If you're a Windows developer, you probably have an MSDN subscription, and get your copy of Windows that way. So you're not buying Windows off the shelf anyway.
Prepared statements are slower than regular queries. In MySQL, a prepared statement makes two round-trips to the server, which can slow down simple queries that are only executed a single time.
So using prepared SQL everywhere is kind of a blanket statement; especially when it comes to speed. With that said, prepared statements can lead to a speed increase if you need to run the same query many times over an over. It also adds a level of security if you aren't pre-sanitizing your variables. But if the developer is in control of the query, and not repeating it, prepared statements are kind of wasteful.
Most web sites/apps are running the same queries many times over. And eliminating the need for the developer to pre-sanitize input both simplifies code and helps protect against bugs & missed cases.
Or you could go all the way and use stored procedures and/or views for your most common queries.
I used to live & work in Syracuse. Best thing I ever did was get the hell out of there. A few friends of mine used to work out at the Griffis Tech. Park in Rome while living in 'Cuse...maybe even the place you're working now (biggest client is a big DoD contract?).
At least down I-90 in Rochester, our major development scams^Wprojects are on a smaller scale than Destiny USA (Fast Ferry, Renaissance Square & Midtown Plaza combined are smaller than that clusterfuck).
You're only looking at one market segment though - people who still rent from a physical store.
Early adopters and people who have invested in home setups which would make Blu-Ray worthwhile are more likely to rent from other places (Netflix, iTunes) or just buy the movies outright. No point in owning a Blu-Ray player if your only TV is a 10 year old 27" Panasonic tube.
Or they could have purchased an off-the-shelf system and adapted to that by conforming to modern business and accounting practices.
Nice thought, but almost no one takes an off-the-shelf system and uses it as-is; once the non-IT people get involved, they want to tweak this and that and the other thing because they don't want to let go of all of their business practices they've developed over the years.
Not saying it's right - quite the opposite. I'm involved with a system at work where we've customized the hell out of it "because we could" and now the fact that those customizations exist is biting us in the ass.
I don't think that's what he's saying. What he's saying (we're in the process of doing our own ITIL processes) is that it's no longer easy to make something a priority 1 by waving your hand and saying "this should be the top priority" - there's now guidelines which are used to decide objectively whether something is a top priority or not, and if you want to bypass that, you need a damn good explanation.
The non-standard keybindings (F5 to lock, F9 to refresh, when the rest of the Windows world uses F5 to refresh, for example)?
The "non-standard" keybindings are "non-standard" because they were implemented before there was a "standard". Besides, on what planet is F5 the standard. In Excel it is F9 [microsoft.com] In Outlook it is F9 [microsoft.com]. In Word it is F9 [microsoft.com].
In every web browser, F5 is refresh. Windows Explorer too. And Crystal Reports. And Query Analyzer/SQL Server Management Studio (F5 executes the query, refreshing any data you had before). And others I don't have at my fingertips at the moment.
The hieroglyphics had a use. Nobody bothered with them, but they had a use. It was a non-text hash of your password. That way you could see that you had typed in your password correctly without revieling what it was. Turns out that most people would rather just type their password, and if they got it wrong, try again.
Completely non-intuitive, and couldn't be explained to me even by Notes developers. Useless, unless someone dug through a manual to find whatever documentation there was on it, if it existed.
Accounting on the other hand may have less technical knowledge but they are meticulous to the point of being anal, always take down error messages (one even takes screenshots for me), never install anything strange (most don't even have flash), are always kind and polite and understand that they are not my only priority.
You must mean actual CPAs. My accounting department is the exact opposite here. I never get error messages or screenshots, I don't even get a description of which button they pushed (we have screens which have multiple buttons, one for Save and one for "Save and do something else (it doesn't have the word Save on it)." When they report "it doesn't save" I take that to mean the Save button works, not the "Save plus" button doesn't work). They assume that we'll jump to their aid at the drop of a hat, even when they have a minor issue, and when you call them back to get additional information that they didn't provide (and the helpdesk person didn't ask for, even though they should have), you get attitude.
What kind of boat? I'm going on a cruise in a few months and I'm guessing that the deck lights will be bright enough that it'll wash out any hopes of getting good sky views.
My son will be 3 then, I'm hoping he'll be old enough to be awed by the sky; too many trees to see much at home.
We're going to have to upgrade that system, it's just a question of when. And since the vendor's next release which could potentially free us from IE altogether is still at least 6 months from release, we're not moving to an "intermediate" release which will put us on the same treadmill.
Actually, what SHOULD happen is that companies need to stop using those old ActiveX controls
Yeah, that'd be nice. Unfortunately for my employer, that would mean retraining about 80% of our employees after spending several man-years and 7 figures upgrading or replacing some of our critical software, while the same people doing the upgrade/replacement are trying to support the old version. Except the "upgrade" option hasn't been released yet by the vendor, so we're kind of stuck there on timing anyway.
Is it because they were bad at it, but had an interest in the work (IOW, they were trying, but just didn't "get it")? Or because they were in it for the paycheck and had no passion for programming?
As a programmer, I have the knowledge to maintain my own system, thankyouverymuch.
Some of the most inept computer users I have ever met are programmers. One in particular told me that if she didn't have kids who needed a computer for homework, she wouldn't even own one.
You may be able to maintain your system, but many programmers are worse than the non-IT people who are their customers.
E10 costs the same per gallon as straight gasoline, sometimes more - yet I get at least a 10% drop in fuel economy.
The station closest to my house switched from Mobil to Sunoco a couple months ago. My "winter mileage" never recovered (always get worse mileage in the winter; in April, it comes back up about 20%). Then I quit that station and started filling up at Hess. Immediately gained 2 MPG, because I didn't get E10.
We always hear stories about all gas stations getting "the same gas" but the gas at this station most definitely changed when it went from Mobil to Sunoco - my gas mileage this spring at that station was definitely lower than at the same station last spring.
Sunoco in my area always sells E10. Mobil & Hess don't.
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10 sq km here, 10 sq km there, pretty soon you're talking about real surface area.
If you're a Windows developer, you probably have an MSDN subscription, and get your copy of Windows that way. So you're not buying Windows off the shelf anyway.
Most web sites/apps are running the same queries many times over. And eliminating the need for the developer to pre-sanitize input both simplifies code and helps protect against bugs & missed cases.
Or you could go all the way and use stored procedures and/or views for your most common queries.
I used to live & work in Syracuse. Best thing I ever did was get the hell out of there. A few friends of mine used to work out at the Griffis Tech. Park in Rome while living in 'Cuse...maybe even the place you're working now (biggest client is a big DoD contract?).
At least down I-90 in Rochester, our major development scams^Wprojects are on a smaller scale than Destiny USA (Fast Ferry, Renaissance Square & Midtown Plaza combined are smaller than that clusterfuck).
You're only looking at one market segment though - people who still rent from a physical store.
Early adopters and people who have invested in home setups which would make Blu-Ray worthwhile are more likely to rent from other places (Netflix, iTunes) or just buy the movies outright. No point in owning a Blu-Ray player if your only TV is a 10 year old 27" Panasonic tube.
I'll drink to that!
Nice thought, but almost no one takes an off-the-shelf system and uses it as-is; once the non-IT people get involved, they want to tweak this and that and the other thing because they don't want to let go of all of their business practices they've developed over the years.
Not saying it's right - quite the opposite. I'm involved with a system at work where we've customized the hell out of it "because we could" and now the fact that those customizations exist is biting us in the ass.
You're forgetting software licensing, and hardware to run it on. I'd bet it's a large portion of that $28 million.
I'm sure there will be a loophole somewhere.
I don't think that's what he's saying. What he's saying (we're in the process of doing our own ITIL processes) is that it's no longer easy to make something a priority 1 by waving your hand and saying "this should be the top priority" - there's now guidelines which are used to decide objectively whether something is a top priority or not, and if you want to bypass that, you need a damn good explanation.
In every web browser, F5 is refresh. Windows Explorer too. And Crystal Reports. And Query Analyzer/SQL Server Management Studio (F5 executes the query, refreshing any data you had before). And others I don't have at my fingertips at the moment.
Completely non-intuitive, and couldn't be explained to me even by Notes developers. Useless, unless someone dug through a manual to find whatever documentation there was on it, if it existed.
I've never used Outlook in my life. The closest I've come is MS Exchange Client back in '96-'98.
You must mean actual CPAs. My accounting department is the exact opposite here. I never get error messages or screenshots, I don't even get a description of which button they pushed (we have screens which have multiple buttons, one for Save and one for "Save and do something else (it doesn't have the word Save on it)." When they report "it doesn't save" I take that to mean the Save button works, not the "Save plus" button doesn't work). They assume that we'll jump to their aid at the drop of a hat, even when they have a minor issue, and when you call them back to get additional information that they didn't provide (and the helpdesk person didn't ask for, even though they should have), you get attitude.
So did they finally fix all the UI stupidity?
The non-standard keybindings (F5 to lock, F9 to refresh, when the rest of the Windows world uses F5 to refresh, for example)?
The useless changing hieroglyphics as you typed in your password?
Make it not a massive memory hog?
Make it an actual usable MDI app, instead of allowing only tabs in a single window (so you couldn't have 2 emails side by side for reference)?
These aren't "I saw a bad implementation once 10 years ago", this was base product shit in 6.5.x (last version I used before I left that job).
What kind of boat? I'm going on a cruise in a few months and I'm guessing that the deck lights will be bright enough that it'll wash out any hopes of getting good sky views.
My son will be 3 then, I'm hoping he'll be old enough to be awed by the sky; too many trees to see much at home.
We're going to have to upgrade that system, it's just a question of when. And since the vendor's next release which could potentially free us from IE altogether is still at least 6 months from release, we're not moving to an "intermediate" release which will put us on the same treadmill.
Yeah, that'd be nice. Unfortunately for my employer, that would mean retraining about 80% of our employees after spending several man-years and 7 figures upgrading or replacing some of our critical software, while the same people doing the upgrade/replacement are trying to support the old version. Except the "upgrade" option hasn't been released yet by the vendor, so we're kind of stuck there on timing anyway.
Yeah, save the $50 that the tuner costs so you can shell out $10/month forever.
Read what I quoted again, and the OP. Your OTA receiver will become useless on June 12. Which is why the comparison to the first color TVs is invalid.
Your B&W TV (or radio) didn't quit working because color TVs came out.
On June 12 (unless it's delayed again), your analog OTA TV receiver becomes a brick.
OK, what the hell, I'll feed the troll...
Is it because they were bad at it, but had an interest in the work (IOW, they were trying, but just didn't "get it")? Or because they were in it for the paycheck and had no passion for programming?
Some of the most inept computer users I have ever met are programmers. One in particular told me that if she didn't have kids who needed a computer for homework, she wouldn't even own one.
You may be able to maintain your system, but many programmers are worse than the non-IT people who are their customers.
Get polarized sunglasses. Makes all the difference in the world.
E10 costs the same per gallon as straight gasoline, sometimes more - yet I get at least a 10% drop in fuel economy.
The station closest to my house switched from Mobil to Sunoco a couple months ago. My "winter mileage" never recovered (always get worse mileage in the winter; in April, it comes back up about 20%). Then I quit that station and started filling up at Hess. Immediately gained 2 MPG, because I didn't get E10.
We always hear stories about all gas stations getting "the same gas" but the gas at this station most definitely changed when it went from Mobil to Sunoco - my gas mileage this spring at that station was definitely lower than at the same station last spring.
Sunoco in my area always sells E10. Mobil & Hess don't.
Have you forgotten where you're posting?
Until the '05 redesign, the Grand Cherokee still had a solid front axle, which kept it in "real Jeep" territory.