I agree, if you want to be a brilliant ass hole, do it on your own time, do some code projects at home or maybe even help with some open source projects.
If you're working for a corporation, you're working with a team and you're only a small cog in the process. They likely have the money to hire someone to replace you and they SHOULD if you're a jerk like the guy described in the OP. The code you write is also probably going to be around long after you're gone, so documenting it is going to save more than scoffing at documentation.
I bet the guy described in the OP never had to do bug fixing of other people's code at the start of his career, went right into development. That would explain the ineptitude.
I think quirky is perfectly acceptable to a point though, everyone's quirky it makes you human. The OP guy just sounds like an ass.
That is, unless he's working for some firm that requires some incredibly complex algorithms to improve efficiency and he's putting together brilliant critical sections that really requires a genius to figure out. From the sound of it, he's just working for a regular joe firm and he's just figured out a good way of doing some mundane task that any code monkey could figure out with X amount of time.
They're not narcissistic but they know they can get a job elsewhere so aren't afraid to game you to get more money or perks.
If you don't ask for it and act like you deserve it, the likelihood is you'll never get it... even if you shoot for more than what you know you deserve or expect, likelihood is you'll end up getting more than if you're complacent.
Same thing, just an American card game that takes a phrase of words that you have to say correctly to figure out what the hidden meaning is. It's a pretty fun game to just sit around with some friends or family and try to guess the phrases even if you don't keep score.
And before DOOM was the hunting sequence in Oregon Trail.
I was a bad ass at Oregon Trail hunting. The girls would always get me to come and do it for them, 3rd grade playaaa!
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You're using despite differently. I agree with your meaning, but I disagree with the original poster's.
More specifically, it's really the only well implemented FPS game on a next gen console. They implemented it for the console from the ground up, whereas most other next gen consoles were just quick ports of PC games to make a quick buck.
For the record, little to nothing about HALO gameplay is groundbreaking, the real groundbreaking designed from the ground up for a console FPS game was GoldenEye 007 for the N64. HALO just ripped it off for next gen consoles.
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I agree that it would be nice for Microsoft to release one but...
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And uhh.. they definitely aren't a "standard" game play wise in the arena of PC FPS's, which are similar. Their ranking system should be used as a standard though IMHO. I'd love to see something like that for CS or the next big PC FPS.
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see that word SIMILAR? A PC only FPS is not as much as people like to claim SIMILAR to a console FPS the control scheme is too disimilar to compare them even when transfered to the other as you run into problems translating that control scheme.
I disagree. The only real difference is the control input. Game modes, perspective, weapons, etc... are all exactly the same as any basic console FPS. There really isn't any trouble using the same control scheme for a PC shooter, I've read reviews by HALO players going from mid 20 ranks to mid 40 ranks just by switching to a keyboard and mouse.
Where they differ is the pace and maps have been designed specifically for a console.
Gameplay wise, they are groundbreaking in a few very small and distinct areas, and in those areas ONLY groundbreaking in the arena of consoles.
For an FPS, they ARE groundbreaking in their ladder ranking system, but they didn't actually invent anything. They just ripped off Blizzard's match making and Yahoo's ranking.
So I agree they are groundbreaking in very distinct areas but the title is misleading. Not that it really matters at all lol.
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Warkhawk for Sony Playstation 3 is a better game than Halo.
haha, I used to love Warhawk for the original Playstation, amazing game. That and Wipeout.
"Final Fantasy Tactics" and "Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions" are also better than HALO, wtfamazing games.
I will say, HALO is the best single and multiplayer FPS I've ever played for a console, by a long shot. Whatever that means.
Throwing a guy off of a balcony with the gravity gun is more fun than the entirety of single player HALO 1-3.
The only draw for HALO is the multiplayer with friends in the same room and that it's an FPS that sort of works for a console. CS and TF2 are and always will be infinitely greater multiplayer FPS games than any flavor of HALO.
Being able to shoot people accurately and not feeling like I'm playing the game while stuck in a pool of mud makes the HL series infinitely better than HALO.
I didn't state "IMHO" or "IMO" to counter your statement of opinion as fact because well... you stated your opinion as fact.
The poster is obviously already communicating with someone to figure out what it is they're looking for. Saying an extra word or two is hardly going to be a problem.
Except that Diebold didn't make these machines. Premier Election Systems made them, and then was bought up by Diebold. It was certainly negligent and a very poor choice by Diebold who probably just saw the dollar signs.
Wish I could mod you up.
Another little factoid is the CEO in question by the OP was fired.
Of course this is all anecdotal, but in my experience the majority of the educated immigrants are here for the education and job opportunities, not to stay here permanently.
My experience has mirrored this. If they want to stay they will find a way, and I for one welcome them openly. As a result, it's generally more intelligent for a business to hire someone local who they know it'll be easier to keep and who'll generally be happier working there.
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Nobody goes into CS because it's cool. You go in because there are jobs there and/or you are interested in it. I chose CE for both of those reasons.
But really, what are the odds that kid is getting a blowjob?
Everytime we have a connectivity hiccup I am flooded with calls from our users asking "Is the Google broken?"
It takes everything in my power not to say "Yes. The Google is, in fact, broken"
fixed*
I just thought of something brilliant... make commercials in slow motion so when you fast forward on the DVR it goes in real time.
What could be better than giant radioactive CGI mammoths?
I actually occasionally watch these shows for a laugh, they are intentionally bad. Bruce Campbell has been in like 30 or 40 of them.
I agree, if you want to be a brilliant ass hole, do it on your own time, do some code projects at home or maybe even help with some open source projects.
If you're working for a corporation, you're working with a team and you're only a small cog in the process. They likely have the money to hire someone to replace you and they SHOULD if you're a jerk like the guy described in the OP. The code you write is also probably going to be around long after you're gone, so documenting it is going to save more than scoffing at documentation.
I bet the guy described in the OP never had to do bug fixing of other people's code at the start of his career, went right into development. That would explain the ineptitude.
I think quirky is perfectly acceptable to a point though, everyone's quirky it makes you human. The OP guy just sounds like an ass.
That is, unless he's working for some firm that requires some incredibly complex algorithms to improve efficiency and he's putting together brilliant critical sections that really requires a genius to figure out. From the sound of it, he's just working for a regular joe firm and he's just figured out a good way of doing some mundane task that any code monkey could figure out with X amount of time.
writers, artists, engineers, presidents, etc.
I think the real conspiracy is that they consider engineering to be such a great position. I should've been a porn star.
Don't act like companies don't do the same thing. I have never yet met a company that didn't lowball a college grad or younger developer at the start.
Sorry for double post.
They're not narcissistic but they know they can get a job elsewhere so aren't afraid to game you to get more money or perks.
If you don't ask for it and act like you deserve it, the likelihood is you'll never get it... even if you shoot for more than what you know you deserve or expect, likelihood is you'll end up getting more than if you're complacent.
At least, this has been my experience.
"Never memorize something that you can look up."
--Albert Einstein
Same thing, just an American card game that takes a phrase of words that you have to say correctly to figure out what the hidden meaning is. It's a pretty fun game to just sit around with some friends or family and try to guess the phrases even if you don't keep score.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAD_GAB
http://www.playmadgabonline.com/
haha, now that I think of it, why does it not surprise me that someone in the states has already figured out a way to profit from the idea.
and before even Quake was DOOM.
And before DOOM was the hunting sequence in Oregon Trail.
I was a bad ass at Oregon Trail hunting. The girls would always get me to come and do it for them, 3rd grade playaaa!
You're using despite differently. I agree with your meaning, but I disagree with the original poster's.
More specifically, it's really the only well implemented FPS game on a next gen console. They implemented it for the console from the ground up, whereas most other next gen consoles were just quick ports of PC games to make a quick buck.
For the record, little to nothing about HALO gameplay is groundbreaking, the real groundbreaking designed from the ground up for a console FPS game was GoldenEye 007 for the N64. HALO just ripped it off for next gen consoles.
I agree that it would be nice for Microsoft to release one but...
http://www.consoleshop.com/product.php?productid=20688
http://www.ddrgame.com/xbox-360-accessory-keyboard-mouse-adapter.html
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/xcm-brings-pcstyle-gaming-to-your-360-217332.php
And uhh.. they definitely aren't a "standard" game play wise in the arena of PC FPS's, which are similar. Their ranking system should be used as a standard though IMHO. I'd love to see something like that for CS or the next big PC FPS.
see that word SIMILAR? A PC only FPS is not as much as people like to claim SIMILAR to a console FPS the control scheme is too disimilar to compare them even when transfered to the other as you run into problems translating that control scheme.
I disagree. The only real difference is the control input. Game modes, perspective, weapons, etc... are all exactly the same as any basic console FPS. There really isn't any trouble using the same control scheme for a PC shooter, I've read reviews by HALO players going from mid 20 ranks to mid 40 ranks just by switching to a keyboard and mouse.
Where they differ is the pace and maps have been designed specifically for a console.
Gameplay wise, they are groundbreaking in a few very small and distinct areas, and in those areas ONLY groundbreaking in the arena of consoles.
For an FPS, they ARE groundbreaking in their ladder ranking system, but they didn't actually invent anything. They just ripped off Blizzard's match making and Yahoo's ranking.
So I agree they are groundbreaking in very distinct areas but the title is misleading. Not that it really matters at all lol.
Warkhawk for Sony Playstation 3 is a better game than Halo.
haha, I used to love Warhawk for the original Playstation, amazing game. That and Wipeout.
"Final Fantasy Tactics" and "Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions" are also better than HALO, wtfamazing games.
I will say, HALO is the best single and multiplayer FPS I've ever played for a console, by a long shot. Whatever that means.
You can't turn around blazing fast, but nobody on a console can.
I'm not saying.. I'm just saying..
http://www.ddrgame.com/xbox-360-accessory-keyboard-mouse-adapter.html
Throwing a guy off of a balcony with the gravity gun is more fun than the entirety of single player HALO 1-3.
The only draw for HALO is the multiplayer with friends in the same room and that it's an FPS that sort of works for a console. CS and TF2 are and always will be infinitely greater multiplayer FPS games than any flavor of HALO.
Being able to shoot people accurately and not feeling like I'm playing the game while stuck in a pool of mud makes the HL series infinitely better than HALO.
I didn't state "IMHO" or "IMO" to counter your statement of opinion as fact because well... you stated your opinion as fact.
I guess you haven't seen Superbad.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0829482/
Heh, my Eee701 fits just dandy in my cargo pocket :)
Nobody's gotten laid in cargo pants since 'Nam.
The poster is obviously already communicating with someone to figure out what it is they're looking for. Saying an extra word or two is hardly going to be a problem.
I'm pretty sure it not being binding is better than them naming the satellite Penis or Stalin.
Except that Diebold didn't make these machines. Premier Election Systems made them, and then was bought up by Diebold. It was certainly negligent and a very poor choice by Diebold who probably just saw the dollar signs.
Wish I could mod you up.
Another little factoid is the CEO in question by the OP was fired.
Of course this is all anecdotal, but in my experience the majority of the educated immigrants are here for the education and job opportunities, not to stay here permanently.
My experience has mirrored this. If they want to stay they will find a way, and I for one welcome them openly. As a result, it's generally more intelligent for a business to hire someone local who they know it'll be easier to keep and who'll generally be happier working there.