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user Awesome stream Please consider more dedicated engagement with Reddit and BSN. Maybe 1 hour/week for answering questions?
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Beware, he is lurking...
Some devs have lurked here pretty much from the start....
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It happens in any team. Whether its media, pensions, or whatever, there are also big kinks in the work when people don't understand. It's a natural part of working life.
Something that I think some of us don't understand is this: think of the worst movie, TV show or video game you've ever experienced, and realized that if it's a big, AAA style piece of media, there are likely hundreds, if not thousands of people who spent every available hour working on it, pouring their blood, sweat, and tears into it...and it still came out bad. That's just the nature of the beast.
It's part of what annoys the hell out of me when people on here and in other places are calling the developers "lazy." I'm not saying you can't critique these guys or disagree with what they ultimately went with, but to say that these people are "lazy" implies that at best you have no idea how these development cycles work, and at worse make you look like a whiny pissbaby.
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Agreed, about the inappropriate use of "lazy". The right word(s) is "mismanaged".
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This happens in any multidisciplinary team. There is nothing invented about this.
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And you think working in NASA projects is less multi-disciplinary?... 'cause, you know, those satellites do get to their destinations.
Your analogy doesn't make any sense. Failure or sucess to put a spaceship on orbit doesn't depend only on this. And it also doesn't make you previous statement truthful.
Using your exemple, are you really going to keep saying that if you put a planetary geologist, a astrophysic and a rocket engineer on the same room they will speak the "same language"?
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And you think working in NASA projects is less multi-disciplinary?... 'cause, you know, those satellites do get to their destinations.
Your analogy doesn't make any sense. Failure or sucess to put a spaceship on orbit doesn't depend only on this. And it also doesn't make you previous statement truthful.
Using your exemple, are you really going to keep saying that if you put a planetary geologist, a astrophysic and a rocket engineer on the same room they will speak the "same language"?
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If you recall, the reference is about Large Teams and multi-diciplinary input = babel like language between the teams = excuse for a poor product.
Nasa's Mars Rover (project) required the co-ordination of multi-disciplary teams as well.... including the landing, the Rover design and testing which required an understanding of the Mars surface (geologists), its approval, the battery power, the solar panels to charge the battery, the software to control the machine, the sampling mechanisms for geological analysis, the chemistry sensors, satellite communication for two way transmission, the QA teams...etc...etc...etc.... Frankly, the number of teams and total number of people (and IQs) is staggering.
So, yes, I'm saying there is no excuse for a mediocre product when you employ large multi-disciplinary teams. It can be done and NASA projects is a perfect example... like walking on the moon.
In this case, management is to blame for a number of reasons... be it money, time, resources, design decisions, focus, project reviews, assigning qualified personnel and so on. In other words, employing multi-disciplinary teams is not an excuse. Well, that's my view.... having worked in and managed large projects.... a.k.a cutting corners in projects is a well established management practice = building/bridges collapsing, shoddy construction...................
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Science. Military really doesn't make much sense considering the AI objectives for a peaceful scientific exploration and colonization effort.
Besides what diference can few dozen grunts do when the biggest weapons the Initiative brought are those 60mm mass acelerator turrets or Trident starfighters? Just install a few more turrets or put fighters patrolling to protect the outposts.