Not really, since the dependencies between them are now explicit. Yes the stitching is its own complexity, but divide-and-conquer is a pretty time-honored approach to effective problem solving.
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Yeah but then your cost of living shoots up. I mean, I've priced Austin real estate. If I want to buy 2BR apartment in downtown Austin (the closest analogy to where I currently live in Brooklyn) I'm looking at half-million dollar properties. Which is fine for an NYC boy like me, it's what I'm used to, but then why am I moving again?
-Getting 450 a day is always better than siting idle waiting for that 550-600 a day contract.
I'm fine with making a tradeoff like that for very short term work, but I don't want to commit myself to long- or medium-term work at any sort of significant discount.
If I'm confident I can get that 550 eventually, it easily pays for those days I spend on the beach.
When I left, it wasn't because of the money.
The scientific method is ill-equipped to formally prove a generalized theory of software development. There are too many significant variables at play; too many equations to solve. We are left with little but "In my experience..." to guide us (as well as local experimentation, where science can actually be of some help).
This is based on what? You really think that most people can't be taught the basics of "Hello World", or a function that multiplies two numbers?
Plenty of people write Excel formulas when faced with the need to. That's "beginning to program".
If there's no slack in your sprint schedule, well there's your problem.
I really value honesty, but not every emotion-laden thought that passes through our heads deserves airtime.
I generally think that people are "too kind" at work in a lot of ways, and it leads to a lot of grousing and internal stress on the part of the people who have to bite their lip rather than contribute to their fullest.
Rather than "Be Kind", I prefer the duo of, "Be Honest, but Be Thoughtful First".
Patently false.
> Can you share some of them?
Do you really want the parent to start listing cases of sexual harassment?
How many times have I heard on these fora that it's the team that matters as much as the idea? That the VCs faith in the the founders' abilities that drives funding at least as much as the specifics of their nascent business model?
Perhaps the problem is that the "sexual aspect" seems to be interfering with these VCs founder-evaluation capabilities. And thus they're being judged solely on their current business model (which is bound to be wanting at this stage no matter who the founders are) rather than being given the benefit of intuition that male founders are.
Part of the problem is that if there is a systematic bias in place, then they won't suffer relative to their competitors, who are mostly also biased in the same way.
> The sad part is that many of the women who step forward behave like self-entitled spoiled brats, so it becomes hard to tell if they where reject due to gender or personality.
If more money was actually being put into female-founded companies, I'd be more inclined to believe that it is the latter. But it's not like the startup world is filled with success stories of quiet female founders while the loud ones all end up as bitter bloggers.
Having worked for NYC and become familiar with their vendor selection processes, I often wonder if the costs of corruption prevention (both direct and opportunity costs) often outweigh their benefits.
For one thing, the vendor certification process costs quite a bit of time and effort on the part of their potential vendors, which rules out a lot of smaller (perhaps more efficient) entities in favor of bigger corporations who have the resources to jump through the hoops.
The Tweed Courthouse may be one of the most corrupt structures ever built, but at least it's beautiful and it got done.
So if the government passed a law saying it was ok for them to hack private entities and make their records public, it would be ok?
What mainstream news do you read?
Don't be so easily offended. Nobody said anything about their culture. The reason the question is being raised is because of the unignorable number of DDOS attacks being launched from their Internet space. Stop that, and you'll have less calls for cutting their connection.
If it was simply "about" that, then that would include DDOS traffic. Which no one in their right mind wants to treat equally.
Funnily enough, I actually knew Zed before he became "Zed" (we were both team leads for related organizations). He came off as one of the more caring and right-headed leads that I'd known at the time.
Things change of course (it's been years), but I wouldn't infer too much about what he'd do to a team from his internet persona.