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To be a developer you need to be a good politician too.
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Had I wanted to be a @#$% politician, I'd have gone into politics, not software engineering. My job is to write the best code that I can; my team leader's job is to remove any obstacles that stand in the way of my writing the best code.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Eliminating obstacles and shielding you from external interference are the most critical functions of a manager. The best one I ever had was great at this. If he came around saying that he needed help, which would divert me from what I thought should be my priorities, I knew it was important, so I was more than willing to focus on what he needed done.
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That's absolutely wrong. I'm hired to write code, not pretend to care about other people's feelings.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Perhaps it should be wrong but developing code is part of life and politics is inherent in life (like it or not).
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Quote: Specifically, productivity improvements should help businesses grow revenue, improve end-user experience, increase quality, lower costs, enable innovation, deliver strategic capabilities, improve collaboration, drive efficiencies, simplify access to information, or reduce risks.
Except that requires that everyone is doing their job. 
The whole point of isolating productivity measurements into discrete, albeit useless measurements is because those are the only things that are measurable. Sort of ironic. We can't measure the whole, so let's break it apart into its discrete components and figure out some way to measure those.
Just as "the whole is bigger than the sum of the parts", one could say "the parts do not give you an accurate picture of the whole."
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I think they have to define "productivity" before they can hope to measure it.
Developers write new code for new projects.
Developers maintain existing apps.
Some developers have to manage databases.
Some developers are also expected to be general system admins.
Some developers are also expected to be web admins.
Some developers are also network admins.
Some developers are also "the hardware guy".
In a mixed field of responsibilities, what exactly is "productivity"?
Furthermore, developers in general don't care about "the business" aspects. They care about usability and suitability to purpose of the software. They're paid to write code, and (assuming a suitable skill level and maturity) if left to their own devices, will pretty much deliver exactly what is needed to address those concerns. A good programmer makes software development look easy, and makes the software appear simple and elegant with respect to the functional payload it delivers.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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You're getting at the crux of this. In a vertically integrated setting, there is no way to objectively measure what this article is advocating. It is simply impossible in the absence of a competitive market with pricing for what are inputs and outputs at each stage of production.
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$10/bug found and fixed
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Sports leagues, artists and speculative investors pouring money into non-fungible tokens If I have to look up what the fung an NFT is, I have to share that with you
edit: fixed typo
modified 8-Mar-21 17:09pm.
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Mark of the beast enabler
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I don't see it; a digital copy is identical to the original. If I could hang a perfect copy of a work of art on my wall, why should I care that the original work of art is actually owned by someone else?
This does not apply to reproductions of physical paintings. No matter how good the reproduction, you can't see details like the brushwork, so they are not equivalent to the original.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Chess is hard and I’m bad at it, but I didn’t expect to lose to a program that’s running on 1024 bytes of JavaScript. At least they're not claiming it's an AI
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An interesting program. Beat it the first time.
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Just wait for the 2K version! 
TTFN - Kent
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I forgot to include - how well did it play (I don't do chess)
TTFN - Kent
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It's interesting. It has little concept of control of the center (it opened with Rook's Pawn, basically the worst opening in the book) and is very aggressive with its pawns with little concept of developing its major pieces. The main thrust was an attempt to fork my rook and king with a knight/queen combo. Given that its play style became rather obvious after a few moves, I decided to simply let it expose itself to a couple simple forks, destroyed it's pawn structure on one side of the board and promoted my pawn to a queen. Took longer than it should have, but I also hate playing on a screen, there's something about 3D pieces on a real board that works a lot better for me.
I don't see how the guy who made that post lost in 4 moves - that's, um, rather bizarre.
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It used something like a Crab Opening in my game too. h5 > e6 > a5
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I beat it as well. I played it in a straight-up e4 game (no gambits or traps). I'd say it feels like playing someone who understands the game well but only plays good moves now without considering the implications further into the game.
For example, it brought out the queen early for two checks that really threatened nothing if you knew how to defend. Lost tempo for no positional weaknesses isn't a great plan even if the moves themselves weren't bad. I took that tempo to tear open the center and pull its king out with my knights + rook. It did avoid two checkmates I wasn't expecting it to see, but as you can see from the final position, it had to lose its queen and with the king already out it was over in 2-3 more moves.
This was my final position.
EDIT: Played another game and got a successful Smith-Morra Gambit (..exd4, ..dxc3, ..cxb2 variation). Absolutely destroyed the computer. It's not ready for gambits.
modified 8-Mar-21 18:10pm.
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The amazing thing about a 1K chess program is not that it plays well, but that it plays at all!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: The amazing thing about a 1K chess program is not that it plays well, but that it plays at all!
Very true!
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The White House is calling it an active threat, promising a ‘whole of government response’ To their defense - the warning was in an email, and it ended up in their junk folder
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