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Brings back memories. I took a programming class in Berlin as an exchange student. This was the mid 90s. The prof was teaching FORTRAN, but spent a good bit of time and repetition explaining that FORTRAN was okey and could be used instead of assembly and would yield programs with nearly the equivalent speed. It scared me a bit that that had to be hammered in; FORTRAN was a pile of old dust ~then~. It looks like they've moved on to C++ as the acceptable 'modern' language.
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In spite of the pending whoosh :badger:: That's some sublte rhetorical indirect statement. To make it a bit more obvious: the consultants were from Germany. (There are more usages of the rest of the world than as landfill for bad engineers and similar stuff.)
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To make it even worse: think about Carl Benz and Konrad Zuse and the category of things they built the first usable specimen of.
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What do you expect? In an economical crisis, there's not much budget left to engineer humor.
So the left side is the right side, and the right side is the wrong side.
Filed under: too old to be funny
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Ew, no, I don't know where you've been.
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In big companies, the only possibility for the consultants to get fired is to have as many as possible developers filed exit interview that the reason of leaving is them. That's why the consultants tried to fire as many developer that could respond negatively as possible - to avoid them to file an exit interview against them. There is some way for them to meddle negative reviews against them (in some company it's open secret that the seniors have way to find out who filed a low score assessment in annual review, so people still want to work there would know it's not possible to use that without getting into trouble later)
As for the failure of project? Since when did you see seniors get into trouble of a project that fail, as long as they can find somebody to blame?
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Ah, but you all don't seem to get the point: the problem was not that they were Germans... the problem was that they were consultants!:smile: There's the story of the shepherd standing with his sheep on a field near a road. A last model Porsche stops, a guy in Armani suit, wearing Cerutti shoes and Tag Heur watch gets out of the car and asks the shepherd: "Pal, if I can tell you exactly how many sheep you got in your herd, will you give me one sheep?". "Sure" answers the shepherd. The guy goes to the Porsche, takes out his notebook, connects it to the net over his UMTS card, gets a live satellite photo of the area, uses a photo analysis software and processes the photo and states "You've got 321 sheep!". "Sure" answers the shepherd. The guy picks an animal and walks to his car when the shepherd asks "If I can tell you what your profession is, can I get my animal back?". "Sure" answers the guy. "You are a consultant!" states the shepherd. "Fantastic! How did you guessed?". "You came to me unasked, overbooked me for an information I already knew and this all without having a clue about my business, so pleas give me my dog back!"....
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Zuffa is what Christ did to absolve our sins when he was nailed to the Cross, and what Dave went through is no less excruciating than that.
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that "project volcano" reminded me of this Dilbert cartoon: http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-16
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Ah, the German-bashing is in full swing. You try to eradicate ONE race and everyone takes it personally forever.
Of course, if the terrorists say things like "Israel is good. Keeps the Jews in one place so we can murder them all at once." You cannot criticise it or YOU are the Nazi.
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"management was getting anxious"...well, then they should have made every manager try to pry an explanation out of Bob Zwei-heck, any time ANY manager had a question about ANYTHING, tell him to ask Bob Zwei! THEN maybe they'd get some idea of how messed up he is!