You are talking about corporate, academia I am finding out to my chagrin, is no better and in many cases actually worse. Case in point: I am one of two developers (senior of the two) hired to work on a new web project at a respected university. The junior "developer" from day one argued (and almost convinced) management that we should use the standard install images given to students with all control panel/configuration functionality disabled and locked down.
Failing that, he then thinks because he took a "project management" class from a cert. factory, convinces our management to design applications like one would in Access, because well thats what he did when he designed in-house Access applications, and he is "qualified" so it must be right. Being academics they swallow this shite like a crack-deprived prostitute.
Now management has announced this great work is worthy of a lateral promotion (he hasn't managed to write any code that has worked in 6 months) because they "are trying to find something he is good at".
This is just the small cherry on top of the shit mountain of endless, childish, degrading, touchy-feely debates on a daily basis, because everything has to be vetted and discussed "academic style". In this world politics is king, accomplishments, experience, and "real-world" knowledge mean nothing. All aspects of my programming job are "subjective" and need debate, micro management to the sub-atomic level.
Recently, with mgmt. and my incompetent coworker, I found myself explaining and needless to say, debating the merits of data validation. I discovered everything I know about data validation doesn't apply there, because they know the people that enter the data, and they do a good job and therefore just don't know if data validation is worth the time and extra cost. I argued for data validation as any competent developer would.
I lost this argument. Fuck. Me.
I will take your corporate job, at least you don't have fucking nightmares and get chest pains whilst thinking about the future need to debate object oriented programming or error trapping.
On a similar note, I suppose you have never heard of Henrietta Lacks and how pharmaceutical companies patented her cancer cells, the strain which makes them billions of dollars and responsible for causing her untimely demise.
There is no degree more overrated than an MBA. The article is right, these people are disastrous when placed in command of tech companies, and one could make a strong point they screw up every other company they touch.
Every conversation I have heard when a group of these "leading lights" set around a table, is buzz-speak laden drivel, totally hollow & devoid of any rational or critical thinking. Usually along the lines of "I heard company x is doing this" which in MBA speak "means we should too", i.e. I am just a stupid MBA and have no original thoughts.
One of my worst corporate experiences is remembering a dinner "meeting" I had to attend once with HR, marketing, executives, and a small group of IT developers. HR the manipulative & shallow eye-candy gathering intelligence, technophobe market droids droning on about branding, narcissistic executives showing off their newest mobiles and laptops they were too stupid to use, and the small band of young developers with few social skills required for "small talk", but great at in-depth conversation.
The only silver lining is that was a self-cleaning affair, the quantity of vacuums in the room ensured that.
No you are missing the point. This has huge bearing on the actual problem. The real issue is that corporations & their paid puppets can do whatever they want. The rest of us have to pay taxes, follow the rules, and abide by the law - even if we think we have the I's dotted and T's crossed as this guy did, you still end up standing before the man. That, my cowardly friend, is the "actual problem".
I take it the only reason the fucking Secret Service is going after him is because he isn't a corporation or the government. The groups the Secret Service don't go after: 1) Sony Corporation (rootkits caused actual *harm* to PCs) 2) School systems that install "uncle pervy" software on underage students computers. 3) Facebook installing (implementing) facial recognition capabilities *without* the consent of user.
We know a) He had permission. b) Isn't wealthy. It makes great headlines and he has limited resources to fight back & hasn't paid off a legislator -- that is the difference. Fuck Obama -- I thought we were going to get real change - more of the same old shit.
What this basically means is the same type of executives that outsource operations and employees, needlessly eliminating thousands of positions at high tech companies for "cost cutting" purposes aka bonuses -- these very people are surprised they are being treated the same way by another greedy group of managers and money-men ?!
I consider it odd that carriers can hobble Android at will and pass the Google cert program, but a community of dedicated programmers devoted to restoring functionality to Android users would have problems passing this so-called certification process.
Read between the lines: You must be a mobile carrier with $$$ to pass a certification process -- this permits you to have carte blanche to lock down your phones and remove features as you see fit. A real certification process would ensure the Market app would be able to run on each phone or tablet running Android, prevent the device from being loaded with crapware by the carriers, and allow the user to have "root" privileges.
Until a user can do what he or she wants on their mobile, this certification is a bad joke by Google and mobile carriers at the expense of their users and customer base.
Not Cricket, try using their website to view MMS messages if you don't believe me -- it doesn't work. At least on browsers I want to use (Firefox/Chrome) and NFW am I going to install IE to view a glorified text message.
Speaking of texts, they rape you on charges for those as well. In fact, I decided to go with a two year contract with a major carrier after "running the numbers" on my accumulated charges with Cricket. All of this coming from a person that really despises contracts for cell phone service.
The poster means that gold is unlike like other investment instruments that appreciate value over the years such as stocks, bonds, cds, real estate, et al. that generally exceed the rate of inflation so you actually "make" money.
I thought it was obvious what your parent poster was saying, surely you aren't so literal minded you couldn't figure out what he/she was saying, or are you a cleverly disguised troll?
John Lewis in the UK is another type of organization that treats its employees very well in my opinion. And they do employ professions of all types, including programmers and other technical types.
The government knows better than to enforce those taxes upon the citizenry as it only causes a minor inconvenience on a single online retailer, 300 million people are likely to be a lot more upset
I would agree with you in principle and wish you were correct, but look at the huge number of people that have no self respect and willingly let the government molest & sexually abuse them (and their children) flying home this thanksgiving holiday.
The government knows people will roll over for anything now.
The hello world link didn't even function properly when I tried running it, and that is on the supported platform: IE 6 running on Windows XP.
It also looks like it uses an Active X control which, needless to say -- this isn't a real web app at all. Google could have embedded Earth into an Active X control and made a 'web app' better than this with existing code, and supported more than the Microsoft version which only has 15 U.S. cities.
I am not even going to bother trying it on a real OS/browser after I leave work.
The only way you will get you laptop back is if the people responsible are caught speeding while wardriving. Police departments these days are mainly interested in are catching speeders to meet 'quotas'. Sadly, most cops today are assigned the role of 'stealth tax collectors' that generate additional revenue streams for local and city governments.
Is it me or are game publishers becoming more and more like Hollywood every day? Why dont they realize that diluting a title, like a movie is at best a short term fix?
Are they pissed people arent using Ask Jeeves or something?
I dislike evil multinational corporations as much as the next person, but Google has to be one of the least intrusive, evil companies around.
Google also has a history of backing up their 'Do no evil' motto with actions, instead of PR motivated charity stunts most corporations perform. If there is any doubt, I suggest looking to Googles recent stand against Justice Departement requests to turn over users' private search records. This not only stands out in my mind as sticking to 'do no evil' principles, but also because they were the only search company to deny the Justice Departments Big-Brother request for private information.
I guess its cool to hate all big companies regardless of their actions, especially if it makes good copy.
Fire, dynamite or simply knocking them down also work.
I am fascinated by the British phenomenon of Gatsos which are well hidden cameras that take pictures of speeding cars. These are of course justified by officials as needed for public safety, but are in reality revenue generation devices. There is a modern-day Robin Hood character in Britain named Captain Gatso who along with his merry-men have destroyed hundreds of Gatsos. This page displays some of their handiwork.
So according to you anyone who is a programmer and gets their job outsourced, can blame a union?
I dont know what your on, (it must be good stuff), but I have never been in an IT company where any employee was a union member, let alone a programmer. Besides, if there werent unions salaries in fake currency would still be commonplace.
If anything the real culprits are CEOs and board members who make millions as bonuses for "cutting costs". Getting rid of these overpaid executives costs a fortune as well. The cost to get rid of Carly Fioriana, cost HP $42 million dollars. She must have had one hell of a union representing her.
The oakly thump looks craptastic as well. The only people I see wearing Oakleys outside of ski resort areas are the mullet && {camino || mustang}, redneck or nascar crowd.
But then again I do live in Houston, so I may be wrong on that one....
This would solve many problems associated with regular email IMHO. Instead of receiving dozens of unsolicited emails a {Day,Week,Month}, why not have a system that enables a person to setup an RSS feed intended only for one user.
For example, Alice gives Bob a link to a feed that only Bob knows about which is encrypted, and only Bob can read and subscribe to. Alice adds another feed for Carol, Dave, ad nauseum. If multiple recipients are required for an email, the client updates the feeds for the intended recipients only. A similar concept could be applied to workgroups, each recipient in a workgroup has the same key, enabling only that group to use the feed.
This would be a great replacement especially in situations where you send email to the same people frequently. And it wouldnt be annoying and disruptive like an IM client, you could read your 'email' feed whenever you want. Just a thought.
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You are talking about corporate, academia I am finding out to my chagrin, is no better and in many cases actually worse. Case in point: I am one of two developers (senior of the two) hired to work on a new web project at a respected university. The junior "developer" from day one argued (and almost convinced) management that we should use the standard install images given to students with all control panel/configuration functionality disabled and locked down.
Failing that, he then thinks because he took a "project management" class from a cert. factory, convinces our management to design applications like one would in Access, because well thats what he did when he designed in-house Access applications, and he is "qualified" so it must be right. Being academics they swallow this shite like a crack-deprived prostitute.
Now management has announced this great work is worthy of a lateral promotion (he hasn't managed to write any code that has worked in 6 months) because they "are trying to find something he is good at".
This is just the small cherry on top of the shit mountain of endless, childish, degrading, touchy-feely debates on a daily basis, because everything has to be vetted and discussed "academic style". In this world politics is king, accomplishments, experience, and "real-world" knowledge mean nothing. All aspects of my programming job are "subjective" and need debate, micro management to the sub-atomic level.
Recently, with mgmt. and my incompetent coworker, I found myself explaining and needless to say, debating the merits of data validation. I discovered everything I know about data validation doesn't apply there, because they know the people that enter the data, and they do a good job and therefore just don't know if data validation is worth the time and extra cost. I argued for data validation as any competent developer would.
I lost this argument. Fuck. Me.
I will take your corporate job, at least you don't have fucking nightmares and get chest pains whilst thinking about the future need to debate object oriented programming or error trapping.
Could they do the world a favour and write scripts to make it self-terminate instead?
On a similar note, I suppose you have never heard of Henrietta Lacks and how pharmaceutical companies patented her cancer cells, the strain which makes them billions of dollars and responsible for causing her untimely demise.
There is no degree more overrated than an MBA. The article is right, these people are disastrous when placed in command of tech companies, and one could make a strong point they screw up every other company they touch.
Every conversation I have heard when a group of these "leading lights" set around a table, is buzz-speak laden drivel, totally hollow & devoid of any rational or critical thinking. Usually along the lines of "I heard company x is doing this" which in MBA speak "means we should too", i.e. I am just a stupid MBA and have no original thoughts.
One of my worst corporate experiences is remembering a dinner "meeting" I had to attend once with HR, marketing, executives, and a small group of IT developers. HR the manipulative & shallow eye-candy gathering intelligence, technophobe market droids droning on about branding, narcissistic executives showing off their newest mobiles and laptops they were too stupid to use, and the small band of young developers with few social skills required for "small talk", but great at in-depth conversation.
The only silver lining is that was a self-cleaning affair, the quantity of vacuums in the room ensured that.
No you are missing the point. This has huge bearing on the actual problem. The real issue is that corporations & their paid puppets can do whatever they want. The rest of us have to pay taxes, follow the rules, and abide by the law - even if we think we have the I's dotted and T's crossed as this guy did, you still end up standing before the man. That, my cowardly friend, is the "actual problem".
I take it the only reason the fucking Secret Service is going after him is because he isn't a corporation or the government.
The groups the Secret Service don't go after:
1) Sony Corporation (rootkits caused actual *harm* to PCs)
2) School systems that install "uncle pervy" software on underage students computers.
3) Facebook installing (implementing) facial recognition capabilities *without* the consent of user.
We know a) He had permission. b) Isn't wealthy. It makes great headlines and he has limited resources to fight back & hasn't paid off a legislator -- that is the difference. Fuck Obama -- I thought we were going to get real change - more of the same old shit.
What this basically means is the same type of executives that outsource operations and employees, needlessly eliminating thousands of positions at high tech companies for "cost cutting" purposes aka bonuses -- these very people are surprised they are being treated the same way by another greedy group of managers and money-men ?!
I consider it odd that carriers can hobble Android at will and pass the Google cert program, but a community of dedicated programmers devoted to restoring functionality to Android users would have problems passing this so-called certification process.
Read between the lines: You must be a mobile carrier with $$$ to pass a certification process -- this permits you to have carte blanche to lock down your phones and remove features as you see fit. A real certification process would ensure the Market app would be able to run on each phone or tablet running Android, prevent the device from being loaded with crapware by the carriers, and allow the user to have "root" privileges.
Until a user can do what he or she wants on their mobile, this certification is a bad joke by Google and mobile carriers at the expense of their users and customer base.
Not Cricket, try using their website to view MMS messages if you don't believe me -- it doesn't work. At least on browsers I want to use (Firefox/Chrome) and NFW am I going to install IE to view a glorified text message.
Speaking of texts, they rape you on charges for those as well. In fact, I decided to go with a two year contract with a major carrier after "running the numbers" on my accumulated charges with Cricket. All of this coming from a person that really despises contracts for cell phone service.
The poster means that gold is unlike like other investment instruments that appreciate value over the years such as stocks, bonds, cds, real estate, et al. that generally exceed the rate of inflation so you actually "make" money.
I thought it was obvious what your parent poster was saying, surely you aren't so literal minded you couldn't figure out what he/she was saying, or are you a cleverly disguised troll?
John Lewis in the UK is another type of organization that treats its employees very well in my opinion. And they do employ professions of all types, including programmers and other technical types.
The government knows better than to enforce those taxes upon the citizenry as it only causes a minor inconvenience on a single online retailer, 300 million people are likely to be a lot more upset
I would agree with you in principle and wish you were correct, but look at the huge number of people that have no self respect and willingly let the government molest & sexually abuse them (and their children) flying home this thanksgiving holiday.
The government knows people will roll over for anything now.
Taco Bell may only use 8 ingredients, but their food tastes like shit.
Personally I would advocate making a quality product, using only the best ingredients/techniques required for each particular menu item.
....turn around, uh-oh
Der Kommissar's in town, uh-oh
And if he talks to you
And you don't know why
The more you live
The faster you will die
If you read the article its a car with a 30 HP engine.
Why don't they just save time and sell these instead?
The hello world link didn't even function properly when I tried running it, and that is on the supported platform: IE 6 running on Windows XP.
It also looks like it uses an Active X control which, needless to say -- this isn't a real web app at all. Google could have embedded Earth into an Active X control and made a 'web app' better than this with existing code, and supported more than the Microsoft version which only has 15 U.S. cities.
I am not even going to bother trying it on a real OS/browser after I leave work.
The only way you will get you laptop back is if the people responsible are caught speeding while wardriving.
Police departments these days are mainly interested in are catching speeders to meet 'quotas'.
Sadly, most cops today are assigned the role of 'stealth tax collectors' that generate additional revenue streams for local and city governments.
i'll be replacing it with a sony vaio
You really are a glutton for punishment arent you?
However I should say that I have an iBook G4 and it the best computer I have ever owned.
Is it me or are game publishers becoming more and more like Hollywood every day?
Why dont they realize that diluting a title, like a movie is at best a short term fix?
Ballmer is a nothing more than a glorified cheerleader.
And if you dont believe me, take it from someone who works at Microsoft.
The only reason he has his job is because he was Bill Gates poker buddy at Harvard.
Are they pissed people arent using Ask Jeeves or something?
I dislike evil multinational corporations as much as the next person, but Google has to be one of the least intrusive, evil companies around.
Google also has a history of backing up their 'Do no evil' motto with actions, instead of PR motivated charity stunts most corporations perform. If there is any doubt, I suggest looking to Googles recent stand against Justice Departement requests to turn over users' private search records. This not only stands out in my mind as sticking to 'do no evil' principles, but also because they were the only search company to deny the Justice Departments Big-Brother request for private information.
I guess its cool to hate all big companies regardless of their actions, especially if it makes good copy.
Fire, dynamite or simply knocking them down also work.
I am fascinated by the British phenomenon of Gatsos which are well hidden cameras that take pictures of speeding cars.
These are of course justified by officials as needed for public safety, but are in reality revenue generation devices. There is a modern-day Robin Hood character in Britain named Captain Gatso who along with his merry-men have destroyed hundreds of Gatsos.
This page displays some of their handiwork.
So according to you anyone who is a programmer and gets their job outsourced, can blame a union?
I dont know what your on, (it must be good stuff), but I have never been in an IT company where any employee was a union member, let alone a programmer. Besides, if there werent unions salaries in fake currency would still be commonplace.
If anything the real culprits are CEOs and board members who make millions as bonuses for "cutting costs". Getting rid of these overpaid executives costs a fortune as well. The cost to get rid of Carly Fioriana, cost HP $42 million dollars. She must have had one hell of a union representing her.
The oakly thump looks craptastic as well. The only people I see wearing Oakleys outside of ski resort areas are the mullet && {camino || mustang}, redneck or nascar crowd.
But then again I do live in Houston, so I may be wrong on that one....
And use RSS as a replacement for email entirely.
This would solve many problems associated with regular email IMHO. Instead of receiving dozens of unsolicited emails a {Day,Week,Month}, why not have a system that enables a person to setup an RSS feed intended only for one user.
For example, Alice gives Bob a link to a feed that only Bob knows about which is encrypted, and only Bob can read and subscribe to. Alice adds another feed for Carol, Dave, ad nauseum. If multiple recipients are required for an email, the client updates the feeds for the intended recipients only. A similar concept could be applied to workgroups, each recipient in a workgroup has the same key, enabling only that group to use the feed.
This would be a great replacement especially in situations where you send email to the same people frequently. And it wouldnt be annoying and disruptive like an IM client, you could read your 'email' feed whenever you want. Just a thought.