The market is simply crying out for fresh new corn row straightening and board stretching products... here is $20 Million... pay it back when you can!
Unfortnatly we cannot assist you in your other venture. We are already aligned with one of your competitors. Apparently there is more than one way to skin a cat!
Well my understanding is this... (IANA number junkie)..
An IPO provides an oppurtunity for a company to make serious money real fast, which is great, except the second the bad news rolls in (a drop in profits for example) its sell sell sell!
The stock price drops, more people sell, so it drops some more etc etc.
Pretty soon you are cleaning out your desk and switching off the lights. The winners are those that played the stock correctly and managed to make a profit, the losers are those interested in tech and have to wave goodbye to yet another potential competitor to a certain software monopolist.
Take your 108.7% increase, give the staff a nice bonus, and keep on developing.
Why is it that every tech firm thinks that making a profit means sell up as fast as possible? Why put yourselves in the hand of people that have no idea about your technology, company culture or internal standards and just expect you to keep turning profits at all costs?
Keep the money, keep your company and keep inovating.
I dont agree. All C# does is take the widely understood OOP concept named the observer pattern and formalize it in language syntax (Delegates).
I personally feel that simple syntax is something that makes Java great. Keep the syntax simple and recommend good OOP to do things like event listening.
Ive always considered the Exception/RuntimeException/Error thing to be a little poor in the design.
I dont really see the need for two different unchecked throwables, and certainly not because of loose contracts like "you shouldnt try to catch errors but if you like you can try to catch RuntimeException". I'll catch whatever I like thank you very much.
I also dont like C#'s ham-fisted approch of having no checked exceptions at all.
Personally I would have gone with Throwable as an abstract base class with CheckedException and UncheckedException as two subclasses, buts thats me.
As the next generation of search technologies hit the market it is very possible that google will find itself playing catch up (particually when the share holders are calling the shots).
I am not religious about my search technologies. I do primarily use google but this isnt because I have loyalty to google, it is because google seem to provide the most relevant responses to my queries at present.
I would have nothing against a Microsoft search tech if it was unbias and relevant but I have a sneaking suspicion that we would begin to see that priority in search results would be given to information that was supported directly by microsoft.
They will clearly use any headway in search technology to put their products above everyone elses.
Personally, I would tend to lean towards search engines that are backed by companies that dont have their fingers in as many pies as microsoft. Will the general internet populas agree?
Of course it takes 'significantly less time'. This goes without saying, but 2 weeks is a little too significant for my taste. Syntax sure, but there is alot more to learn than that.
There are various tools and libraries, design patterns that are particulally applicable to language and many more things.
Personally I have little faith in the value of a degree. Ive worked with some total morons, with no clue what-so-ever who have had good degrees from good universities. Great, they can jump through hoops and write bullshit papers but when it comes to writing enterprise software on-budget and on-time they might as well go picking fruit.
Only 2 days ago I got an email from a guy who went to uni when I left for work. The email asked me how he would go about setting up an FTP server. He has done 4 years at uni (networking no less) and ive been a software engineer for 4 years. So how come I know and he doesnt...
Ive heard this point being made before. It only works if you quote "proficient". Someone with only 2 weeks in any language will be on the "Just about hacked it together" side of the fence regardless of education.
Given 2 weeks intensive study, I might be able to communicate on a basic level in spanish/french/esperanto etc, but I wont be having any deep conversations.
IMHO, people underestimate the time it takes to become productive in a language. This seems to be particually so with Java, sure the syntax is simple, but how well will you know the API after 2 weeks. Ive met programmers (with uni education, which incidently, I lack) that have been working with Java for 2 years and still try and code their own XML parsers or crypto implementations. Sure, you have to have 'book smarts' to do either... you have to have experience to know you dont have to.
"How hard would it be to build your own RFID detector? If it is too hard for Joe and Jane Average, how much might one cost at Target/Walgreens/geektoys.com... or even Walmart?"
Ahhh... but how do you detect the RFID tag thats in the RFID tag detector?;o)
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This is exactly what we are looking for.
The market is simply crying out for fresh new corn row straightening and board stretching products... here is $20 Million... pay it back when you can!
Unfortnatly we cannot assist you in your other venture. We are already aligned with one of your competitors. Apparently there is more than one way to skin a cat!
Well my understanding is this... (IANA number junkie)..
An IPO provides an oppurtunity for a company to make serious money real fast, which is great, except the second the bad news rolls in (a drop in profits for example) its sell sell sell!
The stock price drops, more people sell, so it drops some more etc etc.
Pretty soon you are cleaning out your desk and switching off the lights. The winners are those that played the stock correctly and managed to make a profit, the losers are those interested in tech and have to wave goodbye to yet another potential competitor to a certain software monopolist.
So basically, its a greed thing...
Take your 108.7% increase, give the staff a nice bonus, and keep on developing.
Why is it that every tech firm thinks that making a profit means sell up as fast as possible? Why put yourselves in the hand of people that have no idea about your technology, company culture or internal standards and just expect you to keep turning profits at all costs?
Keep the money, keep your company and keep inovating.
Theories can be wrong, as they are generally unproven
So, does this mean that open source software should be released under 'the general public theory'?
I cannee change the laws of physics cap'n....
Well done for having the gaul to go through with this and just remember...
Its not the size of your out of court settlement, its what you do with it that counts.
I wont be using any of these features (with the possible exception of foreach).
Enums type behaviour is possible with public static final attributes.
Metadata is exactly what the XDoclet project was designed to accomplish.
Generics are not the way to ensure typesafety of a collection, encapsulation is.
I dont agree. All C# does is take the widely understood OOP concept named the observer pattern and formalize it in language syntax (Delegates).
I personally feel that simple syntax is something that makes Java great. Keep the syntax simple and recommend good OOP to do things like event listening.
Ive always considered the Exception/RuntimeException/Error thing to be a little poor in the design.
I dont really see the need for two different unchecked throwables, and certainly not because of loose contracts like "you shouldnt try to catch errors but if you like you can try to catch RuntimeException". I'll catch whatever I like thank you very much.
I also dont like C#'s ham-fisted approch of having no checked exceptions at all.
Personally I would have gone with Throwable as an abstract base class with CheckedException and UncheckedException as two subclasses, buts thats me.
Thats 200'000 of the pink ones guys.
We will accept 150'000 and 4 stations.
As the next generation of search technologies hit the market it is very possible that google will find itself playing catch up (particually when the share holders are calling the shots).
I am not religious about my search technologies. I do primarily use google but this isnt because I have loyalty to google, it is because google seem to provide the most relevant responses to my queries at present.
I would have nothing against a Microsoft search tech if it was unbias and relevant but I have a sneaking suspicion that we would begin to see that priority in search results would be given to information that was supported directly by microsoft.
They will clearly use any headway in search technology to put their products above everyone elses.
Personally, I would tend to lean towards search engines that are backed by companies that dont have their fingers in as many pies as microsoft. Will the general internet populas agree?
I dont think the GUI toolkits are the issue here...
IDEA from the folks at intellij just about blows all other java IDEs out of the water IMHO, and its Swing.
It does suffer from the occasional slow down (during garbage collection) but so does eclipse.
Whats more, the look and feel is miles ahead of eclipse. It is commercial, but its worth every penny if you spend long enough infront of it.
Actually, I would imagine SCO would love Linux to reach the mass-market... just as long as they got to set the price tag and receive the cash!
Yeah... i heard it really put them on the map..
Along with Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook.
"daer potentioal csutomer,
eye am written dis leter form on behalve of teh assoseeashone of pore speling consoletants.
we wood liek two ofer yuo a profeshonal stduy fo teh intrawebs.
I thnik owl reputashone preseeds us.
yors seenserly..."
Actually its more like a cruel joke to play on horny people...
;o)
Website: "Please enter the following numbers"
Horny person: "....6.....9.....2...."
It might actually re-enforce the myth
They should make this process mandatory for lawyers...
We would finally be able to keep track of their shit!
apparently they switched from SCO UNIX to Linux in August 2002...
Remember, SCO cant see the distinction!
Of course it takes 'significantly less time'. This goes without saying, but 2 weeks is a little too significant for my taste. Syntax sure, but there is alot more to learn than that.
There are various tools and libraries, design patterns that are particulally applicable to language and many more things.
Personally I have little faith in the value of a degree. Ive worked with some total morons, with no clue what-so-ever who have had good degrees from good universities. Great, they can jump through hoops and write bullshit papers but when it comes to writing enterprise software on-budget and on-time they might as well go picking fruit.
Only 2 days ago I got an email from a guy who went to uni when I left for work. The email asked me how he would go about setting up an FTP server. He has done 4 years at uni (networking no less) and ive been a software engineer for 4 years. So how come I know and he doesnt...
Answer: Experience > Degree
But thats just my opinion.
and be proficient in probably a week or two
Ive heard this point being made before. It only works if you quote "proficient". Someone with only 2 weeks in any language will be on the "Just about hacked it together" side of the fence regardless of education.
Given 2 weeks intensive study, I might be able to communicate on a basic level in spanish/french/esperanto etc, but I wont be having any deep conversations.
IMHO, people underestimate the time it takes to become productive in a language. This seems to be particually so with Java, sure the syntax is simple, but how well will you know the API after 2 weeks. Ive met programmers (with uni education, which incidently, I lack) that have been working with Java for 2 years and still try and code their own XML parsers or crypto implementations. Sure, you have to have 'book smarts' to do either... you have to have experience to know you dont have to.
"How hard would it be to build your own RFID detector? If it is too hard for Joe and Jane Average, how much might one cost at Target/Walgreens/geektoys.com ... or even Walmart?"
;o)
Ahhh... but how do you detect the RFID tag thats in the RFID tag detector?
I probably would have gone with...
"Dear Mr Langer,
Go fuck yourself."
Straight and to the point.
Perhaps the stories are true...
The moon is made of cheese!
Mice came back super intelligent...
...Mouse overlords...
Soon we'll know if mice can be trained to sort tiny screws...
Ok... lets move on!