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The company received government approval to put more than 3,200 satellites into orbit with the goal of beaming internet service to earth. Packages will rain down from the sky
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Great! More space junk to ruin amateur astronomy photos.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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The days of the siloed project manager and “skilled” development team are becoming a thing of the past, thanks to the increasing complexity of dev projects. The ability to say, "it's almost done" with a straight face?
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And when are project managers going to learn these apparently "project manager" skills? 
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In addition to Sander...
where are the developer skills that every project manager should have?
M.D.V. 
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Those skills require three digit IQ's, which is very rare for any manager 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Those skills require three digit IQ's
You've obviously never worked in a large organization. Every deliverable has three responsible managers - the Project, Product, and Marketing managers, each with a single-digit IQ.
Doesn't that count?
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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Only 3? 
I've been in a team with a project manager, a product manager, an IT manager, a test manager, a data manager, a delivery manager, somehow another manager who was responsible for discussing the delivery with the business, a third-party manager, and probably a couple more managers (like the product owner who was in constant management meetings, but did not own the product, and two scrum masters who were in those same meetings).
All were external and some of them only worked their because their friend (or business partner!) was a manager there.
The total project team was around forty people and that's including all those managers, ALL external.
Every manager ultimately would've had about two people to manage, except none of them did.
All they did was manage each other I guess.
Most managers didn't even know the people working for them even though there were less than thirty in total.
They just never took the effort to get to know their team.
Meanwhile, the product went WAAAAAAY over budget (well, if there even was a budget), specs and priorities changed daily and sometimes multiple times a day, and basically all went to hell.
The average hourly wage was probably around €100, with even €200+ for some managers, so it may have been higher.
So let's say 8 hours a day * 40 people * €100 = €32,000 a day for this project on people alone, which was really just a web site for requesting a mortgage 
It cost them €2,000,000 just to get a basic web form up and running with just an API connection to a third-party service in the back-end.
And that was just the beginning, before I (and most of the managers) arrived 
Ultimately, they started laying people off... Like developers and testers, but when it was my time to leave, not even a single manager was yet laid off
A lot of stupid managers made A LOT of money there... On the other hand, who's really the stupid one?
I wish I was exaggerating, but I'm really not
That said, it was a fun project (in the beginning) and I learned a lot at that place 
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Sander Rossel wrote: That said, it was a fun project (in the beginning) and I learned a lot at that place
Learning how to NOT do things is sometimes very very valuable.
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Problem solving is a management skill and not a developer skill? Really? Was this article written by a journalist student just imagining what it is like to work in the industry?
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: Was this article written by a journalist student just imagining what it is like to work in the industry?
I didn't know you were that nice...
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thanks to the increasing complexity of dev projects.
"It’s under control, as much as you can control it.” - Donald Trump
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Storage startup Pliops has announced sampling of its Storage Processors to select tier-one cloud and enterprise companies and was on track to start commercial production of the processors later in 2020.
The Storage Processors ASICs are said to increase performance of NAND flash storage solutions, such as SSDs, by over 10 times and also decrease latency by up to 1000 times in various database applications.
Someone else at the site I got this story from said it better than I ever could:
Cassandra.....Oracle.....MySQL....know what else can make these RDBMS's faster? Swift and frequent beatings for anyone who starts a query with select *
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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There is a place for select * where 0=1 if you need to get schema information from a table to do things like DAL code generation
*hides*
Real programmers use butterflies
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IF you're generating that you're not the person who needs their fingers broken.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I would imagine most RDBMS expose an interface for getting schema information without running a select *, Oracle certainly does.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Yeah but each of them is proprietary to a particular database engine. The one I provided works on any SQL92 compliant database.
Sometimes the APIs are just extra BS, man.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Then you will probably need to create some sort of adapter for each database type.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Exactly. Or I can just use SQL92
Real programmers use butterflies
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BleepingComputer can confirm that Garmin has received the decryption key to recover their files encrypted in the WastedLocker Ransomware attack. I guess regular offsite backups weren't on their radar? (or GPS)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I guess regular offsite backups weren't on their radar? (or GPS)
Offsite, but not apparently not offline.
That or the attacker waited until the last non-pwnd backup had be automatically deleted. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Great. So Garmin
a) has shown again that it can't do software
b) has helped legitimise ransomware attackers by showing that if you pay they will come through with the key. The whole "don't pay, you won't get your data back" argument no longer holds water.
Thanks Garmin. Awesome. 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Microsoft is currently experimenting with a new name and logo for Bing, dubbed as “Microsoft Bing,” perhaps suggesting a rebrand could be in the works soon. They found the solution to beating Google!
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And you know what a new logo and branding mean?
That's right more work for everyone's favorite icon designer team.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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How many things will they break when they push the new "update" for it?
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