You are right. But remember that taking all those math classes really had little to do with math. What you really learned to do is solve problems and organize your thoughts. That is the goal of most classes, it's not always obvious what they are teaching you until it's too late and you learned something else - a more important lesson. Those sneaking teachers.
Memorizing the Constitution is fine, but it aint going to get you a job. Knowing how to think logically and knowing when you don't know something is the key to being successful in most careers.
What about the other customers of the ISP that the suspected criminal is using? A denial of service attack will obviously affect the ISP's bandwidth and the Internet as a whole.
If someone is breaking the law shouldn't they be charged with a crime and shouldn't we use the judicial system and due process?
If someone steals something from my house I don't have a right to break into their house and steal it back, or burn their house down.
"For the average American to use Linux, we need an isp like AOL that is nationwide, and supports linux."
I have said this time and time again, "Who cares if the average American uses Linux."
Linux is a great OS right now and is successful. We don't need the average moron running Linux. In order for that to happen the OS needs to be dumby-proof, which will in turn make Linux just as lame as Windows.
Why don't these so-called Linux users understand that Linux is successful and doesn't need the mass of morons in the world to use it. How many things have become mainstream and remained cool? Just be careful what you wish for you just might get it.
Yeah the first amendment is stupid and should only apply to the subjects that the Bushies like.
Free speach means that people are going to say shit you don't like - tough. If you don't like what someone is saying, say something against. We, the US, need to protect everyone's freedom even the freedom of people we don't like.
I recently heard the results of a poll that suggested 50% of all Americans feel the first amendment provides too much freedom. How is that possible, "Too much freedom". That's like "Too much fun", "Too much sex", "Too much happiness", "Too much peace". How can you have Too Much Freedom? There is nothing more sacred then protecting every humanbeing freedom - at all costs.
Cleaning toilets comes to mind. Actually what I have found to be good skills are things that target a niche market. My PHP skills and Novell skills have been helpful. I live in Seattle and everyone is so Microsoft-centric that having skills other than ASP and a MCSE are attractive to folks looking for non-MS skills. But that may differ from area to area.
Let's start by pulling our heads from our asses and think about this subject from an intelligent viewpoint. MySQL is NOT the right tool for every freakin' site. I like MySQL for my little sites that get like 100 hits a day and store very little data. MySQL sucks major ass when you attempt any enterprise application use. It fails horribly with large tables and is extremely difficult to manage. Postgresql is the best Open source database, period. It is fast, reliable, and has all the features you will need and is rock solid.
Use MySQL for your little web site and use Postgresql for the real stuff. As for DB2, Oracle, MSSQL, I don't see the value in any of these over Postgresql.
Yeah, I'm the dumbass. You are the idiot the doesn't recognize when someone is using a metaphor. The english language can be confusing, you anonymous coward.
Think about it for a minute. Start your own label and compete against the government supported bigass labels. If you hate Microsoft, why not start your own software and do it better than MS can? Because it's hard to fight and win against a 800 pound gorilla that has a 1000 pound elephant(US government) doing anything and everything it can make sure the big boys stay the big boys and the little guys can't stand a chance. If we had a truly free market where corporations large or small can actually compete, then I would agree with you.
There are some people out there who have succeeded running small labels (Lookout records, Fat records..). But it's not easy and not every artist wants to run a record label, but that doesn't mean they can't bitch about record labels. I don't like my bank, but that doesn't mean I have to start my bank or quit bitching.
Reading some of Larry's writing really makes it obvious why Perl is the way Perl is.
Like this quote:
We assume that it's obvious which things should be easy or hard, and that the things that are currently easy are the things that ought to be easy. We assume that making the hard things easy will necessarily cause the easy things to become hard. But sometimes it's not obvious what should be easy or hard. Sometimes the wrong things are easy. And sometimes there are ways to make the hard things easier without making the easy things harder.
I was like, what the hell is he talking about. Which is often what I find myself saying when I am reading some Perl code. But after spending some time looking at the code, or written words of Larry, you realize that it's not complete insanity and it actually does make sense. It does make sense, right?
Will working 15 hours a day affect the quality of code?
Who cares your boss is an asshole, quit and move on. Don't be like the rest of the country and fear the bad economy. You have to live your life right now, not a year from now. You could be dead tomorrow so charish your life and the little time we get on earth.
Our current law enforcement system that is supposed to arrest people for crimes that have already happened is flawed. Now take that same law enforcement and judicial system and have them start investigating people for crimes they haven't committed.
Seriously, can we expect our cops to be mind readers? Can we expect this to turn into anything other than a racially biased system. It's not enough that we are arresting millions of blacks because they sell white people their drugs. Now we want to make it easier to arrest these citizens. It's not supposed to be easy to arrest people in the US. That's what freedom is. It's being able to say and do what you want without the government spying on you - among other things. If someone does a crime, you arrest them. It's that simple. We are ALL innocent until proven guilty, not just the ones we like. How hard is that to understand.
I don't understand how or when some people got the idea that they could decide who deserves equal protection under the law and who the Constitution and Bill of Rights applies to. We are going to ask the police to watch these "suspected criminals" so they don't commit any crimes or doing anything to harm the rest of the "good" population - those that are protected by the Constitution and Bill of Rights - the ones that the judicial system works for. There's the little thing called probable cause, and being poor and black is not probable cause.
I think that the upper class folks in the US need to be careful. Poor people will only be pushed so far, before they start to push back. Poor people in this country get kicked around a lot less in this country than in other countries, but they also have higher expectations. There will always be poor people in a capatalist society, but they deserve a chance to succeed and freedom. Many of the greatest Americans have come from poverty and achieved. Give poor people a chance, and protect their freedom too. You never know, it might feel good doing the right thing.
Dealers don't count cards. Why would they? The odds on in the casinos favor already. I know someone who is a blackjack dealer and he couldn't care less if you win or lose, he just deals the damn cards.
But you are correct casinos are just being dicks. Why would it be illegal to count cards? It's your to win and it's their job to make you lose.
Duuuuuude. What are you talking about? Don't worry about the hits on the server, hardware/bandwidth is cheap. If you are worried about user's being inconvenieced by slow loading web pages, then your shit is too heavy and your application isn't architected very well.
I am sorry but in my opinion Javascripts has 2 useful functions.
Form data validation. But you should still do the validation on the server, so your stuff still works with people that don't have Javascript enabled.
Javascript allows you to do really outlandish stuff when you are writting Intranet applications and you can force people to have Javascript enabled.
Seriously, anyone out there that can't build a web application without sending anything other than HTML to the browser, isn't a very good web developer. People rely on technologies to do things that I personally don't think they were really meant to do. Javascript was a bad idea. Doing some client side stuff is great, but really I don't think Javascript is the right way to do. I would rather run Applets than try and hack out some sort of 'application' with Javascript, please.
I am always amazed at the number of bad developers out there. Just look through the PHP mailing lists, for every informed post there are 300 disconnected ones. I was a loser when I started out in web development too, so I understand. Just don't act like you know anything if you relying on Javascript to make or break your app. Being a good web developer, or any programmer, requires discipline. Just because you can use a goto doesn't mean you should. The right tool for the job. And do NOT underestimate the power of a well architected web application.
You could just start your business and write all the code you want and sell it. I know that sounds ridiculous, but it's not. It all depends on how much money you need, if you need more than $4 a month you better keep your day job. Seriously though, if you hate your job, starting your own business is not unrealistic people do it all the time and are successful. Think of all the business owners you have met in your life, how many of them were true visionaries that cornered some market, most are not. Just do it!
I feel the same exact way as the person who posted this.
The reason most technology folks feel this way is because management folks are dumbasses. They may be smart when it comes to managing the billing department or the marketing department or shipping/recieving but they almost always fail when it comes to techies.
Here is why. Techies are smart people that know more then management does about technology. Management can't take the pressure from techies pushing them one way while their boss pushes another, and will lean toward whatever their boss wants. Or they are truly stupid and feel they know more about what direction technology should go, and the result is techies getting randomized. The only way to really solve this dilema is to have a CTO who really does know what he's talking about who can push and pull on the same level as everyone else in the company, that can work - I think.
It wouldn't be a problem if tech folks were dumb and didn't care about what they do. The fact that most of us really care about what we do and truly do know what is best for both ourselves and the company, is a real problem for management. I feel that I truly make decisions based upon the best interests of the company, but they never ever never do anything that I propose and always want to implement some stupid ass "solution" that will have to be tossed in 6 months.
It all boils down to management has to know when to just let the technology people make the decisions and they just worry about whether they can afford to do what they are asking for. If not, say so and let the trained professionals come up with another realistic solution, not just some stupid shit that doesn't make sense.
For these reasons I am returning to my role as a consultant. It's not a perfect career, but it allows me to distance myself from management. That's not true I still have to work with management types, just not directly for them. They call me up and say they need this that and the other, I deliver, they pay and I go on my merry way. You still have to deal with stupidity at some level, but at least you aren't totally enthralled in it and can just move on to the next customer.
I love consulting, it's the only way I can work in IT or software development. I tried everything else, and it's just apparent that I can't be happy working fulltime for one company. I like being called in to act like the hero or the expert and people actually listen to what I have to say and take me seriously, because they see my bill and go, "See, he's smart because he has letterhead." It's just a different role and allows you to approach the same problem, but from a different perspective and a totally different attitude.
The only problem is now I have to market myself and sell my services, life's little challenges are what makes things interesting.
Thank you. I have been saying this ever since I started using X. I hate that the networking bs in X is so prominent. It should be something it can do not such a big part of X.
In my opinion Linux will never be a serious threat on the desktop until X is either completly rewritten or something better comes along.
I think XWindow is good at what it does, I just don't like it. I spend too much time dealing with stuff that I don't want to deal with.
That wasn't my point. I was just pointing out that people don't always look beyond the obvious benefit of something.
I think that taxes should be a fraction of what they are now and that the government should be small and only providing basic functions to the people: defense, law enforcement, public health services, etc.
The government is way too powerful and lowering taxes would be the best way to shrink the government and force them to focus on what they should be focusing on, rather than trying to push family values and get in everyone's business.
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You are right. But remember that taking all those math classes really had little to do with math. What you really learned to do is solve problems and organize your thoughts. That is the goal of most classes, it's not always obvious what they are teaching you until it's too late and you learned something else - a more important lesson. Those sneaking teachers.
Memorizing the Constitution is fine, but it aint going to get you a job. Knowing how to think logically and knowing when you don't know something is the key to being successful in most careers.
What about the other customers of the ISP that the suspected criminal is using? A denial of service attack will obviously affect the ISP's bandwidth and the Internet as a whole.
If someone is breaking the law shouldn't they be charged with a crime and shouldn't we use the judicial system and due process?
If someone steals something from my house I don't have a right to break into their house and steal it back, or burn their house down.
This is outrageous.
I would love to see a war between the RIAA and techies. I wonder who will win?
"For the average American to use Linux, we need an isp like AOL that is nationwide, and supports linux."
I have said this time and time again, "Who cares if the average American uses Linux."
Linux is a great OS right now and is successful. We don't need the average moron running Linux. In order for that to happen the OS needs to be dumby-proof, which will in turn make Linux just as lame as Windows.
Why don't these so-called Linux users understand that Linux is successful and doesn't need the mass of morons in the world to use it. How many things have become mainstream and remained cool? Just be careful what you wish for you just might get it.
I love you guys. You never what part of post will get turned into some strange discussion on Slashdot.
Free Speach rules.
Yeah the first amendment is stupid and should only apply to the subjects that the Bushies like.
Free speach means that people are going to say shit you don't like - tough. If you don't like what someone is saying, say something against. We, the US, need to protect everyone's freedom even the freedom of people we don't like.
I recently heard the results of a poll that suggested 50% of all Americans feel the first amendment provides too much freedom. How is that possible, "Too much freedom". That's like "Too much fun", "Too much sex", "Too much happiness", "Too much peace". How can you have Too Much Freedom? There is nothing more sacred then protecting every humanbeing freedom - at all costs.
Please stop calling my facial tissue kleenex
Weak, they don't have proxy support built in. I guess when they mean lightweight, they mean it don't do shit but display web pages.
It's pretty cool though.
Cleaning toilets comes to mind. Actually what I have found to be good skills are things that target a niche market. My PHP skills and Novell skills have been helpful. I live in Seattle and everyone is so Microsoft-centric that having skills other than ASP and a MCSE are attractive to folks looking for non-MS skills. But that may differ from area to area.
What's a sysadmin? Do you mean that guy that we hired to clean the bathrooms and knows about "the computer".
The sysadmin will be here forever and ever. Most companies will continue to buy e-machines from Costco because they are cheap.
Let's start by pulling our heads from our asses and think about this subject from an intelligent viewpoint. MySQL is NOT the right tool for every freakin' site. I like MySQL for my little sites that get like 100 hits a day and store very little data. MySQL sucks major ass when you attempt any enterprise application use. It fails horribly with large tables and is extremely difficult to manage. Postgresql is the best Open source database, period. It is fast, reliable, and has all the features you will need and is rock solid.
Use MySQL for your little web site and use Postgresql for the real stuff. As for DB2, Oracle, MSSQL, I don't see the value in any of these over Postgresql.
Yeah, I'm the dumbass. You are the idiot the doesn't recognize when someone is using a metaphor. The english language can be confusing, you anonymous coward.
Think about it for a minute. Start your own label and compete against the government supported bigass labels. If you hate Microsoft, why not start your own software and do it better than MS can? Because it's hard to fight and win against a 800 pound gorilla that has a 1000 pound elephant(US government) doing anything and everything it can make sure the big boys stay the big boys and the little guys can't stand a chance. If we had a truly free market where corporations large or small can actually compete, then I would agree with you.
There are some people out there who have succeeded running small labels (Lookout records, Fat records..). But it's not easy and not every artist wants to run a record label, but that doesn't mean they can't bitch about record labels. I don't like my bank, but that doesn't mean I have to start my bank or quit bitching.
Reading some of Larry's writing really makes it obvious why Perl is the way Perl is.
Like this quote: We assume that it's obvious which things should be easy or hard, and that the things that are currently easy are the things that ought to be easy. We assume that making the hard things easy will necessarily cause the easy things to become hard. But sometimes it's not obvious what should be easy or hard. Sometimes the wrong things are easy. And sometimes there are ways to make the hard things easier without making the easy things harder.
I was like, what the hell is he talking about. Which is often what I find myself saying when I am reading some Perl code. But after spending some time looking at the code, or written words of Larry, you realize that it's not complete insanity and it actually does make sense. It does make sense, right?
Larry is the best.
Will working 15 hours a day affect the quality of code?
Who cares your boss is an asshole, quit and move on. Don't be like the rest of the country and fear the bad economy. You have to live your life right now, not a year from now. You could be dead tomorrow so charish your life and the little time we get on earth.
Our current law enforcement system that is supposed to arrest people for crimes that have already happened is flawed. Now take that same law enforcement and judicial system and have them start investigating people for crimes they haven't committed.
Seriously, can we expect our cops to be mind readers? Can we expect this to turn into anything other than a racially biased system. It's not enough that we are arresting millions of blacks because they sell white people their drugs. Now we want to make it easier to arrest these citizens. It's not supposed to be easy to arrest people in the US. That's what freedom is. It's being able to say and do what you want without the government spying on you - among other things. If someone does a crime, you arrest them. It's that simple. We are ALL innocent until proven guilty, not just the ones we like. How hard is that to understand.
I don't understand how or when some people got the idea that they could decide who deserves equal protection under the law and who the Constitution and Bill of Rights applies to. We are going to ask the police to watch these "suspected criminals" so they don't commit any crimes or doing anything to harm the rest of the "good" population - those that are protected by the Constitution and Bill of Rights - the ones that the judicial system works for. There's the little thing called probable cause, and being poor and black is not probable cause.
I think that the upper class folks in the US need to be careful. Poor people will only be pushed so far, before they start to push back. Poor people in this country get kicked around a lot less in this country than in other countries, but they also have higher expectations. There will always be poor people in a capatalist society, but they deserve a chance to succeed and freedom. Many of the greatest Americans have come from poverty and achieved. Give poor people a chance, and protect their freedom too. You never know, it might feel good doing the right thing.
Dealers don't count cards. Why would they? The odds on in the casinos favor already. I know someone who is a blackjack dealer and he couldn't care less if you win or lose, he just deals the damn cards.
But you are correct casinos are just being dicks. Why would it be illegal to count cards? It's your to win and it's their job to make you lose.
Duuuuuude. What are you talking about? Don't worry about the hits on the server, hardware/bandwidth is cheap. If you are worried about user's being inconvenieced by slow loading web pages, then your shit is too heavy and your application isn't architected very well.
I am sorry but in my opinion Javascripts has 2 useful functions.
Form data validation. But you should still do the validation on the server, so your stuff still works with people that don't have Javascript enabled.
Javascript allows you to do really outlandish stuff when you are writting Intranet applications and you can force people to have Javascript enabled.
Seriously, anyone out there that can't build a web application without sending anything other than HTML to the browser, isn't a very good web developer. People rely on technologies to do things that I personally don't think they were really meant to do. Javascript was a bad idea. Doing some client side stuff is great, but really I don't think Javascript is the right way to do. I would rather run Applets than try and hack out some sort of 'application' with Javascript, please.
I am always amazed at the number of bad developers out there. Just look through the PHP mailing lists, for every informed post there are 300 disconnected ones. I was a loser when I started out in web development too, so I understand. Just don't act like you know anything if you relying on Javascript to make or break your app. Being a good web developer, or any programmer, requires discipline. Just because you can use a goto doesn't mean you should. The right tool for the job. And do NOT underestimate the power of a well architected web application.
I'm done now.
Seriously, do the organizers have to allow Microsoft to even be there?
I think its funny that Microsoft carries so much muscle that even the Linux community will bend over to please Microsoft.
"Oh, you want to put an exhibit at the LinuxExpo?", LinuxExpo.
"Yep", Microsoft sales person.
"Great, we'll put you right across from the 'I love Richard Stallman' exhibit."
Give me a break.
It's too bad when you hear an artist blamming the Internet for bad record sales.
I don't know, maybe record sales are down on his new album because it's not as good as his previous shit.
There have always been one-hit-wonders, it ain't the Internet's fault.
Whatever gets you through the day.
"Find a happy place..."
You could just start your business and write all the code you want and sell it. I know that sounds ridiculous, but it's not. It all depends on how much money you need, if you need more than $4 a month you better keep your day job. Seriously though, if you hate your job, starting your own business is not unrealistic people do it all the time and are successful. Think of all the business owners you have met in your life, how many of them were true visionaries that cornered some market, most are not. Just do it!
I feel the same exact way as the person who posted this.
The reason most technology folks feel this way is because management folks are dumbasses. They may be smart when it comes to managing the billing department or the marketing department or shipping/recieving but they almost always fail when it comes to techies.
Here is why. Techies are smart people that know more then management does about technology. Management can't take the pressure from techies pushing them one way while their boss pushes another, and will lean toward whatever their boss wants. Or they are truly stupid and feel they know more about what direction technology should go, and the result is techies getting randomized. The only way to really solve this dilema is to have a CTO who really does know what he's talking about who can push and pull on the same level as everyone else in the company, that can work - I think.
It wouldn't be a problem if tech folks were dumb and didn't care about what they do. The fact that most of us really care about what we do and truly do know what is best for both ourselves and the company, is a real problem for management. I feel that I truly make decisions based upon the best interests of the company, but they never ever never do anything that I propose and always want to implement some stupid ass "solution" that will have to be tossed in 6 months.
It all boils down to management has to know when to just let the technology people make the decisions and they just worry about whether they can afford to do what they are asking for. If not, say so and let the trained professionals come up with another realistic solution, not just some stupid shit that doesn't make sense.
For these reasons I am returning to my role as a consultant. It's not a perfect career, but it allows me to distance myself from management. That's not true I still have to work with management types, just not directly for them. They call me up and say they need this that and the other, I deliver, they pay and I go on my merry way. You still have to deal with stupidity at some level, but at least you aren't totally enthralled in it and can just move on to the next customer.
I love consulting, it's the only way I can work in IT or software development. I tried everything else, and it's just apparent that I can't be happy working fulltime for one company. I like being called in to act like the hero or the expert and people actually listen to what I have to say and take me seriously, because they see my bill and go, "See, he's smart because he has letterhead." It's just a different role and allows you to approach the same problem, but from a different perspective and a totally different attitude.
The only problem is now I have to market myself and sell my services, life's little challenges are what makes things interesting.
Thank you. I have been saying this ever since I started using X. I hate that the networking bs in X is so prominent. It should be something it can do not such a big part of X.
In my opinion Linux will never be a serious threat on the desktop until X is either completly rewritten or something better comes along.
I think XWindow is good at what it does, I just don't like it. I spend too much time dealing with stuff that I don't want to deal with.
You are right about that, it's not over. I feel so helpless though. I send letters to my representatives and they send me a form letters in response.
That wasn't my point. I was just pointing out that people don't always look beyond the obvious benefit of something.
I think that taxes should be a fraction of what they are now and that the government should be small and only providing basic functions to the people: defense, law enforcement, public health services, etc.
The government is way too powerful and lowering taxes would be the best way to shrink the government and force them to focus on what they should be focusing on, rather than trying to push family values and get in everyone's business.