Posts by Destroy All Monsters

Re: Apple's version of "The Internship" (aka "Google goes auto-fellatio")

Not every critic rated it in their top ten

Judging from the IMDB cemmentary ("Just what section of the cinematic audience this pile of tripe is aimed at I really don't know. Maybe it's teenagers, those Dre wearing plastic headphone types who like to think they live in a land of cool and internet worldliness, but then it features two middle-aged heroes trying to find a job at Google so how does that compute? Pardon the pun.") etc., I would say this is a faint understatement?

Re: It's not "Rocket Science"

systems that can be restarted on orbit after a usually longer rest period (you need storable fuel that still flows in the frigid temperatures of space and you need to get that fuel into the engine at 0g)

This seems to not be the case here as Russian manoeuvering is over: ESA is responsible for future manoeuvers. Plus, these are not new technologies at all and they are not different from any orbital manoeuvering which seems to be well within Russian skillset.

I foresee rising insurance premiums in the future for Russian Proton launches.

Launchers are not "deep space", you are contradicting yourself.

Re: Waste Of Time

All of this pain and heartache could've been avoided 2 years ago if the international community just owned up and said "look our satellite spotted the plane going in to the sea at this point".

Much citation needed!

I agree that the Murricans likely know who REALLY was manning that BUK that go the other MH, but why would anyone monitor the arse of the earth / the middle of nowhere just because?

Re: Or join the 21st century.....

Or join the 21st century and simply adopt an Agile Software Development methodology

Change management has scant to do with development, software or otherwise. Nor with Waterfall.

Think about this. Being unable to do calculations does not mean that you magically will have enough money at the end of the month.

I am successfully managing an agile multinational BI project that started with no spec apart from the Board wanting to know "what the hell is happening in the business".

HAHA right. You are either full of bullshit or it's the rest of the team that does that actual work and you are glomming on it.

Now step away from IT and keep your hands in the air, buster.

Re: Moral on the -1 passed as array index?

Moral on the -1 passed as array index? The moral is never do it, period.

The moral is, define an appropriate type that is ok with taking -1 as an index while normal arrays would throw.

That's what types are for.

They are statically (sometimes dynamically) verifiable constraints on the crap we produce.

And then you still lhave asserts and contracts of course.

Tell us what to name it. Unless, of course, we don't like the name you all like, in which case we'll just do what we always do and pick our own damn name

It's like US-supported regime change, then?