Mentoring is the best bet, but personell is limited when it comes to this respect.
Learn by example.
* Full source code to a real problem. * Don't leave out any code out or anything assumed. * Make sure the project and source compile and work (unlike many books) so the learnee can play. * Try to make the reader follow what the hell you are doing. * Finally, present the learnee with the explanations why what was done where.
Giving explanations during the code takes away from the readers thought process. Letting a person play with the code also helps in the learning process. Watch a toddle play and learn and you'll see what I mean. We, as adults, don't (or at least shouldn't) lose that play/learn mechanism
A side effect, the person will become a better debugger.
I remember getting the "Computer Shopper" every month, flipping to the back, and hoping to find a new BBS that was a local call away from my back woods town. Never happened. *sniff*
Thirty minutes of long distance calls a month was all I could afford at the time. I missed out on most of that grande era.
Half right. A full antipattern shows how to do something wrong(or recognize when something is astray) AND a *suggested* solution that has worked in prior situations.
Why would you use them? * Training programmers/designers. * Dead project autoposies and resurrection. Project gets brought back to life, why did it die in the first place. (amazing the shit some consulting companies produce)
Antipatters, like patterns, are good to know and understand but must never be used religiosly.
Once again I've been drinking and I'm pissed off at the ignorance of the typical slashdot poster. Get a clue, a college education, and try your luck later.
Pssst. Java is the language, the syntax, the specification. The classes you mentioned are part of the core library Sun provides. If they decided in the core to make String immutable, so be it. If you know anything about the VM you'll se why this is a good thing.
As for the OO claim. Purist will say it isn't OO b/c of a handful of primatives but what real production language OO language doesn't take advantage of some primatives.
I'll never subject my children to most games (plus a lot of shit on the net) until they are ready.
That's my decision and my resposibility....unfortunately we live in a world void of responsibility therefore the gubment has to take care of us. This I hate, but still respect to a degree with all the worthless parents out there.
Bullshit./. is becoming more a whiners festiveal anymore. I used to come here for the latestest on geek stuff but now it seems maybe 1 of 7 'articles' are actually relevent to geek speak. What the fuck does this 'news brief' on spederman have to do with geeks and technology. It's a rant by some pissant who doesn't enjoy life. Give me some news on the latest processors Transmeta is making. Give me the low down on VA linux and their future. Give me the latest scoop on the aftermath of Loki and it's IP. Don't give crybaby shit about the latest lawsuits or bullshit patent appications.
Previous news: Biometrics on DL's? That's not geek news. It's a privacy issue. I'm all for privacy, but have not we harped on that enough. This is a geek news letter? I'll visit one of many privacy forums if I want to discuss the injustices of the system. This is geek news, let's get back to the basics of geeks and advocate privacy and lawsuits elseware.
Do we see a return to yester year when web designers actually ignored proprietary html extensions and designed compatible (for lack of a better word) sites?
On that note, when you browse with your non IE browser and you stumble upon a site that renders totally useless (visual mess, links broken, or anything else that works only in IE), do you just go away or do you pop an email to the webmaster telling theme there losing visitors/customers?
1. Revert the term of copyright to 14 years, immediately and retroactive to all existing works.
I don't think this is constitional. I may be wrong though.
Recognize moral rights in the works authors create, like every other civilized country on the planet. Make it immediate and retroactive to all existing works.
First part is excellent. Second part... see #1
3. Prohibit any corporation from owning a copyright. Corporations create nothing.
Phooey!! Corporations do create. Maybe this should read, "Prohibit corporations from purchasing whole pieces of work to claim as their own from being copyrighted." or something to the like. But this still has shades of grey as to define a 'complete piece of work'.
I'm just thinking about my company. 50 plus developers + human resource turnover. This is counter productive for us all. Every line of code I right I have to copyright and keep track of? When I leave the company someday. The company has to rewrite or stop using the code I wrote or do they have to pay me to use it? They're already paying me to write it. Okay, I get hit by a car? Now my wife 'owns' the copyright for the remaining 14 years so she can get pestered left and right?
Now on the other hand, I write a complete work. Publishers now-a-days won't talk to you if you don't sell all rights away for a check. #3 sounds much better. But what's to gain for a company to spend $$ on R&D and development if they can copyright their investments?
There's a hundred ways to skin a cat, but 90% of those ways still leave fur on the little guy.
I saw this article and thought, "Great. Another tirade against common sense." I figured there would be/.ers pretending to be lawayers, and angry mobs, but it was refreshing to see that common sense prevailed.
The common sense that you have the contract before you sign. RTFC and don't be surprised later. Ask questions if the legalese doesn't make sense./. people provided good responses here. College kids take note of them. When you're presented a contract, read it and don't be afraid to negotiate amendments to the contract. I have a friend who has succussfuly negotiated one extra day of vacation a year to be used on his birthday or the last working day of the year. Why? Because he can he says. Why the hell not. You're there to negotiate so work your magic. If a company is strict and does not bend, don't neccessarily rule them out. Code under a pen name:)
How many times have you adopted a PC and didn't know exactly what hardware it had. You need to put some version of Windows on it and the wonderful install and the wonderful PNP couldn't tell what the PC had. You then get that wonderful message pop-up "Located unkown device." and "Installing drivers for unknown device" (This has always cracked me up) Then the damn thing doesn't work perfectly. Well, pop in your Linux on Floppy disk, boot, cat/proc/pci/ among other tricks and and now you know. Go fix Winblows and make some poor shmoe happy.
And that my friends is what a mini distro can be used for.
No dipshit. I don't have all the answers. I just happen to know this one b/c I've been there. Ah, expereince is a wonderful thing. Something you may actually acheive in a few years.
As for spelling here on slashdot, I could give two shits. Get your junior high english teacher to proof and spell check it for me.
Okay, so your little research into Article III makes you an expert over the person with DOD clearence (any level) who has filled out 15-30 pages of personal facts/history, who had to read another 50-100 pages of what to do/what not to do/possible punishments, and has their personal life investigated left and right (at their choice) to benefit our country?
Until you've been there and done it and know what it takes to get a clearence and what ramifications exist if you break the agreement, keep you opinions to yourself and go back to your text book. That is real world buddy.
I haven't been to a wal-mart in a few years. I can pick up my knick knacks, TV's, etc... at variuous stores in my area while driving by 3 walmarts in the 25 mile radius.
BUT, the things I have bought at walmart work fine and are still around and I'm buying things made by other companies such as Whirlpool, Emerson, RCA...
On the flip side, though I'm a *nix fellow, I can't get by a normal work week without having to hop on a frigging microsot box and fight through the numerous BSOD's I typically get.
Until I'm forced to go to Walmart b/c it the only place and item is available, they are not evil. Until walmart starts buying (hostile takeover?) compaines such as Emerson and Whirlpool and slapping their name on products, I'll go to one if I need a product I know I can get there.
Sounds great, but it has been tried. Even big name bands (aerosmith??) have tried this scheme to little success.
The net is still imature compared to big brother media. Beleive it or not, it still not taken seriously by a lot of brick and mortar companies.
The internet vs. radio/mtv exposure rate is too favored toward the latter for a serious "wanting to break it big" budding band to try it. And for the bands that do try it, good luck. You'll be black listed from major labels b/c your tried to circumvent the industry's system.
U2 probably gets a buck for each album.
Creed proabably gets $.10
Wannabes (Marketing bands such as Spears, Boyz something) proabably see a penny if that.
Artist don't make money off of albums, they make money off of tours. New artists don't get to tour much you'll notice. They're usually back in the studio for a sophomore album before they can get make money for themselves. But it's an evil catch. The record industry practically owns the airwaves and store shelves so the musician who wants to make big money signs deals to get exposure and some spare change from record sales. Then hopefully with sucess running into and after a sophomore album they can finally tour.
Unfortuneatly, I don't see the loop ending.
It doesn't really take a genius to figure it out.
They're will be musicians (and wannabe performers) who want to make a buck. The marketing nimrod actually does realize that current pop culture thrives on the shit they put out. Whenever comsumer confidence shrinks, (let's say a wide boycott b/c of non standard CD's) the industry will back off, suck up to the consumer, and then play the consumer again after they have recovered confidence. The few people that don't like the actions now (such as the sampling of readers from/.) do not make an impact on the industry's marketing decision.
Thank goodness they're will always be that small chunk of local, unsigned music that pleases me.
I'm not so confused anymore. I could never figure out if the slashdot community hated pointless patents, privacy threats, M$, AOL, or Big Name Corporation, Inc more than the other.
I've yet seen a post against M$ so now the picture is so much clearer on the slashdot power rankings. (S.PR)
Thanks slashdot community, I can sleep better now.
While people can use.Net, why clone.Net? Why not make something better than.Net?
Umm.. look at mozilla. How long have they working on a code base? OSS doesn't have the man power to clone and do better than.NET. Didn't a recent/. article say most OSS developers are already holding full time jobs. And when I say "man power", I don't strictly mean technical man power. OSS already has a lot of superior apps and quality developers who give their time to the world.
The world needs OSM...Open Source Marketers. Yep, I mean Sales and Marketing folk who share Their time "selling" the open source software.
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Mentoring is the best bet, but personell is limited when it comes to this respect.
Learn by example.
* Full source code to a real problem.
* Don't leave out any code out or anything assumed.
* Make sure the project and source compile and work (unlike many books) so the learnee can play.
* Try to make the reader follow what the hell you are doing.
* Finally, present the learnee with the explanations why what was done where.
Giving explanations during the code takes away from the readers thought process. Letting a person play with the code also helps in the learning process. Watch a toddle play and learn and you'll see what I mean. We, as adults, don't (or at least shouldn't) lose that play/learn mechanism
A side effect, the person will become a better debugger.
I remember getting the "Computer Shopper" every month, flipping to the back, and hoping to find a new BBS that was a local call away from my back woods town. Never happened. *sniff*
Thirty minutes of long distance calls a month was all I could afford at the time. I missed out on most of that grande era.
I think Gallagher patented smashing food with a 'hammer', so me thinks you logic fails.
Half right. A full antipattern shows how to do something wrong(or recognize when something is astray) AND a *suggested* solution that has worked in prior situations.
Why would you use them?
* Training programmers/designers.
* Dead project autoposies and resurrection. Project gets brought back to life, why did it die in the first place. (amazing the shit some consulting companies produce)
Antipatters, like patterns, are good to know and understand but must never be used religiosly.
RTFA Dumb shit.
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Once again I've been drinking and I'm pissed off at the ignorance of the typical slashdot poster. Get a clue, a college education, and try your luck later.
Pssst. Java is the language, the syntax, the specification. The classes you mentioned are part of the core library Sun provides. If they decided in the core to make String immutable, so be it. If you know anything about the VM you'll se why this is a good thing.
As for the OO claim. Purist will say it isn't OO b/c of a handful of primatives but what real production language OO language doesn't take advantage of some primatives.
Who is to say martian bacteria is bad? For all we know it may 'cure' cancers or attack and kill the HIV.
Better yet, it may rid the world of stupid people. I say bring it back by the truck load.
I'll never subject my children to most games (plus a lot of shit on the net) until they are ready.
....unfortunately we live in a world void of responsibility therefore the gubment has to take care of us. This I hate, but still respect to a degree with all the worthless parents out there.
That's my decision and my resposibility
This is news?!?!?! The world's worst vid card vendor releases a new piece of shit card and this is news?!?!
God help my children.
News for nerds, stuf that matters.
/. is becoming more a whiners festiveal anymore. I used to come here for the latestest on geek stuff but now it seems maybe 1 of 7 'articles' are actually relevent to geek speak. What the fuck does this 'news brief' on spederman have to do with geeks and technology. It's a rant by some pissant who doesn't enjoy life. Give me some news on the latest processors Transmeta is making. Give me the low down on VA linux and their future. Give me the latest scoop on the aftermath of Loki and it's IP. Don't give crybaby shit about the latest lawsuits or bullshit patent appications.
Bullshit.
Previous news: Biometrics on DL's? That's not geek news. It's a privacy issue. I'm all for privacy, but have not we harped on that enough. This is a geek news letter? I'll visit one of many privacy forums if I want to discuss the injustices of the system. This is geek news, let's get back to the basics of geeks and advocate privacy and lawsuits elseware.
So mozilla may gain some ground and users.
Do we see a return to yester year when web designers actually ignored proprietary html extensions and designed compatible (for lack of a better word) sites?
On that note, when you browse with your non IE browser and you stumble upon a site that renders totally useless (visual mess, links broken, or anything else that works only in IE), do you just go away or do you pop an email to the webmaster telling theme there losing visitors/customers?
maybe "for the good of mankind"
What? Tell M$ to pump all their efforts and money into dot coms? Good call.
1. Revert the term of copyright to 14 years, immediately and retroactive to all existing works.
I don't think this is constitional. I may be wrong though.
Recognize moral rights in the works authors create, like every other civilized country on the planet. Make it immediate and retroactive to all existing works.
First part is excellent. Second part... see #1
3. Prohibit any corporation from owning a copyright. Corporations create nothing.
Phooey!! Corporations do create. Maybe this should read, "Prohibit corporations from purchasing whole pieces of work to claim as their own from being copyrighted." or something to the like. But this still has shades of grey as to define a 'complete piece of work'.
I'm just thinking about my company. 50 plus developers + human resource turnover. This is counter productive for us all. Every line of code I right I have to copyright and keep track of? When I leave the company someday. The company has to rewrite or stop using the code I wrote or do they have to pay me to use it? They're already paying me to write it. Okay, I get hit by a car? Now my wife 'owns' the copyright for the remaining 14 years so she can get pestered left and right?
Now on the other hand, I write a complete work. Publishers now-a-days won't talk to you if you don't sell all rights away for a check. #3 sounds much better. But what's to gain for a company to spend $$ on R&D and development if they can copyright their investments?
There's a hundred ways to skin a cat, but 90% of those ways still leave fur on the little guy.
No rhythm? It really can't/couldn't be worse than...
"join us now and share the software, you'll be free..."
And you'd get a good hint if you typed "nikstlitslepmur". Ah, how every time I here Rumplestiltskin I think of the backwards name.
I saw this article and thought, "Great. Another tirade against common sense." I figured there would be /.ers pretending to be lawayers, and angry mobs, but it was refreshing to see that common sense prevailed.
/. people provided good responses here. College kids take note of them. When you're presented a contract, read it and don't be afraid to negotiate amendments to the contract. I have a friend who has succussfuly negotiated one extra day of vacation a year to be used on his birthday or the last working day of the year. Why? Because he can he says. Why the hell not. You're there to negotiate so work your magic. If a company is strict and does not bend, don't neccessarily rule them out. Code under a pen name :)
The common sense that you have the contract before you sign. RTFC and don't be surprised later. Ask questions if the legalese doesn't make sense.
How many times have you adopted a PC and didn't know exactly what hardware it had. You need to put some version of Windows on it and the wonderful install and the wonderful PNP couldn't tell what the PC had. You then get that wonderful message pop-up "Located unkown device." and "Installing drivers for unknown device" (This has always cracked me up) Then the damn thing doesn't work perfectly. Well, pop in your Linux on Floppy disk, boot, cat /proc/pci/ among other tricks and and now you know. Go fix Winblows and make some poor shmoe happy.
And that my friends is what a mini distro can be used for.
No dipshit. I don't have all the answers. I just happen to know this one b/c I've been there. Ah, expereince is a wonderful thing. Something you may actually acheive in a few years.
As for spelling here on slashdot, I could give two shits. Get your junior high english teacher to proof and spell check it for me.
Okay, so your little research into Article III makes you an expert over the person with DOD clearence (any level) who has filled out 15-30 pages of personal facts/history, who had to read another 50-100 pages of what to do/what not to do/possible punishments, and has their personal life investigated left and right (at their choice) to benefit our country?
Until you've been there and done it and know what it takes to get a clearence and what ramifications exist if you break the agreement, keep you opinions to yourself and go back to your text book. That is real world buddy.
I haven't been to a wal-mart in a few years. I can pick up my knick knacks, TV's, etc... at variuous stores in my area while driving by 3 walmarts in the 25 mile radius.
BUT, the things I have bought at walmart work fine and are still around and I'm buying things made by other companies such as Whirlpool, Emerson, RCA...
On the flip side, though I'm a *nix fellow, I can't get by a normal work week without having to hop on a frigging microsot box and fight through the numerous BSOD's I typically get.
Until I'm forced to go to Walmart b/c it the only place and item is available, they are not evil. Until walmart starts buying (hostile takeover?) compaines such as Emerson and Whirlpool and slapping their name on products, I'll go to one if I need a product I know I can get there.
Sounds great, but it has been tried. Even big name bands (aerosmith??) have tried this scheme to little success.
The net is still imature compared to big brother media. Beleive it or not, it still not taken seriously by a lot of brick and mortar companies.
The internet vs. radio/mtv exposure rate is too favored toward the latter for a serious "wanting to break it big" budding band to try it. And for the bands that do try it, good luck. You'll be black listed from major labels b/c your tried to circumvent the industry's system.
U2 probably gets a buck for each album.
/.) do not make an impact on the industry's marketing decision.
Creed proabably gets $.10
Wannabes (Marketing bands such as Spears, Boyz something) proabably see a penny if that.
Artist don't make money off of albums, they make money off of tours. New artists don't get to tour much you'll notice. They're usually back in the studio for a sophomore album before they can get make money for themselves. But it's an evil catch. The record industry practically owns the airwaves and store shelves so the musician who wants to make big money signs deals to get exposure and some spare change from record sales. Then hopefully with sucess running into and after a sophomore album they can finally tour.
Unfortuneatly, I don't see the loop ending.
It doesn't really take a genius to figure it out.
They're will be musicians (and wannabe performers) who want to make a buck. The marketing nimrod actually does realize that current pop culture thrives on the shit they put out. Whenever comsumer confidence shrinks, (let's say a wide boycott b/c of non standard CD's) the industry will back off, suck up to the consumer, and then play the consumer again after they have recovered confidence. The few people that don't like the actions now (such as the sampling of readers from
Thank goodness they're will always be that small chunk of local, unsigned music that pleases me.
I'm not so confused anymore. I could never figure out if the slashdot community hated pointless patents, privacy threats, M$, AOL, or Big Name Corporation, Inc more than the other.
I've yet seen a post against M$ so now the picture is so much clearer on the slashdot power rankings. (S.PR)
Thanks slashdot community, I can sleep better now.
While people can use .Net, why clone .Net? Why not make something better than .Net?
.NET. Didn't a recent /. article say most OSS developers are already holding full time jobs. And when I say "man power", I don't strictly mean technical man power. OSS already has a lot of superior apps and quality developers who give their time to the world.
Umm.. look at mozilla. How long have they working on a code base? OSS doesn't have the man power to clone and do better than
The world needs OSM...Open Source Marketers. Yep, I mean Sales and Marketing folk who share Their time "selling" the open source software.
A cold day in hell me thinks.
No asshole, I eat my dead mother's rotting pussy out with this mouth. Now doesn't that make you feel better?