Looks to me like you have never had to write a installer or ensured that a application will run on multiple windows releases. If you had you would actually realize that it is probably the most difficult part of the application release process. I have never looked at the source to putty but I am rather positive it contains all sorts of hacks to make it work across the releases.
There are ways that have not even been brought forward to curb energy usage that have not even been exploited yet. How many of us travel to work every day and there is really no need for us to physically be there, hell the numbers are probably almost a third of the work force at any given company. What if a huge tax break was given for telecommute workers, if effective it would greatly reduce the consumption of fuel. Not only would you save fuel in commutes but also in the maintenance of facilities etc.
Does it really matter if we are warming the planet or not?
Even if we are how are we going to fix it? Limit CO2 emissions by something like cap and trade? Great concept but India, China etc are not going to play in a game that is detrimental to their growing manufacturing industries. Or perhaps we create green energy solutions, problem is none of those solutions are cost effective to be self sustaining. If we are warming the planet who is to say it is not actually a positive thing?
The only people I know that live in poverty conditions do so willingly. I have friends that live at the poverty level but they have no desire or drive to change that condition. They come home, plop on the couch, drink beer until they are blind and go to sleep and repeat the cycle. The old lady will not get a drivers license or job for that matter. Not because she cannot but because she does not want to.
I have very little pitty for these people when it comes to financial hardship as it is self induced.
I am not super rich but would like to be some day and perhaps if I work hard enough it may happen.
I don't understand the mentality behind why someone that has more money should pay more to taxes. I guess if I was just the average brainless joe with no drive to succeed then I may have that attitude.
I have many friends that live at poverty levels and in every single case the only reason they live like that is because they choose to. They either do not care to try to improve their conditions or simply do now want to work.
In the case of using biometrics to punch in and out for time and attendence that is another thing entirely. It is just a way to make sure that you are not either screwing your employer and or not being compensated properly for overtime hours worked. If that is what you are trying to get away from then work a job with a salary that does not require punching a clock.
Having been a school IT manager for years I find the fact that you would be able to enable a webcam on a specific machine outside of schools network a little far fetched unless you had some pretty elaborate software or pretty serious intent (Like a warrant).
This guy is certainly MCSE material, certainly speaks volumes about the level of skill of our child educators.
elaborate software, he must mean like wget and cron....ba ha ha ha ha...
I would second the python vote, all around easy, pleasant, elegant language that runs on just about everything. I know every single major language but python is usually the first thing I grab for in most situations.
I long since got as far away from US manufacturing as I can since it is imploding at a very fast rate. Do you honestly think that china and india are going to impose CO2 limits on their growing manufacturing industry? If you said yes to that question you are a fool. In fact the EPA regulating CO2 is only going to make matters worse. You impose C02 caps in the US and local companies will only ship more manufacturing over the pond. 80 percent of china's power is produced in coal plants, do you think our efforts to cap emissions in the US is going to have a positive effect? So yea feel good and regulate all you want, it will only speed the implosion of our most important industry.
You are exactly correct, and you know what China is going to say....pack sand suckers, as they continue to scoop up our jobs. China is no going to do anything to harm it's industrial growth not matter what we do.
20 to 30k lines of crap code not a single function in the entire source tree. That is not the worst of it there where 4 other programs just as bad that interacted with a single database, each of these setting various states. It worked but was about the most fragile thing I have ever worked with. In any case it is back in the proper hands, the guy that wrote it.
I just took the easy way out and quit. I had inherited about 30K lines of php code that was written by my boss. Shortly after inheriting this spagetti mess I ran a grep across the source the word "function" did not occur a single time in the entire source tree. To top it all off I was not to rework any of it only maintain it as it was going away. I did end up installing it on about 5 new machines so going away anytime soon was not going to happen. On top of all that I would run into about 20 blocks of if statements per file and in addition most database calls etc had the report no errors @ in front of them. I found it much easier to just hand it back to the boss and quit.
So how many of you have been in mid sized growing companies that eventually kill off any sort of innovation they had due to Turf Wars? Every mid sized company I have ever worked for tend to start the death spiral just about before they hit the 300-400 million mark. Sure the brand carries them for a while but all innovation starts dying due to politics and turf wars. Most will start heavy acquisitions at this point to stay ahead but that only turns the acquired into mush. It is a interesting phenomena to watch from the sidelines as the business inevitably implodes.
The iphone is multi-tasking for those built in apps that are allowed to. Even as a developer I am perfectly fine with this as I know it keeps craplications from installing service listeners, ram chewers and other junk to my device. In use and in development I have never seen the need for it on a phone device. All applications are required to save and have the ability to resume when restarted so I really don't see the big deal about it. As a end user it just plain works and keeps the devices fairly junk free which keeps the end users happy.
My hate for the java language, performance and development pipeline would not allow me to buy one. I went with a iphone instead, not that I am a big fan of objective c but at least anything I compile with it runs amazingly well on the device. When trying to push the devices to the limits every clock cycle counts and I appreciate being able to use all of them.
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It's bad enough trying to target a iphone / ipod release and or device and that is from a single manufacturer.
Looks to me like you have never had to write a installer or ensured that a application will run on multiple windows releases. If you
had you would actually realize that it is probably the most difficult part of the application release process. I have never
looked at the source to putty but I am rather positive it contains all sorts of hacks to make it work across the releases.
You are exactly correct as a developer I could not be happier, this will dump a large portion of crapplications off of
the app store.
There are ways that have not even been brought forward to curb energy usage that have not even been exploited yet. How many
of us travel to work every day and there is really no need for us to physically be there, hell the numbers are probably almost
a third of the work force at any given company. What if a huge tax break was given for telecommute workers, if effective it
would greatly reduce the consumption of fuel. Not only would you save fuel in commutes but also in the maintenance of facilities etc.
Does it really matter if we are warming the planet or not?
Even if we are how are we going to fix it? Limit CO2 emissions by something like cap and trade? Great concept but India, China etc are not going to play in
a game that is detrimental to their growing manufacturing industries. Or perhaps we create green energy solutions, problem is none of those solutions are cost
effective to be self sustaining. If we are warming the planet who is to say it is not actually a positive thing?
As long as it can run Putty, I am perfectly fine with whatever junk they decide to produce.
The only people I know that live in poverty conditions do so
willingly. I have friends that live at the poverty level but
they have no desire or drive to change that condition. They
come home, plop on the couch, drink beer until they are blind
and go to sleep and repeat the cycle. The old lady will not get
a drivers license or job for that matter. Not because she cannot
but because she does not want to.
I have very little pitty for these people when it comes to financial
hardship as it is self induced.
I am not super rich but would like to be some day and perhaps
if I work hard enough it may happen.
I don't understand the mentality behind why someone that
has more money should pay more to taxes. I guess if I was just
the average brainless joe with no drive to succeed then I may have
that attitude.
I have many friends that live at poverty levels and
in every single case the only reason they live like that
is because they choose to. They either do not care to try
to improve their conditions or simply do now want to
work.
A programmer without sql knowledge is like a fish out of water and not very likely employable. SQL knowledge
and working with databases is a must.
In the case of using biometrics to punch in and out for time and attendence that
is another thing entirely. It is just a way to make sure that you are not
either screwing your employer and or not being compensated properly for overtime
hours worked. If that is what you are trying to get away from then work a job
with a salary that does not require punching a clock.
I have been at places where it required a badge, hand geometry and finger print
to gain access.
Having been a school IT manager for years I find the fact that you would be able to enable a webcam on a specific machine outside of schools network a little far fetched unless you had some pretty elaborate software or pretty serious intent (Like a warrant).
This guy is certainly MCSE material, certainly speaks volumes about the level of skill of our child educators.
elaborate software, he must mean like wget and cron....ba ha ha ha ha...
So I don't have to waste my time going and hunting down nvidia drivers when I install a new machine....that alone is a good enough reason.
I would second the python vote, all around easy, pleasant, elegant language that runs on just about everything. I know
every single major language but python is usually the first thing I grab for in most situations.
I long since got as far away from US manufacturing as I can since it is imploding at a very fast rate. Do you honestly think that
china and india are going to impose CO2 limits on their growing manufacturing industry? If you said yes to that question you
are a fool. In fact the EPA regulating CO2 is only going to make matters worse. You impose C02 caps in the US and local
companies will only ship more manufacturing over the pond. 80 percent of china's power is produced in coal plants, do you
think our efforts to cap emissions in the US is going to have a positive effect? So yea feel good and regulate all you want, it
will only speed the implosion of our most important industry.
You are exactly correct, and you know what China is going to say....pack sand suckers, as they continue to scoop up our jobs. China
is no going to do anything to harm it's industrial growth not matter what we do.
bla, bla, bla ,bla, bla
20 to 30k lines of crap code not a single function in the entire source tree. That is
not the worst of it there where 4 other programs just as bad that interacted with
a single database, each of these setting various states. It worked but was about
the most fragile thing I have ever worked with. In any case it is back in the
proper hands, the guy that wrote it.
I just took the easy way out and quit. I had inherited about 30K lines of php code
that was written by my boss. Shortly after inheriting this spagetti mess I ran a grep
across the source the word "function" did not occur a single time in the entire source
tree. To top it all off I was not to rework any of it only maintain it as it was going
away. I did end up installing it on about 5 new machines so going away anytime soon
was not going to happen. On top of all that I would run into about 20 blocks of if
statements per file and in addition most database calls etc had the report no errors
@ in front of them. I found it much easier to just hand it back to the boss and quit.
Cheat if you must but remember that cheating is not going to work when you are competing against me for that job.
So how many of you have been in mid sized growing companies that eventually kill off any sort of innovation they had due to Turf Wars? Every mid
sized company I have ever worked for tend to start the death spiral just about before they hit the 300-400 million mark. Sure the brand carries
them for a while but all innovation starts dying due to politics and turf wars. Most will start heavy acquisitions at this point to stay ahead but that
only turns the acquired into mush. It is a interesting phenomena to watch from the sidelines as the business inevitably implodes.
The concept is rather simple actually, everyone tells us that java is as fast as C. This will make it three times faster than C...how cool is that?
Why would this be needed? Everyone tells me java is twice as fast as C? This must make it three times faster than C, impressive.
The iphone is multi-tasking for those built in apps that are allowed to. Even as a developer I am perfectly fine with this
as I know it keeps craplications from installing service listeners, ram chewers and other junk to my device. In use and in development
I have never seen the need for it on a phone device. All applications are required to save and have the ability to resume
when restarted so I really don't see the big deal about it. As a end user it just plain works and keeps the devices fairly junk
free which keeps the end users happy.
My hate for the java language, performance and development pipeline would not allow me to buy one. I went with a iphone
instead, not that I am a big fan of objective c but at least anything I compile with it runs amazingly well on the device. When
trying to push the devices to the limits every clock cycle counts and I appreciate being able to use all of them.