RE: Real World cost from the Hard Fork 2.whatever!
I understand your frustration. The reality is that the hard forks are created by steemit inc. (with help from others on github) and then it is up to the top 20 witnesses in the witness tables to choose to adopt them or not. The rest of the witnesses can run tests and have input, but ultimately their comments can be ignored. The reality here is also that most discussions about this process happen in a private way, where witnesses outside of the top 20 cannot participate.
Testing the code is a major task which requires highly developed skills and specialist knowledge, which means that only a minority of witnesses even stand a chance at being able to do it. I do have C++ experience and also experience of being a professional developer and tester - so I can do it and have pledged to try to do it in advance of the next major hard fork. The reality here is that this will take a lot of my time and I currently only just make enough money from running a witness to cover my costs - so I can only really do this at times where I have enough money to pay my bills from other things. I am currently doing what I can to get more votes to increase the amount of time I can put into this process in future.
I do understand, I consult ( www.smithlabs.us ) for a living, and have written and supervised software projects. My expertise is in EE, but I own a machine shop and a test lab. I only get called when it is hopeless. I usually farm out software, because I can do it, but I do not enjoy it.
I liked what you are doing, which is why I voted for you! I was just wanting feedback from pond scum to travel up stream. This was supposed to bring in newbies to increase the steem numbers, but it removes all the incentive for those new members. That has never made sense to me.
This hard fork has done me a lot of harm. Reading the feedback from some of the whales that included comments that bore little resemblance to the real World of steemit; shook me some. If they do NOT have a basic understanding of how it is being used; how can they affect positive change in the software?
I required me software programmers to work (shadowing) an actual user in three different cities, BEFORE any flow charts were begun! We had superior software, on every machine.
:)Thanks! I agree regarding the issues with the whales vs everyone else and have written some posts on that subject in the last couple of days. this one that touches on elitism is definitely on that topic.
I do my best to regularly shine light into what I and probably you understand to be the real world of merging software with humans and how to create a healthy balance. The more I do it, the more I feel it achieves something, but we need to understand all of the mechanics of the psychology and motives involved before truly effective changes can be created. I think a lot of people are waiting for SMTs and communities to be launched on Steem before pushing for other significant moves. That is likely to take place in the next 6 months. Steempeak.com is my replacement for steemit.com (I have given up waiting for improvements there) and I am working with that team to improve steempeak further. We just have to work with what we have and do the best we can with it!
I liked reading about your work processes. I have never heard of that level of attention to detail in the software creation process within a team (although I have seen it with independent coders who are self employed). Kudos!
It was Medical Equipment and a small company, they did NOT know there was an easier way to do it. I neglected to tell them, ROFLOL! Our launches always worked the first time, and we had some of the most expensive monitors on the market. Part of the reason was that they worked, all the time!
We saw an ESD problem in Hospitals who cleaned all the time, the standard was no damage at a single 5000 volt hit. My ESD tester would generate a 22000 volt discharge. I tasked my guys, and helped them get there, with surviving the full discharge, in multiple hits. When the hits stopped, I required that the monitor return to the monitor mode.
THAT was hard to get to, but we did it! That was the toughest monitor that money could buy! And we sold them by the thousands!
:)Excellent! I have worked with a company before who sells/makes shielding equipment for hospitals to block out all EM interference from heart monitors etc. - it's interesting to me to learn how much specialist tech is needed in hospitals just to maintain what looks relatively normal to onlookers.
Sorry, No reply because of no RC. Hospitals require zero mistakes, and make the work hard, but the rewards are large! I had a monitor to stop pressure ulcers in testing. I pulled a Lady off Hospice with the monitor. She healed up, and they moved her off of Hospice.
Socialized medicine killed that project, and half a million people by now.
Thanks for the typos on my web site, I had it proof read too, LOL! Too tired when I wrote it I guess.
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