Reasons to hate the rich

[Cornfed]

Question... in your methodology, who does the code review?

There are 2 parts to code, interface (API) and implementation. I (manager) review all interfaces. I almost never review implementations, only if there is a problem. I trust my programmers to deliver, and if they can't, I fire them.

What part of scrum methodology do you think is correct, or incorrect?

Aren't such "methodologies" and the associated techno-babble just something some people pulled out of their asses that is used to justify creating various extraneous admin positions and to allow people with no technical competence to pretend to be technically skilled by spouting a bunch of jargon with no grounding in practical reality?

[zacb]

Let me offer a different perspective. The rich are maggots feeding on the dead carcass of modern culture. Are the maggots harmful? No, because the body is already dead. The maggots are performing a useful service in turning the body into compost which can fertilize the next culture. Is it possible that the masses might revolt against the rich and would this show the body not to be dead? Yes a revolt is possible, but the masses are so stupid that a revolt would just be exploited by one group of the rich against other rich groups. And so such a revolt wouldn't show the body to be alive, only that rigor mortis hasn't yet set in.

Now let me offer a personal perspective. As they say in Idiocracy, I like money. (And maybe being Jewish has something to do with it.) I am a programmer, so how can I turn my skills into money? I think about this all the time. One option is to create something of real value. But the problem is that the masses have lost all taste and are incapable of recognizing value. As an example, I have an idea for a much simpler way for regular people to program websites. The current dominant programming language for this is PHP. PHP is horrible. The reason that PHP is popular is simply that regular people are tasteless morons. So this tells me that there is no point developing anything of real value because the masses won't appreciate it. So what does that leave me with as ways to make money? Either screwing people or finding arbitrage, that's all. My last successful business, Nextag, was based on arbitrage. I am currently working on one business based on screwing people and I am investigating another business (in internet advertising) based on arbitrage.

It wasn't always the case that the masses were tasteless morons. In earlier American history, one could make money by producing value. As examples, Henry Ford and Walt Disney got quite rich while contributing to society. Just as women are morally indifferent and pursue men based on whatever is evolutionarily advantageous, the rich are also morally indifferent and pursue money based on whatever is profitable. A good society financially rewards those producing value and punishes those who are harmful. This pushes the rich in the right direction, to focus their energies and capital on productive things.

So then who is responsible for the current mess? The current mess is cultural and moral decay, which means that the responsibility lies with whoever is responsible for culture and morality. And I think this responsibility belongs to the clergy - the priests, ministers, and rabbis who are supposed to teach morality to the masses. So if you ask me what I hate most, my answer is modern religion, specifically modern Christianity and modern Judaism.

You my sir deserve a medal lol .

[C.J.]

I don't hate the super-rich. The rich get richer, by not contributing to the poor and continuing to take from them. They're financial parasites, and the western road system is probably one of the biggest inventions to do this. Ever wonder why most of the US looks like a huge microchip from above?

[momopi]

Question... in your methodology, who does the code review?

There are 2 parts to code, interface (API) and implementation. I (manager) review all interfaces. I almost never review implementations, only if there is a problem. I trust my programmers to deliver, and if they can't, I fire them.

What part of scrum methodology do you think is correct, or incorrect?

Aren't such "methodologies" and the associated techno-babble just something some people pulled out of their asses that is used to justify creating various extraneous admin positions and to allow people with no technical competence to pretend to be technically skilled by spouting a bunch of jargon with no grounding in practical reality?

Depends on if it gets results. Is the missile delivered on time, fit in the submarine, and fire when you press the button?