Since we're besting each other, I also have a box full of my grandfather's diaries after he found FMC(right down the street from the Monsanto plant in question) dumping barrels of cyanide in the Kanawha River in the 70's. The management threatened to kill him and his daughters. You're right though, it's no better now. Despite the fact that the Nitro area(don't even get me started on Manilla Creek) had one of the highest concentrations of marker cancers in the world before the plants closed down, if you say anything negative about the chemical industry in town you're immediately attacked.
Process isn't the problem, environment isn't the problem, language isn't the problem. The problem is that everyone looks to all of these things as the silver bullet that's going to "fix" software. Test driven development doesn't make good software any more than I-495 makes New York City. There is no silver bullet.
I deleted my Facebook account a week or so ago, and I was, at the time, hoping that diaspora would end up being something besides vaporware. After a week without it, though, I find myself pleased with my lack of knowledge about what people I didn't like in high school had for dinner.
Back in the good old days when I was a poor kid from the wrong side of the tracks, Metallica and their music meant more to my friends and me than anything else. Nobody had two parents, so James Hetfield was the very essence of masculinity and personal freedom for most of us. I'd be curious to know the exact date when it became less about making music and more about making money.
The high school I graduated from in West Virginia rolled back everything to 1997. Those of us that live here, however, realize that once you cross the border it's really 1946.
I coded for the US Air Force as an enlisted member for 4 years(ending last week, thank god). I guarantee you that it was all done by a couple of otherwise ignorant Airmen and 1LTs who just downloaded all the new scripts from whatever site it is you get scripts from nowadays. While there I was being considered for just this job, but couldn't get the security clearance due to my checkered past as a juvenile deliquent. Had the Yugoslavian gov't been smart enough to apply security patches(maybe ZDNet does their security auditing), the US wouldn't have succeeded.
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Since we're besting each other, I also have a box full of my grandfather's diaries after he found FMC(right down the street from the Monsanto plant in question) dumping barrels of cyanide in the Kanawha River in the 70's. The management threatened to kill him and his daughters.
You're right though, it's no better now. Despite the fact that the Nitro area(don't even get me started on Manilla Creek) had one of the highest concentrations of marker cancers in the world before the plants closed down, if you say anything negative about the chemical industry in town you're immediately attacked.
He's an impostor!. There's a hidden '99' between the 47 and 26.
Process isn't the problem, environment isn't the problem, language isn't the problem. The problem is that everyone looks to all of these things as the silver bullet that's going to "fix" software. Test driven development doesn't make good software any more than I-495 makes New York City. There is no silver bullet.
I deleted my Facebook account a week or so ago, and I was, at the time, hoping that diaspora would end up being something besides vaporware. After a week without it, though, I find myself pleased with my lack of knowledge about what people I didn't like in high school had for dinner.
I still miss it. So much potential and such high hopes. I suppose I should check out Haiku.
Checking out Haiku is going to be like resurrecting your dead mother. Her soul is gone and she'll just try to eat your brains.
Why do you hate rogues so much?
He could have been replaced with a robot completely powered by C#, just like they did with Reagan in '81.
Will you love me? Please?
Go to work at a dry cleaners. That's what I did, and I'm $7 an hour worth of happy.
Back in the good old days when I was a poor kid from the wrong side of the tracks, Metallica and their music meant more to my friends and me than anything else. Nobody had two parents, so James Hetfield was the very essence of masculinity and personal freedom for most of us. I'd be curious to know the exact date when it became less about making music and more about making money.
The high school I graduated from in West Virginia rolled back everything to 1997. Those of us that live here, however, realize that once you cross the border it's really 1946.
I coded for the US Air Force as an enlisted
member for 4 years(ending last week, thank god).
I guarantee you that it was all done by a couple
of otherwise ignorant Airmen and 1LTs who just
downloaded all the new scripts from whatever
site it is you get scripts from nowadays.
While there I was being considered for just this
job, but couldn't get the security clearance due
to my checkered past as a juvenile deliquent.
Had the Yugoslavian gov't been smart enough to apply security patches(maybe ZDNet does their security auditing), the US wouldn't have succeeded.