Exactly, one of our teams in China decided to use a popular Chinese web framework, and when the rest of the team out side of China and customers looked at it, the English was grammatically confusing, code had Chinese comments, GitHub was mixed English and Chinese. We ended up replacing the framework for this reason.
I find I spend most of my time debugging R, which is astoundingly difficult since it doesn’t report line numbers on errors. Most of my code is in C++, so that helps, albeit it’s still overly complicated to start up R in gdb. Amazingly Julia isn’t much better when it comes to error reporting either.
It’s figurative, but unfortunately people do kill Buddhas, and continue to try and do so today. From physically attacking them, to poisonings, little has changed in 2000 years.
Yeah exactly, I think a small percentage of people do and they lead the innovation. The overwhelming majority don’t understand even the most basic reasoning behind almost anything since they never rest and reflect on what they’re doing, but follow the buzz as a career path — which works to a degree better than if they were coming up with their own ideas at least.
I have a client that I tell folks frequently they need to rest and reflect in order to improve their leverage and understanding how to better manage their growth, since they’re just exhausted and do stupid stuff all the time as a result. So the simplest observations I offer they think I’m a genius for.
> Unexpected issues – in addition to routine suffering, long distance live transport can also result in fires, delays or sinking of livestock ships causing the suffering and death of large numbers of animals.
Apparently sinking ships with live stock is not uncommon?
Has anyone ever been able to make a reservation on that site? Anytime I look at locations they’re either closed, or booked, or you have to plan a half year in advance.
As long as you don’t have more than one person picking up produce from a bin at the same time you can just measure the change in weight from the bin it’s taken out of. That has to be super cheap technology at this point.
Interesting, at my Trader Joe’s they always ask, and when I do say I couldn’t find something they just shrug and apologize. Ironically this is the TJ’s up the hill from the new Go store mentioned.
There’s also the class of pointless meeting where nontechnical managers don’t understand what they’re responsible for so use them to as a way to “manage by feel”. They call them to see what people’s reactions are to fishing questions to judge the situation, and to use them as training sessions. These I find to be the most counterproductive meetings.
Actually I think it should be ok, because you’d enter the name in the nomative case and then when you write it on the screen you’d declinate it based on the language you’re displaying it in, which would be the same for every name regardless of its origin.
I’m pretty sure it’s solvable, the main problem is that we break up names into first and last to identify the parts and we do bad data quality checks. Let’s say we did just have one field and a service that was trained on each counties’s variations that could return the parts of the name you wanted. So some database and detection system to understand the pattern. It’s definitely possible since we humans do read and understand names just fine in our own locales.
We used to have problems with non-ASCII chars in names, we fixed that with UTF, we had problems with currencies and numbers, we made libraries that understand locales and even directions of writing, time zones same thing. So it’s time for us to resolve names now with standard libraries that have been thought through like the above.
I have a hyphen in my last name that caused the California DMV to make one of my last names a middle name, and the Social Security Administration can’t verify my name on their website also due to it.
I feel like it’s time software needs to level up, ok 30 years ago sure mistakes were made, but now if you live on planet earth you have to know how names work after how many thousands of years our current systems have been in place.
I don’t see why there is a technical vs management path at many companies, you want management to be a support for the product that’s being delivered and your teams should be skilled in and embody the product they’re making first. Management for management sake makes the product a 2nd goal otherwise. You could argue we can’t find people who can do that, fair enough, but there are plenty of companies that do and their performance is high because of it.
It would be interesting to see which countries voted for and against the ban. If Italy was against the ban for example, to stop ripping off travelers, that would be amusing. :)
Roaming prices are the equivalent of scamming tourists, I don’t think there’s any body that can prevent it internally unfortunately, it’s just somehow acceptable for companies to shake down travelers for stupid amounts of money.
Search and a lot of the AI based systems these days feels like talking to a hard of hearing grandparent; as long as you’re saying about what they expect then it’s fine, but if there’s any nuances or homonyms it turns into a comedy routine.
> But, they do wield weapons that us engineers often don’t have the time not desire to sharpen...
Right, this is something more engineers need to get better at, this is nothing more than first year law school debating which is teachable. Seems like Management training for engineers should include this skill for good. Also having a backbone to fight too.
You see this at startups too, middle eng management were actual engineers and as the startup grows career managers creep in and skew the alignment of the engineering departments away from engineering solutions, the “product” they make, to problems they understand instead, political jockeying, manipulation, appeasing the LCD and the next managerial rung above them.
I used to think power outages we’re mainly a developing country problem, this definitely changes my understanding of the tiers of maturity of countries.
Buttons simply doing nothing happens all the time, sometimes reloading the page makes them work, other times the site is complete broken and it’s time to move on.