"The PROPER way to handle HTML postings is to cancel the article, then hire a
hitman to kill the poster, his wife and kids, and fuck his dog and smash his
computer into little bits. Anything more is just extremism." - Paul Tomblin
That site doesn't need to be dynamic. A 486DX66 serving static pages can saturate a T1.
If your site "needs" to be dynamic, does your front page *really* *need* to be dynamic? Re-generate the front page from a cron job every 60 seconds- that's probably dynamic enough, and will save you a zillion database hits.
In every tech's life, there comes a time when management starts to insist on better documentation.
Perhaps a round of layoffs or outsourcing is imminent. Perhaps the simmering disdain between techs and management has escalated into open hatred. Either way, you are clearly on the way out, and management wants to grease the wheels for your successor.
Objectives
You wish to produce documentation that:
will impress your management, and facilitate your remaining time in that job.
If you're working in a job where you can't be frank with the people
above you, then get another job.
I've never had a job where the people above me wanted to hear the truth. Telling the truth has been a career-limiting move for me in several different jobs.
The only reason this dilbertesque cliche of organisational structure
exists is because people let it exist.
You are correct. However, I assert that most people are dishonest. Let's suppose we have a group of 99 honest people and 1 scheming liar. The dishonest man will win most political games. People notice this, and stop being honest - it isn't a survival trait.
I'm glad this whole honesty thing is working out for you so far, but I fear it's going to fuck you up in the end.
Also if the truth is going to set you free from you relationship, then it's doomed anyway, because the truth will always come out in a relationship eventually. But if it's coming out because you're telling it, then you have control over the way it's delivered.
OK, what's the proper answer to "Does this dress make me look fat?"
>If it was below freezing, it shouldn't matter that the can exploded, >the contents are still frozen.
Heh.
The entire can doesn't freeze instantly. When it explodes, half the can is slush, the rest is still liquid. There will be enough liquid left to make a big mess.
If you don't believe me, I encourage you to leave a few cans in the freezer for 8 hours.
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LDAP isn't a way to store the user database, it's a well defined way to query the user database.
Who's the idiot? They're talking about AD.
>fortune 50 IT executive
/.?
Yeah, right. Don't you have anything better to do then read
There was a great discussion about this here a year or three ago. It may have been an "ask slashdot" topic.
:)
There are lots of people from the "lets make everything dynamic for no good reason" school of web design. Eventually, they get what they deserve
That site doesn't need to be dynamic. A 486DX66 serving static pages can saturate a T1.
If your site "needs" to be dynamic, does your front page *really* *need* to be dynamic? Re-generate the front page from a cron job every 60 seconds- that's probably dynamic enough, and will save you a zillion database hits.
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HOWTO: write bad documentation
In every tech's life, there comes a time when management starts to insist on better documentation.
Perhaps a round of layoffs or outsourcing is imminent. Perhaps the simmering disdain between techs and management has escalated into open hatred. Either way, you are clearly on the way out, and management wants to grease the wheels for your successor.
Objectives
You wish to produce documentation that:
And all this time I thought we were doing a cascade of common grammer mistakes. My bad.
s/too/to/
I loved XCom, but the environment wasn't as interactive as it should have been.
You could blow up the bottom floor of a building, and the upper stories would just hang there, floating in space.
There were also some freaky bugs that would let you see (and sometimes fly!) thru walls.
CPU Burn
Here, take a walk down memory lane: http://www.firstibmclone.fsnet.co.uk/
Q: Does this dress make me look fat?
A: No, it's all the fucking ice cream and chocolate that makes you look fat.
>I'm not at all surprised you're screwing up every job and relationship you hit.
Ah, grasshopper, you misunderstand. I have now achieved enlighenment - when appropriate, I lie like a motherfucker, and therefore prosper.
>Your managers would rather find out about it sooner, when something can be done about it
I don't want to sound too snarky, but how old are you? How many jobs have you had?
>In addition, if one person is obviously screwing over you and your
>team members, that's the purpose of an appraisal system
That one person has a special name - "manager".
I've never had a job where the people above me wanted to hear the truth. Telling the truth has been a career-limiting move for me in several different jobs.
You are correct. However, I assert that most people are dishonest. Let's suppose we have a group of 99 honest people and 1 scheming liar. The dishonest man will win most political games. People notice this, and stop being honest - it isn't a survival trait.
I'm glad this whole honesty thing is working out for you so far, but I fear it's going to fuck you up in the end.
OK, what's the proper answer to "Does this dress make me look fat?"Wow, I do hope you're joking.
Honesty is the most valuable thing in the world, and therefore must be tightly rationed.
The truth will set you free - from your job, your relationships, etc.
- I've got a tremendous capacity for violence!
- I'll commit assault and battery on your scrawny ass!
- I may then be caught, charged in circuit court, and kept in a cell.
- I will eventually be paroled, i.e. I will be discharged and permitted to go ohm.
Thank you, I'll be here all week.Windows uses different technology for "glue scripts". Any MS Office feature can be called by VBscript/WSH scripts.
The syntax is horrendous, but you can do very nifty things.
>If it was below freezing, it shouldn't matter that the can exploded,
>the contents are still frozen.
Heh.
The entire can doesn't freeze instantly. When it explodes, half the can is slush, the rest is still liquid. There will be enough liquid left to make a big mess.
If you don't believe me, I encourage you to leave a few cans in the freezer for 8 hours.
Try it some time it's really cold, like -40. They'll explode.
Do you have the courage of your convictions? Go put a can of pop in the freezer, and let us know what happens.
>when you get the urge to use awk or sed, it's time for a Perl one-liner.
:)
That depends on which you learned first
...testosterone boosters and a backbone transplant!
Failing that, get some velcro and a staple gun.
Max Payne wasn't a good enough game to slog through twice.