Yeah, this is like this anti-klez someone was kind enough to send me by email. As it said in the email, it triggered the anti-virus, but that's OK, I could safely ignore it cause the email told me to.
The dangerous escaped convict, Codexus, was arrested after he made the mistake of ordering his usual Sushi, Banana, Oignon, Extra-Cheese pizza. He was the only person in the BatchTrace database to have ever ordered that kind of pizza and the system was able to immediately alert the police.
Never trust M$? I'm sorry but it's clearly documented that the asserts are stripped from the release code. The macro to use for code you want to check in debug mode but still execute in release mode is VERIFY()
I'm no fan of Microsoft, but it's a bit easy to blame them for your own mistakes.
That one is an oldie:) Back in the Amiga days I had made this game that worked fine on my A500 but that stopped working after a while on most other A500. That was strange as the machines were supposed to be identical and I couldn't make more tests at home.
So I used the Action Replay cartridge. For those who don't know about Action Replay, those were "hardware debuggers" that pluged on the bus and could stop and restore the execution of the running program. They were very powerful debugging tools.
After inspecting the content of the hardware registers thanks to the Action Replay, the result was that on some revision of the A500 motherboard the audio interupts had a slightly different timing that caused an improbable case were the audio samples always stopped playing on offset 0 retrigering an audio interupt as soon as one was handled.
Yes, but I understand his decision. He doesn't want to be the leader of a community project where he would do more management than coding. He wants to code his own engine for fun. Open-sourcing too early would not help and might result in problems. This reminds me of phpNuke which eventually forked and AtheOS (I'm not sure if it forked but I know the author wanted to continue do most of the coding himself and was concerned about a fork he didn't want.)
Well, with C/C++ and Java they would still have a chance of succeeding. The DoD should be forced to use Visual Basic for all its programming. The world would be a much safer place.
We hardly ever test anything before releasing it. So, regression testing?
Customers are our regression tests, they are quite fast at finding all the stuff we've broken with the new release.
Perl was not designed to do what it's now being used for. The result is an awfully designed language made of layers and layers of incoherent stuff. Wouldn't the money be better used on projects that not as many people have heard about but that have a lot of potential if they can be completed?
2) Never leave your current job (also obvious, but not really under your control)
I disagree with this. Don't miss an interesting opportunity just because you don't have a degree. If you're hired for a better position your resume will look better and employers are less likely to care about your lack of degree.
So go and chess aren't addictive games? Funny, cause some people spend their life playing them.
All games are addictive. "Having fun" is addictive. Should everything that is addictive be considered bad? What would be left? Even work is addictive to some people.
I typed: luke, han, leia and chewie and I got all the other charcters including minor ones like admiral ackbar !!! Now if only it wasn't/.ed maybe I could get Star Trek characters:)
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Uh, aren't being you a little paranoid? So what if someone gets your real name in a spam mail? I don't see why they would find that so interesting.
Hmmm, maybe the english word isn't "liberal". Although we usually use that word in that sense in french. Or maybe you thought I was saying that the 2 weeks delay is more liberal than the "work at will" type of contract while I was saying that both are too liberal, but the work at will being the worse.
I'm using the word as in related to liberalism which is defined in the Webster (among other definitions) as: "a theory in economics emphasizing individual freedom from restraint and usually based on free competition, the self-regulating market, and the gold standard"
So basically I see this kind of "work at will" contracts as being bad for the worker and good for corporations.
I hope you understand better what I mean. And I'm sorry if I wasn't clear.
No, there are exceptional cases, off course. You can be fired without delay if you act like that. Same as you can quit without delay in some cases such as the employer not paying you in time.
In fact if you start not showing up for your work without reason, you'd be liable to the employer. You would be the one not respecting the contract.
Once again I'm appalled with how liberal the US law is.
In Switzerland, the common practice for employment contracts is to have 1 or 2 month delay to quit or be fired (longer delays are also not uncommon, my current contract has a 6 months delay starting next year, but I'll renegociate that, I think that's a bit too long).
Enough time to get a new job or for the employer to find a replacement.
The most scary part of the whole eXtreme Programming stuff is the pair coding. For those who don't know, it's the idea that all programming should be done by two people at the same time one actually coding and supposed to think "strategically" (about integration, structure and stuff like that).
Now some poor programmers don't even have a PC for themselves. They have to share it with a colleague and they are even denied their most basic right to have a few square meters of personal space.
I would never accept such working conditions but it's unfortunate that this seems to happen more and more.:( I hope people will soon realize that it's impossible to think when you have someone watching over your shoulder.
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Yeah, this is like this anti-klez someone was kind enough to send me by email. As it said in the email, it triggered the anti-virus, but that's OK, I could safely ignore it cause the email told me to.
... if only everyone learned to speak Klingon.
It's one of the rare movies that are really worth buying twice. So I've really no problems with 2 editions thing.
The dangerous escaped convict, Codexus, was arrested after he made the mistake of ordering his usual Sushi, Banana, Oignon, Extra-Cheese pizza. He was the only person in the BatchTrace database to have ever ordered that kind of pizza and the system was able to immediately alert the police.
Never trust M$? I'm sorry but it's clearly documented that the asserts are stripped from the release code. The macro to use for code you want to check in debug mode but still execute in release mode is VERIFY()
I'm no fan of Microsoft, but it's a bit easy to blame them for your own mistakes.
That one is an oldie :) Back in the Amiga days I had made this game that worked fine on my A500 but that stopped working after a while on most other A500. That was strange as the machines were supposed to be identical and I couldn't make more tests at home.
So I used the Action Replay cartridge. For those who don't know about Action Replay, those were "hardware debuggers" that pluged on the bus and could stop and restore the execution of the running program. They were very powerful debugging tools.
After inspecting the content of the hardware registers thanks to the Action Replay, the result was that on some revision of the A500 motherboard the audio interupts had a slightly different timing that caused an improbable case were the audio samples always stopped playing on offset 0 retrigering an audio interupt as soon as one was handled.
The Amiga was so much fun...
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The solution is simple: Block the ads from those portals.
That's even worse for the portal and the ISP customers are happy.
No, that's scheduled for 2015. An auto detailer of questionable reputation claims to have seen one in 1985 but that's unlikely to be true.
Yes, but I understand his decision. He doesn't want to be the leader of a community project where he would do more management than coding. He wants to code his own engine for fun. Open-sourcing too early would not help and might result in problems. This reminds me of phpNuke which eventually forked and AtheOS (I'm not sure if it forked but I know the author wanted to continue do most of the coding himself and was concerned about a fork he didn't want.)
Well, with C/C++ and Java they would still have a chance of succeeding. The DoD should be forced to use Visual Basic for all its programming. The world would be a much safer place.
We hardly ever test anything before releasing it. So, regression testing? Customers are our regression tests, they are quite fast at finding all the stuff we've broken with the new release.
Perl was not designed to do what it's now being used for. The result is an awfully designed language made of layers and layers of incoherent stuff. Wouldn't the money be better used on projects that not as many people have heard about but that have a lot of potential if they can be completed?
Thanks to this article, I've noticed that the kit is now available for order in europe. w00t! I'll be doing some serious PS2 coding soon :)
2) Never leave your current job (also obvious, but not really under your control)
I disagree with this. Don't miss an interesting opportunity just because you don't have a degree. If you're hired for a better position your resume will look better and employers are less likely to care about your lack of degree.
This story reminded me of this Star Trek episode where Riker says:
"A blind man teaching an android to paint? That's gotta be worth something to someone."
So go and chess aren't addictive games? Funny, cause some people spend their life playing them.
All games are addictive. "Having fun" is addictive. Should everything that is addictive be considered bad? What would be left? Even work is addictive to some people.
I typed: luke, han, leia and chewie and I got all the other charcters including minor ones like admiral ackbar !!! Now if only it wasn't /.ed maybe I could get Star Trek characters :)
Uh, aren't being you a little paranoid? So what if someone gets your real name in a spam mail? I don't see why they would find that so interesting.
Great Scott! Best news of the day! Thanks for sharing the info. I have the trilogy on laserdisc but a DVD is much better :)
Hmmm, maybe the english word isn't "liberal". Although we usually use that word in that sense in french. Or maybe you thought I was saying that the 2 weeks delay is more liberal than the "work at will" type of contract while I was saying that both are too liberal, but the work at will being the worse.
I'm using the word as in related to liberalism which is defined in the Webster (among other definitions) as:
"a theory in economics emphasizing individual freedom from restraint and usually based on free competition, the self-regulating market, and the gold standard"
So basically I see this kind of "work at will" contracts as being bad for the worker and good for corporations.
I hope you understand better what I mean. And I'm sorry if I wasn't clear.
No, there are exceptional cases, off course. You can be fired without delay if you act like that. Same as you can quit without delay in some cases such as the employer not paying you in time.
In fact if you start not showing up for your work without reason, you'd be liable to the employer. You would be the one not respecting the contract.
Once again I'm appalled with how liberal the US law is.
In Switzerland, the common practice for employment contracts is to have 1 or 2 month delay to quit or be fired (longer delays are also not uncommon, my current contract has a 6 months delay starting next year, but I'll renegociate that, I think that's a bit too long).
Enough time to get a new job or for the employer to find a replacement.
You have a contract that they can't change at will. So the best course of action is simply not to accept a paycut.
The most scary part of the whole eXtreme Programming stuff is the pair coding. For those who don't know, it's the idea that all programming should be done by two people at the same time one actually coding and supposed to think "strategically" (about integration, structure and stuff like that).
:( I hope people will soon realize that it's impossible to think when you have someone watching over your shoulder.
Now some poor programmers don't even have a PC for themselves. They have to share it with a colleague and they are even denied their most basic right to have a few square meters of personal space.
I would never accept such working conditions but it's unfortunate that this seems to happen more and more.