Knowing about web architectures isn't evidence of tech knowledge either (other than knowledge about web architecture).
Point well taken; There's lots of tech other than web tech or Java tech. But a low UID simply means you've been here a while; one can't infer from the fact that my UID misses being four digits by less than 200 that I should be expert in web tech or Java.
When modern-ish radio was first becoming commercialized, the belief was that programming had to be "local local local!" in order to generate any viewership...
You'd think to generate any viewership it would have to be "television television television".
We need one less programming language, that's for certain. OK...pick either VB or PHP to hit the dumper. And then everybody who think's he's a programmer who knows only the one that gets GCed.
I miss the early Byte magazine. Later Byte was just another trade rag.
That's true enough. But back in the days of the Robert Tinney covers, or even earlier when it was still thin enough to be stapled.
I remeber the first time I saw a copy of Byte...it was in the hands of another geek at the MITS Mobile Computer Caravan...Micheal Hunter was touring an Altair 8800 and a Teletype around the country in an RV.
The value of whiteboards can't be overstated, and on-line reference material is very helpful, but we don't all have multiple 36" monitors, and as Bob ("Mr. Visibone") Stein points out, "The easiest thing to find in your office will always be your wall".
If you're going to publicly pick on someone's phrases you should really offer the correct examples, too. Bullcrap. If he cares, he can RTFM and look up the correct usage. Or wait around for some twit to spoonfeed him, that works too.
I've been developing web apps for two years in a Fortune 500 company. I've run the gambit. ASPs, JSPs, Weblogic, Websphere, Plum Tree, Axis, Spring/Struts, etc. Let me point out the my easily identified cons of web development... One additional downside is you have to work with illiterates who think "run the gambit" is an English idiom. They probably write things like "for all intensive purposes", too.
I'd actually pursue Morse code if I didn't think my atrocious (took a while to get that word) spelling would be a hinderance. Obviously you've never seen actual on-air Morse copy. Spelling is no more an issue on CW than it is in txting.:-) JST SND GUD CPY ES EVRYTHING WILL OK HI HI
Sounds to me like Cox is more interested in getting folks to switch from satellite to cable than they are in replacing their current DVRs with TiVos. Otherwise they'd be surveying their current customer base.
Microsoft is enhancing its Genuine Advantage program... Which lets you know what MSFTs idea of "enhancement" is. Imagine their definition of "innovation".
Contrary to the/. headline, Philadelphia did not sieze the four hard drives.
Philadelphia is a city.
Pennsylvania is a commonwealth.
Surprisingly enough, the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office works for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, not the City of Philadelphia. I know it's confusing; after all: they both start with the same letter.
If education is worthless, it's not the employers who made it so.
Oh yes it is. "My company passed up plenty of Master's Degrees" = education worthless.
Either we reward people for making the sacrifice to get a degree or there won't be any degrees. Simple choice. We're choosing, as a society, to devalue education on purpose.
Ah, society is to blame again! Damn their eyes!
"Devalue" assumes something had value to begin with. There's a difference between *making* something worthless and *recognizing* that it's worthless. Showing up in school for N years doesn't automatically create worth, although apparently it *does* create a sense of self-righteous entitlement. Hang out in a programming IRC channel sometime and catch the inanities and "'help' me with the work I didn't pay attention to in class; the text sucks because it didn't teach me anything and the prof sucks too" drivel from those "making the sacrifice" and you won't wonder why a MS CompSci and three bucks will only get you a cup of coffee.
If by "6-month consulting engagement" you meant a freelance gig, then frankly you're a bit naive believing any promise of how long it will go on.
Evidently. Of course, nothing's guaranteed anymore.
Not exactly "freelance" as such; I was W2 to a contractor who was providing staff through another contractor to the client. Right up to the day the axe fell the offical word was that the gig was solid up to the end of six months and beyond, with a good chance of gettig hired as staff. The manager I was doing work for was not happy, as they'd been feeding him the same line; evidently the writing on the wall was clear to me a bit sooner than to him.
Be that as it may, the story was that there were some "budgeting issues" (i.e. an accounting problem was uncovered; client ended up restating two years and the stock tanked), and it's over. Happy ending is that that manager liked my work enough to recommend me to a friend of his, and I'm now on staff permanently at another company with a decent salary and pretty spectacular benefits.
But we all know what "permanently" is worth when the chips are down.:-)
I think it's better to get canned before Christmas. That way, you don't rack up a shit load of credit card debt.
As long as it's before you do your shopping. I (and ten others) were notified on 12/13 that my 6-month consulting engagement that began in August and was allegedly solid at least through the end of January would be ending Christmas eve.
As for "we're laying off Oracle people, not Seibel people"...it makes one wonder whether the motivation was "Let's keep the folks whose attitude hasn't been ruined yet by working for a true monstercorp."
It certainly sends the message "Work hard and make us successful so we can afford to buy your replacements."
Hope it makes things better rather than worse...
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I do hope that the devices are programmed *carefully*. Somehow I feel trepidation about devices that add or shed significant load (driers? air conditioners? water heaters?) based not on local conditions (in a thermostat or such) but responding to less local conditions on the power grid...all at once.
It's not hard to see how having a large number of installed devices all running the same or similar program could cause *instability*.
Think of programmed trades on the stock market, for example.
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Knowing about web architectures isn't evidence of tech knowledge either (other than knowledge about web architecture).
Point well taken; There's lots of tech other than web tech or Java tech. But a low UID simply means you've been here a while; one can't infer from the fact that my UID misses being four digits by less than 200 that I should be expert in web tech or Java.
But I'm a lousy counterexample.
I can't believe you have a UID that low and still don't know the difference between applets and server side Java.
Having a low UID isn't evidence of tech knowlege.
Maggie Leber CCP, SCJP, SCWCD
Don't forget Mono and Gtk# too!
Now, more than ever: forget Mono.
When modern-ish radio was first becoming commercialized, the belief was that programming had to be "local local local!" in order to generate any viewership...
You'd think to generate any viewership it would have to be "television television television".
We need one less programming language, that's for certain.
OK...pick either VB or PHP to hit the dumper. And then everybody who think's he's a programmer who knows only the one that gets GCed.
I miss the early Byte magazine. Later Byte was just another trade rag.
That's true enough. But back in the days of the Robert Tinney covers, or even earlier when it was still thin enough to be stapled.
I remeber the first time I saw a copy of Byte...it was in the hands of another geek at the MITS Mobile Computer Caravan...Micheal Hunter was touring an Altair 8800 and a Teletype around the country in an RV.
I miss Byte magazine. It was vastly better than PCMag.
There's also some very nice stuff at http://visibone.com/
The value of whiteboards can't be overstated, and on-line reference material is very helpful, but we don't all have multiple 36" monitors, and as Bob ("Mr. Visibone") Stein points out, "The easiest thing to find in your office will always be your wall".
Spore.
If you're going to publicly pick on someone's phrases you should really offer the correct examples, too.
Bullcrap. If he cares, he can RTFM and look up the correct usage.
Or wait around for some twit to spoonfeed him, that works too.
I've been developing web apps for two years in a Fortune 500 company. I've run the gambit. ASPs, JSPs, Weblogic, Websphere, Plum Tree, Axis, Spring/Struts, etc. Let me point out the my easily identified cons of web development...
One additional downside is you have to work with illiterates who think "run the gambit" is an English idiom. They probably write things like "for all intensive purposes", too.
But think of the "French benefits"...
I'd actually pursue Morse code if I didn't think my atrocious (took a while to get that word) spelling would be a hinderance. :-)
Obviously you've never seen actual on-air Morse copy. Spelling is no more an issue on CW than it is in txting.
JST SND GUD CPY ES EVRYTHING WILL OK HI HI
73 DE K3XS
Sounds to me like Cox is more interested in getting folks to switch from satellite to cable than they are in replacing their current DVRs with TiVos. Otherwise they'd be surveying their current customer base.
Microsoft is enhancing its Genuine Advantage program...
Which lets you know what MSFTs idea of "enhancement" is. Imagine their definition of "innovation".
And we all know that /. readers are all secretly dangerous psychopaths :)
Obviously untrue. Some of them aren't secret.
If they send a signal back out to Voyager now, will they be able to count it for bonus points on this year's Field Day?
Only if it answers and confirms their callsign and FD exchange.
Obviously *somebody* gives enough of a rat's ass about it to listen for it. Sorry it's above your attention-span threshold.
de Maggie K3XS
...so they surveyed twenty vendors to find out who's surveying and why?
Contrary to the /. headline, Philadelphia did not sieze the four hard drives.
Philadelphia is a city.
Pennsylvania is a commonwealth.
Surprisingly enough, the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office works for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, not the City of Philadelphia. I know it's confusing; after all: they both start with the same letter.
If by "6-month consulting engagement" you meant a freelance gig, then frankly you're a bit naive believing any promise of how long it will go on.
:-)
Evidently. Of course, nothing's guaranteed anymore.
Not exactly "freelance" as such; I was W2 to a contractor who was providing staff through another contractor to the client. Right up to the day the axe fell the offical word was that the gig was solid up to the end of six months and beyond, with a good chance of gettig hired as staff. The manager I was doing work for was not happy, as they'd been feeding him the same line; evidently the writing on the wall was clear to me a bit sooner than to him.
Be that as it may, the story was that there were some "budgeting issues" (i.e. an accounting problem was uncovered; client ended up restating two years and the stock tanked), and it's over. Happy ending is that that manager liked my work enough to recommend me to a friend of his, and I'm now on staff permanently at another company with a decent salary and pretty spectacular benefits.
But we all know what "permanently" is worth when the chips are down.
I think the "we're laying Oracle people" is more like a diplomatic and marketing message.
Sounds more like a sexual harassment message to me.
I think it's better to get canned before Christmas. That way, you don't rack up a shit load of credit card debt.
As long as it's before you do your shopping. I (and ten others) were notified on 12/13 that my 6-month consulting engagement that began in August and was allegedly solid at least through the end of January would be ending Christmas eve.
As for "we're laying off Oracle people, not Seibel people"...it makes one wonder whether the motivation was "Let's keep the folks whose attitude hasn't been ruined yet by working for a true monstercorp."
It certainly sends the message "Work hard and make us successful so we can afford to buy your replacements."
I do hope that the devices are programmed *carefully*. Somehow I feel trepidation about devices that add or shed significant load (driers? air conditioners? water heaters?) based not on local conditions (in a thermostat or such) but responding to less local conditions on the power grid...all at once.
It's not hard to see how having a large number of installed devices all running the same or similar program could cause *instability*.
Think of programmed trades on the stock market, for example.