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Comment Re:May the Lord have mercy on us all (Score 4, Insightful) 2837

Every country has some weird traditions. USA's is electing a clown as president.

I am sure it will not be as bad as most people think. After all president is constrained by the budget set by congress. Neither can a president declare war without their approval. I am sure that if he really starts to act out then impeachment is on the table.

Still, you have to wonder about the voter disillusionment to get such a result.

Comment Re:No User Serviceable Parts inside (Score 1) 224

This is why I buy refurbished, off lease Lenovo computers.

However, that means Lenovo as a company does not get a cent from that sale. Why should they continue making solid-engineered, easily-repaired devices when in the end it hurts them by losing potential customers to refurbishers? This is how planned obsolescence works. I hate it with a passion, but it is hard not to see the reason behind it.

I love my Thinkpad. I could of bought it used off someone, but instead I spent much more money to buy it directly from Lenovo. Just to show my support.

Comment Re:The problem with agile is "proof it works." (Score 1) 145

I got into computers because I don't want to be around people.

This used to be true, but no more. The age of solitary developer working in isolation is long gone (If it ever existed at all). Developers need to understand the business requirements, communicate with wide variety of stakeholders from all business levels and work together as a team. Politics, clear verbal and written communication skills, and people-skills are all mandatory requirements for anyone in this industry.

You may find the environment you seek doing open-source development or perhaps (Rarely) some entry-level positions.

Comment Re:Half agree (Score 1) 145

You talk about throwing work away as though it's a bad thing. My experience tells me that the first version of any complex piece of software or software component you try to create is going to be garbage anyhow. Maybe it would be better to count on calling your first try a prototype, learn the hard lessons about what doesn't work and why, and then scrap as much of it as you need and write version two with the lessons you gleaned from the prototype.

In my experience, this never goes down well with management. The expensive development team has spent the last four weeks doing something that now will be thrown out and redone. All in the name of "quality" that the client will never appreciate (or indeed know about) in the short term. Not to mention the deadlines on which the upper management signed off on to the client. Really, the management will rather ship mostly working "garbage" now and meet the deadline, rather than spend the time to throw out the prototype and write it properly.

I hope like hell that my experience is the exception and not the rule.

 

Comment How does law work for newspapers? (Score 5, Interesting) 383

What if rapists post a modelling job ad in the local newspaper asking for young females. Would the newspaper be liable to be sued?

I don't believe I ever seen any warnings in the classified sections. Surely this scenario has happened in the past. What is the precedent on those kind of cases?

Comment Re: Hahahahaha FANTASTIC (Score 1) 664

Alas, ARMA 2 was once available on GoG, but it appears that Bohemia Interactive has forced them to remove it. Single player works in WINE, but not multiplayer, so DayZ won't work :-(.

Bohemia Interactive has outsourced porting of ARMA 3 for Linux and have released an experimental build. But there is no guarantee that it will ever become non-experimental. It is available to install on Linux-Steam:

https://dev.arma3.com/ports

Unfortunately, looks like you are stuck on Windows for those two titles :-(.

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