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| Topic | So the restaurant I work at added a 3.5% surcharge because of minimum wage |
| Sahuagin 02/21/21 3:28:14 AM #10 | MICHALECOLE posted... Well, as management, Ill go ahead and assume when you say good management, you mean me.by "management" I mean money-people. people with budgets who have to answer to people who want more money in their pockets and make all their decisions based on that. IE: someone owns the business who likely sees it as a money-making-machine rather than a food-service-providing-system. if you have a budget but work to maximize service quality and value to the customer over profit margins, then yeah, that would be "good" management. --- |
| Topic | So the restaurant I work at added a 3.5% surcharge because of minimum wage |
| Sahuagin 02/21/21 3:11:36 AM #8 | your assumption is that the company's goal is to make happy customers, or to provide a quality service, or to provide good value. to management*, the company's goal is to make money, regardless of any of those other things. (* I want to say "bad" management, where theoretically "good" management *would* desire to provide quality service and make customers happy (and as an end unto themselves, not necessarily as a means to make more money). but, I'm not 100% decided on this; it's something I think about a lot lately.) --- |
| Topic | Programmers of the West Coast, I have a question |
| Sahuagin 02/21/21 3:04:52 AM #10 | GrabASnickers posted... My job does "agile" but I don't really know what it means cause I have nothing to compare it to. It certainly doesn't feel like some revolution to getting work done so I'd hate to think of how software development used to go. Though I think the technology now is really the main driver of higher flexibility, not processI'm a one man team so I don't really have any direct experience with different kinds of processes, but the main thing to achieve over "waterfall" is an iterative process. strict "waterfall" goes from requirements gathering to design and implementation without ever returning and you only really have a working system at the end. modern approaches instead iterate, always returning to requirements gathering and going through another design and implementation cycle, eternally pushing the project forward. smaller faster iterations are preferred ("agile"), always keeping the project building and running at each step. probably a lot of people code like this already anyway. it's really waterfall that is extremely unnatural. get a program that does nothing running. now add some domain objects. now write some persistence for those objects. now write some CRUD UI for some of it. at each step you have a running working valid system. think of fixing a bug report in a tracker. you start with a working project, have gathered some requirements about what needs changing (the bug report), analyze the issue and come up with a plan to fix the bug, then actually make the necessary changes, make sure the tests still pass, including any new ones, publish the changes, and start with a new bug. (I think there's a bit more to capital-A Agile than just being iterative, but that's the main important thing afaik, esp. compared to waterfall.) --- |
| Topic | Every Final Fantasy game worth playing is over 19 years old. |
| Sahuagin 02/21/21 12:41:36 AM #13 | Every Final Fantasy game worth playingI dunno... sometimes I think the only good one was FF1. which ones are the ones you're saying are worth playing? granted, I've only played 1, 4, 6, 7, 10, and a bit of 8 and 9. 6 has aged really poorly IMO. I've lost the emotional investment for some reason and everything else is not really that great. the story feels really jagged and jumps from situation to situation so quickly. and there are so many "stupid" moments. the esper system is pretty good, and the non-linearity is great, but the way the story is told is I think too archaic to enjoy any more. 7 is ok 1 at least has party customization and plays like an actual RPG 4 has some pretty memorable moments story-wise and still has remnants of the RPGness of 1, but I'd have to play it again to judge it fairly. 10 was a pretty awesome experience story-wise, and I remember enjoying the class/upgrade system, but I do not remember even an ounce of the gameplay and the last parts of the game were IIRC not even just too easy, but literally impossible to lose 8 was not fun to play, and IIRC had ridiculous things like driving a giant blue magic crystal "school" around the map 9 seemed charming but I didn't get far enough to get hooked --- |
| Topic | Chromebooks can download stuff outside an app store right? |
| Sahuagin 02/20/21 12:54:30 PM #13 | k np --- |
| Topic | Chromebooks can download stuff outside an app store right? |
| Sahuagin 02/20/21 12:39:40 PM #11 | Jen0125 posted... I'm not a CS student but I do my program virtually. I am in a different city than my college.I guess I don't know your use case then. I was imagining needing your laptop for class or something. do you not have a home PC? I guess you might be posting here off a phone or something, but you have steam and play PC games, right? I guess you just want something portable that will do the school stuff that you need? will your home PC (if you have one) not suffice until you get the one you ordered? --- |
| Topic | Chromebooks can download stuff outside an app store right? |
| Sahuagin 02/20/21 11:50:34 AM #9 | Jen0125 posted... I need to be able to download html text editing programs and FTP programs Jen0125 posted... I'm just trying to get something cheap to do homework with until that gets here. I guess I don't know, do non-CS students not have some kind of computer lab access? I know that there are special computer science specific labs, but there must be computer access somewhere for regular students as well? with blackboard and email access, etc.? --- |
| Topic | Chromebooks can download stuff outside an app store right? |
| Sahuagin 02/20/21 10:17:22 AM #5 | yeah ChromeOS will tend to just be for web applications, and saving to the cloud and that kind of thing. anything fancier than that probably requires dev mode/jailbreaking it type stuff. you can get a small windows tablet for a few hundred bucks. obviously, the less you pay, the crappier it will probably be though. (I'm not familiar with Windows 10 "S Mode"... I've had a few Windows 8 tablets for ~$350+ each and they have windows home rather than pro, but are otherwise fully functional. I can't remember if the more recent ones I bought were 8 or 10.) --- |
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