Boeing, Airbus executives urge delay in U.S. 5G wireless deployment

Re:Boeing, Airbus executives urge delay in U.S. 5G wireless ... by jiggawatts on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @06:31PM (#29643432)

I'm on a project with 3 developers and 5(!) project mismanagers. The developers have laptops with 8 GB of RAM, which has to swap 4 GB to disk if they simply open their IDE. When they type or click things, it's like a slide-show.

I raised this with the PMs repeatedly as a significant project risk. Oh... we can't do anything about that they chorused. That's a different department, that's a different budget, etc, etc... Excuse after excuse.

The PM salaries sum to about $1M per annum, but 3 laptops are just too hard for them to organise. Too hard. Can't be done. Just stop asking. Shh. We're busy.

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Re:Boeing, Airbus executives urge delay in U.S. 5G wireless ... by john_moscow on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @06:52PM (#29643601)

Sounds like one of these companies that just got some investor money, hired friends of friends, and are enjoying the ride. There are exactly zero reasons to try and save the sinking ship. If you succeed, they will just hire more buddies over your head. If they fail, you will be scapegoated.

I would say, be nice and polite, take your time learning whatever tech you need to get a better job, prepare for interviews, get an offer, shake hands and move on...

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Re:Boeing, Airbus executives urge delay in U.S. 5G wireless ... by JPKab on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @07:00PM (#29643690)

Are you at a large corporation? A government agency? Just curious about what kind of project has more managers than developers. That's an amazing level of waste and incompetence to allow that to even happen.

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Re:Boeing, Airbus executives urge delay in U.S. 5G wireless ... by jiggawatts on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @01:57AM (#29646295)

It’s a large org, but I’ve seen the same kind of attitude even at small companies.

I once had to do development on a 640x480 resolution screen because those fancy large monitors are “too expensive”. That place had less than 30 staff.

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Re:Boeing, Airbus executives urge delay in U.S. 5G wireless ... by garyfirestorm on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @06:38PM (#29643487)

yeah i buy my own ram lol (for my work laptop) that 100$ will save me years of stress if anything remotely looks like slideshow when it isnt supposed to

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Re:Boeing, Airbus executives urge delay in U.S. 5G wireless ... by onphonenow on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @06:32PM (#29643443)

As we see here, it's much easier to criticize then to build.

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