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fedor writes "Software fashions come and go, but they always claim a few victims on the way. Where there's fashion, you'll find that rather weak willed person who is the Stupid Fashion Victim (or the SFV for short).
This great article from Software Reality is all about fashion in software. Do you all remember WAP? In a couple of years some of the current 'technologies' will be gone too. The article mentions VB.NET, struts and XP as current fashion..."
Actually, I always suspect an idea is bad when Sun Microsystems has an entire Java-One conference based on it.
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
That girl in the school girl uniform is pretty scarey!
Whats next? A front page story post with the goatse guy?
We regret to inform our readers that the column, formerly titled "Soapbox" will appear under a different name after the girl on the left ate the entire soapbox.
"as demonstrated by Britney, our sexy young model over on the left"
That's my mother you insensitive clod.
Clippy the paperclip told me so.
Yeah, when I am at the point where I need a bunch of sniveling little greasy acne-infested long-haired bed-wetting hand-wringing dweebs telling me about fashion, *I* will let *YOU* know, mmmkay?
Now get this garbage off my screen
I read about this 5 seconds ago! Can't slashdot post cutting edge news?
Sir, you are not authorized to post here if you read the article.
I have to ask you to leave. Thank you for your cooperation.
What? No mention of UML?? Together with Design Patterns, these two are making my fellow software engineers less intelligible by the minute!
-3Suns
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The Revolution will be Slashdotted
Technology X = Money/Success/Silver Bullet
Illegal division by zero at line 1.
.NET is more like a cold than a fashion. After a while, it will just go away and everyone will feel better that it is gone.
Makes you wonder if there is some hidden insight in calling the Linux version 'Mono'.
I've dirtied my hands writing poetry, for the sake of seduction; that is, for the sake of a useful cause. --Dostoevsky
writing applications using .NET, C# and SQL server
Is as fashionable as putting your genitals in a blender, but a lot more painfull.
(once you learn what "sz" "lp", "pI" and so on stands for)
I'm not sure about "sz", but an "lp" is what I used to put on my parent's stereo, and a "pI" is what you hire when your wife starts wearing six inch stilletto heels when she goes to visit her "friend".
# (/.);;
- : float -> float -> float =
True story:
The first time I saw Hungarian notation, I didn't know what it was. I wondered why anyone would name variables svStrVar or have type HWND. My initial reaction was that it looked like it was written in Hungarian or something. (Not that I know Hungarian...)
I laughed rather hard when I found out what the name of that notation was.
I don't know, we just tiger teamed on this same paradigm at a standup meeting, and frankly most of their suggestions violate ISO 9000 and show no facility for CMI. Perhaps if they'd used a quality circle to better evaluate their stance, they'd actually have action items that would be meaningful.
Fortunately, we here in the business world don't have the same 'fashion trends' problem you software blokes seem to suffer.
A.
You mean my micro-horse was just a waste of money?
anyways, here is a cool page I found.I'll be glad when memetics is out of fashion. I'm sick of hearing about it.
Nothing against you personally, but memetic arguments always seem to come off as 1. pretentious 2. absolving oneself of personal responsability 3. a "I have a hammer so everything is a nail" approach. In this case, the hammer is genetics, evolution, and an overblown analogy.
Now, if memetics proves to be a viral idea, does that invalidate memetics or prove it? Quite a paradox, eh? I suppose it's entirely possible for memetics to be valid; it's just that it may not be valid for people to think about it!
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
I read that book a while back. Don't worry, you'll stop seeing memes everywhere soon. Or at least, you'll be able to fight the desire to post about them once your immune system kicks in.
The worst conflict I ever had with a sysadmin was when I was doing Perl for a small company in New Jersey. They had a development group in Manhattan which used VB 6 extensively. Some idiot in that group floated a suggestion that ALL programming at the company use Hungarian Notation. So this sysadmin informs me that as a matter of policy, from now on all of my Perl variables will use Hungarian notation.
;)
But, I pointed out, in Perl a variable's type depends on context.
"Huh?" He asked.
"Ok, I read in a number as a string. Then I use it as a number. Then I format it using a regexp. Then I print it as a string. What is it, a number, or a string?
"Use two variables, one integer with an "i" prefix and one string with an "str" prefix." he said.
"Well, now that you're using double the memory to perform the same task, let's consider. How will this scale when we've got thousands, or tens of thousands, of hits?" (this was going to be a CGI app). I crossed my arms and waited.
"Doesn't matter. Use Hungarian Notation. It'll make it easier to read your code."
"But it's fucking stupid."
"No it's not! DO IT!" (and so on, ad infinitum).
I called a friend of mine, who had taught me a lot of my Perl knowledge, and I asked him, point blank, what he thought of all this.
"Your sysadmin's a re-re." He said.
"A what?" I asked.
"A re-re. A retard. Freshen your resume."
And, so I did...
Farewell! It's been a fine buncha years!
Yikes! I can't imagine that screen size is useful unless you're into midget sex.
I get better resolution out of the memories of pr0n in my head than you probably get on that damn phone.
Besides, who's holding the phone for you while you're...umm...
Shame on Google.