Documentation, mostly. For whatever perverse reason, Microsoft's Bing can't find squat when dealing with open source tools and competitor's technologies. It's particularly bad at locating pages in the Sybase ASE manuals, and the IBM DB/2 LUW manuals.
Why would anyone use Bing in the first place? It's results are very poor and scattered compared to Google, even on technical term searches that it should be able to do much better at.
Google stays ahead of the pack because they do a good job of search, not just because they're the most familiar name. Until Bing and others can do at least as well, I'll keep drinking the kool-aid.
Your assumption is that they were brought in for technical expertise. That may be an invalid assumption. And that is what I've usually found to be the case over the years.
Just because someone isn't a technical superstar doesn't mean they don't have valuable knowledge. Only the navel-gazing technocrati and engineers are so arrogant as to presume everyone else on the team is an idiot just because they don't "grok" the technical.
I also found it amusing that the original poster of the article is a wuss, afraid to state things like they are, if the person actually is incompetent. They start off referring to them as an "idiot", and then soft-pedal it as "can't work with this individual." To me that just screams technical arrogance and unwillingness to work with someone they can't communicate with because of their lack of experience.
Oddly enough, I never had to work with anyone who was completely incompetent. Some didn't know squat about the technical side of things, but their business knowledge was impeccable, and that was what they brought to the table.
Maybe the problem isn't whether they're an expert in the field, but whether you know how to communicate with someone outside your field.
Their mission had been going so well until the failure. It had been looking like it would be a good promotional piece for the Chinese, now it's just another failed space mission.
Well, not a complete failure. They did get there, and the rover was working for quite some time.
Ah well, could have been worse. Could have just failed utterly like that Mars launch a few years back. I forget who did that one.
They're so concerned about people making calls, yet they've had airline phones for years.
And how is it any worse to be trapped on a plane with such idiots than on a bus? At least on a plane you're only stuck with them for a couple hours, not all day on an overland trip.
When are they going to accept the fact that there is absolutely no need for 99.999% of the population to ever check the internet for the status of their dryer, their dishwasher, their fridge, their freezer, or their toaster oven and microwave.
It is the single most over-rated, over-sold, over-hyped, and absolutely useless concept ever brandished by the technocrati. The only ones who care about the concept at all are people who want to sell you stuff that is "internet aware."
I think their concern is that US courts might start following the Indian court's views on what constitutes "obvious" tweaking for the sole purpose of extending a patent.
That fear is worth spending hundreds of millions in court to salve the terror of lost revenue on a global (including US) scale.
Not that they deserve money for trivial reforumulations, such as the "safer" Oxycontin packaging. The main drug itself has not changed so there should never have been a patent extension allowed. Packaging is just packaging. It's not the drug.
And while I'm on this here soap box, let me point out that the addicts have, of course, found ways around the "safer" packaging and are still shooting up on suburban streets, patents or no patents. The whole "safer" packaging thing is a lie. Safer for their pockets, nothing else.
They're fine for simple if-then-else and loop processing logic, but when it comes to complex code, they suck donkey balls. And most of the code I have to write is complex code; I leave the simple stuff to the junior masses.
Eclipse is six of one, half a dozen of the other. I've used it for many years, but the Kepler release has decided that it's going to do something Eclipse never did in the past: crash. Hard. As in *poof* -- it's gone.
It's also been freezing up under Debian at random.
The windows build seems more stable, and that's what I use for most debug sessions, but I *prefer* to work on my Linux box due to the better resolution and nicer interface devices than my laptop.
But hey, it's a big project (both Eclipse and my own.) Big projects have bugs. Period. I certainly can't complain about Eclipse, all in all. It does what I need, does it well enough, and integrates with JEE debugging environments. Can't really expect something dealing with that big a pile of steaming code to also be stable.
That's a pretty big shopping spree Lenovo has been on. I sure hope it pays off for them -- I like their hardware, despite all the naysayers out there, I've never had problems with their stuff yet.
My browser is supposed to control the layout, not the web site.
Do you have any idea how many websites render like absolute shit because I use a custom display font instead of letting them use tiny unreadable headache-inducing fonts?
But when is the last time Cuba has threatened anyone with an invasion or an attack? When is the last time they mowed down protestors in the country with machine guns or fired gas weapons at them?
This perverted prejudice against Cuba has got to stop. The US should be ashamed of their bullying attitude. It's been a long, long, long time since the Cuban missile crisis. Let it go already!
I consider all online drives to be overhyped steaming piles of shit. What's the functional difference between these so-called "cloud" services and an old fashioned FTP server?
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Documentation, mostly. For whatever perverse reason, Microsoft's Bing can't find squat when dealing with open source tools and competitor's technologies. It's particularly bad at locating pages in the Sybase ASE manuals, and the IBM DB/2 LUW manuals.
Why would anyone use Bing in the first place? It's results are very poor and scattered compared to Google, even on technical term searches that it should be able to do much better at.
Google stays ahead of the pack because they do a good job of search, not just because they're the most familiar name. Until Bing and others can do at least as well, I'll keep drinking the kool-aid.
Your assumption is that they were brought in for technical expertise. That may be an invalid assumption. And that is what I've usually found to be the case over the years.
Just because someone isn't a technical superstar doesn't mean they don't have valuable knowledge. Only the navel-gazing technocrati and engineers are so arrogant as to presume everyone else on the team is an idiot just because they don't "grok" the technical.
I also found it amusing that the original poster of the article is a wuss, afraid to state things like they are, if the person actually is incompetent. They start off referring to them as an "idiot", and then soft-pedal it as "can't work with this individual." To me that just screams technical arrogance and unwillingness to work with someone they can't communicate with because of their lack of experience.
Correlation != Causation
Oddly enough, I never had to work with anyone who was completely incompetent. Some didn't know squat about the technical side of things, but their business knowledge was impeccable, and that was what they brought to the table.
Maybe the problem isn't whether they're an expert in the field, but whether you know how to communicate with someone outside your field.
Hold on. Let me plug in my brain so I can add up these numbers.
Damn I wish they'd let us use calculators instead...
Their mission had been going so well until the failure. It had been looking like it would be a good promotional piece for the Chinese, now it's just another failed space mission.
Well, not a complete failure. They did get there, and the rover was working for quite some time.
Ah well, could have been worse. Could have just failed utterly like that Mars launch a few years back. I forget who did that one.
Software has bugs. Get over it.
This is just another manager trying to get free work out of the staff.
To hell with leeches like him.
They're so concerned about people making calls, yet they've had airline phones for years.
And how is it any worse to be trapped on a plane with such idiots than on a bus? At least on a plane you're only stuck with them for a couple hours, not all day on an overland trip.
When are they going to accept the fact that there is absolutely no need for 99.999% of the population to ever check the internet for the status of their dryer, their dishwasher, their fridge, their freezer, or their toaster oven and microwave.
It is the single most over-rated, over-sold, over-hyped, and absolutely useless concept ever brandished by the technocrati. The only ones who care about the concept at all are people who want to sell you stuff that is "internet aware."
Or, if you're in an apartment, start dryer, sit and wait there regardless of what the internet can do because someone might steal your undies. :P
I'll do what I do and say what I say because I am who I am.
And I don't give a rat's shiny fat ass whether the NSA or anyone else likes it or not. The NSA is just another potential hater. No big deal.
Only 11 away from being a 4-digit moniker. :)
I think their concern is that US courts might start following the Indian court's views on what constitutes "obvious" tweaking for the sole purpose of extending a patent.
That fear is worth spending hundreds of millions in court to salve the terror of lost revenue on a global (including US) scale.
Not that they deserve money for trivial reforumulations, such as the "safer" Oxycontin packaging. The main drug itself has not changed so there should never have been a patent extension allowed. Packaging is just packaging. It's not the drug.
And while I'm on this here soap box, let me point out that the addicts have, of course, found ways around the "safer" packaging and are still shooting up on suburban streets, patents or no patents. The whole "safer" packaging thing is a lie. Safer for their pockets, nothing else.
Early five digits. :D
They suck. Used them. Hated them.
They're fine for simple if-then-else and loop processing logic, but when it comes to complex code, they suck donkey balls. And most of the code I have to write is complex code; I leave the simple stuff to the junior masses.
What's so horrible about the Beta interface? It seems to work. I read my comments. I posted this reply. Functionality achieved.
I don't ask much of a forum.
Eclipse is six of one, half a dozen of the other. I've used it for many years, but the Kepler release has decided that it's going to do something Eclipse never did in the past: crash. Hard. As in *poof* -- it's gone.
It's also been freezing up under Debian at random.
The windows build seems more stable, and that's what I use for most debug sessions, but I *prefer* to work on my Linux box due to the better resolution and nicer interface devices than my laptop.
But hey, it's a big project (both Eclipse and my own.) Big projects have bugs. Period. I certainly can't complain about Eclipse, all in all. It does what I need, does it well enough, and integrates with JEE debugging environments. Can't really expect something dealing with that big a pile of steaming code to also be stable.
People have an issue with smaller predators like wolves and coyotes and some wacko thinks they'll be allowed to introduce lions?!?!?!?!?
It is a big thing when the main beef people have is that "build quality dropped."
I would think Linux already has taken #2 if you include Android game apps.
That's a pretty big shopping spree Lenovo has been on. I sure hope it pays off for them -- I like their hardware, despite all the naysayers out there, I've never had problems with their stuff yet.
Wrong.
My browser is supposed to control the layout, not the web site.
Do you have any idea how many websites render like absolute shit because I use a custom display font instead of letting them use tiny unreadable headache-inducing fonts?
Syria, Sudan, and Iran I understand.
But when is the last time Cuba has threatened anyone with an invasion or an attack? When is the last time they mowed down protestors in the country with machine guns or fired gas weapons at them?
This perverted prejudice against Cuba has got to stop. The US should be ashamed of their bullying attitude. It's been a long, long, long time since the Cuban missile crisis. Let it go already!
I consider all online drives to be overhyped steaming piles of shit. What's the functional difference between these so-called "cloud" services and an old fashioned FTP server?
Bugger all but branding.