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Quote: Somehow in recent times we have moved towards being unable to do anything without plans and committees and time, lots and lots of time.
Hope it pay's well 
With friendly greetings, 
Eric Goedhart
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Eric Goedhart wrote: Hope it pay's well
Unfortunately it does 
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Hi,
I think you have a great job, lots of time and well paid
I personally wouldn't bother since it's there procedure they are following and how (management) they want it. In a formal organisation its just the way it goes. The only thing a programmer can do in such a situation is to look at the next task that has to be done and do it, and so on...
As long as you like solving the tasks presented I think its a nice job, if you are bored by that I would look for a better (paid) job that challenges you more
With friendly greetings,
Eric Goedhart
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I've never seen the movie, but the clip fits perfectly! 
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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It's definitely worth watching the movie. 
"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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Yeah....cutting the red tape sometimes is nice. But it depends on the project. Where I work we do not plan things out enough and it's a big problem because we have dozens of different components that all work together. So someone sneaks in a change and twelve things break and we have to drop everything and fix them and we get yelled at and complained about and fall behind on our regular work because we're so busy fixing things. But if you're working with stand alone stuff that no one else touches....sure.
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"Just stick it in there and release" is fine if and only if your product is fully tested by automated tests i.e. unit, integration, system and if applicable UI tests.
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chriselst wrote: Everything has to be planned and agreed and discussed and agreed and planned again, exit strategies have to be in place, risks have to be assessed, forms have to be filled out, testing has to be done from end to end, releases have to be synchronised and out of hours and tested before the users are allowed at them again.
I went to a "taster" for how Holacracy[^] works by giving people autonomous authority but with responsibility. So, for example, if you have the role of "release manager" with the authority to do the release, then you can do the release whenever you have completed your responsibilities, which are clearly defined, such as communicating to other department people, etc.
One of the neat things is that, as one works with this process, very clear statements can be written as to what the role's responsibilities are, which cuts through time-wasting meetings, "opinions", and so forth. I was very impressed by the scenarios that we worked through with the facilitator.
Marc
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Well, at least the release window is on this year...
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Hello all,
If you were me... what would you install at home?
Avira Premium + Malwarebytes?
Norton 360?
The OS is a Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bits.
Any other suggestion?
Please try to give your reasons too 
Thank you!
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On Windows 8.1 I just let the OS deal with it, works out of the box.
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Nothing, Windows Defender seems to be pretty good and well supported. If you have a decent firewall (again, the OS one is up to scratch, and your router should be configured to reject incoming requests anyway) and don't set out to visit places you might get a virus, you don't really need third party software. Most virus software is so aggressive in terms of scanning files in use and disk access that it slows your life down more than getting a virus would ...
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Bob's correct, some of the packages are overly aggressive. I have to use Xp in a VM, and we all know that Xp should no be used any more, gasp, it's not supported. So, my Defender updates stopped. I only due development in this VM, no surfing at all, but I'm paranoid. I installed Avast and have never been so frustrated. Kept having false positives for my application targets - shoving stuff into the quarantine folder, and on an on. Even if I told it to ignore things, it keep happily deleting files from my delivery tree.
Uninstalled.
Defender has worked quite well over the years....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I use to use Kaspersky.
But since moving to Win 8.1, I stopped and just rely on MS security Essentials (or what ever it is called) and inbuilt OS firewall and router firewall.
The last reviews I had seen said that for basic protection there was nothing wrong with MS. At the end of the day, I don't go opening unknown links or attachments, so the probability is significantly reduced.
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Last time this was asked here, I answered by telling that Defender (=new name for Security Essentials) was sufficient and got flamed.
But I stand to it : Just trust the OS, never had any trouble (but for a few crapware).
Joan Murt wrote: Norton 360
You want to avoid viruses, not install one !
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I agree with using Microsoft Security Essentials, although I am still on Windows 7.
It works well and doesn't entirely kill my processor or disk.
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If you do install more than 1 antivirus make sure that only 1 is running real time scanning.
John
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Microsoft security essentials + Spybot search & destroy
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I personally don’t care for windows 8 but the new windows defender built in, at a quick look appears to be the same (same binary names) as Microsoft Security Essentials used in older versions of Windows but with the new modern application scanning stuff built in.
I would stick with it myself.
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For Windows 8.x, just let Windows Defender do it...it does a pretty good job.
For Windows XP, Defender/Security Essentials no longer works...I installed AVG on a buddy's XP computer...just need to get a few more miles out of the box till it blows and AVG seems to consume the least system resources which matters a lot on a 10 year old computer.
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None of my Windows 8.1 systems need any antivirus. The Windows Defender that comes with them works just fine.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Emsisoft AV. Fourth year of using it now [^].
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.” Jorge Luis Borges
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