Thursday, July 26, 2018

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  1. Capital of Texas RefugeeFriday, July 27, 2018 1:35:00 PM

    Your generic Prozac substitute for the day.

    BTW, there was an amusing interlude over at Vox Day's blog concerning "agile methodologies": one of his readers pointed out that it was a sort of gateway drug to a lot of leftist "equalitarian" and socialist leveling foolishness within IT companies, and of course the inevitable happened.

    A bunch of people over there are secretly part of that particular problem (or were secret until they outed themselves), but think it's OK because when they use The Methodology, they get some kind of result that they didn't otherwise get when they "used" something called "a waterfall process".

    I thought about what "a waterfall process" actually means, and it means that throughout the product development cycle, nobody has the actual stones to provide feedback on product development quality, quirks, artifacts, and so forth in a way that fixes the product before it's supposed to ship. The product is magically supposed to arrive at the end of the "process" as a formed object that can be sold, with every potential problem having been worked out in advance.

    This is a very hard thing to believe in practice, and I find it very hard to believe that anyone actually succeeded in delivering a project with this ad hoc project planning method. (However, this might explain the dismal 5% quasi-statistics I've seen about typical IT project delivery success rates, with typical industry managers singing "If You Wish Upon A Star" in unison.)

    Anyone foolish enough to implement an actual product with "a waterfall process" deserves to be fired along with all of the conspiring teams.

    But Vox Day's blog post was useful for another reason: he now has a starter bingo card for all of the would-be "gamma" types hanging out on his blog.

    Because of course they're all Sekrit Kangs who pretend that when they "do agile", they're not evil, even if they're making it possible for liberal "equalitarian" and socialist leveler foolishness to set up shop in their businesses ...

    What should be common sense passes right by them: if the technology you're using makes it easier for the enemy to establish base camps on your territory, don't use that technology because it's a trap.

    You can find the Vox Day blog post about "agile" here.

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  2. Vid was hilarious.

    "I thought about what "a waterfall process" actually means, and it means that throughout the product development cycle, nobody has the actual stones to provide feedback on product development quality, quirks, artifacts, and so forth in a way that fixes the product before it's supposed to ship. The product is magically supposed to arrive at the end of the "process" as a formed object that can be sold, with every potential problem having been worked out in advance."

    Oh No... people have the stones - it's just the those people are killed via committee. It's literally like pulling teeth to get things through. You are basically meeting-ed to death until your soul is dead. You see when communal programming sets in, basically nothing starts to get done because anyone bright enough to prove their stones gets saddled with all that work. At the same time the tragedy of the commons starts to set in. When everyone owns everything. No one ones anything. Work starts to take longer and gets redone over and over and over because "everyone has the same knowledge" don't ya know.

    It's like if you hired a new contractor every single day for a month, each and everyone one of them would come in with a different way to fix something. And why would anyone with stones strive above because some other dude is just going to come in and step on your work.

    There is a specific feedback loop that issues with this system, and I think a lot of companies are bloated as hell because of it. It is tech socialism to the core. And the craziest thing is - you have nothing to show a new employer. Nothing. It used to be you could say - I made this. Now it's only.. I worked on this. They even take away your ability to leave kinda. It's effed up.

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  3. Here at the Snarkolepsy blog we know we aren't everyones' cup of tea. But a whole law? You could always put duck tape over your ears?

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  4. Hahahahah. If you ban duck tape all of the men will burn your house down. You know that. lol. It's the only thing that keeps civilization together. But I will watch you try. That would be funny. It would be the shortest dictatorship in history.

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  5. Capital of Texas Refugee and Future California Adhesive Tape MagnateMonday, July 30, 2018 2:28:00 PM

    GO AHEAD MAKE MY DAY PUNK

    I've got enough duct tape, gaffer tape, packing tape, and various tapes of all tape-like sizes and dimensions to tape your Future Dystopian Kangaroo Legislature to their seats with their mouths taped shut not once, not twice, but at least three times.

    SO GO AHEAD MAKE MY DAY PUNK :-)

    OH AND BTW GOOGLE CAPTCHA CLOWNZ YOUR CAPTCHA SHOULD NOT BE A VISUAL ACUITY TEST OR WHETHER I HAVE THE BRIGHTNESS ON MY LAPTOP JACKED UP TO FUCKIN' ELEVEN, YOU TARDS

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