You should reread the post that you just called ignorant. He mentions that Mandrake comes compiled for the Pentium and wonders why everybody doesn't do the same thing.
I have a macros in vim for the often done edits such as javadoc comments, comment in/out of selected lines, try-catch block, etc. As for finding getter and setter, I've not bothered to create macros because I've never had much problem finding them in a second or two with a simple search, assuming I can't already remember the name because I named it well.
Like your co-workers, I'll probably give up trying to convince you soon but I thought I'd shot it for now.:)
Do the automatic try/catch blocks you've scripted catch the right exception? If my code throws a SQLException then it catches only that. If it can throw multiple exceptions, it will just catch Exception.
As for finding getters and setters, I have a preference for the nice looking method list on the left. However, that's not what I was talking about. My IDE *builds* the getter/setter for me. Just the other day I had a class that didn't do much more than store a bunch of values. After I defined it's 72 fields I needed 72 getters and 72 setters. Defining the fields took about an hour (it required a little thought) and building the getters/setters took less than a second.
Another thing I didn't metion was auto-imports. If I use a hashtable (or whatever) for the first time in that class it asks me if I want to include it in my imports at the top. It also organizes my imports nicely.
Auto-code generation is nice.
I was just giving Eclipse a chance the other day. I spent about an hour trying to get the same things working that you did. (Actually, it was me and another guy trying to import an existing app).
I was just like you. I spent almost a decade using vi (sometimes emacs) as my IDE. I became so fast in vi that nothing else seemed worth my time.
Then I starting working with other sr. developers who swore by their IDEs. Things that I would suggest are a lot of work were easy for them. (Like moving a class from one package to another.) It's easy because their IDE either did it all for them or it pointed out the problems in an easy way.
Of course the debuggers are incredible. Being able to walk through code and see what happens to my variables is great. System.out.println is a joke is comparision.
Now I can wrap things in try/catch/finally in.25 seconds, I can build a getter and a setter for a private var in the same amount of time.
My "beef" against IDEs was that they robbed me of a chance to learn. I felt like they wrote the code for me. That's no longer true. I good IDE will match your braces, wrap code in try/catch, create shortcuts for phrases, (do all the "physical labor") but it won't take away the real coding.
I like IDEA but there are a lot of IDEs that beat vi (according to me).
In case you haven't read enough to figure it out yet I'll tell you.
What he did was "inflate earnings" by nearly $4b. This is normally using a couple of methods.
1. They can ignore expenses or report them in a way that doesn't count against profits. 2. They can inflate revenue by using tomorrow's sales in today's profits.
I haven't seen exactly what they did yet, maybe it's a combination of both. Either way, nobody took the money in cash, they just lied about the company's profits.
Vanguard
PS I used to feel "a little" sorry for Anderson, the accounting firm. Now it seems like looking the other way was part of their corporate culture. I'm glad they're going out of business now.
While this article isn't too bad I've been seeing an alarming amount of press regarding how bad software is. I read arguments comparing software to cars or roads.
<idiot>I built a wooden box to hold a kitchen trashcan last weekend. That box is completly bug-free. Why can't windows be like my wooden box?</idiot> Well, writing windows is harder.
The bottom line is that unless people are ready to wait longer for software and pay more for it you're going to get unpredicable levels of defects. Even if you are willing to wait, you're going to get defects anyway. Writing software is simply hard to do.
I am guessing this is a joke (why buy the cow when the milk is free) but just in case I'll respond.
Getting these people on the payroll will get talented people who are already "up to speed" working full time on the system instead of part time. Also, you'll be able to direct what they work on. Maybe Tivo would benefit from their next hack instead simply not being harmed by it.
The new Series 2 TiVos have been changed so that you can't make hacks (like TiVoweb, telnet access and FTP) that are persistant across reboots.
This doesn't get enough attention. All the Tivo kool-aid drinkers praise the company for letting them hack at the boxes while the company turns around and tries to remove the ability to do so.
I have a series II and I've become really bummed about the inability to hack at the machine. It's a nice appliance but it was all the hacks that inspired me to buy it.
Well, I don't know what you're running into but I wonder if you're looking for somebody who can do what has taken you years (?) to learn? It's going to be very difficult to find somebody who is an exact copy of you because you've become custom built for your job.
Hopefully, you'll find somebody who can learn and fit in as well as you have.
You're totally correct, I made an assuption that these people had fairly news cars because they liked them. It is possible that both of their old cars wore out at the same time. However, my best guess is that they are spending to much.
Hehe, it's funny that you pointed out the Focus. I have one. At the time (March of 2000) the news was that it's a huge hit in Europe. It's been such a success that they cancelled the Escort. And finally, it's not that expensive. I bought mine for about $12k.
It's been pretty reliable for me but it has had a lot of recalls (5 I think). The lesson I'm taking away from the purchase is not to buy a car the first year it's out. I'll be keeping the car until it's worn out. My last car had 200k miles before I sold it for $500.
Well, I've been through periods where I've been fairly well off (earning aroun $100k) and times when I've been pretty darn poor ($17k and living in low income housing). I can say without any doubt that I'm happier now because of my money.
My neighbors aren't dangerous and my life is a little smoother. I can enjoy small treats when I want them without feeling guilt. (I like being about to afford orange juice.) The fact is eating well, having fun toys, and not struggling to get by does make me happy.
Now, I'm not totally immune to consumerism. I have a tivo (which I enjoy) and I just payed $200 for a ticket to the Stanley cup. I sat right behind 9 hall of famers. That made me happy too. (I'm a big hockey fan and player)
So, money isn't the only key to happiness but it sure does help.
Did anybody check out the slide show the detailed where people where putting their money in different areas of the country?
The car payments are crazy. It seems like people across all the economic stratas are spending way to much on cars. People with no money are paying $800 or more every month on their cars (sometimes more than one car). It's a far better idea to keep your cars until they are worn out and to put as much down as you can (unless you have a great loan rate).
Anyway, don't blow all your money on cars when your family is struggling to make ends meet. You have more important things to buy.
Before the remote control ads were sometimes downright painful. I remember commercials for headache medicine that emphasized the pounding and pounding and pounding.
Nowadays, commercials need to be funny or at least a little entertaining to keep your attention or you'll change the channel. They need will be even better in the PVR era. You can't hold technology back. They may have stopped napster but did they stop file sharing?
You're right. However, that's why I think an open source effort will rule the pvr market for technically aware users.
An open source project wouldn't concern themselves with the DCMA or network partnerships. They don't need advertisers and they don't need to make money. They just build functionality that they want.
I'm probably coming off as a jerk but sometimes I wonder if a few of these movie reviews are just for the purpose of making his entertainment expenses legal tax deductions.
Now, I don't think about that for every review. The star wars stuff is legitimate "News for Nerds". However, stuff like this has me wondering if he wanted to write of his dvd player? Why did we get his tivo review? Why did we get his mp3 player review? Is this "news for nerds" or for his 1040?
I can see how scrolling is poorly done with voice. However, you're example doesn't work for me either. I almost always google on something that I wouldn't want to say.
(For example, this is my most recent google search: turbine javax.servlet.ServletException: Wrapper cannot find servlet class)
I can't think of anything I would prefer say over type when I'm using my computer. As a matter of fact, when I talk to people at work I like to have an IM window open too so that I can give certain messages to them without saying it.
I've always thought that java was the key to helping linux gain popularity. Java tools like IntelliJ's IDEA (my favorite IDE) run nice on windows, linux, and my mac.
I see cross platform apps written in java as one of the keys to msft's demise. Java is getting better at GUI with every release. If you think it sucks my guess is that you haven't played with the most current stuff. It's getting great. I love it.
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That's interesting. I can tell you that from my experience the Radio Shack stuff is nicer than the things I've bought from X10 directly. The switches have a nicer feel.
I wonder if the information you have is false, out of date, or if they give their higher quality stuff to Radio Shack (which seems odd).
Again, can tell you with confidence that the Radio Shack parts are nicer.
They have this in my area (RTP, NC) too. It's fairly well known that unless you're actually innocent, you can't get out of it.
You need to prove that you weren't driving, it wasn't actually your car, etc.
One nice thing about the system is that if you're caught with the cameras, it's not treated like a moving violation. You don't get any points on your record and your insurance isn't impacted.
The system doesn't bother me. It only catches guilty people, it's less fallible than the police, and it provides more money to the local gov. (I like our local gov). And most importantly, it makes the street safer. Let's not forget that running red lights kills people. Punishing the guys that do that is a good thing.
I have no problem against using prebuilt infrared detectors, prebuilt door contacts, and the like as long as they aren't X-10 products."
I'm guessing that you don't want to support X10 because you don't like their advertising policies. I can respect that. However, you may not know what X10 really is.
X10 is both a protocol and a company. The protocol came first and X10 the company is just one of many companies that sell goods that utilize the protocol.
If you don't want to support X10.com then you can buy parts from radio shack, smarthome.com, etc. There is nothing wrong with the X10 protocol, even though there is plently wrong with one of the companies that sell X10 goods.
To avoid all X10 products is just like avoiding tcp/ip because you don't like Lynksys.
I have a friend who argues that life is backwards.
That would be cool if life was switched around. You would start off frail and weak and get stronger every year until around 18 or 20. Then life would get more and more fun as people start to care for your and your responsibilities reduce.
Finally, you would become and infant and instead of dieing a painful death, life would end with an orgasm.
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You should reread the post that you just called ignorant. He mentions that Mandrake comes compiled for the Pentium and wonders why everybody doesn't do the same thing.
I have a macros in vim for the often done edits such as javadoc comments, comment in/out of selected lines, try-catch block, etc. As for finding getter and setter, I've not bothered to create macros because I've never had much problem finding them in a second or two with a simple search, assuming I can't already remember the name because I named it well.
:)
Like your co-workers, I'll probably give up trying to convince you soon but I thought I'd shot it for now.
Do the automatic try/catch blocks you've scripted catch the right exception? If my code throws a SQLException then it catches only that. If it can throw multiple exceptions, it will just catch Exception.
As for finding getters and setters, I have a preference for the nice looking method list on the left. However, that's not what I was talking about. My IDE *builds* the getter/setter for me. Just the other day I had a class that didn't do much more than store a bunch of values. After I defined it's 72 fields I needed 72 getters and 72 setters. Defining the fields took about an hour (it required a little thought) and building the getters/setters took less than a second.
Another thing I didn't metion was auto-imports. If I use a hashtable (or whatever) for the first time in that class it asks me if I want to include it in my imports at the top. It also organizes my imports nicely.
Auto-code generation is nice.
I was just giving Eclipse a chance the other day. I spent about an hour trying to get the same things working that you did. (Actually, it was me and another guy trying to import an existing app).
In the end, we went with IntelliJ's IDEA.
I wish I could edit my post. Here are some vi style fixes.
%s/a joke is comparision/a joke in comparison/
%s/I good IDE/A good IDE/
I was just like you. I spent almost a decade using vi (sometimes emacs) as my IDE. I became so fast in vi that nothing else seemed worth my time.
.25 seconds, I can build a getter and a setter for a private var in the same amount of time.
Then I starting working with other sr. developers who swore by their IDEs. Things that I would suggest are a lot of work were easy for them. (Like moving a class from one package to another.) It's easy because their IDE either did it all for them or it pointed out the problems in an easy way.
Of course the debuggers are incredible. Being able to walk through code and see what happens to my variables is great. System.out.println is a joke is comparision.
Now I can wrap things in try/catch/finally in
My "beef" against IDEs was that they robbed me of a chance to learn. I felt like they wrote the code for me. That's no longer true. I good IDE will match your braces, wrap code in try/catch, create shortcuts for phrases, (do all the "physical labor") but it won't take away the real coding.
I like IDEA but there are a lot of IDEs that beat vi (according to me).
In case you haven't read enough to figure it out yet I'll tell you.
What he did was "inflate earnings" by nearly $4b. This is normally using a couple of methods.
1. They can ignore expenses or report them in a way that doesn't count against profits.
2. They can inflate revenue by using tomorrow's sales in today's profits.
I haven't seen exactly what they did yet, maybe it's a combination of both. Either way, nobody took the money in cash, they just lied about the company's profits.
Vanguard
PS I used to feel "a little" sorry for Anderson, the accounting firm. Now it seems like looking the other way was part of their corporate culture. I'm glad they're going out of business now.
While this article isn't too bad I've been seeing an alarming amount of press regarding how bad software is. I read arguments comparing software to cars or roads.
<idiot>I built a wooden box to hold a kitchen trashcan last weekend. That box is completly bug-free. Why can't windows be like my wooden box?</idiot> Well, writing windows is harder.
The bottom line is that unless people are ready to wait longer for software and pay more for it you're going to get unpredicable levels of defects. Even if you are willing to wait, you're going to get defects anyway. Writing software is simply hard to do.
I am guessing this is a joke (why buy the cow when the milk is free) but just in case I'll respond.
Getting these people on the payroll will get talented people who are already "up to speed" working full time on the system instead of part time. Also, you'll be able to direct what they work on. Maybe Tivo would benefit from their next hack instead simply not being harmed by it.
The new Series 2 TiVos have been changed so that you can't make hacks (like TiVoweb, telnet access and FTP) that are persistant across reboots.
This doesn't get enough attention. All the Tivo kool-aid drinkers praise the company for letting them hack at the boxes while the company turns around and tries to remove the ability to do so.
I have a series II and I've become really bummed about the inability to hack at the machine. It's a nice appliance but it was all the hacks that inspired me to buy it.
Vanguard
Well, I don't know what you're running into but I wonder if you're looking for somebody who can do what has taken you years (?) to learn? It's going to be very difficult to find somebody who is an exact copy of you because you've become custom built for your job.
Hopefully, you'll find somebody who can learn and fit in as well as you have.
Vanguard
They actually decided that the best color was some sort of pastel. However, the pilots assured them that "real men don't fly pastel planes".
You're totally correct, I made an assuption that these people had fairly news cars because they liked them. It is possible that both of their old cars wore out at the same time. However, my best guess is that they are spending to much.
Vanguard
Hehe, it's funny that you pointed out the Focus. I have one. At the time (March of 2000) the news was that it's a huge hit in Europe. It's been such a success that they cancelled the Escort. And finally, it's not that expensive. I bought mine for about $12k.
It's been pretty reliable for me but it has had a lot of recalls (5 I think). The lesson I'm taking away from the purchase is not to buy a car the first year it's out. I'll be keeping the car until it's worn out. My last car had 200k miles before I sold it for $500.
Vanguard
Well, I've been through periods where I've been fairly well off (earning aroun $100k) and times when I've been pretty darn poor ($17k and living in low income housing). I can say without any doubt that I'm happier now because of my money.
My neighbors aren't dangerous and my life is a little smoother. I can enjoy small treats when I want them without feeling guilt. (I like being about to afford orange juice.) The fact is eating well, having fun toys, and not struggling to get by does make me happy.
Now, I'm not totally immune to consumerism. I have a tivo (which I enjoy) and I just payed $200 for a ticket to the Stanley cup. I sat right behind 9 hall of famers. That made me happy too. (I'm a big hockey fan and player)
So, money isn't the only key to happiness but it sure does help.
Vanguard
Did anybody check out the slide show the detailed where people where putting their money in different areas of the country?
The car payments are crazy. It seems like people across all the economic stratas are spending way to much on cars. People with no money are paying $800 or more every month on their cars (sometimes more than one car). It's a far better idea to keep your cars until they are worn out and to put as much down as you can (unless you have a great loan rate).
Anyway, don't blow all your money on cars when your family is struggling to make ends meet. You have more important things to buy.
Before the remote control ads were sometimes downright painful. I remember commercials for headache medicine that emphasized the pounding and pounding and pounding. Nowadays, commercials need to be funny or at least a little entertaining to keep your attention or you'll change the channel. They need will be even better in the PVR era. You can't hold technology back. They may have stopped napster but did they stop file sharing?
You're right. However, that's why I think an open source effort will rule the pvr market for technically aware users.
An open source project wouldn't concern themselves with the DCMA or network partnerships. They don't need advertisers and they don't need to make money. They just build functionality that they want.
Anyway, it's just a thought.
I'm probably coming off as a jerk but sometimes I wonder if a few of these movie reviews are just for the purpose of making his entertainment expenses legal tax deductions.
Now, I don't think about that for every review. The star wars stuff is legitimate "News for Nerds". However, stuff like this has me wondering if he wanted to write of his dvd player? Why did we get his tivo review? Why did we get his mp3 player review? Is this "news for nerds" or for his 1040?
Anyway, it's just a thought that occured to me.
Vanguard
I can see how scrolling is poorly done with voice. However, you're example doesn't work for me either. I almost always google on something that I wouldn't want to say.
(For example, this is my most recent google search: turbine javax.servlet.ServletException: Wrapper cannot find servlet class)
I can't think of anything I would prefer say over type when I'm using my computer. As a matter of fact, when I talk to people at work I like to have an IM window open too so that I can give certain messages to them without saying it.
Can you think of another example?
I've always thought that java was the key to helping linux gain popularity. Java tools like IntelliJ's IDEA (my favorite IDE) run nice on windows, linux, and my mac. I see cross platform apps written in java as one of the keys to msft's demise. Java is getting better at GUI with every release. If you think it sucks my guess is that you haven't played with the most current stuff. It's getting great. I love it. Vanguard
That's interesting. I can tell you that from my experience the Radio Shack stuff is nicer than the things I've bought from X10 directly. The switches have a nicer feel.
I wonder if the information you have is false, out of date, or if they give their higher quality stuff to Radio Shack (which seems odd).
Again, can tell you with confidence that the Radio Shack parts are nicer.
Vanguard
Improving a 40 watt light bulb by 60% would make it like a 64 watt light bulb. 500 watts? You're suggesting a 1150% improvement.
Of course, watts are a measure of consumption, not output. The entire premise of measuring light output via the bulbs power consumption is wrong.
Vanguard
They have this in my area (RTP, NC) too. It's fairly well known that unless you're actually innocent, you can't get out of it.
You need to prove that you weren't driving, it wasn't actually your car, etc.
One nice thing about the system is that if you're caught with the cameras, it's not treated like a moving violation. You don't get any points on your record and your insurance isn't impacted.
The system doesn't bother me. It only catches guilty people, it's less fallible than the police, and it provides more money to the local gov. (I like our local gov). And most importantly, it makes the street safer. Let's not forget that running red lights kills people. Punishing the guys that do that is a good thing.
Vanguard
I have no problem against using prebuilt infrared detectors, prebuilt door contacts, and the like as long as they aren't X-10 products."
I'm guessing that you don't want to support X10 because you don't like their advertising policies. I can respect that. However, you may not know what X10 really is.
X10 is both a protocol and a company. The protocol came first and X10 the company is just one of many companies that sell goods that utilize the protocol.
If you don't want to support X10.com then you can buy parts from radio shack, smarthome.com, etc. There is nothing wrong with the X10 protocol, even though there is plently wrong with one of the companies that sell X10 goods.
To avoid all X10 products is just like avoiding tcp/ip because you don't like Lynksys.
Vanguard
I have a friend who argues that life is backwards.
:)
That would be cool if life was switched around. You would start off frail and weak and get stronger every year until around 18 or 20. Then life would get more and more fun as people start to care for your and your responsibilities reduce.
Finally, you would become and infant and instead of dieing a painful death, life would end with an orgasm.
Maybe that is a better system.
Vanguard