From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada in command / control systems
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 09:29:07 +0100
Date: 2019-03-06T09:29:07+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <q5o0ci$1iig$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: q5n9m4$j8d$1@gioia.aioe.org
On 2019-03-06 03:01, lyttlec wrote:
> On 3/5/19 1:18 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> On 2019-03-05 12:59, russ lyttle wrote:
>>
>>> At the dairy farm, I could staff up and lay off pretty much at will.
>>> It wasn't difficult to find people to shovel up behind cows. So the
>>> first thing the manager of a ball team should do to increase profit is
>>> lay off the players. Same thing at a software company. I have some
>>> good horror stories about trying to staff software personnel. Staffing
>>> the dairy farm usually involved painting "Help Wanted" on a sheet of
>>> plywood by the road.
>>
>> I though the diary farm's staff are the cows... Sorry, could not resist
>> (:-))
>>
> There is some debate about that. The farmer has to get up when the cows
> want to be milked. If they don't like how it's done, they kick over the
> bucket. The cows can't be fired. They are fed what they like on their
> schedule. Other than that they stand around chewing their cud. So who is
> smarter?
Yeah, the old joke about one lab monkey saying to another, "see, if I
press this button, the guy in the white coat will give me a banana." (:-))
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2019-02-25 6:51 Ada in command / control systems Jesper Quorning
2019-02-25 8:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-02-25 9:44 ` Jesper Quorning
2019-02-25 15:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-02-25 13:50 ` russ lyttle
2019-02-25 14:29 ` gautier_niouzes
2019-02-25 15:25 ` Simon Wright
2019-02-25 19:21 ` russ lyttle
2019-02-26 4:50 ` J-P. Rosen
2019-02-26 15:50 ` Simon Wright
2019-02-26 22:10 ` lyttlec
2019-02-26 22:39 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-02-26 23:09 ` Simon Wright
2019-02-27 13:22 ` russ lyttle
2019-02-27 14:17 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-02-27 17:49 ` russ lyttle
2019-02-25 19:53 ` Tero Koskinen
2019-02-25 20:15 ` russ lyttle
2019-03-01 14:56 ` fabien.chouteau
2019-03-01 16:58 ` Simon Wright
2019-03-01 21:19 ` russ lyttle
2019-03-01 22:32 ` fabien.chouteau
2019-03-01 23:24 ` russ lyttle
2019-02-25 21:18 ` Jesper Quorning
2019-02-26 9:28 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-02-26 11:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-02-26 21:25 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-02-27 9:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-02-27 20:46 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-02-27 21:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-02-28 13:12 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-02-28 17:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-01 9:22 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-03-01 10:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-04 7:03 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-03-04 14:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-05 9:33 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-03-05 16:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-06 9:05 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-03-06 14:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-07 7:02 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-03-07 9:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-08 7:19 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-03-08 11:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-08 17:00 ` Simon Wright
2019-03-08 17:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-05 7:18 ` G. B.
2019-03-05 9:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-05 9:51 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-03-05 16:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-06 22:02 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-03-05 17:55 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-03-05 21:06 ` Simon Wright
2019-03-06 7:26 ` G. B.
2019-03-06 8:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-06 12:04 ` Simon Wright
2019-03-07 7:35 ` G. B.
2019-03-07 9:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-06 9:17 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-03-08 22:45 ` russ lyttle
2019-03-09 8:16 ` Simon Wright
2019-03-09 8:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-09 18:47 ` russ lyttle
2019-03-09 20:06 ` G.B.
2019-03-09 20:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-09 18:34 ` russ lyttle
2019-03-09 19:28 ` Simon Wright
2019-03-10 21:13 ` lyttlec
2019-03-11 8:56 ` Simon Wright
2019-03-11 14:27 ` russ lyttle
2019-03-11 17:01 ` Simon Wright
2019-03-11 21:55 ` russ lyttle
2019-03-05 11:59 ` russ lyttle
2019-03-05 18:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-06 2:01 ` lyttlec
2019-03-06 8:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2019-02-26 15:54 ` Simon Wright
2019-02-26 21:43 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-02-26 22:45 ` Simon Wright
2019-02-27 8:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-02-27 20:55 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-02-27 21:26 ` Simon Wright
2019-02-27 22:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-02-27 11:04 ` Jesper Quorning
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