Maybe not even higher up.. In my area, a programmer working at Fort Monmouth set up a porn website using govt money and the govt T1, and was eventually busted. You dont' have to be an exec to embezzel.
Many positions require managing money with company credit cards and/or purchase orders. Would you want someone who writes bad checks and doesn't pay their bills to have this responsibility?
Well in that case releasing the consumer 64 bit chip right before Christmas makes more sense than at the start of the slow time of the year for computer sales. AMDs not currently making money doesn't mean they should make rash marketing decisions.
Why pull the rug out from under the Barton Athlons when they are still making money and relatively competitive with Intel's cpu? Technology releas dates have as much to do with marketing as engineering...
My classic argument with other Java programmers are the ones that insist on using the StringBuffer class instead of just appending strings together in the code (jsp). They are all worried about the performance of 1ms lost on cocantanating strings together, while the server is sitting around waiting for a 30 ms database query to complete. The result is needlessly hard to read and edit code, with no noticable performance advantage. This is a situation with a intranet application that would have at most 4 or 5 users at one time.
Abstraction is key to programming. One should choose how abstract one needs to be carefully. Beginning programmers in their enthusiasm often create more abstraction than is really useful. One sign of this is if you create classes that don't really contain any code and don't really do anything except serve to ab- stract something.
You think they are talking about struts?
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Personal Skills are more important than most programmers think. With personal skills,a programmer is able to chat with marketing and managers to figure out what projects THEY should be put on, which helps build their skills and keep the job interesting. Personal skills gives the programmer the ability to influence managers to get the good projects. Personal skills will also promote a programmer in the eyes of of management, an equivelent programmer that doesn't communicate with management will be more quickly forgotten when raises are given out. Don't forget, the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
I read an interview with Billy Cox (Hendrix's Bassist) where he made a 100' cable so that Jimi could play in the crowd. He couldn't use it because there was a 1ms delay in the signal. Networking is much slower than that!
One thing that really differentiated the difference between.net applications and win32 ones was their appearance, which is different much like the way java apps look different. When Win XP came along with all the skins, this difference has evaporated. WinXP and.net apps have definitly taken some hints from kde/gnome world.
I have seen tons of smart-ass comments here about the article but I think it applies, especially here. Like most of my coworkers, I did IT because I wanted to make a buck. Fortunatly I am pretty good at it, but it still makes my eyeballs want to fall out. I come back after vacation and say to myself 'WTF, I can't believe that I sit here all day' One thing the author failed to mention is that jobs that are remotly interesting pay substantailly less, the reality of it is that I would not have a house or a car for my family if I didn't do this kind of work. I abandonded a career in chemistry (which I loved) because I simply could not survive on a chemist's salary.
More caltech They changed the 'Hollywood' sign to read Cal-Tech. The built a huge slingshot and used it to launch oranges at the nearbye community college. Filled a students dorm room with crumpled newspaper and drywalled over his door. There is an endless list of anecdotes.
I thinks that's bs. If I leave a package on my front porch for fedex, I am not abandoning it. Likewise the trash company is the expected recipient for my trash. If I thought a people were going to root through my trash, or open my package I wouldn't leave it outside. This reminds me of BClintons definition of 'is' argument. Common sense tells everyone that this is not ok.
I agree to a point. I think the police should be able to seize the garbage and then search it if they obtain a search warrent. I don't think this would be much different than towing a suspects car, and then searching it later with warrent.
because the police are an investigation bureaucracy devoted to helping people I am sure that whomevers privacy is being violated could care less which bureaucracy is doing it, and what their intentions are!
I didn't say we don't need(want) to be entertained. The fact of the matter is that 95% of the shit that is being made is consumed by people simply because of marketing. If media was made purely on merit I think that the movies we see and the structure of the media industry would be vastly different.
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Because men would just go naked if the clothing companies tried to dick us around like a woman's clothing company does.
Hmm, maybe one of these days will update my dual 433 celeron bp6. It seems plenty fast though, do I have too?
http://www.techtv.com/news/internet/story/0,24195, 3375434,00.html
Maybe not even higher up.. In my area, a programmer working at Fort Monmouth set up a porn website using govt money and the govt T1, and was eventually busted. You dont' have to be an exec to embezzel.
Many positions require managing money with company credit cards and/or purchase orders. Would you want someone who writes bad checks and doesn't pay their bills to have this responsibility?
sorry, mod me down
Well in that case releasing the consumer 64 bit chip right before Christmas makes more sense than at the start of the slow time of the year for computer sales. AMDs not currently making money doesn't mean they should make rash marketing decisions.
Why pull the rug out from under the Barton Athlons when they are still making money and relatively competitive with Intel's cpu? Technology releas dates have as much to do with marketing as engineering...
My classic argument with other Java programmers are the ones that insist on using the StringBuffer class instead of just appending strings together in the code (jsp). They are all worried about the performance of 1ms lost on cocantanating strings together, while the server is sitting around waiting for a 30 ms database query to complete. The result is needlessly hard to read and edit code, with no noticable performance advantage. This is a situation with a intranet application that would have at most 4 or 5 users at one time.
Abstraction is key to programming. One should choose how abstract one needs
to be carefully. Beginning programmers in their enthusiasm often create more
abstraction than is really useful. One sign of this is if you create classes that
don't really contain any code and don't really do anything except serve to ab-
stract something.
You think they are talking about struts?
Personal Skills are more important than most programmers think. With personal skills,a programmer is able to chat with marketing and managers to figure out what projects THEY should be put on, which helps build their skills and keep the job interesting. Personal skills gives the programmer the ability to influence managers to get the good projects. Personal skills will also promote a programmer in the eyes of of management, an equivelent programmer that doesn't communicate with management will be more quickly forgotten when raises are given out.
Don't forget, the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
Agreed. You can't always take the words of aging rockers at 100%.
How about inductance and capacitance? Whatever it was there was an unacceptable amount of slop.
I read an interview with Billy Cox (Hendrix's Bassist) where he made a 100' cable so that Jimi could play in the crowd. He couldn't use it because there was a 1ms delay in the signal. Networking is much slower than that!
One thing that really differentiated the difference between .net applications and win32 ones was their appearance, which is different much like the way java apps look different. When Win XP came along with all the skins, this difference has evaporated. WinXP and .net apps have definitly taken some hints from kde/gnome world.
'The Search For Unknown Kadath' was the most Tolkein-like of HP stories. My favorite from Lovecraft.
I have seen tons of smart-ass comments here about the article but I think it applies, especially here. Like most of my coworkers, I did IT because I wanted to make a buck. Fortunatly I am pretty good at it, but it still makes my eyeballs want to fall out. I come back after vacation and say to myself 'WTF, I can't believe that I sit here all day' One thing the author failed to mention is that jobs that are remotly interesting pay substantailly less, the reality of it is that I would not have a house or a car for my family if I didn't do this kind of work.
I abandonded a career in chemistry (which I loved) because I simply could not survive on a chemist's salary.
More caltech
They changed the 'Hollywood' sign to read Cal-Tech. The built a huge slingshot and used it to launch oranges at the nearbye community college. Filled a students dorm room with crumpled newspaper and drywalled over his door.
There is an endless list of anecdotes.
At least in my neighborhood we pay a private company to take our trash.
I thinks that's bs. If I leave a package on my front porch for fedex, I am not abandoning it. Likewise the trash company is the expected recipient for my trash. If I thought a people were going to root through my trash, or open my package I wouldn't leave it outside.
This reminds me of BClintons definition of 'is' argument. Common sense tells everyone that this is not ok.
I agree to a point. I think the police should be able to seize the garbage and then search it if they obtain a search warrent. I don't think this would be much different than towing a suspects car, and then searching it later with warrent.
because the police are an investigation bureaucracy devoted to helping people
I am sure that whomevers privacy is being violated could care less which bureaucracy is doing it, and what their intentions are!
A photoshop plugin that will address more than 4 gb would sell many thousands of these units in very little time.
Changing their Marketing and company focus at the drop of a hat to follow market conditions. IDIOTS!
Well it is time for my yearly movie. LOTR will be it!
I didn't say we don't need(want) to be entertained. The fact of the matter is that 95% of the shit that is being made is consumed by people simply because of marketing. If media was made purely on merit I think that the movies we see and the structure of the media industry would be vastly different.