I can only hope that these people are plagued with "50%-good" products.
In many areas, people are plagued with these products because people shoot for 80-90%. If you shoot for 100% and have luck with you, you'll get a 80-90% or better product. And in software -- IMHO as a result of lack of merchantability or suitability-for-a-purpose guarantees -- you can market a product as 100%-good and then ship a 50%-good product without incurring any corporate liability.
I brought this question up informally to my coworkers. Punishment or shaming, which I'd read about, doesn't seem to have the desired effect. More of them were of the opinion and experience that code reviews went a long ways towards improving programming skills, including one recent Google hire who had good things to say about Mondrian.
In the 1970's, Kopsch, Turcos and Ward produced their "KTW" handgun ammunition using steel cored bullets capable of great penetration. Following further experimentation, in 1981 they began producing bullets constructed primarily of brass. The hard brass bullets caused exceptional wear on handgun barrels, a problem combated by coating the bullets with Teflon. The Teflon coating did nothing to improve penetration, it simply reduced damage to the gun barrel.
You might try to find a stellar recommendation for an acupuncturist who's willing to try a varied approach -- not tied to doing things precisely 'by the book' according to Traditional Chinese Medicine meridian theory, but willing to use their brain and experiment a little. Oddly, acupuncture seems to be conspicuously effective for autoimmune conditions; in particular, asthma and arthritis. Not sure whether it clears up the root cause or the associated inflammation when it works, but since side effects are few and mild, it's worth a shot.
I'm wondering if when you get the cold/flu, your adrenaline response increases and suppresses a histamine reaction to clear up the inflammation. If that's the case, you could try taking over-the-counter Claritin to see if it helps at least with the itching.
And science is slow - you can't follow Fermilab like some do a baseball team.
Well, maybe not exactly like a baseball team, but you can follow at least some of hat's going on. I used to listen to the Science@NASA podcast on the way to work and they were just reading -- with feeling, mind you -- the press releases; nevertheless, I found it informative, interesting, and valuable.
to first download all the necessary packages, completely unattended. One big benefit to this is that if your connection drops, you disconnect, or you want to switch mirrors, you can Ctrl-c it and rerun the command later; the download will pick up from where it left off. After you've downloaded all the packages, the upgrade will go much more quickly.
Just make sure they're genuine 3M Post-It(TM) brand post-its. The adhesive on the knock-off products wear out after a couple years even while they're still in the pad. They're just a pad of paper after that point. Of course, this isn't an issue if you plan to go through all of them within a couple years.
What other wisdom have you gained from your time sequestered with various RPGs?
For one thing, that wisdom is different than intelligence. I'm still not sure what the difference is, but at the time I read the rules, I assumed that someone wiser (or is that smarter) than me had written them, so he probably knew what he was talking about.
Alignment has worked as a good first pass on identifying the behavior of myself and coworkers. It helped me separate the axes of
good vs. evil
law -- e.g., bureaucrat/corporate citizen vs. disorder -- bending or violating the rules
neutrality -- just don't make waves, I don't care, or it's not important
and gave me a starting point on 'measuring' motivations and tendencies. This in turn helped me predict behavior for various people in the workplace. If nothing else, it makes it obvious that people have motivations and tendencies along more than one axis; I then added on a 'radius' from true neutral and a 'strength/weakness' axis and it still serves me (albeit simplistically) in learning how to work with other people to get results.
If absolutely nothing else, it gives me a common language and a starting point for identifying good and evil behavior that I can use in discussions with D&D-familiar wage slaves -- otherwise it sounds weird to use the word 'evil' to describe behavior in a world of moral relativism. Being able to back it up with a clear description helps. (Read from here on for the next 210 strips for a version with pictures).
In the past few years I've seen devices in the low $k that can do amazing things with sewing and embroidery, but can't get a good sense of the extent of their capability. From an external view, they look to be something between a smart sewing machine and string-based plotter, and are capable of sewing and trimming (and who knows what else) in one pass. Anyone have good references or stories about what these things are capable of, and at a more technical level, what they actually are?
Don't try to pick them up. In fact, start talking to them as if they were guys. If they start flirting with you, that's a sign that you can flirt with them. Until then, just act as if they are guys.
Bender: But sweet girls aren't for you, eh? You hard-fighting, hard-farting, ugly, ugly son of a-
Leela (incognito as a male soldier): Stop! Stop flattering me!
Bender: You're my kind of soldier, Lemon. A foul-mouthed, barrel-chested, beer-bellied pile of ugly muscle.
If all you have to work with is USB2, I'd just "break it up" into 2 cards/keys (which, in the case of 64Gb or less, you can do).
I've wondered why flash drive manufacturers don't RAID two chips into one thumb-drive for performance. Corsair and others have flash drives with 30MB/s read speed; RAIDing two together in one device would provide 60MB/s, USB2's maximum theoretical performance, wouldn't it?
From SuperMicro and price what it would be like to max it out on RAM and processors. You'd need a custom case for it to make it a workstation pc rather than a rackmount. Comes to about $20k with 96G of RAM and 4 6-core Xeons -- still less than what Dilbert spent for his dream system.
In the old days, some of process engineering was called "efficiency engineering", "industrial engineering", or, at Virginia Tech, "Industrial Engineering and Operations Research".
Is this what W. Edwards Deming did? Or was his stuff somewhat different? He was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the main article of this post.
I didn't know this was a separate, formal discipline. Can you indicate some reliable references for the 'process engineer' concept and the other concepts you mention above; maybe something akin to 'Code Complete' or 'The Mythical Man-Month' for this area?
Excellent post. The more I read and understand the constitution and about those who wrote and signed it, the more impressed I am at how intelligent and thoughtful they were... true patriots, people who looked historically at what worked, what didn't, and what were good solutions to those things that didn't.
This bugs me a lot -- if they were smart enough to codify rights so well in the constitution 200 years ago, where are the people of comparable caliber today and what are they doing? I'm reminded of a quote from Idiocracy, '... sadly, the greatest minds and resources where focused on conquering hair loss and prolonging erections.'
I know what you mean. Here I am stationed in Iraq, I've got people going out every day who are possibly going to get really killed. We find explosives, get shot at, you name it. It's all VERY real. But there are enough people who are so totally insulated from this sort of thing that the EVE Online game is vastly more important to them.
Everybody growing up in the US is in for a culture shock when they go to a foreign country; and you were in for a shock when you first experienced war, and more when you experienced death, experienced death of someone before their time, and another yet when that happens in a violent manner, and more I'm missing because I haven't experienced it myself.
I think the insulation goes so far for most of us that it's only the more curious who seek out the experience in a modified form such as EVE, to get some simulation of it, but don't experience the VERY real experience for a variety of reasons. So my take on it is that these people are insulated, and so is everybody else who doesn't experience what you have first-hand. The simulation players stand out because of the parallels, and (really stretching here) maybe they have some tiny amount of common ground that could be used to move towards learning what war is really like. Many, though, have probably been exposed to it solely as a game.
Nice guys finish last in all times. The "nice guy" who finishes last is very likely diffident, afraid to take risks, refuses to stand up for himself, shies from taking credit for their work, and avoids confrontation. These guys finish last. The "jerks" and "assholes" who succeed stand up for themselves, take credit for themselves, and are not shy about confronting those in their paths. The nice guys get run over by these assholes and then post on the Internet how how unfair life is.
As portrayed in this episode. Nice/jerk and weak/strong can be two different axes, though, depending on how you look at it.
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I can only hope that these people are plagued with "50%-good" products.
In many areas, people are plagued with these products because people shoot for 80-90%. If you shoot for 100% and have luck with you, you'll get a 80-90% or better product. And in software -- IMHO as a result of lack of merchantability or suitability-for-a-purpose guarantees -- you can market a product as 100%-good and then ship a 50%-good product without incurring any corporate liability.
I brought this question up informally to my coworkers. Punishment or shaming, which I'd read about, doesn't seem to have the desired effect. More of them were of the opinion and experience that code reviews went a long ways towards improving programming skills, including one recent Google hire who had good things to say about Mondrian.
I'm wondering if when you get the cold/flu, your adrenaline response increases and suppresses a histamine reaction to clear up the inflammation. If that's the case, you could try taking over-the-counter Claritin to see if it helps at least with the itching.
And science is slow - you can't follow Fermilab like some do a baseball team.
Well, maybe not exactly like a baseball team, but you can follow at least some of hat's going on. I used to listen to the Science@NASA podcast on the way to work and they were just reading -- with feeling, mind you -- the press releases; nevertheless, I found it informative, interesting, and valuable.
to first download all the necessary packages, completely unattended. One big benefit to this is that if your connection drops, you disconnect, or you want to switch mirrors, you can Ctrl-c it and rerun the command later; the download will pick up from where it left off. After you've downloaded all the packages, the upgrade will go much more quickly.
There's servers in the wild, and then there's this guy's problem.
Pay stub.
Just make sure they're genuine 3M Post-It(TM) brand post-its. The adhesive on the knock-off products wear out after a couple years even while they're still in the pad. They're just a pad of paper after that point. Of course, this isn't an issue if you plan to go through all of them within a couple years.
... certainly does, and in those exact words.
What other wisdom have you gained from your time sequestered with various RPGs?
For one thing, that wisdom is different than intelligence. I'm still not sure what the difference is, but at the time I read the rules, I assumed that someone wiser (or is that smarter) than me had written them, so he probably knew what he was talking about.
and gave me a starting point on 'measuring' motivations and tendencies. This in turn helped me predict behavior for various people in the workplace. If nothing else, it makes it obvious that people have motivations and tendencies along more than one axis; I then added on a 'radius' from true neutral and a 'strength/weakness' axis and it still serves me (albeit simplistically) in learning how to work with other people to get results.
If absolutely nothing else, it gives me a common language and a starting point for identifying good and evil behavior that I can use in discussions with D&D-familiar wage slaves -- otherwise it sounds weird to use the word 'evil' to describe behavior in a world of moral relativism. Being able to back it up with a clear description helps. (Read from here on for the next 210 strips for a version with pictures).
In the past few years I've seen devices in the low $k that can do amazing things with sewing and embroidery, but can't get a good sense of the extent of their capability. From an external view, they look to be something between a smart sewing machine and string-based plotter, and are capable of sewing and trimming (and who knows what else) in one pass. Anyone have good references or stories about what these things are capable of, and at a more technical level, what they actually are?
Don't try to pick them up. In fact, start talking to them as if they were guys. If they start flirting with you, that's a sign that you can flirt with them. Until then, just act as if they are guys.
Bender: But sweet girls aren't for you, eh? You hard-fighting, hard-farting, ugly, ugly son of a-
Leela (incognito as a male soldier): Stop! Stop flattering me!
Bender: You're my kind of soldier, Lemon. A foul-mouthed, barrel-chested, beer-bellied pile of ugly muscle.
Worth a shot, I guess ...
Or you could go the other way with that; with fine enough control, you've got some interesting possibilities open to you.
If all you have to work with is USB2, I'd just "break it up" into 2 cards/keys (which, in the case of 64Gb or less, you can do).
I've wondered why flash drive manufacturers don't RAID two chips into one thumb-drive for performance. Corsair and others have flash drives with 30MB/s read speed; RAIDing two together in one device would provide 60MB/s, USB2's maximum theoretical performance, wouldn't it?
I don't mean to brag when I say this, but rather explore a perspective. I heard this a lot: "man, I wish I could work like you do."
And I ask--why the fuck can't they?
Is this the intellectual equivalent of this individual's lament? If so, the answer pretty much writes itself:
Who knew it was that easy?
From SuperMicro and price what it would be like to max it out on RAM and processors. You'd need a custom case for it to make it a workstation pc rather than a rackmount. Comes to about $20k with 96G of RAM and 4 6-core Xeons -- still less than what Dilbert spent for his dream system.
I think if PETA had ever gone after these guys, they could just reuse their old notes.
In the old days, some of process engineering was called "efficiency engineering", "industrial engineering", or, at Virginia Tech, "Industrial Engineering and Operations Research".
Is this what W. Edwards Deming did? Or was his stuff somewhat different? He was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the main article of this post.
I didn't know this was a separate, formal discipline. Can you indicate some reliable references for the 'process engineer' concept and the other concepts you mention above; maybe something akin to 'Code Complete' or 'The Mythical Man-Month' for this area?
Excellent post. The more I read and understand the constitution and about those who wrote and signed it, the more impressed I am at how intelligent and thoughtful they were... true patriots, people who looked historically at what worked, what didn't, and what were good solutions to those things that didn't.
This bugs me a lot -- if they were smart enough to codify rights so well in the constitution 200 years ago, where are the people of comparable caliber today and what are they doing? I'm reminded of a quote from Idiocracy, '... sadly, the greatest minds and resources where focused on conquering hair loss and prolonging erections.'
The proposal was to limit the Executives' salaries to X percentage above the lowest paid employee's salary.
Ben and Jerry's tried this a while back, but for some reason they eventually changed this policy.
I know what you mean. Here I am stationed in Iraq, I've got people going out every day who are possibly going to get really killed. We find explosives, get shot at, you name it. It's all VERY real. But there are enough people who are so totally insulated from this sort of thing that the EVE Online game is vastly more important to them.
Everybody growing up in the US is in for a culture shock when they go to a foreign country; and you were in for a shock when you first experienced war, and more when you experienced death, experienced death of someone before their time, and another yet when that happens in a violent manner, and more I'm missing because I haven't experienced it myself.
I think the insulation goes so far for most of us that it's only the more curious who seek out the experience in a modified form such as EVE, to get some simulation of it, but don't experience the VERY real experience for a variety of reasons. So my take on it is that these people are insulated, and so is everybody else who doesn't experience what you have first-hand. The simulation players stand out because of the parallels, and (really stretching here) maybe they have some tiny amount of common ground that could be used to move towards learning what war is really like. Many, though, have probably been exposed to it solely as a game.
P.S. *THANK YOU* for your service.
Nice guys finish last in all times. The "nice guy" who finishes last is very likely diffident, afraid to take risks, refuses to stand up for himself, shies from taking credit for their work, and avoids confrontation. These guys finish last. The "jerks" and "assholes" who succeed stand up for themselves, take credit for themselves, and are not shy about confronting those in their paths. The nice guys get run over by these assholes and then post on the Internet how how unfair life is.
As portrayed in this episode. Nice/jerk and weak/strong can be two different axes, though, depending on how you look at it.