Ken Project Implementation Plan: Fill & Download for Free

At one previous job, I normally had to be in by 8 for the first year or two. This was brutal - I had a 70 mile commute (each way) through the worst of Boston area traffic. I could either leave at 530–6 and get there at 630–7, or leave at 6 and get there at 8ish. I really wanted to work there and couldn’t sell my house though, so I lived with it and showed up at 6–7. Traffic was awful in the evenings but I was single at the time so I would work until around 4–5 and then work on hobby projects until 6–7 so traffic would go down and I could get home in an hour.Management structure changed and it became acceptable to be at work by 930 or so, maybe 10 as long as I got my hours in and the work done. Which I did, because I enjoyed it. There was a company wide standup meeting at 930 that I tried to make it to, but as I mostly worked independently of the rest (one electrical engineer, many mechanical engineers) no one was really being held up if I didn’t go over my updates because honestly no one understood or cared about them as long as my stuff was done by the deadline.The economy improved and population grew. The traffic inevitably got worse, as a result. I met my wife and didn’t want to be spending all my waking hours in a car and at the office.Then a new VP was hired. Management structure changed and I was pulled aside about my late arrivals.Me: look, I really wish I could show up earlier but I’ve got a really brutal commute. I can’t sell my house. If I have to be here by 930, it means I am spending 2 hours in the morning just to get here on time MOST of the time, and I’ll have to leave 3 hours before to guarantee I always get here on time. Please don’t do this, can we just move the meeting a little later? If it is moved to 10 I can leave for work at 845 and only spend an hour and a quarter to get here instead of 2+ hours.VP: you’re going to have to make arrangements to be here for the meeting. Everyone else does it.(No one else lived 70 miles away and was stuck with that, either.)Well, I made arrangements. And by arrangements I mean I immediately began job hunting and recorded the times at which I left for work in the morning and when I arrived in case I was written up or fired for it. It was never under 2 hours and I still missed most of the meetings even leaving 2.5 hours before, at 7.I was offered a new position at another company. I took it, apologized to the VP and said I had to resign. He was shocked and told me if I needed some time to work through something that was OK, but… at which point I informed him that this was not a temporary thing and that I couldn’t be spending 2–3 hours a day just driving there in the morning and another hour driving home, so I was leaving in two weeks. I don’t know how or if they replaced me, but I hope the new engineer had a better commute.At another previous job, I was hired as a semi-remote worker. 2 days in the office (180 miles away) and 3 days working from home with another local engineer. After a few months the design for our device (a custom mechanical assembly and embedded system to steer a microwave dish mounted to an aircraft and keep it absolutely stable and on a moving target - another aircraft 100 miles away) was getting close to complete but upper management was freaking out because they had a demo with the customer planned and had nothing to show for results yet. So we were literally forced to try to reimplement the same thing in far less time using garbage CATV antenna rotators, laptops running Linux, and random junk just for the purpose of the demo, which almost sorta worked at a few miles range but had not one hope in hell of working at all past that. Since the demo did not work, upper management continued to panic and told us to immediately fix the problems with the demo. We protested and informed them that we should work on the actual product if we were going to have any chance of success because the demo was never going to ACTUALLY work and if we patched problems A-D, problems E-Q would immediately become obvious. We were told to shut up and do our jobs so we did, oh, and since this is now such an emergency, you need to work from the office 5 days a week. So we are now working from the office 5 days a week and living in hotels in NYC. Eventually the company owner decided to move the R&D facility to a really crappy neighborhood in Jersey City and rent a crummy apartment nearby to house all the employees. Seeing as I did not want to live in a crappy slave labor slum and work on a doomed project 200 miles from where I lived, I decided enough was enough after a few more indignities and quit. The company did manage to stagger along for another year or so but ended up going bankrupt without ever releasing the product in a functional condition.The sad thing is that I don’t think we were more than 2 months from having a fully functional design when we were derailed due to a pathological fixation on short term appearances of success over long term success.

I’ll present a ‘top 50’, and you can make up your own mind:Sacked for making up a quote while working as a newspaper journalist. Three times.Sacked for lying about an affair.Discussed having a journalist beaten up.Endangered a British citizen jailed in Iran, likely caused the doubling of their sentence form 5 to 10 years, and was forced in parliament to apologise.Called black people 'picaninnies'.Mocked Muslim women as 'letterboxes'.Used racist terms to describe Barack Obama.Propagated the £350m-a-week Brexit lie.Doubled down on this by stating that pledge of £350m a week was “grossly underestimated”, and claimed that leaving the EU would free up £438m for the health service (Jan 2018).Lied about Turkey joining the EU.Repeatedly ignored conflict-of-interest rules. Three times in a single year.Spent millions on the London Garden Bridge project (literally zero to show for this spending). This cost will be met by the taxpayer.Spent £300,000 on purchasing water cannon that cannot be used because they’re illegal.Spent thousands ordering a new design of London bus that became a ‘sauna on wheels’, and which required a conductor when the remainder of the infrastructure (ticketing, etc) was set up for ‘no conductor’.Called gay men 'tank-topped bum boys'.Recited a colonial-era poem in Myanmar in front of several local government big-wigs. Literally had to be physically stopped by the British Ambassador.Wrote a dirty limerick about Turkey’s President and a goat.Insulted the entire city of Liverpool.Said Africa needs its old colonial powers to come back.Claimed money spent of a child abuse investigation was 'spaffed up a wall'.Called the French ‘turds’ who ‘shafted Britain’.Compared the EU to Adolf Hitler.Proclaimed ‘fuck business’ when asked about the effect of Brexit on the UK’s economy.Said ‘fuck the families’ of the 7/7 bombings (allegedly).Branded Hillary Clinton a ‘sadistic mental health nurse’.Cosied up to a President he had previously stated was ‘unfit to rule’.Refused to back the UK Ambassador to the US.Deliberately flew out of the country to avoid a vote on Heathrow Airport, having previously stated that he would ‘lie down in front of the bulldozers’, if construction ever started.Advocated leaving the EU but suggested building a bridge across the Channel in order to remain connected.Also advocated building a bridge linking the UK to Ireland.Literally started his career writing EU myths about straight banana regulations and similar.Had to cut short a 2015 visit to Palestine due to his pro-Israel remarks (while he was Foreign Secretary).Described the people of Papua New Guinea as ‘cannibals’. While he was Foreign Secretary.Described Black American basketball players as having "arms hanging below their knees and tongues sticking out".The day before he was due to appear as an advocate against FGM, he publicly mocked the “obsession” of women aid workers on ending FGM.Cost taxpayers an estimated £323 million with a bungled Olympic Stadium conversion.Told EU leaders to, "go whistle" over the ‘divorce bill’. We gave in on Day One.Told a fellow politician to “get stuffed” when they asked him about cuts to the London Fire Service that occurred while he was Mayor.Called for Scottish people to be blocked from becoming prime minister because "government by a Scot is just not conceivable."Lied about voting in May 2019 local elections.Spent an estimated £24million on his cable car vanity project. That goes from nowhere to nowhere, and which averages a few dozen passengers per day.Can’t remember how many children he has.Has dodged questions on whether he has ever used cocaine.Took credit for the ‘Boris Bikes’ (actually planned and implemented by his predecessor Ken Livingstone).Took credit for the Olympic planning (actually planned and 90% implemented by his predecessor Ken Livingstone).Caused a diplomatic incident with Italy over his remarks (threats) about prosecco.Also made up a story about how all Italian men have small penises.Wrote two newspaper columns before the referendum - one for ‘leave’, and one for ‘remain’, and decided to publish the ‘leave’ one because it was better for his career.Claimed that the Libyan city of Sirte (destroyed in the civil war with horrendous civilian casualties) would have a bright future as a luxury resort ‘once they cleared the dead bodies away’.Talked about Whisky exports to India while in a Sikh temple (alcohol being forbidden by the Sikh faith).Lied to the Queen about the reason for Proroguing Parliament.Still, good old Boris, right. Wot a lad! Wot a larf!

The C programming language is very much alive and well and supported.If you’re referring to the infrequency of new versions of the language standard, that’s a sign of the conservative approach of the standards committee and the overall stability of the language. We have had new standards released roughly once per decade: C89/90, C99, C11. There’s nothing wrong with that picture, for a relatively stable and mature language like C.Now, if you’re referring to the extent to which a specific compiler vendor adds new features or stops adding new features to their specific C compiler implementations, the reasoning varies from vendor to vendor. For example, some microcontroller manufacturers who supply C compilers for their devices have implemented just what their customers need and no more. They likely implement everything in C89/90, but might not implement everything in C99 or later. It’s just a matter of effort (development and testing costs) weighed against how much it really benefits customers who use the compiler. They’re not going to sell more C compilers if they make the effort to add features that most of their microcontroller customers may not care about (or even know about).As another example, Microsoft’s C compiler, which is built into every release of Visual Studio, doesn’t yet implement all the C99 features. It added the C99 “mixed declarations” feature in the 2012 version, based on customer demand, but has stated it has no plans to implement additional features unless there is specific customer need. Many compiler vendors may never implement some features, because the investment in development and testing buys their customers little or no benefit. Microsoft instead focuses on their C++ compiler, which tracks that language’s standard more closely, because many more of their developer customers use C++ than C. Nevertheless, the C implementation is very usable and efficient, even if it doesn’t have all the latest bells and whistles listed in the standards. (In this situation, though, the company still fixes bugs in the C compiler. I found an reported one last year, and it was soon fixed in an update to Visual Studio. The compiler is still supported with fixes.)Even for those compiler vendors (or open source projects) that fully intend to implement every feature listed in the standards, there is sometimes a lag between arrival of the ratified standard and actual availability in the compiler. Adding features to a compiler requires a lot of time and effort, including thorough testing to make sure that none of the changes broke anything else in the compiler. Slow, methodical, and well-tested are all good things when it comes to making changes to a stable, widely-used compiler.Keep in mind that not all features added to the language standard will necessarily live forever or be implemented in all compilers. Variable-length arrays were added in C99, but many compiler vendors never implemented the feature, and in C11 the feature has been demoted to “optional.” This status reduction of the feature further reduces the chances of some vendors ever bothering to implement variable-length arrays.But none of this selective feature implementation changes the fact that C is still very much alive, well, and supported.