You cannot, reasonably, do everything in your power to piss off the very people that are giving you support(specifcally, money in this case) and make them like it!! Remember that Theo was thrown out of the NetBSD project for being an asshole!?!? This is just par for the course.
When I was your age the technology was nonexistant but gripe was exactly the same as it always has been. My "privacy concerns"=="concerns about getting caught fucking up". You'll get over it.
Microsoft, which told Motz on Thursday that shipping Java with Windows was not a simple matter and could harm large corporate users of Windows.......
How's that? A complete lie as far as I can tell.
In the US most financial institutions will charge a bank to bank transfer fee of , usually, $20 . This is actually a selling point of paypal.com in the US. You can link 2 seperate bank accounts to your paypal account and then transfer money between the two for free.
Not so much a selling point for me anymore. I closed my paypal account earlier this morning.
From the post it sounds like teh only week you met the miletsones for was week 1. Is that true? If so, I woudln't pay you either seeing as you seemed to have f-ed up the other *month* of the contract so far.
Any good programmer knows the answer to this!! Give them smaller more manageable tasks. Check them more often. Even if that smaller task is,"go code these methods to do these couple of things. These are the paremeters that you will be given and this is what the callnig code expects back." When done, give a slightly bigger task. At each point professionally critique style and efficiency. C'mon!! This is an easy question!! The poster must be a real isolationist loner jerk. Get some interpersonal skillz!!
-Orwell never literally meant '1984'. Indeed, he meant to speak of contemporary times (1948 to him) and as a slight jest transposed the 4 and 8.
Now, the main point is that pervasive technology in 1984 is very much the tools of the oppression and are peripheral to the true causes of an oppressive society. In the book it is clear that it is not technology that is the cause of oppression but rather human nature which must be actively subverted to achieve a more equitable society. Of course, if you are
1.) an MIT writer,
2.) some/. loser or
3.) have never read the book
than this article makes sense. Truly , this article is an embarassment and I doubt the author has read more than the Cliff's Notes version or possibly saw the movie.
Written like a true poseur!! Tell me, kid, do you know how to write software? Listen , I am a professional person and I expec to be paid for my work. How often do you see other professions give there services away for free? Do you ever expect a free magazine or newspaper? Of course not. Now go away, you're late for school.
Hey, try Dynabase!! It is really good and stuff and the company(www.ebt.com) that makes it is really cool to work for. UNTIL THEY LAID ME OFF AND WENT OUT OF BUSINESS!! Seriously, I used to write the code that does this kind of thing and it isn't too hard. Just , like anything else, don't expect it to be done overnight or something.
I can now truly tell that most everyone here is about 15 years old and has almost zero knowledge of computer programming. Being able to work through code in your head or with only a pencil and a sheet of paper is *crucial*. Suppose, for example, you are working on a major piece of software with millions of linesof code that takes an hour to compile. You sure a heck are *not* giong to write some code, compile, test it, change the code, compile, ad nauseum. You would end upgetting fired for being so damn slow. In some shops the practice of "desk checking" code before writing it is still practiced!! This question merely shows an extreme lack of technical maturity on the part of the question asker and the majority of people replying. What a shame.......
Here are some other things RMS doesn't like. All the truth!! He was afraid of water for a long time and would stink up MITs AI lab. He eventually allowed this phobia to decrease to the point where he would take sponge baths in the office men's room. Disgusted by this bad smelling anti-social whack job his colleagues would capiltilize on another object of RMSs hatred, spider plants. To keep this weirdo away from them they would hang spider plants in their office and that would ward him off like garlic would word off a vampire.
what/. has against military service? In many countries the average/. reader's military service is *mandatory*. Also, as a US citizen myself,I volunteered and served in the U.S. Navy and cannot complain one bit about the experience. Was it harder than sitting on my ass playing Mortal Kombat(which was new at the time >:)? Yes it was. Did it help me pay for college and make me a better person? You bet your ass it did. Maybe I don't come from as privileged a background as the rest if you but military service helped me out substantially. I guess it is just fashionable to spend your late teens and twenties doing drugs and being a bored, sullen, and directionless loser nowadays.
This is like saying that MacOSX has opened doors for *BSD in the graphics art niche. Technically, it has but most of the people using it don't care and see it as 'Mac'. Same thing here. 90% of their customers will just upgrade to the new rev of Solaris and the fact that it has something to do with Linux will be almost completely ignored. No more than 1 bullet in the sales pamphlet.
This is all an obfuscation on his part. If he were really intent on havinhg nothing to do with a potential AOL-tw buyout he would immeditaley liqidate *all* of his RedHat stock. Unless he does this, he'll probably be rich enough to quit his job and sit around kernel hacking all day. oh...wait...
Really, I appreciate the bully pulpit he has for the same aol-tw(which I share), however, without any real action this is just style points over any substantive protest.
How do I make that concept accessible and interesting to 40,000 citizens?
This should not be a major campaign issue. Making it one makes you sound like a zealot, which I am sure you are not>:).
Simply let people that you think understand the issue know your opinion. That is, let the 1% of people that unserstand know(maybe a small link on a website, or footnaot in a pamphlet) and that is it.
No need to needlessly confuse anyone else.
The funny thing is that most people reading this article and responding too it are ignoring what most normal people would see. That is, the author is likely a real annoying motherfucker. He works the helpdesk but kept bugging the admin about "security"? Listen, I worked with a guy exactly like this. He didn't know *anything* about being a system administrator. He could not at all tell you what, say, mkfs did, write an awk or perl script, or even do an OS install.
However, since he read a lot of/. and spent all his time in IRC instead of answering the phone and helping people he felt that he was some sort of expert in security. In reality he really needed a good education in basic OS and networking principles.
Both he, and the author of this lame article, should either go take a few CS courses or stfu with bothering the BOFH and answer the fucking phone.
For my entire undergrad career while I was a double major in Math and Bio people kept asking me wtf I was doing. Now that these stupid idiots know what bioinformatics is too I have to compete with them for jobs that they are not qualified for. Here are my demands:
1.)An O'Reilly book deal. I know a *lot* of programming and UNIX system adminstration. A lot more than the crack users who they got to write these dreadful bioinformatics books.
2.)A lot of money. Especially in a position where I get to boss around straight-up bio geeks. My first order of business will be banning the reading of slashdot at work.
My understanding is that spammers usually pre-pay for their 1-800 lines with a flat fee. That way they can get any number of calls for a finite period of time and not worry about anti-spammers ringing them constantly and driving up their bill. Any substantiation/refutation of this?
all startups "drift" as they redefine their business plan and try to create a solid revenue base. For example, remember priceline.com's foray into grocery shopping? Happens in traditional brick and mortar establishments too. Clearly the point to take home from this is that(and yes, mode me redundant if you must) that there are no legitimate revenue models associated with F|free software. Well, not unless you are ESR or RMS in which case you can make about 10k per speaking engagement.
F|free software is a personality cult which results in harm for its adherents.
I have a B.S. in applied mathemtics . I know of sysadmins that are downright yodas with just a high school diploma though. I got to be a Unix admin by first mastering a Unix app that needed maintaining(apache web server in my case). There is an, arguable, truism that it is the apps that drive the hardware/OS choice. Same is true for Windows. If not for MS Office then Windows would not have been as big as fast as it has. So, the point is that if you are well versed in a bigtime Unix app such as web server software, SAS, sendmail, and so forth then you can get a job maintaining that app and then transition into more general sysadminning. This is, in my opinion, he most common route.
Tell that to the NASA Mars program.
Why? Will they beat him up for suggesting that math is unimportant to the computer industry? You specified the Mars program, are they known to be more violent than other divisions of NASA? I am working on my M.S. in Mathematics, what sort of initiation can I expect if I want to join their gang? Would I have to kill an English major on the pretense that he was disrespecting me?
Maybe the first clue that this story is a hoax is that the only reference is some sort of campy obscure web page? Like, MIT releases cutting edge OS and gives these guys the scoop? Yeah, I'm sure that many advanced CS researchers seek the academic prestige of being mentioned on slant six.
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You cannot, reasonably, do everything in your power to piss off the very people that are giving you support(specifcally, money in this case) and make them like it!! Remember that Theo was thrown out of the NetBSD project for being an asshole!?!? This is just par for the course.
When I was your age the technology was nonexistant but gripe was exactly the same as it always has been. My "privacy concerns"=="concerns about getting caught fucking up".
You'll get over it.
Microsoft, which told Motz on Thursday that shipping Java with Windows was not a simple matter and could harm large corporate users of Windows.......
How's that? A complete lie as far as I can tell.
printf() ?
>:)
In the US most financial institutions will charge a bank to bank transfer fee of , usually, $20 . This is actually a selling point of paypal.com in the US. You can link 2 seperate bank accounts to your paypal account and then transfer money between the two for free.
Not so much a selling point for me anymore. I closed my paypal account earlier this morning.
From the post it sounds like teh only week you met the miletsones for was week 1. Is that true? If so, I woudln't pay you either seeing as you seemed to have f-ed up the other *month* of the contract so far.
While watching a marathon of The Prisoner.
Any good programmer knows the answer to this!! Give them smaller more manageable tasks. Check them more often. Even if that smaller task is,"go code these methods to do these couple of things. These are the paremeters that you will be given and this is what the callnig code expects back." When done, give a slightly bigger task. At each point professionally critique style and efficiency. C'mon!! This is an easy question!! The poster must be a real isolationist loner jerk.
Get some interpersonal skillz!!
-Orwell never literally meant '1984'. Indeed, he meant to speak of contemporary times (1948 to him) and as a slight jest transposed the 4 and 8.
Now, the main point is that pervasive technology in 1984 is very much the tools of the oppression and are peripheral to the true causes of an oppressive society. In the book it is clear that it is not technology that is the cause of oppression but rather human nature which must be actively subverted to achieve a more equitable society. Of course, if you are
1.) an MIT writer,
2.) some /. loser or
3.) have never read the book
than this article makes sense. Truly , this article is an embarassment and I doubt the author has read more than the Cliff's Notes version or possibly saw the movie.
Written like a true poseur!! Tell me, kid, do you know how to write software? Listen , I am a professional person and I expec to be paid for my work. How often do you see other professions give there services away for free? Do you ever expect a free magazine or newspaper? Of course not. Now go away, you're late for school.
Hey, try Dynabase!! It is really good and stuff and the company(www.ebt.com) that makes it is really cool to work for. UNTIL THEY LAID ME OFF AND WENT OUT OF BUSINESS!!
Seriously, I used to write the code that does this kind of thing and it isn't too hard. Just , like anything else, don't expect it to be done overnight or something.
I can now truly tell that most everyone here is about 15 years old and has almost zero knowledge of computer programming. Being able to work through code in your head or with only a pencil and a sheet of paper is *crucial*. Suppose, for example, you are working on a major piece of software with millions of linesof code that takes an hour to compile. You sure a heck are *not* giong to write some code, compile, test it, change the code, compile, ad nauseum. You would end upgetting fired for being so damn slow. In some shops the practice of "desk checking" code before writing it is still practiced!! This question merely shows an extreme lack of technical maturity on the part of the question asker and the majority of people replying. What a shame.......
Here are some other things RMS doesn't like.
All the truth!!
He was afraid of water for a long time and would stink up MITs AI lab. He eventually allowed this phobia to decrease to the point where he would take sponge baths in the office men's room. Disgusted by this bad smelling anti-social whack job his colleagues would capiltilize on another object of RMSs hatred, spider plants. To keep this weirdo away from them they would hang spider plants in their office and that would ward him off like garlic would word off a vampire.
what /. has against military service? In many countries the average /. reader's military service is *mandatory*. Also, as a US citizen myself,I volunteered and served in the U.S. Navy and cannot complain one bit about the experience. Was it harder than sitting on my ass playing Mortal Kombat(which was new at the time >:)? Yes it was. Did it help me pay for college and make me a better person? You bet your ass it did. Maybe I don't come from as privileged a background as the rest if you but military service helped me out substantially. I guess it is just fashionable to spend your late teens and twenties doing drugs and being a bored, sullen, and directionless loser nowadays.
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This is like saying that MacOSX has opened doors for *BSD in the graphics art niche. Technically, it has but most of the people using it don't care and see it as 'Mac'. Same thing here. 90% of their customers will just upgrade to the new rev of Solaris and the fact that it has something to do with Linux will be almost completely ignored. No more than 1 bullet in the sales pamphlet.
This is all an obfuscation on his part. If he were really intent on havinhg nothing to do with a potential AOL-tw buyout he would immeditaley liqidate *all* of his RedHat stock. Unless he does this, he'll probably be rich enough to quit his job and sit around kernel hacking all day. oh...wait...
Really, I appreciate the bully pulpit he has for the same aol-tw(which I share), however, without any real action this is just style points over any substantive protest.
This should not be a major campaign issue. Making it one makes you sound like a zealot, which I am sure you are not>:).
Simply let people that you think understand the issue know your opinion. That is, let the 1% of people that unserstand know(maybe a small link on a website, or footnaot in a pamphlet) and that is it. No need to needlessly confuse anyone else.
The funny thing is that most people reading this article and responding too it are ignoring what most normal people would see. That is, the author is likely a real annoying motherfucker. He works the helpdesk but kept bugging the admin about "security"? Listen, I worked with a guy exactly like this. He didn't know *anything* about being a system administrator. He could not at all tell you what, say, mkfs did, write an awk or perl script, or even do an OS install. /. and spent all his time in IRC instead of answering the phone and helping people he felt that he was some sort of expert in security. In reality he really needed a good education in basic OS and networking principles.
However, since he read a lot of
Both he, and the author of this lame article, should either go take a few CS courses or stfu with bothering the BOFH and answer the fucking phone.
For my entire undergrad career while I was a double major in Math and Bio people kept asking me wtf I was doing. Now that these stupid idiots know what bioinformatics is too I have to compete with them for jobs that they are not qualified for. Here are my demands:
1.)An O'Reilly book deal. I know a *lot* of programming and UNIX system adminstration. A lot more than the crack users who they got to write these dreadful bioinformatics books.
2.)A lot of money. Especially in a position where I get to boss around straight-up bio geeks. My first order of business will be banning the reading of slashdot at work.
My understanding is that spammers usually pre-pay for their 1-800 lines with a flat fee. That way they can get any number of calls for a finite period of time and not worry about anti-spammers ringing them constantly and driving up their bill. Any substantiation/refutation of this?
all startups "drift" as they redefine their business plan and try to create a solid revenue base. For example, remember priceline.com's foray into grocery shopping? Happens in traditional brick and mortar establishments too. Clearly the point to take home from this is that(and yes, mode me redundant if you must) that there are no legitimate revenue models associated with F|free software. Well, not unless you are ESR or RMS in which case you can make about 10k per speaking engagement.
F|free software is a personality cult which results in harm for its adherents.
I have a B.S. in applied mathemtics . I know of sysadmins that are downright yodas with just a high school diploma though. I got to be a Unix admin by first mastering a Unix app that needed maintaining(apache web server in my case). There is an, arguable, truism that it is the apps that drive the hardware/OS choice. Same is true for Windows. If not for MS Office then Windows would not have been as big as fast as it has. So, the point is that if you are well versed in a bigtime Unix app such as web server software, SAS, sendmail, and so forth then you can get a job maintaining that app and then transition into more general sysadminning. This is, in my opinion, he most common route.
Tell that to the NASA Mars program.
Why? Will they beat him up for suggesting that math is unimportant to the computer industry? You specified the Mars program, are they known to be more violent than other divisions of NASA? I am working on my M.S. in Mathematics, what sort of initiation can I expect if I want to join their gang? Would I have to kill an English major on the pretense that he was disrespecting me?
Maybe the first clue that this story is a hoax is that the only reference is some sort of campy obscure web page? Like, MIT releases cutting edge OS and gives these guys the scoop? Yeah, I'm sure that many advanced CS researchers seek the academic prestige of being mentioned on slant six.