How is this trolling? It's an honest answer and rebuttal to someone who apparently doesn't believe that anyone these days enters into a profession because of enjoyment and passion, but rather for compensation and ease of living.
If this is trolling, then apparently I am alone in my belief that one should pursue a profession they love, and let the money follow suit, rather than the other way around.
Who in their right mind chooses a job based on "loving" to do it?
I'm currently finishing up an M.S. degree, and am applying both to jobs and PhD programs. I've worked up a $100,000 student debt over the last two years, but I was just extended a job offer (my first full-time job, ever) paying $80,000/year.
It's a job I know I'd enjoy. But you know what? I enjoy being in school even more, so I'm probably going to turn it down in favor of pursuing a PhD. Call me crazy, call me naive, but I'm doing what I love.
Also, if you can put up with iTunes and its idiosyncrasies, the episode is available in HD for download...and it's entirely free. Not sure if that's an iTunes pricing bug, but at least right now it's totally free.
"If you do not begin considering the possibility of maybe one day relatively soon pondering the beginning of the dismantlement of your nuclear program - NOW - you might possibly maybe perhaps one day face SEVERE SANCTIONS ZOMG.
Granted, the lack of a full-text search is annoying. But I fail to see how that equates to "StackOverflow sucks".
Then again, if you've only "skimmed the site", you might want to spend a little more time there (somewhere comfortably in between your virtually-zero and Jon Skeet's 100,000-karma) before you blithely condemn it. It does indeed far surpass Yahoo! Answers in quality, for more reasons than simply its content (though that does indeed help).
It already has been more effective. Take a few minutes to browse and you'll find that, by and large, the site does what it says it does: the vast majority of users are either posting good questions or looking for good answers and will vote up those that qualify, while the rest either dissolve in forgotten oblivion, or are closed entirely by the crowd that Jon Skeet hangs out with.
Most likely, its success has partially to do with the fact that it is a very focused site; that is, compared to Yahoo! Answers, questions posted must be none-too-subtly related to programming. Yahoo! Answers, on the other hand, can be about anything a moron's mind can conjure.
You seem to be neglecting the fact that this - "let's image the surface! yeah! [...]" - is an entire area of science: astronomy.
It's not only the (seemingly pointless, as your post insinuates) search for celestial bodies beyond our own planet's atmosphere, but through this search we learn more about our own planet's origins and those of our local solar system, as well as our general role in the cosmos and what we can expect in the years and millennia to come.
Fair enough, you are absolutely correct; I overspoke in my previous comment. No, an internship certainly isn't a good barometer for the overall size of the company. Still, my entire department and all the VPs I interacted with - and their departments as well (all over the world; see my response to oenone.ablaze above) - were all buried in Symphony (whether or not they actually liked it over MS Office, however, was a different matter entirely). Over the summer, we literally worked exclusively with ODTs and ODPs.
I interacted with offices all over the globe (North Carolina, California, Canada, China, Germany, Armonk) - even traveled a bit - and everyone I spoke and worked with was all about Symphony; it was ODP or bust.
But you raise an interesting point: Research was the single IBM division with which I was unable to involve myself (and to this day continue to try and get my foot into, so if you have any contacts I'm honestly interested:) ), so I can readily accept that Research has not jumped on the Symphony bandwagon yet.
After interning with IBM this past summer, I can say without equivocation that 95% of IBM's employees use Symphony. Lotus Notes in particular in a central cog in what is otherwise a pretty complete office productivity package.
For IBM to mandate the use of this package is, truthfully, making official what has already been regular practice for quite some time.
But this is how the computer industry got going. Sure, those first few PC clones and Compaqs and Tandy graphics were horrendous in retrospect, but at the time they were leaps and bounds ahead of anything designed up until that point. If the space industry is going to be successful in the private sector, it will have to grow out of its infancy first, and that means (unfortunately) making mistakes along the way.
Now that I'm almost completely addicted to the game, they finish up the Mac port so that I'll be able to play the game on my MacBook while I'm in lecture during the day. And as an added bonus, there will be private servers I can meet my friends on.
Actually, it doesn't. It assumes the programmer knows what they're doing and gives them free reign to do just that. It doesn't take a whole lot of screwing up for the application to go haywire a la segfault, bus errors, etc.
Stupid behavior, on the other hand, encourages stupid behavior, and picking a language which assumes you know what you're doing when you actually don't is the true mistake.
and a new Facebook group called 'People Against the new Terms of Service' that has added more than 10,000 members today."
There are enough "People Against [X]" (the New Layout; Christianity; Atheism; BlueBell Ice Cream; Rational Thought; etc etc) groups on Facebook to occupy someone for a lifetime. And every time one pops up and I am peppered with invitations from my friends to it or one of its dozens of identical groups with different spelling/grammatical errors in the name, I always have to laugh, because I'm pretty sure the people at Facebook react to the groups the same way I do.
What's the point? Do these groups really accomplish anything?
Slashdot Mirror
Or the abacus!
How is this trolling? It's an honest answer and rebuttal to someone who apparently doesn't believe that anyone these days enters into a profession because of enjoyment and passion, but rather for compensation and ease of living.
If this is trolling, then apparently I am alone in my belief that one should pursue a profession they love, and let the money follow suit, rather than the other way around.
Who in their right mind chooses a job based on "loving" to do it?
I'm currently finishing up an M.S. degree, and am applying both to jobs and PhD programs. I've worked up a $100,000 student debt over the last two years, but I was just extended a job offer (my first full-time job, ever) paying $80,000/year.
It's a job I know I'd enjoy. But you know what? I enjoy being in school even more, so I'm probably going to turn it down in favor of pursuing a PhD. Call me crazy, call me naive, but I'm doing what I love.
Since we already have Bitter.
...is a freaking genius. I can't stop laughing. I tip my hat to you, good sir/ma'am.
Because that is totally going to fix the problem.
Also, if you can put up with iTunes and its idiosyncrasies, the episode is available in HD for download...and it's entirely free. Not sure if that's an iTunes pricing bug, but at least right now it's totally free.
I would give you every mod point I had if I hadn't already commented on this thread.
America to Iran:
"If you do not begin considering the possibility of maybe one day relatively soon pondering the beginning of the dismantlement of your nuclear program - NOW - you might possibly maybe perhaps one day face SEVERE SANCTIONS ZOMG.
I mean, if that's ok with you."
Granted, the lack of a full-text search is annoying. But I fail to see how that equates to "StackOverflow sucks".
Then again, if you've only "skimmed the site", you might want to spend a little more time there (somewhere comfortably in between your virtually-zero and Jon Skeet's 100,000-karma) before you blithely condemn it. It does indeed far surpass Yahoo! Answers in quality, for more reasons than simply its content (though that does indeed help).
It already has been more effective. Take a few minutes to browse and you'll find that, by and large, the site does what it says it does: the vast majority of users are either posting good questions or looking for good answers and will vote up those that qualify, while the rest either dissolve in forgotten oblivion, or are closed entirely by the crowd that Jon Skeet hangs out with.
Most likely, its success has partially to do with the fact that it is a very focused site; that is, compared to Yahoo! Answers, questions posted must be none-too-subtly related to programming. Yahoo! Answers, on the other hand, can be about anything a moron's mind can conjure.
...I am SO screwed. I think.
You seem to be neglecting the fact that this - "let's image the surface! yeah! [...]" - is an entire area of science: astronomy.
It's not only the (seemingly pointless, as your post insinuates) search for celestial bodies beyond our own planet's atmosphere, but through this search we learn more about our own planet's origins and those of our local solar system, as well as our general role in the cosmos and what we can expect in the years and millennia to come.
No legs is right. Even though everyone I worked with in some capacity or another used Symphony, it was a major headache to use.
Fair enough, you are absolutely correct; I overspoke in my previous comment. No, an internship certainly isn't a good barometer for the overall size of the company. Still, my entire department and all the VPs I interacted with - and their departments as well (all over the world; see my response to oenone.ablaze above) - were all buried in Symphony (whether or not they actually liked it over MS Office, however, was a different matter entirely). Over the summer, we literally worked exclusively with ODTs and ODPs.
I interacted with offices all over the globe (North Carolina, California, Canada, China, Germany, Armonk) - even traveled a bit - and everyone I spoke and worked with was all about Symphony; it was ODP or bust.
:) ), so I can readily accept that Research has not jumped on the Symphony bandwagon yet.
But you raise an interesting point: Research was the single IBM division with which I was unable to involve myself (and to this day continue to try and get my foot into, so if you have any contacts I'm honestly interested
After interning with IBM this past summer, I can say without equivocation that 95% of IBM's employees use Symphony. Lotus Notes in particular in a central cog in what is otherwise a pretty complete office productivity package.
For IBM to mandate the use of this package is, truthfully, making official what has already been regular practice for quite some time.
But this is how the computer industry got going. Sure, those first few PC clones and Compaqs and Tandy graphics were horrendous in retrospect, but at the time they were leaps and bounds ahead of anything designed up until that point. If the space industry is going to be successful in the private sector, it will have to grow out of its infancy first, and that means (unfortunately) making mistakes along the way.
BOOM! Hit by CSS.
Now that I'm almost completely addicted to the game, they finish up the Mac port so that I'll be able to play the game on my MacBook while I'm in lecture during the day. And as an added bonus, there will be private servers I can meet my friends on.
I am so going to fail out of school.
...if you want to market it to another company under a different name, there's even an app for that.
Woohoo!
Actually, it doesn't. It assumes the programmer knows what they're doing and gives them free reign to do just that. It doesn't take a whole lot of screwing up for the application to go haywire a la segfault, bus errors, etc.
Stupid behavior, on the other hand, encourages stupid behavior, and picking a language which assumes you know what you're doing when you actually don't is the true mistake.
Someone might want to inform Joseph Mallozzi of this finding.
and a new Facebook group called 'People Against the new Terms of Service' that has added more than 10,000 members today."
There are enough "People Against [X]" (the New Layout; Christianity; Atheism; BlueBell Ice Cream; Rational Thought; etc etc) groups on Facebook to occupy someone for a lifetime. And every time one pops up and I am peppered with invitations from my friends to it or one of its dozens of identical groups with different spelling/grammatical errors in the name, I always have to laugh, because I'm pretty sure the people at Facebook react to the groups the same way I do.
What's the point? Do these groups really accomplish anything?