yes, but... I doubts its using 100W 24/7. Also the cost of aircon isn't going to count any extra compared to the benefit during the winter (why would it be). So although the idea of saving power is laudable, it isn't justified by the cost savings.
You know being jaded may be the case. As an IT Manager myself I have rejected a lot of older developers not because of skill sets but because of that jaded attitude
Firstly how do you know that a particular programmer has that jaded attitude beforee you've hired him? Secondly, have you thought that if you're having this problem that its because you're not effectively managing the guys (which is, after all, your job). Thirdly, have you considered that they might be right? (no, didn't think so)
I find that the older coders are the ones who go with the lighter development processes becuase they've seen the 'Architectures' that are created in the past and will warn you against them. Sub-optimal? Often not the case. Its usually the younger guys who want to rewrite everything, who want to create a massive abstraction base that'l be 'so much easier to maintain in the future' (lol, seen that a few times. No, I've never seen them work either. Hmm, perhaps that's why the young guys like to rewrite so often).
And so on, sure the older guys may complain (ie offer you the advice of their experience) and yo u can quite happily ignore them, tell them to shut up and get with the program for something that they know will not go right. Try taking their experience sometime and working with it - you'll end up with happy workers, and better product....where your experience is helpful for the process not an ego boost to yourself where you need to hinder the process so you can be right.
... if the target is between (that's in-between) the laser (the bright zappy thing) and a person's eye (the squishy zapped thing).
Take a moment.
I assume that the laser is broad enough that the mozzy doesn't completely block the beam, so enough of it continues to the eye. ie. if the mosquito flies between (that's with the laser on one side and the eye on the other) the eye and the laser.
(sorry to be sarcastic, I just couldn't help myself:)
Man, if you're the kind of person who says "wow, a laser that shoots down mosquitoes, how cool. Lets dangle my balls in front of it", then you don't deserve to reproduce:)
Now that is interesting - thanks. I've been of the opinion that we have too many languages in active use nowadays, its times like this that I agree with myself:)
Base maybe needs to be retired in favour of a nice SQLite based system - SQLite is an excellent replacement for Access for a lot of people, why not Base too!
Yes, and that's the problem - companies willing to supply their own infrastructure.
See, most of them are willing.. but only to the places where there are lots of people, putting in cables to rural areas is just as expensive as town, but you find you have 1 or 2 subscribers instead of 1 or 2 thousand.
Virgin happens to be very lucky in that the companies who originally dug up the roads to lay the cables all went bust, so Virgin bought out the good bits and ignored the old debts. Otherwise there'd be no cable service. Sometimes I think that this is the only way to get FTTH - set up a company, tell everyone how 'new tech' you are, get loads of investment, spend it all laying fibre to everyone, go bust and let someone else deliver over your fibre. Job done, no doubt you'd also go away with a huge payout for being CEO regardless of how the company turned out, and everyone would have fibre connectivity!
No, this is how our economy tried to work, until someone realised the excessive leverage couldn't go on forever and we had a banking crisis - that you and I had to bail out. The $10,000 you mention isn't actually 'created' money, just temporary credit which has to be paid back eventually, or more likely nowadays, foreclosed on.
Pascal counts as one of those "hard" languages you know - its not 'everything done for you, with garbage collection, a huge class library, and objects that provide your functionality'. Try vb.net sometime, and you'll see what I mean - its more like a toy language than anything, but if you're writing the same old LOB apps that just grab data and display it with a bit of formatting, then its perfectly good enough, just not what I'd call satisfying.
So, can you explain what you mean by "inter-operate and integrate with outside software" with respect to.NET, if the above is not good enough?
He means, can it interoperate with stuff on a non-MS platform. See, IronPython may be an example of how flexible and interoperable it is - "gee, you can write.net in Python", but really, its still.net, not an "outsider" to the MS ecosystem.
IIRC the C# spec submitted to ECMA was for version 1.1, so missing all the cool stuff everyone takes for granted now - like the dynamic features you mentioned referring to IronPython.
You're right that Java is still pants though. I only wish MS had based C# on C++ instead of Java and made that better, no VM, no JIT, RIAA etc.
crashes in C are deliberate - its the trials and hardships of learning from your mistakes that hardens you into being the best programmer young grashopper.
or you can learn Java or vb.net as your first language, like a girl.:)
I believe the movie you're looking for starred Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer.
artificial life, with serial numbers on DNA, and a pre-programmed lifespan... where did DARPA replicate that idea from, and when can I get a basic pleasure model?
Unless you are actually working on a web site that needs to be scalable
I'm sure they wrote Facebook thinking they'd only get a few hundred hits per month... few years and several billion dollars later, guess what - they're writing PHP compilers to fix the problems with the initial design.
Take a little time to make yourself a better developer, learn the necessary knowledge and apply it to all you do, and you'll be known as the guy who writes good systems. Keep thinking you can just hack it all together and you'll be the guy who wrote those shitty systems that need to be replaced. I know which guy I'd prefer to be. The biggest thing is - you don't need to spend more time at all on designing the better system once you've become good, doing a good job will become second nature.
or to put that another way - if the ribbon is such a good idea and holds everything you'd ever want in a attractive, easy to use, intuitive, ordered way... how many more menus and toolbars do you need to have as well to get all the functionality you need?
I like the ribbon, I just think the rest of the product is a bit unwieldy.
Why would it not be there, I mean we have cut copy and paste there, why not print. In fact, why not have a new tab for all the 'operate on this file' actions like save, print, open, new, properties etc.
If you're going to have a cool new ribbon, put everything on it, not have a menu hidden behind a funny icon, or tucked into the title bar (the mini menu?)
in America shelving also means to remove it from current consideration - hence all the source-control systems use 'shelving' to mean 'store it away somewhere and I'll come back to it later'.
I think the Americans are using 'to table' as a shorthand colliquary term for 'take it off the table'.
Complied languages are not going to the magic solution in a real world situation.
whilst that's perfectly true, its only true to a point. Lots of people run eaccelerator or apc on their PHP sites, simply to improve performance. If these pre-compile caches didn't do anything for performance then you'd be totally right, but as they do, you've got to appreciate that replacing the PHP with a compiled language will make a significant difference.
as always, don't guess where performance problems live, measure them. Often you'll be surprised, especially as load increases.
seconded - now you're moving away from the geeky 20-year olds you're simply finding that the usual geeky means of communication isn't suitable for everyone. In fact the 20-year olds will find this too as they age.
So you have to go back to the traditional face-to-face stuff, meetings happen naturally round the coffee machine, the canteen, the smoking area (especially this place as I find people like to spend time out there chatting instead of working.. go figure!) you just need to encourage this kind of communication.
Bear in mind people will be happy to talk to others, but won't initiate the communication - so you have to find reasons to make that happen. That means finding ways to put 2 people from different areas to work on something together.
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yes, but... I doubts its using 100W 24/7. Also the cost of aircon isn't going to count any extra compared to the benefit during the winter (why would it be). So although the idea of saving power is laudable, it isn't justified by the cost savings.
You know being jaded may be the case. As an IT Manager myself I have rejected a lot of older developers not because of skill sets but because of that jaded attitude
Firstly how do you know that a particular programmer has that jaded attitude beforee you've hired him? Secondly, have you thought that if you're having this problem that its because you're not effectively managing the guys (which is, after all, your job). Thirdly, have you considered that they might be right? (no, didn't think so)
I find that the older coders are the ones who go with the lighter development processes becuase they've seen the 'Architectures' that are created in the past and will warn you against them. Sub-optimal? Often not the case. Its usually the younger guys who want to rewrite everything, who want to create a massive abstraction base that'l be 'so much easier to maintain in the future' (lol, seen that a few times. No, I've never seen them work either. Hmm, perhaps that's why the young guys like to rewrite so often).
And so on, sure the older guys may complain (ie offer you the advice of their experience) and yo u can quite happily ignore them, tell them to shut up and get with the program for something that they know will not go right. Try taking their experience sometime and working with it - you'll end up with happy workers, and better product. ...where your experience is helpful for the process not an ego boost to yourself where you need to hinder the process so you can be right.
sounds like a lot of managers I've known :)
Its in Billingham, very near Middlesbrough. I'm only surprised they didn't put it nearer the coast, or further away from Middlesbrough.
... if the target is between (that's in-between) the laser (the bright zappy thing) and a person's eye (the squishy zapped thing).
Take a moment.
I assume that the laser is broad enough that the mozzy doesn't completely block the beam, so enough of it continues to the eye. ie. if the mosquito flies between (that's with the laser on one side and the eye on the other) the eye and the laser.
(sorry to be sarcastic, I just couldn't help myself :)
Man, if you're the kind of person who says "wow, a laser that shoots down mosquitoes, how cool. Lets dangle my balls in front of it", then you don't deserve to reproduce :)
You could call it Microsoft SafeUpdate
or even Windows File Protection and only allow drivers that have been digitally signed.
Nice idea I suppose, but as they didn't work there's only one solution - DRM on everything in your C drive!!
Now that is interesting - thanks. I've been of the opinion that we have too many languages in active use nowadays, its times like this that I agree with myself :)
Base maybe needs to be retired in favour of a nice SQLite based system - SQLite is an excellent replacement for Access for a lot of people, why not Base too!
Yes, and that's the problem - companies willing to supply their own infrastructure.
See, most of them are willing.. but only to the places where there are lots of people, putting in cables to rural areas is just as expensive as town, but you find you have 1 or 2 subscribers instead of 1 or 2 thousand.
Virgin happens to be very lucky in that the companies who originally dug up the roads to lay the cables all went bust, so Virgin bought out the good bits and ignored the old debts. Otherwise there'd be no cable service. Sometimes I think that this is the only way to get FTTH - set up a company, tell everyone how 'new tech' you are, get loads of investment, spend it all laying fibre to everyone, go bust and let someone else deliver over your fibre. Job done, no doubt you'd also go away with a huge payout for being CEO regardless of how the company turned out, and everyone would have fibre connectivity!
I have the same damn problem - my work is due to be handed in TOMORROW and I lost it in the wash when the dog ate it.
Fortunately Microsoft killed by PC so I now have a decent excuse!
I never suggested OO.org was not bloated too - its written in Java after all :) but the discussion was about MSOffice.
Anyway OO.org 3.2 is out now, I've upgraded, its free and a good tool all thigns considered so thanks for a good job to all who contibuted to it.
I'm slightly ashamed to admit that he did teach me some things about word, I didn't already know.
Don't be ashamed - there's so much bloat in Office that there's TONS of stuff you still don't know is in there.
Obviously the issue is the people who are doing the analysis... consultants...
This is the reason why this kind of thing is all screwed up:
If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem
Read both specs
As the OOXML 'spec' is over 6000 pages, I don't think anyone has. Definitely not the ISO standards body for sure :)
No, this is how our economy tried to work, until someone realised the excessive leverage couldn't go on forever and we had a banking crisis - that you and I had to bail out. The $10,000 you mention isn't actually 'created' money, just temporary credit which has to be paid back eventually, or more likely nowadays, foreclosed on.
Pascal counts as one of those "hard" languages you know - its not 'everything done for you, with garbage collection, a huge class library, and objects that provide your functionality'. Try vb.net sometime, and you'll see what I mean - its more like a toy language than anything, but if you're writing the same old LOB apps that just grab data and display it with a bit of formatting, then its perfectly good enough, just not what I'd call satisfying.
So, can you explain what you mean by "inter-operate and integrate with outside software" with respect to .NET, if the above is not good enough?
He means, can it interoperate with stuff on a non-MS platform. See, IronPython may be an example of how flexible and interoperable it is - "gee, you can write .net in Python", but really, its still .net, not an "outsider" to the MS ecosystem.
IIRC the C# spec submitted to ECMA was for version 1.1, so missing all the cool stuff everyone takes for granted now - like the dynamic features you mentioned referring to IronPython.
You're right that Java is still pants though. I only wish MS had based C# on C++ instead of Java and made that better, no VM, no JIT, RIAA etc.
crashes in C are deliberate - its the trials and hardships of learning from your mistakes that hardens you into being the best programmer young grashopper.
or you can learn Java or vb.net as your first language, like a girl. :)
I believe the movie you're looking for starred Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer.
artificial life, with serial numbers on DNA, and a pre-programmed lifespan... where did DARPA replicate that idea from, and when can I get a basic pleasure model?
Unless you are actually working on a web site that needs to be scalable
I'm sure they wrote Facebook thinking they'd only get a few hundred hits per month... few years and several billion dollars later, guess what - they're writing PHP compilers to fix the problems with the initial design.
Take a little time to make yourself a better developer, learn the necessary knowledge and apply it to all you do, and you'll be known as the guy who writes good systems. Keep thinking you can just hack it all together and you'll be the guy who wrote those shitty systems that need to be replaced. I know which guy I'd prefer to be. The biggest thing is - you don't need to spend more time at all on designing the better system once you've become good, doing a good job will become second nature.
or to put that another way - if the ribbon is such a good idea and holds everything you'd ever want in a attractive, easy to use, intuitive, ordered way... how many more menus and toolbars do you need to have as well to get all the functionality you need?
I like the ribbon, I just think the rest of the product is a bit unwieldy.
Why would it not be there, I mean we have cut copy and paste there, why not print. In fact, why not have a new tab for all the 'operate on this file' actions like save, print, open, new, properties etc.
If you're going to have a cool new ribbon, put everything on it, not have a menu hidden behind a funny icon, or tucked into the title bar (the mini menu?)
Care to provide some examples of features that were previously available through the menus but are now inaccessible with the ribbon?
Print - only available via the 'orb' menu.
in America shelving also means to remove it from current consideration - hence all the source-control systems use 'shelving' to mean 'store it away somewhere and I'll come back to it later'.
I think the Americans are using 'to table' as a shorthand colliquary term for 'take it off the table'.
Complied languages are not going to the magic solution in a real world situation.
whilst that's perfectly true, its only true to a point. Lots of people run eaccelerator or apc on their PHP sites, simply to improve performance. If these pre-compile caches didn't do anything for performance then you'd be totally right, but as they do, you've got to appreciate that replacing the PHP with a compiled language will make a significant difference.
as always, don't guess where performance problems live, measure them. Often you'll be surprised, especially as load increases.
seconded - now you're moving away from the geeky 20-year olds you're simply finding that the usual geeky means of communication isn't suitable for everyone. In fact the 20-year olds will find this too as they age.
So you have to go back to the traditional face-to-face stuff, meetings happen naturally round the coffee machine, the canteen, the smoking area (especially this place as I find people like to spend time out there chatting instead of working.. go figure!) you just need to encourage this kind of communication.
Bear in mind people will be happy to talk to others, but won't initiate the communication - so you have to find reasons to make that happen. That means finding ways to put 2 people from different areas to work on something together.