User: darkdragon_net

Re:Is this really the case?

On: The Inside Story On the San Francisco Network Hijacking

Never worked for the government, have you? ;)

Management is where people who are too incompetent for technical work go. No one gets fired, they get moved to different departments. As a last resort, they get assigned to 'special projects' for about a year in the hopes that everyone will forget what an imbecile they are, and will be safe to move back into the management structure.

I suppose you have met all the managers in this world. you shouldn't talk like what you say are absolute truths.

Re:A rare topic

On: What Is the Oldest Code Written Still Running?

well first of all how do you know those systems are well designed? after all they need cobol programmers to maintain them. if cobol or any other languages are so good then why there are completely new paradigms and so few programmers to support them?. i think that whereas these companies may still run with these dinosaurs, they are missing the features that the new languages give them, and also a high cost reduction just because the cobol programmers are so scarce

Re:Somebody obviously didn't get their cut.

On: Amazon Gift Ordering Patent Revoked In EU

Well you know i think that european union is making right, because this is such a stupid patent, i mean who gives amazon the permission to patent this method as if they were the owners of that idea. that of course they aren't