Anyone who hasn't figured out that the United States is a police state just hasn't been paying attention. This is really not a matter of opinion. The fact is that the U.S. has a larger percentage of its population in prison than any other nation in the world. There are two possible explanations for this circumstance:
There are two types of people in the world: those that divide everything into two possibilities and those that don't. Is it possible there are several reasons, including that the U.S., like banks, attracts criminals because it's where the money and opportunity is?
Don't really care about the costs and burdens blocking sites places on ISPs. Blocking child porn is more important than the ISP revenue.
I love that attitude: I don't care what it costs - as long as someone else is paying for it.
It's an unfunded mandate by the government, but someone has to pay for the hardware and labor. That someone is us in the form of higher fees to the ISPs. And when the kiddie pr0n is taken care of (like they could really ban a moving target), we'll also need to ban the sites with "hate speech" and other bad stuff, which will require even more money.
The conduit is not the problem. Although cars on highways are the chosen method for distribution of illegal drugs in the U.S., neither highway departments nor auto companies have been required to ban such use. It is a problem for law enforcement, not the legislature. The dealers need to be shut down - not the highway.
This is false. Even if the votes had favored Bush (they didn't), the SC decision was to ignore the vote based on the fact that the press had already declared Bush the winner.
Where on earth did you come up with that? The Supreme Court decision merely agreed that the Florida court was attempting to rig the election by a selective recount, also after the deadline, which was against Florida's laws.
When the media did their own recount in Florida, they decided that Bush still won, although it didn't make a lot of headlines (big surprise).
I'm no Bush fan, but don't rag on the Supreme Court because they're doing their job - as opposed to a bunch of judges in Florida who have to stand for retention elections.
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Inquiring minds want to know why that moderating Redundant. Twice. Honestly. What is redundant about it?
Personally, I think *redundant* is what 12-year-olds with mod points use when they disagree with you. They have no idea what it means, but it sounds like they're dissing you, so it's a good choice.
The other possibility is that it's used by Coward Moderators who realize that it's unlikely to be caught in M2 - how many metamods will actually read a whole discussion and check all the time stamps to see if redundant was appropriate?
Depending on how you look at it, 99 percent of the comments on Slashdot could be considered redundant. I think that category should be ditched. (And I have no doubt some 12-year-old smartass will mod this redundant.:)
How can you raise the slammer worm and then say that Microsoft doesn't respond quickly? . . . People aren't applying the patches in spite of clear warnings.
My point isn't that he was admitted. My point was that he selected ITT (or whatever the name was) in place of supposedly prestigous MIT as his first choice. As for the "premise of the whole program", I'm not disputing that there may be another perspective. But you have yet to provide one.
*Sigh*. He didn't select MIT as his second choice. He applied to both IIT and Cornell. Which one was his first choice, I don't know nor care. When I was an 18-year-old American, I certainly wouldn't have made an Indian school my first choice - it's reasonable to want to be at home. It was Stahl who claimed they were using American schools merely as "backups". IIT turned him down. If his father hadn't been a bigwig at Cornell, they likely would have turned him down too.
The segment you're talking about was done at the suggestion of an Indian doctor during a campaign by Indian outsourcing companies to do some Indian "branding" in the US, i.e., to talk up the quality of their workforce. 60 Minutes has been roundly criticized for the segment, but in their usual fashion have refused to address their yellow-sheet shortcomings. I'm wondering why a non-American would be so willing to accept their claims when Americans consider 60 Minutes to be entertainment rather than journalism. If 60 Minutes said American engineers were far superior to all others, would you swallow that too? I wouldn't. I figure there's not much difference based on nationality.
As for this particular student's father holding a position at Cornell, why do you feel that is relevant?
Duh. The Indian kid's father is a donor to the school and also sits on committee. You think they are going to refuse to admit his kid? And accepting the premise of the whole program because it might contain a "minor grain of truth" is just plain stupid.
What do you do when original developer is not available? Call youself braindead, or admit you are wrong, and the parent poster right?
Your question shows your ignorance, grasshopper. The "parent" poster expected that all code should be self-explanatory if correctly written and all coders are created equal. People who work on non-trivial code in the real world come to realize that coders are not widgets, and talents differ. An incompetent or misleading or copy/pasted comment in code is worse than none at all.
I've been working for 10 years. I've seen female programmers only in government and big companies working on federal contracts. They are usually in support groups. Some of them have been programming since the 1970s, true. They are very enthusiastic about ksh shell scripts. I'm sorry, but I've never seen a female programmer in a private company, and I've never seen a creative woman-programmer.
I'm guessing you were trying to get a +funny mod for that - if not, shame on you. I've worked with female programmers in both federal contracts and private business for many years, and I have never noted a lack of creativity or competence based on sex. Indeed, it seems the female programmers have to work harder to overcome misconceptions like yours. Just to make the record clear, I'm male and have had the good luck to have some talented female programmers working on many of my projects.
Wow. Must be really nice to work at a place where people can just decide whether they want to have offices or cubes rather than being assigned to a space. What part of heaven is that?
Well written code is code that someone else can start working with without having to ask the previous developer any questions.
I find it hard to believe anyone familiar with programming would say that and that anyone else would mod it up. It presupposes that all code is trivial and all programmers are equal. A new developer without questions is brain-dead - like the parent post.
When I was a lad in college, it was politically incorrect, although we didn't use that term, to open the door for women. We'd even go so far as to open the door for a man and allow it to swing in the face of a woman.
Yes, it reminds me of a time in a shopping mall when I went through a door and held it open for a young "lady" behind me. Her thanks was, "What's your problem, I don't have a broken arm." I still hold doors open for others - male or female.
I've been considering why it's now getting so popular to outsource IT overseas. Perhaps in part the investors/executives have a vendetta against IT professionals because of the.com fiasco.
It's got nothing to do with vendetta - top management can't think beyond the next quarter - they don't have near enough brains or patience to even contemplate vendetta.
It's all about stock options. CxOs get lots of them, but they have to generate short-term stock price increases in order to make them profitable. The company (CEO) claims they will reduce costs by offshoring jobs because labor is cheaper *over there*. The software projects fail, but the stock price bounces up due to stock analysts favorable opinions about saving money. The company tanks, but the CxOs retire with millions of dollars in profitable exercised options. This is all covered in MBA 101 - hope it helps clarify things for you.
Get a group of you together and setup a company offering to rescue faulty developments and fix bad overseas code on a high speed/high fee basis. Invest in tools that help you to do this, or write your own.
Your premise is faulty. Management is offshoring jobs because they *know* that it will save money. They would not be willing to admit that the offshoring failed by hiring a company to fix the faulty product. They would spend millions more in fees to the provider rather than admit their mistake.
There are no tools to economically "fix" bad code (outside of leak testers and such), nor is it possible to write them. That is why we have programmers in the first place.
There was a 60 minutes story some time ago about a famous Indian engineering school . . . I doubted before, but this episode left me convinced that a fair amount of Indian engineers are far more well-educated than the vast majority of Europeans and Americans
You can't imagine how sad that makes me feel for the future of American IT. Obviously, if Americans find their truth in weekly communion with 60 Minutes , we are doomed. The school in question was IIT, and the story by Leslie Stahl gushed over one student named Murthy who was passed over by IIT but gained admittance to Cornell. What Stahl failed to mention was that Murthy's father held a prominent position at Cornell and is a significant donor.
Even by Asian standards, IIT's curriculum is not highly regarded. By American standards, it's considered dated, with little hands-on experience. If Americans can't look any farther than a TV for truth, perhaps we deserve to be supplanted in information-related jobs.
He has 15,000 developers, and over 1000 projects a year. 90% of his customers are repeat customers, and all of their projects are successful. They left CMM level 5 behind a few years ago.
All software projects are successful when you are free to bill whatever time is required with no managers informed enough to question the numbers. CMM is archaic and useless. Even the DoD has admitted that it's nothing more than a guide for a paper trail and needs to be redone.
Programing is more of a science than an art. Theres a right answer for a given problem that can be expressed in more ways than one. In art there is no correct answer ever; in science and computers the product has to actually work.
Yet any non-trivial program has bugs, so the answer is not completely "right". While there may be many possible ways to achieve the desired result by programming, some individuals are far more likely to get closer to the "correct answer". It would seem that there is an "art" to good programming.
Designing software is an art. Programming is not an art, it is a craft. The people that design software get paid much more than the company's programmers do.
That depends on the company. Some hire Programmer Analysts instead of Programmers and Analysts. My personal feeling is that you get a better product using Programmer Analysts who do both the design and code. That way the coder understands the design up front and can realize (and modify the design) when the design has flaws.
I have worked for both types of companies, and the ones that separate the duties are a pain. It usually results in more time to completion and a lot of arguments and finger pointing.
When you're getting solder to flow and bond over preheated surfaces, that's sweating. When you're drawing solder away from a surface, that's wicking. I didn't pass all those stupid tests by not knowing the difference.:)
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Anyone who hasn't figured out that the United States is a police state just hasn't been paying attention. This is really not a matter of opinion. The fact is that the U.S. has a larger percentage of its population in prison than any other nation in the world. There are two possible explanations for this circumstance:
There are two types of people in the world: those that divide everything into two possibilities and those that don't. Is it possible there are several reasons, including that the U.S., like banks, attracts criminals because it's where the money and opportunity is?
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Good God - 70% Insightful, 30% Interesting ? Where's the +1 Funny ?
The 12-year-olds are moderating again today. Expect to see lots of redundant mods as well.
See the other reply to my comment. I can't top that, although I think he was a bit harsh. :)
There should be a -1 Gullible moderation category.
Don't really care about the costs and burdens blocking sites places on ISPs. Blocking child porn is more important than the ISP revenue.
I love that attitude: I don't care what it costs - as long as someone else is paying for it.
It's an unfunded mandate by the government, but someone has to pay for the hardware and labor. That someone is us in the form of higher fees to the ISPs. And when the kiddie pr0n is taken care of (like they could really ban a moving target), we'll also need to ban the sites with "hate speech" and other bad stuff, which will require even more money.
The conduit is not the problem. Although cars on highways are the chosen method for distribution of illegal drugs in the U.S., neither highway departments nor auto companies have been required to ban such use. It is a problem for law enforcement, not the legislature. The dealers need to be shut down - not the highway.
This is false. Even if the votes had favored Bush (they didn't), the SC decision was to ignore the vote based on the fact that the press had already declared Bush the winner.
Where on earth did you come up with that? The Supreme Court decision merely agreed that the Florida court was attempting to rig the election by a selective recount, also after the deadline, which was against Florida's laws.
When the media did their own recount in Florida, they decided that Bush still won, although it didn't make a lot of headlines (big surprise).
I'm no Bush fan, but don't rag on the Supreme Court because they're doing their job - as opposed to a bunch of judges in Florida who have to stand for retention elections.
Inquiring minds want to know why that moderating Redundant. Twice. Honestly. What is redundant about it?
Personally, I think *redundant* is what 12-year-olds with mod points use when they disagree with you. They have no idea what it means, but it sounds like they're dissing you, so it's a good choice.
The other possibility is that it's used by Coward Moderators who realize that it's unlikely to be caught in M2 - how many metamods will actually read a whole discussion and check all the time stamps to see if redundant was appropriate?
Depending on how you look at it, 99 percent of the comments on Slashdot could be considered redundant. I think that category should be ditched. (And I have no doubt some 12-year-old smartass will mod this redundant. :)
How can you raise the slammer worm and then say that Microsoft doesn't respond quickly? . . . People aren't applying the patches in spite of clear warnings.
Yeah, right. And the patches work so well, too.
My point isn't that he was admitted. My point was that he selected ITT (or whatever the name was) in place of supposedly prestigous MIT as his first choice. As for the "premise of the whole program", I'm not disputing that there may be another perspective. But you have yet to provide one.
*Sigh*. He didn't select MIT as his second choice. He applied to both IIT and Cornell. Which one was his first choice, I don't know nor care. When I was an 18-year-old American, I certainly wouldn't have made an Indian school my first choice - it's reasonable to want to be at home. It was Stahl who claimed they were using American schools merely as "backups". IIT turned him down. If his father hadn't been a bigwig at Cornell, they likely would have turned him down too.
The segment you're talking about was done at the suggestion of an Indian doctor during a campaign by Indian outsourcing companies to do some Indian "branding" in the US, i.e., to talk up the quality of their workforce. 60 Minutes has been roundly criticized for the segment, but in their usual fashion have refused to address their yellow-sheet shortcomings. I'm wondering why a non-American would be so willing to accept their claims when Americans consider 60 Minutes to be entertainment rather than journalism. If 60 Minutes said American engineers were far superior to all others, would you swallow that too? I wouldn't. I figure there's not much difference based on nationality.
The difference is the current lack of ethics. What's "deeper" than that?
As for this particular student's father holding a position at Cornell, why do you feel that is relevant?
Duh. The Indian kid's father is a donor to the school and also sits on committee. You think they are going to refuse to admit his kid? And accepting the premise of the whole program because it might contain a "minor grain of truth" is just plain stupid.
What do you do when original developer is not available? Call youself braindead, or admit you are wrong, and the parent poster right?
Your question shows your ignorance, grasshopper. The "parent" poster expected that all code should be self-explanatory if correctly written and all coders are created equal. People who work on non-trivial code in the real world come to realize that coders are not widgets, and talents differ. An incompetent or misleading or copy/pasted comment in code is worse than none at all.
Hell, I'd even say that a good manager has to be something of an artist to do his job well.
By all means, feel free to say that. Just don't include my name when you do it. :)
I've been working for 10 years. I've seen female programmers only in government and big companies working on federal contracts. They are usually in support groups. Some of them have been programming since the 1970s, true. They are very enthusiastic about ksh shell scripts. I'm sorry, but I've never seen a female programmer in a private company, and I've never seen a creative woman-programmer.
I'm guessing you were trying to get a +funny mod for that - if not, shame on you. I've worked with female programmers in both federal contracts and private business for many years, and I have never noted a lack of creativity or competence based on sex. Indeed, it seems the female programmers have to work harder to overcome misconceptions like yours. Just to make the record clear, I'm male and have had the good luck to have some talented female programmers working on many of my projects.
Wow. Must be really nice to work at a place where people can just decide whether they want to have offices or cubes rather than being assigned to a space. What part of heaven is that?
Well written code is code that someone else can start working with without having to ask the previous developer any questions.
I find it hard to believe anyone familiar with programming would say that and that anyone else would mod it up. It presupposes that all code is trivial and all programmers are equal. A new developer without questions is brain-dead - like the parent post.
When I was a lad in college, it was politically incorrect, although we didn't use that term, to open the door for women. We'd even go so far as to open the door for a man and allow it to swing in the face of a woman.
Yes, it reminds me of a time in a shopping mall when I went through a door and held it open for a young "lady" behind me. Her thanks was, "What's your problem, I don't have a broken arm." I still hold doors open for others - male or female.
I've been considering why it's now getting so popular to outsource IT overseas. Perhaps in part the investors/executives have a vendetta against IT professionals because of the .com fiasco.
It's got nothing to do with vendetta - top management can't think beyond the next quarter - they don't have near enough brains or patience to even contemplate vendetta.
It's all about stock options. CxOs get lots of them, but they have to generate short-term stock price increases in order to make them profitable. The company (CEO) claims they will reduce costs by offshoring jobs because labor is cheaper *over there*. The software projects fail, but the stock price bounces up due to stock analysts favorable opinions about saving money. The company tanks, but the CxOs retire with millions of dollars in profitable exercised options. This is all covered in MBA 101 - hope it helps clarify things for you.
Get a group of you together and setup a company offering to rescue faulty developments and fix bad overseas code on a high speed/high fee basis. Invest in tools that help you to do this, or write your own.
Your premise is faulty. Management is offshoring jobs because they *know* that it will save money. They would not be willing to admit that the offshoring failed by hiring a company to fix the faulty product. They would spend millions more in fees to the provider rather than admit their mistake.
There are no tools to economically "fix" bad code (outside of leak testers and such), nor is it possible to write them. That is why we have programmers in the first place.
There was a 60 minutes story some time ago about a famous Indian engineering school . . . I doubted before, but this episode left me convinced that a fair amount of Indian engineers are far more well-educated than the vast majority of Europeans and Americans
You can't imagine how sad that makes me feel for the future of American IT. Obviously, if Americans find their truth in weekly communion with 60 Minutes , we are doomed. The school in question was IIT, and the story by Leslie Stahl gushed over one student named Murthy who was passed over by IIT but gained admittance to Cornell. What Stahl failed to mention was that Murthy's father held a prominent position at Cornell and is a significant donor.
Even by Asian standards, IIT's curriculum is not highly regarded. By American standards, it's considered dated, with little hands-on experience. If Americans can't look any farther than a TV for truth, perhaps we deserve to be supplanted in information-related jobs.
He has 15,000 developers, and over 1000 projects a year. 90% of his customers are repeat customers, and all of their projects are successful. They left CMM level 5 behind a few years ago.
All software projects are successful when you are free to bill whatever time is required with no managers informed enough to question the numbers. CMM is archaic and useless. Even the DoD has admitted that it's nothing more than a guide for a paper trail and needs to be redone.
Programing is more of a science than an art. Theres a right answer for a given problem that can be expressed in more ways than one. In art there is no correct answer ever; in science and computers the product has to actually work.
Yet any non-trivial program has bugs, so the answer is not completely "right". While there may be many possible ways to achieve the desired result by programming, some individuals are far more likely to get closer to the "correct answer". It would seem that there is an "art" to good programming.
Designing software is an art. Programming is not an art, it is a craft. The people that design software get paid much more than the company's programmers do.
That depends on the company. Some hire Programmer Analysts instead of Programmers and Analysts. My personal feeling is that you get a better product using Programmer Analysts who do both the design and code. That way the coder understands the design up front and can realize (and modify the design) when the design has flaws.
I have worked for both types of companies, and the ones that separate the duties are a pain. It usually results in more time to completion and a lot of arguments and finger pointing.
When you're getting solder to flow and bond over preheated surfaces, that's sweating. When you're drawing solder away from a surface, that's wicking. I didn't pass all those stupid tests by not knowing the difference. :)