Honestly, if their agreement made it so they would host projects for Apache as well, I'd totally jump onboard. I mean after all, sourceforge hosts projects for Windows and IIS. Why does Microsoft segregate? If they are talking about embracing open source, they can't sit here picking and choosing. They need to embrace or STFU already. You can't be kinda pregnant.
Well according to many specialists on bipolarity including the author of 'Touched By Fire' who has specialized in the disorder, mania does in fact raise your IQ score. Mainly because you test better. As one doctor explained it to me, bipolarity isn't so much an emotional disorder as it is a disorder of energy levels and how they affect our emotional states.
Regardless of your professional opinion, professionals in the area of bipolarity disagree with you. So I suggest as a professional doing some reading in this area before shooting your mouth off. Honestly I don't know many professionals who would tell someone who bears their soul that they are 'full of shit' so I have to also question your claim of professionalism as well.
Here's one reason why... I was Bipolar II which meant I was mostly manic. As a result I was easily angered, very enthusiastic, easily empassioned and highly creative. My brain went a MILLION miles per hour in that state and I had brilliance that I couldn't contain at times. I already have an IQ of 160 and during that state it was up 5-10 additional points (when I could stay focused).
Tack onto that the boundless energy the condition gave me and the fact that I never slept in that state and you have exactly what you described. I felt untouchable and alive like no one could imagine. So why did I go on meds? Well, that's the trick. How do you get bipolars or other people who have a self destructive disorder that makes them feel superior or more intelligent go on a med that dumbs them down or slows them down?
I hit that point where I realized my condition was isolating me and shutting me off from everyone else around me. When I examined my life, I realized I had no one to blame but myself; I burnt people out like matches but couldn't see that I was the one common factor in all the damaged relationships. More exactly, my condition.
I eventually got better and now write my own documentation, get along with others, don't have mood swings at work, etc etc. It took me years and lots of hard work and effort to get over old emotional habits... the meds don't do it alone.
But I guess what I am trying to say is that sometimes brilliance comes with madness. Sometimes it's just madness, sometimes it's both. Getting them to help themselves though can be almost impossible though.
Suffice to say, the DHS is rather self-sustaining. If it isn't keeping liquids off aircraft or your electronics in the baggage handlers' pockets, its harassing and keeping us American citizens in fear.
Fear them? Why? Because they stand at every gateway in their suits shouting 'YOUR PAPERS!!' with a nazi accent before frisking you and sending you away to some internment camp in a foreign nation where they cant be prosecuted for waterboarding you?
Yes and Mac and Linux and Windows all have exactly the same functionality too. But they don't. Hence why Linux makes better server, Mac makes better multimedia computers and Windows makes better zombies for botnets.
I have a Nokia and an iPod touch and the touch is far more intuitive and easier to use. I have a mans hands not girly fingers and so touching those tiny little keys is hard. The touch screen intuitively knows which key I meant to press based upon 'center mass'. So for people who have normal fingers and not childlike hands, the touch interface is far easier to type with and is far more intuitive of a device.
Indeed but that happens regardless and that WILL happen regardless. This is inevitable. And aside from that, there is the appeals court, the fact that the burden of proof of obscenity is on the court (which is a tough one) and ths will help to start to establish rules for what can and cannot be considered as libelous from anonymous users.
If you get up on stage and start hawking your product and people start shouting 'you're a shithead' or 'I did your wife', these are far different than a man getting up on stage alongside that gentleman and saying 'I used to work for this man and he is a liar and his product does not work. Furthermore he went to jail for embezzlement.' Now THAT is libelous (if it wasn't true or was exaggerated) for you directly affected his business and made several people who told several other people think him a fraud and a crook.
Judges can be crooked, as all people can but they have the ability to tell the difference between libel and opinion.
Lets face it... corporations ARE going to hammer this until they get their way. At least a court is coming up with some sort of fair way to arbitrate and say 'let the courts decide what is libelous before handing over identities'. That seems more than fair and it gives the anonymous user the opportunity to seek counsel should they feel the need.
It's a libelous world but at least the courts are trying to err on the side of caution.
Yes but all of those are far slower. The online forum is an insta-response, doesn't use a support incident and should always be your FIRST check if you do not have a book on the subject readily available to you on the subject matter (as alot of people don't).
However, if people have access to Safari online, the O'Reilly online book service, your point is far more valid as they have a subscription to an entire library of resources. Still, reading through a book may take a couple hours to try and find the paragraph you are looking for when a forum post can take 15 minutes.
Unemployed beggars can't be choosers. Besides, you would know if you had more than one job that at every job there is an 'ass' as you like to say and no job is perfect. If you are looking for the perfect job where everyone showers you with praise and lays rose petals at your feet, you are going to be unemployed for far longer than this recession.
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So only narcissists post questions in online forums? Only narcissists have friends or contacts? Only narcissists publish articles? Thats an intriguing definition of a narcissist.
Most IT professionals will at some time or another HAVE to do something they are unfamiliar with and have posted in a forum online a question on how to integrate or use a library or so on. This has nothing to do with being a narcissist. It has to do with searching for information. People who don't do this scare me as they think they can do everything themselves without asking for help. A person who knows their limits and knows how to ask for help is someone I want to hire plus I want to see their communication style.
Not having a trail signifies that you do not communicate, feel that you are a one man show or are inexperienced. All are red flags for hiring.
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Alot of time when going through resumes, if we try to Google the person, do a usenet lookup or other such things and can't find them anywhere, to us (when evaluating resumes), it means you are lying on your resume or have very little work experience. Mainly because people in IT use the internet day in and day out to communicate, ask the community how to do something and so on.
If you aren't communicating, it doesn't tell me that you just aren't communicating, it tells me you have little experience. And in a sense, because you aren't using this resource for what it is for, it is somewhat true. Start posting questions in forums, and creating an online identity. Some online identity is better than NONE.
Then sadly, you understand little about benchmarks. I could benchmark Microsoft Office against a Hello World app written in Perl too. Does it mean anything? It means the same as the benchmarks you pointed to. Because too much is going on in the backend to know what precisely you are benchmarking. This is WHY benchmarks are done wtih things like the fibonacci sequence... duh.
Seriously, you'll learn this when you get out of high school.
That benchmark is useless. You are comparing an apple to an orange. We were talking about RUBY not RUBY+RAILS vs PHP+CakePHP(bloat). And CakePHP is known to be one of the slowest frameworks for PHP. A real benchmark would at least compare the same code (Yes, like a Fibonnacci) to test how the LANGUAGE and not the FRAMEWORK benchmarks.
Come back when you understand how benchmarks work Nuby.
Hardly. Government IT agencies don't even recommend IE anymore. The financial institution I work for (which hasn't gone out of business) has installed Firefox on all the machines because there have been so many alerts from security agencies saying not to use IE that they decided they needed all their users to have an alternative.
And since I listed two DIFFERENT operating systems, which one am I supposed to be a fanboy of? Hmmm? You seem a little confused as to the definition of fanboy junior. Why don't you finish third grade before you start throwing around terms you don't understand.
Well unlike them, anyone who looks at the script, understands code and databases can easily figure it out. As it happens, they'd be screwed even if I DID document it because nobody understand how to modify or change anything. It's a kludge.
Your situation sounds a bit more like lack of overall documentation if it happened with 2 sys admins. Besides, losing all of your sys admins is far more significant than not knowing precisely how one or two scripts work. Your comparison is an extreme. Any company would be screwed in that situation... except maybe IBM. They have sys admins to spare and a systematic approach.
Why would anyone connect to a database from a javascript where everyone can view your connection and play with it at will just by building a custom script? Database calls should be controlled through a backend... especially when delivering via the web.
Even binary desktop apps connect to the server that gets that data and generally don't do DIRECT database calls. Client side database calls are just a bad idea no matter what language you use and what platform you are developing for.
He's not saying don't document. He's saying don't document PROCEDURE. For instance, I document all my code so it can be displayed in a Javadocs like display. I write documentation of how to use the code and tutorials, etc.
But there are a few scripts that only get used every once in a blue moon that were created as a hack but that are incredibly necessary. These scripts require a specific procedure be followed to execute them properly. I DON'T document these. Why? Because I don't they can do alot of damage if used by people who don't understand the system WELL. And while I CAN document procedure, it is impossible to document the troubleshooting should something go wrong.
There are certain tools I don't document because they shouldn't be used by others because if they don't understand what they are doing, I can't document the troubleshooting to dig them out of the mess they created.
I often find myself without an internet connection and will just pull up Eclipse on my laptop and work on my checked out copy of the codeline. I don't need the connection except to check code back in and versioning control systems )if setup and used properly) already allow for collaboration (to an extent). So why should I require a connection to code? I want to work on code whenever I want regardless of whether I can find a wifi hotspot or not.
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Honestly, if their agreement made it so they would host projects for Apache as well, I'd totally jump onboard. I mean after all, sourceforge hosts projects for Windows and IIS. Why does Microsoft segregate? If they are talking about embracing open source, they can't sit here picking and choosing. They need to embrace or STFU already. You can't be kinda pregnant.
Yep... there are still boxes of pamphlets in their basement waiting to be handed out and stuck on windshields. GO CHRISTIANS!
Well according to many specialists on bipolarity including the author of 'Touched By Fire' who has specialized in the disorder, mania does in fact raise your IQ score. Mainly because you test better. As one doctor explained it to me, bipolarity isn't so much an emotional disorder as it is a disorder of energy levels and how they affect our emotional states.
Regardless of your professional opinion, professionals in the area of bipolarity disagree with you. So I suggest as a professional doing some reading in this area before shooting your mouth off. Honestly I don't know many professionals who would tell someone who bears their soul that they are 'full of shit' so I have to also question your claim of professionalism as well.
Here's one reason why... I was Bipolar II which meant I was mostly manic. As a result I was easily angered, very enthusiastic, easily empassioned and highly creative. My brain went a MILLION miles per hour in that state and I had brilliance that I couldn't contain at times. I already have an IQ of 160 and during that state it was up 5-10 additional points (when I could stay focused).
Tack onto that the boundless energy the condition gave me and the fact that I never slept in that state and you have exactly what you described. I felt untouchable and alive like no one could imagine. So why did I go on meds? Well, that's the trick. How do you get bipolars or other people who have a self destructive disorder that makes them feel superior or more intelligent go on a med that dumbs them down or slows them down?
I hit that point where I realized my condition was isolating me and shutting me off from everyone else around me. When I examined my life, I realized I had no one to blame but myself; I burnt people out like matches but couldn't see that I was the one common factor in all the damaged relationships. More exactly, my condition.
I eventually got better and now write my own documentation, get along with others, don't have mood swings at work, etc etc. It took me years and lots of hard work and effort to get over old emotional habits... the meds don't do it alone.
But I guess what I am trying to say is that sometimes brilliance comes with madness. Sometimes it's just madness, sometimes it's both. Getting them to help themselves though can be almost impossible though.
Fear them? Why? Because they stand at every gateway in their suits shouting 'YOUR PAPERS!!' with a nazi accent before frisking you and sending you away to some internment camp in a foreign nation where they cant be prosecuted for waterboarding you?
Whats to fear?
Yes and Mac and Linux and Windows all have exactly the same functionality too. But they don't. Hence why Linux makes better server, Mac makes better multimedia computers and Windows makes better zombies for botnets.
Well she-males like yourself are only 0.01% of the populace.
Surely, you just THINK you have mans hands. or rather... you just THINK you have mans hands, Shirley.
I have a Nokia and an iPod touch and the touch is far more intuitive and easier to use. I have a mans hands not girly fingers and so touching those tiny little keys is hard. The touch screen intuitively knows which key I meant to press based upon 'center mass'. So for people who have normal fingers and not childlike hands, the touch interface is far easier to type with and is far more intuitive of a device.
Like I said... you understand very little about benchmarks. Probably even less about development.
Indeed but that happens regardless and that WILL happen regardless. This is inevitable. And aside from that, there is the appeals court, the fact that the burden of proof of obscenity is on the court (which is a tough one) and ths will help to start to establish rules for what can and cannot be considered as libelous from anonymous users.
If you get up on stage and start hawking your product and people start shouting 'you're a shithead' or 'I did your wife', these are far different than a man getting up on stage alongside that gentleman and saying 'I used to work for this man and he is a liar and his product does not work. Furthermore he went to jail for embezzlement.' Now THAT is libelous (if it wasn't true or was exaggerated) for you directly affected his business and made several people who told several other people think him a fraud and a crook.
Judges can be crooked, as all people can but they have the ability to tell the difference between libel and opinion.
Lets face it... corporations ARE going to hammer this until they get their way. At least a court is coming up with some sort of fair way to arbitrate and say 'let the courts decide what is libelous before handing over identities'. That seems more than fair and it gives the anonymous user the opportunity to seek counsel should they feel the need.
It's a libelous world but at least the courts are trying to err on the side of caution.
Yes but all of those are far slower. The online forum is an insta-response, doesn't use a support incident and should always be your FIRST check if you do not have a book on the subject readily available to you on the subject matter (as alot of people don't).
However, if people have access to Safari online, the O'Reilly online book service, your point is far more valid as they have a subscription to an entire library of resources. Still, reading through a book may take a couple hours to try and find the paragraph you are looking for when a forum post can take 15 minutes.
Unemployed beggars can't be choosers. Besides, you would know if you had more than one job that at every job there is an 'ass' as you like to say and no job is perfect. If you are looking for the perfect job where everyone showers you with praise and lays rose petals at your feet, you are going to be unemployed for far longer than this recession.
So only narcissists post questions in online forums? Only narcissists have friends or contacts? Only narcissists publish articles? Thats an intriguing definition of a narcissist.
Most IT professionals will at some time or another HAVE to do something they are unfamiliar with and have posted in a forum online a question on how to integrate or use a library or so on. This has nothing to do with being a narcissist. It has to do with searching for information. People who don't do this scare me as they think they can do everything themselves without asking for help. A person who knows their limits and knows how to ask for help is someone I want to hire plus I want to see their communication style.
Not having a trail signifies that you do not communicate, feel that you are a one man show or are inexperienced. All are red flags for hiring.
Alot of time when going through resumes, if we try to Google the person, do a usenet lookup or other such things and can't find them anywhere, to us (when evaluating resumes), it means you are lying on your resume or have very little work experience. Mainly because people in IT use the internet day in and day out to communicate, ask the community how to do something and so on.
If you aren't communicating, it doesn't tell me that you just aren't communicating, it tells me you have little experience. And in a sense, because you aren't using this resource for what it is for, it is somewhat true. Start posting questions in forums, and creating an online identity. Some online identity is better than NONE.
Then sadly, you understand little about benchmarks. I could benchmark Microsoft Office against a Hello World app written in Perl too. Does it mean anything? It means the same as the benchmarks you pointed to. Because too much is going on in the backend to know what precisely you are benchmarking. This is WHY benchmarks are done wtih things like the fibonacci sequence... duh.
Seriously, you'll learn this when you get out of high school.
That benchmark is useless. You are comparing an apple to an orange. We were talking about RUBY not RUBY+RAILS vs PHP+CakePHP(bloat). And CakePHP is known to be one of the slowest frameworks for PHP. A real benchmark would at least compare the same code (Yes, like a Fibonnacci) to test how the LANGUAGE and not the FRAMEWORK benchmarks.
Come back when you understand how benchmarks work Nuby.
Hardly. Government IT agencies don't even recommend IE anymore. The financial institution I work for (which hasn't gone out of business) has installed Firefox on all the machines because there have been so many alerts from security agencies saying not to use IE that they decided they needed all their users to have an alternative.
And since I listed two DIFFERENT operating systems, which one am I supposed to be a fanboy of? Hmmm? You seem a little confused as to the definition of fanboy junior. Why don't you finish third grade before you start throwing around terms you don't understand.
The crook was hoping for an iPhone.
Well unlike them, anyone who looks at the script, understands code and databases can easily figure it out. As it happens, they'd be screwed even if I DID document it because nobody understand how to modify or change anything. It's a kludge.
Your situation sounds a bit more like lack of overall documentation if it happened with 2 sys admins. Besides, losing all of your sys admins is far more significant than not knowing precisely how one or two scripts work. Your comparison is an extreme. Any company would be screwed in that situation... except maybe IBM. They have sys admins to spare and a systematic approach.
Why would anyone connect to a database from a javascript where everyone can view your connection and play with it at will just by building a custom script? Database calls should be controlled through a backend... especially when delivering via the web.
Even binary desktop apps connect to the server that gets that data and generally don't do DIRECT database calls. Client side database calls are just a bad idea no matter what language you use and what platform you are developing for.
He's not saying don't document. He's saying don't document PROCEDURE. For instance, I document all my code so it can be displayed in a Javadocs like display. I write documentation of how to use the code and tutorials, etc.
But there are a few scripts that only get used every once in a blue moon that were created as a hack but that are incredibly necessary. These scripts require a specific procedure be followed to execute them properly. I DON'T document these. Why? Because I don't they can do alot of damage if used by people who don't understand the system WELL. And while I CAN document procedure, it is impossible to document the troubleshooting should something go wrong.
There are certain tools I don't document because they shouldn't be used by others because if they don't understand what they are doing, I can't document the troubleshooting to dig them out of the mess they created.
I often find myself without an internet connection and will just pull up Eclipse on my laptop and work on my checked out copy of the codeline. I don't need the connection except to check code back in and versioning control systems )if setup and used properly) already allow for collaboration (to an extent). So why should I require a connection to code? I want to work on code whenever I want regardless of whether I can find a wifi hotspot or not.