Especially paid overtime -- who gets that? Anyone?
I work at a small (50 people) software company. My work week is 37 hours; if I put in more than that, I get a proportionately higher pay. Under special circumstances overtime can get compensated at a higher rate (e.g. 1.5 or twice the usual pay).
Since I like to spend time with my family, I usually work one or two evenings every week so that I can leave relatively early each day.
And BTW, since we actually are good at doing project planning, almost noone works more than 37 hrs/week in average.
If you RTFA, you will discover that turbo coding is not new - e.g. it is currently used on at least one well-known packet-switched satellite phone system.
The article simply says that turbo coding is about to go mainstream.
get real. We are talking about 5-6 year olds. Kids that age don't have the needed dexterity to safely use hammer and nails. For a child closer to 10 or so I would agree with you.
Bollocks. My daughter is nearly 6, and she enjoys banging nails into a piece of wood (though she doesn't quite have the necessary muscle strength for it).
So what if she should happen to hit her own finger? That's minor compared to the feeling of pride she gets from having created something herself.
Below the projects that are marginally successful is the dark underside of open source, the thousands of dead and moribund projects on SourceForge. The SourceForge people like to boast about how many projects they have, but for most of them, they're just providing free hosting for trash.
True, and SF has recognized this - they have recently announced that they will start purging projects with no activity.
Cell phone manufacturers have already realized that it is hard to combine stability with feature-richness.
That's one reason why modern PDA-like phones use several processors - one processor (+DSP) for the actual phone, where stability is critical, and one processor for the other (GUI) applications such as phonebook, games, etc.
And the "phone" processor typically uses a simple OS (no virtual memory etc), whereas the other one uses more advanced OS'es such as Symbian or embedded Linux.
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Are you sure it's not the other way round?
What do you mean, "if"?
I work at a small (50 people) software company. My work week is 37 hours; if I put in more than that, I get a proportionately higher pay. Under special circumstances overtime can get compensated at a higher rate (e.g. 1.5 or twice the usual pay).
Since I like to spend time with my family, I usually work one or two evenings every week so that I can leave relatively early each day.
And BTW, since we actually are good at doing project planning, almost noone works more than 37 hrs/week in average.
ThinGeek? Is that like WeightWatchers for nerds?
Actually it means "play well" in Danish. I don't speak Latin, so I'll refrain from commenting on that part.
The article simply says that turbo coding is about to go mainstream.
Strange, most walls I've seen are square, not cubical.
No, Plaugerists are of course the followers of C++ guru P. J. Plauger.
The space between the option and the argument is always optional.
Since this is apparently (mostly) about books of the dead-tree variety, making a copy is not that convenient.
Bollocks. My daughter is nearly 6, and she enjoys banging nails into a piece of wood (though she doesn't quite have the necessary muscle strength for it).
So what if she should happen to hit her own finger? That's minor compared to the feeling of pride she gets from having created something herself.
USB "drives" use an USB-specific protocol defined by the USB organization.
True, and SF has recognized this - they have recently announced that they will start purging projects with no activity.
(Bluetooth range is typically 10 meters for a class 2 device ).
> a voice file asking, "What the f*ck do you think you are doing?"
Huh? How the fuck do you pronounce that? "What the fasteriskck"? Doesn't make sense...
That's one of the funniest typos I have seen in a while.
Silicon (as in microchips) is not the same as silicone (as in artificial boobs).
The site linked to mentions that 4 GB media are readily available. I think that'll do nicely.
I completely agree (but then I'm an M Sc EE :-)
Amen. Just tried out VS .NET on W2K, and it BSOD'ed twice.
> Who writes such long casual emails (without
> spelling mistakes and grammatical errors) ?
The fact that you can't spell or write doesn't mean nobody else can.
And bear in mind that the writer is supposedly a professional journalist, who may be assumed to *like* writing.
That's one reason why modern PDA-like phones use several processors - one processor (+DSP) for the actual phone, where stability is critical, and one processor for the other (GUI) applications such as phonebook, games, etc.
And the "phone" processor typically uses a simple OS (no virtual memory etc), whereas the other one uses more advanced OS'es such as Symbian or embedded Linux.
Probably some MS exec has heard something about the popularity of Apache...
But then BK is easily ten times better than SourceUnsafe.