Posts by DeathSquid 70 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Jan 2013
There's no mens rea, so no criminal act. As for civil liability, there are two paths. The gym could be sued for breach of contract, and the gym rat could be sued for tortious interference.The gym rat in turn could sue the software maker for negligence and breach of warranty. The winners will be the lawyers.
I got a call once. It was a university where I used to work teaching out for support because the student project submission system I'd written in 2 weeks, 15 years earlier, wasn't scaling well with their labs of hundreds of Sun workstations. Maybe that was because when the code was written, the department had 3 computers? Anyway, I considered offering to update the code but wisdom prevailed, and I suggested that surely they could find someone with a spare 2 weeks for a rewrite...
I've got a 12c, a 15c, a 16c and a 41c on my desk. I use them all regularly. Nothing beats physical buttons when chewing through large calculations. The 41c, I'll admit, is an affectation. It was the fitrst machine I ever programmed back in the 70s. But the others are true workhorses, each designed for a different purpose.
Agile works. But Agile doesn't mean that sales people (including the CEO) can keep shifting the goal posts every week. Agile doesn't mean fixing the delivery date before you know what you are building. Agile doesn't mean no design or tests. No process can succeed under such circumstances. You need a north star that doesn't move and you need customers who are willing to engage in incremental requirements discovery, implementation and delivery. At its heart, Agile is about building stuff that works in the real world, for real people.
I don't want to pay for an ad free experience. I want to be paid for for my time watching ads. The best UX is being able to set your own rate. The advertiser pays and shows you the ad, or not.
What stops people from setting their price to £1m?
There is a price at which most people will elect to watch ads. Dynamic price discovery will find that point.
The playbook in Japan for corporate malfeasance is some old guy with a barcode haircut say he's sorry, in a highly stage managed way. Then nobody goes to prison. Nobody involved in the Olympic scandal did time, for instance. But god help you if you are a gaijin. The police will arrest you without charge, and hold you without bail for years until they force a confession. Goshn was just the highest profile case of hostage justice.
The executives at Fujitsu need to do jail time. They killed people, and paid themselves handsomely.
The government has been cooking this frog slowly. Originally, the cards were entirely optional. Then you had to provide them to open bank accounts and lodge tax returns. Then they shut down the very convenient out of hours kiosks that municipalities provided to print key documents, and forced you to use MyNumber or take the day off work. Now the health insurance card integration is intended to make them effectively mandatory.
Problem is, getting a card is a typical government service. It can take 3 months or longer. So you'd better hope you don't get sick. Or if you do, that you are wealthy enough to pay out of pocket. What makes me think that politicians get their cards without all the rigmarole of the little people?
And, of course, the system is discriminatory. A citizen's card lasts 10 years and when it is about to expire they get a renewal form sent to them. Foreigners get a card that expires when they renew their visa (which can be as short as 6 months), and get no renewal form sent to them. Do they get a refund on the health insurance? Don't be silly.
Will they actually fix any of this? No. The system is ony intended to extract more tax.
Smart people respond to whatever incentives are present. Google et al go out of their way to hire smart people. As they wind back on remuneration and job security, expect the best to leave. Area 120 was set up to specifically attract entrepreneurial innovators. Now Google is cutting loose the very people most likely to generate future products. A CFO obsessed with expenses rather than profit is in charge. We all know how this ends: HP.
The smart money will trade into these stocks expecting a short term lift in profits from good people leaving, then exit at the peak just befire the long term damage become apparent.
Making noise at less than 30km/hr will only cause more noise pollution in residential areas. At that speed, an alert driver can always use their horn to make themselves known as necessary. Anyway, hybrids have been tooling around at low speeds on battery only for years, and there's been no problem up until now...
I've been in that meeting. The one where the business wants backup servers that MUST be available if the other one fails. The same meeting where the accountants point blank refuse to sign off on additional server racks, rooms and air conditioning. And they blanch at the cost of the emergency power generator.
Strategy? You document everything. Then when a failure takes down the business, the right heads roll.
It just goes to show you don't need to be a doctor to be a fool. Accountants are well up to the task.
Actually, the problem is not mental capacity. It is hubris. Doctors often believe they are the smartest people on the room even when they have no clue.
Indeed. What cracks me up are the desperate downvotes by people who are stuck in the past for one reason or another. They puff out their chests, harrumph, and declare how things are in the "real world". I've been in this game for 40 years, and every tech cycle I see those who don't want to or can't change getting left behind. It's a cruel business.
I don't know what your "real world" is like, but over the 20 years I've worked for 3 fast growing Fortune 500 organisations and not had to touch microsoft crap personally. Over the last six or seven years, I basically haven't seen windows used by anyone I work with. It's all Linux, Macs and mobile OSes.
The 90s are well and truly over. The future is the cloud and mobile devices.
The epicenter was in the sea, east of Sendai. It's a bit of a stretch to claim the Renesas factories were near it. Gunma is further away than Tokyo, right in the middle of Honshu. Ibaraki is only a bit closer than Tokyo. Even the closest in Yamagata has a whole prefecture between it and the coastline.
Inspecting factories with heavy machinery after a quake is SOP here.
Psychopath (n.)
1. A person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, cunning, manipulating, glibness, exploiting, heedlessness, arrogance, delusions of grandeur, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, disregard for morality, lack of acceptance of responsibility, callousness, and lack of empathy and remorse.
2. A member of the HR team.
Current employer requires receipts to be snail mailed to HQ. The stamp is, of course, claimable by submitting another expense report and mailing in the receipt. The stamp is, of course, claimable...
Reminds me of the old joke about the programmer's skeleton found in the shower holding a bottle of shampoo. The instructions read: wash, rinse, repeat.
Yeah, I remember. People took their laptops home and were fine. Because the business wasn't running any Microsoft crap, everything was butter smooth. Google tools work from everywhere and just kept working. Mail, calendar, video conference all just worked. Shared docs, no problem. VPNs to development resources were long in place. Everything was already cloud based. It was an uneventful day.
I worked at very large company where the IT team clearly had a backlog KPI. Their strategy was simply to close tickets after 4 weeks for being too old. That combined with the fact they never seemed to fix any tickets at all encouraged people to give up filing them in the first place.
And then they wondered why business units built their own IT teams...
