Am I the only one, only programmer, who thinks, jeez, just you know, "update hits set hits = hits * 1.0012;"?
How do we know those numbers are legit? Certainly, assessing facebook traffic numbers/members is as difficult to do as determining unemployment numbers. Is it so hard to believe that facebook would over-inflate it's numbers to compensate for the bad press and leaving members? As far as I know, there is no mechanism to verify the numbers they put out. And there seems to be a TON of money to be made based on these numbers.
It's the same old story as MS right? I mean, you feel like you dominate a market so you start throwing your weight around. You want programmers to be MS programmers. That was their strategies, go after the coders as they are the ones who make the decisions. For every big software shop that dictates the technology, there are a hundred one man shows where the coder is selecting his own stack. Whether its putting out and steering people to your own language or own browser or whatever, its a move that betrays your sense of dominance and power. What's nutty is that it just doesn't work. Google is not evil until they are in the driver seat and screw everybody.
It also works the other way. kids are less likely to argue with stupid ideas coming down from the top. Older developers know where shifty decisions end up to the annoyance of the boss.
My school has very small desktops and I needed a laptop that I could balance on a small surface. I finally ended up with the small macbook air as the surface's keyboard does not support the computer. If I always had access to a big flat surface that would be one thing but you can't use that on your knee!
I've recently started school and shopped around for a small device that would allow me to take notes in class. It came down to the Mac Book Air and the Surface Pro 2. Ultimately, I realized that there was no way the Surface would balance on those half desks in the lecture halls of my school. I decided I needed a keyboard that would support the screen. The Surface just can't do that. The designers assume you will be sitting a full desk.
If the builder didn't use mortar to hold the bricks together, he's going to be done faster, spending less time, than had he used it. So imagine if the wall was built correctly. We'll say that this represents 100% of the needed programming time. If I throw some crappy wall together quickly, most likely because my boss is saying, "Don't worry, you can come back and put the mortar in later once we are keeping the bears out", I've saved myself, say, 30% of those coding hours. Now the wall is falling apart, bears are all over the place, and someone is saying it was a poorly built wall with bugs. In reality, it was a poorly built wall on the cheap. Of course now you have the job of sticking mortar into a built wall which sucks and is gonna cost you a lot more. Best solution, fire that guy, hire someone else who is going to come in, tell you the last guy sucked and he's going to do it right and will just build another wall around the existing wall.
I've used Linux for a very very long time. I've suffered through hardware compatibility issues, sudden changes in software stacks, everything we've all gone through. Then Ubuntu came out and things seemed to stabilize. I was a happy camper. Then they decided to replace the gui with something I didn't like and all. KDE is really ugly and I don't like it either. I hate that stupid wallet. Well, I got a new laptop and of course, step number 1 was to wipe the drive and put on some distro. But I didn't burn it yet and put it off. It's been a year now and I have to say, evilness aside, Windows 8.1 is fine. I just work. Netbeans, mysql workbench, putty they work fine, no problems. (I'm a LAMP developer). I get the whole Windows sucks thing, I just think that if the Linux world is going back to the days of big uncertainty, I'll take a little stability.
Sit them in front of a nice clean virtual machine and tell them to get a basic PHP page up and running. They have to install apache/php/mysql. If you want to cut down on the time, download the stuff first. Should take about 20 minutes.
This trend of supplying every person with a programmable device packed full of sensors could very well be the beginnings of mainstream robotics. I mean sure, an iphone or samsung that sports bada may not look like Asimo, but it's certainly gaining the environmental sensing capabilities. Imagine one day driving up to a restaurant, docking your phone, and having it valet your car. Dock into your lawn mower and have it cut your grass... Plug it into a multi-purpose robotic platform and have it make you tea. With the sensing and computational power that's increasing in sophistication, we are watching robot brains grow in our pants pockets.
First time was kind of mandated by moneyless employer. With my own Windows Compaq laptop in hand, I flew to Atlanta and was greeted by a bunch of old Unix hippies. I was to write PHP/miniSQL code for them but had only one computer to do it on, mine. Problem was that I had windows and they wanted me to run RH. So, I totally wiped my machine and installed RH. Even at that time (years ago), I had no problem getting Red Hat installed (5.2?) on my presario. Ever since then my tolerance of Windows has been in nothing but decline.
Well, REALLY shitty software doesn't come pre-installed on my linux box. REALLY shitty software is not something I typically install. If I installed it, it's my fault. If it came pre-packaged in my distro, it's the packagers fault and my fault (if I knew it was in there).
My brother, at the age of 4, beat Metroid on my NES. Less than a year later, he finished The Legend of Zelda on the same system. Before he could read. From there, he gamed and gamed and today, he's heavily involved in WOW. He's now 17 years old and only knows how to game. He can't even muster up the competence to order a chicken sandwich from Wendy's. I remember when he was about 6 or 7 he knew how many feet were in a mile, could add and subtract fractions, but it was all a waste. I wasn't around, and my parent's let him play video games as he wished.
Games, and instant gratification in general, will always be around. Help her not give into it. Buy her a few books, a model rocket, something other than f8cking games.
It seems as though you assume every American has a gun. Not all do. I think it's somewhere around 50% of American households have a gun. I think the right to bare arms fits into a larger picture of the origins of the US and constitution. If you read it, there is a feeling that the founders felt that governments were by nature untrustworthy and the people of the country should be prepared to defend the principles of the Constitution even if from the government! I do think the US has lost its way but you know how these things go, if corporate dollars, empowered by the religious right, continue to oppress, shit will hit the fan....some day.
...that happened to me once. I almost killed myself. There is a problem right from the start. Highly talented technical people make good money...so do management...so you seem to be someones solutions to a money problem. You better get used to giving yourself horrible deadlines and then hating yourself for it and talking shit behind your back. You better get used to not getting you work done and yelling at yourself and making you feel bad. Coders like to code and managers like to manage. Moving up to management is not something to take likely. It's like a painter being moved up to that ugly chick that sales advertising time.
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Am I the only one, only programmer, who thinks, jeez, just you know, "update hits set hits = hits * 1.0012;"?
How do we know those numbers are legit? Certainly, assessing facebook traffic numbers/members is as difficult to do as determining unemployment numbers. Is it so hard to believe that facebook would over-inflate it's numbers to compensate for the bad press and leaving members? As far as I know, there is no mechanism to verify the numbers they put out. And there seems to be a TON of money to be made based on these numbers.
Am I wrong?
It's the same old story as MS right? I mean, you feel like you dominate a market so you start throwing your weight around. You want programmers to be MS programmers. That was their strategies, go after the coders as they are the ones who make the decisions. For every big software shop that dictates the technology, there are a hundred one man shows where the coder is selecting his own stack. Whether its putting out and steering people to your own language or own browser or whatever, its a move that betrays your sense of dominance and power. What's nutty is that it just doesn't work. Google is not evil until they are in the driver seat and screw everybody.
It also works the other way. kids are less likely to argue with stupid ideas coming down from the top. Older developers know where shifty decisions end up to the annoyance of the boss.
I second this. Sometimes when I fire up paperboy or zelda, I find it hard to believe it still works.
My school has very small desktops and I needed a laptop that I could balance on a small surface. I finally ended up with the small macbook air as the surface's keyboard does not support the computer. If I always had access to a big flat surface that would be one thing but you can't use that on your knee!
I've recently started school and shopped around for a small device that would allow me to take notes in class. It came down to the Mac Book Air and the Surface Pro 2. Ultimately, I realized that there was no way the Surface would balance on those half desks in the lecture halls of my school. I decided I needed a keyboard that would support the screen. The Surface just can't do that. The designers assume you will be sitting a full desk.
If the builder didn't use mortar to hold the bricks together, he's going to be done faster, spending less time, than had he used it. So imagine if the wall was built correctly. We'll say that this represents 100% of the needed programming time. If I throw some crappy wall together quickly, most likely because my boss is saying, "Don't worry, you can come back and put the mortar in later once we are keeping the bears out", I've saved myself, say, 30% of those coding hours. Now the wall is falling apart, bears are all over the place, and someone is saying it was a poorly built wall with bugs. In reality, it was a poorly built wall on the cheap.
Of course now you have the job of sticking mortar into a built wall which sucks and is gonna cost you a lot more.
Best solution, fire that guy, hire someone else who is going to come in, tell you the last guy sucked and he's going to do it right and will just build another wall around the existing wall.
I've used Linux for a very very long time. I've suffered through hardware compatibility issues, sudden changes in software stacks, everything we've all gone through. Then Ubuntu came out and things seemed to stabilize. I was a happy camper. Then they decided to replace the gui with something I didn't like and all. KDE is really ugly and I don't like it either. I hate that stupid wallet. Well, I got a new laptop and of course, step number 1 was to wipe the drive and put on some distro. But I didn't burn it yet and put it off. It's been a year now and I have to say, evilness aside, Windows 8.1 is fine. I just work. Netbeans, mysql workbench, putty they work fine, no problems. (I'm a LAMP developer).
I get the whole Windows sucks thing, I just think that if the Linux world is going back to the days of big uncertainty, I'll take a little stability.
Sit them in front of a nice clean virtual machine and tell them to get a basic PHP page up and running. They have to install apache/php/mysql. If you want to cut down on the time, download the stuff first. Should take about 20 minutes.
This trend of supplying every person with a programmable device packed full of sensors could very well be the beginnings of mainstream robotics. I mean sure, an iphone or samsung that sports bada may not look like Asimo, but it's certainly gaining the environmental sensing capabilities. Imagine one day driving up to a restaurant, docking your phone, and having it valet your car. Dock into your lawn mower and have it cut your grass... Plug it into a multi-purpose robotic platform and have it make you tea. With the sensing and computational power that's increasing in sophistication, we are watching robot brains grow in our pants pockets.
the sell-out?
They've been watching our tv and listening to our news for a while now...how about we greet them with, "Let me explain..."
Thanks for writing this.
hahaha
no doubt
I wish I could do that, but I gotta get work done.
First time was kind of mandated by moneyless employer. With my own Windows Compaq laptop in hand, I flew to Atlanta and was greeted by a bunch of old Unix hippies. I was to write PHP/miniSQL code for them but had only one computer to do it on, mine. Problem was that I had windows and they wanted me to run RH. So, I totally wiped my machine and installed RH. Even at that time (years ago), I had no problem getting Red Hat installed (5.2?) on my presario.
Ever since then my tolerance of Windows has been in nothing but decline.
Long live The Penguin!!
Company-Wide Instant Messaging with Jabberd by Oktay Altunergil
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/10/06/jabberd.html
...check the lid.
How do they stack up against the voit-kampf?
Well, REALLY shitty software doesn't come pre-installed on my linux box. REALLY shitty software is not something I typically install.
If I installed it, it's my fault. If it came pre-packaged in my distro, it's the packagers fault and my fault (if I knew it was in there).
Yeah for you dumb MS programmer fuckers who don't know what Object Oriented Programming is, don't get stressed, it's just "OOP". You know, OOP!!!
retards
My brother, at the age of 4, beat Metroid on my NES. Less than a year later, he finished The Legend of Zelda on the same system. Before he could read. From there, he gamed and gamed and today, he's heavily involved in WOW. He's now 17 years old and only knows how to game. He can't even muster up the competence to order a chicken sandwich from Wendy's. I remember when he was about 6 or 7 he knew how many feet were in a mile, could add and subtract fractions, but it was all a waste. I wasn't around, and my parent's let him play video games as he wished.
Games, and instant gratification in general, will always be around. Help her not give into it. Buy her a few books, a model rocket, something other than f8cking games.
Good luck.
It seems as though you assume every American has a gun. Not all do. I think it's somewhere around 50% of American households have a gun. I think the right to bare arms fits into a larger picture of the origins of the US and constitution. If you read it, there is a feeling that the founders felt that governments were by nature untrustworthy and the people of the country should be prepared to defend the principles of the Constitution even if from the government! I do think the US has lost its way but you know how these things go, if corporate dollars, empowered by the religious right, continue to oppress, shit will hit the fan....some day.
Cheers.
...that happened to me once. I almost killed myself. There is a problem right from the start. Highly talented technical people make good money...so do management...so you seem to be someones solutions to a money problem. You better get used to giving yourself horrible deadlines and then hating yourself for it and talking shit behind your back. You better get used to not getting you work done and yelling at yourself and making you feel bad. Coders like to code and managers like to manage. Moving up to management is not something to take likely. It's like a painter being moved up to that ugly chick that sales advertising time.
That is a researcher holding a silicon solar cell coated with a film of silicon nanoparticles.
Yeah, wasn't my call. This MS guy was appointed to his position by the boss. So everything was to be MS. Including the win2k that oracle ran on.