We're very pleased to announce that "Duke Nukem 3D for Xbox LIVE Arcade" will be coming to your Xbox 360 console soon!
So it's been Duke Nukem 3D we've been waiting for? Or did they change the name from Duke Nukem Forever? Because if you've all been waiting fro Duke Nukem 3D then that's been out for a while and you can all stop holding yer breath. If you are waiting for Duke Nukem Forever.... well then you've still got some waiting to do.
Oh and by the way. According to these articles McCain is actually a space alien and this article clearly states that Obama is a time-traveler. Don't believe me? Read the article... if you don't how would you know if the article says that or not?
You should be able to dial logging up and down. Use log levels to this advantage. If you are in C++ use compiler pragmas to remove trace logging statements. When doing trace logging you want very verbose output but that's only helpful to you. Think about the application as it ages in the hands of an administrator.
If your application pumps the log full of messages all the time eventually your administrators will start ignoring the logs. They'll be information saturated and unable to distinguish the errors from normal operations. This is bad. In production only log problems and provide plenty all the context you can when you do log.
Your administrators are users too and they only have so much time in a day. You want to only complain to them when something very bad has happened. You want them to sit up and pay attention when your application burps out a log.
Obviously, I've presented the most extreme case... there are points on this continuum of silent to verbose that make sense for different situations. Use your judgment and be mindful of your administrator's "information budget".
Wish I hadn't posted so I could mod you up. Very good. Thanks for posting this.
I do see that there is a surge of demand in certain skill sets and a sharp decrease in others. For example, seasoned developers (PHP and Java guys I've talked to) seem to be in demand right now while sys admins, network admins, testers, help desk, analysts, and managers are seeing all time lows in demand. I'm basing this on impromptu "research" using indeed.com and keyword searching job ads and using their graphing feature. So I'm sure it's not totally accurate. It also seems it depends on the state you live in. NC seems to be seeing a big jobs recovery after a major bust.
What you post tells me this regional job market bounce may not last or may just be seasonal. I was hoping it would... show a positive trend... oh well...
I'd anecdotally concur with what you've seen. My skills haven't been in this much demand since the crash. However, my skills have improved drastically in the last few years... so it may be that I got lucky and hit a sweet spot of demand+skills. In short, it looks like "traditional" IT is in trouble but the folks who saw the trends coming and got themselves ready for the changes are doing well.
It is easy to fight an idea when your target audience isn't quite sure about what it is. You simply obfuscate the idea and then substitute your own definition of it. Essentially, you take ownership of it.
Show me an idea with a bloody eye and I'll believe you.
I really don't understand why people don't get it. It is not that Vista is bad (well it is but that is not the point that I am making here) it is the XP is good.
Woah, you just blew my mind. If what you say is true then XP was a major mistake because it was good software. That would mean that Microsoft only makes good software by mistake. That would also mean it was in Microsoft's best interests to make sure its software was buggy and needed replacing constantly... woah...
That means Windows is crappy by design. Wow. I finally get it. Bad is good. Good is bad. I totally get it.
Microsoft cannot extinguish a methodology no matter how much they want to. Sure, they can manipulate the governing systems, they can sue people for "patent infringement" and other garbage, but at the end of the day, open source will continue to proceed unabated.
Didn't we, just yesterday, slam Microsoft for even floating an idea of this type?
Why are we not doing the same to Red Hat?
Are you even reading this forum? I'd say we are slamming Red Hat pretty hard right now. I'm visiting the Red Hat campus tomorrow. I'll be sure to bring up some of these topics with Red Hat engineers.
most programmers are not properly trained in parallel processing programming
In my working experience the following has been true:
Most system administrators have a hard time understanding JBoss at all...
Most programmers are not well trained at all...
If it requires proper training to administrate a cloud computing platform or proper training to write software for a cloud... then cloud computing is DOOMED.
The only thing I can see this being "useful" for is if we wanted a "refueling station" in space where we could just load up a spaceship with what is essentially natural gas. The only problem would be finding oxygen to combust it with...
... hellooo... cloud mining Saturn. The obvious discovered!
This is the official official thread. All other threads should post under this one if they want to be official. Please post here to avoid contaminating the jokes with non-funny comments.
we should all be ashamed... if (as suggested at the end of the story) Google's internet and web page search and optimization activities resemble the dreams of a child that child is dreaming mostly of porn.
Django has an Object-Relational Model built-in to the system. Programmers write a models.py module full of ORM classes. Then, the Django utilities build SQL database tables to match the models. The Django Object-Relational Model has no equal so far as I've seen.
Django enforces the MVC web application. Most other web frameworks let the bad habits creep in.
You have just given the exact same list of reasons I chose to use Groovy/Grails over Ruby on Rails. You have peaked my interest. So I will definitely have to take a look at Django. Especially now that there is a Django plugin for Grails: http://www.grails.org/DjangoTemplates+Plugin... I have a couple of toy projects I may choose to do in Django to get a feel for the framework...
... it really does. Mainly because the joke: in Soviet Russia you put voices in the Ray Gun... makes no sense. In Soviet Russia this gun works the same way.
God Bless you George! I guess Jesus needed someone "funny" for the 4th of July party in Heaven.
Wow. Either you are totally... ignorant of George Carlin's personal beliefs or... a comedy genius... or a very forgiving Jesus-person with a sense of humor...
Either way you are funny as all get out! Wow. Are you sure you're not Stephen Colbert?
So when told that you code like a girl the proper answer is Thank you?
Yes I'm one of those people that like to write many short instructions and I comment on nearly everything. My philosophy has always been that I should understand what the hell I did even after being hit over the head. So some comments become very obvious and the d'oh factor is sometimes quite high. Wait. If that's feminine coding... and that describes my code style... wait... are you guys calling me a girlie man?
If they are right then they are instant Billionaires, if the process really worked they would be commercializing it and completely destabilizing OPEC. I'll believe it when I see it and the world will be rejoicing. I don't know. The process takes 40 square feet for one barrel a week. The US uses... 20,730,000 bbl/day... so to produce 1 days worth of US consumption a week you need... what 829 million square feet? Is that 157,000 square miles? I think I fat fingered the calculator... still it sounds like the thing takes a huge amount of space.
I think the process may need some refinement to subsume old oil production processes. In a way sinking money into this prolongs the old oil infrastructure allowing current oil mavens to profitably milk the last drops from their wells.
Actually, it's a pretty good path forward. The old oil mavens don't have to feel threatened by the new oil mavens and can allow a peaceful transition of economic power.
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Please, people, do believe in standards, this is the only way to go next stage.
I believe in standards like I believe in Santa Claus.
We're very pleased to announce that "Duke Nukem 3D for Xbox LIVE Arcade" will be coming to your Xbox 360 console soon!
So it's been Duke Nukem 3D we've been waiting for? Or did they change the name from Duke Nukem Forever? Because if you've all been waiting fro Duke Nukem 3D then that's been out for a while and you can all stop holding yer breath. If you are waiting for Duke Nukem Forever.... well then you've still got some waiting to do.
Oh and by the way. According to these articles McCain is actually a space alien and this article clearly states that Obama is a time-traveler. Don't believe me? Read the article... if you don't how would you know if the article says that or not?
I vote we call it "Common Gamin' Platform" (CGP) and call it CoGaPlay and port it to the PlayStation 3 and Wii.
You should be able to dial logging up and down. Use log levels to this advantage. If you are in C++ use compiler pragmas to remove trace logging statements. When doing trace logging you want very verbose output but that's only helpful to you. Think about the application as it ages in the hands of an administrator.
If your application pumps the log full of messages all the time eventually your administrators will start ignoring the logs. They'll be information saturated and unable to distinguish the errors from normal operations. This is bad. In production only log problems and provide plenty all the context you can when you do log.
Your administrators are users too and they only have so much time in a day. You want to only complain to them when something very bad has happened. You want them to sit up and pay attention when your application burps out a log.
Obviously, I've presented the most extreme case... there are points on this continuum of silent to verbose that make sense for different situations. Use your judgment and be mindful of your administrator's "information budget".
I for one am glad. It means we can keep using this new buzzword for at least another three years. I just can't handle learning new buzzwords too fast.
Wish I hadn't posted so I could mod you up. Very good. Thanks for posting this.
I do see that there is a surge of demand in certain skill sets and a sharp decrease in others. For example, seasoned developers (PHP and Java guys I've talked to) seem to be in demand right now while sys admins, network admins, testers, help desk, analysts, and managers are seeing all time lows in demand. I'm basing this on impromptu "research" using indeed.com and keyword searching job ads and using their graphing feature. So I'm sure it's not totally accurate. It also seems it depends on the state you live in. NC seems to be seeing a big jobs recovery after a major bust.
What you post tells me this regional job market bounce may not last or may just be seasonal. I was hoping it would... show a positive trend... oh well...
I'd anecdotally concur with what you've seen. My skills haven't been in this much demand since the crash. However, my skills have improved drastically in the last few years... so it may be that I got lucky and hit a sweet spot of demand+skills. In short, it looks like "traditional" IT is in trouble but the folks who saw the trends coming and got themselves ready for the changes are doing well.
It is easy to fight an idea when your target audience isn't quite sure about what it is. You simply obfuscate the idea and then substitute your own definition of it. Essentially, you take ownership of it.
Show me an idea with a bloody eye and I'll believe you.
"That would mean that Microsoft only makes good software by mistake."
3.1, 95, 98, XP, NT 4.0, 2000, 2003, 2008, Office, Exchange, Visual Studio, Halo, Flight Simulator - they seem to make allot of mistakes
I know!
I really don't understand why people don't get it. It is not that Vista is bad (well it is but that is not the point that I am making here) it is the XP is good.
Woah, you just blew my mind. If what you say is true then XP was a major mistake because it was good software. That would mean that Microsoft only makes good software by mistake. That would also mean it was in Microsoft's best interests to make sure its software was buggy and needed replacing constantly ... woah ...
That means Windows is crappy by design. Wow. I finally get it. Bad is good. Good is bad. I totally get it.
Microsoft cannot extinguish a methodology no matter how much they want to. Sure, they can manipulate the governing systems, they can sue people for "patent infringement" and other garbage, but at the end of the day, open source will continue to proceed unabated.
... I agree ...
How do you fight an idea?
--Ben Hur (1959)
Didn't we, just yesterday, slam Microsoft for even floating an idea of this type?
Why are we not doing the same to Red Hat?
Are you even reading this forum? I'd say we are slamming Red Hat pretty hard right now. I'm visiting the Red Hat campus tomorrow. I'll be sure to bring up some of these topics with Red Hat engineers.
most programmers are not properly trained in parallel processing programming
In my working experience the following has been true:
Most system administrators have a hard time understanding JBoss at all ...
Most programmers are not well trained at all ...
If it requires proper training to administrate a cloud computing platform or proper training to write software for a cloud ... then cloud computing is DOOMED.
You sir, walk softly and carry a big clue-bat.
The only thing I can see this being "useful" for is if we wanted a "refueling station" in space where we could just load up a spaceship with what is essentially natural gas. The only problem would be finding oxygen to combust it with...
... hellooo... cloud mining Saturn. The obvious discovered!
This is the official official thread. All other threads should post under this one if they want to be official. Please post here to avoid contaminating the jokes with non-funny comments.
Thank you and good day sirs!
we should all be ashamed... if (as suggested at the end of the story) Google's internet and web page search and optimization activities resemble the dreams of a child that child is dreaming mostly of porn.
Django has an Object-Relational Model built-in to the system. Programmers write a models.py module full of ORM classes. Then, the Django utilities build SQL database tables to match the models. The Django Object-Relational Model has no equal so far as I've seen.
Django enforces the MVC web application. Most other web frameworks let the bad habits creep in.
You have just given the exact same list of reasons I chose to use Groovy/Grails over Ruby on Rails. You have peaked my interest. So I will definitely have to take a look at Django. Especially now that there is a Django plugin for Grails: http://www.grails.org/DjangoTemplates+Plugin ... I have a couple of toy projects I may choose to do in Django to get a feel for the framework...
I love zoos. Can I pet the yellow part of a meson?
If you do you'll get gluon yer hands.
... it really does. Mainly because the joke: in Soviet Russia you put voices in the Ray Gun... makes no sense. In Soviet Russia this gun works the same way.
God Bless you George! I guess Jesus needed someone "funny" for the 4th of July party in Heaven.
Wow. Either you are totally... ignorant of George Carlin's personal beliefs or... a comedy genius... or a very forgiving Jesus-person with a sense of humor...
Either way you are funny as all get out! Wow. Are you sure you're not Stephen Colbert?
Yes I'm one of those people that like to write many short instructions and I comment on nearly everything. My philosophy has always been that I should understand what the hell I did even after being hit over the head. So some comments become very obvious and the d'oh factor is sometimes quite high. Wait. If that's feminine coding... and that describes my code style... wait... are you guys calling me a girlie man?
thanks. Yeah that's pretty big. And 1/7th the gas for the US. 3k square miles is friggin' huge.
I think the process may need some refinement to subsume old oil production processes. In a way sinking money into this prolongs the old oil infrastructure allowing current oil mavens to profitably milk the last drops from their wells.
Actually, it's a pretty good path forward. The old oil mavens don't have to feel threatened by the new oil mavens and can allow a peaceful transition of economic power.