I've been thinking that business areas could make use of a person that would be the equivalent of a "tools developer". There seems to be a gap between what can (or should) be done with excel/access and what requires a full blown development team.
As far as the post saying anything that uses VBA should instead being using a dbms and real language, I can only laugh. The subject matter experts need the freedom to work and do their job, which is to be experts.
Now if one of those spreadsheets grows to the point where it solidifies into a regular working system, that is when it should be viewed for replacement. For the most part though, these spreadsheets are continuous works in progress that are capturing and honing the business rules.
Excel with VBA allows the power user to explore different avenues of thought. Doing that with a full development team would just be a nightmare.
Basically while you're working on it, not when you're working with it. You'd be interested in using a set of known "randoms" so that you can test that same set for accuracy against something else.
Of course, this kind of complaint seems fairly weak to me, since you have a whole spreadsheet at your fingertips. You could just capture a whole lot of the numbers onto one sheet and use those over and over as input instead.
I certainly understand that my employers send me this information. But it would be nice to be able to check that everyone is on the same page.
I had an employer make a few payments to me as a contractor when they paid me as an employee the entire rest of the year. This was not noticed until a couple years later and my "contract" money had no taxes paid.
If I'd received a statement from the IRS with two line items from the same company I'd have surely gotten my taxes right and avoided about $800 in interst.
There are also a few people out there that are victims of identity theft where their ssn's get used and reported.
The information is there, my question is why can't I get at it directly? Isn't it reasonable to expect the IRS to tell me what they expect of me in concrete terms?
They'd never accept the liability for doing the returns.
We're left with all the intrusions and none of the benefits.
Am I the only one that wishes the IRS would sent me a summary of what has been reported to them? At least that way I could reconcile *before* signing my name to something.
But you also pay $0 to MicroSoft to insure you against bad things happening to your computer/network.
The only thing you pay for with MS is basically that it will install an OS on your system. Read the EULA, they don't guarantee much else, and they certainly take no responsibility for things going wrong.
I went back to college after taking a few years off. I was amazed at the number of women using men they didn't even know to move their furniture. Women that would otherwise not have anything to do with these guys would just smile and ask, and it would be done.
In this case the smaller company Comcast is willing to offer shares of Comcast stock in exchange for Disney stock. There will be some exhange rate set. Comcast will just be creating those shares out of thin air. At the end of the exchange the new and old shares will be backed by the combined assets of both the Comcast and Disney properties.
Comcast can't offer too many shares of Comcast or else they dilute their current shareholder's values too much. Likewise they can't offer too little or the Disney shareholders would end up with less value overall.
When two companies combine like this, you'll usually see one stock price go up and one go down based upon the perception of which company this is truly a good deal for.
Tribes 2 can be had for $10 right now (a re-release). I've found the Tribes players to be a bit more mature.
I'd also suggest trying out the Planetside demo (7 or 30 days free, depending).
Both games allow for slower more heavily armored, heavier hitting classes. These are good for the newbie as they'll last a bit longer and have more opportunity to learn the game.
I like planetside because it can be played with a mind for tactics, rewarding fire and maneuver more than a typical FPS.
Don't give up hope. There are lots of companies where the superior may be considered a Unix system, but the majority of support is still MS stuff just because that majority of people are in sales/marketing/management/wherever.
Getting help learning Lisp is difficult for someone learning on their own. With no Lisp knowledge, it's hard to pick the right platform.
For just learning Lisp, the path I took was: 1. customizing a.emacs file 2. customizing emacs packages 3. writing my own emacs packages
Most of my learning involved looking at someone else's code and trying to figure out how they did something. It's one thing to learn how a java feature like try/catch works by example, but trying to learn Lisp's defmacro by example is a path to madness. For that, Paul Graham's books are essential.
The one major benefit to learning Lisp is that it can be bent to your will. This may require a change in mindset from C/Java where your spend the majority of your time conforming your will to fit the language.
Only in learning Lisp have I again relived the "aha!" that came with the learning of a first programming language.
Being very tall, I get a major blind spot from the rear view mirror. The placement and size of the mirror will exactly cover a car that is at a 4 way stop off to my right. This makes me duck at every 4-way and is quite annoying. Also, there is no use of the sun visors while I'm driving unless I feel like using the force for navigation.
A full set of radar guided missiles would probably take care of this problem but the cost has in the past been prohibitive for anything but casual driving.
To be fair, Nurses do get paid considerably more as they progress in the field. A Bachelor's is not typically the end of their education.
The starting salary for teachers is also a bit misleading. At most places it is structured so they get substantial pay increases in those first few years, the years they are most likely to drop teaching. This is bolstered by their unions which wish to reward seniority beyond anything else such as quality.
warmer/cooler are interchangeable as far as the poem goes since they have the same syllables and don't rhyme anywhere.
Your argument is shows that the poem shouldn't be needed. But a person that doesn't correlate red with warmer would have to memorize a freakin' poem instead of just memorizing the red-warmer association.
Same deal for the poem to help memorize the number of days in months. September through December are interchangeable in the poem. So it really can't help you until you memorize their position in the poem.
I'm also a programmer but my family and friends often ask me for help on problems related to email.
Personally, I'm glad someone else does the admin work. I don't care how the authentication system works as long as I can log in and get permissions where I need them. To me a GUI OS is something that opens a lot of xterms, emacs, eclipse and a browser.
Even at work, people are surprised I know very little about Access. They fail to understand that Acess isn't the database, it's a front end to the database. I write the SQL directly so I can save it away nicely for future use.
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I've been thinking that business areas could make use of a person that would be the equivalent of a "tools developer". There seems to be a gap between what can (or should) be done with excel/access and what requires a full blown development team.
As far as the post saying anything that uses VBA should instead being using a dbms and real language, I can only laugh. The subject matter experts need the freedom to work and do their job, which is to be experts.
Now if one of those spreadsheets grows to the point where it solidifies into a regular working system, that is when it should be viewed for replacement. For the most part though, these spreadsheets are continuous works in progress that are capturing and honing the business rules.
Excel with VBA allows the power user to explore different avenues of thought. Doing that with a full development team would just be a nightmare.
Basically while you're working on it, not when you're working with it. You'd be interested in using a set of known "randoms" so that you can test that same set for accuracy against something else.
Of course, this kind of complaint seems fairly weak to me, since you have a whole spreadsheet at your fingertips. You could just capture a whole lot of the numbers onto one sheet and use those over and over as input instead.
Yea, but until the Americans got involved there was no bribery in international affairs.
Then it would probably run faster and more efficiently than regular Java, thus making it incompatible.
I certainly understand that my employers send me this information. But it would be nice to be able to check that everyone is on the same page.
I had an employer make a few payments to me as a contractor when they paid me as an employee the entire rest of the year. This was not noticed until a couple years later and my "contract" money had no taxes paid.
If I'd received a statement from the IRS with two line items from the same company I'd have surely gotten my taxes right and avoided about $800 in interst.
There are also a few people out there that are victims of identity theft where their ssn's get used and reported.
The information is there, my question is why can't I get at it directly? Isn't it reasonable to expect the IRS to tell me what they expect of me in concrete terms?
but they won't.
They'd never accept the liability for doing the returns.
We're left with all the intrusions and none of the benefits.
Am I the only one that wishes the IRS would sent me a summary of what has been reported to them? At least that way I could reconcile *before* signing my name to something.
So is the decision to make Linux. It's just not a financial market.
The irony is that his article is freely available.
You may pay nothing for Linux (for example).
But you also pay $0 to MicroSoft to insure you against bad things happening to your computer/network.
The only thing you pay for with MS is basically that it will install an OS on your system. Read the EULA, they don't guarantee much else, and they certainly take no responsibility for things going wrong.
Stop watching.
I went back to college after taking a few years off. I was amazed at the number of women using men they didn't even know to move their furniture. Women that would otherwise not have anything to do with these guys would just smile and ask, and it would be done.
They were a bit miffed when I told them no.
You really should look at it like a merger.
In this case the smaller company Comcast is willing to offer shares of Comcast stock in exchange for Disney stock. There will be some exhange rate set. Comcast will just be creating those shares out of thin air. At the end of the exchange the new and old shares will be backed by the combined assets of both the Comcast and Disney properties.
Comcast can't offer too many shares of Comcast or else they dilute their current shareholder's values too much. Likewise they can't offer too little or the Disney shareholders would end up with less value overall.
When two companies combine like this, you'll usually see one stock price go up and one go down based upon the perception of which company this is truly a good deal for.
Actually, it was a lot easier to drag those two to a bar before they made it to the Oval Office.
Star Wars is dead to me.
Tribes 2 can be had for $10 right now (a re-release). I've found the Tribes players to be a bit more mature.
I'd also suggest trying out the Planetside demo (7 or 30 days free, depending).
Both games allow for slower more heavily armored, heavier hitting classes. These are good for the newbie as they'll last a bit longer and have more opportunity to learn the game.
I like planetside because it can be played with a mind for tactics, rewarding fire and maneuver more than a typical FPS.
What should I look for in hiring a lawyer? Will that type of lawyer call themselves anything?
Assume that I just moved to the area and don't have anyone to ask...
Don't give up hope. There are lots of companies where the superior may be considered a Unix system, but the majority of support is still MS stuff just because that majority of people are in sales/marketing/management/wherever.
Of course, if a company pays you hourly and then claims everything 24/7 you could always bill them for 24/7 after the fact.
Getting help learning Lisp is difficult for someone learning on their own. With no Lisp knowledge, it's hard to pick the right platform.
.emacs file
For just learning Lisp, the path I took was:
1. customizing a
2. customizing emacs packages
3. writing my own emacs packages
Most of my learning involved looking at someone else's code and trying to figure out how they did something. It's one thing to learn how a java feature like try/catch works by example, but trying to learn Lisp's defmacro by example is a path to madness. For that, Paul Graham's books are essential.
The one major benefit to learning Lisp is that it can be bent to your will. This may require a change in mindset from C/Java where your spend the majority of your time conforming your will to fit the language.
Only in learning Lisp have I again relived the "aha!" that came with the learning of a first programming language.
I, on the other hand, am hoping that MS's security works quite well for once.
Front blind spots..hehe.
Being very tall, I get a major blind spot from the rear view mirror. The placement and size of the mirror will exactly cover a car that is at a 4 way stop off to my right. This makes me duck at every 4-way and is quite annoying. Also, there is no use of the sun visors while I'm driving unless I feel like using the force for navigation.
A full set of radar guided missiles would probably take care of this problem but the cost has in the past been prohibitive for anything but casual driving.
To be fair, Nurses do get paid considerably more as they progress in the field. A Bachelor's is not typically the end of their education.
The starting salary for teachers is also a bit misleading. At most places it is structured so they get substantial pay increases in those first few years, the years they are most likely to drop teaching. This is bolstered by their unions which wish to reward seniority beyond anything else such as quality.
You can only fit one body in the trunk of a BMW.
His point is still valid though.
warmer/cooler are interchangeable as far as the poem goes since they have the same syllables and don't rhyme anywhere.
Your argument is shows that the poem shouldn't be needed. But a person that doesn't correlate red with warmer would have to memorize a freakin' poem instead of just memorizing the red-warmer association.
Same deal for the poem to help memorize the number of days in months. September through December are interchangeable in the poem. So it really can't help you until you memorize their position in the poem.
Yea, but he said he was a programmer.
I'm also a programmer but my family and friends often ask me for help on problems related to email.
Personally, I'm glad someone else does the admin work. I don't care how the authentication system works as long as I can log in and get permissions where I need them. To me a GUI OS is something that opens a lot of xterms, emacs, eclipse and a browser.
Even at work, people are surprised I know very little about Access. They fail to understand that Acess isn't the database, it's a front end to the database. I write the SQL directly so I can save it away nicely for future use.