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That would make you the "Rebel" type.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Questionner for sure.
When I see how often specs are self contradicting, I wonder how it can be otherwise.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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ppolymorphe wrote: When I see how often specs are self contradicting
You work with specs? Lucky you. I get to work with fly by the seat of your pants, agile catastrophe, management wants a shiny new UI every 3 months, I can't even query the server for simple data out of the database because the guy in charge of the back end refuses to document the Django abortion he's using, and of course there's no docs on the third party database tech he's using, nobody heard of an acceptance test plan until I created one and then it sat on the shelf getting mouldy for months, and they expect me to take calls at 2 AM from the casino where some drunken gambler jammed his credit card into the ATM.
Uh, I'll go quietly back into my hole now.
Marc
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What I call 'specs' is the talk with my boss. And usually it involve things self contradict or getting information where I would need some magic to get the answer.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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we recently polled nearly 900 software developers on CodeProject
I wasn't polled.
Marc
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Have you at least polled nearly 900 people here to come to that conclusion?
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You can learn how to improve your novice pilot skills by having your brain zapped with recorded brain patterns of experienced pilots via transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), according to researchers at HRL Laboratories. I've downloaded the brain patterns of an substandard blurb writer
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Kent Sharkey wrote: substandard blurb writer
Is this a synonym for
modern day journalist
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If you've got a moldy laptop or PC kicking about that you want to bring some fresh life to, you can download Remix OS for free, chuck it onto a USB stick, and boot it up. Everything you enjoy about Android, with less of the ability to throw it against a wall
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Thanks for sharing this. The ability to easily boot Android on a vanilla Wintel box opens up interesting possibilities.
/ravi
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Interesting article!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta tomorrow (noun): a mystical land where 99% of all human productivity, motivation and achievement is stored.
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There's some impressive tech shown there, and what's even more impressive is how solo programmers created much of it. That is the coolest thing, IMO.
[edit] What? Marc doesn't make a biting, sarcastic comment? It's a rare Insider News response where that doesn't occur! (Sorry Kent!!!) [/edit]
Marc
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The company anonymized and aggregated data from more than 5.3 million messages, and figured out which qualities made an email most likely to prompt a response. The one from the CEO
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Those promising increased length get fewest replies?
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This study is junk science from start to finish, relying on logical fallacies for their conclusions.
It found that minor correlations exist between email length and response likelihood. With the same data and methodology, let's conclude:
1. Medium-length emails are more likely to produce responses because email receivers prefer to respond to medium-length emails.
2. Short and long emails are less likely to produce responses because email receivers prefer to ignore short and long emails.
3. Medium-length emails are more likely to produce responses because email senders are more likely to put important information into medium-length emails.
4. Short and long emails are less likely to produce responses because email senders prefer to put unimportant information into short and long emails.
5. Short emails are less likely to produce responses because email receivers like to read them on their phone while driving, and then die in a car crash before responding.
6. Long emails are less likely to produce responses because email senders prefer to send offensive content in long emails, causing the receiver to not respond and instead to run out to the parking lot and slash the sender's tires, delaying their inevitable death in an accident while reading a short email.
All of these conclusions are equally logically valid (and should be equally laughed at).
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Will CP pay me if I analyse all the posts and see ideal post length to get upvote. I have already done one such study. Ideal length of getting a tweet re-tweeted is less than 140.
This is useless study.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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d@nish wrote: Will CP pay me How about 10000 rep points?
This is useless payment.
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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No. Not that much. Just get me one of these[^].
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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A simple truth is:
When you absolutely want a response, don't send an email. Pick up the phone, and talk.
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I have performed my own scientific analysis of 5204443 posts in the Lounge. I used advanced artificial intelligence technologies[^] and found that a post has a 42.98% likelihood of getting upvoted if it contains the word "bacon".
Life is too shor
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You got my vote
TTFN - Kent
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Mission accomplished!
Life is too shor
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Cat videos
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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If you work in the software industry, it’s likely that you have heard about the divide and conquer design paradigm, which basically consists of recursively splitting a problem into two or more sub-problems (divide), until these become simple enough to be solved directly (conquer). "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war"
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