Thats how its been done for half a century, it is a safe assumption
Why do I never get spam??
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I have only received a dozen or so spam messages in my entire life. I started using email about a decade ago, and use it regularly. I never used a spamfilter. Recently my email provider installed one, and a legitimate newsletter I signed up for now arrives marked as possible spam. It is somewhat comical, but hardly poetry.
Should I start filling out my email address on random pornography sites too? Should I start blogging and usenet spamming using my real, unchanged email addresses too? And then when I do start getting spam, should I start sending angry replies with geeky threats, confirming to the spammer that my email address is actively used? Or even follow a link in the spam, for example the 'if you dont want to receive bla bla click here' link to let the spammer know my email is active, and what country my IP address is from?
What i wrong with me??? Why do spammers shun me? Everybody I know complains of spam! Why do they treat me like an outcast?:(
$40,000/yr is what senior programmers make at our company, and I don't live/work in a 3rd world country. Wages for IT jobs in the US are unrealistically high.
I think this outsourcing thing will continue until average IT wages in the US have dropped to a more reasonable level, and those in India rise somewhat.
It might be true he could become an expert in two weeks, I dont know the original poster, he might have an extraordinary talent for it, it's just a sign of a lack of social skills to express it that way in a job interview.
I know it took me about a year to become as good as some of the veterans at coding for large business machines at the company where I work, and I was proficient in a wide variety of different programming languages before I applied there.
Businesses don't want rounding errors. Over the course of billions of transactions a year, rounding errors can really add up. Floating point is of no use whatsoever to them.
Arbitrary precision datatypes are pretty much a requirement. Not 'up to 18 decimal digits', but 'exactly 12 digits and 2 decimals'...
I spend much of my time at work programming in RPG and OCL. That beats all of you guys, I don't even need to read your posts. Which I won't do, as I'm sure it will all be "I have to test computer games for a living, feel my pain" or "I am forced at gunpoint to work on porting Halflife 2 to linux, don't you all feel sorry for me"
I have no doubt this remark was sarcastic on McNealy's part, but suppose IBM takes it seriously? If IBM wants Java open-sourced badly enough, would they consider making DB2 open-source as a sort of trade? (...)
You can't be serious, the value of DB2 probably far exceeds the value of the entire company Sun. Not to mention the fact that the database software is a major reason for buying IBM hardware and services in the first place. Think Dell selling cheapo wintel Xeon servers with free bonus Open DB2. What company would give away an asset worth billions and billions of dollars to their competitors?
Neither can you take the suggestion to open source Java seriously, for the same reasons.
What are these problems you feel C has? It's small, simple, fast, elegant, ubiquitous. I would use it for anything that java or a scripting language aren't fast enough for.
C++ is the opposite. It is slow, no faster than java for most things. It is also ludicrously complex, takes ages to compile, makes it very easy to introduce obscure and almost undiscoverable bugs, and very hard to write portable code. I can't really see why you would still want to use it.
We want $10,000,000 in unmarked $100 bills by noon sunday, or you will never see it again.
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We have there wonderful IBM RAD tools, but their hideous complexity causes 9 out of 10 programmers to stick with the command line. I would kill for a tool like JBuilder or Delphi on the iSeries!
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I don't smoke.
There is more to the software business than just the x86 desktop PC.
The amount of money invested in things like networking, databases, custom cobol/rpg/etc apps on minis and mainframes dwarfs the investments in windows software. Not so long ago, the software branch of IBM was the biggest in the world (bigger than oracle or microsoft). I don't know if this is still the case but it would surprise me if this had changed dramatically.
Profit margins on windows software tend to be small because the prices are relatively low.
Saying "Windows is the platform most software development efforts target" is as meaningless for determining the potential success of a product as saying "Most people in the world are children"
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Windows is the platform most software development efforts target.
In units shipped maybe, but not in turnover, nor in profit.
In Suse 8.x the default appears to be Reiserfs, forcing you to make at least half a dozen mouseclicks extra during installation if you want a different root filesystem...
IBM's 'phone home' system is actually pretty cool. More often than not, if there is a problem with the hardware, the first time you notice is when you get a phonecall from an IBM technician, telling you your machine called them to report a failure with this and that component, and what time it will suit you for them to come and replace the component.
Gathering all the additional information doesn't seem that useful for this system, as IBM will have all this info in their database, all they need is the serial number.
It is a good idea, as it protects the artists rights (not every idiot can rip it), but without the disadvantages that other crippled CD's have (can't play them at work) as it will still work in a PC's CD-ROM drive.
I guess it was predictable that this attempt to make copy protection less restrictive for the buyer would misunderstood as a personal attack by the Mac^H^H^Hslashdot crowd...
If you're applying for your first full time job, at age 25 you are well 'past it', and will have a hard time getting anything interesting.
By the time you get your PhD, you will generally be late twenties, early thirties, and (in the eyes of many mangers) fit only for a career in science, not the real world...
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Thats how its been done for half a century, it is a safe assumption
I have only received a dozen or so spam messages in my entire life. I started using email about a decade ago, and use it regularly. I never used a spamfilter. Recently my email provider installed one, and a legitimate newsletter I signed up for now arrives marked as possible spam. It is somewhat comical, but hardly poetry.
:(
Should I start filling out my email address on random pornography sites too? Should I start blogging and usenet spamming using my real, unchanged email addresses too? And then when I do start getting spam, should I start sending angry replies with geeky threats, confirming to the spammer that my email address is actively used? Or even follow a link in the spam, for example the 'if you dont want to receive bla bla click here' link to let the spammer know my email is active, and what country my IP address is from?
What i wrong with me??? Why do spammers shun me? Everybody I know complains of spam! Why do they treat me like an outcast?
The entire password needs to be hashed before it can be compared with the stored hash, so that wouldnt work
$40,000/yr is what senior programmers make at our company, and I don't live/work in a 3rd world country. Wages for IT jobs in the US are unrealistically high.
I think this outsourcing thing will continue until average IT wages in the US have dropped to a more reasonable level, and those in India rise somewhat.
1.) Collect underpants
2.) ???
3.) Profit!
It might be true he could become an expert in two weeks, I dont know the original poster, he might have an extraordinary talent for it, it's just a sign of a lack of social skills to express it that way in a job interview.
I know it took me about a year to become as good as some of the veterans at coding for large business machines at the company where I work, and I was proficient in a wide variety of different programming languages before I applied there.
Businesses don't want rounding errors. Over the course of billions of transactions a year, rounding errors can really add up. Floating point is of no use whatsoever to them.
Arbitrary precision datatypes are pretty much a requirement. Not 'up to 18 decimal digits', but 'exactly 12 digits and 2 decimals'...
Did you really tell that job interviewer that you needed two weeks and a good book to develop the skills he got in perhaps a decade or two?
Sun is a hardware company. Solaris by itself isn't profitable, and without the hardware it wouldn't exist.
Do you think the zSeries mainframes are primitive?
I spend much of my time at work programming in RPG and OCL. That beats all of you guys, I don't even need to read your posts. Which I won't do, as I'm sure it will all be "I have to test computer games for a living, feel my pain" or "I am forced at gunpoint to work on porting Halflife 2 to linux, don't you all feel sorry for me"
Pussies!
See the jargon lexicon under 'code grinder'
I have no doubt this remark was sarcastic on McNealy's part, but suppose IBM takes it seriously? If IBM wants Java open-sourced badly enough, would they consider making DB2 open-source as a sort of trade? (...)
You can't be serious, the value of DB2 probably far exceeds the value of the entire company Sun. Not to mention the fact that the database software is a major reason for buying IBM hardware and services in the first place. Think Dell selling cheapo wintel Xeon servers with free bonus Open DB2. What company would give away an asset worth billions and billions of dollars to their competitors?
Neither can you take the suggestion to open source Java seriously, for the same reasons.
What are these problems you feel C has? It's small, simple, fast, elegant, ubiquitous. I would use it for anything that java or a scripting language aren't fast enough for.
C++ is the opposite. It is slow, no faster than java for most things. It is also ludicrously complex, takes ages to compile, makes it very easy to introduce obscure and almost undiscoverable bugs, and very hard to write portable code. I can't really see why you would still want to use it.
That is mostly solid CO2 (dry ice), not much water ice. Yes it is colder there.
Sun were to offer to help IBM open up AIX?
They can't do that, SCO might sue!
We want $10,000,000 in unmarked $100 bills by noon sunday, or you will never see it again.
We have there wonderful IBM RAD tools, but their hideous complexity causes 9 out of 10 programmers to stick with the command line. I would kill for a tool like JBuilder or Delphi on the iSeries!
I don't smoke.
There is more to the software business than just the x86 desktop PC.
The amount of money invested in things like networking, databases, custom cobol/rpg/etc apps on minis and mainframes dwarfs the investments in windows software. Not so long ago, the software branch of IBM was the biggest in the world (bigger than oracle or microsoft). I don't know if this is still the case but it would surprise me if this had changed dramatically.
Profit margins on windows software tend to be small because the prices are relatively low.
Saying "Windows is the platform most software development efforts target" is as meaningless for determining the potential success of a product as saying "Most people in the world are children"
Windows is the platform most software development efforts target.
In units shipped maybe, but not in turnover, nor in profit.
Lanky spod! :)
I want my hacker logo to be short, skinny, socially awkward and dressed in jeans and greasy t-shirt
In Suse 8.x the default appears to be Reiserfs, forcing you to make at least half a dozen mouseclicks extra during installation if you want a different root filesystem...
IBM's 'phone home' system is actually pretty cool. More often than not, if there is a problem with the hardware, the first time you notice is when you get a phonecall from an IBM technician, telling you your machine called them to report a failure with this and that component, and what time it will suit you for them to come and replace the component.
Gathering all the additional information doesn't seem that useful for this system, as IBM will have all this info in their database, all they need is the serial number.
It is a good idea, as it protects the artists rights (not every idiot can rip it), but without the disadvantages that other crippled CD's have (can't play them at work) as it will still work in a PC's CD-ROM drive.
I guess it was predictable that this attempt to make copy protection less restrictive for the buyer would misunderstood as a personal attack by the Mac^H^H^Hslashdot crowd...
If you're applying for your first full time job, at age 25 you are well 'past it', and will have a hard time getting anything interesting.
By the time you get your PhD, you will generally be late twenties, early thirties, and (in the eyes of many mangers) fit only for a career in science, not the real world...