GVIrish

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by GVIrish 13y ago
Some say this is the most politically-engineered weapons system in history (along with being the most expensive). Production for the parts of this aircraft is spread over 45 states. So you can only imagine how difficult it would be to scr
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by GVIrish 13y ago
For another source on the woes bedeviling the F-35, check out this article from Vanity Fair: http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2013/09/joint-strike-figh... Some of the highlights include: -DoD skimped on req
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by GVIrish 13y ago
The USMC's requirements also kinda effed up the V-22 Osprey. Because of the space constraints for operating from amphibious carriers the rotors were undersized for the flight profile they wanted in the V-22, so they compensated by put
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by GVIrish 13y ago
I totally understand where you're coming from, typically with software projects canceling the whole thing is not the answer. However, military aircraft are a fundamentally different proposition. If the military goes forward with the J
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by GVIrish 13y ago
The Joint Strike Fighter program is a prime example of the military not learning anything from its failures in the past (like the F-111). Hell, they're not even learning from the failures they've had in the history of the JSF. If
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by GVIrish 13y ago
From what I saw in high school and college, the biggest factor in determining whether someone stayed with CS was the quality of the first class in CS. I had a kickass high school CS teacher and he got me off to a great start. In college,
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by GVIrish 13y ago
I'm not saying we need to get rid of the NSA completely, but it should be dramatically curbed and it should have a lot more independent and transparent oversight. From the get-go dragnet spying on Americans should be ended.
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For one, the United States has a ton of enemies because of dirty and mean things we have done to other countries. Maybe if we fixed our foreign policy and stopped dropping bombs on poor people there'd be less people that hate us. Tha
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by GVIrish 13y ago
1000 times this. If Snowden could do what he did and the NSA doesn't even know what he took, it is inevitable that a hostile foreign government will infiltrate the NSA. It is also highly probable that there are people in the intellig
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by GVIrish 13y ago
To me the hilarious/horrifying thing is that if these guys with access to the most powerful spying apparatus in the world would simply give their passwords to a coworker, that well and truly means we cannot trust them with access to th
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by GVIrish 13y ago
I'd be all for just paying proper salaries up front. Chances are it would be very politically difficult to lobby for raising salaries for government workers, even if pensions were eliminated but it's a good idea IMO. As I said th
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by GVIrish 13y ago
I don't think it's greed at all, if you're going into public service a lot of times you are paid less as a result but it's made up for in the benefits package. If the benefits package gets drastically reduced, then you&
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by GVIrish 13y ago
Maybe pensions are a bad idea after all, but the bigger implication of this is that it will be yet another thing that dissuades people from public service. Some may say that's a good thing, but if you keep removing benefits of public
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by GVIrish 13y ago
It is difficult to predict the future but when it comes down to it, most of the time when these pensions go belly up, it is due to significant mismanagement and incompetence. I think a big failing of government pension funds (and Social Sec
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by GVIrish 13y ago
Well, just because I can say what I want today, doesn't mean the same will be true tomorrow. We're already past the point that people are beginning to self-censor out of fear of the surveillance state. We already have indefinite
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by GVIrish 13y ago
I don't think parent was equating current times with post-WWI era Europe in the least. He was simply saying that people who inherited a challenging/dangerous geo-political landscape went on to create an unimaginably worse geo-pol
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by GVIrish 13y ago
Thing is, as an employee, yes you should be able to deal with having to spend unexpected time on something. As a job candidate, the equation is a bit different. There is no commitment from the company or the candidate to each other, and t
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by GVIrish 13y ago
Say what you will about the guy's tone (impressions may vary), but I don't think the guy was being unreasonable about the heart of the matter. > Secondly, the fact he refuses to pair program with a developer on the existing cod
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by GVIrish 13y ago
In a nutshell, he has described one of the fundamental problems of the gaming industry. Companies know people want to work in games so badly that they can pay them low wages and work them to the bone. In some cases, people are laid off as
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by GVIrish 13y ago
The problem is that the more these assaults on freedom are allowed to persist, the more likely it is to come to your door step. Maybe now you're more likely to experience hardship at the hands of a corporation, but if we continue down
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by GVIrish 13y ago
Well that didn't take long. First it was about porn, now the naked power grab begins. Who gets to define 'extremism'? Will information that Snowden leaked now be deemed extremist material? It seems only natural that the n
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by GVIrish 13y ago
I propose a meeting budget. Each manager gets a meeting budget of X minutes per week. Once you're out of budget, no more meetings, unless you want to purchase more minutes with real cash. That cash pays whoever you invited to your m
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by GVIrish 13y ago
Definitely do serious recon on what type of connectivity you will have wherever you're going. I did a month in Europe a couple of years and I was caught off guard by how much of a crapshoot internet access was. Luckily I was not remo
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by GVIrish 13y ago
I think what you encountered is a different type of trap, the trap of the talented jerk. The guy/gal who is brilliant, so they're allowed to get away with a crappy and/or irrational attitude. Sometimes this works out well,
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by GVIrish 13y ago
I hope this is a watershed moment for government IT. There have been bigger government IT failures before (IRS modernization - 12 years, $3.7 billion) but never before has a government IT project failure jeopardized the success of a major
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by GVIrish 13y ago
I don't know the specifics of the Washington healthcare exchange, but I can tell you right now, the healthcare.gov didn't fail because they chose contractors to do the job, they failed because of extremely incompetent management o
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by GVIrish 13y ago
There was a foreignpolicy.com article on HN recently that boils it down succintly. Snowden's disclosures severely damaged the American advantage of hypocrisy. By being able to publicly take the high ground on an issue, while covertly
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by GVIrish 13y ago
And while I don't think you were addressing this, millions will lose their now outlawed plans on January 1. I see this as a huge impending disaster that could turn public sentiment against ACA to the point that it does get repealed.
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by GVIrish 13y ago
It's a bit ridiculous to accuse Kool Aid drinking when you haven't provided any evidence that the White House directly ordered NPS to close parks and monuments. It certainly is possible, but where is the proof? Even an off-the-r
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by GVIrish 13y ago
In this case I'm not blaming underlings, I'm just saying that there is no verifiable evidence that the White House ordered park and monument closings. The head of the National Parks Service could have made a decision to keep thin

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