If you go here and have a look you will see some interesting programs that meet your needs. I was looking for some biochem programs the other day in this web site.
You must be joking. I worked in a support office and on development for a short while (2 years) on some of this software. The user interface of mm is horible.
They are a huge monopolistic force working to curtail any competition. To be fair, that is one reason why I took that job (job security). (I could elaborate on this, but I'm actually pretty indifferent to the monopoly.)
I could write better software from the ground up in a 6 month period of time and many small vendors do this. The problem is that mm/webmd have bought all (almost) of them up. Honestly, I don't care at all about the industry anymore, but for a more motivated person this is an easy way to make a lot of money.
Also, to be fair, most of the other medical software out there is crap too, so in a way, your point is still probably perfectly valid.
Interestingly enough, there are really only three players in the search engine business. Each with a large market share. This monopoly story won't hold against google, king search kong.
The only countries that even pretend to abide by this treaty already have at least 10 or more nuclear weapons stockpiled, and or they are under the nuclear umbrella of a larger nuclear power.
Thanks Mr. Bush. What about all of the parents that can't afford the 10 to 20 thousand dollars extra (after the voucher) to get their children into a private school that is even close to comparable to the public school system.
Scrapping a system is a fools way out. This is not a computer program, or a textbook you are talking about. It is a system for educating a diverse populous.
I offered some solutions, how about you try that sometime. It is much easier to say "everything is broken" then it is to offer up anything of credible usage.
Computers and Tech do help, but are not the only ingredient. You are overexagerating the idea of removing them entirely.
Reading more would help -- though you could say that removing the books would cause teachers to actually stand and deliver. Probably too idealistic though.
Good teachers are rarely asked how their subject relates to real life. Try starting every lesson with examples of how the history you are teaching relates to things that your students understand.
It would be really nice to see some modern approaches to teaching classes. Such as props, demonstrations, and truely interesting visuals. Creating lesson plans that involve simultaneous participation of 10 or more students would help keep interest.
I read the article, and in fact I even own the book on Pascal that this guy wrote years and years ago.
All I was trying to say is that Microsoft avoids a lot of bad hires by asking people questions even though they pretend to know stuff.
This guy happens to be an exception, and he really does know stuff (his resume is pretty damn amazing), and the interviewers should have figured that out more quickly.
By the way, aren't most companies arrogant in this same way? It's been my expereince that a lot of companies think they are the greatest place that ever existed.
Hmm, although this type of pop quiz at microsoft is common practice (partly due to the incredible number of graduate degree holding people who lack basic skills), you do bring up a valid point with the way you say they contacted him.
I don't understand how you are going to get around not using a client? There are ftp clients built into just about every web browser. So the client is already there. You can make it secure with tls.
I don't think so, but then again I've never closed the fridge on my head.
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So for the rest of us that still have a 1ghz machine with 256 mb of ram, that would chew up about 10 to 20% of the cpu just for a few downloads. That sucks (cpu)!
That's exactly the same mis-understanding of linux that usually occurs. I can install software on Windows without having to spend half a day installing dependencies just to make it work. If you don't know what I mean, just try installing some new release of proven software on a one year old linux distro. New glibc. New compiler. New gcc dependencies. Patch and recompile the kernel.:)
A piece of software that is worth that much should be taken full advantage of. This is what R&D is meant to do for a company. If you are in R&D this is supposed to be your job, and it is supposed to pay off for your employer someday. Don't complain when this actually ends up successfull.
Open source should not be a consideration for this unless there is some other mitigating concern? Such as the company needs open source, or the software is stagnant because the company doesn't have the resources to apply towards development.
You can always Open source it later.
Let's keep the good programming statements in perspective. I like linux, and use it regularly but it still has its own share of problems, with abscence good programming being one of them.
Linux applications are not usually known for good programming.
What about the millions of shell scripts that are just bad by virtue of being scripted into existance?
Have you seen the innerworkings of some of these linux applications. They are not (for the most part) examples of good programming.
Poor documentation (yes this is part of programming.
Inadequate quality assurance (based on the release early, release often model.
No standard structure to applications.
Applications and drivers need to be recompiled every time something changes. Dependencies seem to change at an alarming rate too.
Damn near zero backwards compatibility.
No upgrade path. (that works -- often the update facilities just screw things up)
Desktop environments with incompatible api running on the same system, forcing developers to not be able to take advantage of a target desktop.
Horrible Virtual memory support.
The ones that are good examples were generally created first by a commercial software house.
ie.) PostgresSQL was done well enough that I was able to figure out the architecture without documentation fairly quickly.
Though, I do agree with your main point, about java, mono, and python being better alternatives.
Also, I do agree that better applications programming skills are needed, and things like source forge and the oss model help young programmers to learn how to more effectively become experienced programmers.
Just go find a normal job in the field. It will be easier to find, and don't pay any attention to the other idiots on this posting (just this one idiot). Apparently, all they can do is offer meaningly words of criticism.
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If you go here and have a look you will see some interesting programs that meet your needs. I was looking for some biochem programs the other day in this web site.
You must be joking. I worked in a support office and on development for a short while (2 years) on some of this software. The user interface of mm is horible.
They are a huge monopolistic force working to curtail any competition. To be fair, that is one reason why I took that job (job security). (I could elaborate on this, but I'm actually pretty indifferent to the monopoly.)
I could write better software from the ground up in a 6 month period of time and many small vendors do this. The problem is that mm/webmd have bought all (almost) of them up. Honestly, I don't care at all about the industry anymore, but for a more motivated person this is an easy way to make a lot of money.
Also, to be fair, most of the other medical software out there is crap too, so in a way, your point is still probably perfectly valid.
Interestingly enough, there are really only three players in the search engine business. Each with a large market share. This monopoly story won't hold against google, king search kong.
I'm not sure we understand how this relates to the previous comment. Could you try to make your statement in a different way?
I have 5 years of experience in this field.
Get it over with and just write the software yourself. Most of the work is custom software anyways.
Log everything to an xml file and or a database.
Write your own front end to the whole test harness.
There really isn't very much good help available.
Even though nunit is good for unit tests, there is nothing that stops you from implementing load/stress and performance tests with it.
You can even use the nunit user interface as a testharness until you get your own written.
In the end you'll spend some time and money on your own automation, but that is what you would have ended up doing down the road anyways.
But .... Damn near all tech jobs are in direct competition with Microsoft.
The only countries that even pretend to abide by this treaty already have at least 10 or more nuclear weapons stockpiled, and or they are under the nuclear umbrella of a larger nuclear power.
I think that entertaining education is far more likely to be successful than boring teacher drool.
Thanks Mr. Bush. What about all of the parents that can't afford the 10 to 20 thousand dollars extra (after the voucher) to get their children into a private school that is even close to comparable to the public school system.
Scrapping a system is a fools way out. This is not a computer program, or a textbook you are talking about. It is a system for educating a diverse populous.
I offered some solutions, how about you try that sometime. It is much easier to say "everything is broken" then it is to offer up anything of credible usage.
I read the article, and in fact I even own the book on Pascal that this guy wrote years and years ago.
All I was trying to say is that Microsoft avoids a lot of bad hires by asking people questions even though they pretend to know stuff.
This guy happens to be an exception, and he really does know stuff (his resume is pretty damn amazing), and the interviewers should have figured that out more quickly.
By the way, aren't most companies arrogant in this same way? It's been my expereince that a lot of companies think they are the greatest place that ever existed.
Hmm, although this type of pop quiz at microsoft is common practice (partly due to the incredible number of graduate degree holding people who lack basic skills), you do bring up a valid point with the way you say they contacted him.
I don't understand how you are going to get around not using a client? There are ftp clients built into just about every web browser. So the client is already there. You can make it secure with tls.
What can you do? Sometimes the truth hurts so much that people will call you a troll. :)
Agreed
What about the Partridge in a pear tree?
I don't think so, but then again I've never closed the fridge on my head.
So for the rest of us that still have a 1ghz machine with 256 mb of ram, that would chew up about 10 to 20% of the cpu just for a few downloads. That sucks (cpu)!
I think you are making my point quite readily apparent. Thank you.
I agree. Though I think better QA integration will help there. And the linux community has been a big proponent of fixing that.
That's exactly the same mis-understanding of linux that usually occurs. I can install software on Windows without having to spend half a day installing dependencies just to make it work. If you don't know what I mean, just try installing some new release of proven software on a one year old linux distro. New glibc. New compiler. New gcc dependencies. Patch and recompile the kernel. :)
A piece of software that is worth that much should be taken full advantage of. This is what R&D is meant to do for a company. If you are in R&D this is supposed to be your job, and it is supposed to pay off for your employer someday. Don't complain when this actually ends up successfull.
Open source should not be a consideration for this unless there is some other mitigating concern? Such as the company needs open source, or the software is stagnant because the company doesn't have the resources to apply towards development.
You can always Open source it later.
Linux applications are not usually known for good programming.
The ones that are good examples were generally created first by a commercial software house.
ie.) PostgresSQL was done well enough that I was able to figure out the architecture without documentation fairly quickly.
Though, I do agree with your main point, about java, mono, and python being better alternatives.
Also, I do agree that better applications programming skills are needed, and things like source forge and the oss model help young programmers to learn how to more effectively become experienced programmers.
you insensitive clod -- don't you read slashdot?
Just go find a normal job in the field. It will be easier to find, and don't pay any attention to the other idiots on this posting (just this one idiot). Apparently, all they can do is offer meaningly words of criticism.