Posts by Solomon Grundy 901 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Nov 2007
John McCain is a gimpy handed twat. The only thing he's ever done is suck at war and rip people off.
I called Verizon and asked for one of those portable cells to be brought over to my place. They said they didn't do that for anyone. When I asked about the McCain issue they said I must be mistaken and my information was coming from unreliable sources.
Unless you're managing a development team, designing architecture, or dealing face-to-face with the customer(s) - developers are waaaaaay overpaid. What they are doing is no more special than the construction yard worker that is cutting 2x4'sor pushing a wheelbarrow. Not very special and with a little training, anyone can do it. It all comes down to good specs and good management (as results from the other "Agile" surveys can attest).
We've got about 30 developers here and they all work on my "penalized flat salary" system. In this system your salary is built around the assumption that the developer will create code that is 100% error free. In final pre-release testing any "bugs" found are tracked back to their creator who is penalized depending on the severity of the flaw. Developers are peanalized for bugs in their code up to one year after deployment. Penalties are monetary in nature and are taken directly from the developers paychecks. (i.e if you release a bug then your paycheck is reduced by 5% or something, depending on the severity and several other factors)
We pay exceptionally good salaries and give lots of other cool bonuses and such but we demand quality. No whining, no excuses. If you mess it up you won't get paid. We've had several developers quit because they didn't get paid for a few weeks but that's their fault - which is what makes the system so great. The developers are responsible for their own success.
Almost 2/3's of my comments this week have been censored? The comments, content, and character of my observations haven't changed, so why aren't you posting them?
I'm just curious. I'll still visit El Reg if you've decided to cut me off, but I think it's fucked up because people seem to like me; or at least get excited about what I say.
Is the future of open source. He gets lots of people to do his work for free, then he sells that work, signs on with the buyer then quits once he's certain he can put that employment on his resume.
Go Open Saucers Go! I think I'll start an open source company - anybody want a "job"?
You can always sue Michael; don't forget that. Legality isn't the issue - most Western countries provide mechanisms to sue any and everyone you like: assuming you have the necessary financial resources.
@Robert Smits: Expecting someone/anyone else to protect you is how we ended up in this sorry situation. Take some responsibility and cover your own ass instead of expecting someone to do it for you.
I'm doing OK. I get paid because I return financially reportable results. I don't have any "market" investments (my savings are gold bullion buried a National Park) and my retirement isn't dependent on anyone else's continued success. My pension is in my hand and it's not insignificant. I'm doing it, why can't everyone else?
Fuck John Thompson. "if you use the Internet you are observed"....Fuck you and Symantec.
I'm observed when I go to the market too, but no one consolidates those observations and sells them to someone who comes to my door and tries to sell me something similar to what I bought at the market.
Jesus. Just because I'm on the Internet (which I'm paying for the privilege of using) gives no one the right to observe, consolidate and sell their observations. That's the end of Symantec for me.
What were they expecting? The "new/knowledge" economy has basically been propped up by the overvalued IT industry - in fact the IT industry (including "the Internet Bubble") helped push the "new economy" forward.
The unfortunate part is that IT has been overvalued from day one: for the same reasons that people bitch about high-real estate prices, and demand they come down to a reasonable level; businesses have been saying the IT people/stuff are too expensive and have to come down to a reasonable level. We're all playing the same game you know.
NetApp is experiencing a market correction and we've all played a part in this required correction... We all demand higher wages while we are making too much money on the backs of every person with a retirement account (cause that's who is paying for this mess).
It all sucks, but after the changes are over and lots of people have had their heads brought out of the clouds we can do it all again! Capitalist societies depend on people being able to "swap classes" and this is how its designed to work, by rearranging who is in which class. We'll see if it works this time, it always has in the past...
Thank you for your response Dave!
First off, if the purpose of the survey (useful insights) is only to benefit readers, how do you get paid? Doing something for "good" is great, but it doesn't get you on the bus....
Secondly, (which you addressed quite satisfactorily thank you) you point out there was a lack of routing in the survey - Doesn't that mean that all the results and analysis were off? (i.e. I/we participated in the survey but I don't do distributed development; so the relevance of any answers I provided is in doubt in the context of the survey. How many others did the same? We just don't know). If the survey routed "me" to another page (even 'exit') because I didn't meet your needs it would have been more valid.
Thirdly, as you can see by other comments, the term "social network(s)(ing)" is such a huge buzzword. It's "In The Cloud" and has meaning only to the person answering. Some people consider SourceSafe a collaborative environment... Some people consider a local Windows Network a social network.... You did provide a few examples (Wiki's, etc...) but the term "social" is lacking in regards to collecting scientifically valid data.
It's nice to see you're a big whiner W.Hower. Not only do you fail to understand the failure of basic data collection concepts exhibited in this survey, you also look like a complete tool. Good on you!
As you need to understand, I don't develop software; I manage 41 software developers and 9 physical engineers focused on solving problems that you (hopefully) won't ever have to deal with. We sent $6 million to India in '04 and $8 million to Ukraine in '06 and it didn't work out at all. Therefore we decided to bring all our efforts in house. I've done everything they talked about in the article 20x over so I felt my input was valid.
You can read my response to the survey people that should put the rest of your comments in a socially acceptable perspective.
I participated in the survey that generated the results in this article. While answering the questions it became quite obvious that there was a secondary, undefined, purpose for the survey.
For example if you (survey participant) indicated that you did not distribute your development operations then you were still presented with contextually nonsensical questions...
It was either a poorly designed survey (possible) or designed to sell market analysis data to targeted 3rd parties (probable) who in this case seem to be "Social Networks", which can alleviate lots of the problems traditionally associated with development. Hahahaha. Hahahaha. The last page of this article says it all...
This is an excellent example of why short selling is bad (I know the fault observation arguments to). Some "unidentified source" can say anything they want and it can impact markets...
The problem is that while legitimate shorting can provide some people with benefits illegitimate shorting can provide almost anyone with benefits if they are willing to break the rules. (that gets into why laws have a negligible impact on behavior, but that's another discussion)
Apple's Jobs Has Serious Heart Attack
Microsoft CEO Has Stroke: In Coma, Chances Poor
Oracle Larry Ellison Killed at Pedestrian Crossing
Any one of the above examples, coming from reliable sources, will incite market disturbances . The problem is that "reliable sources" are a commodity and some people can benefit from providing fictitious information. Many times the same "some people" have a vested interest in seeing something go down... Short Selling of any kind is not only a loophole that causes problems, it's really bad policy (selling something you don't own is fraud in any other circumstance).
I really don't understand what that guy is trying to accomplish/prove most of the time but his website is pretty funny. (http://www.jimisboss.com) if you can deal with the ALL CPAS and SATUPID SPLELING.
(Jim actually makes more sense that aManFromMars because he's a real person (I think). AMFM is mostly an experiment in AI (but there is a real person behind it all who occasionally says something significant))
Why do you think they started putting women on the Shuttle? The literature is on the NASA website, you've just got to know how to find it. (hint: what you're looking for deals with stress and mental concerns due to lack of socialization).
I figure every woman that's been in orbit has received the attentions of everyone on the shuttle crew several times and maybe simultaneously.
This sort of Math is what has drive the world to the edge of economic oblivion. To make calculations based on today and intentionally ignore tomorrow because it's "unknown", therefore not a factor in the calculations.
Based on historical company value data Google share value will begin to decline rapidly in the next few years...Everybody thinks they are immortal, but those are the same people that bought into StarBucks...Paying a premium for a limited return doesn't work with consumers too long - The result being that Google won't have the money to bring their plan to fruition by the time their deadline arrives. My money says they are anticipating this and setting there selves up to ask for Fed Money when the time comes.
Yeah, the "tracking" companies are shite, but lets face it; I don't think there's a person who will read this who wouldn't grab some mega-bucks if they thought they could do it...
The person that whines today is the person I hire tomorrow at below standard rates - whiners don't generally do much other than whine you know.
Seeing as how Ireland is traditionally known for drinking (and poor use of the English language) and only in the past decade have gained a tiny bit of traction regarding an internatinal business home, they'd best be happy with what they can get: even if it is Facefuck. If something truly doesn't happen there (other than tax breaks) they are just going to degerate into the same bunch of overly loud drunkards that ruled Erin in the past.
Personally I think a Nation of Drunks is more sustainable and valuable that some temporary tax haven; some people may think differently. It's Truth Time for Globalization and Ireland is certainly a mean measurement point.
OK, so I just read a story from USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-10-02-fossett_N.htm)
The NTSB says that Mr. Fossetts' plane crashed head on into a mountain - which doesn't sound very much like the actions of a world famous pilot: and it certainly doesn't fit with the consolidated location of the "found items" (ID, cash, clothes). Sounds even more fishy than before. (plus I like adding to the making of the fucker immortal)
@Gary: I carry that much cash all the time. Plastic money is super gay and only for high-value purchases (and silly French types). I convert all my money into doubloons and bury them in the back yard to keep them safe from shady Banker Types.
Doesn't sound probable to me. Unless he was flying around with $1005 and all his ID cards laying in the passenger seat of his plane. I think he's still out there...Having gotten tired of all the crap going on he went into the wilderness and is now running around naked and screaming strange things at the few people he sees.
The UK will do it the same way as China, Thailand, and some South American countries do it... The technology exists to allow only what "the Man" says is acceptable to be online. It'll be too bad when the UK is part of the aformentioned list, but that's they way it's probably going to do. No one in the West has covered themselves in Glorious Uprisings for Freedom in the past few years and I don't think anyone has the gumption start now either.
It's obvious you've never dealt with 3rd party manufacturing. You WANT to go to the proposed manufacturing facility so that you rest assured that you aren't getting oversold on their capabilities. If the sandal brigade just showed up at your office, told you they were the best, and you believed them - then the project tanked you are an instant fail because you didn't perform due diligence. You won't have any defense because you didn't even go look at how they really operated.
You do realize that this all Microsoft's doing right? They figure Mac users are already basically worthless and they'll just get rid of the silly bastards with poisonous computers.
Hahaha. I always knew that Mac people sucked, but that won't be a problem for much longer - soon they'll all be dead.
Such as slaying monsters and mining gold...doesn't that sort of defeat the purpose of the game if you aren't doing those things? I mean if you're just there to get your jollies off chatting with a fat old greasy man disguised as a hot young female avatar why don't you just play The Sims?
Normally you'd be correct but there is so much more to the story about Patrick Byrne, naked short selling, Wikipedia editors and SlimVirgin. Byrne knew SlimVirgin in college (where she randomly changed her accent among other weirdness) - based on her actions I'd say he might know her in the Biblical sense as well since she is acting just like a jilted lover.
It's a real mess that has actually had a negative impact on world financial markets because the peasants didn't understand what what going on (if in doubt look at some of the El Reg comments in previous short selling stories).
You've sort of missed out on the past 5 or 6 decades haven't you. No "paper" in the Western World is worth anything except what is espoused by the "Full Faith and Trust of the United States Government". Get with it man.
Considering that every decent sized economy in the world is based on value of US markets and currency it makes your statement sound really uninformed and very gay.
Ballmer is concerned about the economy because big IT projects (and most businesses) get their daily operating capital and project funding from loans.
It's obvious that the Open Saucers who already posted have no concept of business or how it works, otherwise they would have just kept their mouths shut. The Commune is giving too many peasants the idea that their opinion matters and they can speak their mind - it'll be nice when these fools all go away.
Really, did anyone seriously think that Scotland wouldn't bring in similar legislation?
Scotland gets left out of "English" politics in order to make the peasants feel "independent". The catch is that Scotland is an English colony and they must submit to the will of the Queen...Therefore the Scots have to do the same as the English, but to the public it looks like the Scots are making the decision on their own. Hahahahaha.
Sarah Bee: You said "no one's ever died directly because of someone else wanking". That's only true if you don't count the kittens. Think of the kittens.
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