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Re: Asshole driven development

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Post by bugs »

netcan wrote: post #26
nearestneighbor wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. And the UK is not "the rest of the world". They'd probably stop swearing too if they started carrying handguns.

I'm in Australia & if this isn't "the rest of the world" I don't know what is. I have a client that swears on his answering machine and he sells b2b.

I don't know if the stigma is true but the UK and Australia are usually seen has having completely different levels of swearing than here in the US where we are usually limited to fuck, shit, damn, and variants on ass where the severity of that list goes from high to low.

It is usually taken that AU/UK have many more words and/or variations which would mean that common speech would have more possibilities to interject a curse word.

Re: Asshole driven development

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Post by netcan »

bugs wrote: post #31
netcan wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in Australia & if this isn't "the rest of the world" I don't know what is. I have a client that swears on his answering machine and he sells b2b.

I don't know if the stigma is true but the UK and Australia are usually seen has having completely different levels of swearing than here in the US where we are usually limited to fuck, shit, damn, and variants on ass where the severity of that list goes from high to low. It is usually taken that AU/UK have many more words and/or variations which would mean that common speech would have more possibilities to interjec…

Now that you mention it, American don't get swearing. I don't like hearing them swear either. Americans swearing never sound cheeky, charming, witty, good humoured, playful or anything like that.

I had an American friend at Uni who used to try local swearing or idioms from time to time. "Bloody deadshit!" "Ya reckon?" Relatively tame in the context (bars) he was trialing them. He could never pull it off smoothly, it always got him funny looks. The French, Arab or even Chinese could do it. It sounded fine. Not this guy.

I wonder what makes it like this.

No wonder you ban swearing in The States.

Edit: No malice intended.

Re: Asshole driven development

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Post by rw »

gcheong wrote: post #27
azanar wrote: post #16

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An interesting meta-pattern appeared in my thoughts when I combined GPD, DFD, WAD, IAD, CYAE, and DBD. It's acronym is FDD, which stands for Fear Driven Development. A few other patterns may make appearances, depending on the organization, but the practical upshot is something a former manager of mine kept on about regarding working at large, asshole driven organizations: focus only on requirements. Do precisely what…

Interestingly there is a similar concept called "work to rule" used by organized labor in order to purposely slow production down.

It's called a work slowdown and is an effective bargaining tool, especially when strikes are disallowed (e.g. public servants, medical practitioners).

Re: Asshole driven development

#34

Post by nearestneighbor »

netcan wrote: post #26
nearestneighbor wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. And the UK is not "the rest of the world". They'd probably stop swearing too if they started carrying handguns.

I'm in Australia & if this isn't "the rest of the world" I don't know what is. I have a client that swears on his answering machine and he sells b2b.

I thought of Australia, but it seemed not worth mentioning, mate. Even with Australia, the UK is just 1.3% of the world's population. That's hardly representative.

P.S. Actually, I wasn't too sure about Aussie speech patterns besides the usual stereotypes. Either way, with its 22e6 population, it doesn't sway the argument.

Re: Asshole driven development

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Post by netcan »

nearestneighbor wrote: post #34
netcan wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in Australia & if this isn't "the rest of the world" I don't know what is. I have a client that swears on his answering machine and he sells b2b.

I thought of Australia, but it seemed not worth mentioning, mate. Even with Australia, the UK is just 1.3% of the world's population. That's hardly representative. P.S. Actually, I wasn't too sure about Aussie speech patterns besides the usual stereotypes. Either way, with its 22e6 population, it doesn't sway the argument.

Well then fuck you dickhead.

Re: Asshole driven development

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Post by adw »

bugs wrote: post #31
netcan wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in Australia & if this isn't "the rest of the world" I don't know what is. I have a client that swears on his answering machine and he sells b2b.

I don't know if the stigma is true but the UK and Australia are usually seen has having completely different levels of swearing than here in the US where we are usually limited to fuck, shit, damn, and variants on ass where the severity of that list goes from high to low. It is usually taken that AU/UK have many more words and/or variations which would mean that common speech would have more possibilities to interjec…

"The Thick of It." Primetime TV here, a massive ZfCC coronary if it ran in the States.

They tried a pilot for a localised version once. Never gonna work.

Re: Asshole driven development

#37

Post by billswift »

CYAEngineering is just good sense in some places, though I'd rather say, "When the shit hits the fan, make sure you're not standing in front of it."

Strategic Helplessness Development - where someone can't do what they don't want to.

Re: Asshole driven development

#39

Post by hga »

F_J_H wrote: post #13

re: "Asshole Driven Development" If you're in a design meeting throwing out a bunch of great ideas while helping others understand why their ideas won't work, and you can't spot the Asshole, then chances are...

Indeed, especially in the long run when the others find out the hard way that you were right. The most interesting thing I read in the Antipatterns book was the author's claim that only 1/5 of programmers "get" abstraction and therefore "democratic" project management processes tend to result in very poor architectures.
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