Yeah, I'm a little late for the party here. However, since I've seen electric utility safety films that make the worst drivers-ed film look tame, I've just got to say...
Sweet merciful crap, man! Please send Slashdot another note tomorrow that you hired somebody who fixed this - so we can see the report in a Slashback, and not be worrying that you're in our building somewhere.
Sweet merciful crap! I hope to goodness you're trolling.
Three paragraphs.
A debatable assertion, a factual error, and a misuse of statistics.
+5 Insightful.
Yeah, Microsoft's the problem this crowd needs to talk about.
If I want to deal with a quarter million lines of dependecy-laden code that the original developers can't make serve the purpose... I just go to the office.
Pass.
(Or is it a quarter billion LOC? I can't tell the difference anymore either...)
Good luck, though. After you turn it around, be sure and drop us a note saying how, k?
Scary thing is, all the things you mention are gone now in VB.NET.
AndAlso/OrElse for short circuits, subs and functions all take parens to call, real exceptions, variants are dead, and they took the VBScript IsNumeric oddities to the grave with them (though you were begging for pain when you relied on IsAnything with VBScript).
I mention this lest you think VB was crippled forever... Try the new stuff - it's like object oriented code with real words, instead of seventy different types of punctuation to make something simple look like some goddamn magic trick.
She says she has problems that are absolutely absurd. For instance, "Root gets locked out of files".
And if one is any good at this software development business at all, one will pursue the topic of how the software got a perfectly reasonable human being so twisted up that she's saying absurd things.
Software that does this to people is Not Ready Yet.
Developers that insist on ignoring people that aren't using the secret words correctly may not be ready yet, either.
For better or for worse, success of new products and technologies is determined by a broad range of factors that make up "the whole product", quality being only one, and possibly a minor one at that.
Also, actual girls have been discovered to be more complicated than jpeg files...
Slashdot Mirror
Pity the guy whose girlfriend goes away to Dartmouth... how many hours will he spend on the phone while she flunks out?
SUV's start up instantly!
The most underpaid were also too psychotically busy to answer the survey...
Or was it done on Slashdot?
"Using GPS To Randomly Halt Trains In India"
Oo!
And the CEO would have to give you a pony, too!
See, now I feel bad.
:^]
But using Google to find out about correct spellings has to be like using a dictionary to find out about current events.
Worth his mettle, dammit!
Sorry. Couldn't stand it.
Yeah, I'm a little late for the party here. However, since I've seen electric utility safety films that make the worst drivers-ed film look tame, I've just got to say...
Sweet merciful crap, man! Please send Slashdot another note tomorrow that you hired somebody who fixed this - so we can see the report in a Slashback, and not be worrying that you're in our building somewhere.
Sweet merciful crap! I hope to goodness you're trolling.
In summary... Sweet merciful crap!
Three paragraphs.
A debatable assertion, a factual error, and a misuse of statistics.
+5 Insightful.
Yeah, Microsoft's the problem this crowd needs to talk about.
If I want to deal with a quarter million lines of dependecy-laden code that the original developers can't make serve the purpose... I just go to the office.
Pass.
(Or is it a quarter billion LOC? I can't tell the difference anymore either...)
Good luck, though. After you turn it around, be sure and drop us a note saying how, k?
I take it airtight legal rights to the fruits of their labor is not an area into which your gratitude would extend?
A raise of the glass to a phrase well turned...
I do not think it means what you think it means.
Soft? That's not what YOUR MOM SAID, BITCH! Is that better for you, hon?
(This has been a generic "your mama" joke. Resemblance to any actual mom, living or dead, is purely coincidental.)
LZW Patent Expires...
JPGs at Eleven.
Scary thing is, all the things you mention are gone now in VB.NET.
AndAlso/OrElse for short circuits, subs and functions all take parens to call, real exceptions, variants are dead, and they took the VBScript IsNumeric oddities to the grave with them (though you were begging for pain when you relied on IsAnything with VBScript).
I mention this lest you think VB was crippled forever... Try the new stuff - it's like object oriented code with real words, instead of seventy different types of punctuation to make something simple look like some goddamn magic trick.
The dupes are a UNIX usability thing - it won't be cleared up until the slashcode port to another platform completes.
Oo, don't you just HATE *nix?
... for the John Varley reference in the department line, though.
Software that does this to people is Not Ready Yet.
Developers that insist on ignoring people that aren't using the secret words correctly may not be ready yet, either.
Dimwit. We know that.