While it's good to have as a last resort, people are far too quick to call for search and rescue.
I think it's commendable this guy did his level best to rescue himself before calling for a helicopter.
Canadian paper currency is all the same size, but it is of different colours.
It also has raised dots which I thought was Braille denomination marks, but now that I look more closely, they seem the same on my 20 as 10 bills. Also, they seem to last as long as the note, especially if subjected to folding.
Stop being a slave to consumer culture. Be happy with what is sufficient. Get a nice, big, beige tower case, put a Pentium 133 in there. Get a nice 14" high-radiation monitor. Hello World will compile on there just fine, use school iron to run projects that need the horsepower. You don't need a printer or a scanner or any digital gadgets. Video games?! This is university! You should be working on either sex or school.
Date hippies, get a summer job in the trades, and graduate without debt.
I'm not sure how this makes me anti-social; I don't know any body that uses email or normal mail or telephones to initiate social contact.
"Hello, you don't know me, I just called to see if you wanted to chat." - Doesn't sound too likely.
If I've meet somebody, I'll exchange email addresses or phone numbers with them if I'd like to talk with them again. I can add this address to my while list.
As I mentioned before, it's not the best idea for lots of work email accounts.
Why go through all the work of training some software to read your email and decide if you might want to read it when most email programs have white list capabilities?
If I don't know you, that means I don't want to talk to you. Your email goes straight a junk folder, which I can quickly scan once every few days for from names I recognize. I can add these names to my white list if I so choose.
Granted, my job does not involve me soliciting contacts from the public at large, so this wouldn't work for everyone. I use it on my personal Hotmail account though, and I get to not even consider lots of crap every day.
You bear some responsibility for allowing this to happen.
Yup, even as de facto lead, you have to do some management of the coding team. Try running things on a per-day basis: a brief standing meeting outlining the days goals; mandatory checkin by, oh, say 3:00pm; code review of everything checked in; discuss goals for next day; go home happy that your team is functioning as a team.
I could just take over someone else's module and code it in no time. But if anyone did that to me... well that's out of the question.
It's not out of the question, it's the answer. Not doing the job you were hired for is a fireable offense.
Show them the coding standards that are to be followed. Show them the requirements. Show them the deliverable date. If they can't make those 3 things come together to the degree neccesary, show them the door.
But why on earth do you have a cell phone where you pay for incoming calls?!
Because in North America, outgoing calls (local) have always been free - land lines are flat-rate. Maybe they thought people would balk at bein charged to make a local call when they've always been free. They should have reserved area codes for wireless only so it would have been obvious that you'd get charged.
1. The client isn't where Java is successful now anyway
Actually, this could be where Java and.NET become most successful. If I'm designing an app that does some heavy computations, it's nice to have the intensive stuff in C, which is fast, and put the UI in Java or.NET, which will run anywhere. Or put the heavy stuff on a compute server.
C (with a few well placed precompiler directives) is pretty platform-independant if it doesn't do any communicating with anything else and if you avoid the MFC <shudder>.
I've always wondered at Java's server-side push. Ideally, I'd prefer a native framework for doing what most servers do as opposed to an interpreted one... The capacity of the server would be bigger, the responses more timely. I know what platform my server is on, why do I need so many resources devoted to the portability of the code I want to run there?
Perhaps where Java and.NET will be ultimately successful is in breaking Microsoft's OS monopoly. Any OS will do, as long as you build the virtual machines for whatever platform's tools you want. This sort of makes sense, MSFT stands to make a lot of $ if everyone can just subscribe to some huge Word app server in Redmond. They even save on dev costs, they only need to build Word for one platform!
Didn't Corel try to make a Java WordPerfect? An idea slightly ahead of its time.
This is, I think, crucial. If you're looking at retro-fitting your project, then I'd assume that it doesn't work the way you'd like it to.
If it's really just a case of redundant functionality, then it wasn't designed well in the first place, or later add-ons/bug-fixes broke the original design. That should be fixed. If you need to add more functionality, then design in important in avoiding breaking the current design.
It seemed like a pain in the ass when I first started, but a good design job save so much development time, time that could be used later for documentation!
The reasons you outline are exactly why your message's parent says:
The problem is endemic in the industry. The other Engineering professions require rigorous accreditation before they let practitioners loose in the world, like the PE (in the US) or the Charter (in the UK). But the software industry hires anyone, and lets them get on with whatever they do, with no real management or oversight or planning.
If programmers and software developers were professionally accountable for the work that they do, all of those problems you outline could be avoided. These sorts of governing bodies have some clout, and developers would be well within their rights to say, "This project needs these things before it can be worked on," and "There will be no knee-jerk changes, if you want to redefine the scope of the project, we will start the entire process over from the beginning," and, "Hey, it's your budget. Spend it how you like."
Appologies if it's been mentioned before, there's heaps of messages to scan through, but:
It is possible that this is just a mistake in the FAQ. Perhaps they're referring to the fact that the three programs mentioned can access a hotmail account and display messages much in the same way they display POP3 mail. There's an HTML mail plugin for them.
My 386DX33 with 4Megs or RAM (once it finished swapping during boot) could easily handle the bandwidth out of the cable modem. I ran Debian's LowMem setup on it, dhcpd, dhcpcd, ip-masq, etc. I noticed no difference between having that there, and having my PC plug straight into the cable modem.
I'd recommend compiling the kernel on your PC though. No sense waiting two days for that old beast to grind through it.
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While it's good to have as a last resort, people are far too quick to call for search and rescue. I think it's commendable this guy did his level best to rescue himself before calling for a helicopter.
Or to put it another way, dictionaries are descriptive, not proscriptive.
For English, that's true; for other languages, not so much.
Ah.. the dots do indicate denomination, they're just not Braille.
Canadian paper currency is all the same size, but it is of different colours. It also has raised dots which I thought was Braille denomination marks, but now that I look more closely, they seem the same on my 20 as 10 bills. Also, they seem to last as long as the note, especially if subjected to folding.
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Did you miss the first half of the sentence? "that one" refers to the Canadian Arrow.
Stop being a slave to consumer culture. Be happy with what is sufficient. Get a nice, big, beige tower case, put a Pentium 133 in there. Get a nice 14" high-radiation monitor. Hello World will compile on there just fine, use school iron to run projects that need the horsepower. You don't need a printer or a scanner or any digital gadgets. Video games?! This is university! You should be working on either sex or school.
Date hippies, get a summer job in the trades, and graduate without debt.
The people that let him merge in front of them are fools.
"Hello, you don't know me, I just called to see if you wanted to chat." - Doesn't sound too likely.
If I've meet somebody, I'll exchange email addresses or phone numbers with them if I'd like to talk with them again. I can add this address to my while list.
As I mentioned before, it's not the best idea for lots of work email accounts.
Why go through all the work of training some software to read your email and decide if you might want to read it when most email programs have white list capabilities?
If I don't know you, that means I don't want to talk to you. Your email goes straight a junk folder, which I can quickly scan once every few days for from names I recognize. I can add these names to my white list if I so choose.
Granted, my job does not involve me soliciting contacts from the public at large, so this wouldn't work for everyone. I use it on my personal Hotmail account though, and I get to not even consider lots of crap every day.
The second set would be [1, 2, 3].
Yup, even as de facto lead, you have to do some management of the coding team. Try running things on a per-day basis: a brief standing meeting outlining the days goals; mandatory checkin by, oh, say 3:00pm; code review of everything checked in; discuss goals for next day; go home happy that your team is functioning as a team.
There is a large difference between needing guidance and working for two weeks and saying I haven't tried to compile it yet.
Yes, green workers need to be shepardded, but non-workers need to be let go.
It's not out of the question, it's the answer. Not doing the job you were hired for is a fireable offense.
Show them the coding standards that are to be followed. Show them the requirements. Show them the deliverable date. If they can't make those 3 things come together to the degree neccesary, show them the door.
Because in North America, outgoing calls (local) have always been free - land lines are flat-rate. Maybe they thought people would balk at bein charged to make a local call when they've always been free. They should have reserved area codes for wireless only so it would have been obvious that you'd get charged.
Another good reason to switch to $1 coins, maybe even $5 coins.
I've always thought doubloon (double-looney, in this case) was good, but it never caught on. Toonie is pretty bad.
Throw 'er into the pond!
Actually, this could be where Java and .NET become most successful. If I'm designing an app that does some heavy computations, it's nice to have the intensive stuff in C, which is fast, and put the UI in Java or .NET, which will run anywhere. Or put the heavy stuff on a compute server.
C (with a few well placed precompiler directives) is pretty platform-independant if it doesn't do any communicating with anything else and if you avoid the MFC <shudder>.
I've always wondered at Java's server-side push. Ideally, I'd prefer a native framework for doing what most servers do as opposed to an interpreted one... The capacity of the server would be bigger, the responses more timely. I know what platform my server is on, why do I need so many resources devoted to the portability of the code I want to run there?
Perhaps where Java and .NET will be ultimately successful is in breaking Microsoft's OS monopoly. Any OS will do, as long as you build the virtual machines for whatever platform's tools you want. This sort of makes sense, MSFT stands to make a lot of $ if everyone can just subscribe to some huge Word app server in Redmond. They even save on dev costs, they only need to build Word for one platform!
Didn't Corel try to make a Java WordPerfect? An idea slightly ahead of its time.
If it's really just a case of redundant functionality, then it wasn't designed well in the first place, or later add-ons/bug-fixes broke the original design. That should be fixed. If you need to add more functionality, then design in important in avoiding breaking the current design.
It seemed like a pain in the ass when I first started, but a good design job save so much development time, time that could be used later for documentation!
The reasons you outline are exactly why your message's parent says:
If programmers and software developers were professionally accountable for the work that they do, all of those problems you outline could be avoided. These sorts of governing bodies have some clout, and developers would be well within their rights to say, "This project needs these things before it can be worked on," and "There will be no knee-jerk changes, if you want to redefine the scope of the project, we will start the entire process over from the beginning," and, "Hey, it's your budget. Spend it how you like."
Appologies if it's been mentioned before, there's heaps of messages to scan through, but:
It is possible that this is just a mistake in the FAQ. Perhaps they're referring to the fact that the three programs mentioned can access a hotmail account and display messages much in the same way they display POP3 mail. There's an HTML mail plugin for them.
Come on now, it has plusses...
You don't need a full switch, you could use a hub. Or, you could use 2baseT. If you only have a few machines, why not use coax?
My 386DX33 with 4Megs or RAM (once it finished swapping during boot) could easily handle the bandwidth out of the cable modem. I ran Debian's LowMem setup on it, dhcpd, dhcpcd, ip-masq, etc. I noticed no difference between having that there, and having my PC plug straight into the cable modem.
I'd recommend compiling the kernel on your PC though. No sense waiting two days for that old beast to grind through it.
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6 or more doughnuts: no GST