I think that pretty much anyone could get a Nobel these days if properly lobbied. Someone from the Open Source would make great publicity and bring momentum to the movement
This is just insane pseudo science. It would be just plain funny if it wasn't for the fact that these guys are actually ruling the world. They keep adding more and more layers of insanity in an attempt to hold the grip of our society. These guys are the modern priests, burning everyone who doesn't want to "believe" on them.
Strange... nobody here seems to care about the fact that the newest most rich man on earth lives in Mexico, a country drowned in poverty, violence, injustice, ignorance and a long list of etceteras.
Yes, support for iPod on Linux is lousy to say the least. If iPod is really that important to get the younger generation on Linux, somebody should be doing something NOW. Even something commercial, I don't care. A substitute for iTunes or something that let you move tour songs and videos in and out EASILY.
Alex
I know the work of the mexican people involved in gnome, and I know M. De Icaza personally. They're the exception that confirm the rule.
I was thinking about the code that gets produced commercially, either in-house by non-software industries, but most terribly, by shops whose work IS to produce high quality software for its clients.
I guess I have a clue about this: Mexico has a high degree of functional analphabetism, that is, people who are supposed to know how to read but who doesn't. If people don't/can't read regular text, how are they supposed to read code? Or judge it, or learn from it?
I still think that besides all the books pointing out code quality that have came up recently and that maybe don't get read a lot in Mexico; the most important source of learning for the programmer is the source code. Source code written by knwoleadgeable people in the industry (open source), or even by fellow programmers. You can learn a lot by discussing your code with colleagues. Code revisions and practices directly related to code are unthinkable here. There's no such concept of "metoring" neither from seniors to juniors. Best you can get is a book recommendation (mediocre books abound here)
And talking about books: how are people supposed to learn good programming technique if they treasure small languages like VB? Do they even write books on good code writing for VB?
And then translation. I recently filed a complaint on Mcgraw-Hill site for a terrible book translation that, just to put an example, consistenly equaled the term "programmer" with "designer". What could you expect of a translation like this? I even found the spanish translation of the clasic "tiger" o'really java book that somehow managed to teach concepts completely reversed by means of bad writing!!
The problem is that when our typical programmer touches anything like java, not to say C++, which happens to cause panic here, he/she turns it out into garbage.
... to keep nice stuff coming in from the people who makes it. If I build something and want it to be reviewed in order to get some attention, I better be sure not to be trashed...
El Alex Dinamo
Just for the record: I recently questioned a guy from Microsoft if he thinks that without piracy Microsoft could have the success level it actually has in México. He said: definitely not.
No wonder why: few people in México can pay for his own license. I guess that most of the licenses in México are on the corporate side.
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I think that pretty much anyone could get a Nobel these days if properly lobbied. Someone from the Open Source would make great publicity and bring momentum to the movement
This is just insane pseudo science. It would be just plain funny if it wasn't for the fact that these guys are actually ruling the world. They keep adding more and more layers of insanity in an attempt to hold the grip of our society. These guys are the modern priests, burning everyone who doesn't want to "believe" on them.
... so he now tries... the weather??
At least big enough project could vote for new leaders. And those who vote are those who most contributed to the project. Could it work?
Seems like we need to upgrade our moral compass.
Cheers...
Yes, support for iPod on Linux is lousy to say the least. If iPod is really that important to get the younger generation on Linux, somebody should be doing something NOW. Even something commercial, I don't care. A substitute for iTunes or something that let you move tour songs and videos in and out EASILY. Alex
And it used to work. -- Alejandro Escalante Medina http://alexdinamo.homeip.net/weblog
But maybe its me today only...
I know the work of the mexican people involved in gnome, and I know M. De Icaza personally. They're the exception that confirm the rule. I was thinking about the code that gets produced commercially, either in-house by non-software industries, but most terribly, by shops whose work IS to produce high quality software for its clients. I guess I have a clue about this: Mexico has a high degree of functional analphabetism, that is, people who are supposed to know how to read but who doesn't. If people don't/can't read regular text, how are they supposed to read code? Or judge it, or learn from it? I still think that besides all the books pointing out code quality that have came up recently and that maybe don't get read a lot in Mexico; the most important source of learning for the programmer is the source code. Source code written by knwoleadgeable people in the industry (open source), or even by fellow programmers. You can learn a lot by discussing your code with colleagues. Code revisions and practices directly related to code are unthinkable here. There's no such concept of "metoring" neither from seniors to juniors. Best you can get is a book recommendation (mediocre books abound here) And talking about books: how are people supposed to learn good programming technique if they treasure small languages like VB? Do they even write books on good code writing for VB? And then translation. I recently filed a complaint on Mcgraw-Hill site for a terrible book translation that, just to put an example, consistenly equaled the term "programmer" with "designer". What could you expect of a translation like this? I even found the spanish translation of the clasic "tiger" o'really java book that somehow managed to teach concepts completely reversed by means of bad writing!! The problem is that when our typical programmer touches anything like java, not to say C++, which happens to cause panic here, he/she turns it out into garbage.
Stupid me, sorry...
Its completely true, at least in México, that you can see older people pushing code.
But I blame this on the stupid idea that coding is unimportant, and everyone should go ahead to leading people as fast as posible.
I should extend over this, I'm sure I will sometime, but I can say now this is causing terrible problems on the side of quality of coding in Mexico.
The average quality of the code produced by mexican programmers is terrible.
... to keep nice stuff coming in from the people who makes it. If I build something and want it to be reviewed in order to get some attention, I better be sure not to be trashed... El Alex Dinamo
Just for the record: I recently questioned a guy from Microsoft if he thinks that without piracy Microsoft could have the success level it actually has in México. He said: definitely not. No wonder why: few people in México can pay for his own license. I guess that most of the licenses in México are on the corporate side.