To teach you don't have to be good in your
field. In fact you don't have to know shit about
it. What you really have to do is know how to
upload info into people's heads, how to interact
with the crowd of unruly kids(people) in such a
way knowlege would get to most of them and stay
there. Current education system however does not
insure that. In fact, schools are bent on passing
students that really need help, since that how
they get funding increases - by complying with
idiotical quotas. There's a book 'Education in
Canada', just read. It seems that governmental
body sees financial controls as a way to get
a better education, like measure teacher and
class they do for various parameters and pay'em
more or less. That knocked my socks off.
I assume that how they do things in US as well -
everyone watches The Simpsons I assume =).
Really where the improvement of education lies is
in sending teachers for reeducation, upgrading
for free. Doing research what is best way to
deliver knowlege. It seems however that north
american schools knowlege is minor issue. People
most of the time forget what they have leared,
or pretended to learn in public school system.
The schools I saw work are ones in Russia,
Germany, many other European countries, where
people don't take school as a social place where
you hang out after hours, because thats where you
gain knowlege. Here it seems to be otherwise.
Classrooms is where you talk to your buddies,
hook up with girls, not learn knowlege.
Not to say on other side of the ocean they don't
do that, but proportion of time spent on that is
rather much lower.
:wq
WIPO. That is sign of further commercialization
of internet infrastructure. There must be a
better way, like alternative DNS servers, that
can be distributed to all internet users.
First DNS server is a rogue DNS server that will
redirect any A queries to a defaced versions of
websites , or rather sites that will explain
what kind of nasty things the company does and
and what kind of things can be done to hurt the
bottom line of the company.
The flag of the movement can be, to advertise an
IP adress to be inserted as primary DNS server.
Loads maybe high, but it might be justified
for it be located and even sponsored by Exodus
or some other entity and there will be free
advertising for whoever does it. Exodus,
actually would be excellent choice.
I am currently busy and don't have this many
resources as to run a rogue DNS server for masses
but this can be potentially good thing.
If server has good availability maybe an added
benefit compared to those fucked up @home and other ISP dns servers.
Well, most suits like that are called frivilous,
hence the nature, make outrageous statements,
that will mark the 'offending' side as
automatically guilty - in eyes of the public that is.
Read Mitnick case, he was thrown into jail,
for corporate losses, by public companies.
I sure as hell would like to see the losses
show up in the end of the term reports to
investors. I bet these losses will not show
on the credibility of the company or industry as
a whole.:wq
That is retarted precedent system. If precedent
says its alright to rape someone, then in
court you will have alot more chance to be
set free, if you commit rape and get caught.
Court says its alright for corporations to rape us,
and for us to rape corporations... if we have
deep pockets. hmmm that does not make sense..
2c
To add, when something becomes scarce and too
prohibitive in cost to some people, they branch
and go off and do their own thing like inventing
their own standard. As it stands now, it looks
like someone is trying to justify a salary,
some bonehead up in the top of the office.
Besides intellectual proprety is like water, when
it stagnates, nasty things start growing in it,
just like a river stream part cut out of the river.
I have seen it happen. Now someone chooses to
enforce for everyone to use that stale rotten
water full of leeches, I'd say screw you.
Now if you make me, I will kick you in the nuts.
If I am made to do so anyway, then its
dictatorship, just a different one, water kind one.
It does not matter. If you have technology that
might potentially endanger RIIA's future,
you damned well right that they will get midevil
on you ass, wether you are innoncent or not.
You say that you can keep yourself from being
bullied by being comletely innocent? Hahaha...
Ever watch simpsons, didn't you learn something?
p.
RMS would make a wet spot out of you! You are
taking it completely wrong. GPL made so that
anyone can charge for software, but no one can
restrict its use but a software author,
if he changes his licence. But he can change his
licence only for new changes, not for stuff he/she
gave away. So no these terms are completely
unacceptable for free software community.
I wonder what linus will say, that stuff as general
as RT extensions are being licenced under different
restrictive licences. These guys cannot
packaged kernels with RT software under restrictive
licencing. They can sell/distribute only patches.
2c
1.The practice of programming (by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike)
2.C Programming Language (by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie)
3.Perl Camel Book
4.UNIX Network programming (by Richard Stevens)
5.Advanced UNIX programming (Richard Stevens)
6.The C++ Programming Language Special Edition (Bjarne Stroustrup)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/l is t-browse/-/2M7CF5B7QBV2A/qid=9
96534042/sr=5-8/ref=lm_b_6/002-5786338-7700829
for good examples. =)
Idea of stopping spam is pretty old, and none
really work, but a RBL type.
What would be better though, is to have
humans look over the generated list of checksums
(I prefer md5 =) ) and do the check on domain.
If its email list, place it here, if its SPAM
place it in RBL. Theres more to process of
verification, but with nice graphs it would be
easy to see who generates most.
Its not perfect solution for spam though,
anyone hoarding one ? =)
p.
We already have VMWare. Transgaming patch is
improved every day - for those sketchy DirectX games.
So why do we need mechanical switch when we can
do the same in software? Yayaya, you can
have like QNX on it. Making partitions is no
black magic, and one is too scared to make one,
the shall not use *NIX, just stick with windows.
No it is not elite attitude - its reality - don't
get a bus if you're not going to haul people.
p.
learn them and your communications will be secure
and private and authenticated. Be sure to put
a passphrase on your key(s). Use https whenever
possible.
p.
How about usable, nevermind affordable.
Those things are like fiberglass bikes with
tiny electric motors, handful of electronic
parts and lightest battery possible.
Comfort? Safety? Are you mad? Pushing
on sunlight alone is quite a feat.
This is a academic challenge at best.
Many techologies will come out of it, but
I can't see myself driving solar powered
vehicle even in 100 years. There must be
a dense enegy accamulators, like gas now,
fuel cells, whatever, where densitiy of energy
per cubic centemiter is good enough to
push at least triple weight of me and my
suitcase. Cumilitive energy tanks - whatever
they are will be the future of the transportation.
Why? Because global warming is here,
oil companies need something they can stick
their hands into so they can provide us with
service. Not like I defend them, but it would get
real ugly, oil companies will all over sudden
be obsolete.
Exactly its all about how you twist it and
present it, backing with some facts,
usally false ones, like estimated revenue
loss. Now defence lawyer must completely
disprove the points made, taking time
and therefor money for defence.
take bunch of facts, apply pattern - you got case! Have a law on your side? - Bonus!
Confirming that, I would disagree.
Disk cache bug was responsible for imminent corruption on my main partition in
2.4.3. Now I upgraded that 2.4.5, found that
my network card drivers is "fixed" by someone
@ suse, so that it breaks NIC driver. I had
to go back and just copy over the old driver
from 2.4.3. Go figure.
Here's advice - see if there are any significant
bugs in kernel and specific stuff you use and
if you do, upgrade it! Otherwise spend some
time learning iptables - net gain will be more
for you.
Here we go agian.
Are you are frinkin lawyer? Lawyers seem to like
to repaint how we really take the world to their
own advantage. Don't bind computer program with
notion of a car and don't bind someone running
code on your machine to burglary, perhaps you
shall define portscanning at anal rape, maybe
courts will more sympathetic to pseudo victims of
aggrevated computer assault. Fuck that.
That what microsoft was doing all along playing
the game, whatever it takes. Well courts proven
too slow and dumb for doing computer litigation,
so hit'em where it hurts - wallet. But do so
very professionally without reserving to
Microsoft suck attitude, but rather dismiss
critique and say 'Linux/BSD is choice of professional and informed around. It is very
stable and has proven to be cheaper to install
and maintain.' and don't say nasty and stupid
things. Upper crust does not like to hear abrasive
or even sensational speeches, but like to be
impressed with results and constructive wording
of arguments.
Micrsoft has won that one, but see the 'Code Red'
catching internet on fire. Just watch servers
rolling over to apache and zeus.
Hydrogen is highly dangerous ONLY in case it is
mixed with air 50/50, becomes super explosive.
Otherwise if burned from a compressed container,
is rather safe and clean.
That is very cool, but does not answer begging question that population is still growing, and
amount of fossil fuels does not increase, but
rapidly decrease. So solving that will do up only
half of the problems related to resources and
humanity.
Simpsons, South Park and other Hollywood
inspired productions will tell you otherwise.
No its not -40C over here, and Igloos are not
the most common type of the house.
More like we live in houses and most wires
connectiong them are ones carry lots
of information and even then some.
This post was about how to handle "primadonna"
programmers, not what advice to give to them.
Most primadonna programmers I know are very
smart but they are quickly loose performance if
the item they work on is not new or challenging.
If it is mundane shit, I would recommend to hire
drones to stamp it out. Don't as primadonna to
write a CGI that will grep web logs and do
pie charts in 100 different ways.
As for business stuff you mention, I think its
all bull. Its either company sinks or floats.
Most of value for company in business people is:
1. Contacts, networks
2. Common sense
Particular knowlege pre-se can be gained quickly
if person is not lame idiot or stale corporatoid,
who can spout long scenenses and for long periods
of time without getting to the point. Also
managers I know often are unwilling to admit the
that they don't understand something so they
go on and on, for hours, without getting to the
point of asking to explain or telling me to do it
my way. Whats useful is people who have detailed
knowlege of specific areas, like UNIX programming,
Windows programming, Accounting, Business rules and
traditions related to particular area with contacts,
not people who know a bit of everything, and nothing
really into detail. What that means that people
who concentrate on their job harder without
concerning themselves how other things work,
is better in the end for the company.
I doubt primadonna or any programmer will be
interested in making a pro-forma tax return,
because thats not their expertise and they will
definently will do poor job of it.
That does not mean well round people are not
welcome, but rather someone who will concentrate
on their work and has knowlege of practical
items is of greater benefit to company than a
person who can do anything but poorly.
With the being consultant I will completely disagree. Good programmers not necessarily good marketers and sellers and thats 80% of work when you are a consultant. Also you have to be management as well, to manage your money flow, project costs and other crap. I can't see how this relates to being a good programmer.
If you got alot of ego though, it might drive you to do things on your own, but then you will have to commit yourself to doing way more things that are completely unrelated to programming, otherwise stick to salary. With large experience at hand or, celebrity status - through some opensource code you wrote, effort and maintanace of being consultant might be lower. Also it is security,
with consulting stuff you collect stuff, but sometimes you might go without contracts for long times, for which you should have enough money. Making it sound like a computer skill factor of being consultant is wrong.
Yup, see eXtreeme programming book series.
Subdivide into stories small enough to make
each 1-3 days, do them, release often and
customer will be happy. Simplifies hell out
of programming.
Now if your company makes vertical market software...
Primadonna will shine there. If you unleash code
onto the world that is crap, and programmer sees
it and it chnuks along like halfdead horse,
you got no chance.
There's much gratification in driving a car.
US citizens are most dependent on driving cheap
used cars, that produce gobs of toxins and CO2.
Nobody has given up cars in LA, tough the pollution
and smog problems are more prevelant, than global
warming, yet people are unable to deal with
the smog problem in such small area.
Who says that the rest of US will be able to
afford a new car with 80MPG or electrical one?
There too many poor uneducated, highly arrogant
citizens in US that would die giving their car
before their neighbour and/or friend.
Only luck or real deaths that are DIRECT consequence of
car usage will be able to evolve this problem into
something more appealing to public. Even then,
public is highly resistive to any studies and
results of them, because Sciencentific process
has been abused so much in US in name of mighty
buck. Truth is lowered quality of air is already
contributing to ever increasing cases of athma and
heart problems.
Slashdot Mirror
To teach you don't have to be good in your
field. In fact you don't have to know shit about
it. What you really have to do is know how to
upload info into people's heads, how to interact
with the crowd of unruly kids(people) in such a
way knowlege would get to most of them and stay
there. Current education system however does not
insure that. In fact, schools are bent on passing
students that really need help, since that how
they get funding increases - by complying with
idiotical quotas. There's a book 'Education in
Canada', just read. It seems that governmental
body sees financial controls as a way to get
a better education, like measure teacher and
class they do for various parameters and pay'em
more or less. That knocked my socks off.
I assume that how they do things in US as well -
everyone watches The Simpsons I assume =).
Really where the improvement of education lies is
in sending teachers for reeducation, upgrading
for free. Doing research what is best way to
deliver knowlege. It seems however that north
american schools knowlege is minor issue. People
most of the time forget what they have leared,
or pretended to learn in public school system.
The schools I saw work are ones in Russia,
Germany, many other European countries, where
people don't take school as a social place where
you hang out after hours, because thats where you
gain knowlege. Here it seems to be otherwise.
Classrooms is where you talk to your buddies,
hook up with girls, not learn knowlege.
Not to say on other side of the ocean they don't
do that, but proportion of time spent on that is
rather much lower.
:wq
WIPO. That is sign of further commercialization
of internet infrastructure. There must be a
better way, like alternative DNS servers, that
can be distributed to all internet users.
First DNS server is a rogue DNS server that will
redirect any A queries to a defaced versions of
websites , or rather sites that will explain
what kind of nasty things the company does and
and what kind of things can be done to hurt the
bottom line of the company.
The flag of the movement can be, to advertise an
IP adress to be inserted as primary DNS server.
Loads maybe high, but it might be justified
for it be located and even sponsored by Exodus
or some other entity and there will be free
advertising for whoever does it. Exodus,
actually would be excellent choice.
I am currently busy and don't have this many
resources as to run a rogue DNS server for masses
but this can be potentially good thing.
If server has good availability maybe an added
benefit compared to those fucked up @home and other ISP dns servers.
Well, most suits like that are called frivilous, hence the nature, make outrageous statements, that will mark the 'offending' side as automatically guilty - in eyes of the public that is. Read Mitnick case, he was thrown into jail, for corporate losses, by public companies. I sure as hell would like to see the losses show up in the end of the term reports to investors. I bet these losses will not show on the credibility of the company or industry as a whole. :wq
I have seen last night in urban setting two large
meteors. After standing there for ten minuetes,
head looking up, I gave up.
p.
That is retarted precedent system. If precedent
... if we have
says its alright to rape someone, then in
court you will have alot more chance to be
set free, if you commit rape and get caught.
Court says its alright for corporations to rape us,
and for us to rape corporations
deep pockets. hmmm that does not make sense..
2c
To add, when something becomes scarce and too
prohibitive in cost to some people, they branch
and go off and do their own thing like inventing
their own standard. As it stands now, it looks
like someone is trying to justify a salary,
some bonehead up in the top of the office.
Besides intellectual proprety is like water, when
it stagnates, nasty things start growing in it,
just like a river stream part cut out of the river.
I have seen it happen. Now someone chooses to
enforce for everyone to use that stale rotten
water full of leeches, I'd say screw you.
Now if you make me, I will kick you in the nuts.
If I am made to do so anyway, then its
dictatorship, just a different one, water kind one.
2c
It does not matter. If you have technology that
might potentially endanger RIIA's future,
you damned well right that they will get midevil
on you ass, wether you are innoncent or not.
You say that you can keep yourself from being
bullied by being comletely innocent? Hahaha...
Ever watch simpsons, didn't you learn something?
p.
RMS would make a wet spot out of you! You are
taking it completely wrong. GPL made so that
anyone can charge for software, but no one can
restrict its use but a software author,
if he changes his licence. But he can change his
licence only for new changes, not for stuff he/she
gave away. So no these terms are completely
unacceptable for free software community.
I wonder what linus will say, that stuff as general
as RT extensions are being licenced under different
restrictive licences. These guys cannot
packaged kernels with RT software under restrictive
licencing. They can sell/distribute only patches.
2c
1.The practice of programming (by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike)l is t-browse/-/2M7CF5B7QBV2A/qid=9
2.C Programming Language (by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie)
3.Perl Camel Book
4.UNIX Network programming (by Richard Stevens)
5.Advanced UNIX programming (Richard Stevens)
6.The C++ Programming Language Special Edition (Bjarne Stroustrup)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/
96534042/sr=5-8/ref=lm_b_6/002-5786338-7700829
for good examples. =)
Idea of stopping spam is pretty old, and none
really work, but a RBL type.
What would be better though, is to have
humans look over the generated list of checksums
(I prefer md5 =) ) and do the check on domain.
If its email list, place it here, if its SPAM
place it in RBL. Theres more to process of
verification, but with nice graphs it would be
easy to see who generates most.
Its not perfect solution for spam though,
anyone hoarding one ? =)
p.
We already have VMWare. Transgaming patch is
improved every day - for those sketchy DirectX games.
So why do we need mechanical switch when we can
do the same in software? Yayaya, you can
have like QNX on it. Making partitions is no
black magic, and one is too scared to make one,
the shall not use *NIX, just stick with windows.
No it is not elite attitude - its reality - don't
get a bus if you're not going to haul people.
p.
http://www.mutt.org
http://www.gnupg.org
learn them and your communications will be secure
and private and authenticated. Be sure to put
a passphrase on your key(s). Use https whenever
possible.
p.
How about usable, nevermind affordable.
Those things are like fiberglass bikes with
tiny electric motors, handful of electronic
parts and lightest battery possible.
Comfort? Safety? Are you mad? Pushing
on sunlight alone is quite a feat.
This is a academic challenge at best.
Many techologies will come out of it, but
I can't see myself driving solar powered
vehicle even in 100 years. There must be
a dense enegy accamulators, like gas now,
fuel cells, whatever, where densitiy of energy
per cubic centemiter is good enough to
push at least triple weight of me and my
suitcase. Cumilitive energy tanks - whatever
they are will be the future of the transportation.
Why? Because global warming is here,
oil companies need something they can stick
their hands into so they can provide us with
service. Not like I defend them, but it would get
real ugly, oil companies will all over sudden
be obsolete.
thats some heavyhanded tactic to get people to be vaccinated..
Exactly its all about how you twist it and
present it, backing with some facts,
usally false ones, like estimated revenue
loss. Now defence lawyer must completely
disprove the points made, taking time
and therefor money for defence.
take bunch of facts, apply pattern - you got case! Have a law on your side? - Bonus!
Confirming that, I would disagree.
Disk cache bug was responsible for imminent corruption on my main partition in
2.4.3. Now I upgraded that 2.4.5, found that
my network card drivers is "fixed" by someone
@ suse, so that it breaks NIC driver. I had
to go back and just copy over the old driver
from 2.4.3. Go figure.
Here's advice - see if there are any significant
bugs in kernel and specific stuff you use and
if you do, upgrade it! Otherwise spend some
time learning iptables - net gain will be more
for you.
Here we go agian.
Are you are frinkin lawyer? Lawyers seem to like
to repaint how we really take the world to their
own advantage. Don't bind computer program with
notion of a car and don't bind someone running
code on your machine to burglary, perhaps you
shall define portscanning at anal rape, maybe
courts will more sympathetic to pseudo victims of
aggrevated computer assault. Fuck that.
That what microsoft was doing all along playing
the game, whatever it takes. Well courts proven
too slow and dumb for doing computer litigation,
so hit'em where it hurts - wallet. But do so
very professionally without reserving to
Microsoft suck attitude, but rather dismiss
critique and say 'Linux/BSD is choice of professional and informed around. It is very
stable and has proven to be cheaper to install
and maintain.' and don't say nasty and stupid
things. Upper crust does not like to hear abrasive
or even sensational speeches, but like to be
impressed with results and constructive wording
of arguments.
Micrsoft has won that one, but see the 'Code Red'
catching internet on fire. Just watch servers
rolling over to apache and zeus.
http://perlpimp.com/exp.txt
Hydrogen is highly dangerous ONLY in case it is
mixed with air 50/50, becomes super explosive.
Otherwise if burned from a compressed container,
is rather safe and clean.
That is very cool, but does not answer begging question that population is still growing, and
amount of fossil fuels does not increase, but
rapidly decrease. So solving that will do up only
half of the problems related to resources and
humanity.
Simpsons, South Park and other Hollywood
inspired productions will tell you otherwise.
No its not -40C over here, and Igloos are not
the most common type of the house.
More like we live in houses and most wires
connectiong them are ones carry lots
of information and even then some.
Go Canada!
This post was about how to handle "primadonna"
programmers, not what advice to give to them.
Most primadonna programmers I know are very
smart but they are quickly loose performance if
the item they work on is not new or challenging.
If it is mundane shit, I would recommend to hire
drones to stamp it out. Don't as primadonna to
write a CGI that will grep web logs and do
pie charts in 100 different ways.
As for business stuff you mention, I think its
all bull. Its either company sinks or floats.
Most of value for company in business people is:
1. Contacts, networks
2. Common sense
Particular knowlege pre-se can be gained quickly
if person is not lame idiot or stale corporatoid,
who can spout long scenenses and for long periods
of time without getting to the point. Also
managers I know often are unwilling to admit the
that they don't understand something so they
go on and on, for hours, without getting to the
point of asking to explain or telling me to do it
my way. Whats useful is people who have detailed
knowlege of specific areas, like UNIX programming,
Windows programming, Accounting, Business rules and
traditions related to particular area with contacts,
not people who know a bit of everything, and nothing
really into detail. What that means that people
who concentrate on their job harder without
concerning themselves how other things work,
is better in the end for the company.
I doubt primadonna or any programmer will be
interested in making a pro-forma tax return,
because thats not their expertise and they will
definently will do poor job of it.
That does not mean well round people are not
welcome, but rather someone who will concentrate
on their work and has knowlege of practical
items is of greater benefit to company than a
person who can do anything but poorly.
With the being consultant I will completely disagree. Good programmers not necessarily good marketers and sellers and thats 80% of work when you are a consultant. Also you have to be management as well, to manage your money flow, project costs and other crap. I can't see how this relates to being a good programmer.
If you got alot of ego though, it might drive you to do things on your own, but then you will have to commit yourself to doing way more things that are completely unrelated to programming, otherwise stick to salary. With large experience at hand or, celebrity status - through some opensource code you wrote, effort and maintanace of being consultant might be lower. Also it is security,
with consulting stuff you collect stuff, but sometimes you might go without contracts for long times, for which you should have enough money. Making it sound like a computer skill factor of being consultant is wrong.
Yup, see eXtreeme programming book series.
Subdivide into stories small enough to make
each 1-3 days, do them, release often and
customer will be happy. Simplifies hell out
of programming.
Now if your company makes vertical market software...
Primadonna will shine there. If you unleash code
onto the world that is crap, and programmer sees
it and it chnuks along like halfdead horse,
you got no chance.
There's much gratification in driving a car.
US citizens are most dependent on driving cheap
used cars, that produce gobs of toxins and CO2.
Nobody has given up cars in LA, tough the pollution
and smog problems are more prevelant, than global
warming, yet people are unable to deal with
the smog problem in such small area.
Who says that the rest of US will be able to
afford a new car with 80MPG or electrical one?
There too many poor uneducated, highly arrogant
citizens in US that would die giving their car
before their neighbour and/or friend.
Only luck or real deaths that are DIRECT consequence of
car usage will be able to evolve this problem into
something more appealing to public. Even then,
public is highly resistive to any studies and
results of them, because Sciencentific process
has been abused so much in US in name of mighty
buck. Truth is lowered quality of air is already
contributing to ever increasing cases of athma and
heart problems.