Ya know what? I don't think employers give a shit about "paradigms". Imperative rules the world (as opposed to functional or declarative).
You're right about picking up a new language within the imperative paradigm (it's easy). The challenge is in learning the LIBRARIES. LINQ (are we gonna call that a paradigm, really?), MVC, MVP, all that other alphabet soup that's the latest framework. XML, XSLT, yada yada.
Yeah. I read their "Questions from Luis Villa" (wth? Can't paste into this edit window w/Chrome?) blog post at the beginning of the summer and I didn't think it was going to work out so well. Undergrad summer enthusiasm, rejection/unawareness of earlier efforts.
And here we are. I wonder if they'll be able to collect their KickStarter money (wotta scam that turned out to be) because they met their "promise" (whatever we release will be open-source, yay (note the absence of a specific feature list in the promise)).
There's still hope, I guess, but probably not for Diaspora, due to the dependencies they'll probably introduce. Grumble, grumble, grumble.
There's also print-on-demand. Drop your Kindle in the tub and you're out, what, $175? Drop a paperback in, and you're out $6. Same with whacking insects, trips to the beach, leaving the thing lying in your chair while you move the laundry to the dryer in the laundromat....
Wait, wait....NET is ruining the industry? Can you tell me how, exactly? I mean -- I know it's Microsoft's gigantic walled garden, but once you accept the horrible reality that some shops really do prefer a MS-only environment... what's so bad about.NET? It's got everything Java has, doesn't it? Is there some computer-sciency reason why.NET is Bad, apart from the whole monopolistic thing? Or is that what you're talking about?
It's possible to ask probing questions and expose weaknesses in an interviewee's position without constantly interrupting the interviewee, deliberately misinterpreting his/her statements, repeating the same question over and over, and putting words in the interviewee's mouth ("isn't it true that...?").
Polite != sycophantic.
True, I had sort of forgotten the whole culture of the British news media. There's a fundamental difference in libel law between Britain and America, isn't there? In Britain, the accused politician has to prove the statements are a lie, while in America, the accusing media outlet has to prove the statements are true. Or something like that. Leads to fundamentally different behavior in the press.
I think there are several different flavors of British comedy. I myself prefer the John Cleese stiff-upper-lip-in-the-face-of-utter-outlandishnes s variety. Or stiff-upper-lip-leading-to-utter-outlandishness.
There's also that whole Benny Hill/Are You Being Served? slapstick thing. Not so much to my liking.
[Imagine more inane blather here, and I won't bother typing it.]
Any NPR (American "public" radio) listeners here listen to the BBC news programs we get over here? Those interviewers really are kind of pushy. I wouldn't call them "probing", I'd call them biased and rude. The NPR folk tend to ask questions that highlight the flaws in somebody's position, but at least they're polite about it and less antagonistic.
I feel like the BBC is overdoing what I perceive to be an attempt to be "less British": they seem to use people's first names a lot and are a little too jocular w/each other, and they're a lot less reserved in their interviews (i.e., they're pushy).
I've got a Green Republican friend who states that (almost) all pollution is simply excess reagents. Using juuuuust the right amt of reagents would result in the same reaction, w/no waste (i.e., no pollution), and save money. Fully oxidizing your fuel is one example of this. More efficiency == less waste == profit! It IS a simple equation.
(I know, I know, we still have to deal w/the CO2. However, (slightly) less fuel to get the same amt of power == (slightly) less CO2.)
I used to think that, too (energy used to separate hydrogen = energy gained from oxidizing it), but hydrogen can be generated by cracking hydrocarbons, not electrolyzing water. Carbon waste is generated, but at least it's isolated to the cracking plant.
There are other problems w/hydrogen: the energy required to liquify hydrogen is 40% of what's available from the liquified product. Oops. Well, maybe if we're working w/fission/fusion, we can accept higher energy losses, since we're starting with the POWAH of the SUN.
Non-default password choice should be an in-your-face, step one, sort of operation, not an optional thing you do after the new router is finally configured.
I remember back in the day, it was possible to register your bicycle and actually get a bicycle license, unique number and all, on a sticker that you could then put on your shiny new bike in case anybody ever stole it.
How many people actually ever did that? Same deal: if it's any trouble AT ALL, people won't do it. It's not really their fault, unless you're ready to be excoriated for not registering your bicycle.
The Internet, which is the world's greatest P2P network, brings the bullhorn to the common man, gives everyone the printing press, yada yada.
We're all back in the village green. Anybody can yammer.
So, we all have to figure out who's the village idiot and who's the sage. And who's yesterday's sage but now today's idiot.
We all have to think. Shocking, disappointing, I know.
Reputation matters. Those of you with good reputations, please don't pull a Pierre Salinger.
Remember, all your sources of info are biased, somehow. Some grossly, some negligibly. Find the bias, find the reputation, take with a grain of salt.
Just because some taxi driver, somebody you met in a laundromat, your lunatic {right,left}-wing officemate said it, you Read It On The Internet doesn't make it so. Even if it had cool graphics on the page.
Why should the blogsphere be any different? Why should anybody be surprised? Geez.
Slashdot Mirror
Um... No. Stupid Americans kill themselves. And sometimes take some of the rest of us with them.
Geez, you guys. There's a real person behind the question. Do you HAVE to be an asshole?
Ya know what? I don't think employers give a shit about "paradigms". Imperative rules the world (as opposed to functional or declarative).
You're right about picking up a new language within the imperative paradigm (it's easy). The challenge is in learning the LIBRARIES. LINQ (are we gonna call that a paradigm, really?), MVC, MVP, all that other alphabet soup that's the latest framework. XML, XSLT, yada yada.
It's not spying if they're up front about it. Which they are.
Really? You're going to use their free web mail and their free browser and then complain about them using the info they harvest? Did I miss something?
Not to mention the fact that Joe Developer claims he needs access to all rights because he's too lazy to come up with the minimal set he really needs.
Second.
MILLIONS of additional system? C'mon....
Yeah. I read their "Questions from Luis Villa" (wth? Can't paste into this edit window w/Chrome?) blog post at the beginning of the summer and I didn't think it was going to work out so well. Undergrad summer enthusiasm, rejection/unawareness of earlier efforts.
And here we are. I wonder if they'll be able to collect their KickStarter money (wotta scam that turned out to be) because they met their "promise" (whatever we release will be open-source, yay (note the absence of a specific feature list in the promise)).
There's still hope, I guess, but probably not for Diaspora, due to the dependencies they'll probably introduce. Grumble, grumble, grumble.
There's also print-on-demand. Drop your Kindle in the tub and you're out, what, $175? Drop a paperback in, and you're out $6. Same with whacking insects, trips to the beach, leaving the thing lying in your chair while you move the laundry to the dryer in the laundromat....
Wait, wait... .NET is ruining the industry? Can you tell me how, exactly? I mean -- I know it's Microsoft's gigantic walled garden, but once you accept the horrible reality that some shops really do prefer a MS-only environment... what's so bad about .NET? It's got everything Java has, doesn't it? Is there some computer-sciency reason why .NET is Bad, apart from the whole monopolistic thing? Or is that what you're talking about?
http://bash.org/?search=hunter2&sort=0&show=25
"hunter2". I love it. :)
Genentech screens out people who show an interest in politics? Sure, because those folks will be harder to steamroll.
:)
Passionate people who don't give a shit about corporate politics are much more maleable.
Of course, after they get their passion crushed, they're even easier to work with, particularly since they're also clueless about politics.
Hmmm. Maybe I'm in the wrong place.
Damn. Where are my mod points when I need 'em?
Right on.
I sometimes wonder if the future of the American software developer is to become a nattering nabob.
If you can't code quality software at $1.75/hour, TALK a good game.
John.
Eh...
s s variety. Or stiff-upper-lip-leading-to-utter-outlandishness.
It's possible to ask probing questions and expose weaknesses in an interviewee's position without constantly interrupting the interviewee, deliberately misinterpreting his/her statements, repeating the same question over and over, and putting words in the interviewee's mouth ("isn't it true that...?").
Polite != sycophantic.
True, I had sort of forgotten the whole culture of the British news media. There's a fundamental difference in libel law between Britain and America, isn't there? In Britain, the accused politician has to prove the statements are a lie, while in America, the accusing media outlet has to prove the statements are true. Or something like that. Leads to fundamentally different behavior in the press.
I think there are several different flavors of British comedy. I myself prefer the John Cleese stiff-upper-lip-in-the-face-of-utter-outlandishne
There's also that whole Benny Hill/Are You Being Served? slapstick thing. Not so much to my liking.
[Imagine more inane blather here, and I won't bother typing it.]
John.
Any NPR (American "public" radio) listeners here listen to the BBC news programs we get over here? Those interviewers really are kind of pushy. I wouldn't call them "probing", I'd call them biased and rude. The NPR folk tend to ask questions that highlight the flaws in somebody's position, but at least they're polite about it and less antagonistic.
I feel like the BBC is overdoing what I perceive to be an attempt to be "less British": they seem to use people's first names a lot and are a little too jocular w/each other, and they're a lot less reserved in their interviews (i.e., they're pushy).
(Must go, turkey's on fire.)
John.
Ya know...
I've got a Green Republican friend who states that (almost) all pollution is simply excess reagents. Using juuuuust the right amt of reagents would result in the same reaction, w/no waste (i.e., no pollution), and save money. Fully oxidizing your fuel is one example of this. More efficiency == less waste == profit! It IS a simple equation.
(I know, I know, we still have to deal w/the CO2. However, (slightly) less fuel to get the same amt of power == (slightly) less CO2.)
John.
I used to think that, too (energy used to separate hydrogen = energy gained from oxidizing it), but hydrogen can be generated by cracking hydrocarbons, not electrolyzing water. Carbon waste is generated, but at least it's isolated to the cracking plant.
There are other problems w/hydrogen: the energy required to liquify hydrogen is 40% of what's available from the liquified product. Oops. Well, maybe if we're working w/fission/fusion, we can accept higher energy losses, since we're starting with the POWAH of the SUN.
John.
Non-default password choice should be an in-your-face, step one, sort of operation, not an optional thing you do after the new router is finally configured.
I remember back in the day, it was possible to register your bicycle and actually get a bicycle license, unique number and all, on a sticker that you could then put on your shiny new bike in case anybody ever stole it.
How many people actually ever did that? Same deal: if it's any trouble AT ALL, people won't do it. It's not really their fault, unless you're ready to be excoriated for not registering your bicycle.
John.
No, you're not the only one.
I saw it as "A Look Inside the mumble mumble Anus" -- huh? what? *click*
Oh, ASUS!
how about:>:(
As simple as necessary, but no more. "Done" is too generic. Done what?John.
We've got a guy here who seems to think it necessary to write conditionals like this:
Drives me nuts. What the hell is wrong with just
??John.
We're all back in the village green. Anybody can yammer.
So, we all have to figure out who's the village idiot and who's the sage. And who's yesterday's sage but now today's idiot.
We all have to think. Shocking, disappointing, I know.
Reputation matters. Those of you with good reputations, please don't pull a Pierre Salinger.
Remember, all your sources of info are biased, somehow. Some grossly, some negligibly. Find the bias, find the reputation, take with a grain of salt.
Just because some taxi driver, somebody you met in a laundromat, your lunatic {right,left}-wing officemate said it, you Read It On The Internet doesn't make it so. Even if it had cool graphics on the page.
Why should the blogsphere be any different? Why should anybody be surprised? Geez.
>:(
John.
("Real-time realistic cloth rendering! Yay, better games!")
So, how 'bout that Colorado human services software?
Bah. >:(
John.
"How do you count words in a Word doc?"
What, are we back in school, trying to figure out when we can stop typing on this 1000-word history essay that's due tomorrow?
How do you count words in a LaTeX doc?
I think the line-count option on 'wc' is much more heavily used (I know I use it just about every day).
John.
I think FireFox consumes less memory.
I'm *hoping* FireFox consumes less memory.
John.