> Opening a US bank account generally requires a permanent address and proof of [traditional] employment
Why do you say you need proof of employment to open a bank account? Credit Unions don't. None of the major US banks do.
> A game that can be completed solo should not favor one type of class over another.
Er? Why not? The rogue is favored over the melee-only Hunter in WoW. It's almost impossible to balance every dynamic variable to be equal across classes. Why bother trying? It doesn't happen in a multiclass game very often that they are all equal.
Please add the most important project: The Great Uprooting (massive Urbanization of the Rural population).
Mark Sumner mentioned that there are already prebuilt massive silent cities that he has seen, awaiting the future industrial workers of China.
> Not that the guy with the camera was being in any way professional
Just because he didn't know how to screen capture? This story has nothing to do with professionalism. It's shocking that a company built on virtual communities has a leader who is so backward.
I was around a group of people who all looked at their phone, recognized it, acknowledged it and went about their evening. Why people are even complaining, is beyond me. There's nothing wrong with what went out. It was a good test and I expected to see more in the future. The alert is a non-story (the kidnapping is a story).
> And what is this comment if not a troll for more replies?
I'm not sure you're illustrating the point. I was reframing the discussion in a useful manner, rather than the stereotypical back and forth that is not constructive.
Defenses of Linus' behavior and sometimes the poster's stated motives, allow anyone to quickly identify the
> in the end does absolutely nothing
It seems it's done more than that. Nothing is a very low bar and they easily exceeded it. Not only news, not only a story passed along, not only discussed for most of the (US) independence day holiday, but we can see revisionists insisting that it's nothing. Ghandi talked about such actions that "do nothing".
> And Congress does have the authority to say, "That's all very nice, we'll give your department a $5 budget to make it all work".
But then they wouldn't get paid because allies/friends of the President are in office with overriding concerns, who would block that. In practice, the authority is hollow. It's one big elite party up there. Congress has no power that isn't levied to them, in the form of public announcement+donations+perks. The intent of the law is the least of a politician's worries.
> Later, when you have to maintain or enhance it, it is an undocumented mess with poor design, ragged interfaces, and often without even a clear understanding of what it is supposed to do.
The resulting mess has nothing to do with Agile. If your process doesn't require testing, that's often the result. Testing is the most effective way to document specifications and is a common requirement that product owners choose to throw away. That's a choice made to improve the process. The fact the PO can't understand the result, is not the fault of the process.
> Posting as AC just amplifies that fact
Not posting as AC doesn't change the fact that you're trolling. I award you no points.
> I work with a developer who is 10 years my senior, but still doesn't understand how to write concurrent code and cannot be trusted to use a revision control system without causing a mess that somebody else will have to clean up. On top of that, he is really resistant to the idea of code reviews;
I'd get ready to leave the company for a better job since it's clear there's no accountability at your company. This situation cannot end well for one of you. Either you are pulled down/leg go or he is let go/quits. Without accountability you can't be promoted at an organization. This is because there's no criteria (I mean there are edge cases, but don't bet decades of your career on it). This is the business of software development and you don't get to make decisions about appropriate quality levels at your position, nor do you get to judge other people's value, nor can anyone without some progress gauge at a granular level.
You indicate you use a process where code is accepted without code reviews. You work at a shitty company. You have a process where engineers don't all use revision control. You work at a shitty company. You have peers who act out politically to avoid working/accountability. You work at a shitty company. See the pattern?
In my experience, there have been cases where we just ignore the lame duck till some accountability gets implemented and it becomes obvious, but that's not the norm. Usually some nasty argument where you're trying to rehash the issue causes a serious consequence over an irrelevant detail (made up reason) to push one of you out the door. Usually you. Start looking for a new job, bring up performance metrics in meetings, ignore him. That's all you can do. Don't try to help him, he can do that himself and has chosen not to try.
There's nothing worse for your business than extra Santa Clauses smoking in the men's room. -- W. Bossert
