The question is not "can a developer work in a locked down environment"? All environments are "locked down" to some degree; unless the project is to create a new environment.
The right question to ask is, "does the developer have the ability to do what he/she needs to do without restriction?"
The help I was talking about was how to install the C2 orange book certification on NT,
[C2 = unplug the network, secure = MS Personal Security Advisor]
how to reduce the transaction latency in COM,
[all Com Trans are distributed. Use a local transaction and do custom transaction enrollment.]
such as removing unexplained and arbitrary DNS lookups in COM,
[use a Sane ActiveDirectory environment; hire a useful infrastructure guy; devs are bad at setting up large networks that work]
how to format dates in VB Script,
[formatDate]
how to do regular expressions in VB,
[Can't in VB. Can in VBScript (new RegExp). Workarounds: create a Windows Script component to expose a VBScript RegExp to VB (bad perf); or call a C++ implementation via a DLL]
how to keep Visual source safe from regressing for no apparent reason,
[Don't try to do stuff VSS doesn't do well]
how to interface IDL's for VB encryption with CryptAPI, etc, etc.
[VB cannot call Com interfaces that are not automation compatible. There are workarounds.]
Agreed, there are two sets of problems here: administration and development.
Architect == My Shit Don't Stink
on
Coder or Architect?
·
· Score: 5, Insightful
I think this "I'm an X; being an X means I don't write code anymore." is a pure fucking invention.
I myself am a consultant which means I am a gun for hire and I tell people what to do a lot, and I come up with the architecture, but brother let me tell you I write lots of code.
One of the things I've learned after being a consultant is that 95% of jobs are not necessary, i.e., you could fire 95% of the people at an organization/project and end up with the same result. Here's the dirty little secret: as a society we invent jobs for people to do because "everybody gotta do something." Most people are fucking useless.
A friend in Southern California has (had?) this service.
Actually, ping times suck. Nothing less than 100 ms. It handles all your voice/data on a single ATM line, and (IANAIG "infrastructure guy") none of the switches between here and Kansas know how to split the signal. All your traffic goes to the Sprint office in Kansas and is split from there. He said it's bad for Quake.
Yep, and the IRS won't prosecute you unless you really cheat on your taxes a whole lot, and the cops won't give you a speeding ticket unless you're really speeding, and you won't go to prison for smoking pot.
Thanks for the newsflash, and thanks for being such a stellar example of citizenship.
Cutting Bombadil and increasing Arwen means they're no longer making a Lord of the Rings Movie. It's just going to be another Dungeons & Dragons movie.
Honestly, I am so disappointed that the story is altered. I don't want to go see what some hollywood producer wants to say -- I want to see what the author has to say.
It's like a movie about Jesus that decides to leave out that "tedious Palm Sunday" bit.
I honestly think all realistic people are starting to gather that it's going to take something like a nuke, or biological weapons, or just in general a great deal of killing (in the millions) to fix this problem. We're just trying to get China, Russia, and every Muslim we can possibly keep from killing to get psychologically ready for it, so they won't freak out.
I mean come on. Kivio (=Visio)? Adabase (=Access) in StarOffice. And god awful slow?
Really, it's quite comforting to see the Linux community attempting the Office suite stuff. That's certainly the way that WordPerfect and Lotus really blew chunks!
Why stop at an ENUM which doesn't guarantee uniqeness amoung non-human objects as well? Assign everybody a 128-bit number (a GUID), such as {979EE714-E220-4291-B6AF-36C08B787FED}. Provide ways to easily map it onto shorter lists (such as 20020201-103050) for the 103,050th person born on 1 Feb 2002, but store it in a database as 128 bits. That way all things are uniquely determined.
What you lusers don't realize is that Win 9x/Me ain't for sale no more. It goes into the dustbin of history. The ONLY thing for sale is a stable O/S.
As you dumbasses turn from the shadows of the trees on the cave wall and look at the real light, remember one thing: the NT code bases blue screens of death when you run it on untested combinations of bargain basement hardware with god-knows what mish-mash of drivers. It's time to grow up and buy a tested, certified system. And before you bitch, go build your own car from parts and let me know how it runs. Ah, you succeeded with your personal dragster that only you can drive? Now try to build your own 18-wheeler truck from homemade parts and run a business with it:-)
The reviewer is not the book. Have you read the book?
Wittgenstein proved that elementary logic is neither CONSISTENT nor COMPLETE. Neither logic nor technology contains any answers to what it means to be human. The implication is (and this is a paraphrased quote from Barett) "we can make machines that can blow us up or harm us, but we can't make machines that can enslave us." It is not possible for a man to invent a machine "bigger" (more complete) than himself. EVER. Hey, we got through the A-Bomb didn't we, I think that's pretty clear proof that we humans are bigger than our technology.
Some day, 3000 years from now, we'll all have heads as big as elephants and direct link interfaces, and we'll STILL be monkeying around with what's right and what's true and what's not true. Not even "simple" concepts like arithmetic are decidable. So, you can have a perfect memory and an automatic logic processor for math problems you can think of, but YOU will still have to decide what's worth considering, and that will never change till the end of time.
Might as well stick with chalk and a chalkboard for all the good being a cyborg will do you. OTOH, why not, cause being a cyborg is no better no worse than holding a piece of chalk and noodiling on a chalkboard. Ya gotta remember that it's the act of producing figures on the chalkboard or using your cyborgness that matters, not being the thing itself.
No, this debate doesn't sound a bit like the Communism vs. Capitalism arguments.
There's not a perfect mapping between Trotskey, Lenin, and Stalin and this Tim, Eric Raymond, and Richard Stallman. But once again we see the problems when people form around a cult of personality. The empowerment of freedom becomes the proscription that you must be free exactly my way or else.
Okay, I'll play the role of Churchill: Propritary software is the worst software development methodology in the world, except for everything else that's ever been tried.
This map is a godsend. With one fell swoop I can perceive which parts of the planet are fun for what reasons -- i.e., I had no idea Argentina was so full of stuff, or that Australia was quite so empty.
How to beat Microsoft: The Plain Truth
on
Breaking Windows
·
· Score: 1
To those more interested in winning than in stroking their ego, turn off your flame throwers and listen:
(1) The world consists of secretaries, suits, and engineers. Suits employ engineers to make their secretaries happy. Secretaries do all the real (read: boring) work. Therefore: engineers are less important than secretaries. Internalize this.
(2) Software is capable of having "sizzle". Sizzle goes beyond mere functionality and correct operation (read: massive uptimes and high scalability). Sizzle is the attribute that makes you go "that's fucking cool." Do not forget to provide sizzle to all groups mentioned in (1).
(3) In mathematics, all constants can be redefined as 1. An algorithm can be O(n) + C. The principle of 4GL software is that we can have what we previously thought of as the god awful biggest C that is unworkable, but in reality as n grows large enough C is effectively equivalent to 1. Read: You can make money with a O(n) + C algorithm, and a large C provides sizzle. Don't sweat the size of C.
That's what psychologists call "Selective Reasoning". The spirit is eventually somebody will compare something to the Nazis. It's a "get of your soapbox" thing.
Slashdot Mirror
yeah, that's so much cooler than a DHTML page.
:-)
It acts so much like an app and not a piece of paper
i bought it early in the release cycle, before ddr memory got all cheap.
still, all told it was probably closer to $1 grand.
I bought an Athlon 1.4, and i screwed up the heatsink (boy, them things are a bitch), and I melted it, just under a little use.
$1.5 grand in mobo, processors, memory down the tubes.
Yeah, I'm an idiot. But Athlon are easier to fuck up than Intel.
The question is not "can a developer work in a locked down environment"? All environments are "locked down" to some degree; unless the project is to create a new environment.
The right question to ask is, "does the developer have the ability to do what he/she needs to do without restriction?"
-HTH
The help I was talking about was how to install the C2 orange book certification on NT,
[C2 = unplug the network, secure = MS Personal Security Advisor]
how to reduce the transaction latency in COM,
[all Com Trans are distributed. Use a local transaction and do custom transaction enrollment.]
such as removing unexplained and arbitrary DNS lookups in COM,
[use a Sane ActiveDirectory environment; hire a useful infrastructure guy; devs are bad at setting up large networks that work]
how to format dates in VB Script,
[formatDate]
how to do regular expressions in VB,
[Can't in VB. Can in VBScript (new RegExp). Workarounds: create a Windows Script component to expose a VBScript RegExp to VB (bad perf); or call a C++ implementation via a DLL]
how to keep Visual source safe from regressing for no apparent reason,
[Don't try to do stuff VSS doesn't do well]
how to interface IDL's for VB encryption with CryptAPI, etc, etc.
[VB cannot call Com interfaces that are not automation compatible. There are workarounds.]
Agreed, there are two sets of problems here: administration and development.
I withdraw my comment. People are nice. :-)
I think this "I'm an X; being an X means I don't write code anymore." is a pure fucking invention. I myself am a consultant which means I am a gun for hire and I tell people what to do a lot, and I come up with the architecture, but brother let me tell you I write lots of code. One of the things I've learned after being a consultant is that 95% of jobs are not necessary, i.e., you could fire 95% of the people at an organization/project and end up with the same result. Here's the dirty little secret: as a society we invent jobs for people to do because "everybody gotta do something." Most people are fucking useless.
A friend in Southern California has (had?) this service.
Actually, ping times suck. Nothing less than 100 ms. It handles all your voice/data on a single ATM line, and (IANAIG "infrastructure guy") none of the switches between here and Kansas know how to split the signal. All your traffic goes to the Sprint office in Kansas and is split from there. He said it's bad for Quake.
Yep, and the IRS won't prosecute you unless you really cheat on your taxes a whole lot, and the cops won't give you a speeding ticket unless you're really speeding, and you won't go to prison for smoking pot.
Thanks for the newsflash, and thanks for being such a stellar example of citizenship.
Jessus.
Cutting Bombadil and increasing Arwen means they're no longer making a Lord of the Rings Movie. It's just going to be another Dungeons & Dragons movie.
Honestly, I am so disappointed that the story is altered. I don't want to go see what some hollywood producer wants to say -- I want to see what the author has to say.
It's like a movie about Jesus that decides to leave out that "tedious Palm Sunday" bit.
Darn tooting it's wonderful.
Get with it or get the fuck out.
Of course you create even more anger and hate. But if you completely eliminate them there is no one left to do carry out any revenge.
It is not necessary; but it is sufficient.
I honestly think all realistic people are starting to gather that it's going to take something like a nuke, or biological weapons, or just in general a great deal of killing (in the millions) to fix this problem. We're just trying to get China, Russia, and every Muslim we can possibly keep from killing to get psychologically ready for it, so they won't freak out.
I mean come on. Kivio (=Visio)? Adabase (=Access) in StarOffice. And god awful slow?
Really, it's quite comforting to see the Linux community attempting the Office suite stuff. That's certainly the way that WordPerfect and Lotus really blew chunks!
So, which is more advanced, a philips-head or a flat-head screwdriver?
Why stop at an ENUM which doesn't guarantee uniqeness amoung non-human objects as well? Assign everybody a 128-bit number (a GUID), such as {979EE714-E220-4291-B6AF-36C08B787FED}. Provide ways to easily map it onto shorter lists (such as 20020201-103050) for the 103,050th person born on 1 Feb 2002, but store it in a database as 128 bits. That way all things are uniquely determined.
And yet mine stays up for months at a time. Go figure.
Must be the operator.
What you lusers don't realize is that Win 9x/Me ain't for sale no more. It goes into the dustbin of history. The ONLY thing for sale is a stable O/S.
:-)
As you dumbasses turn from the shadows of the trees on the cave wall and look at the real light, remember one thing: the NT code bases blue screens of death when you run it on untested combinations of bargain basement hardware with god-knows what mish-mash of drivers. It's time to grow up and buy a tested, certified system. And before you bitch, go build your own car from parts and let me know how it runs. Ah, you succeeded with your personal dragster that only you can drive? Now try to build your own 18-wheeler truck from homemade parts and run a business with it
The reviewer is not the book. Have you read the book?
Wittgenstein proved that elementary logic is neither CONSISTENT nor COMPLETE. Neither logic nor technology contains any answers to what it means to be human. The implication is (and this is a paraphrased quote from Barett) "we can make machines that can blow us up or harm us, but we can't make machines that can enslave us." It is not possible for a man to invent a machine "bigger" (more complete) than himself. EVER. Hey, we got through the A-Bomb didn't we, I think that's pretty clear proof that we humans are bigger than our technology.
Oi, the nattering naybobs of negativism!
Being a cyborg cannot solve the innate problems of logic. Check out "The Illusion of Technique" by William Barrett.
http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/apr1980/ v37-1-bookreview10.htm
Some day, 3000 years from now, we'll all have heads as big as elephants and direct link interfaces, and we'll STILL be monkeying around with what's right and what's true and what's not true. Not even "simple" concepts like arithmetic are decidable. So, you can have a perfect memory and an automatic logic processor for math problems you can think of, but YOU will still have to decide what's worth considering, and that will never change till the end of time.
Might as well stick with chalk and a chalkboard for all the good being a cyborg will do you. OTOH, why not, cause being a cyborg is no better no worse than holding a piece of chalk and noodiling on a chalkboard. Ya gotta remember that it's the act of producing figures on the chalkboard or using your cyborgness that matters, not being the thing itself.
No, this debate doesn't sound a bit like the Communism vs. Capitalism arguments.
There's not a perfect mapping between Trotskey, Lenin, and Stalin and this Tim, Eric Raymond, and Richard Stallman. But once again we see the problems when people form around a cult of personality. The empowerment of freedom becomes the proscription that you must be free exactly my way or else.
Okay, I'll play the role of Churchill: Propritary software is the worst software development methodology in the world, except for everything else that's ever been tried.
This map is a godsend. With one fell swoop I can perceive which parts of the planet are fun for what reasons -- i.e., I had no idea Argentina was so full of stuff, or that Australia was quite so empty.
To those more interested in winning than in stroking their ego, turn off your flame throwers and listen:
(1) The world consists of secretaries, suits, and engineers. Suits employ engineers to make their secretaries happy. Secretaries do all the real (read: boring) work. Therefore: engineers are less important than secretaries. Internalize this.
(2) Software is capable of having "sizzle". Sizzle goes beyond mere functionality and correct operation (read: massive uptimes and high scalability). Sizzle is the attribute that makes you go "that's fucking cool." Do not forget to provide sizzle to all groups mentioned in (1).
(3) In mathematics, all constants can be redefined as 1. An algorithm can be O(n) + C. The principle of 4GL software is that we can have what we previously thought of as the god awful biggest C that is unworkable, but in reality as n grows large enough C is effectively equivalent to 1. Read: You can make money with a O(n) + C algorithm, and a large C provides sizzle. Don't sweat the size of C.
That's it.
Since we're quoting references, I advise you to read "V For Vendetta" by Alan Moore.
"This isn't anarchy, this is chaos."
That's what psychologists call "Selective Reasoning". The spirit is eventually somebody will compare something to the Nazis. It's a "get of your soapbox" thing.