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We're unique in that we haven't been around as long as those other professions.
That means our bad ones tend to be worse, and on average, by comparison, so are we. Industry maturity thing.
I think this one stays a baby for awhile though. Thanks to awful entities like AAPL, we're doomed to an unnatural level of combined ignorance and consumption for a time to come.
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Sander Rossel wrote: I've got this theory that at least 90% of programmers are a bunch of bunglers
My theory is that 80% of people are average. 10% are excellent. 10% are not very good.
That after all is basically how normal distribution works.
But of course one must keep in mind that people are complex. As such they might suck at one thing but be great at another.
Time, complexity and economics will always have an impact on any idealization that one might have started with. Not to mentioned efforts that and up only half done due to some 'better' idealization halfway through.
So no point in me agonizing over might have beens when I wasn't even around to see what those people had to go through.
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Boeing has taken the ideal of non-discrimination on sex, religion, and race one step further. It now does not discriminate on ability.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Proof if reincarnation. 
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The conversion to McDonnell Douglas management philosophies is nearly complete. At the time of the great merger between Boing and McDonnell Douglas the DC 10 fiasco was rapidly sinking that company. After the merger the cancerous "Maximizing Shareholder Value" took hold in Boing and the march to lower levels of quality had begun. The share value soared and nobody cared that Boing QA teams were decimated in the process. Boing engineers understood that people make mistakes and in a complicated machine like an airplane mistakes could have deadly consequences. So assembly teams had extra time factored into assembly to handle the inevitable delays incurred when QA caught mistakes. But this raised costs and lowered productivity. This did NOT maximize share holder value. QA teams became single QA persons who could only enter problems into a system and no longer affect the production of a plane. Assembly team size also shrunk and strict assembly times were enforced. Missing bolts for a door, put the door up, enter the missing bolts into a system and move on. Somebody else would handle the problem later.
Now the merry-go-round has stopped and the FAA is left holding the bag as the big bad government regulator that has to point out the glaring deficiencies. Boing management is left with hollow promises to make things better but the excess money is gone, gobbled up by stock buy backs that "Maximized Share Holder Value". There is no spare money to throw at increasing team sizes without affecting the value of the stock. Like the DC10 of old, the customers are voting with their feet and refusing to fly on the Boing Max planes. Airlines are starting to review their long term orders and reducing the demand for these controversial airplanes.
Its just sad.
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Read the article. At least one of those incidents had nothing to do with Boeing and everything to do with bad timing - foreign object damage to an engine.
Also, the New York Times reported earlier this week that Alaska Airlines had ignored a cabin pressurization warning light on the 737 that had the door plug blow out. AA is really lucky no one was injured or killed as they would be on the hook for flying an aircraft with a safety warning light illuminated.
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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What is the name of the device that allows you to put your own handwriting onto a graphics area of the screen of your own computer ?
i.e., You take a stylus of some sort and press it against a screen like an Android tablet or something, and then there on your desktop computer screen, you see a reproduction of your own handwriting
Now that I think of it, I could probably bet that somebody probably has already written an app that will do exactly that on an Android tablet and connect with a USB cable and put it on the desktop computer screen.
But
That's just me guessing.
What I don't know is the name of the stuff, the nomenclature, who makes it, and the biggie: How to search for it and look for it on the internet or Google Play Store or whatever.
I will give a 1973 Corvette Stingray to anyone who can tell me where to find this kind of stuff.
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This kind of thing?
Amazon link
I think they were just called tablets before the Android variety appeared.
Wacom is the only brand I've heard of.
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Adding to what Indivara says, 'Wacom' is definitely the keyword.
I had a no-name drawing tablet with stylus years ago, USB interface. Software always reported it as Wacom.
My current laptop is a Lenovo Ideapad Flex 5, a convertible. (Turn it inside out and it becomes a tablet.)
It has a stylus which works in PC or tablet mode, again identified as Wacom.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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C-P-User-3 wrote: What is the name of the device that allows you to put your own handwriting onto a graphics area of the screen of your own computer ?
A Sharpie? 
*hides*
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Tippex to correct incorrect entries or writing.
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