User: wardk

thoughts on Josh the Example

On: Are Quirky Developers Brilliant Or Dangerous?

1. he was NOT the genius they thought he was, just because he knows more than his customers doesn't make him anything more than smarter than non-techies

2. looks like he wrote shitty code

3. he's an asshole

Josh and his company needed one thing to happen so be successful, fire his ass at the first sign of idiocy. refuse to help your team, gone. treat a customer like shit, gone.

the problem with this story is clueless and spineless management letting a bad situation escalate.

Josh was a moron, not a genius. rename the thread appropriately.

outgoing administration must be funky as heck

On: DHS To Use Body Odor As a Lie Detector

my goodness, if lies = stink, I suspect the Obama's needed some air fresheners to even set foot in the white house.

fastest virus installer ever!

On: Microsoft Says IE Faster Than Chrome and Firefox

this thing can populate your machine with virues, trojans, adware, scamware and other Microsoft products faster than ever!!!!!

still can't spell CSS

Finally decent COBOL support

On: Microsoft Windows, On a Mainframe

I must say what an awesomely incredible waste of good hardware

good work IBM

now fix Clearcase

let your boss know

On: How To Handle Corporate Blackmail?

let your buffoonish boss you intend to speak to the FBI (assuming this is in the USA) about being blackmailed, and legal counsel.

bottom line in this country, they can't say boo negative about you, all they can do is confirm employment.

if you already have a new job, then call in sick for 3 weeks. or just leave.

hell, if you have any proof (witnesses) that can attest to this, you may never need to work again.

my router has a log?

On: Bill Would Require ISPs, Wi-Fi Users To Keep Logs

I bet most of congress doesn't know what a router even is

my cat refused to sign it

On: Don't Like EULAs? Get Your Cat To Agree To Them

she snarled, hissed, then peed on it

innovation starts now

On: China Aims To Move Up the Food Chain

I look forward to the new and inventive ways to hide toxins in consumer products.

I vote other

On: US CTO Choice Down To a Two-Horse Race

No Cisco, no gov't hack.

we need credible change

hide your COCK hat!

On: South Carolina Seeking To Outlaw Profanity

their main university has COCKS on their hats.

too bad this is happening so soon in the year, when the "dumbest stuff of the year" awards are held, this might be overlooked.

just add a new folder to the windows install

On: UK Cops Want "Breathalyzers" For PCs

call it

"My incriminating evidence"

and then put in the terms of service that one must use it for all evidence of illegal activity

HP picked up the snake

On: HP's Fury At Vista Capable Downgrade

you mean the snake bit the entity that carried it across the river?

nothing to learn from this, move along

I hope they name them cylons

On: Packs of Robots Will Hunt Down Uncooperative Humans

because eventually some of them will evolve into real hotties

data processing

On: Cobol Job Market Heating Up

COBOL on the mainframe processes data like you would not believe.

if you have boatloads and boatloads of data and you need it massaged, there is no other tool that can outperform COBOL on big iron, unless it SYNCSORT on the mainframe.

besides, the side effect of needing to write JCL makes COBOL that much cooler.

so just use some of these strings for the links...

On: Chicago Law Firm Sues Over Hyperlink To Trademarked Name

I don't even have to list one my disgusting ideas for what to call their website when links.

use your own imagination, hang it off this thread....

charge 700 billion for a block of US Addresses?

On: China To Run Out of IPv4 Addresses In 830 Days

wall street gets their free cash, but not from taxpayer wallets.

win-win

Innovation?

On: Microsoft Innovates Tent Data Centers

nice new abuse of the word.

I guess when Microsoft facilities people decide to change brands of Toilet paper it's called "innovating taking a dump"

Stand up comedians sit back down

On: Microsoft To Announce Jerry Seinfeld Ads Cancelled

He did his routine, now it's time for the next comedy act.

I thought his routine was a stinker, but then again, he didn't have good material to work with.

VP Material

On: City Sues To Prevent Linking To Its Website

sounds like if Palin falters, McCain has his new running mate

those Cylons are crafty

On: San Fran Hunts For Mystery Device On City Network

check the reservoir, they like to mess up water supplies

NO

On: Should IT Unionize?

this is the worst thing that could ever happen to IT.

you haven't lived

On: The Mainframe World Is Alive, Even For Those Under 40

until you've coded Perl using ISPF/PDF

What better than a comedian

On: Jerry Seinfeld Will Plug Vista

to sell a joke?

Perl is dead

On: Why Corporates Hate Perl

Of course Perl isn't dead.

so what if some bozo in a suit calls something "legacy"

"legacy" is simply any application that's in pure maintenance mode. hell, in some cases, legacy is simply a reference to an application that's no longer sporting that new code smell. Legacy is also simply a term to disparage, based on nothing other than the speakers opinions.

Lets see management CHANGE that code. that costs money. and working legacy code is much cheaper than writing a new system.

At my company, a VERY large one with an IT shop of thousands....the Python dudes won a culture war against the Perl dudes (and VB dumbasses, Korn dudes and others) and mandated that no more new Perl would be written, as Python was the new Grail. Lets see, that was about 5 years ago, and that same group begrudgingly had to approve Komodo purchases to "do perl" about 3 months ago.

yeah, they whined, they stonewalled, they demanded, but in the end, we just kept writing in Perl. with full management support.

because when the rubber hits the road, most front line IT managers are not complete idiots, and when presented with a whopping estimate to do essentially "busy work", even the most determined IT suit will capitulate to reason.

They may as well dictate the friggin' Weather as mandate all code in X be rewritten in Y (especially when X works perfectly fine)

need space taliban?

On: Russian Invasion of Georgia Might Jeopardize Space Station

if only there was a terror threat from space. NASA would be up to their eyeballs in no-need-to-account-for cash.