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I would request (or pay) you for typing the below 'quote' on a poster and circulate it in social networks. Some day, this will reach my super-sensible superiors eyes. Like the floating "message-in-a-bottle". Or let it reach some other similar managers & directors and free the victims from abuse.
Because the truth, it's never heard when said by the people around. They want that out from a millionaire's mouth. And they follow it happily. "Oh Bill Gates said that, Steve Jobs did that".
Okay here's the quote:
"IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU WANTED, EXACTLY. HOW & HOW LONG WILL NEVER BE A PROBLEM".
It's such a poor feeling when people don't know what they exactly wanted and ask us to "finish" it.
A half cooked requirement is given, on the way they understand they are building bridges to the moon, and suddenly change the direction. The dev team does all the spec update and do what they wanted to do in the mid of the development journey. The build gets done somehow.
After two weeks, in review meeting, The people who gave this half cooked requirement announces "We need to increase our efficiency". We are still not "agile", painfully looking at the dev manager/lead.
This is one of the worst feelings to go through , I tell you.
"Agile" This one word, I bet is one of the most abused words of this century.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
modified 22-Aug-16 3:27am.
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I think if the word agile get you going you having been in business long enough. There are hundreds of bull pad management speak word they love to roll out at the drop of a hat.
You need to proactively extradite your self from the box so a collective imaginative dynamic view of the situation cane blah blah blah blah zzzzzzzzzzzz
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Ah, management by (agile) hand waving.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Send it to Trump: he thinks he's all those things. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I've worked for a worse kind of client in the past.
They were a waterfall kind of company. Everything was to be decided before starting the project.
And because they knew what they wanted and everything was clear from the start the project could be fixed price.
Except they did not know what they wanted, the specs were not clear, and they'd change direction three times a day.
But, according to them, it wasn't so because they knew EXACTLY what they wanted 
Of course my company didn't want fixed price for the next project, but they wouldn't have it.
That they did NOT know what they wanted and that the specs were NOT clear were slanderous lies.
Everything was clear, fixed price 
After a change of management (at our company) they agreed to pay by the hour.
New management made A WHOLE LOT of money from it.
Too bad really, as the old management were my parents 
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Charging them extra for every letter they modify in the original requirement spec would be the right thing to do. As "regression" charge. 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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While I sympathize with how (I think) you are feeling, and the frustration (I think) you are experiencing, I do wonder if the very nature of the software business doesn't involve a degree of "mess," and "imprecision" because of the different roles, expectations, and agendas of companies, administrators, project managers, and ... programmers.
Whether I was working for a large company (Adobe), or working as a contractor for small to medium-sized companies, I never experienced any software project that wasn't "bent out of shape" by a mixture of:
1. the need to support legacy code, legacy UI implementations
2. naive expectations of unrealistic goals being met within the nominal time period for achievement
3. clash of personalities, and other interpersonal issue
4. organizational politics
On the other hand, I was never "burdened" by having to regularly go through some kind of process like "Agile" involving a public performance in which I might have to grit my teeth, while lying through them, because everyone was too afraid to say the obvious fact that "the Emperor had no clothes."
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Vunic wrote: building bridges to the moon
We didn't tell you which moon. If you needed to know, you should have asked!
Now hurry up and finish that bridge to Charon[^]. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I thought they said it very clearly.
Seven red lines all perpendicular to each other, some in green and at least two to be transparent. Also, one of the red ones to be in the shape of a kitten.
What's the problem?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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That's called documentation!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Strange that it not in camelCase.
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A good soldier does axactly as he is ordered, to the letter.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Maybe their name was already taken and they had to be creative for the host's name 
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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So my neighbor's come up with a good question. He's got a lot of MP3s (10s of thousands), and he's had a problem with file duplication that I helped him solve by purchasing some software (De-Dup from PerfectTUNES). This software "listens" to audio files, so duplicates can be matched regardless of file type (.mp3, .flac, .wav, .ogg) or bitrate, and ignores silence at the start and end of such files, and completely ignores tags, which I suppose is a good thing once you find out a lot of files are incorrectly tagged. Since tags are ignored, it also won't confuse a live version of a song vs its album counterpart. Of course it can't make the distinction between a song that comes from an album, and the same thing coming from a compilation or best-of album, but for all intents and purposes, that's exactly what such software should reasonably be expected to do.
So that took care of his file duplication problem.
One thing it won't do however is automatically assign tags to these untagged (or incorrectly tagged) files. I know Shazam can do a very decent job of identifying obscure songs, but unlike Shazam and the like, this software doesn't make any effort to identify songs - it just walks through a big file dump and looks for matches but doesn't then take the next logical step, which would be to go online and fetch tags/descriptor IDs. And since Shazam only "listens" to sound coming from an external output, it can't assign tags to the originating file once it's identified the content.
Does anyone know of software that can do that sort of thing - that is, listen to a file on disk, identify what it is, and then tag it...even if it only managed to fetch artist and album titles, that would be a great start.
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FWIW, I've used this one but it doesn't 'listen' to the content.
Mp3tag[^]
It connects to some online services (I've forgotten what they are) and fetches album information and album art, which it uses to tag the files with.
I'm also not sure it is suitable for tens of thousands of MP3s.
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Indivara wrote: FWIW, I've used this one but it doesn't 'listen' to the content.
Mp3tag[^]
And that, right there, is the blocker. Assume all files are completely untagged and have names you can't rely on. If it doesn't look at the content, then it's a non-starter.
I've used Mp3tag and it's absolutely fantastic at what it does - but it's not what's needed here.
I'm looking for personal experiences and opinions, but meanwhile, this looks promising: MusicBrainz Picard[^]
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How about Mp3tag[^], ID3 Hunter[^] (open source) or WinAmp[^] to auto tag using GraceNote FreeDB?
Edit: ID3 Hunter fails to build because the string resources and settings files aren't present in the source. 
/ravi
modified 21-Aug-16 12:16pm.
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I never realized Winamp could do auto-tagging. Is that built-in, or with some extra plugin?
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It's a hidden built-in feature. Click the link in my reply to view a brief YTube video that shows how to enable and use the feature.
/ravi
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Neat. Based on the video, I thought you had to let Winamp play songs before it would auto-tag them, but later on, it does mention you can make a list and then use Send To / Autotag. I'll definitely have to try it out.
OTOH, it doesn't look like it provides any way to accept/reject suggested changes; it'll just apply them. But, it still seems like a great option if you have a big pile of completely unidentified material.
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Yes, it's a good start. I (strongly) recommend MP3Tag once you've gone through the first phase with WinAmp. It's an awesome tag editor + file renamer.
You can also use my humble 13-year old app MP3 Pal[^].
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: I (strongly) recommend MP3Tag once you've gone through the first phase with WinAmp
No need to sell me on it - I've been using MP3Tag for years.
And since you've written your own MP3 tag app - you're probably a good candidate to ask: Years ago I let some program update tags in a bunch of MP3 files, and--I've never been sure whether that was just a coincidence of not--shortly thereafter a lot of files had audible glitches in them here and there. I initially attributed this to the tagging program corrupting the audio portion of the file, but could never really prove it. It was so long ago, I forget what program it was. Could even have been Windows Media Player for all I know...
Since you have experience looking at tags and rewriting MP3 files with updates - how likely (or plausible?) would it be, you think, for such a program to corrupt an MP3? Is the method foolproof, or is it easy to make basic mistakes that would introduce audio glitches?
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/ravi
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hmm, not sure if its an option, but when I loaded music CD into the iTunes library, it did find the correct album, song title etc.
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