Is it professional to cheat your boss?
on
Clean Code
·
· Score: 2, Informative
Here's an interview with Robert Martin (part of a panel) where he talks about cheating the boss (by writing good code without permission to use the time).
1. Use trac as a repo browser. 2. Set up CVSspam for receiving commit notifications via email. Upon receiving those emails, then you can take action if the code affected happens to belong to your area of expertise (or if you have ideas to implement the code better or if you spot mistakes, etc.)
trac is a life-saver when you're tracking down code changes.
Why doesn't he government provide online tax processing website? That way, if the site gets hacked its the government's problem. And your hard-earned tax dollars go towards a service that you can ACTUALLY use. Nay sayers, might say well what about the tax software industry? How many jobs will be lost? And I say to you, screw that. The tax software industry has milked the cash cow dry. Then again, I might be dreaming and this will never happen.
It may be a bit time consuming if you have a lot of etc-updates to do, but still, the basic update should be painless to that point.
Try app-portage/cfg-update. Its an easy to use GUI & CLI alternative for etc-update with safe automatic updating functionality. Its masked right now with versions 1.7.2, 1.8.0-r3 and 1.8.0-r5 available.
And if you use one of the tools developed for this (I don't recall the names), you can eliminate most of the work (for instance, a config file you haven't touched is replaced automatically).
One of the options is to use app-portage/cfg-update http://people.zeelandnet.nl/xentric/ Easy to use GUI & CLI alternative for etc-update with safe automatic updating functionality
I use it regularly. I only have to manually update files which I myself have edited (at least once).
In Nov. 2003, ie standalone appeared on the evolt.org website. I used that to run IE 5.0, 5.x side-by-side. Now, (I haven't tried this), if you already have IE7 installed you can use Multiple IE to have IE3 IE4.01 IE5 IE5.5 and IE6 installed standalone.
Wow... the irony. Slashdot is talking about standards. Isn't it about time that/. itself should be standards compliant?
BTW, to make this comment on topic, the slideshow looks pretty decent, but I wouldn't consider this ground breaking stuff. Eric Krock (netscape technology evangelist) was doing these sort of presentations in the 1998/1999 timeframe.
I think it could be an Access killer if you could build pretty GUI applications that sat on top of Cloudscape easily. (Think VBA sitting on top of Access).
Re:Beats the Celeron... (Score:5, Informative) by Anita Coney (648748) Alter Relationship on Wednesday July 28, @10:16AM (#9821386) There was "never" a time to buy a celeron. Sorry, there was once such a time. The celeron 300A. It was so cheap it was practically free and could be easily clocked to 450MHz and higher. But, other than that one chip, you're right.
I have a BP6 motherboard with dual-celeron 300As overclocked to 500. It still runs faithfully after about 5 years of usage.
and the avg Mac or Linux system? How many days were they "absent".(emphasis mine)
I don't know if I am an average Linux user, but my uptime is approaching 100 days. This is my full-time development system (and I have all the latest software).
No, those stats aren't made up. And yes, this is a Gentoo system running ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" (Gentoo's version of Debian unstable -- sort of).
I finally found out what had gone wrong: the teller had entered the wrong account number into the computer and someone recieved my money in their account.
Hate to be a troll, but if you go to the bank teller, always ask them for a receipt and double-check your account numbers on that receipt. Yes, the teller shoulders some of the responsibility, but so do you.
And the gentoo bug report for subversion. subversion 1.0.3 has the fix and is in portage (marked stable on x86). subversion 1.0.4 is the newer version and is not yet in portage.
Slashdot Mirror
Here's an interview with Robert Martin (part of a panel) where he talks about cheating the boss (by writing good code without permission to use the time).
1. Use trac as a repo browser.
2. Set up CVSspam for receiving commit notifications via email. Upon receiving those emails, then you can take action if the code affected happens to belong to your area of expertise (or if you have ideas to implement the code better or if you spot mistakes, etc.)
trac is a life-saver when you're tracking down code changes.
[..snip..] I used to work at Thinking Machines [..snip..]
Then you would really love this Daily WTF.
Why doesn't he government provide online tax processing website? That way, if the site gets hacked its the government's problem. And your hard-earned tax dollars go towards a service that you can ACTUALLY use. Nay sayers, might say well what about the tax software industry? How many jobs will be lost? And I say to you, screw that. The tax software industry has milked the cash cow dry. Then again, I might be dreaming and this will never happen.
Here's the uptime for a Gentoo desktop machine.
One of the options is to use app-portage/cfg-update
http://people.zeelandnet.nl/xentric/
Easy to use GUI & CLI alternative for etc-update with safe automatic updating functionality
I use it regularly. I only have to manually update files which I myself have edited (at least once).
In Nov. 2003, ie standalone appeared on the evolt.org website. I used that to run IE 5.0, 5.x side-by-side. Now, (I haven't tried this), if you already have IE7 installed you can use Multiple IE to have IE3 IE4.01 IE5 IE5.5 and IE6 installed standalone.
Hope this helps.
I wonder how this compares with Riya. At some point, there were plenty of rumours of a possible Google purchase of Riya. Then again they were rumours.
I haven't RTFA and I don't have any experience with Riya either, so consider the above posting a waste of time (if you must).
Here's his blog entry (how jetblue made him take off his shirt cuz he had Arabic script on it).
I find Mapki and Mike William's Tutorials more than sufficient. A quick glance at the API group's mailing list also helps.
Don't mod this funny, but my signature (which I've had ever since STE started) fits in perfectly in this thread.
Let this show die in peace, please.
* No more Rod Stewart
* No more spineless Captain who will sway to anyone's will
Glad to have this off my chest. Phew!!
Wow... the irony. Slashdot is talking about standards. Isn't it about time that /. itself should be standards compliant?
BTW, to make this comment on topic, the slideshow looks pretty decent, but I wouldn't consider this ground breaking stuff. Eric Krock (netscape technology evangelist) was doing these sort of presentations in the 1998/1999 timeframe.
I think it could be an Access killer if you could build pretty GUI applications that sat on top of Cloudscape easily. (Think VBA sitting on top of Access).
Virus designed to steal Windows users' data
No, those stats aren't made up. And yes, this is a Gentoo system running ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" (Gentoo's version of Debian unstable -- sort of).
And the gentoo bug report for subversion. subversion 1.0.3 has the fix and is in portage (marked stable on x86). subversion 1.0.4 is the newer version and is not yet in portage.