We had to attack the Afghanis because of terrorism
Well, given that the Taliban government of Afghanistan was harboring Bin Laden, who had just hijacked two planes and killed over three thousand Americans, and then refused to hand Bin Laden over for justice, yes, the United States did have to attack Afghanistan to fight terrorism.
In my experience, the correlation isn't between lacking social skills and having great technical skills... it's between lacking social skills and THINKING that you have great technical skills. One of the best and most brilliant developers / architects I've ever known was also an amazing story teller with an incredible sense of humor. One of the least skilled guys I've known who was head of software development was a sociopath who thought he was a god.
Yes, I've also known the classic guys who had few social skills and were clearly very bright. I'm just saying that lacking social skills in a developer means zero about their technical skills. The other thing about the guys with few social skills is that they might be very smart and might do what made sense to them, but what they did wasn't necessarily useful to the customer.
Ironically today's Slashdot story is about how China is now investigating the construction of the high-speed rail system due to shoddy construction.
This idea that the Chinese have some brilliant planned society reminds me of the famous "I have seen the future and it works" remark. We all know how that turned out.
He did NOT "keep it secret". When this all started Obama produced a "Certificate of Live Birth" which is, guess what,
A BIRTH CERTIFICATE
I happened to be cleaning out my safety deposit box recently, glanced at MY birth certificate, and right at the top, it said "Certificate of Live Birth". By the "logic" of the esteemed leaders of Birthers (luminaries like Donald Trump), that means I was born in Kenya. In fact, I'm sure millions of Americans have that same type document as their birth certificate. I guess we're all from Kenya.
The most interesting thing about the revelations of how Google & Apple are collecting enormous amounts of personal data is the rationalizations that people are using to ignore the issue. Thinking ahead, when Apple starts enforcing the little-known clause in their EULA that requires people to sacrifice their first born to Baal, I'm sure there will be comments about how Baal has gotten a bad rap and is actually related to Spring fertility gods, and therefore the sacrifice is a good thing, as it will guarantee us not only a continued supply of high tech but also a better food supply.
It's funny how the first Doctor that you see is "The Doctor". For me it's Tom Baker... I must have started watching in the late 70's or early 80s and to me Tom will always be "The Doctor". I did love Sarah Jane Smith, she really had far more "character" than a lot of the other companions.
"Siemens should explain why and how it provided the enemy with equipment that could be used to make nuclear weapons" citation please. According to numerous reports by the IAEA there is no evidence that Iran is developing nuclear weapons.
They estimate the sales pretty much the same way that people who say "piracy doesn't hurt sales" do... they make a guess. At least in the case of the bean counters, it's an educated guess.
I still can't believe that DVRs are so widely used. When most people who have a DVR have internet fast enough to stream video, it kind of seems like we are living in a backwards world. Why should I have to remember to record something, worry about overlapping shows, and worry about shows that start early, end late, or start late because of delays (due to sports), when I really should just be able to watch whatever I want, whenever I want. As long as I'm paying for access to it in the first place that is.
Don't want to blow your mind, but I still use VCR tapes. It's cheap and easy. Why should I have to worry about bandwidth caps or finding the show on the Internet or the provider not putting up the show for two weeks or only having it online for one week, or having it look not so nice because I only get about 3mb, when I can just record and watch at my leisure?
I suspect that the system went thru a lot of iterations of execs laying out requirements, seeing the result, and then saying "oh no, that's not what we want".
Time to review an appropriate lesson which never seems to be learned:
"At some point it becomes necessary to behead all the architects and begin construction."
-- Abi-Bar-Shim (Project Mgr. - Great Pyramid)
This reminds me of a funny story. Intro college computer class. Prof gives students assignment, then changes up the assignment after a week or so. Student gets all pissed off about how unrealistic it is that assignment would change.:)
Do you really think that for something this complex, where the NY Times is trying to define a new business model, the dev team is going to get a fixed set of requirements up front? It's a lot better to iterate and spend a few more millions than it is to deliver the original requirements and go out of business.
It's unlikely that we will elect the next President of the United States based on the candidates' popularity abroad. If we wanted to do that, we would invert the voting rules and only let non-citizens vote.
As usual, the truth is somewhere in between the extremes. The reactors aren't going to have nuclear explosions... but the whole "nothing bad could happen, we've got a containment vessel around it" is bullshit. If nothing bad couldn't happen, the Japanese wouldn't be working like beavers pumping seawater into the reactor. Pumping seawater means they've completely written off the reactor. It's the "nuke the site from orbit" approach. You don't do that unless the situation is pretty dire.
So yeah, thinking and rethinking nuclear and thinking about how to do it better and what to do with the leftovers is good thing, not a bad thing.
Congratulations! You have truly topped yourself. Imagine, the USA launching World War 2 against defenseless Japan! Surely the crime of the last century.
Once you know VB.Net, you know C#, and vice versa. Maybe a day to adapt to the syntax. I've actually looked at code and had to think for a second about whether I was looking at C# or VB.Net.
C# and VB.Net are two different syntaxes for using the same common runtime library. Arguing about whether C# is better or worse than VB.Net is the height of language snobbery. What matters is the.Net library underneath. The only reason to prefer one over the other is because you happen to prefer one syntax over the other.
Sorry but if are going to call yourself a "professional" developer then you should know the syntax of Java and/or C#. Once you know one of those languages then you should be able to move between the two fairly easily as the job/project requires. If you go from knowing VB and learn only VB.NET then you will be limiting yourself considerably.
There are a number of languages which you can access Cocoa from on OS X but I would hardly consider all of them equal to each other.
Where in my post did you see anything about not knowing Java or C#? And what does Cocoa have to do with.Net development?
C# and VB.Net are two "skins" on the same underlying framework. If you are a language snob, you may not like it, but VB.Net developers can do EXACTLY the same functions that C# developers do. This kind of snobbery is what limits you from being a "professional" developer.
C# and VB.Net are two different syntaxes for using the same common runtime library. Arguing about whether C# is better or worse than VB.Net is the height of language snobbery. What matters is the.Net library underneath. The only reason to prefer one over the other is because you happen to prefer one syntax over the other.
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We're 20 years away from getting fusion power plants. However, we've been 20 years away for the past 50 years.
We had to attack the Afghanis because of terrorism
Well, given that the Taliban government of Afghanistan was harboring Bin Laden, who had just hijacked two planes and killed over three thousand Americans, and then refused to hand Bin Laden over for justice, yes, the United States did have to attack Afghanistan to fight terrorism.
I was replying to your comment: "But in my experience (your experience may differ) it is the more social person who lacks the technical skills."
In my experience, the correlation isn't between lacking social skills and having great technical skills... it's between lacking social skills and THINKING that you have great technical skills. One of the best and most brilliant developers / architects I've ever known was also an amazing story teller with an incredible sense of humor. One of the least skilled guys I've known who was head of software development was a sociopath who thought he was a god.
Yes, I've also known the classic guys who had few social skills and were clearly very bright. I'm just saying that lacking social skills in a developer means zero about their technical skills. The other thing about the guys with few social skills is that they might be very smart and might do what made sense to them, but what they did wasn't necessarily useful to the customer.
Ironically today's Slashdot story is about how China is now investigating the construction of the high-speed rail system due to shoddy construction.
This idea that the Chinese have some brilliant planned society reminds me of the famous "I have seen the future and it works" remark. We all know how that turned out.
He did NOT "keep it secret". When this all started Obama produced a "Certificate of Live Birth" which is, guess what,
A BIRTH CERTIFICATE
I happened to be cleaning out my safety deposit box recently, glanced at MY birth certificate, and right at the top, it said "Certificate of Live Birth". By the "logic" of the esteemed leaders of Birthers (luminaries like Donald Trump), that means I was born in Kenya. In fact, I'm sure millions of Americans have that same type document as their birth certificate. I guess we're all from Kenya.
The most interesting thing about the revelations of how Google & Apple are collecting enormous amounts of personal data is the rationalizations that people are using to ignore the issue. Thinking ahead, when Apple starts enforcing the little-known clause in their EULA that requires people to sacrifice their first born to Baal, I'm sure there will be comments about how Baal has gotten a bad rap and is actually related to Spring fertility gods, and therefore the sacrifice is a good thing, as it will guarantee us not only a continued supply of high tech but also a better food supply.
100 Euros seems a bit steep... that seems like a fairly high percentage of the retail cost, given that Other OS isn't the major function of the box.
It's funny how the first Doctor that you see is "The Doctor". For me it's Tom Baker... I must have started watching in the late 70's or early 80s and to me Tom will always be "The Doctor". I did love Sarah Jane Smith, she really had far more "character" than a lot of the other companions.
"Siemens should explain why and how it provided the enemy with equipment that could be used to make nuclear weapons" citation please. According to numerous reports by the IAEA there is no evidence that Iran is developing nuclear weapons.
If only I had mod points for +1 Funny.
They estimate the sales pretty much the same way that people who say "piracy doesn't hurt sales" do... they make a guess. At least in the case of the bean counters, it's an educated guess.
I still can't believe that DVRs are so widely used. When most people who have a DVR have internet fast enough to stream video, it kind of seems like we are living in a backwards world. Why should I have to remember to record something, worry about overlapping shows, and worry about shows that start early, end late, or start late because of delays (due to sports), when I really should just be able to watch whatever I want, whenever I want. As long as I'm paying for access to it in the first place that is.
Don't want to blow your mind, but I still use VCR tapes. It's cheap and easy. Why should I have to worry about bandwidth caps or finding the show on the Internet or the provider not putting up the show for two weeks or only having it online for one week, or having it look not so nice because I only get about 3mb, when I can just record and watch at my leisure?
I suspect that the system went thru a lot of iterations of execs laying out requirements, seeing the result, and then saying "oh no, that's not what we want".
Time to review an appropriate lesson which never seems to be learned:
"At some point it becomes necessary to behead all the architects and begin construction." -- Abi-Bar-Shim (Project Mgr. - Great Pyramid)
This reminds me of a funny story. Intro college computer class. Prof gives students assignment, then changes up the assignment after a week or so. Student gets all pissed off about how unrealistic it is that assignment would change. :)
Do you really think that for something this complex, where the NY Times is trying to define a new business model, the dev team is going to get a fixed set of requirements up front? It's a lot better to iterate and spend a few more millions than it is to deliver the original requirements and go out of business.
It's unlikely that we will elect the next President of the United States based on the candidates' popularity abroad. If we wanted to do that, we would invert the voting rules and only let non-citizens vote.
If you don't think George W. Bush... followed by Barak Obama... is a change, then I don't know what is!
I can't quite tell if you are joking or not.
I can't quite tell if you are joking or not.
You are trying to inject rationality into the discussion. That isn't allowed on Slashdot.
OK, something you need to understand: person who doesn't know what you know != moron.
As usual, the truth is somewhere in between the extremes. The reactors aren't going to have nuclear explosions... but the whole "nothing bad could happen, we've got a containment vessel around it" is bullshit. If nothing bad couldn't happen, the Japanese wouldn't be working like beavers pumping seawater into the reactor. Pumping seawater means they've completely written off the reactor. It's the "nuke the site from orbit" approach. You don't do that unless the situation is pretty dire. So yeah, thinking and rethinking nuclear and thinking about how to do it better and what to do with the leftovers is good thing, not a bad thing.
The best thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
Congratulations! You have truly topped yourself. Imagine, the USA launching World War 2 against defenseless Japan! Surely the crime of the last century.
You definitely deserve some sort of award for most facts left out of a one-sided post... congratulations.
Just as the United States & Israel are convenient scapegoats. Logic doesn't enter in to it, does it?
Once you know VB.Net, you know C#, and vice versa. Maybe a day to adapt to the syntax. I've actually looked at code and had to think for a second about whether I was looking at C# or VB.Net.
C# and VB.Net are two different syntaxes for using the same common runtime library. Arguing about whether C# is better or worse than VB.Net is the height of language snobbery. What matters is the .Net library underneath. The only reason to prefer one over the other is because you happen to prefer one syntax over the other.
Sorry but if are going to call yourself a "professional" developer then you should know the syntax of Java and/or C#. Once you know one of those languages then you should be able to move between the two fairly easily as the job/project requires. If you go from knowing VB and learn only VB.NET then you will be limiting yourself considerably.
There are a number of languages which you can access Cocoa from on OS X but I would hardly consider all of them equal to each other.
Where in my post did you see anything about not knowing Java or C#? And what does Cocoa have to do with .Net development?
C# and VB.Net are two "skins" on the same underlying framework. If you are a language snob, you may not like it, but VB.Net developers can do EXACTLY the same functions that C# developers do. This kind of snobbery is what limits you from being a "professional" developer.
C# and VB.Net are two different syntaxes for using the same common runtime library. Arguing about whether C# is better or worse than VB.Net is the height of language snobbery. What matters is the .Net library underneath. The only reason to prefer one over the other is because you happen to prefer one syntax over the other.