All submits should start with a score of 100 and should be able to slip into negative infinity.
Your coding standards should be written in such a way that they can be difficult to understand and abused for your own purposes. Always allow for exceptions to any rule, but that they have to be allowed by a select few (only yourself if possible).
You should use things like poor comments to beat people over the head to show them how much smarter you are as well as deduct points.
Don't actually give out the coding standards or code review documentation to anybody, make sure that you make a power point presentation that 'dumbs it down' for everybody, this will make them feel better about the doing the reviews but still allow you to nit pick over every little detail.
Remember to ensure that your submits come in from 90-100, so that you can beat everybody else out but still show improvement from time to time.
Finally, you should always wait until the last minute to do any code reviews and enforce standards, this way you can ensure that you really only review the people who you want to chastise with a lower chance of repercussion from others reviewing your own code.
P.S. also ensure that you promote people committing directly to trunk and causing the most amount of breakage possible, that way you can deduct points from their code review because you should have a note that for each code breakage infraction they lose points.
Coding Standards and Code Reviews. Then you'll have some more process in place that he won't care about. From previous experience they'll probably all get waived in favor of the almighty deadline anyways!
Yeah yeah... I know the horrors of maintaining somebody else's junk code... but what coder hasn't left behind them a trail of woe and destruction? Also, have you ever considered that it might be you? It sounds like more of a potential ego problem than a who is doing it write. Sure the code may suck to maintain, but if the guy is hitting deadlines and the sky isn't falling (until the maintenance crew touches it)... well who's to say who is write or wrong? Unless you get management to sign off on a specific plan, or can explain why OO is better than monolithic scripts... you're not going to have any way to show this or that.
At any rate... rewriting something that works (even poorly) is a massive undertaking... and you'll be fighting a losing battle of playing catch up. Unless you really like coding a lot, and overtime even more you should really consider if it really is worth the fight for you. I worked at a place that I convinced management to convert from procedural code to object code, and even with full backing everything went to hell over two years... and guess what the old system was still functional while the development team went of to write code for new features of the system because they wanted to solve interesting problems and not port code over that solved current problems we needed.
What you really should be focussing on is how do you put yourself into a position to write 'beautiful' code so that everybody else has to be stuck maintaining your code.
I picked up Kiki on the old VHS... I had sort of figured that Disney had decided against releasing these on DVD... about time. Now hopefully they won't require you to watch with English voices... please put in sub titles with the original voice acting!:P
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Yeah, I hope they play akira again on the Cartoon Network... anybody know when it will come out on DVD...
As for my suggestion... if you haven't seen Kiki's Delivery Service or Laputa Castle in the Sky then you really ought to. Disney bought the rights to both for sale in the US... so if you can import them from Japan you might be better off. Kiki is already for sale in the US and I think Laputa will be out next month... wee!
That means people who live in the desert and miss out on the scent of freshly cut grass can now get it in a can. Now if only they could figure out how to package Florida Sunshine...
I sat in on the announcement in the Compaq cafeteria here... it was pretty neat. Unfortunately sounds like although they may be the 'best'... they are only the 'best' at what they are designed to do. Somebody must have been taking advertising advice from Microsoft....
Did anybody stop to think that maybe this *isn't* water cooled. Reporters have been known to be wrong before. I just can't believe that with all the other 500mhz systems out there that none of them have any real problems... what exactly makes this notebook so special. And since when is water cooling smaller than a fan?
The biggest strength of the GPL is also I believe its biggest weakness. Fundamentally the GPL trusts that people will have the mind to follow it and what it entails. Somebody who opens their code to the community is trusting that people won't steal their work and take credit for it. Yet by the very nature of code and how it traverses the internet and the mentality of most people that feel anything digital is free and their's anyway there really isn't anything in place to truly protect the developer except from blatant copying and obserdly stupid people. So what is to stop a large business like Microsoft from cutting and pasting parts of programs they need or just like into their code base? I at least expect people to have morals and feel guilty about taking credit for somebody else's work but I certainly don't know of any companys that do things other than for the almighty buck.
Yes, but the CD ROM in it is probably more likely to get damaged than the HD. Plus I've destroyed several N64 games/systems just from dropping them... nothing visibly broken but it stopped working none the less...
Finally, now I have a place to forward people to who get my "AFK" message and don't know what it means... now I can just point them to the Jargon file!
Actually most of what he proposed is well defined ways of compiling code as known today. At least trees and SSA are, I'm too lazy to look up to the post to see what else he wrote about. Neither of those however are particularly magical.
Most harmful of all is the message that Microsoft's emacs have conveyed to every vi with the potential to grep in the pine industry. Through its conduct toward Netscape, Red Hat, Compaq, Slashdot, and others, Microsoft has demonstrated that it will use its prodigious market power and immense *NIXs to harm any firm that insists on pursuing initiatives that could intensify competition against one of Microsoft's gnu products. Microsoft's past success in hurting such linux and stifling innovation deters investment in technologies and less that exhibit the potential to sed Microsoft. The ultimate result is that some innovations that would truly awk consumers never occur for the sole reason that they do not perl with Microsoft's tail.
Yeah, give me a minute to back that statement up.:)
Honestly though. With something that is inherently dynamic like the internet, it is already near impossible to catalogue and make it searchable. Just to illustrate this take any given news site. Today they might have articles about Clinton, tomorrow it might be news about a big fire. Search engines can't just direct you to those sites based on queries because who knows what data they have.
Even if a search engine was able to validate the content on every site before it gave you the url it could still change by the time you actually got to see it.
So quite literaly there isn't even a clue of a way to catalogue a database generated web site. Now granted I know there are plenty of sites like Slashdot that eventually the 'content' settles down and becomes static. Still, how are you going to get some stupid program to verify and validate that for *every* dynamically generated web page. I don't think you can.
The web was created to be open and dynamic and it will stay that way. I've heard people say that maybe there should be *more* interoperability between things like search engines and spiders. This in my mind would do more damage.
Besides is it so bad that spiders don't get these pages? It probably isn't even reasonable because it would add that much more complexity to the search engine to catalogue what it finds. How do you rank content?
Okay, I found the article a little silly. At least for now this whole serial number business would be ludicrous, but it made me think. What if you only went a few steps further and included not only serial numbers and water marks from scanners, and photo copiers and the like, but could also have all these devices 'communicate' with one another between say monetary transactions. Then you could build a pretty strong case against somebody for distributing or creating pr0n sites and the like. Just what we need though, another boogeyman...
Okay, I know that this is probably a catch 22 question, but what do you want to program for? There are plenty of amazingly well written books on the subject. Personally I guess I would suggest trying to pick up a Kernigan (Programming C), Any of the O'Reilly 'Learning' books, and if you feel adventurous you might even try Knuth's Art of Computer Programming series. If you've got a clear idea of what you would like to learn though the best thing to do would be to go to the book store and just start flipping through books and see what you like.
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And this deviates from any other situation where people are involved how...
All submits should start with a score of 100 and should be able to slip into negative infinity.
Your coding standards should be written in such a way that they can be difficult to understand and abused for your own purposes. Always allow for exceptions to any rule, but that they have to be allowed by a select few (only yourself if possible).
You should use things like poor comments to beat people over the head to show them how much smarter you are as well as deduct points.
Don't actually give out the coding standards or code review documentation to anybody, make sure that you make a power point presentation that 'dumbs it down' for everybody, this will make them feel better about the doing the reviews but still allow you to nit pick over every little detail.
Remember to ensure that your submits come in from 90-100, so that you can beat everybody else out but still show improvement from time to time.
Finally, you should always wait until the last minute to do any code reviews and enforce standards, this way you can ensure that you really only review the people who you want to chastise with a lower chance of repercussion from others reviewing your own code.
P.S. also ensure that you promote people committing directly to trunk and causing the most amount of breakage possible, that way you can deduct points from their code review because you should have a note that for each code breakage infraction they lose points.
Coding Standards and Code Reviews. Then you'll have some more process in place that he won't care about. From previous experience they'll probably all get waived in favor of the almighty deadline anyways!
Yeah yeah... I know the horrors of maintaining somebody else's junk code... but what coder hasn't left behind them a trail of woe and destruction? Also, have you ever considered that it might be you? It sounds like more of a potential ego problem than a who is doing it write. Sure the code may suck to maintain, but if the guy is hitting deadlines and the sky isn't falling (until the maintenance crew touches it)... well who's to say who is write or wrong? Unless you get management to sign off on a specific plan, or can explain why OO is better than monolithic scripts... you're not going to have any way to show this or that.
At any rate... rewriting something that works (even poorly) is a massive undertaking... and you'll be fighting a losing battle of playing catch up. Unless you really like coding a lot, and overtime even more you should really consider if it really is worth the fight for you. I worked at a place that I convinced management to convert from procedural code to object code, and even with full backing everything went to hell over two years... and guess what the old system was still functional while the development team went of to write code for new features of the system because they wanted to solve interesting problems and not port code over that solved current problems we needed.
What you really should be focussing on is how do you put yourself into a position to write 'beautiful' code so that everybody else has to be stuck maintaining your code.
Honestly though, is a COD *really* going to do anything? Unless somebody comes up with the money to back it up... I can't imagine it doing any good.
They'll just keep doing as they please and leave a tangled mess in the courts.
I picked up Kiki on the old VHS... I had sort of figured that Disney had decided against releasing these on DVD... about time. Now hopefully they won't require you to watch with English voices... please put in sub titles with the original voice acting! :P
Yeah, I hope they play akira again on the Cartoon Network... anybody know when it will come out on DVD...
As for my suggestion... if you haven't seen Kiki's Delivery Service or Laputa Castle in the Sky then you really ought to. Disney bought the rights to both for sale in the US... so if you can import them from Japan you might be better off. Kiki is already for sale in the US and I think Laputa will be out next month... wee!
That means people who live in the desert and miss out on the scent of freshly cut grass can now get it in a can. Now if only they could figure out how to package Florida Sunshine...
At least Intel isn't going to screw their user base by making fake attempts to show support for other OS's like Apple.
I sat in on the announcement in the Compaq cafeteria here... it was pretty neat. Unfortunately sounds like although they may be the 'best'... they are only the 'best' at what they are designed to do. Somebody must have been taking advertising advice from Microsoft....
actually the whole mysub thing is *very* useful and you'll see it in almost any object oriented language...
such as
sub get_array_element : lvalue {
return $array[$_[0]];
} # get_array_element
&get_array_element(34) = 15;
I do this all the time in Java/C++ so this construct makes sense to me
Did anybody stop to think that maybe this *isn't* water cooled. Reporters have been known to be wrong before. I just can't believe that with all the other 500mhz systems out there that none of them have any real problems... what exactly makes this notebook so special. And since when is water cooling smaller than a fan?
Nono... you're at the wrong news site... go to News for Druggies for that sort of thing...
The biggest strength of the GPL is also I believe its biggest weakness. Fundamentally the GPL trusts that people will have the mind to follow it and what it entails. Somebody who opens their code to the community is trusting that people won't steal their work and take credit for it. Yet by the very nature of code and how it traverses the internet and the mentality of most people that feel anything digital is free and their's anyway there really isn't anything in place to truly protect the developer except from blatant copying and obserdly stupid people. So what is to stop a large business like Microsoft from cutting and pasting parts of programs they need or just like into their code base? I at least expect people to have morals and feel guilty about taking credit for somebody else's work but I certainly don't know of any companys that do things other than for the almighty buck.
come on... you'll still have all the original playstation games to play on your brand new PSX2 :)
Yes, but the CD ROM in it is probably more likely to get damaged than the HD. Plus I've destroyed several N64 games/systems just from dropping them... nothing visibly broken but it stopped working none the less...
let me guess... is it your left or right hand?
Finally, now I have a place to forward people to who get my "AFK" message and don't know what it means... now I can just point them to the Jargon file!
Yeah, but do we have to put up with *all* of them? :)
Actually most of what he proposed is well defined ways of compiling code as known today. At least trees and SSA are, I'm too lazy to look up to the post to see what else he wrote about. Neither of those however are particularly magical.
All the funny parts weren't in the trailer though... this movie was just too funny and it totally makes fun of itself.
At least it wasn't as hyped up as TPM, there is something to be enjoyed here!
Here is mine! :)
Most harmful of all is the message that Microsoft's emacs have conveyed to every vi with the potential to grep in the pine industry. Through its conduct toward Netscape, Red Hat, Compaq, Slashdot, and others, Microsoft has demonstrated that it will use its prodigious market power and immense *NIXs to harm any firm that insists on pursuing initiatives that could intensify competition against one of Microsoft's gnu products. Microsoft's past success in hurting such linux and stifling innovation deters investment in technologies and less that exhibit the potential to sed Microsoft. The ultimate result is that some innovations that would truly awk consumers never occur for the sole reason that they do not perl with Microsoft's tail.
Yeah, give me a minute to back that statement up. :)
Honestly though. With something that is inherently dynamic like the internet, it is already near impossible to catalogue and make it searchable. Just to illustrate this take any given news site. Today they might have articles about Clinton, tomorrow it might be news about a big fire. Search engines can't just direct you to those sites based on queries because who knows what data they have.
Even if a search engine was able to validate the content on every site before it gave you the url it could still change by the time you actually got to see it.
So quite literaly there isn't even a clue of a way to catalogue a database generated web site. Now granted I know there are plenty of sites like Slashdot that eventually the 'content' settles down and becomes static. Still, how are you going to get some stupid program to verify and validate that for *every* dynamically generated web page. I don't think you can.
The web was created to be open and dynamic and it will stay that way. I've heard people say that maybe there should be *more* interoperability between things like search engines and spiders. This in my mind would do more damage.
Besides is it so bad that spiders don't get these pages? It probably isn't even reasonable because it would add that much more complexity to the search engine to catalogue what it finds. How do you rank content?
Anyway... just my 2 cents or so...
Okay, I found the article a little silly. At least for now this whole serial number business would be ludicrous, but it made me think.
What if you only went a few steps further and included not only serial numbers and water marks from scanners, and photo copiers and the like, but could also have all these devices 'communicate' with one another between say monetary transactions.
Then you could build a pretty strong case against somebody for distributing or creating pr0n sites and the like.
Just what we need though, another boogeyman...
Okay, I know that this is probably a catch 22 question, but what do you want to program for?
There are plenty of amazingly well written books on the subject.
Personally I guess I would suggest trying to pick up a Kernigan (Programming C), Any of the O'Reilly 'Learning' books, and if you feel adventurous you might even try Knuth's Art of Computer Programming series.
If you've got a clear idea of what you would like to learn though the best thing to do would be to go to the book store and just start flipping through books and see what you like.
Good luck!
You say it as if you didn't do this already.