Ugh, should have said "clean" - typing on a blackberry (let the mocking begin!)

In my 10+ years of experience in the field, I have learned and come to appreciate that it's important to strive for clean code. Simplicity is often a side effect, but you can model vastly complex concepts still in a clean way. To me, therein lies the art.

I'm wondering the same thing....... Anyone?

I see...

Yes, when you look at it that way, your answer makes sense.

Thanks for clarifying.

"If someone gives you a time estimate: multiply with two, add one and go to the next bigger unit. E.g. if another developers says he needs one hour, take 3 days. Proceed similar with costs others tell you (unless you have a binding offer)."

Seriously?

When I tell my manager that something will take approximately 2 weeks, he's NOT going to schedule 5 months. What good is an estimate at all if you're going to give yourself a +/- 1000% margin?

Where I work, we are asked at a minimum to provide a Class D estimate, which is a ballpark estimate, -25% to +75%.

My management, in particular, expects that I will have at least a vague clue about how much work is involved in a given activity, and having done similar work before would at least be able to hit it somewhere in the ballpark.

I like to use PERT estimates, or something similar:
estimate = (optimistic + (4 * likely) + pessimistic) / 6
So my 2 weeks (likely) becomes: (1wks + (4 * 2wks) + 6wks) / 6 = 2.5 weeks

YMMV

I'm in the same boat, and I agree. I have a degree in Computer Systems Engineering from an accredited institution, but I don't consider what I do at work "engineering", so I don't call myself an engineer in connection to my job. To answer the question posed in the main post, we call those people "Web Developers" where I work.

I wasn't able to glean the date that this clock will start officially ticking, or what will happen when the 10,000 years is up. But I hope that the creators document these things in a way that will be unambiguous to earthlings of our distant future - or else they may be creating yet another year in which apocalypse will be predicted, perhaps somewhere around 12012? Like 2012 all over again...

Oddly, his glasses keep turning up in women's locker rooms.

Bloody hell, I keep responding to the wrong comments. This comment was supposed to be directed @ Shakrai above. Ah screw it.

That analogy doesn't really apply here. Israel is far better equipped to eliminate its enemy. Any talk of Hamas eliminating the state of Israel is, in my view, passionate misguided rhetoric, which is politically useful. This rhetoric should be responded to as such - not with tragically disproportionate military responses. I firmly believe that the so called "existential threat" to Israel is tremendously exaggerated. Anyone thinking about doing serious damage to Israel already knows that Israel is the only country in the immediate vicinity equipped with nuclear weapons. The onus to make peace lies with the ones who have the POWER to make peace. And that is Israel.

Yes. I believe that would be the smart thing to do, at least in the very short term. You cannot have peace when you are taking actions that preclude the establishment of peace. This truism goes for both sides. The only question here is who will be the nobler party, and stop the violence. To me, the onus should not be the most desperate party, ie. the palestinians, who have been living in conditions no human should be forced to endure.