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This seemed like an interesting one. Even included people like me, who don't run unless they're being chased.;-(
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Slashdot has been an institution, despite it's owners best efforts; one of the last vestiges of the bad ol' days. Wallowing in death throws for so long, it's almost a release to see it go down. The only sad part is the community that gets snuffed out as part of it.
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We'll prolly just end up with disabled accounts, but at this point that's not much of a loss.;-(
When Firefox came out, and Mozilla became deprecated, that ended my (unusually supported-by-management) attempt to replace Outlook/IE on our desktops. Firefox was slow and crappy, but Mozilla (the browser) was fast and good, and it's suite had the tools we needed. This was my impression even having run all the milestone builds, which had a pain level about the same as passing stones -- ie, about 1/10th that of running Netscape 4. Admittedly NS4 sucked so bad that in comparison anything was better... hell, I even converted a few to IE just to get away from that POS.
The alternatives were Lynx, wget and telnet * 80, so Firefox it was for desktop-oriented HTTP requests.
The day Chrome was released was the day that Firefox stopped getting used on my desktop. At home it's been a great time. At work I get wrist slapped every 9-12 months by IT Security ("off the top of my head, uh, security reasons" no sh!t) but it's been so worth it to spend my days Fsckingslowfox-free.
FF has been garbage since day 1. Slow, crashy, unresponsive. Their mentality towards the people who use it is flabbergasting and demonstrates a total lack of understanding/experience in the field. Truly offensive.
The fact that people are up in arms _only over plugins_ should be enough indication that the core product is worth very little. Nobody gives a rats ass about Firefox, they care about plugins developed by individuals and companies who, IMHO, seem to be far smarter than those behind the platform they build on.
A good practice is to reverse assertions while you're writing a test. If x is supposed to be false then assert that it's true. The test should fail, but sometimes it doesn't and you realize that your test has a bug or that you've already found a bug in the production code.
Before becoming test-driven I would manually test my stuff, using my judgement to determine the scope of what I'd test. When I became test-driven I saw how writing those tests was like writing the code on the other side of the coin. The design is so clear and beautiful when it's exercised in a suite of tests. I enjoy writing (unit/transactional) tests because it proves how awesome my code is, and is much better at keeping it that way than I am while I'm busy building something more interesting.
This is like if a Janator asked "Should the office manager know about heavy duty plastic garbage bags? I mean, how many times must these thin bags tear open, and how often must I clean up the mess?". The anwser is shut your mouth and clean the shit up.
You're right, that will save the company tons of money on the janitor's salary and an excessive Crappy Plastic Bag budget. What a great influence on the business you are!
Anybody that thinks that doing things the wrong way 10 time because it's 5% cheaper each time is a moron and should neither be in a technical nor managerial position. The correct answer is to listen to the janitor, understand the problem, and allocate/get the budget for better bags. Then the business saves money, the manager is doing his job and the janitor isn't getting shit on by people like you.
Some people like the show and watch it every week. Some would prefer writing documentation to having to sit through an episode. What a shocker that we can differ.
I missed most of the first season but I've watched every episode I could since, and I really like Enterprise. No, it's not TNG, nor DS9 (my favorite, tied w/Enterprise but come on, we all know you can't really beat DS9), and it's not TOS or Voyager either. Before it came out, what I heard was "something like Starfleet academy" and "meeting Klingons." More or less, that's what it's delivered. GEFM.
So for all you "I hate it, therefore it sucks and these people should get lives," types, please just don't watch it, and let the rest of us keep our show.
Or more likely, stop being productive since all {intelligent} companies {will} use Web-based forms. Cough cough, what better way to get rid of stupid proprietary apps than to put a Web interface on them?
The real problem (for my situation) is higher-ups who simply choose not to deploy those apps, or deploy versions that require the M$ version of JVM instead of SUN's implementation. And let's not forget stupid suppliers who's "web-based applications" require Active-X. I'm using Linux, you insenstive clod! Really, WTF is the point of a Web app that requires you to be able to run native win32 code? Come on! Self-castration sounds more logical!
Ack, my head is spinning from all the holes I've put in my office walls.
Aside from just the upgrade costs (I work for an employer with 6,000 seats), my little agency (500 seats) recent forked over more than $50K just to ensure we were in compliance - ie, to get them off our fucking backs, until next {week/month/year} when they decide they want more. Hey, it's cheaper than software license management software!
Microsoft: Don't make us do it for you. Us: Okay, okay, all our dollars are belong to Microsoft. Us[$it]: CHRIST. We all know Linux is cheaper. It's better. More reliable. More secure. Oh right, HQ won't install the Web client for (insert useless "corporate app" here), uh-huh.
That $50k could have paid for another developer, some serious Unix boxen, more desperately needed bandwidth, research projects, or any of many USEFUL things. Instead we forked it over to M$ to avoid forking over more later. And the garentee they won't come back? Crossed fingers.
(Disclaimer: FUCK MICROSOFT, I'm not bitter, I'm still angry.)
Back in the TP6 days I wrote a utility for a friend who's house was always open and popped it into autoexec.bat. He'd find various people sitting on his system running whatever they wanted, installing whatever they wanted.
My little program simply asked the question, "do you know the password?" A correct answer "No" would terminate the program, otherwise it would ask for some input and loop.
I was amazed by how many people constantly said "Yes, I know the password" and tried to fake it, then whined asking what the password really was.
Just stop lying to my code, it's smarter than you are!
Who the hell actually plays CD's anymore? Come on people! Spend the $15 for cable and connector's at Battery Shack, connect stereo to line out, fire up xmms/winamp and boom you're done.
Slashdot Mirror
JQuery compared to Slashdot Beta:
The difference between knowing your shit and knowing you're shit.
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This seemed like an interesting one. Even included people like me, who don't run unless they're being chased. ;-(
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Slashdot has been an institution, despite it's owners best efforts; one of the last vestiges of the bad ol' days. Wallowing in death throws for so long, it's almost a release to see it go down. The only sad part is the community that gets snuffed out as part of it.
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We'll prolly just end up with disabled accounts, but at this point that's not much of a loss. ;-(
It's bad enough that we have to use it in the state it's in currently.
Way to race to the bottom.
Our government doesn't need to be prodded to work for the interests that lobbyists represent - by default the government sides with them.
Lobbyists can meet with officials, which is more than enough access if you're reaching a friendly ear.
FYI:
Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada: http://www.ocl-cal.gc.ca/
Database: https://ocl-cal.gc.ca/app/secure/orl/lrrs
When Firefox came out, and Mozilla became deprecated, that ended my (unusually supported-by-management) attempt to replace Outlook/IE on our desktops. Firefox was slow and crappy, but Mozilla (the browser) was fast and good, and it's suite had the tools we needed. This was my impression even having run all the milestone builds, which had a pain level about the same as passing stones -- ie, about 1/10th that of running Netscape 4. Admittedly NS4 sucked so bad that in comparison anything was better... hell, I even converted a few to IE just to get away from that POS.
The alternatives were Lynx, wget and telnet * 80, so Firefox it was for desktop-oriented HTTP requests.
The day Chrome was released was the day that Firefox stopped getting used on my desktop. At home it's been a great time. At work I get wrist slapped every 9-12 months by IT Security ("off the top of my head, uh, security reasons" no sh!t) but it's been so worth it to spend my days Fsckingslowfox-free.
FF has been garbage since day 1. Slow, crashy, unresponsive. Their mentality towards the people who use it is flabbergasting and demonstrates a total lack of understanding/experience in the field. Truly offensive.
The fact that people are up in arms _only over plugins_ should be enough indication that the core product is worth very little. Nobody gives a rats ass about Firefox, they care about plugins developed by individuals and companies who, IMHO, seem to be far smarter than those behind the platform they build on.
Good riddance.
It's Canadian, so you're both right. :-)
A good practice is to reverse assertions while you're writing a test. If x is supposed to be false then assert that it's true. The test should fail, but sometimes it doesn't and you realize that your test has a bug or that you've already found a bug in the production code.
Before becoming test-driven I would manually test my stuff, using my judgement to determine the scope of what I'd test. When I became test-driven I saw how writing those tests was like writing the code on the other side of the coin. The design is so clear and beautiful when it's exercised in a suite of tests. I enjoy writing (unit/transactional) tests because it proves how awesome my code is, and is much better at keeping it that way than I am while I'm busy building something more interesting.
That is a sweet app, not a sweet pad.
s/\?\?\?/online as "Tom Cruise" and tried selling "Katie's used panties" for $100 each/
There are non-neurotic teens?
I for one welcome our new console-smashing overlords.
s/developer/user/
s/entire company/developer's productivity/
You're right, that will save the company tons of money on the janitor's salary and an excessive Crappy Plastic Bag budget. What a great influence on the business you are!
Anybody that thinks that doing things the wrong way 10 time because it's 5% cheaper each time is a moron and should neither be in a technical nor managerial position. The correct answer is to listen to the janitor, understand the problem, and allocate/get the budget for better bags. Then the business saves money, the manager is doing his job and the janitor isn't getting shit on by people like you.
Dammit, I should have said yes to my g/f's maintenance contract...
People have (aha!) different opinions!
Some people like the show and watch it every week. Some would prefer writing documentation to having to sit through an episode. What a shocker that we can differ.
I missed most of the first season but I've watched every episode I could since, and I really like Enterprise. No, it's not TNG, nor DS9 (my favorite, tied w/Enterprise but come on, we all know you can't really beat DS9), and it's not TOS or Voyager either. Before it came out, what I heard was "something like Starfleet academy" and "meeting Klingons." More or less, that's what it's delivered. GEFM.
So for all you "I hate it, therefore it sucks and these people should get lives," types, please just don't watch it, and let the rest of us keep our show.
Or more likely, stop being productive since all {intelligent} companies {will} use Web-based forms. Cough cough, what better way to get rid of stupid proprietary apps than to put a Web interface on them?
The real problem (for my situation) is higher-ups who simply choose not to deploy those apps, or deploy versions that require the M$ version of JVM instead of SUN's implementation. And let's not forget stupid suppliers who's "web-based applications" require Active-X. I'm using Linux, you insenstive clod! Really, WTF is the point of a Web app that requires you to be able to run native win32 code? Come on! Self-castration sounds more logical!
Ack, my head is spinning from all the holes I've put in my office walls.
Aside from just the upgrade costs (I work for an employer with 6,000 seats), my little agency (500 seats) recent forked over more than $50K just to ensure we were in compliance - ie, to get them off our fucking backs, until next {week/month/year} when they decide they want more. Hey, it's cheaper than software license management software!
Microsoft: Don't make us do it for you.
Us: Okay, okay, all our dollars are belong to Microsoft.
Us[$it]: CHRIST. We all know Linux is cheaper. It's better. More reliable. More secure. Oh right, HQ won't install the Web client for (insert useless "corporate app" here), uh-huh.
That $50k could have paid for another developer, some serious Unix boxen, more desperately needed bandwidth, research projects, or any of many USEFUL things. Instead we forked it over to M$ to avoid forking over more later. And the garentee they won't come back? Crossed fingers.
(Disclaimer: FUCK MICROSOFT, I'm not bitter, I'm still angry.)
CTRL-C is easy to ignore, it's not universally functional (unlike the Break key on the old trash 80's).
Back in the TP6 days I wrote a utility for a friend who's house was always open and popped it into autoexec.bat. He'd find various people sitting on his system running whatever they wanted, installing whatever they wanted.
My little program simply asked the question, "do you know the password?" A correct answer "No" would terminate the program, otherwise it would ask for some input and loop.
I was amazed by how many people constantly said "Yes, I know the password" and tried to fake it, then whined asking what the password really was.
Just stop lying to my code, it's smarter than you are!
Who the hell actually plays CD's anymore? Come on people! Spend the $15 for cable and connector's at Battery Shack, connect stereo to line out, fire up xmms/winamp and boom you're done.
Removable media? Offline? No thanks.
>And for the love of all that's holy, somebody start having sex with Liv Tyler
Work work work... At least this is overtime I can enjoy.
Hmmm...
"3" megabits from cable modem = $40/mo
Regular phone service = $50/mo
- or -
10 megabits from whoever = $100/mo
No phone service (die, Bell, die!) = Priceless