Comment Re:So asians aren't white again? (Score 1) 529
No, they're lazily using a socially defined label.
You even want to disagree with me, find me someone that's white. Completely white. No pink.
No, they're lazily using a socially defined label.
You even want to disagree with me, find me someone that's white. Completely white. No pink.
You obviously do not understand the past, present, and future needs for affirmative action.
I don't either. Fuck you and your intentional racism.
I'd rather be a bleeding heart cunt than have your outlook on life.
I don't think there are many rational people who could draw parallels between the soft-nap that comes with lethal injection and the serial beheading happening at the hands of ISIS.
No, the beheading is far quicker and far less painful to the executed person. It also requires the executioner to acknowledge the gravity of the act, unlike pressing a button from out of sight.
I'd rather be beheaded than subjected to the torture-to-death approach of the US execution industry.
Object density and complexity.
No, my grandfather would've congratulated me on being the first member of my extended family to go to university, on getting a safe secure job, on earning a good living.
He was in the army, drove a bus, worked on the production line in a factory. He didn't recommend any of that to me.
My grandmother worked elbow-deep in a restaurant cooking food for 80 people at a time. She could punch out a donkey. She lived long enough to see how my sister and I turned out, and never criticised either of us for taking well paid office jobs.
You're just making shit up and it makes you look stupid.
The problem is that your analogy sucks donkeys. To extend it nearer to the reality, feminists are demanding the 2' stools for women only, while ignoring all the 4' tall men that work in sewers.
Right now everybody gets a ladder. Women choose not to stand on theirs, and instead enter the 3' tall liberal fucking arts career from which they bitch about the inherent sexism stopping women standing on their ladder.
The ladders already exist. It's not sexism that women choose not to stand on them. It is sexism that feminists are demanding ladders only for women.
Yeah, fair point. All those brainwashed fresh faced computer science graduates charging with fixed bayonets at the artillery of the "40 years of mainframe development worked for me" brigade and dying needlessly on the barbed wire of function point analysis, with the few that see the light and turn back being executed by a silver bullet.
Such a waste, a terrible waste. Decades of software engineering advances destroyed in one single statement of hope in a better world.
Hmm. Sales want instant change because it earns them a bonus. Management don't want to wait three years to see benefits because they're measured by the quarter.
Both are very happy to communicate and collaborate, especially when the feedback loops help them see tangible swift outcomes.
I'm not sure how you interpret that as strict waterfall.
It requires you to do a daily scrum
No. A specific methodology does, and "These scrum meetings are strictly time-boxed to 15 minutes."
So you're clearly not following Scrum, and you appear to be in a very poor place to suggest someone else isn't "doing real Agile". You don't appear to have the slightest fucking clue what that means.
Pointing out that the Chinese person born in Hong Kong, raised in Taiwan and living in China isn't Scottish is not a fallacy.
Fuckwits going, "I'm agile!" while ignoring the basic elements are not agile.
it drains software engineering of the things that make it a satisfying and enjoyable activity, turning it into the software equivalent of grunt factory work
I'm confused. The satisfaction and joy of software engineering is turning a problem into a working solution.
The agile methods I followed let me realise that joy multiple times a day - checking in working code, and see it pass the automated test bed on the build server.
What is it that you perceive to be satisfying and enjoyable, and how are you losing that?
Yeah, Linux. No code review, source control, QA, standards, requirements, testing, merge or regular build.
Oh. Hang on. Maybe there's a fuckload of process taking place.
Nobody gives a shit _how_ you write your code, but don't keep pretending you're process free. You're not.
That confuses the hell out of me. As a software engineer I was begging to use agile approaches because they reduce the amount of friction getting from 'business need' to 'happy user'.
What do you want? Ok, here it is. Did you want documentation? Ok, here that is. What's next?
I had to convince management to let us just fucking get on with adding value, they were sat there amazed that people could work so efficiently.
And the end result was a project which produced a random subset of required functionality, was abysmally late, what it did do it did poorly, and then the project was cancelled. And as often as not the developers were writing the eye candy before the functionality, and adhering to the published interfaces was non-existent because the people involved decided to reinvent the wheel and decided that the existing stuff didn't matter
I'm confused. What the fuck does any of that have to do with Agile development?
Adopt any fucking methodology you like and it would've gone wrong because you were clearly employing clowns.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand
