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I don’t really give a tulip any more
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Originally posted by gingerjedi View PostPlease say you're going to become a climatologist… please, please..Older and ...well, just older!!Comment
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Originally posted by Purple Dalek View PostIndeed, many use coke cans, but the advantage of pot noodle tubs is they can be stacked and hence take up less space.
Just hope everyone on the team is as good with the alphabet when checking in and out a file...
Locking a branch would be ramming a knitting needle through a whole stack.And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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I've had a fun time in over 30 years in IT. I work at home messing about with other people's servers and Plan B is up and running and about to take over completely.
Plan B - music electronics company, first 1000 units in production right now and all sold already to customers in the US. The next run are for more specialised devices built on request for perhaps the biggest name in pianos, others are queueing up for similar specialty builds.
Then we launch to the public.
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Originally posted by Cliphead View PostPlan B - music electronics company, first 1000 units in production right now and all sold already to customers in the US. The next run are for more specialised devices built on request for perhaps the biggest name in pianos, others are queueing up for similar specialty builds.
Then we launch to the public.
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Originally posted by Cliphead View PostPlan B is up and running and about to take over completely.
My own plan B is likely to fold early in the new year, after three year's trying.
But I won't give up trying something new.
Now that I spend more time using Word than using vi, the fun has gone out of IT, for me.Comment
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Originally posted by Cliphead View PostI've had a fun time in over 30 years in IT. I work at home messing about with other people's servers and Plan B is up and running and about to take over completely.
Plan B - music electronics company, first 1000 units in production right now and all sold already to customers in the US. The next run are for more specialised devices built on request for perhaps the biggest name in pianos, others are queueing up for similar specialty builds.
Then we launch to the public.
Boomed...my quagmire of greed....my cesspit of laziness and unfairness....all I am doing is sticking two fingers up at nurses, doctors and other hard working employed professionals...
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Originally posted by Platypus View PostNow that I spend more time using Word than using vi, the fun has gone out of IT, for me.Comment
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Originally posted by Cliphead View PostI've had a fun time in over 30 years in IT. I work at home messing about with other people's servers and Plan B is up and running and about to take over completely.
Plan B - music electronics company, first 1000 units in production right now and all sold already to customers in the US. The next run are for more specialised devices built on request for perhaps the biggest name in pianos, others are queueing up for similar specialty builds.
Then we launch to the public.
BoomedHard Brexit now!
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10 years for me. It used to be good fun, or more it used to be about the software. Your boss would have been a programmer for some time and he would dish out some work to you knowing what was involved, you would get it done, do a build, test then deploy.
Now the 'process' has taken over, weekly builds, daily builds, burn ups, burn downs, continuous integration, more unit tests than code etc. Nobody knows why these are really needed but it has become excepted practice that they are needed by a layer of middle managers who have came from some non technical degree. I had to explain to my manager who had been running java projects for 5 years what a JVM was, it’s not that she did not understand what it was she just had never heard of it before.
A phrase I hear many times in these departments is “well that is what the consultants told us on the course”. There is a total belief that putting a non technical person on an agile training course with a one size fits all way of doing things is the answer.
These consultants just make up stuff in order that they can get another round of training courses. It is in their interests to make agile more complicated and nobody will ever question them because they don’t have a clue.
Agile is not a software methodology anymore it is a concept that is sold in units of ‘training days’ to people who have no idea what software is.
One example is the guy next to me is refining the company’s agile process for the last 2 months but he has an OO Basics print out on the wall beside his desk, he is group architect as well.Comment
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