I did an internship at a US embassy in Africa in the early 1990s. On the weekends some of us would run in the Hash House Harriers cross-country races. The embassy staff donated their shredded documents to mark the trails. You would be running through the woods, and when you came to a fork, there would be a little pile of shredded US government secrets marking the way!
Of course, the embassies don't use your run-of-the-mill $40 Stables shredders. These shredders produced tiny little slivers that would completely disintegrate at the next rain.
I always wondered if the embassy spooks knew the foreign service officers were using the shredded bits that way.
Neal Gandhi, vice president of product management at Attenda, said: "The quietest time of year for website problems is over Christmas and New Year because the development teams are away, even though it's a busy time for consumer websites.
"Then, as soon as you see the developers logging on again, the trouble starts."
So, software bugs are caused by developers working on software. The solution is clear: all those VPs of product management should just pay us web developers to stay home.
These implications may be significant. America stands at an interesting crossroads: The drafting lines that developed in the wake of the Gulf War have fractured. Our social capital in the global arena, which carried us through much of the last decade, may be on the wane.
It's too bad the author didn't explore this further. One of the reasons the administration is having such a hard time getting a coaltion together for a war in Iraq is because they "defected" from the "drafting line" on so many other issues: the Kyoto treaty, steel tarrifs, farming subsidies, the World Court.
The Bush administration has pursued a course of multilateralism at every turn. Now they are having trouble finding partners. Is it any wonder?
And is the economy of the country you work in stronger than that of the US? I doubt it.
I whole-heartedly agree that if Republicans really held family values, they would help the working family more. But I don't think we need to follow a European model where people get 6 weeks of vacation and often work less than 40 hours per week.
In the section about the larger questions this lawsuit raises, LawMeme writes:
Perhaps a search engine is important enough to be treated as a regulated utility, the same way that water, gas, and the cables over which search requests travel are. Google is good, most netizens seem to think, but what if it weren't? What if it became an arbitrary dictator, raising up and throwing down web sites at will. That's what SearchKing thinks Google has become already, or at least that's one major question raised by this suit.
The obvious answer to this "larger question" is this: if Google becomes an arbitrary dictator, giving popular sites low rankings, they will quickly lose their dictatorship. Imagine if a search for "apache" gave apache.org a PageRank of 346. Google wouldn't last long.
But if Google gives SearchKing sites a low rank? Well, nobody seems to be complaining but SearchKing.
If they say no, then tell them you want to place a customer request that they offer that because that is what you are going to install anyway and then order it.
I think your suggestion will have zero impact on Dell. If you really want to get their attention, call them up, go through the configuration of the box, and when you're done, say you don't want Windows. When the service rep says he can't do that, tell him how stupid that is, and inform him you'll be purchasing your PC elsewhere.
I'm risking karma, but the previous comment was moderated up to a 5 when it seems pretty obvious the author didn't read the original article.
You don't have to guess what his demonstration will be. If you RTFA (read the fucking article), it tells you exactly what he's going to do. Come on, folks. Give a little thought to your moderation.
Why would these things be controlled via the internet?
Because idiot sheeples want bigger faster better. They want their refrigerator to be able to print out a list of groceries it needs on their computer. They want to be able to put a recipe into their laptop, and using wireless, have it pre-program the stove and microwave, and have the refrigerator and pantry tell them what they need to buy to make it happen.
I'm not so sure about that. The garbage heap of faild dotcoms contains lots of companies that spent lots of money building websites and web apps that it turned out nobody wanted.
Examples? How about Palm's website that let you sync your Pilot with their online PIM. They couldn't make money, so they quit providing that service.
How about all those websites that, for a fee, would let you store your docs on their websites so you could access them from anywhere you had internet access?
I think most people look at things like refrigerators that automatically order groceries as being completely unnecessary, and the amount of money they're willing to spend on such "features" certainly won't cover their cost.
I see that the logo is a penguin with an Uncle Sam hat on its head and a sign on its belly which I would interpret as 'No Windows'. I do not think of Linux as a typically or purely American phenomenon; it is cosmopolitic, not bound to a particular nation.
Jeez, read the page. From the very first story on LinuxDailyNews:
Why is our Tux wearing a party hat?
Tux is wearing his special outfit in honor of the first annual 'wIndependence Day' -- a special celebration which takes place this year on July 4th. wIndependence Day celebrates the burgeoning use of Linux on business, government, educational institution, and personal end-user computer desktops as an alternative to dependence on Microsoft's Windows operating system and associated products.
I agree with the idea of code review. However, it has a problem. Lots of organizations do code reviews in a conference room from hardcopy. Sometimes there isn't even a computer available. You read the code, find a possible bug, and tell the developer to go test it and fix it.
That might work if code were static, but software systems undergo constant change. In every organization I've ben in had code reviews, a given piece of software gets exactly one review. But it will inevitably have to change, and the changes are rarely reviewed.
That's where team programming comes in. Say what you will about the whole of XP, but my experience with pair programming (which can be viewed as constant code review) is that it eliminates tons of bugs before you even check in your code. This is espcially true if the pairs are all working together in a big room: not only do you have your partner reviewing your code, but you can ask questions of the other teams.
From 1987 to 1989, I was in the Peace Corps in Malawi. For two years, I taught high school, but during my third year I taught computer classes at a government training center, mostly to civil servants. I girlfriend (who became my wife), had a job developing database systems for an organization called Malawi Against Polio.
By the way, there are a lot of things I disliked about the Peace Corps, but for the most part,the good outweighed the bad. And what an experience. Those were three of the most interesting and wonderful years of my life, despite some real hardships.
For Christ's sake, do something else. You're, what, 21? Do NOT become a corporate drone, or you'll never get out.
I hated CS during my last year of school, too. I kept a development job for seven months after graduation, then went to Africa where I spent the next three years.
After that, I went to grad school in International Studies, which was a blast. It didn't pay the bills, though, but a kind soul offered me a C++ job. By that time, I found software development an absolute blast, and it paid well.
So, go do something else for a few years. Then maybe there will be another tech boom, and you can get back into it if you need some money.
So some guy posted a list of songs on f--ckedcompany.com, and that makes it true? Has anyone seen proof of this? How about posting, say, a scan of the memo that went out banning these songs.
Yeah, it's funny, until you realize that the current state of intellectual property law is so egregious that intelligent people might actually believe a trademark would be granted for the emoticon, and that the trademark holder might actually sue 7,000,000 email users.
> they like getting stuff for free, and the creators be damned
I think this is true for a lot of content, but not necessarily for all content. For example, I pay something like $22 a year for an online subscription to Consumer Reports. For me, this is much better than getting the dead tree version, which contains a lot of crap I'm not interested in. With the online version, I just hit the website whenever I'm reasearching an upcoming purchase.
I would also be willing to pay for a news feed. I cancelled my newspaper subscription long ago. Portland's The Oregonian sucks, and the main stories are always about something I read about on the net the day before. Instead, I read cnn.com daily for up-to-the minute news. and, frankly, I'd be willing to pay the same price as a newspaper for the privilege.
The question should be "CS, CIS or SE?"
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I did a CS degree long ago, and I believe that it has helped me much more than a CIS degree ever would have. That being said, there was a lot of stuff in CS that I don't use. For instance, I never use calculus.
I believe my degree would have had a lot more relevance to my job if it had included subjects like configuration management, project management, and writing good documentation. In other words, I think a Software Engineering degree is much more useful than CS or CIS. It should include a lot of CS (algorithms and data structures), but it should also include all the other skills developers use that are generally neglected in CS curriculums.
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I did an internship at a US embassy in Africa in the early 1990s. On the weekends some of us would run in the Hash House Harriers cross-country races. The embassy staff donated their shredded documents to mark the trails. You would be running through the woods, and when you came to a fork, there would be a little pile of shredded US government secrets marking the way!
Of course, the embassies don't use your run-of-the-mill $40 Stables shredders. These shredders produced tiny little slivers that would completely disintegrate at the next rain.
I always wondered if the embassy spooks knew the foreign service officers were using the shredded bits that way.
Dude, turn up your irony detector.
That's appalling. I would have a hard time working with someone who created problems just so they could take a break. You need to get some ethics.
It's too bad the author didn't explore this further. One of the reasons the administration is having such a hard time getting a coaltion together for a war in Iraq is because they "defected" from the "drafting line" on so many other issues: the Kyoto treaty, steel tarrifs, farming subsidies, the World Court.
The Bush administration has pursued a course of multilateralism at every turn. Now they are having trouble finding partners. Is it any wonder?
And is the economy of the country you work in stronger than that of the US? I doubt it.
I whole-heartedly agree that if Republicans really held family values, they would help the working family more. But I don't think we need to follow a European model where people get 6 weeks of vacation and often work less than 40 hours per week.
Rule number 1: do not put PDF on your website
The obvious answer to this "larger question" is this: if Google becomes an arbitrary dictator, giving popular sites low rankings, they will quickly lose their dictatorship. Imagine if a search for "apache" gave apache.org a PageRank of 346. Google wouldn't last long.
But if Google gives SearchKing sites a low rank? Well, nobody seems to be complaining but SearchKing.No problem: reject any message whose HTML part doesn't matchup with the text part.
I think your suggestion will have zero impact on Dell. If you really want to get their attention, call them up, go through the configuration of the box, and when you're done, say you don't want Windows. When the service rep says he can't do that, tell him how stupid that is, and inform him you'll be purchasing your PC elsewhere.
I'm risking karma, but the previous comment was moderated up to a 5 when it seems pretty obvious the author didn't read the original article.
You don't have to guess what his demonstration will be. If you RTFA (read the fucking article), it tells you exactly what he's going to do. Come on, folks. Give a little thought to your moderation.
I'm not so sure about that. The garbage heap of faild dotcoms contains lots of companies that spent lots of money building websites and web apps that it turned out nobody wanted.
Examples? How about Palm's website that let you sync your Pilot with their online PIM. They couldn't make money, so they quit providing that service.
How about all those websites that, for a fee, would let you store your docs on their websites so you could access them from anywhere you had internet access?
I think most people look at things like refrigerators that automatically order groceries as being completely unnecessary, and the amount of money they're willing to spend on such "features" certainly won't cover their cost.
Canada? Isn't that some place up north? You have internet connections there?
What exactly is non-XP style unit testing? Unit testing is unit testing, regardless of your development methodology.
I agree with the idea of code review. However, it has a problem. Lots of organizations do code reviews in a conference room from hardcopy. Sometimes there isn't even a computer available. You read the code, find a possible bug, and tell the developer to go test it and fix it.
That might work if code were static, but software systems undergo constant change. In every organization I've ben in had code reviews, a given piece of software gets exactly one review. But it will inevitably have to change, and the changes are rarely reviewed.
That's where team programming comes in. Say what you will about the whole of XP, but my experience with pair programming (which can be viewed as constant code review) is that it eliminates tons of bugs before you even check in your code. This is espcially true if the pairs are all working together in a big room: not only do you have your partner reviewing your code, but you can ask questions of the other teams.
"I don't know why they bothered making it."
There's this cool economic system called capitalism, based on a neat concept called "supply an demand". You should look it up.
How do you measure listeners? Have a look at MeasureCast.
From 1987 to 1989, I was in the Peace Corps in Malawi. For two years, I taught high school, but during my third year I taught computer classes at a government training center, mostly to civil servants. I girlfriend (who became my wife), had a job developing database systems for an organization called Malawi Against Polio.
By the way, there are a lot of things I disliked about the Peace Corps, but for the most part,the good outweighed the bad. And what an experience. Those were three of the most interesting and wonderful years of my life, despite some real hardships.
For Christ's sake, do something else. You're, what, 21? Do NOT become a corporate drone, or you'll never get out.
I hated CS during my last year of school, too. I kept a development job for seven months after graduation, then went to Africa where I spent the next three years.
After that, I went to grad school in International Studies, which was a blast. It didn't pay the bills, though, but a kind soul offered me a C++ job. By that time, I found software development an absolute blast, and it paid well.
So, go do something else for a few years. Then maybe there will be another tech boom, and you can get back into it if you need some money.
So some guy posted a list of songs on f--ckedcompany.com, and that makes it true? Has anyone seen proof of this? How about posting, say, a scan of the memo that went out banning these songs.
Yeah, it's funny, until you realize that the current state of intellectual property law is so egregious that intelligent people might actually believe a trademark would be granted for the emoticon, and that the trademark holder might actually sue 7,000,000 email users.
> they like getting stuff for free, and the creators be damned
I think this is true for a lot of content, but not necessarily for all content. For example, I pay something like $22 a year for an online subscription to Consumer Reports. For me, this is much better than getting the dead tree version, which contains a lot of crap I'm not interested in. With the online version, I just hit the website whenever I'm reasearching an upcoming purchase.
I would also be willing to pay for a news feed. I cancelled my newspaper subscription long ago. Portland's The Oregonian sucks, and the main stories are always about something I read about on the net the day before. Instead, I read cnn.com daily for up-to-the minute news. and, frankly, I'd be willing to pay the same price as a newspaper for the privilege.
I did a CS degree long ago, and I believe that it has helped me much more than a CIS degree ever would have. That being said, there was a lot of stuff in CS that I don't use. For instance, I never use calculus.
I believe my degree would have had a lot more relevance to my job if it had included subjects like configuration management, project management, and writing good documentation. In other words, I think a Software Engineering degree is much more useful than CS or CIS. It should include a lot of CS (algorithms and data structures), but it should also include all the other skills developers use that are generally neglected in CS curriculums.
Isaac Asimov proposed the same thing about 40 years ago. I think his essay was called "Days of Our Years."