So does Firefox, Opera and even Safari despite Apple saying the latest version of Safari passes it. The version that ships with Tiger (that's where I'm typing this from) fails just as miserably as any other browser.
After all, Bin Laden was a CIA agent. I'm just saying that there are some serious double standards in place. There's one set of standards for the US and another for the rest of the world. Folks in the us (at least those getting their news from FOX), don't realize that the government is just a bunch of hypocrites when it comes to foreign relations.
And the reason would be - Italian government was paying large ransoms to rescue kidnapped folks, in other words they were supporting the terrorists financially. Those ransoms no doubt were used to purchase weapons, ammo and explosives to kill Iraquis and American soldiers. So if I put my tinfoil hat on, I can see how this "soldier" could really have been a CIA operative with direct orders to kill Calipari.
The guy doesn't get it. Fortran is Good Enough (tm) for what most scientists need. And it has ridiculous amounts of well tested, peer-reviewed code already written for it. Unicode? Who the fuck gives a shit about Unicode, when the only thing you need is highly optimized computations?
Because you can hire creme of the crop at below $100K a year. That's why. And in my experience this is precisely why H1-B's on average are WAY better than US people. They come from the countries in which education systems kinda work.
And this is one of the cases where I kind of agree with Bill. There's a huge shortage of _qualified_ candidates. Folks who knew what the heck they were doing either didn't lose their jobs in the first place, or found other jobs shortly after being laid off.
You can't fix this problem with only money. If you up the salaries to generate interest in CS majors among students you will see the bubble all over again. Companies will be flooded with idiots who want to get rich quick and don't care much about anything else.
On the other hand until Green Card system is fixed raising H1-B cap will be equivalent to allowing slave labor. The issue with Green Card process is that it currently (illegally!) takes five years. During these five years you can't change jobs. This leads to all sorts of abuses on the employers' part.
If this was fixed, raising or removing H1-B cap would truly be about bringing the smart people into the country. Until then it's about slave labor, sorry, Bill.
I'm just saying that they (usually) operate under a different set of assumptions and priorities. If you're writing shit someone else (in the US) will have to support, then why bother with proper coding standards, refactoring and comments?
So far the code I've seen come from India has been ATROCIOUS. This is not to say that US programmers can't write atrocious code, but those who do usually get kicked out pretty quickly.
And this, my friends, is one of the reasons why offshore outsourcing is doomed. You understand comments are important. For people in India schedule is far more important than comments. So they'll cut&paste shit all over the place and leave it uncommented. If you happen to have to work with it, your hair will turn gray pretty quickly.
I'm in the process of showing them my middle finger right now. I'm selling all my Nikon gear (worth about $6K) and switching to Canon. This encryption bullshit was the straw that broke the camel's back.
The only reason why we're seeing 'high rates' of obesity over here is because Americans are hell bent about measuring everything and collecting statistics. And then they go "OMFG, 70% of the population is not all skin and bones, gotta do something about this". Granted, I haven't been in every US town and haven't measured everyone's weight, but from what I saw abroad, there aren't less fat people in Europe for example, especially in Eastern Europe.
If I want a big steak, I'm gonna have a big steak. And mashed potatoes. And gravy. And I'm gonna wash it down with some good wine, and maybe even Vodka if I'm in the mood. If I die when I'm 60, so fuckin' be it. At least I will die knowing what a good steak tastes like.
I don't want to live till I'm 100 years old, because I know with social security system the government is putting in place I'll have to live under the fucking bridge if I live too long. And I don't want my kids to spend their hard earned cash on keeping me alive or paying for the nursing home. If I'm ever not able to take care of myself, give me the god damn shotgun and go somewhere for five minutes.
Where I work there's a huge shortage of "technical" testers, i.e. testers who can write their own tools and sophisticated automation. Hiring a good developer is such a PITA, it's unbelievable. Most of the folks coming in for the interview don't know jack. I mean, come on, they can't write the textbook code to remove the unneeded characters out of a string.
You would think that in this job market finding a good candidate shouldn't be a problem, yet from what I see the current "unemployment" of much of IT/CS personnel is "unemployment of idiots", they shouldn't have gotten their positions in the first place.
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Would be interesting to run this tool's code through this tool. I'm sure there's GPL'd code cut&pasted somewhere. :0)
And it has been journaled since early 90's. Which was before Linux developers even began thinking about journaled FSs.
So does Firefox, Opera and even Safari despite Apple saying the latest version of Safari passes it. The version that ships with Tiger (that's where I'm typing this from) fails just as miserably as any other browser.
http://webstandards.org/act/acid2/guide.html
Come on, the best browser on the planet doesn't pass Acid2 test. You ARE committed to standards, aren't you, folks?
After all, Bin Laden was a CIA agent. I'm just saying that there are some serious double standards in place. There's one set of standards for the US and another for the rest of the world. Folks in the us (at least those getting their news from FOX), don't realize that the government is just a bunch of hypocrites when it comes to foreign relations.
And the reason would be - Italian government was paying large ransoms to rescue kidnapped folks, in other words they were supporting the terrorists financially. Those ransoms no doubt were used to purchase weapons, ammo and explosives to kill Iraquis and American soldiers. So if I put my tinfoil hat on, I can see how this "soldier" could really have been a CIA operative with direct orders to kill Calipari.
The guy doesn't get it. Fortran is Good Enough (tm) for what most scientists need. And it has ridiculous amounts of well tested, peer-reviewed code already written for it. Unicode? Who the fuck gives a shit about Unicode, when the only thing you need is highly optimized computations?
Supply us with your programming for free, we'll intersperse it with ads and put it on our site. I wich I could come up with schemes like this. :0)
Because you can hire creme of the crop at below $100K a year. That's why. And in my experience this is precisely why H1-B's on average are WAY better than US people. They come from the countries in which education systems kinda work.
We interview A LOT of people. I do mean A LOT. We've been doing about six five-hour long interviews _a week_ over the past several months.
Unfortunately, people don't know jack and we can't hire them because they'd only slow us down.
And this is one of the cases where I kind of agree with Bill. There's a huge shortage of _qualified_ candidates. Folks who knew what the heck they were doing either didn't lose their jobs in the first place, or found other jobs shortly after being laid off.
You can't fix this problem with only money. If you up the salaries to generate interest in CS majors among students you will see the bubble all over again. Companies will be flooded with idiots who want to get rich quick and don't care much about anything else.
On the other hand until Green Card system is fixed raising H1-B cap will be equivalent to allowing slave labor. The issue with Green Card process is that it currently (illegally!) takes five years. During these five years you can't change jobs. This leads to all sorts of abuses on the employers' part.
If this was fixed, raising or removing H1-B cap would truly be about bringing the smart people into the country. Until then it's about slave labor, sorry, Bill.
550 people (+crew) will be dead. That's a lot of people.
I'm just saying that they (usually) operate under a different set of assumptions and priorities. If you're writing shit someone else (in the US) will have to support, then why bother with proper coding standards, refactoring and comments?
So far the code I've seen come from India has been ATROCIOUS. This is not to say that US programmers can't write atrocious code, but those who do usually get kicked out pretty quickly.
And this, my friends, is one of the reasons why offshore outsourcing is doomed. You understand comments are important. For people in India schedule is far more important than comments. So they'll cut&paste shit all over the place and leave it uncommented. If you happen to have to work with it, your hair will turn gray pretty quickly.
Just load the same 767 with 500GB Hitachi hard drives.
I do use Windows, and I'm not against Microsoft, but I want this bitch fired.
I'm in the process of showing them my middle finger right now. I'm selling all my Nikon gear (worth about $6K) and switching to Canon. This encryption bullshit was the straw that broke the camel's back.
The only reason why we're seeing 'high rates' of obesity over here is because Americans are hell bent about measuring everything and collecting statistics. And then they go "OMFG, 70% of the population is not all skin and bones, gotta do something about this". Granted, I haven't been in every US town and haven't measured everyone's weight, but from what I saw abroad, there aren't less fat people in Europe for example, especially in Eastern Europe.
There's no guarantee that healthy eating habits will lead to painless death, either. :0)
If only more people followed the example, we'd be all set.
When one dies, nothing happens. Only relatives of this someone let out their sigh of relief and go on with their lives.
And yeah, if I have to eat only vegetables and run 10 miles every day just to live 10 years longer, fuck it. I'd rather die sooner.
If I want a big steak, I'm gonna have a big steak. And mashed potatoes. And gravy. And I'm gonna wash it down with some good wine, and maybe even Vodka if I'm in the mood. If I die when I'm 60, so fuckin' be it. At least I will die knowing what a good steak tastes like.
I don't want to live till I'm 100 years old, because I know with social security system the government is putting in place I'll have to live under the fucking bridge if I live too long. And I don't want my kids to spend their hard earned cash on keeping me alive or paying for the nursing home. If I'm ever not able to take care of myself, give me the god damn shotgun and go somewhere for five minutes.
It will be same old shit with the same old bugs, but with tabs and marketing campaign behind it.
Where I work there's a huge shortage of "technical" testers, i.e. testers who can write their own tools and sophisticated automation. Hiring a good developer is such a PITA, it's unbelievable. Most of the folks coming in for the interview don't know jack. I mean, come on, they can't write the textbook code to remove the unneeded characters out of a string.
You would think that in this job market finding a good candidate shouldn't be a problem, yet from what I see the current "unemployment" of much of IT/CS personnel is "unemployment of idiots", they shouldn't have gotten their positions in the first place.