Now that the statute of limitations has run its course, I can safely admit that this sounds really much like my first "professional" project. Too much responsibility for the inexperienced.
I'm usually against all activations and restrictions, but I actually love steam. I have bought games, played them, stopped playing them, lost the packaging, reinstalled machine and eventually repurchased the game. With steam, I don't even have to thik where my installation media is when I total my hard disk.
Someone pulls the pin of a grenade with his teeth, fumbles and drops the grenade at his own feet. Spectators retreat like 5 meters and the grenade goes poof. Good thing it was a practice grenade. A real frag would have done some serious damage from that distance.
Protip: The clipart lady in the corner and the "zabillion links to high paying keywords"-layout make your site look like a generic typosquatting operation.
Flame bait? WTF? Some mod out there thinks all the sudanese bisexuals on slashdot are going to get offended or something? Read the god damn moderation guidelines before hitting the button you dolts. (Correct moderation for this post is offtopic btw.)
Would you like to elaborate exactly what you mean by "different codebase"? Win95 wasn't another shell for DOS. It actually was a jump to real multitasking 32bit kernel. I would consider that far greater jump than XP->Vista, whereas both use a kernel derived from NT.
Well, TBH, I would have voted against conviction just because I didn't like Nina. Then again, the Jury didn't know what a terrible person the cadaver was.
PaisteUser points out... God forbid if it was SabianUser I would have had to disagree. Good thing/. ers have good taste all around.
Protip: Paiste means "shine" or "glow" in Finnish. (Or even one odd presens case of "to fry [ambiguous]") PS. Protip has nothing to do with Paiste/Sabian thing. PPS. I demand +mods for most convoluted post in ages.
Also, unless you're burned out, you might try something like Rent a Coder [rentacoder.com] and freelance, just to use those programming muscles again. I have used it couple of times to relieve stress. It's fun to compete with "Solid ASP/PHP/MYSQL/C#/LISP professional team from bangalore". I make a reasonable calculation that to full fill the posted requirements even in lax fashion would mean $3500 billing. These motherfuckers post their prepackaged web-development ads with $120 price tag into a C++ project and get the project. Unless I am feeling sufficiently spiteful and post with a real project plan with a $100 tag. In these cases I have worked diligently and followed through. With one project I worked about 150 hours just for fun. I have worked diligently and followed ridiculous instructions from clueless "managers" who think I actually give a shit about their $100 (buahaha, this stupid Finnish native will code me thousands of lines of code to get a shiny $100 for buying a reindeer to impress the father of his loved one...). Just to prove myself I can still do it. But in the end I figured its a waste of my time and sooner or later I get into some project which I let slide and end up putting someone else in bad position. I'll leave that part to the undercutters.
I have found out that most of the time the buyers have no clue about what they want. Not even after I work hours to make requirement study with obvious elephant sized holes for them to fill out. Or they are oddly vague for whatever secret reasons: someone is going to steal their awesome idea, they are trying to reimplement someone elses system, stolen data to parse, etc. Which makes the implementation impossible.
I have actualy used this service succesfully as a buyer thou. If you know what you want, you can weed out the crap and select the reasonable bid with competent coder. It's quite hard to find competent buyers thou.
Oh yeah. I still get constant "invitation to bid on a project" mails. I guess it's possible to get projects there if you are willing to work for peanuts first to build a reputation.
I actually had to make an extra passing test in math to pass from primary school. My chemistry teacher was a total bitch (troubled with her private life, letting it out on students) and we lost our math teacher on second to last semester. The emergency replacement didn't have a clue how to teach. I spent most of my last semester playing NES, getting drunk and getting laid (Hello from Finland). However, I attended to tests and skimmed the books at home. I actually got almost full scores out of tests. Some of the teachers graded me based on their previous experience and my tests scores alone. Math teachers replacement probably thought I was cheating and chemistry teacher failed my semester because she was just a dick.
I scored 100% in the math and chem re-exams but I still have grade '6' (equal to 'D') in my final score card for those subjects, because they only could raise it two steps (from 4 to 6) after failing me.
I have actually had a bad distaste for schooling ever since first grade (7 y/o) because I had a horrible teacher at start. Luckily self learning programming and intrinsic understanding of natural sciences has taken me far enough. Without my "bad-boy-gang-leader" people skills I would probably be flipping burgers, or more likely in jail after a "genious heist" gone wrong.
Uh, anyway. I don't know why am I telling this but it seems topical enough. It's Juhannus, the midsummer festival in Finland, and I am getting drunk and getting laid tonight;)
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Now that the statute of limitations has run its course, I can safely admit that this sounds really much like my first "professional" project. Too much responsibility for the inexperienced.
Book was good thou.
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I'm usually against all activations and restrictions, but I actually love steam.
I have bought games, played them, stopped playing them, lost the packaging, reinstalled machine and eventually repurchased the game.
With steam, I don't even have to thik where my installation media is when I total my hard disk.
Someone pulls the pin of a grenade with his teeth, fumbles and drops the grenade at his own feet. Spectators retreat like 5 meters and the grenade goes poof.
Good thing it was a practice grenade. A real frag would have done some serious damage from that distance.
Which would be OS/2 doing what?
(No seriously, I'm not familiar with OS/2)
Ridiculously nonspecific hmm? That's a good woody word, isn't it? Ridiculously nonspecific... Good, yes. Good woody type word.
Goooooornn.....
For some reason I'm scared shitless of dragonflys. 70 cm moth monster from hell would send me running and screaming like a sissy.
What the hell is the rambling vitriol in the summary? Sounds like a very bad fantasy writer wrote this.
And I want a microwave than can be customer bludgeoned into a bicycle. Where do you people get the idea that you can do hardware in software?
The one in... uh... zakata.com. Sorry, my bad. Generic typo link farm looks like a link farm :)
Protip: The clipart lady in the corner and the "zabillion links to high paying keywords"-layout make your site look like a generic typosquatting operation.
Indeed. Buh-bye expert-sexchange. Good riddance.
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I have always wondered what is the purpose of this symbol. So it is a magic solution to charger standard?
(Latin-1/Scandinavian keyboard)
Flame bait? WTF? Some mod out there thinks all the sudanese bisexuals on slashdot are going to get offended or something?
Read the god damn moderation guidelines before hitting the button you dolts.
(Correct moderation for this post is offtopic btw.)
Oh... Wow... :P
Damn his writing style is boring. Seems like the most mediocre person ever. Well, I guess that means he excels in mediocrity
Ah yes, I can picture it. A brand new generation of crackpots trying to extract infinite energy out of magnets, this time tiinyweenysmall :)
Uh... It's a quicktime mov. I consider that shit far more irritating than flash. Only thing more irritating than quicktime is realmedia.
Would you like to elaborate exactly what you mean by "different codebase"?
Win95 wasn't another shell for DOS. It actually was a jump to real multitasking 32bit kernel. I would consider that far greater jump than XP->Vista, whereas both use a kernel derived from NT.
Are you implying that the word is not perfectly cromulent?
Well, TBH, I would have voted against conviction just because I didn't like Nina. Then again, the Jury didn't know what a terrible person the cadaver was.
Protip: Paiste means "shine" or "glow" in Finnish. (Or even one odd presens case of "to fry [ambiguous]")
PS. Protip has nothing to do with Paiste/Sabian thing.
PPS. I demand +mods for most convoluted post in ages.
In these cases I have worked diligently and followed through. With one project I worked about 150 hours just for fun. I have worked diligently and followed ridiculous instructions from clueless "managers" who think I actually give a shit about their $100 (buahaha, this stupid Finnish native will code me thousands of lines of code to get a shiny $100 for buying a reindeer to impress the father of his loved one...). Just to prove myself I can still do it. But in the end I figured its a waste of my time and sooner or later I get into some project which I let slide and end up putting someone else in bad position. I'll leave that part to the undercutters.
I have found out that most of the time the buyers have no clue about what they want. Not even after I work hours to make requirement study with obvious elephant sized holes for them to fill out. Or they are oddly vague for whatever secret reasons: someone is going to steal their awesome idea, they are trying to reimplement someone elses system, stolen data to parse, etc. Which makes the implementation impossible.
I have actualy used this service succesfully as a buyer thou. If you know what you want, you can weed out the crap and select the reasonable bid with competent coder. It's quite hard to find competent buyers thou.
Oh yeah. I still get constant "invitation to bid on a project" mails. I guess it's possible to get projects there if you are willing to work for peanuts first to build a reputation.
You leave Mr. Stallman out of this!
I actually had to make an extra passing test in math to pass from primary school. My chemistry teacher was a total bitch (troubled with her private life, letting it out on students) and we lost our math teacher on second to last semester. The emergency replacement didn't have a clue how to teach.
;)
I spent most of my last semester playing NES, getting drunk and getting laid (Hello from Finland). However, I attended to tests and skimmed the books at home. I actually got almost full scores out of tests. Some of the teachers graded me based on their previous experience and my tests scores alone. Math teachers replacement probably thought I was cheating and chemistry teacher failed my semester because she was just a dick.
I scored 100% in the math and chem re-exams but I still have grade '6' (equal to 'D') in my final score card for those subjects, because they only could raise it two steps (from 4 to 6) after failing me.
I have actually had a bad distaste for schooling ever since first grade (7 y/o) because I had a horrible teacher at start. Luckily self learning programming and intrinsic understanding of natural sciences has taken me far enough. Without my "bad-boy-gang-leader" people skills I would probably be flipping burgers, or more likely in jail after a "genious heist" gone wrong.
Uh, anyway. I don't know why am I telling this but it seems topical enough. It's Juhannus, the midsummer festival in Finland, and I am getting drunk and getting laid tonight