the "willing to work a normal workday and be productive" mentality is far from when the real genius coding takes place...
the post asks about a programming "zone," not a willingness to program...the fundimental difference is that, when you're in said zone, you're likely to be that much more productive/creative/brilliant than if you're just munging your brain away at the keyboard, waiting for 5 so you can slide down the brontosaurus's back and scurry on home
coders in a programming "zone" don't give one hell about time or any other external stimuli...if you're worried about your normal workday (or anything else, for that matter), then you're being a half-assed programmer.
y'know, this hypersensitivity towards the notion of "americacentrism" (as you say) and the perceived slights that it hurls upon you really wears me down...
the facts are thus:
the u.s. is the 3rd most populous country in the world, w/ a population of ~1/4 billion
from those simple numbers, coupled with the fact that this is an english-language site, it's a simple conclusion that some content might crop up as u.s.-specific...just as chinese-langauge content on might tend in the direction of being specific to china
consider this flamebait if you like but don't bitch about "americacentrism" because some users are discussing a television show
I think your reffering to JavaScript orginally called livescript by Netscape before the Java buzz hit.
I think you're referring to ECMAScript formerly called JavaScript because of it's syntactical derivation from Sun's Java programming language
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wait wait...it's pronounced "war-ez"??? as in the city of Juarez, Mexico?
i think i've just reasoned out the epicenter of the world's software piracy network!
Or are we looking in the wrong direction to apply a fix? Most of the destruction caused by employee web-surfing is the result of launching some hell-raising Exchange virus via Outlook, which is apparently a majoy FLAW with MS software. So, should we damn our employees because we choose poorly for enterprise eMail? Or, rather, should we be looking for better options / lobbying for better (read "bug-fixed") software. It's true that productivity is not a simple deduction from hours worked...there's a whole quality-of-life factor (as it applies in the workplace) that is germane to this evaluation. And it just seems to me that, rather than immediatly salve the symptoms, we look to medicate the disease.
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the post asks about a programming "zone," not a willingness to program...the fundimental difference is that, when you're in said zone, you're likely to be that much more productive/creative/brilliant than if you're just munging your brain away at the keyboard, waiting for 5 so you can slide down the brontosaurus's back and scurry on home
coders in a programming "zone" don't give one hell about time or any other external stimuli...if you're worried about your normal workday (or anything else, for that matter), then you're being a half-assed programmer.
the facts are thus:
from those simple numbers, coupled with the fact that this is an english-language site, it's a simple conclusion that some content might crop up as u.s.-specific...just as chinese-langauge content on might tend in the direction of being specific to china
consider this flamebait if you like but don't bitch about "americacentrism" because some users are discussing a television show
Speaking of which, I hear they're already phasing out .NET in favor of a new geodesic dome-based OO programming model...
In case you're out of the loop re: current and upcoming enterprise applications, java (J2EE) DOES, in fact, rule THAT world...
I think your reffering to JavaScript orginally called livescript by Netscape before the Java buzz hit. I think you're referring to ECMAScript formerly called JavaScript because of it's syntactical derivation from Sun's Java programming language
wait wait...it's pronounced "war-ez"??? as in the city of Juarez, Mexico?
i think i've just reasoned out the epicenter of the world's software piracy network!
Or are we looking in the wrong direction to apply a fix? Most of the destruction caused by employee web-surfing is the result of launching some hell-raising Exchange virus via Outlook, which is apparently a majoy FLAW with MS software. So, should we damn our employees because we choose poorly for enterprise eMail? Or, rather, should we be looking for better options / lobbying for better (read "bug-fixed") software. It's true that productivity is not a simple deduction from hours worked...there's a whole quality-of-life factor (as it applies in the workplace) that is germane to this evaluation. And it just seems to me that, rather than immediatly salve the symptoms, we look to medicate the disease.