Of course this starts to bring up the classic question
"When is a group allowed to do something, when a member of the same group is NOT allowed to do the same thing? Answer this question, and you'll know what form of Government you want."
I'll second what you say - only I've always used a different set of terms (taken from the old Guilds)
1)The Apprentice - These folks are either inexperienced, OR one of your "clueless wannabes" - some of these folks CAN move on to the later stages
2)The Journeyman - These are your "steady Eddie" programmers, and actually get most of the job done. Your team NEEDS to have these in the majority. Some of your journeymen will be better than others. The BEST will just be just getting seasoned for the NEXT level
3)The Master - These are the guys who have the vision, and can do everything needed. They usually do the really critical stuff, but end up a bunch of design, and telling the folks below them what NEEDS to be done. On most small to mid sized projects, you'll have at MOST one (really small projects might be headed by a journeyman, with a Master he can ask questions to)
On LARGE projects you might have more than one master - One will be in charge, and one might be acting as a "super coder" - in fact, some Master coders don't LIKE to oversee a project, and specialize in the "super coder" role, sometimes in one small sub specialty - I know some guys who just do UI, and some who JUST wrtie code to talk to TWAIN devices. You don't bring the TWAIN guy on unless you need to talk to a TWAIN device, but if you do....
The more I think about it, the more programming is like the old time guild structure that the Cathedral builders had. The problem is, the guilds had horrible problems with project failures until people started writing things down, and stopped hiding things - we then ended up with mechanical engineering and architects. This is the way I think the programming MUST go in the near future, but that's just my opinion
Disclaimer first - John happens to be one of my best friends, and I used to work for him
There IS a second way to get some experience. When I broke into programming full time, it was during the slump of 1992 - before that, I did it as part of another job, and no one wanted to count it.
What did I do? I formed my own company (I Incorped), went out, and started bidding jobs. Fixed price! The easiest way to lose your shirt. I got a job that I figured at around 300 hours. Took more like 1500! Yeah, I ended up earning less per hour than a burger flipper.
Thing is, when I was done, I had a paid project that I designed and built that I could show folks (didn't hurt that it was shrinkwrap, and I could bring in the box).
I got a "regular" job, and shut down my company. A year or so later, I brought in John as a consultant, a few years later I was working for HIM
1 Broiler Chicken, cut into parts (or even a package of say, 1.5 lbs of chicken brest)
2-3 Medium mushrooms, chopped fine 1-2 carrots, peeled, chopped fine 1 Medium Onion, chopped fine 1 12 oz can chicken broth 2 - 2.5 cups rice Water
In a 4 qt or so pot (say one about 16" around), brown the chicken in oil/butter
Remove chicken from pot, fry the onions till translucent, and then add the mushrooms and carrots - fry for a minute or so, put in the rice, and add a combination of the chicken broth and water so that you used exactly 2x the amount of rice you added. Put the chicke back in the pot on top of the rice. Raise to a boil, and reduce to a simmer. Cover the pot, cook 20 minutes, turning over the chicken 1/2 way through
Be careful near the end, if you boil off all the water, you'll burn the rice. It doesn't matter if it only takes, say 17 minutes, or as long as 25
Salt and Pepper to taste, you my want to garnish with parsley. Serves 3-4 folks. You probably want to serve it with a nice salad to get something green in your system
That would be called "Timing" of the screws. In a lot of old finely made mechanical items (watches, guns) the screws ARE timed - the slots ALL line up exactly the same way. it was a craftsmanship thing
That said, with todays CNC milling machines that have what is called "Rigid tapping", or if the threads are "thread milled", it happens all the time, the tap goes in the same way each time, so if the screws are all made the same, all the screw heads come out the same. Looks strange, but it does happen
The world is limited. How come you folks think it's resources are practically unlimited and only limited by one's wits and productivity?
Ah, the old "It's a fixed size pie" argument. The same one Malthus used, and the typical socialist one. It doesn't take into account productivity gains.
One of the interesting factoids of the Colonial era is that the Spanish believed in the "Fixed Pie" argument, where the English believed in the "Increasing Wealth" argument (aka, a rising tide floats all boats). This lead the Spanish to go and grab as much gold as possible, exploit the locals, and massive inflation in Spain. In the meantime, the English expolited the resources and labor to create the Industrial Revolution, and improve everyones quality of life. It has been proven over and over again that the pie can grow and shrink. The WWF doesn't seem to understand that, and neither do you
Sigh, Didn't Malthus say this, oh, a century or so ago, and we're long past his date.
There were also predictions that London would be burried 2 feet deep in horse dropping by the 1930s, becuse they would not be able to get rid of them. Of course, those evil scientists invented the car, which ended that problem
IBM Made their original keyboards - At one point, IBM decided to spin off their Printers and keyboards to a seperate company - they called it Lexmark
A few years later, and Lexmark sold off their keyboard division - That is PCKeyboards.com
Long before they had a net site, I found them (I called Lexmark looking for a keyboard - and Lexmark pointed me there) , and was given the story on the phone - BTW they used to run a special on their keyboards with the IBM logo, as IBM wasn't buying that model any more
Yes, you feel disapointed, but my point is, you did it. It's common. The big problem is that these days, most folks seem to think that meat grows in little plastic trays
There is a possible solution to spam - it would take time, but...
We change the RFPs for email transport (yes, I know they are among the oldest out there), so that they require some sort of crypto key before a message gets forwarded/delivered. If the key does not match the domain, it's not accepted
Details would still have to be worked out, but I think the answer is going to be to get rid of mail transport as we know it
an other alike question could be: would you eat meat of you had to kill and butcher the cow yourself..
Sure - I guess you didn't grow up on a farm, or know someone who did. I didn't grow up on a farm, but I sure helped Cousins who did. You appreciate what is behind that piece of steak when you knew the steer
The other folks who do this are hunters - when you eat that meat, you know exactly where it came from, and you usually butchered it yourself.
900hp out of 2.0l has been done. You just get a REAL short time between overhauls. 900 isn't even pushing it that hard - As someone else said, look at the Mid 80's F1 cars (Before rule changes) - they were in the 1300hp range. It all depends on how fast you want to use up engines. If all you want is a couple of hours out of the engine before you throw it away, there are all SORTS of tricks
Slashdot Mirror
I have one, I should have batteries put in, and USE it.
I got it as a Jr High grad present, of so many years ago. A few years later I actually worked for Bulovia for the summer
mistresses? Who needs em - I have everthing I want with my wife (a HAPPY married man)
Me too - I just looked at the price for my 1st edition Chainmail and First edition Monster Manual! OH BOY - two #5s
I actually met my wife playing D&D (NOT AD&D)
Of course this starts to bring up the classic question
"When is a group allowed to do something, when a member of the same group is NOT allowed to do the same thing? Answer this question, and you'll know what form of Government you want."
You sir, understand, and have been there!
I'll second what you say - only I've always used a different set of terms (taken from the old Guilds)
1)The Apprentice - These folks are either inexperienced, OR one of your "clueless wannabes" - some of these folks CAN move on to the later stages
2)The Journeyman - These are your "steady Eddie" programmers, and actually get most of the job done. Your team NEEDS to have these in the majority. Some of your journeymen will be better than others. The BEST will just be just getting seasoned for the NEXT level
3)The Master - These are the guys who have the vision, and can do everything needed. They usually do the really critical stuff, but end up a bunch of design, and telling the folks below them what NEEDS to be done. On most small to mid sized projects, you'll have at MOST one (really small projects might be headed by a journeyman, with a Master he can ask questions to)
On LARGE projects you might have more than one master - One will be in charge, and one might be acting as a "super coder" - in fact, some Master coders don't LIKE to oversee a project, and specialize in the "super coder" role, sometimes in one small sub specialty - I know some guys who just do UI, and some who JUST wrtie code to talk to TWAIN devices. You don't bring the TWAIN guy on unless you need to talk to a TWAIN device, but if you do....
The more I think about it, the more programming is like the old time guild structure that the Cathedral builders had. The problem is, the guilds had horrible problems with project failures until people started writing things down, and stopped hiding things - we then ended up with mechanical engineering and architects. This is the way I think the programming MUST go in the near future, but that's just my opinion
Punchcards are nothing more than line replaceable PROM!
Believe it or not, I bought 2 cases of punchcards last year - makes great geeky notepaper and bookmarks
Disclaimer first - John happens to be one of my best friends, and I used to work for him
There IS a second way to get some experience. When I broke into programming full time, it was during the slump of 1992 - before that, I did it as part of another job, and no one wanted to count it.
What did I do? I formed my own company (I Incorped), went out, and started bidding jobs. Fixed price! The easiest way to lose your shirt. I got a job that I figured at around 300 hours. Took more like 1500! Yeah, I ended up earning less per hour than a burger flipper.
Thing is, when I was done, I had a paid project that I designed and built that I could show folks (didn't hurt that it was shrinkwrap, and I could bring in the box).
I got a "regular" job, and shut down my company. A year or so later, I brought in John as a consultant, a few years later I was working for HIM
You just have to make your OWN breaks
I think you just hit the nail on the head!
.NET development stuff (and the CLR) work well. Heck, developing you own web services for you're own use works well
The
Hailstorm?
Yeah, right
Sounds like you have an old version - they are up to 4.5. I never have these problems, and open stuff from shares ALL the time
I've been a registered user of TextPad32 since version 2.x
It's the FIRST program I install on a new box!
WELL worth the $27 US
1 Broiler Chicken, cut into parts (or even a package of say, 1.5 lbs of chicken brest)
2-3 Medium mushrooms, chopped fine
1-2 carrots, peeled, chopped fine
1 Medium Onion, chopped fine
1 12 oz can chicken broth
2 - 2.5 cups rice
Water
In a 4 qt or so pot (say one about 16" around), brown the chicken in oil/butter
Remove chicken from pot, fry the onions till translucent, and then add the mushrooms and carrots - fry for a minute or so, put in the rice, and add a combination of the chicken broth and water so that you used exactly 2x the amount of rice you added. Put the chicke back in the pot on top of the rice. Raise to a boil, and reduce to a simmer. Cover the pot, cook 20 minutes, turning over the chicken 1/2 way through
Be careful near the end, if you boil off all the water, you'll burn the rice. It doesn't matter if it only takes, say 17 minutes, or as long as 25
Salt and Pepper to taste, you my want to garnish with parsley. Serves 3-4 folks. You probably want to serve it with a nice salad to get something green in your system
BAD BOY
Newbie :-)
I remember not being able to send email to my wife.
BTW "The Kid" happened to be the son of one of the main security geeks at the NSA
That would be called "Timing" of the screws. In a lot of old finely made mechanical items (watches, guns) the screws ARE timed - the slots ALL line up exactly the same way. it was a craftsmanship thing
That said, with todays CNC milling machines that have what is called "Rigid tapping", or if the threads are "thread milled", it happens all the time, the tap goes in the same way each time, so if the screws are all made the same, all the screw heads come out the same. Looks strange, but it does happen
Wrong, it's not fixed - read Adam Smith
This was said in the 70s too
Ah, the old "It's a fixed size pie" argument. The same one Malthus used, and the typical socialist one. It doesn't take into account productivity gains.
One of the interesting factoids of the Colonial era is that the Spanish believed in the "Fixed Pie" argument, where the English believed in the "Increasing Wealth" argument (aka, a rising tide floats all boats). This lead the Spanish to go and grab as much gold as possible, exploit the locals, and massive inflation in Spain. In the meantime, the English expolited the resources and labor to create the Industrial Revolution, and improve everyones quality of life. It has been proven over and over again that the pie can grow and shrink. The WWF doesn't seem to understand that, and neither do you
Ah,
So, you have discovered part of the bias in teaching, huh?
Very good, you have learned the real world lessons, not the lessons of the "world the way it should be"
Sigh,
Didn't Malthus say this, oh, a century or so ago, and we're long past his date.
There were also predictions that London would be burried 2 feet deep in horse dropping by the 1930s, becuse they would not be able to get rid of them. Of course, those evil scientists invented the car, which ended that problem
Yes, Lexmark
Time for a bit of history for you
IBM Made their original keyboards - At one point, IBM decided to spin off their Printers and keyboards to a seperate company - they called it Lexmark
A few years later, and Lexmark sold off their keyboard division - That is PCKeyboards.com
Long before they had a net site, I found them (I called Lexmark looking for a keyboard - and Lexmark pointed me there) , and was given the story on the phone - BTW they used to run a special on their keyboards with the IBM logo, as IBM wasn't buying that model any more
And you can BUY the original PC keyboard to this day - NEW - I put one on every system I own
www.pckeyboard.com
They are the old IBM keyboard division!
Look for the 104 key, buckling spring keyboard - they call it the "Customizer"
If you want a keyboard that can be customized for Linux, look at their 104 key model
Standard disclaimer - no relation to them except a happy customer
Yes, you feel disapointed, but my point is, you did it. It's common. The big problem is that these days, most folks seem to think that meat grows in little plastic trays
There is a possible solution to spam - it would take time, but...
We change the RFPs for email transport (yes, I know they are among the oldest out there), so that they require some sort of crypto key before a message gets forwarded/delivered. If the key does not match the domain, it's not accepted
Details would still have to be worked out, but I think the answer is going to be to get rid of mail transport as we know it
More like a /. reader likes Ted, and thinks Ted is right
:)
Sure - I guess you didn't grow up on a farm, or know someone who did. I didn't grow up on a farm, but I sure helped Cousins who did. You appreciate what is behind that piece of steak when you knew the steer
The other folks who do this are hunters - when you eat that meat, you know exactly where it came from, and you usually butchered it yourself.
You learn not to waste meat900hp out of 2.0l has been done. You just get a REAL short time between overhauls. 900 isn't even pushing it that hard - As someone else said, look at the Mid 80's F1 cars (Before rule changes) - they were in the 1300hp range. It all depends on how fast you want to use up engines. If all you want is a couple of hours out of the engine before you throw it away, there are all SORTS of tricks