Just the latest step in the "anything but C" parade.
The only reason this bullshit continues is because developers are too fucking lazy to learn to write in a real programming language.
When Google writes Chrome itself in HTML 5, then real programmers will listen. Until then, it's just another inflatable doll for lazy people to hump and say they got laid.
The reason none of them know what they are is because they're too busy writing shitty troll replies.
It's understandable. 21st-century developers have a lot of free time waiting for Visual Studio to stop chugging RAM and thrashing disk and let them type something.
Maybe if the units were built by well-paid employees with a future who weren't living in concrete bunkers in some Guangdong hellhole they could build something of better quality.
I have a refrigerator built when Truman was president. It has outlasted six more modern units, even after being rammed by a garbage truck once.
Actually, the Congress says "Yes" to the first one now.
Unapportioned direct taxes are explicitly prohibited by the Constitution (Article I Section 2)
The revenue bill quibbling is pointless technicality.
There are no technicalities in the Constitution. Revenue bills must originate in the House (Article I Section 7) Article I Section 7 is the Supreme Law of the Land.
Many unconstitutional laws have been passed, and enforced, sometimes for decades, so that's not a good argument.
So now aruging that a law is unconstitutional isn't a good argument? You're an asshole.
The Real ID Act is still trucking along
In 13 states.
Of course, it's worth remembering some of the other nullification crises in the history of this country.
Like the Fugitive Slave Act?
Good luck with an Article V convention.
All fifty states have called for such a convention as of January 1, this year.
Can the federal government make laws that dictate all citizens in all states are required to pay taxes without apportionment? The Constitution says no.
Can the Senate originate a revenue bill? The Constitution says no.
Can the federal government make unconstitutional laws? The Constitution says no.
Can the federal government make laws under powers not granted specifically by the Constitution? The Constitution says no.
Can the states refuse to obey unconstitutional laws passed by the federal government? Yes. 37 of them did so as recently as 2005 by nullifying the Real ID Act.
Can the states convene an Article V convention and amend the Constitution over the objections of a unanimous Congress, Supreme Court and Executive Branch? The Constitution says yes.
Read the document some time. You might be surprised what you learn.
Dude, the "you need to get laid" meme is one of the limpest, most unfunny memes of all time. It is not now, nor has it ever been funny. Get a new writer. Yours is phoning it in.
Since Slashdot no longer gives us any incentive to write good posts, I will use the one post a day this account gets to recap this thread:
1. One third of the posts are by basement-bound losers who are butthurt and ask why Twitter hasn't been banned, mainly because nobody follows them on Twitter. Especially girls.
2. One third of the posts are in one thread between two raging assholes who both want the last word. At least one is an atheist, naturally, who thinks evangelism was invented by Satanic Nazis yet won't shut the fuck up about what he and the other 300 atheists in the world believe.
3. One third of the posts are tired, limp, violently unfunny internet memes that have been dragged from their beds in the dark of night and fucked to death.
4. All 100 posts are then modded as far down as possible except the first internet meme which gets a 5: funny
5. At least one post accuses someone or something of being a "cunt."
6. When the next story is posted, start from one again.
That is what this site has become. You got exactly what you wanted, and it's perfectly suited to your intelligence level.
Spreadsheets gave Disney Corporation the justification to annihilate their animation division: an act which utterly destroyed one of the few truly original American art forms: the Disney animated feature. This art form quite recently (1994 to be exact) produced a billion-dollar film (the Lion King).
The people who made that film and others like it were ruthlessly fired without a word from management.
Once you give management the ability to claim (and document) the fact that you "cost more than you earn," you can never again justify your salary.
The only problem with this management theory is that anything that cannot be arranged into tabulated columns of figures is omitted from that employee's value, like the ability to teach, lead, inspire, respond to a crisis well, do research, make a decent pot of coffee, tell a billion-dollar story, etc.
Until companies abandon this hyper-paranoid obsession with shaving fractions of a cent off the necessary costs of employing people, they will always have a way to credibly claim your job is expendable, regardless of your real value to the company.
Craddock's story is instructive. It was not until Blizzard North received corporate backing and a practically unlimited budget that Diablo became a viable project and even then, it took somewhere between 50 and 100 man-years to ship it (while the developers basically neglected everything else in their lives)
It is also instructive in that video games have not advanced one inch since. Development is still impossibly labor-intensive, prone to all manner of bizarre technical risks and requires hundreds, if not thousands of man-years of effort backed by multiple eight-figure investors.
Those that don't burn out are fired. No technology survives two release cycles, and the result is at least half of the players bitch and cry and rage because a) the game has a price tag > 0 and b) the graphics suck. (The graphics always suck) Anyone with any sanity at all abandons the industry by age 25.
Crawford had it nailed 15 years ago. Video games are dead. They are just expensive inflatable dolls.
How about the children of the Microsoft orange badge employees who never got benefits, regular schedules, raises, job security or promotions?
They also were not allowed to buy from the company store or ride the company bus. How did that affect their family? Did they have time to spend with their children?
Shall we go into Microsoft's well known support for offshoring tens of thousands of jobs to a place where children live in 8x8 concrete hovels and work for $1.80 a day?
Hey Bill, you know you spent $100 billion on R&D for Windows. We could have cured malaria 1000x over for that. In fact, we could have solved every major epidemic mankind has ever faced for $100 billion. Instead we got Windows 8.
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They'll be fired right before Christmas, so 100% of them can spend Christmas with their families, asking for a spare room.
That's 2013 America.
Posting a worthwhile comment on this site is like reading Robert Frost to pigs. All you end up with is a book soaked in pigshit.
Just the latest step in the "anything but C" parade.
The only reason this bullshit continues is because developers are too fucking lazy to learn to write in a real programming language.
When Google writes Chrome itself in HTML 5, then real programmers will listen. Until then, it's just another inflatable doll for lazy people to hump and say they got laid.
Add stunlock and a hero class and then sell it to Blizzard
They'll love you long time.
The reason none of them know what they are is because they're too busy writing shitty troll replies.
It's understandable. 21st-century developers have a lot of free time waiting for Visual Studio to stop chugging RAM and thrashing disk and let them type something.
Oh, and "may be" is two words, dumbfuck.
Considering the Supreme Court Chief Justice appointed those judges (in direct violation of the Constitution) they're going to support their decisions.
2013 America is the country that can't build a web site.
Maybe we should just sell Russia our GPS. We can use the money to pay off our loans from China we used to buy more cheap plastic crap.
It is shameful what this nation has become in such a short time. Even Rome took centuries to deteriorate.
Maybe if the units were built by well-paid employees with a future who weren't living in concrete bunkers in some Guangdong hellhole they could build something of better quality.
I have a refrigerator built when Truman was president. It has outlasted six more modern units, even after being rammed by a garbage truck once.
Actually, the Congress says "Yes" to the first one now.
Unapportioned direct taxes are explicitly prohibited by the Constitution (Article I Section 2)
The revenue bill quibbling is pointless technicality.
There are no technicalities in the Constitution. Revenue bills must originate in the House (Article I Section 7) Article I Section 7 is the Supreme Law of the Land.
Many unconstitutional laws have been passed, and enforced, sometimes for decades, so that's not a good argument.
So now aruging that a law is unconstitutional isn't a good argument? You're an asshole.
The Real ID Act is still trucking along
In 13 states.
Of course, it's worth remembering some of the other nullification crises in the history of this country.
Like the Fugitive Slave Act?
Good luck with an Article V convention.
All fifty states have called for such a convention as of January 1, this year.
Can the federal government make laws that dictate all citizens in all states are required to pay taxes without apportionment? The Constitution says no.
Can the Senate originate a revenue bill? The Constitution says no.
Can the federal government make unconstitutional laws? The Constitution says no.
Can the federal government make laws under powers not granted specifically by the Constitution? The Constitution says no.
Can the states refuse to obey unconstitutional laws passed by the federal government? Yes. 37 of them did so as recently as 2005 by nullifying the Real ID Act.
Can the states convene an Article V convention and amend the Constitution over the objections of a unanimous Congress, Supreme Court and Executive Branch? The Constitution says yes.
Read the document some time. You might be surprised what you learn.
Dude, the "you need to get laid" meme is one of the limpest, most unfunny memes of all time. It is not now, nor has it ever been funny. Get a new writer. Yours is phoning it in.
Since Slashdot no longer gives us any incentive to write good posts, I will use the one post a day this account gets to recap this thread:
1. One third of the posts are by basement-bound losers who are butthurt and ask why Twitter hasn't been banned, mainly because nobody follows them on Twitter. Especially girls.
2. One third of the posts are in one thread between two raging assholes who both want the last word. At least one is an atheist, naturally, who thinks evangelism was invented by Satanic Nazis yet won't shut the fuck up about what he and the other 300 atheists in the world believe.
3. One third of the posts are tired, limp, violently unfunny internet memes that have been dragged from their beds in the dark of night and fucked to death.
4. All 100 posts are then modded as far down as possible except the first internet meme which gets a 5: funny
5. At least one post accuses someone or something of being a "cunt."
6. When the next story is posted, start from one again.
That is what this site has become. You got exactly what you wanted, and it's perfectly suited to your intelligence level.
Spreadsheets have ruined the world.
Spreadsheets gave Disney Corporation the justification to annihilate their animation division: an act which utterly destroyed one of the few truly original American art forms: the Disney animated feature. This art form quite recently (1994 to be exact) produced a billion-dollar film (the Lion King).
The people who made that film and others like it were ruthlessly fired without a word from management.
Once you give management the ability to claim (and document) the fact that you "cost more than you earn," you can never again justify your salary.
The only problem with this management theory is that anything that cannot be arranged into tabulated columns of figures is omitted from that employee's value, like the ability to teach, lead, inspire, respond to a crisis well, do research, make a decent pot of coffee, tell a billion-dollar story, etc.
Until companies abandon this hyper-paranoid obsession with shaving fractions of a cent off the necessary costs of employing people, they will always have a way to credibly claim your job is expendable, regardless of your real value to the company.
He was the guy that pointed out the problems in meetings. Everyone else joined forces to get him fired.
This happens in every "corporate culture." There are no exceptions. The competent are destroyed to protect the liars.
America: We defeated the Third Reich, we feed the world and we landed on the moon.
Now we can't build a web site.
Will be when IPOs like this one expose the entire Internet ad market as a gigantic ponzi scheme. SEO too.
Nobody has ever sold jack shit from a web ad. Nobody has ever sold jack shit from being #1 on Google. The whole fucking thing is a scam.
Given how HR departments work these days, unless you have a Guangdong zip code, your resume would go into the trash can without a look.
FTFY
Craddock's story is instructive. It was not until Blizzard North received corporate backing and a practically unlimited budget that Diablo became a viable project and even then, it took somewhere between 50 and 100 man-years to ship it (while the developers basically neglected everything else in their lives)
It is also instructive in that video games have not advanced one inch since. Development is still impossibly labor-intensive, prone to all manner of bizarre technical risks and requires hundreds, if not thousands of man-years of effort backed by multiple eight-figure investors.
Those that don't burn out are fired. No technology survives two release cycles, and the result is at least half of the players bitch and cry and rage because a) the game has a price tag > 0 and b) the graphics suck. (The graphics always suck) Anyone with any sanity at all abandons the industry by age 25.
Crawford had it nailed 15 years ago. Video games are dead. They are just expensive inflatable dolls.
America couldn't build dogshit if it backed a dump truck full of scrambled eggs into a kennel.
They're generally paid much more than "permanent" employees.
That's absolute pure fragrant BULLshit. Microsoft itself has admitted this fact under oath.
Regardless, if you can't cut it for whatever reason, then find another line of work.
If they can't cut it, then why did Microsoft hire them?
There's no comparison between a IT contractor for MS and a kid starving to death in some shithole in Africa,
Both are caused by the same kind of thinking. That's what makes poverty possible, asshole.
How about the children of the Microsoft orange badge employees who never got benefits, regular schedules, raises, job security or promotions?
They also were not allowed to buy from the company store or ride the company bus. How did that affect their family? Did they have time to spend with their children?
Shall we go into Microsoft's well known support for offshoring tens of thousands of jobs to a place where children live in 8x8 concrete hovels and work for $1.80 a day?
Hey Bill, you know you spent $100 billion on R&D for Windows. We could have cured malaria 1000x over for that. In fact, we could have solved every major epidemic mankind has ever faced for $100 billion. Instead we got Windows 8.
Nice job, Bill.
There are 20-somethings with jobs? In America? Where they get paid? With money?
Bullshit.
This country can't build a web site. How the fuck are we going to build an SR-72?
Scientists learn to fellate themselves. Our call for a quote was not immediately returned.
I own ESPN.com? Wow. Maybe I should call someone.
Dumbass.