Agile development in engineering?
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Our company is trying to switch to Agile methods and have bought some software. Hoping to get training scheduled soon. But from what I see in the intro so far, all the examples are from GUI development or web support or IT where a large number of coders with very similar skill set is used to implement from the scratch a new application for deployment.
But our company software has a large installed base and we need to fix bugs in existing code and somehow graft new functionalities into existing architecture with full backward compatibility for old saved data. And the skill set of coders varies widely. There are just a couple who can even touch isoparametric element stiffness matrix code, to name just one example. I still dont know how agile is going to change the way those two guys work.
I see the advantages of early feedback, and early testing, testing partial implementations etc. But at some point for some kind of code development, Agile may not be the best way to do the code. And I am hoping the training will shed light on where I can use Agile and where I should stay clear of it. I don't want to jump on a band wagon because it is the latest and then have a minor revolt among my padavans.
Yup, the mugger does not know who would be carrying a concealed weapon and who would not be. So they shoot everyone. Meanwhile deluded types think they are holding off the M1 A1 Abrams Tank owning, bazooka making, M15 trained army and marines with their little pipsqueak like a Beretta.
I thought when the copyrights expire the works pass on to the public domain and everyone has full permission to do anything they want with it. For example there is some ruckus in the evolution-creationism skirmishes because Darwin's The origin of the species is now in the public domain and some character known as the Banana Boy is planning to distribute "annotated" copies of that book in college campuses ( (plural)alumnus= alumni, (plural)campus= campi? no?). So why/how would the heirs get the copyright for themselves?
Google's language is called Go! (with an exclamation mark.) The preexisting language whose existence has been suddenly and rudely revealed is called Go without the exclamation mark. Since ! is the negation operator, the Google's language is Go (Not). People don't seem to realize the full implications of the name.
It originates from the paper by Dijkstra where he argued GoTo statements should be banned. That resulted in many structured programming languages main stream computer science. But what is not known is that the same paper spawned a new set of less well known languages based on "COME FROM" statement to avoid the "GO TO" statement. The Go! (pronounced Go-Not) language belongs to this little known branch. It is completely and entirely different from the plain old Go language.
Dont get me started on the Japanese chess game Go.
But while Storms speculated that Microsoft knew the EOT font flaw was a security issue -- and waited until now to patch older Windows -- Lai thought that Microsoft didn't realize until recently that it was also a security vulnerability in editions prior to Windows 7. "I think they fixed this bug as part of the code sanitization during [Windows 7's] development cycle. It was actually only publicly disclosed recently, and then they patched it in other Windows
The article is speculating what did Micrsoft know and when did it know it etc. Microsoft's standard line defending its security through obscurity policy is, "we are not providing any details because it is going to help the hackers". But what about its big customers? Almost all businesses do not care much about its small customers. So forget small timers. But Microsoft has to coddle its big Fortune500 company customers. Would they be informed, even under confidentiality agreements and non disclosure agreements, which platforms and applications are vulnerable?
How do these big companies justify being so meek and acquiescing to Microsoft? If these Fortune 500 companies chip in 100,000$ a year, they can create an Institute of Software Interoperability and go towards reducing their switching costs. Microsoft has total revenue of more than 25 billion dollars, and a significant chunk comes from these big companies. They pay off has to be enormous for these companies.
The graphic in the site shows that this asteroid crossed lunar orbit and got to within 14400 km, in just five hours. Some libertarians pointed out that NASA after taking billions of dollars of tax payers handouts still took more than three days, to reach the Lunar orbit from Earth. They reiterated their belief in small government and vowed to starve the beast by cutting the taxes even more.
The blog is nice. But it is large block of text, para after para after. So to make it easier to understand, break the blog post into something like 20 sections.
Give each section a title. Then write just two or three points for each section.
Do not make the mistake of writing a fully correct grammatical sentence for each point. Make it short and pithy. Just a sentence fragment or phrase preceded by a small filled circle will do.
Arrange these sections in a landscape format. Use a large 28 point font for the section titles and something like a 24 point font for the two or three points you make in each section.
Choose a nice color and a not-too-distracting-but-not-very-bland either border decoration and apply it to all the sections.
Add a nice title section.
Presto, your blog post is very eminently presentable to millions of college students in a easy to present format that appears to be nice and slick. As an added bonus before someone comprehends enough of it to ask you any tough questions, you would scrammed out of there with plenty of time to spare.
The other day I was watching Jon Stewart and he was explaining something vague about Hitler stealing Geln Beck from us internal organ by internal organ by internal organ. None of it made any sense till he rolled in the chalk board and explained the link between Acorn, small and large intestines (something Karl Marx had) and the stomach, then it all became very very clear. If in doubt, use a chalk board. That is my dictum now.
Collect the amount of water pumped reported by each sensor as a trace between 9:30 AM and 4PM on the days the market is open. Find the correlation between this trace and the S&P500 index with a two minute time lag. See which sensor has a correlation coefficient more than 0.05. Use that info to come up with a trading strategy to buy and sell the exchange traded fund IVV. Propose a project find the leading indicator sensor for more securities like QQQQ, Diamond, XLF, XLU, XLV, XLP and the stock ANSS. Upper management is mostly made up of idiots who fall for such things. Build an empire under you. Watch the cash flow of the company. Just before it goes bust, put all this experience in a resume and get a job in the ultra high speed trading division of Morgan Stanley.
Verizon is born of an unholy alliance of old baby bells. Bell-Atlantic and a few others. All the management and culture of that company dates back to the days when they were the monopoly, and they still are as far as wired access to homes are concerned. They are the kind of company that will bribe the lawmakers to outlaw municipal wi-fi networks even in small towns that they will never ever offer broadband other than some flaky version of DSL with 728Kbps service. Way back when that socialist Indira Gandhi ruled India, the Indian Posts and Telegraph department run phone service used to have this kind of customer service and billing procedures.
mass-adoption is a security liability. it must be feared as much as holes and bugs in software. how does it feel to be in Microsoft's shoes?
go ahead, fanbois. mod me down.
Oh, really? Take a look at the market share of
Apache webserver. Now which is more secure? IIS or Apache? They are plump target for every organized crime outfits in the world. They host banks and brokerage accounts that transact trillions of dollars day in day out. And the organized crime outfits don't limit themselves to simple hacker techniques. They would not mind murder and kidnapping and bribing to get passwords or breaking and entering to install key loggers. In that market place Apache shines and IIS lags.
Mass adoption alone is not a security liability. Mass adoption of closed proprietary protocols, be it Apple, be it Microsoft, be it Diebold, is a security liability. The reason is the main interest of Apples and Microsofts and Diebolds is to sell more of their product. Not security of user data. It is important only as much as it affects sales. If there are other factors that influence sales they will be the preoccupation of these companies, not security of user data.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is a great breakthrough and it provides a new understanding and all that. But fundamentally these kind of enzymes and stuff coax the body into healing itself and so their effectiveness is quite limited. Better to go with bio-interfaced electronics. I once saw a documentary where this guy was almost totally burnt in a volcano. The scientists were able to replace all the lost limbs with mechanical, cornea and trachea with mechanical components, a black helmet and a black cape and he was almost as good as new. Cool thing was, though he was modded so heavily, he still had enough mitachloreans and retained almost all the Force he had to begin with. Amazing. I tell you.
They got some malware, and ran it. If these malware did not need elevated privileges, they are expected to run. You download a bash script from the net that goes
"\rm -rf ~" and then complain that your $home is hosed? I am not sure the test is fair. Did the malware get root privileges? Did they do any damage that simple plain process with user privilege could not do? Unless such things happened, this test amounts to nothing more than testing backward compatibility of some old binaries in new OS. Duh.
The energy comes from the Sun. The concentrated brine has higher mobility ions. Even if ion bridge allows ions to move in both directions, the higher concentration on one side will send more ions down to lower concentration side purely by diffusion. At some point the concentrations should equal and the flow should stop but the low pressure pumps keep pumping out the water with altered concentrations and keep the ion gradient active all the time.
The key piece of the work is an ion bridge. This has to permit the travel of one kind of ion but not the other, i.e. Na+ or Cl-. Looks like this material could be expensive. It might plug up need to be periodically replaced. How expensive these are? How non toxic these are? What is needed to manufacture them? These are the questions we need to ask.
My friend developed an automatic code quality estimation program for his masters thesis. It will basically find average the number of lines per function, ratio of code to comment, and other such metrics and give a letter grade to the code. The fiendish prof announced that he will run that code through itself. Whatever letter grade it spits out will be his thesis grade. He got a D. He begged and cried and threw a hissy fit and wangled a B and scraped through the degree.
I wonder if we should turn that software loose on itself and see what it finds.
... I prefer to have my own car, with my own hands on the wheel, because I trust myself more than I trust some underpaid stranger.
Who do you think the bus driver rear ended? People like you! thats who who get squished by the bus. You are not safe anywhere. But the bus passengers were safe, and the "I am in charge of my own destiny" car driver got crushed.
I knew vista takes forever to boot, and so I am not surprised it took the first officer some 20 minutes to start the tutoring session. Also the boot has cool graphics splash screen and I could imagine the pilots being engrossed and entranced by the splash screen. But it is news to me it will also freeze all electronics within vicinity. I know the vista WiFi setup tries really hard to find any possible router in the vicinity and blasts the surrounding space with all sorts of radiation hoping to get a positive response from a router.
But it is news to me, it can commandeer aircraft radios and navigational aids within vicinity and convert them into a giant Wi-Fi range extenders.
Just with the limited human intelligence, limited resources and limited ability the researchers are able to create great levels of cooperation on mindless robots without any free will. Makes me wonder, if we are designed, as many Intelligent Design advocates claim we are, was the designer "intelligent"? With infinite wisdom and omnipotence and infinite resources, the Designer (or Designers) should have been able to create much more cooperative human beings. No wars. all peace. I wonder how they (the IDists) are able to square their ability ti "infer design" with the obvious "deficiencies of design".
The escape pod that was released from the imperial battlecruiser should have landed in Tatoonie. Leia pressed the wrong zip code and now it is landing in Latvia.
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But our company software has a large installed base and we need to fix bugs in existing code and somehow graft new functionalities into existing architecture with full backward compatibility for old saved data. And the skill set of coders varies widely. There are just a couple who can even touch isoparametric element stiffness matrix code, to name just one example. I still dont know how agile is going to change the way those two guys work.
I see the advantages of early feedback, and early testing, testing partial implementations etc. But at some point for some kind of code development, Agile may not be the best way to do the code. And I am hoping the training will shed light on where I can use Agile and where I should stay clear of it. I don't want to jump on a band wagon because it is the latest and then have a minor revolt among my padavans.
Yup, the mugger does not know who would be carrying a concealed weapon and who would not be. So they shoot everyone. Meanwhile deluded types think they are holding off the M1 A1 Abrams Tank owning, bazooka making, M15 trained army and marines with their little pipsqueak like a Beretta.
I thought when the copyrights expire the works pass on to the public domain and everyone has full permission to do anything they want with it. For example there is some ruckus in the evolution-creationism skirmishes because Darwin's The origin of the species is now in the public domain and some character known as the Banana Boy is planning to distribute "annotated" copies of that book in college campuses ( (plural)alumnus= alumni, (plural)campus= campi? no?). So why/how would the heirs get the copyright for themselves?
It originates from the paper by Dijkstra where he argued GoTo statements should be banned. That resulted in many structured programming languages main stream computer science. But what is not known is that the same paper spawned a new set of less well known languages based on "COME FROM" statement to avoid the "GO TO" statement. The Go! (pronounced Go-Not) language belongs to this little known branch. It is completely and entirely different from the plain old Go language.
Dont get me started on the Japanese chess game Go.
Here is a even better picture of the heart of Milkyway.
But while Storms speculated that Microsoft knew the EOT font flaw was a security issue -- and waited until now to patch older Windows -- Lai thought that Microsoft didn't realize until recently that it was also a security vulnerability in editions prior to Windows 7. "I think they fixed this bug as part of the code sanitization during [Windows 7's] development cycle. It was actually only publicly disclosed recently, and then they patched it in other Windows
The article is speculating what did Micrsoft know and when did it know it etc. Microsoft's standard line defending its security through obscurity policy is, "we are not providing any details because it is going to help the hackers". But what about its big customers? Almost all businesses do not care much about its small customers. So forget small timers. But Microsoft has to coddle its big Fortune500 company customers. Would they be informed, even under confidentiality agreements and non disclosure agreements, which platforms and applications are vulnerable?
How do these big companies justify being so meek and acquiescing to Microsoft? If these Fortune 500 companies chip in 100,000$ a year, they can create an Institute of Software Interoperability and go towards reducing their switching costs. Microsoft has total revenue of more than 25 billion dollars, and a significant chunk comes from these big companies. They pay off has to be enormous for these companies.
If this is a GPL violation, I'm sure it wasn't deliberate by Microsoft.
Precisely.Why blame malice when plain incompetence would suffice?
The graphic in the site shows that this asteroid crossed lunar orbit and got to within 14400 km, in just five hours. Some libertarians pointed out that NASA after taking billions of dollars of tax payers handouts still took more than three days, to reach the Lunar orbit from Earth. They reiterated their belief in small government and vowed to starve the beast by cutting the taxes even more.
Give each section a title. Then write just two or three points for each section.
Do not make the mistake of writing a fully correct grammatical sentence for each point. Make it short and pithy. Just a sentence fragment or phrase preceded by a small filled circle will do.
Arrange these sections in a landscape format. Use a large 28 point font for the section titles and something like a 24 point font for the two or three points you make in each section.
Choose a nice color and a not-too-distracting-but-not-very-bland either border decoration and apply it to all the sections.
Add a nice title section.
Presto, your blog post is very eminently presentable to millions of college students in a easy to present format that appears to be nice and slick. As an added bonus before someone comprehends enough of it to ask you any tough questions, you would scrammed out of there with plenty of time to spare.
The other day I was watching Jon Stewart and he was explaining something vague about Hitler stealing Geln Beck from us internal organ by internal organ by internal organ. None of it made any sense till he rolled in the chalk board and explained the link between Acorn, small and large intestines (something Karl Marx had) and the stomach, then it all became very very clear. If in doubt, use a chalk board. That is my dictum now.
Collect the amount of water pumped reported by each sensor as a trace between 9:30 AM and 4PM on the days the market is open. Find the correlation between this trace and the S&P500 index with a two minute time lag. See which sensor has a correlation coefficient more than 0.05. Use that info to come up with a trading strategy to buy and sell the exchange traded fund IVV. Propose a project find the leading indicator sensor for more securities like QQQQ, Diamond, XLF, XLU, XLV, XLP and the stock ANSS. Upper management is mostly made up of idiots who fall for such things. Build an empire under you. Watch the cash flow of the company. Just before it goes bust, put all this experience in a resume and get a job in the ultra high speed trading division of Morgan Stanley.
Verizon is born of an unholy alliance of old baby bells. Bell-Atlantic and a few others. All the management and culture of that company dates back to the days when they were the monopoly, and they still are as far as wired access to homes are concerned. They are the kind of company that will bribe the lawmakers to outlaw municipal wi-fi networks even in small towns that they will never ever offer broadband other than some flaky version of DSL with 728Kbps service. Way back when that socialist Indira Gandhi ruled India, the Indian Posts and Telegraph department run phone service used to have this kind of customer service and billing procedures.
mass-adoption is a security liability. it must be feared as much as holes and bugs in software. how does it feel to be in Microsoft's shoes? go ahead, fanbois. mod me down.
Oh, really? Take a look at the market share of Apache webserver. Now which is more secure? IIS or Apache? They are plump target for every organized crime outfits in the world. They host banks and brokerage accounts that transact trillions of dollars day in day out. And the organized crime outfits don't limit themselves to simple hacker techniques. They would not mind murder and kidnapping and bribing to get passwords or breaking and entering to install key loggers. In that market place Apache shines and IIS lags.
Mass adoption alone is not a security liability. Mass adoption of closed proprietary protocols, be it Apple, be it Microsoft, be it Diebold, is a security liability. The reason is the main interest of Apples and Microsofts and Diebolds is to sell more of their product. Not security of user data. It is important only as much as it affects sales. If there are other factors that influence sales they will be the preoccupation of these companies, not security of user data.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is a great breakthrough and it provides a new understanding and all that. But fundamentally these kind of enzymes and stuff coax the body into healing itself and so their effectiveness is quite limited. Better to go with bio-interfaced electronics. I once saw a documentary where this guy was almost totally burnt in a volcano. The scientists were able to replace all the lost limbs with mechanical, cornea and trachea with mechanical components, a black helmet and a black cape and he was almost as good as new. Cool thing was, though he was modded so heavily, he still had enough mitachloreans and retained almost all the Force he had to begin with. Amazing. I tell you.
They got some malware, and ran it. If these malware did not need elevated privileges, they are expected to run. You download a bash script from the net that goes "\rm -rf ~" and then complain that your $home is hosed? I am not sure the test is fair. Did the malware get root privileges? Did they do any damage that simple plain process with user privilege could not do? Unless such things happened, this test amounts to nothing more than testing backward compatibility of some old binaries in new OS. Duh.
The energy comes from the Sun. The concentrated brine has higher mobility ions. Even if ion bridge allows ions to move in both directions, the higher concentration on one side will send more ions down to lower concentration side purely by diffusion. At some point the concentrations should equal and the flow should stop but the low pressure pumps keep pumping out the water with altered concentrations and keep the ion gradient active all the time.
The key piece of the work is an ion bridge. This has to permit the travel of one kind of ion but not the other, i.e. Na+ or Cl-. Looks like this material could be expensive. It might plug up need to be periodically replaced. How expensive these are? How non toxic these are? What is needed to manufacture them? These are the questions we need to ask.
I wonder if we should turn that software loose on itself and see what it finds.
The scientologists have copy righted the judgement in USA and you are going to receive a DMCA take down notice soon.
- Bus driver texting rear-ends a car
Who do you think the bus driver rear ended? People like you! thats who who get squished by the bus. You are not safe anywhere. But the bus passengers were safe, and the "I am in charge of my own destiny" car driver got crushed.
But it is news to me, it can commandeer aircraft radios and navigational aids within vicinity and convert them into a giant Wi-Fi range extenders.
... that makes the auto salesmen pull all kinds of dirty tricks.
Just with the limited human intelligence, limited resources and limited ability the researchers are able to create great levels of cooperation on mindless robots without any free will. Makes me wonder, if we are designed, as many Intelligent Design advocates claim we are, was the designer "intelligent"? With infinite wisdom and omnipotence and infinite resources, the Designer (or Designers) should have been able to create much more cooperative human beings. No wars. all peace. I wonder how they (the IDists) are able to square their ability ti "infer design" with the obvious "deficiencies of design".
The escape pod that was released from the imperial battlecruiser should have landed in Tatoonie. Leia pressed the wrong zip code and now it is landing in Latvia.
Well, you make profits here in America? Pay taxes in America. Take the factories anywhere you want. But pay tariff when you bring your goodies here.