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The dept. head asked me and another fellow recently to provide a confidence factor that something that's taken a year and half to develop will be ready to ship in Aug. I replied with basically:
Well, if you don't want a number that's pulled out of our arses, the typical way to do this in a professional software development company would be to use some measurable analysis:
Do the unit tests pass? Fail. We don't have unit tests because nobody writes them and I personally conducted a couple training seminars for the developers on how to write them in VS, but nobody took up the banner (nobody, as in management)
Does the app meet the requirements? Fail. There was a one line requirement "send auto insurance policy changes to Verisk."
Have the code reviews all passed? Fail. What's a code review?
etc...
I was only slightly nicer in the actual email.  I need to find another job.
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Tests - what tests, management will not release the resources to build test, just get the job done, NOW!
Requirements, what requirements the ones we have get morphed every time management has a meeting
Code review- bah I don't want to have to go through some other sod crap - again.
I'm retiring so part time stuff done from home is now an option.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Everywhere the same crap...
When writing tests and thinking of readable code makes a developer much faster than his colleagues, what does happen? Will the proof of enhanced productivity convince the other guys?
No, not at all. Bernie, you are an exception, you are so fast not because of tests etc, but because you are an exception...
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: Bernie, you are an exception, you are so fast not because of tests etc, but because you are an exception...
Hmmm. Trying to reignite the war about exceptions being faster? 
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Here's an analogy that might work for managers; buy a paper book with crossword-puzzles, and ask him/her for an estimate on when the book will be finished.
Also not part of my job to do estimates, that's a managers job. I work with code, not with estimates. Let the herder decide how long the sheep needs to grow its wool.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Man I know that feeling, some improvements where I'm working recently, but I've been in exactly that position too many times.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Microsoft is hoping to repair its tarnished image with consumers by trying to position its cross-platform apps and services as making them more productive. And here I was hoping for an update to Microsoft Milk Churning, Professional Edition
I think I have a little bit of "Modern Eyerolling Services" happening now.
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So is Microsoft bringing back Windows 1998 cause we miss the modern life ?
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Neural networks have garnered all the headlines, but a much more powerful approach is waiting in the wings. AI, red in tooth and claw
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Hmm, video games generally involve shooting things. So, is MIT creating autonomous AI weapons?
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In the past, the security researchers have come across cases where notorious hackers were able to use EXIF data of images to hide malicious code. EVIL level: kind of sloppy
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Google has been willing to acknowledge the existence of its Fuchsia operating system for a while, and has made rough versions available on everything from mobile devices to PCs. Just in time for a new government to fine them
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I love the fact that the Update effectively demolishes the whole story. That's class journalism.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Engadget is slowly turning into Gartner (except without all the money from their cons reports.)
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Its new open-source software will help developers experiment with the machines, including Google’s own super-powerful quantum processor. Except for the bit about the quantum computer
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Next week MIT will announce that it's new software will help spaceships go to Warp 11.
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Warp 10 not fast enough for you? (what with it being instantaneously at all locations in the Universe).
(Full Nerd Mode activated)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Telling the time is going to be a whole lot more accurate. It's about time
Too hot for a coat, so I'll just leave then?
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Smelling a coffee-like scent, which has no caffeine in it, creates an expectation for students that they will perform better on tests I love the smell of integrals in the morning
This study smells like something else to me though.
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Why does this article make me remember this song ? [^], while thinking of Kent Sharkey makes me remember this: [^] ?
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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He has such a lovely deep singing voice compared to mine 
TTFN - Kent
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The company has decided they're no longer needed because express updates can fill the bill. The delta updates will end in February 2019. Mental note: upgrade bandwidth
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Hackers use programs to apply stolen data in a flood of login attempts, called “credential stuffing.” These days, more than 90% of e-commerce sites’ global login traffic comes from these attacks. The airline and consumer banking industries are also under siege, with about 60% of login attempts coming from criminals. "How do we turn them into customers?", asks the CFO
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At least things are much better now. In the old days hackers would just try and login to the site. Now they have to clear a cookie warning, a GDPR warning, an ad-block warning, a "allow notifications" warning, a newsletter subscription dialog....and only then can they try and login.
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I don't understand how they get account passwords...Shirley no reputable business stores account passwords as unencrypted/plain text? 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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