What the hell has happened to our government? Have they forgotten that they exist to serve us, not to use us. This is another example of how we need to stop our government from intruding so deeply into the privacy of its citizens. What are we fighting for--if we surrender our freedoms in the name of fighting that amorphous all-purpose villain, terrorism?
See? That's why Apple is killing the competition. At the top, you have this lefthanded leader Steve Jobs who is motivating his peopel to make the best. You think those cool Apple products come out of thin air? No! They're cultivated, goaded and forced into existence. I bet Bill Gates never motivated his people like this.
I must say, as a guy who bought his first Mac in the 1980's, I am so proud of Apple. They have shown how finesse and high creativity can beat raw dollars any day. They're a model for the rest of us would-be entrepreneurs.
Any companies that have not really done outsourcing will use it as a scare tactic. However, AFTER a company has actually bet the farm on outsourcing, then the fear comes from Managment. I worked for a large insurance company that outsourced a ton. Well, after those disasters came in terrible and all the code had to be thrown away because it was sloppy and hacked, it is my MANAGERs who fear outsourcing. They know they will still be required to meet their deadlines but they know that outsourcing is only useful for repetitive, idiot-proof assignments, with heavy oversight from a US developer. I no longer fear outsourcing as a competitor--just as an enemy of quality.
Well, but for beginners, the point is that they understand what's going on. You NEED them to hassle with the classpath when they try to run stuff--so they understand. Your point was that a LEARNER should not use Notepad. I disagree.
I no longer code with Notepad but I found, when teaching CS, that students were closer to the bare metal and the understanding that came with that if they used a plain vanilla text editor.
Granted, after they are past that, a good IDE like Eclipse or IntelliJ is invaluable.
Why outsourcing? Because the offshore coders are the worst sinners of all. I have been in this industry for a long time and have worked with lots and lots of offshore teams. You find the very sloppiest coders are found in offshore projects--on the Indian side. I wish it were not true but it is.
Which is why, when I taught Java, I had them code in Notepad. All of these alleged weaknesses in Java are really just signs of laziness by the professors.
Well, the primary Java textbook (I taught from it) is by the Deitels. The Deitels always start by having the students build a GUI. Well, duh, the reason you students have a hard time doing anything that does not have a gui is because their textbook taught them that way! And if these teachers were such asses that they could not stray from the textbook--whose fault is that?
I also taught Java and did explain how a Java reference is quite akin to a C/C++ pointer. Industry likes Java for the exact reason the holier-than-thou CS professors complained. Java allows developers to get a lot of work accomplished. Coding in C/C++ is much more error prone. The professors are just revealing their pedagogical arrogance.
Excuse me, but the Russians have kicked the US's ass with their space program. To think that they don't know what they're doing is assinine. They just need money and then they are good. They sent rovers to Venus and had them survive. If you cut corners, that aint gonna happen. No, it was the US who cut corners.
The hell it is European! You going to Europa on an Ariane? Not likely. This will be launched from Baikonaur using the large Energia boosters. This is 95% Russian and the Russkies deserve the credit. Anybody can make a little jacky rover to go look around. GETTING there is the problem.
Well, I must say that, again, we've seen some delightful programming coming out of the former Soviet Union. They just make great programmers there. Bravo to this guy for reverse engineering the Kindle.
Think of the source, dudes. PC magazine does not write about linux or Macs. They write about PCs--which are implicitly Windows-based. If they did not do this, they would be pissing in their own soup and Microsoft would never talk to them again.
Well, well well. For so many years the jackboots in Redmond were all for monopolies. They didn't see anything wrong with one company controlling everything. Well, now that the goose is getting as well as the gander, MS is all in arms.
Well, Microsofties, now you SEE why these laws are for the benefit of us all. Now, Microsofties, you see what it's like to be up against a behemoth that is killing you.
Well, though MS is correct mostly, they can pound sand. Suffer and like it, MS, like all of your competitors did for years.
No matter what, anything that comes out of Redmond sucks. We've seen too many examples over too many years to believe this.
Someone at MS must have blown someone at IEEE to make this possible. Or, MS just bought a bunch of companies and then claimed their patents.
You know, I have come up empty handed trying to lock down exactly what SOA is. There's a book I bought but the meaty one doesn't come out until the spring. I agree people usually think that SOA means web services but really it does not need those. It can be done with Session beans and the API pattern.
No, you're wrong. You're thinking of web services. I worked on a huge project where it was web based on intranets. No WWW involvement-ever. This was a nice design because the SOA aspect allowed us to re-use 90% of the service code. It was awesome.
Oh, hell. I worked for this lisping idiot from Venuzuela. What a nightmare. By the time I got there he had alienated so many people that I was the only remaining engineer. I lasted six months. To date, that remains my shortest and worst gig. We had a few customers and this jackass would always make me lie to the customers and say that we were 100% on their problem when we were not because we were working on other problems. Just a nightmare.
Because of that experience, I have avoided like the plague any shop that even hints of using Swing.
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What the hell has happened to our government? Have they forgotten that they exist to serve us, not to use us. This is another example of how we need to stop our government from intruding so deeply into the privacy of its citizens. What are we fighting for--if we surrender our freedoms in the name of fighting that amorphous all-purpose villain, terrorism?
See? That's why Apple is killing the competition. At the top, you have this lefthanded leader Steve Jobs who is motivating his peopel to make the best. You think those cool Apple products come out of thin air? No! They're cultivated, goaded and forced into existence. I bet Bill Gates never motivated his people like this.
I must say, as a guy who bought his first Mac in the 1980's, I am so proud of Apple. They have shown how finesse and high creativity can beat raw dollars any day. They're a model for the rest of us would-be entrepreneurs.
Well, this sounds like the opening of Star Wars. Pity it won't be a holograph.
Any companies that have not really done outsourcing will use it as a scare tactic. However, AFTER a company has actually bet the farm on outsourcing, then the fear comes from Managment. I worked for a large insurance company that outsourced a ton. Well, after those disasters came in terrible and all the code had to be thrown away because it was sloppy and hacked, it is my MANAGERs who fear outsourcing. They know they will still be required to meet their deadlines but they know that outsourcing is only useful for repetitive, idiot-proof assignments, with heavy oversight from a US developer. I no longer fear outsourcing as a competitor--just as an enemy of quality.
Well, but for beginners, the point is that they understand what's going on. You NEED them to hassle with the classpath when they try to run stuff--so they understand. Your point was that a LEARNER should not use Notepad. I disagree.
I no longer code with Notepad but I found, when teaching CS, that students were closer to the bare metal and the understanding that came with that if they used a plain vanilla text editor. Granted, after they are past that, a good IDE like Eclipse or IntelliJ is invaluable.
Why outsourcing? Because the offshore coders are the worst sinners of all. I have been in this industry for a long time and have worked with lots and lots of offshore teams. You find the very sloppiest coders are found in offshore projects--on the Indian side. I wish it were not true but it is.
Which is why, when I taught Java, I had them code in Notepad. All of these alleged weaknesses in Java are really just signs of laziness by the professors.
Well, the primary Java textbook (I taught from it) is by the Deitels. The Deitels always start by having the students build a GUI. Well, duh, the reason you students have a hard time doing anything that does not have a gui is because their textbook taught them that way! And if these teachers were such asses that they could not stray from the textbook--whose fault is that?
I also taught Java and did explain how a Java reference is quite akin to a C/C++ pointer. Industry likes Java for the exact reason the holier-than-thou CS professors complained. Java allows developers to get a lot of work accomplished. Coding in C/C++ is much more error prone. The professors are just revealing their pedagogical arrogance.
Excuse me, but the Russians have kicked the US's ass with their space program. To think that they don't know what they're doing is assinine. They just need money and then they are good. They sent rovers to Venus and had them survive. If you cut corners, that aint gonna happen. No, it was the US who cut corners.
The hell it is European! You going to Europa on an Ariane? Not likely. This will be launched from Baikonaur using the large Energia boosters. This is 95% Russian and the Russkies deserve the credit. Anybody can make a little jacky rover to go look around. GETTING there is the problem.
Well, I must say that, again, we've seen some delightful programming coming out of the former Soviet Union. They just make great programmers there. Bravo to this guy for reverse engineering the Kindle.
When you get back into Java, here's a free, ad-free site that has a pretty comprehensive set of Java/J2EE lectures: Free Java Lectures
Or better yet. Write a program to spam them with whois requests. They won't know what hit them.
Think of the source, dudes. PC magazine does not write about linux or Macs. They write about PCs--which are implicitly Windows-based. If they did not do this, they would be pissing in their own soup and Microsoft would never talk to them again.
Well, well well. For so many years the jackboots in Redmond were all for monopolies. They didn't see anything wrong with one company controlling everything. Well, now that the goose is getting as well as the gander, MS is all in arms. Well, Microsofties, now you SEE why these laws are for the benefit of us all. Now, Microsofties, you see what it's like to be up against a behemoth that is killing you. Well, though MS is correct mostly, they can pound sand. Suffer and like it, MS, like all of your competitors did for years.
No matter what, anything that comes out of Redmond sucks. We've seen too many examples over too many years to believe this. Someone at MS must have blown someone at IEEE to make this possible. Or, MS just bought a bunch of companies and then claimed their patents.
You know, I have come up empty handed trying to lock down exactly what SOA is. There's a book I bought but the meaty one doesn't come out until the spring. I agree people usually think that SOA means web services but really it does not need those. It can be done with Session beans and the API pattern.
No, you're wrong. You're thinking of web services. I worked on a huge project where it was web based on intranets. No WWW involvement-ever. This was a nice design because the SOA aspect allowed us to re-use 90% of the service code. It was awesome.
SOA is a perfectly valid solution for use within a confined web app. There is no requirement for it to use the web.
Oh, hell. I worked for this lisping idiot from Venuzuela. What a nightmare. By the time I got there he had alienated so many people that I was the only remaining engineer. I lasted six months. To date, that remains my shortest and worst gig. We had a few customers and this jackass would always make me lie to the customers and say that we were 100% on their problem when we were not because we were working on other problems. Just a nightmare. Because of that experience, I have avoided like the plague any shop that even hints of using Swing.
Finally the elected folks have woken up. This is obviously not a technology we want to base our democracy on...
The only question I have is if the same actor will be back to play Gandalf. He was awesome and I would only see it if he's in it.