You know, if you numbered them, then you can write a book (of course add a lot of fluff and unsubstantiated horseshit) called "The 7 Habits of Highly Ineffective Software Teams", have it published, be a huge hit, milk the fucker with another book called the "8th Habit", workbooks, do lectures at $50,000 a pop, and after a couple years, retire rich!
MS is turning into decent people! I can proudly say here on Slashdot that I like Microsoft products! I don't have to hide any longer! I can be in the open - no more a closet Microftie!
I feel so free! I can use my MS products with my Apple and Linux! I'll never have to take sides ever again to keep my karma whole! Gather around everyone and let's sing Kumbaya!
I know that most first posts are GNAA trolls, or something else pretty obtuse, but come on! You're waaaay down here and you honestly thought you'd be the first one to post that?!
There's already been a "Does it run Linux?" post and if I dug into the -1s, I'm sure there would be a "In Soviet Russia, 4004 processes you!" or some such thing about Cowboy Neal's something using 4004 in the description.
These are things one learns in the first few days of Slashdotting.
Man, go and read "Slashdot for Beginners" somewhere on Wikipedia - you know there's GOT to be an article on it somewhere there.
From 30 years of developing software, I've found time and time again that it actually does seem that people who don't know or care about the difference between "their" and "they're" are also too sloppy, unintelligent or just not anal enough to write clean, supportable and robust code.
However I feel we do need to make more allowance than the article's author did for people who did not learn English as a first language.
I'm impressed - 30 years! Wow!
In my measly 15 years of experience, I've had to spend many long hours meeting deadlines that some salesman made for us to make the sale. Of course, management backed up the ridiculous deadline because "if the salesman didn't say it could be done, some other company would have and we wouldn't have had the business!' So, said salesman makes his 6 figure commission and us coders are working 80+ hours a week to meet the ridiculous deadline - which happens frequently. Now, when I'm tired, fearing for my job, and trying to design and code on top of all that, the last thing I'm worried about is making sure I don't confuse "they're" with "their" or with "there". I'm worried about being productive, because if I'm not, they'll send the work to a country where they don't even speak English; let alone actually even bother to comment their code.
Personally, I'd rather have something than nothing; regardless of how poor the spelling is or the grammar. It's a software comment, not a dissertation.
"We condemn this undemocratic act of censoring our event just because someone is trying to impress or be in the good graces of the Chinese government.
That's what happens when you owe a lot of money to someone or want some of their money.
Up next: China takes back Taiwan and the US Government does nothing.
Now just remember that when you go to put all those Christmas gifts (Made in China) on your credit card (in a very circuitous route:Financed by China).
In an interview, Representative Bill Pascrell Jr., Democrat of New Jersey, said: “I regret that the language was the same. I did not know it was.” He said he got his statement from his staff and “did not know where they got the information from.”
So, this guy gets paid at least $174,000 per year plus all those awesome perks and retirement plans that none of us peons could ever get, and he can't do his own homework?!
I've been through the links and it just looks like a company wanted to sell a cheap Mac clone. I don't get what one or a firm would get in setting up a clone company just to get sued by Apple.
...proposed building a military "botnet," an army of centrally controlled computers to launch coordinated attacks on other machines.
Dear Terrorist: I am a Jihadist in Nigeria with $10 million and if I put it into a bank, those infidel Americans will freeze it. If you send me $5,000 to open an account in the Cayman Islands, I will put you in for half!
Or the other one: Dear Terrorist: Do want a LARGER penis? With a LARGER penis, you'll be more of a man and be able to take out those infidel Americans! Buy V1@gr4 from us! We will make you BIGGER and STRONGER! Allah be praised!
or:
Make BIG MONEY selling AK-47s from home! Make even more with IEDs!
Maybe we have laid eyes on "God". Maybe He's the Universe itself. All this matter and energy is God which makes us God too - or the children of God. And in that case, since we're made of God's material, we are in fact made in His image.
Ta-da!
God doesn't have to be a Santa Claus on steroids; which is basically what most Christians believe in.
How about naming the asshole or assholes behind it? So that way, if we see those lying thieves we'll know to run. Many times, these guys close up shop and just start all over again with a different business entity.
How many would invest with Bernie Madoff if he somehow miraculously got out of prison - regardless of the name of his company?
Cancel your cable if you want to save a little money and what you are interested in is available online. Free shows and movies online won't last forever, though. Free everything is just not sustainable, and right now they are just trying to capture eyeballs and prove the concept. At some point, expect paywalls to appear, at least for 'premium content' or selected episodes of a season or whatever. Don't say I didn't warn you.
After the Y2K and the 2001 tech crash, there wasn't as much of a demand for coders, especially with most of the new projects being web based - if you were a C/C++ coder, there were more coders than jobs.* Also, offshoring was picking up steam and then there is the age factor. When you get above 40, folks start wondering why you're still wanting to code or they think you're too old to be doing the 80+ hour week crunch periods or you're not willing (or too smart) to do that - either way, there is some age-ism in tech. Yeah, yeah, I know there are folks who are in their 60s working at jobs coding - I knew one myself, but they're not the norm.
Now, when your back is against the wall and someone puts a shit load of cash under your nose doing something that may or may not be ethical or even legal, you may do it. I wouldn't judge these guys unless you've been in their shoes.
The other thing is, I'm sure Madoff did NOT tell them upfront that what they were doing was illegal. He or his cohorts just gave those guys a programming assignment and didn't give specifics. Later on, those guys probably had a good idea what was going on, though but then, who knows what was going through their heads. Maybe, "Hey, we haven't been caught after all these years. WTF!"
*Look now, Microsoft has even laid people off! Times are rough! There are job postings at a few companies I know of and they're telling me that they're getting bombarded by very qualified people. To weed them out, they're getting ridiculously picky.
It works the other way too. Post something negative about Linux and regardless of how true it is, it's an automatic -1 "Flamebait" or "Troll" or the sneaky mods do an "Overrated" .
It's getting better with regards to Apple - the fanboys seam to be growing up. The MS haters, though, are lagging but getting there.
In addition, at least one fraud expert who works with a number of big name retailers said online retail fraud rates fell from around $250,000 per day to zero for a short time following McColo's takedow
Why aren't the cops there getting customers lists from McColo and going after the fraudsters?
As far as the toxic waste is concerned, have the Government take those toxic address and have the Government turn their current addresses back into the pool. That will detox those addresses quick.
The potential risks of enabling radio communication in implantable medical devices were first highlighted by Kevin Fu, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst,...
It must have been rough in college for him.
CS Professor: Now when you call function Foo.
Fu: What professor?
Um, nothing. Back to Foo.
Sir?
Nothing. Anyway the function, let's call it, "Bar" instead. Now when you call "Bar"
John Barr, another student: "What sir?
Professor: Is there anyone named ABC?! Good! Now when you call function ABC...
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Yeah, but it sure is a nice paycheck for the six sigma black belt consultant! See? It's a win situation.
Dipshit PHBs would be buying them left and right!
Yahoo! Is! that! you!?
I didn't sound like Bill Shatner, did I?
Buy my euphoria has died down. Some guys with Think Geek! T-Shirts came by and beat the shit out of me.
I feel so free! I can use my MS products with my Apple and Linux! I'll never have to take sides ever again to keep my karma whole! Gather around everyone and let's sing Kumbaya!
Because there is more to look at than fonts... like the 16x16 icons everywhere.
Isn't there a "large Icons" selection?
Affordable to you may be unfordable for me or unaffordable to you is perfectly affordable to Donald Trump.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
First Post said just that.
I know that most first posts are GNAA trolls, or something else pretty obtuse, but come on! You're waaaay down here and you honestly thought you'd be the first one to post that?!
There's already been a "Does it run Linux?" post and if I dug into the -1s, I'm sure there would be a "In Soviet Russia, 4004 processes you!" or some such thing about Cowboy Neal's something using 4004 in the description.
These are things one learns in the first few days of Slashdotting.
Man, go and read "Slashdot for Beginners" somewhere on Wikipedia - you know there's GOT to be an article on it somewhere there.
Wait, what? You lost me. Are you from the future? How can you describe the state of the art as "primitive"?
-Peter
Oh, that's silly! He's psychic, of course. He can SEE into the future!
From 30 years of developing software, I've found time and time again that it actually does seem that people who don't know or care about the difference between "their" and "they're" are also too sloppy, unintelligent or just not anal enough to write clean, supportable and robust code.
However I feel we do need to make more allowance than the article's author did for people who did not learn English as a first language.
I'm impressed - 30 years! Wow!
In my measly 15 years of experience, I've had to spend many long hours meeting deadlines that some salesman made for us to make the sale. Of course, management backed up the ridiculous deadline because "if the salesman didn't say it could be done, some other company would have and we wouldn't have had the business!' So, said salesman makes his 6 figure commission and us coders are working 80+ hours a week to meet the ridiculous deadline - which happens frequently. Now, when I'm tired, fearing for my job, and trying to design and code on top of all that, the last thing I'm worried about is making sure I don't confuse "they're" with "their" or with "there". I'm worried about being productive, because if I'm not, they'll send the work to a country where they don't even speak English; let alone actually even bother to comment their code.
Personally, I'd rather have something than nothing; regardless of how poor the spelling is or the grammar. It's a software comment, not a dissertation.
But that's been my measly newbie experience.
"We condemn this undemocratic act of censoring our event just because someone is trying to impress or be in the good graces of the Chinese government.
That's what happens when you owe a lot of money to someone or want some of their money.
Up next: China takes back Taiwan and the US Government does nothing.
Now just remember that when you go to put all those Christmas gifts (Made in China) on your credit card (in a very circuitous route:Financed by China).
Yep! Now who's the Super Power, again?
In an interview, Representative Bill Pascrell Jr., Democrat of New Jersey, said: “I regret that the language was the same. I did not know it was.” He said he got his statement from his staff and “did not know where they got the information from.”
So, this guy gets paid at least $174,000 per year plus all those awesome perks and retirement plans that none of us peons could ever get, and he can't do his own homework?!
What does this guy do all day?
From what I see, the elected officials are pretty comfortable with the way things are.
I've been through the links and it just looks like a company wanted to sell a cheap Mac clone. I don't get what one or a firm would get in setting up a clone company just to get sued by Apple.
...proposed building a military "botnet," an army of centrally controlled computers to launch coordinated attacks on other machines.
Dear Terrorist:
I am a Jihadist in Nigeria with $10 million and if I put it into a bank, those infidel Americans will freeze it. If you send me $5,000 to open an account in the Cayman Islands, I will put you in for half!
Or the other one:
Dear Terrorist:
Do want a LARGER penis? With a LARGER penis, you'll be more of a man and be able to take out those infidel Americans! Buy V1@gr4 from us! We will make you BIGGER and STRONGER! Allah be praised!
or:
Make BIG MONEY selling AK-47s from home! Make even more with IEDs!
Kill Americans!
Ta-da!
God doesn't have to be a Santa Claus on steroids; which is basically what most Christians believe in.
It's Mars, so who cares if they slice it and they don't have to worry about any water traps because if there are any, they're solid.
How many would invest with Bernie Madoff if he somehow miraculously got out of prison - regardless of the name of his company?
Cancel your cable if you want to save a little money and what you are interested in is available online. Free shows and movies online won't last forever, though. Free everything is just not sustainable, and right now they are just trying to capture eyeballs and prove the concept. At some point, expect paywalls to appear, at least for 'premium content' or selected episodes of a season or whatever. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Of course, all they're saying is "may" charge.
What they do have is pretty good.
They will be charging next year AND having advertisements.
After the Y2K and the 2001 tech crash, there wasn't as much of a demand for coders, especially with most of the new projects being web based - if you were a C/C++ coder, there were more coders than jobs.* Also, offshoring was picking up steam and then there is the age factor. When you get above 40, folks start wondering why you're still wanting to code or they think you're too old to be doing the 80+ hour week crunch periods or you're not willing (or too smart) to do that - either way, there is some age-ism in tech. Yeah, yeah, I know there are folks who are in their 60s working at jobs coding - I knew one myself, but they're not the norm.
Now, when your back is against the wall and someone puts a shit load of cash under your nose doing something that may or may not be ethical or even legal, you may do it. I wouldn't judge these guys unless you've been in their shoes.
The other thing is, I'm sure Madoff did NOT tell them upfront that what they were doing was illegal. He or his cohorts just gave those guys a programming assignment and didn't give specifics. Later on, those guys probably had a good idea what was going on, though but then, who knows what was going through their heads. Maybe, "Hey, we haven't been caught after all these years. WTF!"
*Look now, Microsoft has even laid people off! Times are rough! There are job postings at a few companies I know of and they're telling me that they're getting bombarded by very qualified people. To weed them out, they're getting ridiculously picky.
Wait ... I'm the one who does that. Never mind.
Continue.
It's getting better with regards to Apple - the fanboys seam to be growing up. The MS haters, though, are lagging but getting there.
In addition, at least one fraud expert who works with a number of big name retailers said online retail fraud rates fell from around $250,000 per day to zero for a short time following McColo's takedow
Why aren't the cops there getting customers lists from McColo and going after the fraudsters?
As far as the toxic waste is concerned, have the Government take those toxic address and have the Government turn their current addresses back into the pool. That will detox those addresses quick.
He made an excellent topic choice.
On the other hand, it does look he'd be happy as a baker .
The potential risks of enabling radio communication in implantable medical devices were first highlighted by Kevin Fu, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst,...
It must have been rough in college for him.
CS Professor: Now when you call function Foo.
Fu: What professor?
Um, nothing. Back to Foo.
Sir?
Nothing. Anyway the function, let's call it, "Bar" instead. Now when you call "Bar"
John Barr, another student: "What sir?
Professor: Is there anyone named ABC?! Good! Now when you call function ABC ...