I was rereading Nerds 2.0.1 this morning and read the part that describes the emergence of Java...James Gosling is quoted as saying "We actually got to the point where the number-one thing blocking the release of a system was having a name."
Amen. I work with a very junior programmer who has been given a fairly simple task: implement a web interface to a database. There are some discretionary areas, and some complex areas, but mostly the job is straightforward.
A Subject Matter Expert beta-testing the interface wanted a particular workflow implemented. The SME actually uses the interface to do his job. He knows what's important. The programmer complained, stating that it's only two more steps to do the task *his* way, and he didn't understand why the tester would want that changed, that he didn't want to guess at what to do after a particular action.
It was all I could do to keep from answering "because he knows how the product will be used and you don't, he's telling you how to continue after the action, you aren't guessing" - the point of asking the SME to test the interface was to learn if it would work for the intended purpose and to carefully consider feedback.
Gary Kildall wrote CP/M in 1973 for the Intel 8080, one of Intel's first microprocessors. He then began writing various versions for popular (and unpopular) microprocessors. He soon tired of reimplementing common functionality, isolated those routines, and created a distinct BIOS for each new chip. Now he had a standard OS that could be ported to any appropriate chip with relatively little effort. Digital Research was formed to sell this product, which it licensed at $10 per copy to manufacturers. During that same time Microsoft was formed to sell programming languages for microcomputers. They actually supported CP/M and recommended it to clients. When IBM showed up with Project Chess, Microsoft suggested that CP/M should be the OS. IBM was unable to come to terms with Digital, so Microsoft bought and modified Q-DOS from Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products, licensing it to IBM as MS-DOS (called PC-DOS by IBM). Customers purchasing a new IBM PC had the option of PC-DOS for $40 or CP/M for $350 (IIRC). Digital sued, but the court found in favor of Microsoft.
In other words, Digital and Microsoft were both options for the IBM PC, and Digital got screwed, but not because Microsoft stole CP/M - though Tim Paterson did pattern Q-DOS after CP/M. Linus patterned Linux after Unix, right? Same interface, different internals.
You keep posting this argument. Unless the kid is home-schooled, the person to talk to is a counselor, teacher, administrator, police officer, etc. at school. Or use a payphone to call an abuse prevention hotline. I don't think this tech is a good thing, but I think your position is poorly chosen.
I just finished reading a book written by a Vietnam veteran that addresses this - there was one clever fellow who didn't want to fight and didn't want to be shot at, so he joined the Navy and became a corpsman. Evidently he did not know that the Marines drew their medical personnel from the Navy
I wonder about this all the time...look at MLK, look at Ghandi...yeah, look at Castro, Stalin, Pol Pot...pacifism works when you aren't subject to slaughter. It kinda sucks otherwise.
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Have one parking space? Get fucked.
No, and the trouble is that it's easier to apply a uniform policy than it is to invite lawsuits by tailoring responses to individuals.
I do not pass out in urine or faeces, either, and I'm happy with that state of affairs.
Had one about six weeks ago. Cost...something like seven grand, including scan, interpretation, etc.
Don't know about the rest of your post, but the railroad schedule part is bullshit.
Looks like the nut's loose.
GK didn't refuse to talk - he refused to license on terms IBM would accept.
Super bowl Sunday is also one of the top days for spousal abuse.
No
Well, it's probably in the top few hundred.
And what the hell does "my" team loose? Their bowels?
Ba du ba ba bah...I wanna strangle my nephews when that comes out of their mouths.
Take a long piss and a nice dump.
Instant weight loss!
You fuckers got skates? All we got were deadlines.
And an unarmed, skinny, Indian guy dressed in a dhoti defeated the British Empire.
Ever heard his opinion on how the Jews should have dealt with Hitler?
"Hitler, Gandhi said, killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butchers knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs...It would have aroused the world and the people of Germany...As it is they succumbed anyway in their millions."
I've actually pondered how it is that highly urban areas don't wind up with "Gangsta Jones" for mayor.
They do. Just without the platinum grill.
Washington, DC - Marion Barry
Memphis, TN - Willie Herenton
Good point.
I was rereading Nerds 2.0.1 this morning and read the part that describes the emergence of Java...James Gosling is quoted as saying "We actually got to the point where the number-one thing blocking the release of a system was having a name."
...and the specific mode switch he was talking about was between 16 bit mode and 32 bit mode.
Amen. I work with a very junior programmer who has been given a fairly simple task: implement a web interface to a database. There are some discretionary areas, and some complex areas, but mostly the job is straightforward.
A Subject Matter Expert beta-testing the interface wanted a particular workflow implemented. The SME actually uses the interface to do his job. He knows what's important. The programmer complained, stating that it's only two more steps to do the task *his* way, and he didn't understand why the tester would want that changed, that he didn't want to guess at what to do after a particular action.
It was all I could do to keep from answering "because he knows how the product will be used and you don't, he's telling you how to continue after the action, you aren't guessing" - the point of asking the SME to test the interface was to learn if it would work for the intended purpose and to carefully consider feedback.
Gary Kildall wrote CP/M in 1973 for the Intel 8080, one of Intel's first microprocessors. He then began writing various versions for popular (and unpopular) microprocessors. He soon tired of reimplementing common functionality, isolated those routines, and created a distinct BIOS for each new chip. Now he had a standard OS that could be ported to any appropriate chip with relatively little effort. Digital Research was formed to sell this product, which it licensed at $10 per copy to manufacturers.
During that same time Microsoft was formed to sell programming languages for microcomputers. They actually supported CP/M and recommended it to clients. When IBM showed up with Project Chess, Microsoft suggested that CP/M should be the OS. IBM was unable to come to terms with Digital, so Microsoft bought and modified Q-DOS from Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products, licensing it to IBM as MS-DOS (called PC-DOS by IBM).
Customers purchasing a new IBM PC had the option of PC-DOS for $40 or CP/M for $350 (IIRC). Digital sued, but the court found in favor of Microsoft.
In other words, Digital and Microsoft were both options for the IBM PC, and Digital got screwed, but not because Microsoft stole CP/M - though Tim Paterson did pattern Q-DOS after CP/M. Linus patterned Linux after Unix, right? Same interface, different internals.
That's not to be read as RFID-bearing electric toothbrushes.
...one foul swoop...
one fell swoop
You mean the shitheads in Beetles that blow by me (because I drive the appx speed limit) like paramedics?
You keep posting this argument. Unless the kid is home-schooled, the person to talk to is a counselor, teacher, administrator, police officer, etc. at school. Or use a payphone to call an abuse prevention hotline. I don't think this tech is a good thing, but I think your position is poorly chosen.
Ever heard of a "pulled" punch?
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they'd join the Navy if they didn't want to fight
I just finished reading a book written by a Vietnam veteran that addresses this - there was one clever fellow who didn't want to fight and didn't want to be shot at, so he joined the Navy and became a corpsman. Evidently he did not know that the Marines drew their medical personnel from the Navy
I wonder about this all the time...look at MLK, look at Ghandi...yeah, look at Castro, Stalin, Pol Pot...pacifism works when you aren't subject to slaughter. It kinda sucks otherwise.