No. Chrome--the shiny metal they trim vehicles with--will help increase Linux on the desktop. This is because people who use Windows are drawn to shiny things they can click on, and chrome is the ultimate shiny thing.
Nothing wrong with them requiring VB skills from the beginning if they want their new developer to be able to hit the ground running. Sure, maybe you could get up to speed after a few months or even weeks, but if they don't have that time (read: money) to spare it's their choice.
So what? The whole "because you can do something therefore it's OK" argument is ridiculous, unless you simply ignore the concepts of law, justice, society and morality altogether (i.e. you're a Hell's Angel or extreme libertarian).
Hells Angels are well versed in those concepts. Politician and Wall Street banker would be better examples.
I'm waiting for the algorithm that decides which developer to fire and when. It should be very simple:
IF ( developer.number_of_bugs / developer.number_of_lines_of_code_written > $FIRE_THRESHOLD ) {
programer.fire();
}
Good thing the conclave has never been hacked, otherwise somebody might vote in a Nazi child-molester as Pope. (Yes, I am joking. No need to mod me down.)
This is a rare opportunity to use a Slashdot meme on itself. Like when someone complains about a bug or annoyance in Linux, they're told to fix/code it themselves.
Well if you don't like the way the political process works, become a politician and fix it!
They need more transparency and a much higher level of technical (hell, any) knowledge and expertise in the legislatures.
Problem is, people who enter the halls of Congress automatically get infected by a virus which corrupts their ethics. It has been shown that even a complete reinstall/reboot of Congressmen doesn't fix the problem, indicating that the malicious code is embedded somewhere in the genetic firmware of human nature.
USA Rail prices are reasonable if you are traveling a lot in a given period and don't mind (or actually want) to take the train. I actually used a 30-day pass to travel across the country (round trip). I would highly recommend it.
Then there's the pay structure. It's almost as if some places want to pay as much as possible for work (paid overtime for panic fixes) or intend it to take as long as possible (long unproductive unpaid overtime). A better approach would be to pay for results, and damn the work time spent to achieve them, provided they meet the schedule. A 20 hour week can be as productive as a 40 hour week, and more productive than a 60 hour week.
If you want to pay for results, hire a consultant.
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What a blast.
I think that's the part everyone wants to avoid.
One word: refrigerator.
Is my new-born career a dead end, or do I have a chance of becoming good at programming?
Show us your code and we'll let you know for certain.
to find programmers who like contests.
or who like gaming contests.
That is to say future business leaders.
Or politicians. But now I'm being redundant.
No. Chrome--the shiny metal they trim vehicles with--will help increase Linux on the desktop. This is because people who use Windows are drawn to shiny things they can click on, and chrome is the ultimate shiny thing.
It could just read your lips, HAL-style.
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Nothing wrong with them requiring VB skills from the beginning if they want their new developer to be able to hit the ground running. Sure, maybe you could get up to speed after a few months or even weeks, but if they don't have that time (read: money) to spare it's their choice.
There's a "Yo dawg..." meme joke in here somewhere.
So what? The whole "because you can do something therefore it's OK" argument is ridiculous, unless you simply ignore the concepts of law, justice, society and morality altogether (i.e. you're a Hell's Angel or extreme libertarian).
Hells Angels are well versed in those concepts. Politician and Wall Street banker would be better examples.
I'm waiting for the algorithm that decides which developer to fire and when. It should be very simple: IF ( developer.number_of_bugs / developer.number_of_lines_of_code_written > $FIRE_THRESHOLD ) { programer.fire(); }
Not sure whether to mod this "Insightful" or "Informative".
Wait, how did scientists get to another galaxy?
Makes you wonder why telephone company officials were fiddling with something that they knew wasn't theirs to begin with.
It's fun for those goofy little features, but I honestly can't see myself choosing to watch a good movie this way.
That's what they said about the talkies.
After World Verify Day.
Some people will do anything for the lulz.
I'm still waiting for Eudora's awesome search feature to be added Penelope.
How do they get rid of any rogue hawks? Pterodactyls?
This wouldn't have happened if the aircraft were armed with their own lasers.
Good thing the conclave has never been hacked, otherwise somebody might vote in a Nazi child-molester as Pope. (Yes, I am joking. No need to mod me down.)
Wut? When does copyright, by definition a government issued monopoly, have anything to do with the free market?
Every "free market" is government-regulated to some extent.
This is a rare opportunity to use a Slashdot meme on itself. Like when someone complains about a bug or annoyance in Linux, they're told to fix/code it themselves.
Well if you don't like the way the political process works, become a politician and fix it!
They need more transparency and a much higher level of technical (hell, any) knowledge and expertise in the legislatures.
Problem is, people who enter the halls of Congress automatically get infected by a virus which corrupts their ethics. It has been shown that even a complete reinstall/reboot of Congressmen doesn't fix the problem, indicating that the malicious code is embedded somewhere in the genetic firmware of human nature.
USA Rail prices are reasonable if you are traveling a lot in a given period and don't mind (or actually want) to take the train. I actually used a 30-day pass to travel across the country (round trip). I would highly recommend it.
That will affect digital devices but not so much analog ones--unless you increase the megatonnage of the blast considerably.
Then there's the pay structure. It's almost as if some places want to pay as much as possible for work (paid overtime for panic fixes) or intend it to take as long as possible (long unproductive unpaid overtime). A better approach would be to pay for results, and damn the work time spent to achieve them, provided they meet the schedule. A 20 hour week can be as productive as a 40 hour week, and more productive than a 60 hour week.
If you want to pay for results, hire a consultant.