Have you bothered to read anything about this at all? They hired two fucking accounting firms, one to look at Autonomy and the other to look at the other accounting firm. What else would you have them do?
Just an FYI...fraud is very hard to catch. Especially so when probably 99% of the accountants working on it have less than two years experience.
They hired Deloitte to look over Autonomy's numbers and then hired KPMG to look over Deloitte. So it's not like they made no attempt to look into their books.
It's not a webkit problem but a UI developer problem. The example in the OP referred to border radiuses and there's no reason you cannot simply use the 'border-radius' style in webkit browsers like Chrome. It works honky-dorey and I do it all the fucking time. That said, I think it's awesome that some developers are ignoring IE. They deserve whatever they get in this arena. Microsoft has lost any right to complain about this stuff.
And for the love of god, will they ever build decent developer tools for IE? Even with IE 10, it's like the dark ages.
First off, as someone has already pointed out, this whole situation is due to a venture capitalist arrangement ala Blain Capital style.
That aside, there are a lot of unions in the US and they don't all work the same. Some are bullies but many are not. You only ever hear about the bullies though because the moderate unions aren't considered newsworthy.
Oh please, get over yourself. They have to post it on the page, the order doesn't say it has to be displayed without scrolling. They have other things on their site that require scrolling too so it's not like this is the ONLY thing that requires scrolling to see. Also, as a customer I really don't care. I want to see what the company has to offer product-wise, not legalise crap.
I completely agree with this. I'm 47 and my code is far more maintainable and understandable to others than what I did earlier in my career. However, it's less clever. I've also learned that the aesthetics matter a lot more than most people would think.
I don't think "hard" is the right word but it more like "Coding is a pain in the ass". It's not the coding in and of itself that makes it so, it's the dealing with a legacy environment and integrating with less than well designed systems that makes things difficult and frustrating. If you're, doing greenfield development, then you don't have to worry about that stuff and it's all a bunch of fluffy white clouds but if you work in the environment that most programmers do, there are few fluffy white clouds to look at.
I hate to blow your argument out of the water but I'm 47 and I've been programming since I was 14. I was raised on text editors and used to write my own linked lists and hash tables by hand in C, from memory. So, I don't really need a lecture about the old days. Just because text editors made sense at one time, doesn't mean they do anymore. By your logic, I shouldn't bat an eye at anyone walking around with one of those old brick cellphones. We also don't hand-crank our engines to start them but I'm sure you'd make the argument that if we did, I'd be a lot more knowledgeable about car engines...
In my experience, people who don't use IDEs almost never refactor their code. So if they come up with some crappy name for they method, it stays that way forever because renaming across multiple files (and the filename itself) is too much of a pain in the ass. I used to work with a VIM guy who never refactored anything. I ended up rewriting over 80% of his code because it was complete crap. Anyone I interview that doesn't use an IDE, simple won't get a recommendation from me. Good code requires relentless refactoring and it doesn't take but 10 seconds to figure out what kind of developer you're dealing with when you read their code.
Text edit guys are cowboys and lack professionalism. In the Air Force I was taught to use the right tool for the right job. Apparently the cowboys never learned that.
There's a lot more "excepts" besides mathematics. For starters, you can add in all of the sciences. Really the indoctrination stuff happens in subjects like history, religion, and government classes.
I hear what you're saying and generally agree but I've met people who have had trouble understanding a for loop. I'm sorry but there's no hope for these people.
The main downside is a reduction in market liquidity. Right now, you can unload almost anything instantly (unless it's a particularly large order). But that's not generally an issue for retail investors since they don't need instant liquidity anyway. It would also hurt the bottom line of the big trading firms as they use this as a way to generate guaranteed profits. But I'm cool with that since there shouldn't be any guarantees in life. They can find other ways of screwing people out of money and they're quite good at it.
Then you're a fool. Only Republicans believe corporations are people. But they also believe there's a deity out there that gives a shit about their little lives and that the Earth is only 6000 years old. According to the dictionary, people are: Human beings in general or considered collectively. Last I checked, a corporation is not a human being.
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Have you bothered to read anything about this at all? They hired two fucking accounting firms, one to look at Autonomy and the other to look at the other accounting firm. What else would you have them do?
Just an FYI...fraud is very hard to catch. Especially so when probably 99% of the accountants working on it have less than two years experience.
They hired Deloitte to look over Autonomy's numbers and then hired KPMG to look over Deloitte. So it's not like they made no attempt to look into their books.
It's not a webkit problem but a UI developer problem. The example in the OP referred to border radiuses and there's no reason you cannot simply use the 'border-radius' style in webkit browsers like Chrome. It works honky-dorey and I do it all the fucking time. That said, I think it's awesome that some developers are ignoring IE. They deserve whatever they get in this arena. Microsoft has lost any right to complain about this stuff.
And for the love of god, will they ever build decent developer tools for IE? Even with IE 10, it's like the dark ages.
First off, as someone has already pointed out, this whole situation is due to a venture capitalist arrangement ala Blain Capital style.
That aside, there are a lot of unions in the US and they don't all work the same. Some are bullies but many are not. You only ever hear about the bullies though because the moderate unions aren't considered newsworthy.
High humidity is what creates mold in the first place. So the device creates mold for it to kill. Neat. Quackery if I ever heard it.
They are following the court order so what exactly is the problem?
Oh please, get over yourself. They have to post it on the page, the order doesn't say it has to be displayed without scrolling. They have other things on their site that require scrolling too so it's not like this is the ONLY thing that requires scrolling to see. Also, as a customer I really don't care. I want to see what the company has to offer product-wise, not legalise crap.
I completely agree with this. I'm 47 and my code is far more maintainable and understandable to others than what I did earlier in my career. However, it's less clever. I've also learned that the aesthetics matter a lot more than most people would think.
I don't think "hard" is the right word but it more like "Coding is a pain in the ass". It's not the coding in and of itself that makes it so, it's the dealing with a legacy environment and integrating with less than well designed systems that makes things difficult and frustrating. If you're, doing greenfield development, then you don't have to worry about that stuff and it's all a bunch of fluffy white clouds but if you work in the environment that most programmers do, there are few fluffy white clouds to look at.
Seriously, medical devices are recalled ALL THE TIME. Not really interesting info.
I used to date a girl who handled recalls for a medical device company.
Says the ivory tower architect...
Funny stuff. As for being a prize possession...I've been contracting at the same place for over 3 years now. Do the math.
Sorry, but I can run circles around anyone with a text editor. I always have.
We do agree on one thing, though: you haven't presented any logic.
I hate to blow your argument out of the water but I'm 47 and I've been programming since I was 14. I was raised on text editors and used to write my own linked lists and hash tables by hand in C, from memory. So, I don't really need a lecture about the old days. Just because text editors made sense at one time, doesn't mean they do anymore. By your logic, I shouldn't bat an eye at anyone walking around with one of those old brick cellphones. We also don't hand-crank our engines to start them but I'm sure you'd make the argument that if we did, I'd be a lot more knowledgeable about car engines...
In my experience, people who don't use IDEs almost never refactor their code. So if they come up with some crappy name for they method, it stays that way forever because renaming across multiple files (and the filename itself) is too much of a pain in the ass. I used to work with a VIM guy who never refactored anything. I ended up rewriting over 80% of his code because it was complete crap. Anyone I interview that doesn't use an IDE, simple won't get a recommendation from me. Good code requires relentless refactoring and it doesn't take but 10 seconds to figure out what kind of developer you're dealing with when you read their code.
Text edit guys are cowboys and lack professionalism. In the Air Force I was taught to use the right tool for the right job. Apparently the cowboys never learned that.
Their market share and stock price seems to indicate otherwise.
There's a lot more "excepts" besides mathematics. For starters, you can add in all of the sciences. Really the indoctrination stuff happens in subjects like history, religion, and government classes.
He meant actual education -- not indoctrination, but way to take it to take it to the extreme just so you can be argumentative. (I know, welcome to /.)
How can you take a ranking table seriously which puts Harvard above Caltech? :)
I hear what you're saying and generally agree but I've met people who have had trouble understanding a for loop. I'm sorry but there's no hope for these people.
Actually, according to this: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2011-2012/top-400.html you have 3 of the top 10. The US has the other 7. Still a damn good showing though.
They are.
The main downside is a reduction in market liquidity. Right now, you can unload almost anything instantly (unless it's a particularly large order). But that's not generally an issue for retail investors since they don't need instant liquidity anyway. It would also hurt the bottom line of the big trading firms as they use this as a way to generate guaranteed profits. But I'm cool with that since there shouldn't be any guarantees in life. They can find other ways of screwing people out of money and they're quite good at it.
Then you're a fool. Only Republicans believe corporations are people. But they also believe there's a deity out there that gives a shit about their little lives and that the Earth is only 6000 years old. According to the dictionary, people are: Human beings in general or considered collectively. Last I checked, a corporation is not a human being.
Insurance companies already do whatever they can to avoid paying a claim so your argument doesn't fly.
wtf are you talking about? Why would my local power company have private health care records? Try providing a valid example.