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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.
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.
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.
Whats next? A front page story post with the goatse guy?
I've been submitting those, but for some reason, they keep getting rejected.
.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
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.
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.
She is more scary. I mean, she could EAT the goatse guy
Or, she could climb in goatse guy.
If she did both at the same time, you'd have a wicked MC Escher drawing.
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!