Are the posted questions getting worse?
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failed attempt at ...
How does one do that?
Tom
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Ninja's_RGR'us (1/7/2012)
jcrawf02 (1/7/2012)
Ninja's_RGR'us (1/6/2012)
MysteryJimbo (1/6/2012)
GilaMonster (1/6/2012)
And vague question of the week award goes to: http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=169885I don't know. This is pretty vague.
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1231424-1549-1.aspx
This one is way worse!
I don't actually think that was intentional, but it was hysterical! :hehe::-P
No that's exactly what I meant.
In humor, the best jokes are often the ones you finish in your own head with a little nudge to start painting a picture. 😉
I saw it as intentional :-D.
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L' Eomot Inversé (1/7/2012)
failed attempt at ...How does one do that?
Look around you, that's what most people's live are filled with.
They fail at the current task not even knowing what it's for or where they are going with it. Then we wonder why everything takes so long and fails most of the time, and even when it "succeeds" you ask the final client and he's very displeased with the results (not talking <only> about programming here).
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Ninja's_RGR'us (1/8/2012)
L' Eomot Inversé (1/7/2012)
failed attempt at ...How does one do that?
Look around you, that's what most people's live are filled with.
They fail at the current task not even knowing what it's for or where they are going with it. Then we wonder why everything takes so long and fails most of the time, and even when it "succeeds" you ask the final client and he's very displeased with the results (not talking <only> about programming here).
Life presents you with a series of lessons, and you will not get to the next one until you get the current one right. It takes some people take longer than the others to get it.
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Ninja's_RGR'us (1/8/2012)
L' Eomot Inversé (1/7/2012)
failed attempt at ...How does one do that?
Look around you, that's what most people's live are filled with.
Good answer.
I was trying to ask an utterly meaningless question (and failed, clearly) just to prove that we can do it in the thread as well as watch others doing it with their pleas for help.
But I do understand your answer.
They fail at the current task not even knowing what it's for or where they are going with it. Then we wonder why everything takes so long and fails most of the time, and even when it "succeeds" you ask the final client and he's very displeased with the results (not talking <only> about programming here).
The reason is all in your first sentence, it's the classic problem of big projects where some bunch of mandarins think they can write a requirements specification while neither understanding the business (so they don't know what it's for) nor talking to the people who will have to live with it (they don't just not know where they are going, the don't care where they are going); as an added bonus on some projects, these requirements writers haven't a clue about computing, and won't demean themselves by listening to anyone who has, so the requirements end up with unfeasible and mutually contradictory provisions as well as failing to reflect what the business needs and imposing operational methods which clearly won't work on teh people who have to use the result. The requirements are then looked at by "project management" (or worse, "programme management") experts who understand neither software development nor the impossibility of getting the 1 month baby with 7 women, no men, and the promise of a significant bonus for achieving a 22.2% (they are innumerate too, diving 2 by 9 instead of by 7) productivity improvement, and they produce plans (which are infeasible) and costings (which are destined to be overrun). And on it goes from there.
Tom
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Is it just me, or is SQL code prettifying (specifically colours) broken on the site at the moment?
Paul White
SQLPerformance.com
SQLkiwi blog
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SQL Kiwi (1/8/2012)
Is it just me, or is SQL code prettifying (specifically colours) broken on the site at the moment?SELECT 'abc' FROM SomeWhere
Looks ok to me.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverabilityWe walk in the dark places no others will enter
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GilaMonster (1/8/2012)
Looks ok to me.Must be just me then. Perhaps it's a browser cache thing, but I see this:
Paul White
SQLPerformance.com
SQLkiwi blog
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L' Eomot Inversé (1/8/2012)
The requirements are then looked at by "project management" (or worse, "programme management") experts who understand neither software development ....My favourite comment from a project manager, upon my 'complaints' about a new requirement that we had never heard of, coming from the BI 'specialist' not the actual users of the system, a week before we were scheduled to start testing. 'Just because it's not in the spec doesn't mean it's out of scope for the project'
Okay then....
This is the same person who upon been told that a particular piece of work would take no less than 15 days, scheduled it for 3 calendar weeks, despite knowing that the person responsible 1) worked 3 days a week. 2) was going on vacation 2 weeks into that 3 week period. When this was brought to his attention, he saw absolutely nothing wrong with it.
15 days work in 6 days. Sure, do you want the water turning to wine before or afterwards?
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverabilityWe walk in the dark places no others will enter
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And yet, in the same browser, using http://extras.sqlservercentral.com/prettifier/prettifier.aspx:
Paul White
SQLPerformance.com
SQLkiwi blog
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Probably a cached stylesheet or something.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverabilityWe walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass -
GilaMonster (1/8/2012)
Probably a cached stylesheet or something.It's weird: it does the same thing in IE9 (which I very rarely open). Oh well, small irritation, it'll probably go away on its own at some stage. Glad it's not a site-wide problem.
Paul White
SQLPerformance.com
SQLkiwi blog
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GilaMonster (1/8/2012)
. . . the same person who upon been told that a particular piece of work would take no less than 15 days, scheduled it for 3 calendar weeks, despite knowing that the person responsible 1) worked 3 days a week. 2) was going on vacation 2 weeks into that 3 week period. . . .Smells like Agile to me...
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Revenant (1/8/2012)
GilaMonster (1/8/2012)
. . . the same person who upon been told that a particular piece of work would take no less than 15 days, scheduled it for 3 calendar weeks, despite knowing that the person responsible 1) worked 3 days a week. 2) was going on vacation 2 weeks into that 3 week period. . . .Smells like Agile to me...
Lol.
The Chief Enterprise Architect, who once accused me of not following the SDLC, couldn't say what methodology they were supposed to be following (or any methodology for that matter...). Agile they were not. It was probably all the worst aspects of waterfall with some of the worst aspects of agile and a lot of other stuff 'just because'
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverabilityWe walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass -
GilaMonster (1/8/2012)
SQL Kiwi (1/8/2012)
Is it just me, or is SQL code prettifying (specifically colours) broken on the site at the moment?SELECT 'abc' FROM SomeWhere
Looks ok to me.
That comes over here with SomeWhere in blue, SELECT and FROM in black, both looking at it with Firefox and looking at it with IE. Only 'abc' is the colour I would expect (it was red). Maybe Paul and I both have the same problem?
Tom
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