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Here's another thought on our common approach to creating algorithms. Error reporting has always been one of my pet peeves because so many times we are told that 'something...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
January 21, 2021 at 3:54 pm
I have to second what Rick said. We all have two eyes, two ears, and a brain, all of which work similarly. No ethnicity is different enough that we...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
January 21, 2021 at 3:04 pm
Well, I'm very disappointed this morning in the slant of this. Just a couple days ago we had an article that proposed that we probably need to allow more 'failure'...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
January 21, 2021 at 2:20 pm
In one position I held many years ago at a food wholesaler warehouse, the only IT Management position I was dumb enough to take, we were developing the first computer...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
January 20, 2021 at 2:37 pm
Good article, Ben. I appreciate it but am not entirely sure I agree. Not on good grounds, just more because I've never worked anywhere that allowed for experimentation. I'm...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
January 19, 2021 at 3:40 pm
Allowing failure: Steve and others use children learning as an analogy for this. That works very well because this is childish. When I am a member of your team,...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
January 19, 2021 at 3:23 pm
Sometimes it seems that we have to ALLOW failure for success to follow. My wife and I raised four sons after we combined our families. After they were all out...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
January 19, 2021 at 3:03 pm
Possibly it is not truly failure until you stop looking for a better solution. You need more 'Ah!s' and 'Oops!'
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
January 19, 2021 at 2:43 pm
My thoughts regarding customer service have for many years been based on advice from my boss at the job I held during my undergrad college days working in an office...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
January 16, 2021 at 3:45 pm
"I used to hate taking out the trash from a computer room I worked in, but I now appreciate that allowing cleaning staff into that space might not have been...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
January 13, 2021 at 2:31 pm
Fortunately just a stern lecture about 'you don't talk to your boss that way. He's the boss'. Actually, shortly after I moved on, they got rid of him quite abruptly.
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
January 12, 2021 at 12:58 am
Reminds me of an event many years ago in which I was working to find a bug in existing code of which I had nothing to do with the development. ...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
January 11, 2021 at 9:57 pm
Just a couple observations on this.
First, we always need to be sure we focus first on fixing bugs instead of who is responsible. I fear sometimes that is not the...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
January 11, 2021 at 9:29 pm
I guess my first question is 'Why do you want to store anything from 2020?' just kidding, of course. happy New Year.
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
January 1, 2021 at 6:52 pm
Ralph, thanks for sharing the video of the 'puppies'. Pet videos are our favorite u-tube and facebook features.
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
December 22, 2020 at 6:17 pm
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