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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@DogsB linked an [article] in In other news today... that said:
We're after people who are resilient, problem solvers who network and can socialize well with people and are adaptive and flexible.
That's bullshit in a box. And probably now scares the folks who actually have the experience, but don't network and socialize well
Infosec basement dwellers probably fit that box even more than your average WTDWTF denizen.
Next thing they’re asking for algebra professors to socialize.
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@DogsB ""We realized our job ads were worded in a way that females deselected because they would look at it literally and think 'Well I don't have five years of [experience in] that'," said Richard Johnson, the bank's chief information security officer."
"A lot of men would just go 'Well, I could do that'. Women would deselect."
And just like that, I see a sense in which women actually are better people than men. If it's true that the women were less likely to lie.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
And just like that, I see a sense in which women actually are better people than men. If it's true that the women were less likely to lie.
Who says they are lying? Simply applying for a job that you might not qualify for is hardly heinous.
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@Dragoon Okay, when they said, ""A lot of men would just go 'Well, I could do that'. Women would deselect."
I originally thought they meant the checkbox for that particular skill, e.g. "Do you have 5 years in Java?" Now I agree that they probably meant the checkbox for the whole job.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Security research group, MalwareHunterTeam further analyzed these binaries, and stated that these contain Windows botnets written in PHP—a fact that the research group mocked.
I like those researchers.
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@jinpa Is "dipped their chopsticks" an euphemism?
Or is "a euphemism"? English, how does it work?
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Read another book!
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Read another book!
Fun fact: every number from one to 42 appears in the Bible, most in multiple contexts. Forty-three does not.
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@da-Doctah Surely someone has pontificated on the significance of this.
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The is out of the bag.
Maggiori blames bad management in the technology sector for allowing the cult of ‘Agile’ management to proliferate.
Go on.
In this cultish methodology, software developers self-identify how long a job will take – invariably over-estimating the time needed. They then have lots of meetings, which obscures their lack of real productive work.
That’s utter horseshit. Most agile methodologies don't advocate time as a metric. It’s usually some hokey made-up bullshit. It’s why most of the metrics that come out agile should be tossed out. You’re trying to make objective analysis off made up bullshit.
The meetings come from management trying to make sense of made up metrics. Usually in the form of questions asking how long its going to take.
If only there was a unit of measurement both parties understood that was based on something everyone starts to understand when they’re a toddler.After pandemic lockdowns, the practice of “quiet quitting” emerged, where employees reportedly worked slowly in a subtle protest at their dissatisfaction with work. The fact that people were able to do this en masse without being fired was a sign of how little work there was in the first place.
That isn’t strickly true. Reading about people on that subreddit been fired was quite funny.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
That’s utter horseshit. Most agile methodologies don't advocate time as a metric. It’s usually some hokey made-up bullshit. It’s why most of the metrics that come out agile should be tossed out. You’re trying to make objective analysis off made up bullshit.
As much as Agile Priests want to pretend points aren't a proxy for time, they're absolutely a proxy for time. Since something that's 5 points is supposed to represent 5x as much work (time) as something that's 1 point, and you plan sprints based on how many points you completed in several recent sprints of the same length.
I vastly preferred the places I worked at where they were honest enough to call points a proxy for X hours, rather than the place where the team lead banished you to the dog house if you ever even referenced that 1 point was about 30 minutes of work (or whatever).
Edit: Though the bigger issue we ran into on the team that was most honest about points == time was that we had a wide variety of experience with the varying technologies we supported across the team, so when you went to estimate it'd be like "am I estimating how long it's going to take me to do it (1 point) or how long it's going to take the guy who's more the business expert and less the coder to do this esoteric front end scripting thing (4 points)?"
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Edit: Though the bigger issue we ran into on the team that was most honest about points == time was that we had a wide variety of experience with the varying technologies we supported across the team, so when you went to estimate it'd be like "am I estimating how long it's going to take me to do it (1 point) or how long it's going to take the guy who's more the business expert and less the coder to do this esoteric front end scripting thing (4 points)?"
Poor showing by your agile master. That should have been a spike to investigate the task. Spikes can last up to three days and aren't pointed so be quick about it so that we can give the task an accurate point tally.
I'm a little rusty on the lingo so YMMV.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
In this cultish methodology, software developers self-identify how long a job will take – invariably over-estimating the time needed. They then have lots of meetings, which obscures their lack of real productive work.
That's hilarious. They mean compared to when comes up with a how long a job will take and you have to convert
$time $unit
to($time+1) ($unit+1)
, i.e. 2 hours -> 3 days?After pandemic lockdowns, the practice of “quiet quitting” emerged, where employees reportedly worked slowly in a subtle protest at their dissatisfaction with work. The fact that people were able to do this en masse without being fired was a sign of how little work there was in the first place.
That isn’t strickly true. Reading about people on that subreddit been fired was quite funny.
Um, the complaints I read about "quit quitting" sounded more along the lines of "people only want to work what they get paid for anymore, instead of spending their evenings and weekends in our one-free-apple-per-employee bar."
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@DogsB working slowly out of displeasure with employers have been a thing longer than there have been salaried employers.
Is just another same old thing that the latest generation has discovered.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@DogsB working slowly out of displeasure with employers have been a thing longer than there have been salaried employers.
Is just another same old thing that the latest generation has discovered.And because they think it's a new thing they just discovered, they give it a different name without looking first and learning about "work to rule".
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
In this cultish methodology
It's a full-blown religion.
software developers self-identify how long a job will take – invariably over-estimating the time needed because task descriptions make no sense, so better be on the safe side. They then have lots of meetings, which
obscures their lack ofprevents them from doing any real productive work.Poor showing by your agile master.
Being useless is their only area of expertise.
That should have been a spike to investigate the task. Spikes can last up to three days and aren't pointed so be quick about it so that we can give the task an accurate point tally.
I'm a little rusty on the lingo so YMMV.
Nah, it's accurate enough to make me nauseous.
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Fine, I’ll endeavour to donate €50 to three open-source projects this year.
you're not donating anything. You're writing it off against tax. The Irish taxpayer is going to foot that bill.
I'll donate €100!
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@DogsB If it's time to pay up, make it a paid product, period
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@DogsB If it's time to pay up, make it a paid product, period
No, it’s time to offer a “paid alternative” I can hand to admin. I’ll gladly tell them to pay 5 bucks a year for all the nice libraries I use for free right now, but it’s basically impossible for me to have them donate.
No need to make it a paid product for everyone.
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@topspin How do you imagine this paid alternative would look like that is notably different from paid product?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@topspin How do you imagine this paid alternative would look like that is notably different from paid product?
In that you can still get the free version for… free.
Just offer me something “paid” that I don’t really need. Like one support ticket (maybe upgrade to $20 then), or offer an alternative license that is exactly the same but, say, without the requirement to acknowledge it.I don’t really care, just offer something useless I can buy.
Maybe a misunderstanding. Yes, offer me a “paid product”, like you said, but not instead of offering a free version but as an alternative choice to the free version.
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@topspin Support ticket solves only the specific part of being able to provide invoices to beancounters, but not the unfortunate fact that if the free version is full-featured enough, people will mooch it for all they can.
Of the more recent examples that wanted to do the good and right thing, let's consider Macrium Reflect. Since v7 they offered a full-featured free version for strictly for home use, because, I paraphrase, they believed data security is everyone's fundamental right. Since v8 it was, however, discontinued, because of reasons that, I believe, are all too obvious.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@topspin How do you imagine this paid alternative would look like that is notably different from paid product?
In that you can still get the free version for… free.
Just offer me something “paid” that I don’t really need. Like one support ticket (maybe upgrade to $20 then), or offer an alternative license that is exactly the same but, say, without the requirement to acknowledge it.I don’t really care, just offer something useless I can buy.
Maybe a misunderstanding. Yes, offer me a “paid product”, like you said, but not instead of offering a free version but as an alternative choice to the free version.
Some open source projects are beginning to cop to this and offer priority support services for a subscription that gives you a tax invoice. You don’t actually get priority support but you get a badge beside your name sometimes.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@topspin Support ticket solves only the specific part of being able to provide invoices to beancounters, but not the unfortunate fact that if the free version is full-featured enough, people will mooch it for all they can.
Something for the beancounters is all I need. Right now it’s “use for free, click the ‘buy me a coffee’ donation button if you find it useful.” I can’t do that, so I’m using the free version. But I would if I could appease the beancounters, and they’d get a lot more of these.
If a bunch of small donations isn’t enough, then it was obviously the wrong choice to begin with. But for those projects that do it like this right now, and there’s a lot of them, it’d get them a whole lot further.
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@DogsB just what I need.
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Another reason to hate recruiters. Fuckers are always embedding their logos in the email instead of using tracking images like normal people.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
But I would if I could appease the beancounters
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Another reason to hate recruiters. Fuckers are always embedding their logos in the email instead of using tracking images like normal people.
OWA is so fucking retarded with embedded images. For some reason, it wants to attach previous “attachments” to all fucking emails. So whenever I reply to an email of one of those people who have all these LinkedIn and whatever logos in their signature, it shows like 7 attachments and also makes the reply text area friggin tiny.
And also, in the email list it has a little paper clip icon whenever there was any attachment in the whole conversation, even if the email I just got didn’t have an attachment. Makes it super confusing to find out if somebody sent you something new or if that’s just stuff from last week.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Another reason to hate recruiters. Fuckers are always embedding their logos in the email instead of using tracking images like normal people.
I regularly saw departments use their full super-high-res logo, scaled in layout, in the MIME of every email they would send, at guess-where.
Often along with a screenshot of their latest reporting numbers.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
No, it’s time to offer a “paid alternative” I can hand to admin. I’ll gladly tell them to pay 5 bucks a year for all the nice libraries I use for free right now, but it’s basically impossible for me to have them donate.
Congrats on the relative sanity in your org.
I accidentally stumbled across the checklist to make a software purchase. For fun, I started clicking through it. At page 4, I gave up. There was no end in sight.
Which isn't to say that what you say is a bad idea (I think it's a good start); rather, it's another opportunity to rant about the idiots that run the place here.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
and offer priority support services for a subscription that gives you a tax invoice. You don’t actually get priority support
Closed source software has been doing this for years
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
"Study on women's dating preferences segways into Louis' core business principle"
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
and offer priority support services for a subscription that gives you a tax invoice. You don’t actually get priority support
Closed source software has been doing this for years
… which is why a lot of people (including me) are always wary of closed source software—when the support inevitably turns out to be trash, it's a dead end.
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@Bulb Ah yes, the famous open source where documentation is code itself, because they can't be arsed, support is on SO where your question is wrong, and pls donate; despite all the high-grade moral fiber of the community it's never enough.
The only difference from closed and open is price. Everything else is the same - documentation is bad, support is useless and they always want more money.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
The only difference from closed and open is price. Everything else is the same - documentation is bad, support is useless and they always want more money.
Documentation is bad unless it is part of someone's tasks to make it not be so. You don't complain about good docs; you just use them and move on.
Support is bad unless it is part of someone's tasks to make it not be so. Even then they might not actually support your use case; that might necessarily be your task. You only really get good guarantees of support when you pay enough for it to be someone's sole task.
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@dkf So even if I give them money, nobody will be giving me any guarantees that the product will become better, are they? That's precisely why I'm going to pay the current market price (big fat zero) until they drop the Comintern pretenses, stand up and ask for certain sum before giving me the goods.
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@Applied-Mediocrity Nobody is going to give you any guarantees that the product will become any better for the commercial software either. You usually pay for the current state, take or let go.
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@Bulb Yes, that's what I said. Almost verbatim. One post before.
The only difference from closed and open is price
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
The is out of the bag.
Maggiori blames bad management in the technology sector for allowing the cult of ‘Agile’ management to proliferate.
Go on.
In this cultish methodology, software developers self-identify how long a job will take – invariably over-estimating the time needed. They then have lots of meetings, which obscures their lack of real productive work.
That’s utter horseshit. Most agile methodologies don't advocate time as a metric. It’s usually some hokey made-up bullshit. It’s why most of the metrics that come out agile should be tossed out. You’re trying to make objective analysis off made up bullshit.
I dunno, sounds about right to me. Same as when we're asked for a time we double and give the next bigger unit. This leaves time for testing and fixing and shitposting.
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Is there a ring that signals "submissive and breedable"?
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Hear the crying plants, when they are water-stressed or were recently cut:
Now I am curious if the researchers will win an IgNoble Prize, or if their research will hold up at all...
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
Now I am curious if the researchers will win an IgNoble Prize, or if their research will hold up at all...
There's been some hints of this sort of thing (though more often via chemical signals) for a while so it's not that strange. Still interesting.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Is there a ring that signals "submissive and breedable"?
Not only it won't work, it's also crazy expensive and in hideous color! I'm somewhat impressed.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Is there a ring that signals "submissive and breedable"?
Although that sounds like a decent suggestion, it also costs nearly US$25 for the green circle shipped from a Shopify store in Canada.
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With millions of rings already sold...Fuckin' genius to whoever came up with it and got rich off of it.