Congress has been too busy taking bribes to do anything about the H-1B loop hole or the mass replacement of U.S. IT workers with much lower paid H-1B visa workers. Worse yet how this oppression helps turn otherwise good people into people with terrorist sympathies. They work each day making $60K or less right beside people who are making $160K or more doing the same job. The visa workers who are salaried also end up … This Labor Day We Can Thank United SteelworkersRead more
Thank You Sir May I Have Another
Tales that just make you want to scream and other humiliating kicks to the crotch.
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Submission Rules
This is an updated version of a post I made on Interesting Authors blog also called Submission Rules. There is a limit to how geeky I can get when writing posts there as most come to read some interesting prose and a few tips from the trenches when it comes to writing. Featured image by succo from Pixabay ==== Makes you go hmmm… A while back an email with a link to this arrived. Yes, the … Submission RulesRead more
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Qt 6 – Remove Console from JavaScript and QML
I originally sent this to the qt-interest mailing list but haven’t seen it bubble out to the world so re-posting here and, hopefully many other places. === This is becoming a growing issue in the industry. The Console object needs to be removed from Qt. The project I walked onto I had to spend a week digging it out because it violates the coding standards but that story was pushed deep into the backlog and … Qt 6 – Remove Console from JavaScript and QMLRead more
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Did AGILE make the 737 Max fall from the sky?
AGILE. The new corporate buzz phrase for hacking on the fly. Keller MBAs in a room sounding like a yard full of chickens chanting “cut costs, cut costs, cut costs” have been falling all over themselves because when you remove engineering from “software engineering,” it’s cheaper. You can even use lower skilled, lower cost developers because they don’t have to know much to do AGILE. Software engineering is the application of principles used in the … Did AGILE make the 737 Max fall from the sky?Read more
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How Much Liability Insurance?
This question has been rattling around in the back of my mind given the qt-interest on and off-list conversations I’ve been having about QML and “lone wolf” development of idiot phone apps. How much liability insurance are you carrying? The courts are letting plaintiffs gather in bulk now and companies have started pointing the finger at software providers. You might remember Equifax tried to finger Struts only to later admit they had the patch for … How Much Liability Insurance?Read more