I was never “good enough” for my parents. Always short of this, or short of that. So, of course, I got to think that I wasn’t that good
On the first serious, full-time job I had, where I was the first guy hired by that startup, I was pretty amazed to see many people hired after me getting fired not too long after, until I was poached by one of their clients So I guess I'm not that bad, after all
(And the startup closed after one of the owners went to jail for selling nuclear technology to some exotic country full of good-looking, nice brown people who make very good food).
It’s not exactly what you mean, but it reminds me at a place I worked with, as a senior programmer, who would make you do some menial, stupid job like program EPROMs for half a day (this was before the Internet, so you could not occupy your idle mind while the burner churned around). And when we complained, the most infuriated is that the boss replied “don’t complain, you’re paid four times the normal rate for doing that”
I don’t trust Wordpress and their ilk. Many moons ago, a static website I was maintaining suddenly had some strange PHP code at the beginning of each file.
Turns out the server was compromised, and they changed every Wordpress site into a zombiebot. But since I did not use Wordpress, it was totally inert.
I eventually was forced out by some cougar honcho with her pet autistic kid/programmer who only swore though CMS, despite my warnings of vulnerabilities
It did not take 6 months to have their “new, improved” website pwn3d
rendered code unreadable and bug-prone by optimizing sections that had no business being optimized in the first place. It took time to learn that good programming is clear, easy to understand programming, with optimization done by first identifying a problem, profiling the code to see what's actually consuming cycles, and focusing on the low-hanging fruit therein.
— sigh —
35 years ago, when I started programming, my pro programming mentor told me exactly that.
I have a high-end camera, which you can program to put your pictures in different folders (you can increment the folder number with a very simple 3 button press operation), which is extremely handy to classify photos.
Another feature restricts playback to a single folder, rather than all the folders in chronological order.
It became very handy when I was abusively threatened with arrest unless I deleted the pictures I took of an abusive train ticket inspector...
Afterwards, I climbed the few stories to the transit authority headquarters to lodge a complaint against that inspector, who eventually got fired...
Let’s just overload the system. Let’s have an application that requests 10 random websites every minute (but cut the connection as soon as 10 bytes come in, so to save bandwidth), 24/7. With 14,400 websites per day per user, the logs will quickly overflow, and it will become more arduous to snoop on people. Better yet, le 10% of those websites be questionable websites; when everyone is guilty of browsing questionable websites, no one is guilty of it.
Get a program that will load a thousand random websites every hour. When millions of subscribers will each load 24000 websites every day, the storage will quickly overflow, and if the ISPs feel the pain, they are better placed than John Q. Public to effect pressure on the government.
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Thanks to everyone who took the time to suggest their ideas. — OP
I’ve been thinking about a “tilt” switch for servers; as soon as you move the server, bang! it shuts down at once.
Just go to Subway!
I outlasted him in the company.
I was never “good enough” for my parents. Always short of this, or short of that. So, of course, I got to think that I wasn’t that good
On the first serious, full-time job I had, where I was the first guy hired by that startup, I was pretty amazed to see many people hired after me getting fired not too long after, until I was poached by one of their clients So I guess I'm not that bad, after all
(And the startup closed after one of the owners went to jail for selling nuclear technology to some exotic country full of good-looking, nice brown people who make very good food).
It’s not exactly what you mean, but it reminds me at a place I worked with, as a senior programmer, who would make you do some menial, stupid job like program EPROMs for half a day (this was before the Internet, so you could not occupy your idle mind while the burner churned around). And when we complained, the most infuriated is that the boss replied “don’t complain, you’re paid four times the normal rate for doing that”
Were those bodies infected with the plague, syphillis or cholera?
Had me fired that day because I would not let him into a server room without a badge.
I am sure you will love this story
My boss was out, so the founder told me to go to a client’s and bring back their dot-matrix printer (this was long ago) so we can fix it.
So I head to the client’s, 50 km away. Over there, I look at the printer, and diagnosed the problem and fixed it in 10 seconds.
I then test it, show it to the client, who is totally thrilled.
I go back to the office.
— Where is the printer, the big (but not mine) boss asks?
— Oh, I fixed it over there, to the customer’s satisfaction.
— What? I told him we would bring the printer here! Now he’s going to think we can’t keep our word!
And this is the story of when I stopped giving a shit about my job.
When the company folded 2 months later, I did not give a shit either. And I was glad to no longer having a 3 hour commute.
’cause it stands in the way of fat executive bonuses, and those guys already have a closed office.
It’s kinda hard when the “tried ant true” (cough, PHP, cough) is one of the most unprofessionnal language there is
I don’t trust Wordpress and their ilk. Many moons ago, a static website I was maintaining suddenly had some strange PHP code at the beginning of each file.
Turns out the server was compromised, and they changed every Wordpress site into a zombiebot. But since I did not use Wordpress, it was totally inert.
I eventually was forced out by some cougar honcho with her pet autistic kid/programmer who only swore though CMS, despite my warnings of vulnerabilities
It did not take 6 months to have their “new, improved” website pwn3d
rendered code unreadable and bug-prone by optimizing sections that had no business being optimized in the first place. It took time to learn that good programming is clear, easy to understand programming, with optimization done by first identifying a problem, profiling the code to see what's actually consuming cycles, and focusing on the low-hanging fruit therein.
— sigh —
35 years ago, when I started programming, my pro programming mentor told me exactly that.
Moof!
Soldiers often phone their mothers to complain about their commanders Who then have to endure the wrath of jewish mothers!!!
What is more telling is that it took for some white people to be infected to start research into making a vaccine
France is not a federation; it’s an unitary state
Another feature restricts playback to a single folder, rather than all the folders in chronological order.
It became very handy when I was abusively threatened with arrest unless I deleted the pictures I took of an abusive train ticket inspector...
Afterwards, I climbed the few stories to the transit authority headquarters to lodge a complaint against that inspector, who eventually got fired...
I picked it up again some 5 years ago, and the pseudo-assembly code totally turned me off
If anyone can read Chinese I think there's more information here, including the manager's name.
http://www.1point3acres.com/bbs/thread-213784-1-1.html
Mohammed Alabsi
And gives you terrific legs, too!
So would a video camera in every room of every house, but there's a reason we don't do that.
That would be double plus good!
Let’s just overload the system. Let’s have an application that requests 10 random websites every minute (but cut the connection as soon as 10 bytes come in, so to save bandwidth), 24/7. With 14,400 websites per day per user, the logs will quickly overflow, and it will become more arduous to snoop on people. Better yet, le 10% of those websites be questionable websites; when everyone is guilty of browsing questionable websites, no one is guilty of it.
Get a program that will load a thousand random websites every hour. When millions of subscribers will each load 24000 websites every day, the storage will quickly overflow, and if the ISPs feel the pain, they are better placed than John Q. Public to effect pressure on the government.
Yup. I love it when I have a problem with my tiny ISP; when I call them, it's the NOC that answers, and not a script monkey with a cute accent.