The modern Adobe Systems is, in some ways, more evil than the modern Microsoft. Adobe is getting worse, Microsoft is getting better. They both bludgeon other companies and absorb their tattered corpses, but frankly, I get a feeling from Adobe that the companies are damn-near suicidal when trying to get support from them.
Let's be fair, here. I've run into this problem a lot lately too and it was annoying. But, for the most part, XBL has been stable and amazing. I'm sure they'll work it out. It's too early to spit too much hate about Microsoft and how stupid they are. The XBOX 360 is a marvel of design and XBL revolutionized on-line play. That's just plain fact, no IMHOs here.
You can write your code in any style, it doesn't matter; some jerk will flame you for it because it isn't his style and he thinks he is god. It is particularly funny when that "god's" software is buggy and yours never crashes, is portable, and easy to read. Oh, they hate easy to read -- plain spoken code means that you just don't have the intelligence to write code that is hard to understand! It never occurs to them that communicating effectively is more intelligent than obsfucating to try to make yourself look smart. These people are hard to ignore, I'll admit, but we gotta do so. They're the kind of people where they're sitting behind their computer, afraid, and frustrated. They get off by hurting others smarter than them like the bullies that surely must have beat the crap out of them in grade school. And when that smarter person makes a mistake, like all people do, watch out! I had a collection of code I tried to port to the Amiga once that used all kinds of obscure features of GNU C++ that made it hard to port. Because I didn't know what one of them did and tried to work around it, you'd think I was dumber than a box of hair based on the flames I got back. I also treat warnings as errors -- OMG, how awful! It means I can't write optimized code (and of course, these warnings are the reason it didn't port!) Of course, to avoid it, I should have never tried, which is what they want because then they don't feel threatened.
The better your code is, the more angry they'll be. Have pity for them. They'd never talk that way to your face because they know they'd deserve a fist buried deep. And don't expect them to know context -- like putting simple example code on a posting to show a concept instead of being complete. Oh man, watch-out - it's self-worship time^2 when that happens!
PS: The more you do, the more you'll get this kind of flack, so you can turn it around and use it for a guage of just how hoopy a frood you are! After all, useless people who do nothing never gain the attention born from resentment!
The author says we have a right to die. Is this normal in Europe? In America, we don't have a right to die at all. We have to suffer till the very end, no matter how much we might want to die.
This hurts the legitimate requests as well, though. For example, when we'd request a new database for a project that needed to start that day, right away, we'd be stuck waiting while the administrators (and I loosely use that term since they were about as smart as a bag of rocks - and not the normal rocks, but the mentally challenged sort that think administrating a MySQL database is hard work) sat and surfed the web, listening to MP3s. Of course, my project manager, who could only aspire to the status of said mentally challenged rocks, would not change the deadline, which she made (smirking, of course) without doing analysis because the company charged too damned much and didn't want to waste the time on analysis -- they just blame the engineers for everything. Don't hurt the real engineer when trying to handle the idiots!!!
I agree; people who can't say "I don't know" are not management material. The kind of people that can't say "I don't know" are usually the programmers, in my experience, who all too often put way too much weight on what they know and not enough (or any) on whether they can work well in a community, which is far more important. There's nothing I hate more than a analytical personality putting others down for asking questions or misunderstanding something. That is the worst possible quality to have in management as well.
Read the/. history over the last couple of days. You'll see Cendant did the same thing yesterday as well. This isn't just MS, this is a corporate culture shift.
I'm getting bored of seeing these patent lawsuits. To think that insurance companies exist just to sell insurance against such lawsuits shows just how pathetic our patenting system is. *yawn*
What ever happened to winning by doing better than the competition, anyway? Are American corporations so pathetic that they have to stoop to this level to compete now?
A new low in using the courts to unethically hurt the competition. It makes me scared to innovate. For example, I'm writing a music description language. If someone uses it to create music that is significantly similar to a copyrighted piece of work, am I going to get sued? This abuse of the courts is killing this country.
The best, most courageous books are written for the young, general audience -- plain and understandable yet, like this book, complete. I often shake my head at some of the stuff I read from technical people. They are meeting their own needs of feeling and sounding smart at the expense of actually getting their message across. Look at the "Dummies" series -- the implication is there, that to write a book that people can read, it means that it is made for "dummies". Insulting, really, but human. It's a personality flaw that all too often gets in the way of moving the field forward. I wish all books were written like this one! We'd only gain if they were; just because the author speaks plainly and clearly doesn't mean they can't go into detail. In fact, they can go into greater detail because they can take the reader with them further into their world.
It is good to see PERL focussing on what makes it great. There is no other language, IMHO, that handles text input as well as PERL does. Adding this level of processing just makes it even more powerful.
Well, let's be fair though -- the only computer that is truly secure is unplugged, locked-up in a warehouse, and guarded by very hungry dogs. Since the bewilderingly large majority of people use Windows, it makes sense to target Windows for things like spyware, viruses, etc. If the Macintosh had more than 2% of the market, those spyware/virus makers would spend more time on the Macintosh. I'm old enough to remember the days when Macintoshes had/more/ viruses than Windows did for this reason -- Mac used to be on top.
Changing one's style of thought for those in power is an unfortunate necessity to survive in today's world. At least, appearing to change one's thought. Scary. I guess such an education is preperation for the real world.
I'm experiencing the opposite in Green Bay, WI. As a consultant, the programming opportunities are exploding. Companies are figuring out early that the time difference, culture difference, and communication difficulties are far more expensive than hiring a local competent programmer. Perhaps the.DOT bust woke a few suits up and told them they need to pay attention.
Of course, Wisconsin lags so much in this industry that you might be foretelling disaster for us...hmm.
Actually, I don't know how the universe was formed, or what the universe is, or whether there really is one at all for that matter. I'm open to the idea that the universe "program" (to really stretch the analogy) stared only 5,000 years ago. We don't knowanything outside of the scope of that program and all these arguments we make is based on that limited information. Were any of us there 5,000 years ago? To get technical, we have no axioms (self-evident truths) to build upon and any proof requires them -- they are the very structure of a proof.
Genesis seems reasonable to me, for all I know, which is nothing. Why wouldn't the holy spirit manifest itself and spontaneously create man, woman, and all the beasties? Who am I to say it didn't happen that way? It is, in my opinion, an amazing act of arrogance to say in any certain terms how the world started when all of my arguments are based on such a limited stream of information in such a constricted context.
A lot of these discussions is based on the need to know and the frustration that arises from not being able to know. An aspect of faith is to just accept that we cannot know certain things. We don't have to know everything, although it certainly doesn't hurt to try either; it can be fun. God wouldn't give us this need unless there was a reason for it and I'm sure it brings Him joy for us to even talk about such things.
It is impossible to prove that anything exists at all. It's useless to even try. Also, the Bible is collection of books that illustrate how to live a good life, it isn't meant to be a physics textbook.
I'd like to think American hackers have better things to do with their time than write viruses. After all, in a land of opportunity, why not write the next killer app instead?
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This explains a lot! I roll up burgers and frieds a lot in Katamari Damacy games. I had no idea it was going straight to my waist!!!
The modern Adobe Systems is, in some ways, more evil than the modern Microsoft. Adobe is getting worse, Microsoft is getting better. They both bludgeon other companies and absorb their tattered corpses, but frankly, I get a feeling from Adobe that the companies are damn-near suicidal when trying to get support from them.
I thought the point of this article was that OTHERS were not adopting it. We already know Microsoft has it on their site.
Let's be fair, here. I've run into this problem a lot lately too and it was annoying. But, for the most part, XBL has been stable and amazing. I'm sure they'll work it out. It's too early to spit too much hate about Microsoft and how stupid they are. The XBOX 360 is a marvel of design and XBL revolutionized on-line play. That's just plain fact, no IMHOs here.
Perhaps it is a weapons dealer giving a demonstration to a race bent on galactic dominance?
You can write your code in any style, it doesn't matter; some jerk will flame you for it because it isn't his style and he thinks he is god. It is particularly funny when that "god's" software is buggy and yours never crashes, is portable, and easy to read. Oh, they hate easy to read -- plain spoken code means that you just don't have the intelligence to write code that is hard to understand! It never occurs to them that communicating effectively is more intelligent than obsfucating to try to make yourself look smart. These people are hard to ignore, I'll admit, but we gotta do so. They're the kind of people where they're sitting behind their computer, afraid, and frustrated. They get off by hurting others smarter than them like the bullies that surely must have beat the crap out of them in grade school. And when that smarter person makes a mistake, like all people do, watch out! I had a collection of code I tried to port to the Amiga once that used all kinds of obscure features of GNU C++ that made it hard to port. Because I didn't know what one of them did and tried to work around it, you'd think I was dumber than a box of hair based on the flames I got back. I also treat warnings as errors -- OMG, how awful! It means I can't write optimized code (and of course, these warnings are the reason it didn't port!) Of course, to avoid it, I should have never tried, which is what they want because then they don't feel threatened.
The better your code is, the more angry they'll be. Have pity for them. They'd never talk that way to your face because they know they'd deserve a fist buried deep. And don't expect them to know context -- like putting simple example code on a posting to show a concept instead of being complete. Oh man, watch-out - it's self-worship time^2 when that happens!
PS: The more you do, the more you'll get this kind of flack, so you can turn it around and use it for a guage of just how hoopy a frood you are! After all, useless people who do nothing never gain the attention born from resentment!
The author says we have a right to die. Is this normal in Europe? In America, we don't have a right to die at all. We have to suffer till the very end, no matter how much we might want to die.
So... much... knowledge...
So... little... use... of the shift... key....
This hurts the legitimate requests as well, though. For example, when we'd request a new database for a project that needed to start that day, right away, we'd be stuck waiting while the administrators (and I loosely use that term since they were about as smart as a bag of rocks - and not the normal rocks, but the mentally challenged sort that think administrating a MySQL database is hard work) sat and surfed the web, listening to MP3s. Of course, my project manager, who could only aspire to the status of said mentally challenged rocks, would not change the deadline, which she made (smirking, of course) without doing analysis because the company charged too damned much and didn't want to waste the time on analysis -- they just blame the engineers for everything. Don't hurt the real engineer when trying to handle the idiots!!!
I agree; people who can't say "I don't know" are not management material. The kind of people that can't say "I don't know" are usually the programmers, in my experience, who all too often put way too much weight on what they know and not enough (or any) on whether they can work well in a community, which is far more important. There's nothing I hate more than a analytical personality putting others down for asking questions or misunderstanding something. That is the worst possible quality to have in management as well.
What...exactly...does a "death burger" taste like?
Read the /. history over the last couple of days. You'll see Cendant did the same thing yesterday as well. This isn't just MS, this is a corporate culture shift.
Good point! Competition isn't dead, it's just taken on a different, frightening form.
I'm getting bored of seeing these patent lawsuits. To think that insurance companies exist just to sell insurance against such lawsuits shows just how pathetic our patenting system is. *yawn*
What ever happened to winning by doing better than the competition, anyway? Are American corporations so pathetic that they have to stoop to this level to compete now?
Hey, you are ON to something! Let's sue the Librarians! But, if we do it, we best do it really quietly...
Whachootalkin'about... take a look at computer languages like Java! Look me in the eye and tell me geeks make things regular! :-)
A new low in using the courts to unethically hurt the competition. It makes me scared to innovate. For example, I'm writing a music description language. If someone uses it to create music that is significantly similar to a copyrighted piece of work, am I going to get sued? This abuse of the courts is killing this country.
The best, most courageous books are written for the young, general audience -- plain and understandable yet, like this book, complete. I often shake my head at some of the stuff I read from technical people. They are meeting their own needs of feeling and sounding smart at the expense of actually getting their message across. Look at the "Dummies" series -- the implication is there, that to write a book that people can read, it means that it is made for "dummies". Insulting, really, but human. It's a personality flaw that all too often gets in the way of moving the field forward. I wish all books were written like this one! We'd only gain if they were; just because the author speaks plainly and clearly doesn't mean they can't go into detail. In fact, they can go into greater detail because they can take the reader with them further into their world.
It is good to see PERL focussing on what makes it great. There is no other language, IMHO, that handles text input as well as PERL does. Adding this level of processing just makes it even more powerful.
Well, let's be fair though -- the only computer that is truly secure is unplugged, locked-up in a warehouse, and guarded by very hungry dogs. Since the bewilderingly large majority of people use Windows, it makes sense to target Windows for things like spyware, viruses, etc. If the Macintosh had more than 2% of the market, those spyware/virus makers would spend more time on the Macintosh. I'm old enough to remember the days when Macintoshes had /more/ viruses than Windows did for this reason -- Mac used to be on top.
Changing one's style of thought for those in power is an unfortunate necessity to survive in today's world. At least, appearing to change one's thought. Scary. I guess such an education is preperation for the real world.
I'm experiencing the opposite in Green Bay, WI. As a consultant, the programming opportunities are exploding. Companies are figuring out early that the time difference, culture difference, and communication difficulties are far more expensive than hiring a local competent programmer. Perhaps the .DOT bust woke a few suits up and told them they need to pay attention.
Of course, Wisconsin lags so much in this industry that you might be foretelling disaster for us...hmm.
Actually, I don't know how the universe was formed, or what the universe is, or whether there really is one at all for that matter. I'm open to the idea that the universe "program" (to really stretch the analogy) stared only 5,000 years ago. We don't know anything outside of the scope of that program and all these arguments we make is based on that limited information. Were any of us there 5,000 years ago? To get technical, we have no axioms (self-evident truths) to build upon and any proof requires them -- they are the very structure of a proof.
Genesis seems reasonable to me, for all I know, which is nothing. Why wouldn't the holy spirit manifest itself and spontaneously create man, woman, and all the beasties? Who am I to say it didn't happen that way? It is, in my opinion, an amazing act of arrogance to say in any certain terms how the world started when all of my arguments are based on such a limited stream of information in such a constricted context.
A lot of these discussions is based on the need to know and the frustration that arises from not being able to know. An aspect of faith is to just accept that we cannot know certain things. We don't have to know everything, although it certainly doesn't hurt to try either; it can be fun. God wouldn't give us this need unless there was a reason for it and I'm sure it brings Him joy for us to even talk about such things.
It is impossible to prove that anything exists at all. It's useless to even try. Also, the Bible is collection of books that illustrate how to live a good life, it isn't meant to be a physics textbook.
I'd like to think American hackers have better things to do with their time than write viruses. After all, in a land of opportunity, why not write the next killer app instead?