That's one of the cleverest techniques, I ever heard. I tip my hat to you, and my next laptop will get that treatment too! (Normally, I go the boot with CD + make image to USB disk way... )
I'm an OpenBSD fan myself, but mentioning anything BSD in any job interview has never done me good. Decision makers (aka, those that hire you), have perhaps heard from Linux, but most certainly not of BSD. So, by now if I mention free software at all, I mention Linux and nothing else at all. Saying GNU/Linux makes you look even worse.
Linux will stay, just by name recognition.... Hey, honestly, I only got to know the BSDs after I got into Linux and I do prefer the BSDs, just on technical merit.
Oh, come on... Can't you just take a joke? Last time I used Lotus Notes, it was R7 and it was terrible. I know many companies that went the Exchange/Outlook way just to get rid of the horrible interface. As I said in another comment: IBM might just develop an Outlook-like application that uses Lotus Domino as a backend and present it as an
Outlook/Exchange killer. After all, that's what Corporate Wienies always want Exchange for: "collaboration"... *sigh*
You're misinformed... OpenOffice.org has a few Java components (notabily in Base, I think) but it is not a Java application. You don't even need a JRE to run it.
OOo v2.0 worked fine on a P-III 600MHz with 512Meg RAM (on Windows XP SP2). Sure startup took a while, but once you're working that doesn't matter. I used such a setup for over 2 years, until that laptop finally broke down.
Actually, I ran Windows XP SP2 with OpenOffice.org 2.0 fine on a P-III 600MHz with 512Meg RAM. Plenty of other tools too. Ran fine, but the keyword here is "well maintained". Wouldn't dare to give such a machine to a computer newbie. It would be trashed withing 2 weeks.
While you're kidding, you're very far from reality. The French people talk English and some even a tad Dutch, the German guy knows English and he is learning French. I know all those languages, and talk whatever is needed at the moment. Actually, we all enhance ourselves by learning more languages.
It brings the best out of us, but yes, there are sometimes misunderstandings....
I've always wondered what it's like for Germans (and I guess by extension, the Dutch) to use typical programming syntax.
It's no big deal really... Especially for the Dutch: I've never met someone Dutch who wasn't proficient in English. For the Germans, I can't say, but I've never met a German in IT that wasn't proficient in English.;-)
That said, while programming, I don't think the brain works in "language mode", it works in "logical mode". At least to me it seems that way. I easily read code in all human languages I know (5, if you really want to know) even when they are mixed up. It's no big deal, and I'm far from a language whiz. I know them out of necessity.
They find it painful to listen to tones that are "off key" - indeed, the family of the great Clara Rockmore tells us that she even hated touch tone telephones because the tones were not on-key notes and she didn't want to hear them.
I'm totally tone-deaf and I don't like them either. I do not want to hear a sound when I push a phone button. That's why you can disable that crap on all touch tone telephones.
Code typically is written in English because the syntax (=programming language) is always defined in English. So there is never a problem in the example you gave ("pour i dans" vs. "for i in"). However, function names can be whatever you want, so, yes, you can come across function names like "getAmortissement()", or "istFakturierbar()", or "doeIngewikkeldAlgorithme()".
That said, I remember early VBA implementations that also translated the syntax. This resulted in incompatible sources and thus (for example) an English Excel file that could not be opened in a French Excel. That's a really long time ago.
So, yes, people use function names and variable names in their own language, but, no, language constructs aren't translated. At least not in mainstream languages. Propitiatory languages like WinDev might...
Most places I have worked, have the convention to code everything in English, but spelling mistakes creep in easily when it is a language that you don't know very well.
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It's a European Directive. All members states have to implement the two year warranty condition.
That's one of the cleverest techniques, I ever heard. I tip my hat to you, and my next laptop will get that treatment too! (Normally, I go the boot with CD + make image to USB disk way... )
Like The Sims? ;-)
The best thing about the game was that it put you in this mysterious place and you gradually discover how it became that way.
A bit like "The Dig"... ;-)
All pimply teenagers that want to be cool and need the latest gore and sex-laden game will buy those....
Well, yes, but they might understand AIX or something similar ;-)
I'm an OpenBSD fan myself, but mentioning anything BSD in any job interview has never done me good. Decision makers (aka, those that hire you), have perhaps heard from Linux, but most certainly not of BSD. So, by now if I mention free software at all, I mention Linux and nothing else at all. Saying GNU/Linux makes you look even worse.
Linux will stay, just by name recognition.... Hey, honestly, I only got to know the BSDs after I got into Linux and I do prefer the BSDs, just on technical merit.
A bit like the US electricity network a few years ago?
I must be too young to remember that one....
Oh, come on... Can't you just take a joke? Last time I used Lotus Notes, it was R7 and it was terrible. I know many companies that went the Exchange/Outlook way just to get rid of the horrible interface. As I said in another comment: IBM might just develop an Outlook-like application that uses Lotus Domino as a backend and present it as an
Outlook/Exchange killer. After all, that's what Corporate Wienies always want Exchange for: "collaboration"... *sigh*Consider this: an OpenOffice application that communicates with a Lotus Domino sever... Outlook/Exchange killer, anyone?
Last question of the FAQ....
He installed it, and the next day went to me "Frankly, it sucks. I won't use it."
What about: "It's Corporate Policy. Don't like it, feel free to search another job".
That's what they told me when I didn't want to use Microsoft Office 2003 at work...
You're misinformed... OpenOffice.org has a few Java components (notabily in Base, I think) but it is not a Java application. You don't even need a JRE to run it.
OOo v2.0 worked fine on a P-III 600MHz with 512Meg RAM (on Windows XP SP2). Sure startup took a while, but once you're working that doesn't matter. I used such a setup for over 2 years, until that laptop finally broke down.
they'll be contributing accessibility code from Lotus Notes to improve current support for assistive technologies.
Please keep those people far away from interface design! ;-)
Actually, I ran Windows XP SP2 with OpenOffice.org 2.0 fine on a P-III 600MHz with 512Meg RAM. Plenty of other tools too. Ran fine, but the keyword here is "well maintained". Wouldn't dare to give such a machine to a computer newbie. It would be trashed withing 2 weeks.
Wouldn't Esperanto be better? ;-)
5-letter mnemonics for German words.
You mean that's a standard? I thought the SAP people at a German company I was working with, were being moronic....
While you're kidding, you're very far from reality. The French people talk English and some even a tad Dutch, the German guy knows English and he is learning French. I know all those languages, and talk whatever is needed at the moment. Actually, we all enhance ourselves by learning more languages.
It brings the best out of us, but yes, there are sometimes misunderstandings....
I've always wondered what it's like for Germans (and I guess by extension, the Dutch) to use typical programming syntax.
It's no big deal really... Especially for the Dutch: I've never met someone Dutch who wasn't proficient in English. For the Germans, I can't say, but I've never met a German in IT that wasn't proficient in English. ;-)
That said, while programming, I don't think the brain works in "language mode", it works in "logical mode". At least to me it seems that way. I easily read code in all human languages I know (5, if you really want to know) even when they are mixed up. It's no big deal, and I'm far from a language whiz. I know them out of necessity.
They find it painful to listen to tones that are "off key" - indeed, the family of the great Clara Rockmore tells us that she even hated touch tone telephones because the tones were not on-key notes and she didn't want to hear them.
I'm totally tone-deaf and I don't like them either. I do not want to hear a sound when I push a phone button. That's why you can disable that crap on all touch tone telephones.
:s/Propitiatory/Proprietary/g
Code typically is written in English because the syntax (=programming language) is always defined in English. So there is never a problem in the example you gave ("pour i dans" vs. "for i in"). However, function names can be whatever you want, so, yes, you can come across function names like "getAmortissement()", or "istFakturierbar()", or "doeIngewikkeldAlgorithme()".
That said, I remember early VBA implementations that also translated the syntax. This resulted in incompatible sources and thus (for example) an English Excel file that could not be opened in a French Excel. That's a really long time ago.
So, yes, people use function names and variable names in their own language, but, no, language constructs aren't translated. At least not in mainstream languages. Propitiatory languages like WinDev might...
Most places I have worked, have the convention to code everything in English, but spelling mistakes creep in easily when it is a language that you don't know very well.
I'm sure he's constantly emailing W about the best way to optimize gcc to compile his kernel as well
He said *BSD, not Gentoo ;-)