First, would you expect all those brush makers out there to get a cut of all the artwork sold at galleries? Would the company that made the blade for the scalpel be entitled to a cut of the organ transplant operation?
The software I write helps make million$ yet I do not deserve megabuck bonuses. I certainly don't make $150K (I wish I get get abused in that fashion). If I don't like it, I don't have to remain and keep my job. So what if the CEO can buy a Porsche using my tools? I agreed to the arrangement.
I also happen to feel HFT should be illegal in the first place. It is just a novel form of theft and the very essence of anti-competitiveness.
What can kill the project dead, dead, dead is if people with Windowz Skillz are allowed to pose as IT workers. Microsoft products have little to do with IT except that they are placeholders blocking legitimate, functioning protocols, formats, applications, and operating systems. The kind of slug that tries to make a living of of Microsoft products lacks the ability to analyze and solve problems.
Mommy not give enough love when you were little?
Every person I've ever met who sounds like you is also the same type of person that would never even get past the first telephone interview with most dev shops.
What can kill the project dead, dead, dead is if people with Windowz Skillz are allowed to pose as IT workers. Microsoft products have little to do with IT except that they are placeholders blocking legitimate, functioning protocols, formats, applications, and operating systems. The kind of slug that tries to make a living of of Microsoft products lacks the ability to analyze and solve problems. They're usually either rote memorization monkeys or sales marketeers.
How did this comment get moderated up? The boilerplate "I hate Microsoft" comment?
You appear to be the sort of shrill person that would not even make it past the first telephone interview for most dev shops.
Rather than thinking about it terms of linguistic erosion, you should be pleased that German shows every sign of being a living, changing language. This hold true for many languages; even English takes on a tremendous amount of loan words from other tongues. I have always viewed this as a positive attribute.
Indeed, efforts to prevent the natural evolution of a language leads to... French, I suppose.
No insult to the French but the Govt should not try to guide the growth of the language.
note that this isn't a knock against the language itself, but against the fact that while it was widely adopted, it was widely implemented by a lot of programmers who had no business being programmers (at least w/ lower-level languages, bad code tends to die off or get re-written much quicker).
Sure and the legions that flocked to Java from trade schools and intro to CompSci 101 fared much better....
You just run a tight loop of NOP instructions and check the integrity of the bag each iteration. When sufficient time has passed and the paper bag has degraded to the point where its outer integrity has been breached, you branch out of the loop and end execution.
It would mean the end of every IT and developer position in America. Your job would be outsourced faster than Walmart can shut down a store whispering of a union vote. India and China would be the sole IT resource for every company almost overnight.
Oh I don't think anyone has accused you of being a terrible programmer. All the posts I've seen have been pretty even-tempered and genuinely informative. The major assertion is that Calc is quite useful. It gives you a solid foundation for understanding the rest of you CS coursework, too. If you do not know calc, you do not understand CS. That's not to say you're no good at problem solving in limited domains.
Well, I imagine because this is the first step of many which will eventually allow the government to more safely take back the existing spectrum allocated for amateur use. There are a lot of commercial interests more than willing to spend handsome sums on an auction of that spectrum. If its felt civil authorities can manage emergency communications without HAMS, that auction is that much closer.
So, there is little reason to involve the amateur community, which is on its last legs already, i.e. aging community, dumber children less willing to learn and take the reigns, ease of world-wide comm without radio)
most of the Indians I have worked with lately have exaggerated (read:lied about) their work and education levels.
Allow me to wreck my karma: You got modded down but I completely agree because I live this hell every day. We do a lot of outsourcing and have had many immigrant coders here on visas. To look at these guys on paper you'd think they were the second coming of Turing. In actual productivity and lines of useable code, it's been a cruel joke.
Damn right they lied on their resumes and education. What's the worth of an Indian degree? No doubt there must be some jewels that come from those institutions somewhere. Someday I may meet one.
Immigrant brain drain ? Puleeeze. We are quite fond of saying 90% of developers suck. Well, that applies to immigrants, too. I don't see this supposed exodus as a reason for concern. If anything we may reach a point where companies start to invest closer to home again........nah, that ship sailed years ago.
They will call and all that will be said is that yes you worked there. Short of getting fired and charged with a crime a previous employer will say very little during a reference check.
Believe it! This is policy where I work. The issue is the organization could be liable for causing an applicant to not get the position they were seeking. In other words, we would probably get sued for saying Bob* was a shitty dev. We will only verify past employment.
Uhhh, no. Darth Vader had a "reputation" for heavy-handedness. Emperor Palpatine and Lord Sauron had reputations for "heavy-handedness". MS has a reputation like Aliens. You just can't reason with them sometimes and even whole squads of Marines can't deal with them. Orbital bombardment gets discussed as the only logical solution (low-level formatting).
I'll never see eye-to-eye with you but you can write some funny stuff. Seriously, you have a talent for humor. You might look into starting a blog.
BTW, I'm strictly a developer; I really don't get into the IT world with boxen and routers and what not. You may have a terrible time of it but those dev tools MS puts out are the shiznit: polished, clean, and a pleasure to spend countless hours in front of. This puts starts in my eyes...so we are in two different worlds.
The last person to call you on your bizarre post was modded a troll. I suppose I will be modded the same, too.
MS has a bad reputation for heavy-handedness, sure. There are a lot of bones to pick about IE, as well. I'll concede that. However, your assertion that MS only sells "buggy", overpriced software is an utter falsehood. They are very successful making their customers' businesses successful. Their virtualization software can be had for free and they are going to eat VMWare's lunch. How the hell can you even compare SQL Server to MySQL? Sure it's used more; there are more "mom's recipe" sites than high-availability, high-transaction rate commerce sites. It's still cheaper than the closest competition (Oracle -- Although I will not dare get into a comparison).
I think the biggest advantage MS has is they can approach customers with total solutions. The open source community has more of a patch-work landscape with ultimately no accountability for failure. You have to understand how this makes a CEO/CIO uncomfortable. They are not purists or rabid Linux fans; they just want to make their money without the hardships of drinking the open source kool-aid.
I expect posts like yours on Slashdot but it sorta makes me mad when half-assed rants get modded +4 Insightful.
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First, would you expect all those brush makers out there to get a cut of all the artwork sold at galleries? Would the company that made the blade for the scalpel be entitled to a cut of the organ transplant operation?
The software I write helps make million$ yet I do not deserve megabuck bonuses. I certainly don't make $150K (I wish I get get abused in that fashion). If I don't like it, I don't have to remain and keep my job. So what if the CEO can buy a Porsche using my tools? I agreed to the arrangement.
I also happen to feel HFT should be illegal in the first place. It is just a novel form of theft and the very essence of anti-competitiveness.
What can kill the project dead, dead, dead is if people with Windowz Skillz are allowed to pose as IT workers. Microsoft products have little to do with IT except that they are placeholders blocking legitimate, functioning protocols, formats, applications, and operating systems. The kind of slug that tries to make a living of of Microsoft products lacks the ability to analyze and solve problems.
Mommy not give enough love when you were little?
Every person I've ever met who sounds like you is also the same type of person that would never even get past the first telephone interview with most dev shops.
What can kill the project dead, dead, dead is if people with Windowz Skillz are allowed to pose as IT workers. Microsoft products have little to do with IT except that they are placeholders blocking legitimate, functioning protocols, formats, applications, and operating systems. The kind of slug that tries to make a living of of Microsoft products lacks the ability to analyze and solve problems. They're usually either rote memorization monkeys or sales marketeers.
How did this comment get moderated up? The boilerplate "I hate Microsoft" comment?
You appear to be the sort of shrill person that would not even make it past the first telephone interview for most dev shops.
Technology was supposed to give us BETTER products, now we don't even know what better IS because there is so much garbage out there?
That's because we're simply holding it wrong.
I am a C# programmer and I assure you I am the biggest dick.
We'll consider this matter settled, then.
Rather than thinking about it terms of linguistic erosion, you should be pleased that German shows every sign of being a living, changing language. This hold true for many languages; even English takes on a tremendous amount of loan words from other tongues. I have always viewed this as a positive attribute.
Indeed, efforts to prevent the natural evolution of a language leads to ... French, I suppose.
No insult to the French but the Govt should not try to guide the growth of the language.
Oh, I believe I'd take a Finnish driver over a German.
Some of you out there will know what I'm talking about :)
Apple seems to have embraced this strategy with all their recent devices.
note that this isn't a knock against the language itself, but against the fact that while it was widely adopted, it was widely implemented by a lot of programmers who had no business being programmers (at least w/ lower-level languages, bad code tends to die off or get re-written much quicker).
Sure and the legions that flocked to Java from trade schools and intro to CompSci 101 fared much better....
You just run a tight loop of NOP instructions and check the integrity of the bag each iteration. When sufficient time has passed and the paper bag has degraded to the point where its outer integrity has been breached, you branch out of the loop and end execution.
The day the US defaults on its debts, the entire Global financial system will be screwed. The issue of China will be very insignificant in comparison.
We cannot ever, must not ever, allow the country to default on its debts. History will record that day as when the US fell into irrevocable decline.
Absolutely,
It would mean the end of every IT and developer position in America. Your job would be outsourced faster than Walmart can shut down a store whispering of a union vote. India and China would be the sole IT resource for every company almost overnight.
Oh I don't think anyone has accused you of being a terrible programmer. All the posts I've seen have been pretty even-tempered and genuinely informative. The major assertion is that Calc is quite useful. It gives you a solid foundation for understanding the rest of you CS coursework, too. If you do not know calc, you do not understand CS. That's not to say you're no good at problem solving in limited domains.
Well, I imagine because this is the first step of many which will eventually allow the government to more safely take back the existing spectrum allocated for amateur use. There are a lot of commercial interests more than willing to spend handsome sums on an auction of that spectrum. If its felt civil authorities can manage emergency communications without HAMS, that auction is that much closer.
So, there is little reason to involve the amateur community, which is on its last legs already, i.e. aging community, dumber children less willing to learn and take the reigns, ease of world-wide comm without radio)
most of the Indians I have worked with lately have exaggerated (read:lied about) their work and education levels.
Allow me to wreck my karma: You got modded down but I completely agree because I live this hell every day. We do a lot of outsourcing and have had many immigrant coders here on visas. To look at these guys on paper you'd think they were the second coming of Turing. In actual productivity and lines of useable code, it's been a cruel joke.
Damn right they lied on their resumes and education. What's the worth of an Indian degree? No doubt there must be some jewels that come from those institutions somewhere. Someday I may meet one.
Immigrant brain drain ? Puleeeze. We are quite fond of saying 90% of developers suck. Well, that applies to immigrants, too. I don't see this supposed exodus as a reason for concern. If anything we may reach a point where companies start to invest closer to home again........nah, that ship sailed years ago.
Anyone remember the Cuckoo's Egg? I quite enjoyed that. It's a bit dated today but it was a hoot when I first picked it up.
They will call and all that will be said is that yes you worked there. Short of getting fired and charged with a crime a previous employer will say very little during a reference check.
Believe it! This is policy where I work. The issue is the organization could be liable for causing an applicant to not get the position they were seeking. In other words, we would probably get sued for saying Bob* was a shitty dev. We will only verify past employment.
* My apologies to anyone named Bob or Robert.
And wood bark might cause flatulence, which is ultimately poor for the environment.
Low UID....respect....
Rumor has it they are planning on doing this every month until everyone is in the top 50%.
I hope this guy doesn't write code.
Uhhh, no. Darth Vader had a "reputation" for heavy-handedness. Emperor Palpatine and Lord Sauron had reputations for "heavy-handedness". MS has a reputation like Aliens. You just can't reason with them sometimes and even whole squads of Marines can't deal with them. Orbital bombardment gets discussed as the only logical solution (low-level formatting).
I'll never see eye-to-eye with you but you can write some funny stuff. Seriously, you have a talent for humor. You might look into starting a blog.
BTW, I'm strictly a developer; I really don't get into the IT world with boxen and routers and what not. You may have a terrible time of it but those dev tools MS puts out are the shiznit: polished, clean, and a pleasure to spend countless hours in front of. This puts starts in my eyes...so we are in two different worlds.
The last person to call you on your bizarre post was modded a troll. I suppose I will be modded the same, too.
MS has a bad reputation for heavy-handedness, sure. There are a lot of bones to pick about IE, as well. I'll concede that. However, your assertion that MS only sells "buggy", overpriced software is an utter falsehood. They are very successful making their customers' businesses successful. Their virtualization software can be had for free and they are going to eat VMWare's lunch. How the hell can you even compare SQL Server to MySQL? Sure it's used more; there are more "mom's recipe" sites than high-availability, high-transaction rate commerce sites. It's still cheaper than the closest competition (Oracle -- Although I will not dare get into a comparison).
I think the biggest advantage MS has is they can approach customers with total solutions. The open source community has more of a patch-work landscape with ultimately no accountability for failure. You have to understand how this makes a CEO/CIO uncomfortable. They are not purists or rabid Linux fans; they just want to make their money without the hardships of drinking the open source kool-aid.
I expect posts like yours on Slashdot but it sorta makes me mad when half-assed rants get modded +4 Insightful.
Do your worst moderators......
Hell, I could be so bold as to state some asinine comment on Slashdot and not care about Karma or mod points:
I love MS, hate Apple, think Linux is cute but just a toy, and man enough to admit I own a copy of the Joy Luck Club on DVD. ...I feel liberated.
How much was the Mojave upgrade? It's spoken so highly of on TV by real experts. Yes sir, it sounds like MS really hit the mark with that one.
Actually it's never needed, unless you meant multiple inheritance from interfaces.
Interface inheritance is your friend.