Apparently you never went to college.
Most four-year college kids aren't in technical program. They're in liberal arts programs. Typically they have lots of trouble getting up early enough to get to a 10 AM class, and bitch and moan that an 8-hour day is required to earn an A.
I don't know where you went to college, but if this was the norm you picked a party school. Real university is real work.
"We want to be as wealthy and well-positioned as people who worked their asses off in their 20's even though we couldn't be bothered to educate ourselves after high school and spent our 20's living with our parents, partying, and having a sweet car that we could only afford because we lived with our parents."
Here's a thought: Teach your kids the concept of long-term goals... It worked wonders for me.
Support for off-hour work is part of the job. Don't like it? Find another job where you don't have to do that. Can't find another job? Improve yourself so you can.
He might just need a better boss--it sounds like this one expects the guy to stay up all night for maintenance, then come in at 9am sharp, as if he didn't just do a full day's work in the middle of the night.
Rather than automating, he should be lobbying for the right to sleep on maintenance days by shifting his work schedule so that his "maintenance time" IS his workday. "Off-hour work" doesn't mean "Work all day Monday, all night Monday night Tuesday morning, and all day Tuesday." Or, at least, it shouldn't.
Sing: "Send me your money."
So you nicely repeat the lies they have fed to you ?
What lies? That there are a bunch of murderous thugs trying to take over the Middle East and impose a 1500-year-old fascist dictatorship on the 99.9% of ordinary people that live there?
The lies about the suicide bombers with surgically-implanted bombs?
The Isis thing is once again financed by the Sauds. YOUR friends.
Yes, I know who finances them. They're not "my friends." I've never met any of them personally, and I don't approve of any of it, whichever of the warring sides you care to mention.
...and his side-kick Blair.
Anyway, the new dude is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and he's assimilating Irag, Syria and probably Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Somalia, Nigeria... you name it... into his all new "proper" Islam state.
A number of armies in the region are already squaring up, including Iran and Saudi. There have been some murders of Israeli and Palestinian teenagers by terrorists too, probably trying to goad each side into action.
It's a bloody miserable state of affairs.
Indeed, they're a swivel-eyed loon.
And C++ supports recursion, immutability, and the other hyped features of functional programming.
Yes, and at this rate, perhaps in another 20 years, it will have caught up with LISP (from the late 1950s).
And if you aren't a dumbass, you'll use
A simpler, more efficient high-level (higher than C++) language that is more expressive with fewer lines of code, less prone to introducing silly bugs caused by human error, and more readable by other programmers.
C++ is for those serious programmers who want to get real work done, and who don't have time to waste with overhyped crap.
C++ is for conformists and trend-followers lacking in enough critical thinking skills of their own to investigate and adopt better tools for the job.
That's what it is.
The end of quarter profit is what matters. Suck it up and take it like a man! Pull your weight like a true team player or you'll be let go to make way for a flexible, empowered, dedicated business-oriented go-getter from the thousands of them queuing up at the door.
If you can't do it right, or don't like it, get out. Don't drag the team down with you, loser.
Okay, there's the misunderstanding - I hadn't understood you were talking about automated pre-checkin testing. I still am not seeing the need for "multiple compilers, multiple OSes, and multiple binary architectures" mentioned by the original poster for a product that is intended for a single platform
Different compilers on the same platform find different bugs (warnings, errors).
Different static analysis tools also find different defects.
Different numbers of CPUs/Cores find different timing bugs, deadlocks, race conditions, corruption etc. on concurrent code.
Different binary architectures show up endianness bugs and subtle corruption bugs due to alignment of data in memory.
Different OSs find different run-time behaviour problems and dependency problems. They also find problems in any OS abstraction code.
The more compilers. analysers, machines, architectures and OSs you use, the more bugs you find, and the more bugs you find and fix, the higher the quality of your product.
It's always easiest to develop on top of a high-quality code base. That's when you're fastest.
You don't need a QA department. Automation can get you 80-90% of the benefit.
You don't need to do everything all at once. Start adding new tests, builds and platforms as you go, a bit at a time. You should see your velocity increase very soon.
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