Very true. Being in the south, you see that sales people seem to have their own dialect. They intentionally sprinkle in slang and "Good Ole Boy"-isms all the time. Every business interaction is an act of some kind. When sales people talk like that to the engineers, of course they sound like morons, but to a client, it is conversational and disarming. Look at presidential campaigns. Whenever Hilary Clinton walked into an AME church, she started throwing out "ain't"s and "yall"s like candy. To be an effective communicator, you have to understand the context and audience more than anything. Of course, if you are incapable of using grammar correctly when it is required, you are going to be fairly limited.
They will do exactly what Big-Coffee does in the face of fair trade certified coffee. When an old roommate of mine went through training (aka brain washing) at Starbucks they told him "we looked into fair trade certification and found that it was too lax. Instead we went with X certification which has much higher standards". Spin!
I am here in South Carolina. I can tell you first hand that if we were left to our own devices, it would be one of the most horrifying places on the planet. Keeping gay marriage banned would not even be a question; Interracial marriage would be illegal too. BJU in the upstate only started allowing its students to participate in interracial dating relationships in 2000. CYU makes all students sign a pledge promising that they will not listen any music with drums in it. The reason being that drums are from Africa and Africans are satanic. If it were not for the federal government blacks would be slaves, women would be punching bags, and atheists/jews/catholics would be target practice.
Exactly. I am a big supporter of gay marriage. Through completely dumb luck I have happened to have had 4 gay roommates in the past 4 years. I cannot imagine believing that I had the right to tell any of them who they can or cannot be with. Screw the legal stuff, the real issue here is that if you oppose gay marriage, you are a complete asshole. Please explain how you can possibly oppose equal marriage rights for gays without being an enormous dick (saying you want to abolish all marriage being the one exclusion). I am waiting; to date, I have not heard one.
Politics would be so much better if they took place in the Thunderdome. Romney (Mel Gibson) facing off against against Obama (Master) & Biden (Blaster) in the cage. Condi (Aretha Franklin) scheming in the background. Ron Paul would be that crazy guy who flies the plane. The Tea Party would be the kids Mel meets in the sequel who worship him and have a poor understanding of planes. Regardless of political affiliation, you have to admit that Romney would look like a total badass in leather on a motorcycle dragging some sort of improvised chain flail with long hair and aviators, and Obama riding on Joe Bidens back as he spun in circles drooling on himself while revving a chainsaw would be super terrifying.
... goal of a representative is to pass as many new laws as possible
That is like saying "The best coders write as few lines of code as possible. I must be awesome because I have not written a single line in years." I am all about working smart, not hard, but there is limit. The expectation would be that Ron Paul, as a legislator would be doing some amount of legislating.
...then you are not one of those guys. You are describing a quality coder in a quality dev environment. Good for you. Not everyone/place is like that. I am not condoning those scenarios, simply stating they exist and that although it completely sucks, it is far from criminal.
Thank you. Do people really believe that you can just jump in with no knowledge of OOP and crank out highly structured and maintainable code? High level languages are about long term maintainability and complexity management. In C, this is achieved through methods that would seem primitive at best to anyone from a higher level background.
You can certainly cause memory leaks in C#. It happens pretty often with long running apps on the server side, since they have a lot longer to accumulate crud at runtime. Idk if the C guys would be any better at preventing these types of leaks than inexperienced C# people. Typically these are caused by mistakes such as not using the "using" blocks on IDisposable objects.
Your 80 hour weeks are devaluing all of us. Thanks asshole. Have some self respect and demand payment for the hours you work. Most employers purchase 40hrs/week, and that is what they should get.
His implication did not seem to be anything along the lines of a code bomb or anything like that. Sure, that will get you fired. Being the only guy who understands the wacky AS400 Accounting system because it relies on an obscure system of joined excel tables spread across the network? That is job security. I have seen it happen plenty in financial institutions. Usually those programmers are worshiped as the only ones capable of understanding the systems (of course, they only understand it because they wrote it and have maintained it for 25 years).
Have you been to any sort of entrepreneurial meetup lately. Try it out if you are interested in meeting some of the most self delusional and obscenely stupid people around. Some people get lucky; most fail miserably. Venture Capital is an entire industry designed to prey on the stupid. Most have an idea they think they can sell to 200 million people, but somehow cannot sell to 20 in their area. Seriously, every single interaction with these people goes like this: "Hi my name is ______. I am the President and Executive CEO of ______, a company that has an idea that allows you to post _______ from your iPhone to Facebook. Would you like to work for me for free as Chief Software Developer?". Of course, they require 3 NDAs and a blood pact before they tell you this, because their idea is valued (in their head) at 200 billion dollars.
In my experience, they typically make less than developers. They manage the projects, not the people. In the software world at least, being a project manager does not usually mean you have authority over anyone in particular. It is more of a "coordinator" type position. In practice, most project managers function sort of like a shared secretary.
You must have cats. My dogs literally wait around all day everyday for me to come home at which point they can jump into my lap and stare lovingly into my eyes. They do practically nothing besides staring at me waiting for me to show them affection. They are so loving that if they were people, it would be terrifying and I would have a restraining order against them. A kid will never love you as much as a dog, if they end up loving you at all (plenty of people hate their parents). If anything, having a kid seems more like a one way street.
Yes, they most certainly would. I cannot stand libertarians talking about how we need to repeal all business regulation in the US so that we can promote "competition". Destroying competition is just about every business' number 1 priority. Anti trust regulation lets us artificially keep the game going, but make no mistake, businesses have only two things they do with competitors: destroy and merge.
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Why, because he missspelled it?
Very true. Being in the south, you see that sales people seem to have their own dialect. They intentionally sprinkle in slang and "Good Ole Boy"-isms all the time. Every business interaction is an act of some kind. When sales people talk like that to the engineers, of course they sound like morons, but to a client, it is conversational and disarming. Look at presidential campaigns. Whenever Hilary Clinton walked into an AME church, she started throwing out "ain't"s and "yall"s like candy. To be an effective communicator, you have to understand the context and audience more than anything. Of course, if you are incapable of using grammar correctly when it is required, you are going to be fairly limited.
They will do exactly what Big-Coffee does in the face of fair trade certified coffee. When an old roommate of mine went through training (aka brain washing) at Starbucks they told him "we looked into fair trade certification and found that it was too lax. Instead we went with X certification which has much higher standards". Spin!
I am still waiting on a Human Cent-i-Pad
I am here in South Carolina. I can tell you first hand that if we were left to our own devices, it would be one of the most horrifying places on the planet. Keeping gay marriage banned would not even be a question; Interracial marriage would be illegal too. BJU in the upstate only started allowing its students to participate in interracial dating relationships in 2000. CYU makes all students sign a pledge promising that they will not listen any music with drums in it. The reason being that drums are from Africa and Africans are satanic. If it were not for the federal government blacks would be slaves, women would be punching bags, and atheists/jews/catholics would be target practice.
Exactly. I am a big supporter of gay marriage. Through completely dumb luck I have happened to have had 4 gay roommates in the past 4 years. I cannot imagine believing that I had the right to tell any of them who they can or cannot be with. Screw the legal stuff, the real issue here is that if you oppose gay marriage, you are a complete asshole. Please explain how you can possibly oppose equal marriage rights for gays without being an enormous dick (saying you want to abolish all marriage being the one exclusion). I am waiting; to date, I have not heard one.
Politics would be so much better if they took place in the Thunderdome. Romney (Mel Gibson) facing off against against Obama (Master) & Biden (Blaster) in the cage. Condi (Aretha Franklin) scheming in the background. Ron Paul would be that crazy guy who flies the plane. The Tea Party would be the kids Mel meets in the sequel who worship him and have a poor understanding of planes. Regardless of political affiliation, you have to admit that Romney would look like a total badass in leather on a motorcycle dragging some sort of improvised chain flail with long hair and aviators, and Obama riding on Joe Bidens back as he spun in circles drooling on himself while revving a chainsaw would be super terrifying.
... goal of a representative is to pass as many new laws as possible
That is like saying "The best coders write as few lines of code as possible. I must be awesome because I have not written a single line in years." I am all about working smart, not hard, but there is limit. The expectation would be that Ron Paul, as a legislator would be doing some amount of legislating.
Wow, terrific counter-point!
...then you are not one of those guys. You are describing a quality coder in a quality dev environment. Good for you. Not everyone/place is like that. I am not condoning those scenarios, simply stating they exist and that although it completely sucks, it is far from criminal.
Thank you. Do people really believe that you can just jump in with no knowledge of OOP and crank out highly structured and maintainable code? High level languages are about long term maintainability and complexity management. In C, this is achieved through methods that would seem primitive at best to anyone from a higher level background.
You can certainly cause memory leaks in C#. It happens pretty often with long running apps on the server side, since they have a lot longer to accumulate crud at runtime. Idk if the C guys would be any better at preventing these types of leaks than inexperienced C# people. Typically these are caused by mistakes such as not using the "using" blocks on IDisposable objects.
Your 80 hour weeks are devaluing all of us. Thanks asshole. Have some self respect and demand payment for the hours you work. Most employers purchase 40hrs/week, and that is what they should get.
/irony
...Compton, Antarctica, the middle of a volcano, Selling tickets at the Thundersdome... Why can't we fill these positions?!?!
His implication did not seem to be anything along the lines of a code bomb or anything like that. Sure, that will get you fired. Being the only guy who understands the wacky AS400 Accounting system because it relies on an obscure system of joined excel tables spread across the network? That is job security. I have seen it happen plenty in financial institutions. Usually those programmers are worshiped as the only ones capable of understanding the systems (of course, they only understand it because they wrote it and have maintained it for 25 years).
ideas are a dime a dozen
Have you been to any sort of entrepreneurial meetup lately. Try it out if you are interested in meeting some of the most self delusional and obscenely stupid people around. Some people get lucky; most fail miserably. Venture Capital is an entire industry designed to prey on the stupid. Most have an idea they think they can sell to 200 million people, but somehow cannot sell to 20 in their area. Seriously, every single interaction with these people goes like this: "Hi my name is ______. I am the President and Executive CEO of ______, a company that has an idea that allows you to post _______ from your iPhone to Facebook. Would you like to work for me for free as Chief Software Developer?". Of course, they require 3 NDAs and a blood pact before they tell you this, because their idea is valued (in their head) at 200 billion dollars.
In my experience, they typically make less than developers. They manage the projects, not the people. In the software world at least, being a project manager does not usually mean you have authority over anyone in particular. It is more of a "coordinator" type position. In practice, most project managers function sort of like a shared secretary.
You must have cats. My dogs literally wait around all day everyday for me to come home at which point they can jump into my lap and stare lovingly into my eyes. They do practically nothing besides staring at me waiting for me to show them affection. They are so loving that if they were people, it would be terrifying and I would have a restraining order against them. A kid will never love you as much as a dog, if they end up loving you at all (plenty of people hate their parents). If anything, having a kid seems more like a one way street.
...or technical assistance on Slashdot
You sir, have clearly never met many of the filthy brats running around this planet. My dog is much more deserving of love than the lot of them.
...the finest in the galaxy. I too take all of my economics directly from Quark.
Yes, they most certainly would. I cannot stand libertarians talking about how we need to repeal all business regulation in the US so that we can promote "competition". Destroying competition is just about every business' number 1 priority. Anti trust regulation lets us artificially keep the game going, but make no mistake, businesses have only two things they do with competitors: destroy and merge.
My preexisting condition drinks your milkshake! Mwahahaha!