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Mark largely hit the nail on the head, but this sentence should be written in bold and nailed to the foreheads of upper management: Quote: One of the most cited problems from developers perspective about big companies management is a lack of transparency regarding decisions made and lack of accountability for those decisions.
I'm weary of the following discussion:
Management: Last week you said it would take another three weeks, now you say it will take six. Why?
Developer: You added features X and Y and then had me roll feature K back to the previous version.
Management: Why didn't you say anything?
Developer: I did; I said it would add three weeks to the schedule.
Management stares at developer and then: But last week, you said it would only take another three weeks.
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It's pretty much a given, from studies on 'happiness', that the guaranteed way to kill happiness is to try and create happiness.
Happiness is generally nowadays seen as an effect of someone being engaged in their work with a sense of security and purpose.
One manager I worked with provided pizzas and free beer every Friday - strangely enough all the developers were more miserable under this manager than they were previously - largely because the manager thought that he could make up for his huge character flaws(constant dishonesty and lying) by buying people a few beers.
The cognitive dissonance exhibited by many in managerial positions is generally one of the main causes of misery.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I had a boss who would occasionally fly into rages, yelling and banging his fist on the table.
He would then, later in the day, have the company controller drop a bonus cheque on my desk "because I was performing so well" - in other words, since I had just stared at him and said nothing during such tirades and then pretended nothing had happened. He thought this was enough, and it was, when the cheques were big enough - and since he was a multi-millionaire who had lost touch with the real value of things, they always were.
He had a multiple personality disorder which manifested in him telling me a list of things that were his priority - and then, an hour or so later, doing it again and being surprised that I had already fixed many of the items. More bonus cheques. Good times, sort of.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Microsoft could face more complaints after a ruling says it's liable for damages caused by an unauthorized Windows 10 upgrade. "Finland , Finland , Finland. The country where I want to be."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Finland , Finland , Finland. The country where I want to be." No, no, no! Wrong song!
Now try again -- but this time, imply a reference to spiking microsoft's celebratory champagne over winio, then think cheerleaders!
{*sigh*}
Do I have to do everything, around here?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You have been on fire lately, thank you.
TTFN - Kent
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While many developers focus on increasing the intelligence of artificially intelligent (AI) algorithms, IBM is eyeing a different area of technology: quantum computing. And I aim to retire a millionaire, "in the next few years"
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Don't be so disrespectful to Big Blue!
Their other aim, over the centuries, was to be the biggest tech company in the world, and they've succ...
... ked at it, but that's not the point.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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GitHub is by far the most popular way to build and share software. That said, one weakness of the platform is that it limits who can create private repositories – that is, software projects that aren’t visible to the broader public, and are shared only with a handful of pre-defined collaborators – to paying users. Paid for by unlimited data-mining
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Will someone please tell Freud to give it a rest?
I read the title as "suppositories".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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For all the good they did me, I coulda...
Still, unlimited, so, “yay?”
TTFN - Kent
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Now, there is no point of me staying with Atlassian's Bitbucket.
And sometimes, I want to keep the repository private until the codebase is stable and working: I do not wish other user to see my incomplete work.
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Windows 10 can download and install updates automatically when they are available. Although users are supposed to keep their desktop OS up-to-date, sometimes we might have good reason to delay an update. Alas, not forever
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Alas, not forever Yup, forever.
The usefulness of my machines will never be disrupted by that travesty of an OS.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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IT staff are not often the fastest to install patches, lest they cause more issues than they solve, but a new vulnerability in all versions of Windows 10 and Windows Server suggests they may need to rethink that policy. I know it's been a while since the last time they had to patch their servers
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Rushing makes us neither faster, nor more productive; it increases stress and distracts focus. We need creativity, effectiveness, and focus. I must be going so fast
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I see that the infoq boys have finally started to catch up on their reading.
I mean, the source of the wisdom in their article (basically: "More haste, less speed") comes from The Wisdom of Sirach, which was only published about 200 years B.C.
Give 'em another thousand years, and they might catch up as far as the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
Can you imagine how excited they'll be, when they find out about early birds catching worms, and the value of birds in the hand?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: early birds catching worms The early bird catches the worm. He works for the owner of the worm farm, who collects profits while he is still asleep.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: The early bird catches the worm. He works for the owner of the worm farm, who collects profits while he is still asleep. We need some benighted web journalist to write an article about that.
And another to write an article about how an existing, working process or application is worth two *Great* *New* *Ideas* that are untried and untested.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I've run across several articles recently where some millennial excitedly tells us "something you didn't know" which ends up being common knowledge to anyone who has cracked a history book.
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Exactly!
I can't wait for one to cobble together an article about taking coals to Newcastle.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: taking coals to Newcastle
Harumph!
Millennials never heard of coal, and they probably couldn't find Newcastle on a map to save their lives.
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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The software's name is GHIDRA and in technical terms, is a disassembler, a piece of software that breaks down executable files into assembly code that can then be analyzed by humans. "When the monster Ghidra passes, only flaming ruins are left."
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They must be worried about their budget for next year, so they're making sure that malware producers have access to the best tools.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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