no single letter variables... it's a stupid practice and anyone who condones it is an asshole.
FFS, anyone who has a rule that you're not allowed to use i as a loop counter deserves to be dragged out into the street, beaten around the head with printouts of the Win95 codebase, then exiled to Redmond for the rest of their life, as they obviously aren't familiar with even the most basic of accepted practices.
I can just see you sitting there, late at night, typing
for (myLoopCounter=1; myLoopCounter<=maximumIterationsAllowedForThisLoop ; myLoopCounter++)
while the rest of us are in the pub. Ah well, your loss.
In an interview I once read with him, he gave his working method:
(1) Sit around thinking about music you want to write. (2) Repeat (1) until you have got an entire CD's worth of music in your head. (3) Go to a studio with a decent grand piano and bash it all out.
As someone who can't even program a loop in Cubase's drum editor without having the thing looping round in the background, I was pretty impressed with that.
BTW, does Windows offer a native Grid DLL? All the Java grids I try suck eggs.
Well, there's MSFlexGrid, but.... heh.... you don't want to use it:-)
Actually, it could well be an Office widget, not a Windows widget, but I'm not digging around on microsoft.com to find out. Last time I did that I came out in a rash and lay twitching in bed for two weeks.
At least it's an "upgrade"
on
Is Linux Dead?
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· Score: 1
"It's for geeks," said Faber Fedor, a New Jersey-based consultant who helps small businesses upgrade to Linux.
Interesting that an MS site is prepared to quote someone calling Linux an "upgrade".
I'm not entirely clear on how the GPL works on this "preview" version they've been tossing around but if it is being distributed pre-installed on PCs I'm pretty sure that they have to release the source.
So what? If Linux starts accepting patches from Cletus Technologies inc., that's up to him.
Oh yeah, btw...
web sight
FFS, it's site not sight. How hard can it be to spell it rite?
Your rant has struck a chord with me, and I *do* know what you're talking about. I've been programming since the late 70s, I've seen my share of change in the software world.
However, there's just one tiny point I have to call you on:
But the trap you cannot fall into is to assume you have the "right" to hord code.
Yes, you do.
I can write a program and not give it to you, in the same way that I can paint a picture, hang it in my front room, and put a cover over it when you come round. If I invented a cure for cancer, I could keep it for personal use only. I would have to be an unimaginably callous bastard, but I *do have the right to do that*.
However, it's just plain *rude* to use freely available software and not contribute back in some way (people who are thinking "oh, but I'm not a kernel hacker" - you don't have to be... what about getting on a newbie mailing list and answering questsions?)
I understand RMS' point. I really do. He feels he's done a lot for the project, and he wants recognition. Fine. Eventually, though, he's going to have to realise that the marketing department weren't listening to the techies (as usual), and the product is now out there, in use by big organisations doing big things, and they all call it "Linux".
He can throw temper tantrums on linuxworld.com all he likes, and he can refuse to speak to the infidels, and he can rant on LKML about Bitkeeper and the state of the kernel and how everything would be perfect if only everyone had listened to him, but he's not going to convince the CTO of the Bank of New York that it's *vitally important* that he refers to the software on his servers as "GNU/Linux" instead of "Linux", and he's not going to convince Ransom Love that changing his product line's name to "Caldera/GNU/Linux" is going to save him having to shut down three offices and lay off 75 people, and it's people like these two that determine, to a large extent, which direction the industry moves in.
I must say it intrigued me as well... after dealing with the lusers here all day long I'm beginning to wish my company had someone who could give my brain a bit of an overhaul.
Anyway, who cares, what we *really* want to know is whether the 2 massage therapists are massage therapists or "massage" therapists:-)
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Yeah, and Outlook isn't THAT insecure.
Heh, that's very stylish... you have to tell us how many people downloaded 180 megs' worth of /dev/zero though :-)
no single letter variables... it's a stupid practice and anyone who condones it is an asshole.
p ; myLoopCounter++)
FFS, anyone who has a rule that you're not allowed to use i as a loop counter deserves to be dragged out into the street, beaten around the head with printouts of the Win95 codebase, then exiled to Redmond for the rest of their life, as they obviously aren't familiar with even the most basic of accepted practices.
I can just see you sitting there, late at night, typing
for (myLoopCounter=1; myLoopCounter<=maximumIterationsAllowedForThisLoo
while the rest of us are in the pub. Ah well, your loss.
Yeah, but that's cause the parent poster made a typo :-)
Should be one-stop-financial, not ne-stop-financial.
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Looks like it's time to take SETI@home off the Oracle servers....
Well, it might be time for this American (subtype: US) to go "see the world." How's the market for server-side java programming where you live?
.sig kind of rules you out for the job ;-)
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Actually it's not bad, but your
In an interview I once read with him, he gave his working method:
(1) Sit around thinking about music you want to write.
(2) Repeat (1) until you have got an entire CD's worth of music in your head.
(3) Go to a studio with a decent grand piano and bash it all out.
As someone who can't even program a loop in Cubase's drum editor without having the thing looping round in the background, I was pretty impressed with that.
Well, it's all kind of academic, because that's a 15kHz tone at the end of Sgt. Pepper :-)
John Lennon wanted it there "to annoy dogs".
Well, there's MSFlexGrid, but.... heh.... you don't want to use it :-)
Actually, it could well be an Office widget, not a Windows widget, but I'm not digging around on microsoft.com to find out. Last time I did that I came out in a rash and lay twitching in bed for two weeks.
Interesting that an MS site is prepared to quote someone calling Linux an "upgrade".
*cough*
http://slashdot.org/robots.txt
Yeah, but it was just too tempting
So what? If Linux starts accepting patches from Cletus Technologies inc., that's up to him.
Oh yeah, btw...
web sight
FFS, it's site not sight. How hard can it be to spell it rite?
Oh, it's not fair, I want to be an LSD tester as well :-(
OK, hands up, who's phoned this number?
Sorry, I wasn't trying to contradict your point (in fact I thoroughly agree with your post), merely adding another bit of info :-)
All the roots except for I and K are located in the US (I is in Stockholm, K is in London).
It might be a new one on you, but M is in Tokyo. Don't know when it started up though (I thought there were only 12, but M would be the 13th).
However, there's just one tiny point I have to call you on: But the trap you cannot fall into is to assume you have the "right" to hord code.
Yes, you do.
I can write a program and not give it to you, in the same way that I can paint a picture, hang it in my front room, and put a cover over it when you come round. If I invented a cure for cancer, I could keep it for personal use only. I would have to be an unimaginably callous bastard, but I *do have the right to do that*.
However, it's just plain *rude* to use freely available software and not contribute back in some way (people who are thinking "oh, but I'm not a kernel hacker" - you don't have to be... what about getting on a newbie mailing list and answering questsions?)
I understand RMS' point. I really do. He feels he's done a lot for the project, and he wants recognition. Fine. Eventually, though, he's going to have to realise that the marketing department weren't listening to the techies (as usual), and the product is now out there, in use by big organisations doing big things, and they all call it "Linux".
He can throw temper tantrums on linuxworld.com all he likes, and he can refuse to speak to the infidels, and he can rant on LKML about Bitkeeper and the state of the kernel and how everything would be perfect if only everyone had listened to him, but he's not going to convince the CTO of the Bank of New York that it's *vitally important* that he refers to the software on his servers as "GNU/Linux" instead of "Linux", and he's not going to convince Ransom Love that changing his product line's name to "Caldera/GNU/Linux" is going to save him having to shut down three offices and lay off 75 people, and it's people like these two that determine, to a large extent, which direction the industry moves in.
caca_phony has won the Slashdot .sig award 2002 (the prize: a date with Jon Katz).
.sigs until Jan 1st 2003, when the fun begins again!
Everyone please wipe your
that there are groups who want to change the name of the movie because they feel it is a reference to 9-11
Right, that's it, I've now officially lost all hope of the human race ever pulling itself out of the toilet in which it's currently wallowing.
google
HTH, HAND.
I must say it intrigued me as well... after dealing with the lusers here all day long I'm beginning to wish my company had someone who could give my brain a bit of an overhaul.
:-)
Anyway, who cares, what we *really* want to know is whether the 2 massage therapists are massage therapists or "massage" therapists
ITYM "within minutes, everyone will want to beat you around the head with any heavy objects that may be lying around".
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I don't know of anybody that became a CTO right out of college
Sergey Brin and Larry Page? OK, they met on the PhD program, but technically they got their jobs right out of college...
http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html
Yeah, but he's seen Fight Club, and he think's he's Tyler Durden.