Was a student when they were just gaining a foothold. I remember one grizzly bastard prof talking about how this PC + the just released Lotus 123 was going to put the IS group in its place. At the time, IS departments ruled the roost, and anyone that wanted a customized view of their own data either waited an eternity for them to do a 5 minute RPG job, or had to have cum running out of their nose to get it when they needed it.
The PC changed all of that - suddenly IS lost its gatekeeper status on the data; and other than a few viruses and break-ins; we've seldom looked back.
Alas, now the cloud (new mainframe) will give the IS (now IT) group back its previous status. To paraphrase Henry Spencer: Those that don't remember the past will reinvent it, badly.
But the inference you are making is not well supported. Google's response to getting hacked was to institute a ban on MS machines. Apparently, Google lacks the resources to manage MS machines properly, which isn't exactly surprising.
Dust off the Senate.gov and others, and you may find the same root cause. Not unsolvable; just the solutions are unworkable. Ditch them and demand something better. Its not like there is a shortage of choice.
Adobe's holes are far beyond an easy fix. Funny how they have become the new Windows. It is, of course, because so many people use it, not because it is a pile of crap.
English, for one. It is a very lively and expressive language. Terminology and shorthand serve to facilitate rapid communication within a given field. Renaming banal concepts to aggrandize them does not. It does pad the resume very nicely though.
Clever indeed, using a strategy that 5 year olds get scolded for. Are the people of Alaska - who this government is directly accountable to - so beaten and downtrodden to permit this kind of bullying by the people that work for them?
What is the GoA afraid of? Is Palin possibly done something more embarrassing in email than she does in front of TV cameras? Makes my head spin...
I never thought of Alaskans as meek or timid, but learn something new every day.
I was watching a documentary - made in the 1960s - where people travelling in spaceships not only routinely conversed with computers, but also had a device which would instantly recognize alien languages and translate back and forth.
The main dude in the doc was quite the swordsman; even did it with a green chick.
Anyways, this technology has been available for decades. You have too keep up, or be drowned in a Hype-R-Wave.
The grown-ups? You must be new here. The summary is:
- Everything apple announced is shite that everybody else had already. - Apple stuff really stinks, and costs too much. - Only stupid people fall for Apple's 'it just works' nonsense. - Computers aren't supposed to work - thats why we have windows and linux.
I vaguely remember a study, from the pre Glasnost era, claiming USSR citizens had a better knowledge of current world affairs than American citizens. Can't find any reference to it, but I doubt I dreamed it up.
It may be easier to pick the oats out of what is known to be shit than what is thought to be apple pie.
Makefiles specify dependencies and recipes quite tidily. A simple implementation of make is provided in the "AWK book" as an example program- http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/
Vendor supported software distribution channels have an enormous potential; an obvious statement given the run-away success of iTunes App Store and the others.
The AppStore(tm) conveys a respectability and quality to the developers the makes the customer confident that they aren't buying some sort of malware/crapware/etc.. . The generally low-cost and quick access encourages trying out software.
From the developers standpoint, it has the benefits of the Co-Op or similar collectives [ ok -30%, but it is not like you custom make them ]. You get placement, some indemnity, trust of your customer base, and some lovely velvet handcuffs matched to your gilded cage.
The real question is whether the various Outlets end up being like the music/film/book distributors, or like a Fair Trade Coffee Shop. I know which one has painted itself the latter.
Your problem with this nonsense is the difficulty in calculating dates? I don't think the Mayans used a Roman or Gregorian calendar, at least not before the catlicks exterminated them.
why stop passing it there. I mean, if I take enough hits on the bong, I'll run it through reagan, carter, nixon, lbj, jfk, ike, washington.
As much as I'd like to say 'wow, that Clinton guy was really powerful'; no. 8 years in power is well beyond the passing the buck nonsense.
I do sympathise - after decades of astronomical deficit growth, that short island of fiscal responsibility under Clinton must really grate on some. How high was Rayguns stack of dollar bills before GWB? And After?
Without PHDs, where would all the wonderful advancements like computers with emotions come from? Non-PHDs, or advanced degrees, are limited to working on 'behind the trend' technologies; like making sure nuclear reactors actually work, and that your car doesn't misinterpret a left turn signal as a reason to slam on the brakes and deploy the airbags.
Beyond emotional computers, we have recently seen a raft of high level capabilities attributed to computers that haven't the slightest clue about what they are doing. To paraphrase Parnas, did anyone ask Big Blue if it enjoyed the game?
Like Karaoke, PHDs help by corralling the clueless. Once isolated they avoid harming actual advancement in the industry.
I found it very difficult, as a permanent team member, to not throw my whole shoulder at whatever we were doing. I resented the people that got in the way of our success; I wanted to do nothing more than make the best fucking in the world.
When I watched the 2000-2001 tech meltdown, and saw lots of colleagues who were equally passionate and dedicated ejected like horses in a still sea, I got pretty jaded about it all. These people were wildly committed to their teams and projects, and the company they worked for (at the time three letters starts with S) had zero reciprocal commitment. The horses were drowning at sea; and the survivors were ordering $300 bottles of port at pointless team dinners.
The best lesson from that company was that reciprocal commitment is fair game - I have something a company wants, and they have something I want ($$$). The relationship ends there; they get what they pay for.
No lessor quality - often in fact better, because repeat business is sweet - but complete emotional detachment. That is the way it should be; its not a marriage, it is a hook-up. If businesses moved back to giving a rats ass about the people that make them a success; well that would be different. Try and find two.
|Sony is giving you a free service that you didn't pay anything for.
If it were free, why did Sony have credit card #s? Excuse my ignorance, I've never used their fine identity theft tool, but I don't consider iTunes or AppStore as being 'free' just because there is some free shit you can get there. Same with my smack dealer - she gives me the odd free hit, but I seem to give her a lot of money.
Just to be pedantic, if they charged you for a free service, would it still be ok?
My SO had a credit card compromised at a local grocery store. Afterwards, the many auto-billing services started popping up the "your credit card info needs updating". Bless her, she paid careful attention to the first few, but after that, it moved to autopilot. That is the real danger of the leak; the CC companies can figure it out pretty quick, but desensitizing people is a whole new problem.
To get the desired effect, you don't actually have to steal any data, you just have to make people think you did.
I used to deplore meetings; listening to some preening jackass and thinking about how far we were getting behind by this. It isn't just the time sitting in the room, but depending on how bad it was, focus could be lost for the rest of the day.
Then I became freelance. Meetings took on a whole new significance. These jackasses paying my rate because I'm good at a few things; but rather than have me do those things, I'm sitting in a meeting, bored, but well paid.
Look at your contractors in the next meeting; if they aren't in the scapegoat chair, they are the only happy ones in the room.
70% - out of every X lines of code, 70% of them are actually executed in test. For example, code might contain something like: if (month == 12 && day == 25) {
printf("Joyous Season of Light\n"); } However, without cheating, this holiday greeting would be untested on most testing days.
CCN - a way of expressing the logical complexity of program code to flag potential trouble spots. Google Cyclomatic Complexity
pre-sprint grooming - google agile development.
[imho] Coverage is a good thing, although 70 seems pretty lowball.
CCN is well dressed snake oil; however it has a more interesting side effect - low CC# programs are often easier to read.
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Was a student when they were just gaining a foothold. I remember one grizzly bastard prof talking about how this PC + the just released Lotus 123 was going to put the IS group in its place.
At the time, IS departments ruled the roost, and anyone that wanted a customized view of their own data either waited an eternity for them to do a 5 minute RPG job, or had to have cum running out of their nose to get it when they needed it.
The PC changed all of that - suddenly IS lost its gatekeeper status on the data; and other than a few viruses and break-ins; we've seldom looked back.
Alas, now the cloud (new mainframe) will give the IS (now IT) group back its previous status. To paraphrase Henry Spencer:
Those that don't remember the past will reinvent it, badly.
But the inference you are making is not well supported. Google's response to getting hacked was to institute a ban on MS machines. Apparently, Google lacks the resources to manage MS machines properly, which isn't exactly surprising.
Dust off the Senate.gov and others, and you may find the same root cause. Not unsolvable; just the solutions are unworkable. Ditch them and demand something better. Its not like there is a shortage of choice.
Adobe's holes are far beyond an easy fix. Funny how they have become the new Windows. It is, of course, because so many people use it, not because it is a pile of crap.
let him have that. If the driver fud is ever shown for what it is, the windows guys will be out on ledges.
English, for one. It is a very lively and expressive language. Terminology and shorthand serve to facilitate rapid communication within a given field. Renaming banal concepts to aggrandize them does not. It does pad the resume very nicely though.
Apparently it is the magic key to unlock a treasure trove of asinine catch phrases.
Clever indeed, using a strategy that 5 year olds get scolded for. Are the people of Alaska - who this government is directly accountable to - so beaten and downtrodden to permit this kind of bullying by the people that work for them?
What is the GoA afraid of? Is Palin possibly done something more embarrassing in email than she does in front of TV cameras? Makes my head spin...
I never thought of Alaskans as meek or timid, but learn something new every day.
I was watching a documentary - made in the 1960s - where people travelling in spaceships not only routinely conversed with computers, but also had a device which would instantly recognize alien languages and translate back and forth.
The main dude in the doc was quite the swordsman; even did it with a green chick.
Anyways, this technology has been available for decades. You have too keep up, or be drowned in a Hype-R-Wave.
The grown-ups? You must be new here.
The summary is:
- Everything apple announced is shite that everybody else had already.
- Apple stuff really stinks, and costs too much.
- Only stupid people fall for Apple's 'it just works' nonsense.
- Computers aren't supposed to work - thats why we have windows and linux.
I vaguely remember a study, from the pre Glasnost era, claiming USSR citizens had a better knowledge of current world affairs than American citizens. Can't find any reference to it, but I doubt I dreamed it up.
It may be easier to pick the oats out of what is known to be shit than what is thought to be apple pie.
Good luck on your crusade.
Light a fire for a man, he has warmth for a day; light a man on fire and he is warm for the rest of his life.
Makefiles specify dependencies and recipes quite tidily. A simple implementation of make is provided in the "AWK book" as an example program- http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/
The deeper meaning is that the FSMs meaty balls must also be as round and consistent as these electrons. It is a fulfillment of the recipe.
Every try to pass someone without wheels?
Vendor supported software distribution channels have an enormous potential; an obvious statement given the run-away success of iTunes App Store and the others.
The AppStore(tm) conveys a respectability and quality to the developers the makes the customer confident that they aren't buying some sort of malware/crapware/etc.. . The generally low-cost and quick access encourages trying out software.
From the developers standpoint, it has the benefits of the Co-Op or similar collectives [ ok -30%, but it is not like you custom make them ]. You get placement, some indemnity, trust of your customer base, and some lovely velvet handcuffs matched to your gilded cage.
The real question is whether the various Outlets end up being like the music/film/book distributors, or like a Fair Trade Coffee Shop. I know which one has painted itself the latter.
Your problem with this nonsense is the difficulty in calculating dates? I don't think the Mayans used a Roman or Gregorian calendar, at least not before the catlicks exterminated them.
yeah, when we are done, they can have at it.
why stop passing it there. I mean, if I take enough hits on the bong, I'll run it through reagan, carter, nixon, lbj, jfk, ike, washington.
As much as I'd like to say 'wow, that Clinton guy was really powerful'; no. 8 years in power is well beyond the passing the buck nonsense.
I do sympathise - after decades of astronomical deficit growth, that short island of fiscal responsibility under Clinton must really grate on some. How high was Rayguns stack of dollar bills before GWB? And After?
Without PHDs, where would all the wonderful advancements like computers with emotions come from? Non-PHDs, or advanced degrees, are limited to working on 'behind the trend' technologies; like making sure nuclear reactors actually work, and that your car doesn't misinterpret a left turn signal as a reason to slam on the brakes and deploy the airbags.
Beyond emotional computers, we have recently seen a raft of high level capabilities attributed to computers that haven't the slightest clue about what they are doing. To paraphrase Parnas, did anyone ask Big Blue if it enjoyed the game?
Like Karaoke, PHDs help by corralling the clueless. Once isolated they avoid harming actual advancement in the industry.
At least according to this.
I found it very difficult, as a permanent team member, to not throw my whole shoulder at whatever we were doing. I resented the people that got in the way of our success; I wanted to do nothing more than make the best fucking in the world.
When I watched the 2000-2001 tech meltdown, and saw lots of colleagues who were equally passionate and dedicated ejected like horses in a still sea, I got pretty jaded about it all. These people were wildly committed to their teams and projects, and the company they worked for (at the time three letters starts with S) had zero reciprocal commitment. The horses were drowning at sea; and the survivors were ordering $300 bottles of port at pointless team dinners.
The best lesson from that company was that reciprocal commitment is fair game - I have something a company wants, and they have something I want ($$$). The relationship ends there; they get what they pay for.
No lessor quality - often in fact better, because repeat business is sweet - but complete emotional detachment. That is the way it should be; its not a marriage, it is a hook-up. If businesses moved back to giving a rats ass about the people that make them a success; well that would be different. Try and find two.
|Sony is giving you a free service that you didn't pay anything for.
If it were free, why did Sony have credit card #s? Excuse my ignorance, I've never used their fine identity theft tool, but I don't consider iTunes or AppStore as being 'free' just because there is some free shit you can get there. Same with my smack dealer - she gives me the odd free hit, but I seem to give her a lot of money.
Just to be pedantic, if they charged you for a free service, would it still be ok?
My SO had a credit card compromised at a local grocery store. Afterwards, the many auto-billing services started popping up the "your credit card info needs updating". Bless her, she paid careful attention to the first few, but after that, it moved to autopilot. That is the real danger of the leak; the CC companies can figure it out pretty quick, but desensitizing people is a whole new problem.
To get the desired effect, you don't actually have to steal any data, you just have to make people think you did.
1. They helped them kick the habit.
2. They introduced them to other game devices.
3. They taught them the dangers of undeserved trust.
These are pretty big lessons.
I used to deplore meetings; listening to some preening jackass and thinking about how far we were getting behind by this. It isn't just the time sitting in the room, but depending on how bad it was, focus could be lost for the rest of the day.
Then I became freelance. Meetings took on a whole new significance. These jackasses paying my rate because I'm good at a few things; but rather than have me do those things, I'm sitting in a meeting, bored, but well paid.
Look at your contractors in the next meeting; if they aren't in the scapegoat chair, they are the only happy ones in the room.
70% - out of every X lines of code, 70% of them are actually executed in test. For example, code might contain something like:
if (month == 12 && day == 25) {
printf("Joyous Season of Light\n");
}
However, without cheating, this holiday greeting would be untested on most testing days.
CCN - a way of expressing the logical complexity of program code to flag potential trouble spots. Google Cyclomatic Complexity
pre-sprint grooming - google agile development.
[imho]
Coverage is a good thing, although 70 seems pretty lowball.
CCN is well dressed snake oil; however it has a more interesting side effect - low CC# programs are often easier to read.
Agile is unpretentious snake oil.