can do. Even if get away with it - you may incur significant losses in the mean time unless you are Frank Zappa.