firewall. I'm sure that would be one of the first few things you want to do in your library. Also check out this site for a lot more info on which hardware to choose, how to set it up, etc.
Not sure why they make a reference to his education - as if the vocational type of schooling you get as an undergraduate in this country has any merit whatsoever. The only type of school worth pursuing in the good ol' US of A is graduate school. It is an entirely different ball game, and you best know what you are doing or else...
I've known people with Masters degrees in computer science who still weren't sure of the differences between a char* and a char[] in C... if that is of any consolation to those who think they've missed out a lot by not going to school. School has its purpose - however, it is entirely 100% up to the individual whether he comes out of it with more or less knowledge and aptitude to do what he's supposed to...
Call me "modest" or crazy, I don't care - but the one thing I really like about *BSD (FreeBSD e.g.) is the fact it only offers one distribution for everyone, and a huge ports tree to which anyone (e.g. companies, individuals) can contribute. Hasn't BSD already "seen the light" in this regard by not allowing more than one distribution to disparage the OS? Why isn't Linux following suit? Is this "privilege" of not having to stick to a single distribution an inherent property of the GPL? Everyone wants a stable/secure, "rock hard" distribution - how does having so many help? Why is UnitedLinux going to be so special above any other distributions? Instead of diverging, shouldn't the Linux community be converging their efforts on a single Linux distribution which can be modified/improved by anyone, without the need to make "yet another Linux distro..."
This question hs ALWAYS bugged me.. Can someone clarify? Mr. Love perhaps while at it?
Doesn't Palm offer some sort of unlimited wireless (bandwidth) usage service in many areas with their latest wireless PDA? That should open the door for wireless games off your PDA, dont you think? Except that it doesn't run on BREW, but on PalmOS, but nevertheless, the platform should not matter when it comes to multiplayer games anyway - it should be possible to do it crossplatform, whether running on BREW , J2ME or Palm...
Yes, BREW's used (or can be) 'only' on umm, let's see every phone with a CDMA chip on it... Did I also mention Verizon Wireless and Sprint PCS are the biggest CDMA wireless carriers in the USA as well? So you see, it's not as dark as it seems for BREW. Plus, they already have a JVM that works on top of BREW - it's called Microchai from HP and there are some more in the works...
Well porn passes the Miller-style test, why is it still here? Can you tell me that minors cannot get porn (or make it:)? Perhaps not directly, but it's not like it's such a big deal to get your buddy to rent a tape or buy one for you too...
So, who are you (not YOU per se) to tell me what "seriously lacks" any kind of value? These bunch of inbreds that inhabit the Supreme Courts need to die off, and quickly too, and be replaced with people with a clue. There's a line between what is allowed and what isn't - if people can't tell where the line is, then they shouldn't be sitting as judges in a court of law. The law is all about determining the "grey" areas of things/issues et al...
Harmful to minors..my ass. Go stop by your local high/middle school to hear the rosy language being used.. I bet that's real harmful to themselves. Kind of like cigarette smoking...
Any ethical headhunter company would never submit your resume to anyone without prior permission from you. I think if you got turned down for a job because of a third party submission of your resume, and you can somehow prove that (by subpoena/discovery from the company's HR dept.), then I think you have a base for a lawsuit. While at it, check company "X Solutions'" policies on submitting resumes. Turning in your resume to a headhunter online, does NOT mean you've given permission for that resume to be submitted to an employer. They HAVE to call you prior to doing that. I got my job (2 weeks ago after 4+ months of unemployment) through a headhunter. Everything was done by the book, with dignity and all... But then again, this headhunting company's been around since 1926... it all varies I suppose.
You're wrong (partly) on this one, hombre. Do you know exactly why K-Mart fucked up and why Wal Mart is still #1? Personally, I've seen the same pricing with slight variations in both stores, and the # of articles they have is about the same.
So, in a world of everything, how do you make them flock to your store? You put an animated Zorro-like smiley, that keeps repeating "ALWAYS LOW... ALWAYS LOW....ALWAYS LOW... prices"... Eventually, whether you like it or not, it will sink in and resurface next time you need to buy your "always low" shampoo or coffee maker or vacuum cleaner....
Do NOT underestimate the power of advertising, EVER. It is how Hitler was able to control a mass of people, it is how this country is being controlled as I am typing this. Don't fuck with advertising/marketing/propaganda.
-.NET is a Java rip-off, pure and simple, maybe it sounds a bit exaggarated, but it's true nonetheless. Microsoft never does things right.
- Rather than considering Java an evolution to C++, I'd much rather call Java a supplement to C++. C++ is still being widely used as the choice language for system development on UNIX, and where maximum performance is required. Have you ever tried to run a web server written in Java as opposed to a web server written in C++ (like Zeus or even Apache)? You'll know that instant where C++ has its purpose. Besides, C++ today is ISO standardized so programming in C++ and sticking to the ISO/POSIX standards will allow you nearly the same platform independence as Java does (w/exception to stuff like the GUI's). Java offers this 'language centric' approach to programming, where the language itself shields the programmer from being sloppy or not careful enough, however that comes at a price of losing closer control of the platform you are working on, which is fully there when developing in C++. You cannot make low-level system calls in Java. Functionally you can achieve probably the same in Java, but the total control aspect is not there as when programming with C++. This is one distinction many 'language' evaluators do not make between Java and C++.
C++ suffered mostly because of the desire to preserve its ancestor's "mentality", C, for a lack of a better description. I'm sure Bjarne could have done it differently, but then again, coding in C++ truly tests your patience as a programmer and your wit too:), so it's not bad by any means. That, and the fact that it stomps Java by a long shot when it comes to performance.
You, my friend, are a bit confused... Because if stag movies made more dough than 'regular' aka Hollywood movies, then I guess Spielberg is in the wrong branch - he should go hang out with Peter North and T.T. Boy and direct their vain attempts at making movies...:)
cheers.
You sir, I'm sorry to say it, sound like a purebred redneck... Pick whichever you want, the Florida riviera type, the Georgia peachy type, or maybe the inbred Tennessee type, whichever it is, I hope you dont think you can code too much "next generation" telco in Perl:), or discard anyone under 25...
Dumbfuck....
Goebbels once said, "a lie if repeated often enough, becomes the truth":).
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Alas to you my Harvard friend. Here's an example of whom empathizes with what I said - I can go on and brag about what I and a group of four other excellent OO people who truly understand what OO is about (not just "coding" but rather _designing_ stuff properly, so that you get highest reuse, least bugs, _OPTIMAL_ performance on any platform scalability, portability etc) did at our former company (which we left and is now on the verge of bankruptcy), but the point will probably be moot (not like anyone gives a rat's ass about high quality software anymore). I'm not saying what we did is rocket science - all I'm saying is, the product in the end, after being carefully thought over in the analysis phase, and properly implemented, resulted in over 50k lines of pure C++ oo code, running on a few flavors of UNIX (because we tried stick to POSIX C only, it ported easily). It gave improvement over their 'legacy' piece of crap over 3000%, it could run in parallel mode, rather than DOS mode (one task at a time) on a UNIX station, we devised a form of software pipelining to get that kind of thruput from a unix station to 100 mbit ethernets... When it came back on top of it all, with a few (6 or 7) minor cosmetic bugs we missed out on, and we fixed those in less than 2 weeks and when beta testers afterwards could not find any reasonably scary bug for 6 months in a row... they finally shipped it to the end users (the Fed Bank of the U.S. - a branch in NC), and that is where all the shit began... Wanna know why? There was no one to point fingers at. The mediocre felt useless. We felt pride. Our boss, who designed the whole thing, felt empowered, got the best salary in the company after that and was promoted twice... WE didnt get jack shit of course, because a blonde woman from a AAA company was managing us, and she'd never written a hello world program in C in her life. But she could manage a Ph.D. in CS (with a M.S. in theoretical physics) - our Jamaican boss, me with a B.S. in C.S. (from Yugoslavia), another fella from Trinidad with an M.S. in C.S. and a ton of experience, and another fella from India with a M.S. in C.S. and a Ph.D. on the horizon... The idea for the project was my boss', but we kicked in and did 85% of the coding and our own smaller designs for the subsystems (like a text driven commandline UI, which I did in yacc/lex for instance for 'job submissions')...
Anyhow, we delivered something that kept us afloat, and the whore that was put as a VP, for the two months that she was there managed to ruin it all for us and the company in the end (a year later). Why? Because my boss was black, I and the others were taking a liking to him and his knowledge and ideas.... They could not see past his race/color. They hated the ground he walked on. Why? Beats me.. the USA has a racist premise? I dont know, we delivered but it didnt matter... Now I'm delivering for the creators of CDMA, they like me 10 times here for a lot less effort than before in the hick redneck company...
So whats the bottom line? Anywhere you go, you will encounter prejudice, mediocrity, especially amongst people who are without technical knowledge (I'm talking about the IT industry now), biggots who hate anything but what they know to be "the true light"... Should you kill these dumb fuckers? (alas, the bumper sticker saying " Dumb people should not breed ") Probably you should. But you'd have to erase any motive before you do so, and plus you'd have to be a sadistical type to do this perfectly without a trace, some time later after all is forgotten and you're long gone from that shit company...
Yeah, you'd probably do the company a favor (unless they've managed to force all the talent out of it like they did with our former co.), if you eliminated the dumb prejudiced nigger-hating, foreign-hating, knowledge-hating everything hating fuckers... But then you might also get in a lot of trouble..
So if not that, then what else is left? Like our Harvard friend said (and he truly is genuine in his wit, it shows) - START your OWN fucking business. Deliver on a narrow vertical market product - but make sure you do it better than the medicore fuckers. Yes, you'll have problems in the beginning.. You may have to skew your free time to nothing at the beginning.. Find a friend who worked with you who knows matches your expectations and wit and knowledge in the area... Sacrifice part of your incomes to build a damn garage (if not a nice office), where you can bring up a few bsd, linux servers with the money you'd have saved.... all of them come with compilers tools and everything you need...
All you need is either an original idea, not revolutionary necessarily, but something different, that solves a particular problem better than the competition.. And if you are truly elite at heart, you will have found such a domain where you can apply your and your friends' knowledge... Do the programming at night if you have to.. Forget you wife if you have to for a while.. Maybe that'll be the part of the sacrifice... Maybe she'll leave you if she's the bitch you didn't know, on your way to fame...
Then the rest, once you have a solid minimal demo at hand, should be easy... Show it to a company that's been displeased with another company's product they're using... Hook them onto it... Give them an incentive to use it... make one up... Be nice, beg if you have to, in order to get a contract signed... Then the cash starts flowing in..
Depending on your idea, you may or may not grow to ala M$ size or at least 1/10th of what they are... But you will impress upon the people in your company, your spirit.. not a mediocre or stale one.. You'll enforce your better rules than the mediocre fuckers all over the United States which are like a fucking PLAGUE to the software industry - starting with Microsoft....
Then you try to find more people like you...Then you can join them... Take the mediocre fucks down, in spite of their lawyers/moneyflows/anything.. Why? Because as slow as evolution is, it is inevitable.. People (at least here in the US) will slowly but surely start to see the light of day if you give them something more than just fucking hopefull that works 100 out of a 100 times... Is it impossible? My ass... It's not impossible, it's just that most people like to ride on auto-pilot when they get into some job...
Everything is possible.. If it was possible for a dumb fucker like Gates to make MS DOS in spite of the circumstances back then, since you're so much better than he is - you can achieve at least a big fraction of what he's done if you're more clever than he is....
Nothing is impossible.. well ok, maybe not nothing, like passing through an event horizon:).. but making money in a reign of mediocrity? Shit, you have got to be dumber than most people to not be able to bank on America....
C'est la vie.
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To sum this nicely - we all now do a lot more for a lot less time - insane schedules, tough competition, cutthroat GA dates for products, bloated tools, bloated OS's, cheap RAM, fast processors.. should I go more? - what a fertile soil for the worst of all things - mediocrity. Yes, the current world of software, with the exception of a few gems where no compromises are made - mediocrity reigns supreme! You can argue the time constraints crap, delivery deadlines crap.. yadda yadda, come up with a 1000 reason - in the end you get tradeoffs between a solid, virtually bugless product selling for little money and a mediocre product, delivered "on time" with a shitty design, ton of (probably) fundamental design flaws (e.g. Windows:), and a million bux to make.... Round and round we go....
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oh they know what to do - they can do as IBM does wrt Linux... but they dont want to. Pity, ain't it?
firewall. I'm sure that would be one of the first few things you want to do in your library. Also check out this site for a lot more info on which hardware to choose, how to set it up, etc.
Not sure why they make a reference to his education - as if the vocational type of schooling you get as an undergraduate in this country has any merit whatsoever. The only type of school worth pursuing in the good ol' US of A is graduate school. It is an entirely different ball game, and you best know what you are doing or else...
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I've known people with Masters degrees in computer science who still weren't sure of the differences between a char* and a char[] in C... if that is of any consolation to those who think they've missed out a lot by not going to school. School has its purpose - however, it is entirely 100% up to the individual whether he comes out of it with more or less knowledge and aptitude to do what he's supposed to
Call me "modest" or crazy, I don't care - but the one thing I really like about *BSD (FreeBSD e.g.) is the fact it only offers one distribution for everyone, and a huge ports tree to which anyone (e.g. companies, individuals) can contribute. Hasn't BSD already "seen the light" in this regard by not allowing more than one distribution to disparage the OS? Why isn't Linux following suit? Is this "privilege" of not having to stick to a single distribution an inherent property of the GPL? Everyone wants a stable/secure, "rock hard" distribution - how does having so many help? Why is UnitedLinux going to be so special above any other distributions? Instead of diverging, shouldn't the Linux community be converging their efforts on a single Linux distribution which can be modified/improved by anyone, without the need to make "yet another Linux distro..."
This question hs ALWAYS bugged me.. Can someone clarify? Mr. Love perhaps while at it?
Sorry, the link got erased somehow - here's "proof" that not watching commercials could be crime :)
Not watching commercials?! You scheming A HREF="http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step= 2)
Doesn't Palm offer some sort of unlimited wireless (bandwidth) usage service in many areas with their latest wireless PDA? That should open the door for wireless games off your PDA, dont you think? Except that it doesn't run on BREW, but on PalmOS, but nevertheless, the platform should not matter when it comes to multiplayer games anyway - it should be possible to do it crossplatform, whether running on BREW , J2ME or Palm...
Yes, BREW's used (or can be) 'only' on umm, let's see every phone with a CDMA chip on it... Did I also mention Verizon Wireless and Sprint PCS are the biggest CDMA wireless carriers in the USA as well? So you see, it's not as dark as it seems for BREW. Plus, they already have a JVM that works on top of BREW - it's called Microchai from HP and there are some more in the works...
Except that they do not have half the stuff I want....
Well porn passes the Miller-style test, why is it still here? Can you tell me that minors cannot get porn (or make it :)? Perhaps not directly, but it's not like it's such a big deal to get your buddy to rent a tape or buy one for you too...
So, who are you (not YOU per se) to tell me what "seriously lacks" any kind of value? These bunch of inbreds that inhabit the Supreme Courts need to die off, and quickly too, and be replaced with people with a clue. There's a line between what is allowed and what isn't - if people can't tell where the line is, then they shouldn't be sitting as judges in a court of law. The law is all about determining the "grey" areas of things/issues et al...
Harmful to minors..my ass. Go stop by your local high/middle school to hear the rosy language being used.. I bet that's real harmful to themselves. Kind of like cigarette smoking...
Any ethical headhunter company would never submit your resume to anyone without prior permission from you. I think if you got turned down for a job because of a third party submission of your resume, and you can somehow prove that (by subpoena/discovery from the company's HR dept.), then I think you have a base for a lawsuit. While at it, check company "X Solutions'" policies on submitting resumes. Turning in your resume to a headhunter online, does NOT mean you've given permission for that resume to be submitted to an employer. They HAVE to call you prior to doing that. I got my job (2 weeks ago after 4+ months of unemployment) through a headhunter. Everything was done by the book, with dignity and all... But then again, this headhunting company's been around since 1926... it all varies I suppose.
Yes, it's as vertical as McDonalds merging with Burger King in an attempt to break into fine dining.
You're wrong (partly) on this one, hombre. Do you know exactly why K-Mart fucked up and why Wal Mart is still #1? Personally, I've seen the same pricing with slight variations in both stores, and the # of articles they have is about the same.
So, in a world of everything, how do you make them flock to your store? You put an animated Zorro-like smiley, that keeps repeating "ALWAYS LOW... ALWAYS LOW....ALWAYS LOW... prices"... Eventually, whether you like it or not, it will sink in and resurface next time you need to buy your "always low" shampoo or coffee maker or vacuum cleaner....
Do NOT underestimate the power of advertising, EVER. It is how Hitler was able to control a mass of people, it is how this country is being controlled as I am typing this. Don't fuck with advertising/marketing/propaganda.
Read my sig. I've had it for years.
Dont bash TNT bitch! They're the only channel devoted to Star Trek: TNG for now :).
were as entertaining as the Budweiser "WHATUUUPPPP", then I might consider viewing them ;-).
This is the wildest thing I've seen in a while..
- .NET is a Java rip-off, pure and simple, maybe it sounds a bit exaggarated, but it's true nonetheless. Microsoft never does things right.
- Rather than considering Java an evolution to C++, I'd much rather call Java a supplement to C++. C++ is still being widely used as the choice language for system development on UNIX, and where maximum performance is required. Have you ever tried to run a web server written in Java as opposed to a web server written in C++ (like Zeus or even Apache)? You'll know that instant where C++ has its purpose. Besides, C++ today is ISO standardized so programming in C++ and sticking to the ISO/POSIX standards will allow you nearly the same platform independence as Java does (w/exception to stuff like the GUI's). Java offers this 'language centric' approach to programming, where the language itself shields the programmer from being sloppy or not careful enough, however that comes at a price of losing closer control of the platform you are working on, which is fully there when developing in C++. You cannot make low-level system calls in Java. Functionally you can achieve probably the same in Java, but the total control aspect is not there as when programming with C++. This is one distinction many 'language' evaluators do not make between Java and C++.
C++ suffered mostly because of the desire to preserve its ancestor's "mentality", C, for a lack of a better description. I'm sure Bjarne could have done it differently, but then again, coding in C++ truly tests your patience as a programmer and your wit too :), so it's not bad by any means. That, and the fact that it stomps Java by a long shot when it comes to performance.
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Anyhow, we delivered something that kept us afloat, and the whore that was put as a VP, for the two months that she was there managed to ruin it all for us and the company in the end (a year later). Why? Because my boss was black, I and the others were taking a liking to him and his knowledge and ideas.... They could not see past his race/color. They hated the ground he walked on. Why? Beats me.. the USA has a racist premise? I dont know, we delivered but it didnt matter... Now I'm delivering for the creators of CDMA, they like me 10 times here for a lot less effort than before in the hick redneck company...
So whats the bottom line? Anywhere you go, you will encounter prejudice, mediocrity, especially amongst people who are without technical knowledge (I'm talking about the IT industry now), biggots who hate anything but what they know to be "the true light"... Should you kill these dumb fuckers? (alas, the bumper sticker saying " Dumb people should not breed ") Probably you should. But you'd have to erase any motive before you do so, and plus you'd have to be a sadistical type to do this perfectly without a trace, some time later after all is forgotten and you're long gone from that shit company...
Yeah, you'd probably do the company a favor (unless they've managed to force all the talent out of it like they did with our former co.), if you eliminated the dumb prejudiced nigger-hating, foreign-hating, knowledge-hating everything hating fuckers... But then you might also get in a lot of trouble..
So if not that, then what else is left? Like our Harvard friend said (and he truly is genuine in his wit, it shows) - START your OWN fucking business. Deliver on a narrow vertical market product - but make sure you do it better than the medicore fuckers. Yes, you'll have problems in the beginning.. You may have to skew your free time to nothing at the beginning.. Find a friend who worked with you who knows matches your expectations and wit and knowledge in the area... Sacrifice part of your incomes to build a damn garage (if not a nice office), where you can bring up a few bsd, linux servers with the money you'd have saved.... all of them come with compilers tools and everything you need...
All you need is either an original idea, not revolutionary necessarily, but something different, that solves a particular problem better than the competition.. And if you are truly elite at heart, you will have found such a domain where you can apply your and your friends' knowledge... Do the programming at night if you have to.. Forget you wife if you have to for a while.. Maybe that'll be the part of the sacrifice... Maybe she'll leave you if she's the bitch you didn't know, on your way to fame...
Then the rest, once you have a solid minimal demo at hand, should be easy... Show it to a company that's been displeased with another company's product they're using... Hook them onto it... Give them an incentive to use it... make one up... Be nice, beg if you have to, in order to get a contract signed... Then the cash starts flowing in..
Depending on your idea, you may or may not grow to ala M$ size or at least 1/10th of what they are... But you will impress upon the people in your company, your spirit.. not a mediocre or stale one.. You'll enforce your better rules than the mediocre fuckers all over the United States which are like a fucking PLAGUE to the software industry - starting with Microsoft....
Then you try to find more people like you.. .Then you can join them... Take the mediocre fucks down, in spite of their lawyers/moneyflows/anything.. Why? Because as slow as evolution is, it is inevitable.. People (at least here in the US) will slowly but surely start to see the light of day if you give them something more than just fucking hopefull that works 100 out of a 100 times... Is it impossible? My ass... It's not impossible, it's just that most people like to ride on auto-pilot when they get into some job...
Everything is possible.. If it was possible for a dumb fucker like Gates to make MS DOS in spite of the circumstances back then, since you're so much better than he is - you can achieve at least a big fraction of what he's done if you're more clever than he is....
Nothing is impossible.. well ok, maybe not nothing, like passing through an event horizon :).. but making money in a reign of mediocrity? Shit, you have got to be dumber than most people to not be able to bank on America....
C'est la vie.
M.
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