> Your experience of one person doesn't give you licence to damn the
> entirety of the UK software development activity.
It's not just my experience of one person. I lived in the UK all my
life until 3 months ago.
> Your experience of one person doesn't give you licence to damn the
> entirety of
On 06/07/2011 05:59 PM, Ricky Clarkson wrote:
[1] This helps to make sure the staff get treated well, as in properly
informed, paid well enough not to be looking around or envious, and
actually comfortable as opposed to gimmicky features like "we take our
staff out mountain-climbing". It also he
Have we moved on to criticising the UK? Can I join in? Where do I
begin?
On Jun 8, 8:19 am, Kirk wrote:
> ACCU awesome group
>
> On Jun 8, 2011, at 9:05 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 18:10 -0300, Ricky Clarkson wrote:
> > [ . . . ]
> >> As a tech lead/manager I rea
ACCU awesome group
On Jun 8, 2011, at 9:05 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 18:10 -0300, Ricky Clarkson wrote:
> [ . . . ]
>> As a tech lead/manager I really really tried to do that in the UK, and
>> the guy still wrote the same broken code over and over, still
>> committed r
On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 18:10 -0300, Ricky Clarkson wrote:
[ . . . ]
> As a tech lead/manager I really really tried to do that in the UK, and
> the guy still wrote the same broken code over and over, still
> committed rarely more than once a week, breaking the build as he
> walked out of the door.
Y
> My not inconsiderable 22 years working in the UK has lead me to
> believe strongly that pretty much everybody flourishes when they feel
> valued and are treated properly.
As a tech lead/manager I really really tried to do that in the UK, and
the guy still wrote the same broken code over and over
On Jun 7, 11:59 am, Ricky Clarkson wrote:
>
> I work for an outsourcing company, in the third world, and what I see
> is that the developers are very capable and very enthusiastic (a
> refreshing change from the UK)
>
My not inconsiderable 22 years working in the UK has lead me to
believe stro
good advice. My problem with outsourcing is people who think like this:
"Dev A in US costs $100,000. We can get 3 devs in country X for
$100,000. We'll get 3x as much done!"
They don't factor in the time zone differences, the management
difficulties, etc. Not to mention the mythical man month
> Seems like a lot of MBAs don't think that individuals matter (except
> of course for the senior executives). They view people as commodities
> ("resources"). Hence the outsourcing for cheap labor movement.
I work for an outsourcing company, in the third world, and what I see
is that the develo
Seems like a lot of MBAs don't think that individuals matter (except
of course for the senior executives). They view people as commodities
("resources"). Hence the outsourcing for cheap labor movement.
But hell yes, individuals matter. I've seen bad decisions by one
fairly low level person comp
On Jun 7, 6:12 am, Steven Herod wrote:
> A company with 426,751 employees loses one staff member to a company
> with 89,000 employees.
>
> Do individuals matter at this scale?
Of course they do. Apple has over 30,000 employees but it owes all
its success to one man. He left. The company nosedi
Of course they do, *we* still do the actual thinking and work you know :)
On 7 June 2011 06:12, Steven Herod wrote:
> A company with 426,751 employees loses one staff member to a company
> with 89,000 employees.
>
> Do individuals matter at this scale?
>
> On Jun 7, 2:22 pm, Meteor wrote:
>> Yes
A company with 426,751 employees loses one staff member to a company
with 89,000 employees.
Do individuals matter at this scale?
On Jun 7, 2:22 pm, Meteor wrote:
> Yes.
> Bad news for IBM and Java.
>
> But good news for Microsoft and C#.
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Bad news for IBM and Java.
But good news for Microsoft and C#.
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But what about JUnit itself? Tell me what sucks and why TestNG is better.
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> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Kevin Wright
> wrote:
>>
>> Oh how the worm has turned!
>> I personally found TestNG to be very complicated because of the XML
>> configuration, certainly too
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Kevin Wright wrote:
> Oh how the worm has turned!
>
> I personally found TestNG to be very complicated because of the XML
> configuration, certainly too risky for the average developer.
> The tool support also lags behind JUnit, which is just a killer for most
> pe
Visual Studio couldn't get much worse, (just finished building a .Net
library).
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Oh how the worm has turned!
I personally found TestNG to be very complicated because of the XML
configuration, certainly too risky for the average developer.
The tool support also lags behind JUnit, which is just a killer for most
people. It's just remiss of a test framework designer not to start
Cédric,
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 10:42 -0700, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:31 AM, phil swenson
> wrote:
> I think Eclipse is fairly awful (usability mostly). But I'm
> curious
> what you think is wrong with JUnit?
>
>
> Must... resist...
No don't. Gi
I don't have to resist. JUnit is to TestNG as Eclipse is to IDEA;
basically, JUnit manages to steal stuff from TestNG that they think is
easiest to implement, except they release it a long time after TestNG
has had it. TestNG and JUnit are similar in that they both do unit
testing, but JUnit 4 is a
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:31 AM, phil swenson wrote:
> I think Eclipse is fairly awful (usability mostly). But I'm curious
> what you think is wrong with JUnit?
>
Must... resist...
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what you think is wrong with JUnit?
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Joseph Ottinger wrote:
> Probably an overall win for Java - he can infect VS with Eclipse' and
> JUnit's brands of retardation, and maybe Java's level of infect
Probably an overall win for Java - he can infect VS with Eclipse' and
JUnit's brands of retardation, and maybe Java's level of infection can
subside.
(And yes, I'm mostly kidding.)
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All projects he was involved in have either stopped benefitting from initial
work (i.e. JUnit, GoF book), or are far too large for one guy to have a
serious impact on (eclipse).
>From time to time some big company poaches a minor celebrity from another
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