Cyril Northcote Parkinson and Parkinson's Law

... of work (if any) to be done." A modern version is that no amount of computer automation will reduce the size of a bureaucracy. Historical analysis of bureaucracies such as the Australian Tax Office shows that massive software automation has not increased their real efficiency since the 1950s. Any increase in the efficiency of individual workers has...

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Мануал на русском

... включив параметр AD - авторегуляция общего звучания. Но, лучше всего, соблюдать баланс в громкости звучания используемых семплах/инструментах. Автоматизация В (6) Окне настроек выберите Track Automation: Это очень легкий и удобный способ для автоматизации эффектов, вместо набора вручную их в редакторе паттерн для каждой позиции трека. На рисунке показана работа с автоматизацией. ...

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gps on your phone

... phones GPS location? Well here they talk about how Sprint had 8 million requests from law enforcement to their "gps web page" the provide to cops. Keep in mind that if they provide a web page and allow automation, then are all these requests legal? Did a judge say ok to all 8 million of those GPS data requests? So where is the money in this? The phone companies are about money, and so who is ...

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A Whole New Mind, by Daniel H. Pink

... the need to combine both Left-brain thinking ("Lawyers, Accountants, Radiologists, Software Engineers") and right-brain thinking, to get ahead in today's world. He writes about Abundance, Asia, and Automation as the three big concepts that are changing the world, and creating the need for right-brain thinking. "To survive in this age, individuals and organizations must examine what they're doing...

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Jobs drivel.

...have met plenty of people who hate automation. People in management positions as well. ... house. As to the issue of automation being "efficient", well, first off, I ... reasons why I believe it. Anyway, automation has to be maintained, and has to..., results in a bad outcome and automation that frequently fails to successfully or ...they frequently don't. So its not automation that is killing jobs, its not ...

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Numeric Plans for Tests and Test-Count

Adam Kennedy (Alias) writes in use.perl.org about "the unfortunate demise of the plan." . I've read his post and all of the comments that were posted there up to now. I agree with Adam that a numeric test plan is usually preferable to a done_testing() one, because in one of experiences with a failing test script (in a DBI -related module), I noticed that it generated a different number of ...

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In which I swoon over automation and gripe about popular user interface models

Oh AutoHotKey, is there anything you can't do? My capslock key is now a middle mouse button and I have smooth scrolling whenever I want it despite my two-button trackball. All it took was Capslock::MButton. UI tweaks FTW! ^_^ When I first found out about 3-button mice, and that the middle button often caused it to go into smooth scrolling mode, my first thought was something between "Well...

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GRAND CENTRAL ARENA: Chapter 13

...'s head on in. Our power supply isn't getting any bigger." Fortunately even rather stupid automation was well up to the automated docking task; Ariane had done full manual docking during her ..., despite everyone from Ariane to DuQuesne pointing out that Canning's dependency on AI-support automation had been so extreme that even the best therapists would probably have to run a full ...

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GRAND CENTRAL ARENA: Chapter 12

... like an adventure going to see Grandaddy, because he had like zero automation. And his hobby was old machines. Cars, tractors, trucks, that kind ... one. I realized that there wasn't a single little bit of automation in the entire machine, and that he was doing it all by ..."Make a long story short, Grandaddy taught me to be suspicious of automation and to like risking my life, so when I found a sport ...

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The Day's Tweets

... @ alanstevens I think you mean Facebook wouldn't suck so bad if people didn't over use the stupid apps. # 09:40 Moon-Bombing a Success, Confirms Lunar Water Deposits ff.im/bZFyu # 09:41 Nasty iPhone Worm Hints at the Future ff.im/bZFNh # 10:03 The more test automation I do the more I hate the idea of having to use the debugger. # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter

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