I can't agree more.
I would like to think he was scared because he has somehow blagged his way into a job in a language he is not familiar with. Unfortunately I think he is scared because "it is VB and for reasons I am unable to undersand or articulate I think it is wrong".
If it was me I'd count my blessings and STFU until I could speak from a position of knowledge & understanding rather than one of ignorance.
The arrogance of some people astounds me. The owner has built a product good enough to create a company around and this employee thinks it's all wrong on grounds he can't actually specify. Unreal. I'd be scared of being given the boot as soon as they discover what a prick he is.
Visual Basic (especially VB6) have no place in the enterprise.
Loads of enterprises are run on VB apps. I would go so far as to claim most, although I can't be bothered to find out.
Loads of enterprises also run on Excel and Word documents so what does that tell you?
It's pretty similar in other ways. You think what you're getting will be great but all the good stuff was in the sample. The rest is talcum powder & ground up asprin.
I wish the movie makers would concentrate on producing content worth stealing before they worry about all this shit. Personally I haven't paid for anything in ages simply because every time I do, none of it is really good enough to warrant the price (IMO).
OMFG! There's software that allows someone to take complete control over my machine?!?!?! Gah!! What sort of bastard would write such a hideous virus/worm thingie!??!
I've had this too. Sometimes a process just snags 100% CPU and cannot be killed via task manager or anything else. In my experience it's always been Excel or Outlook - nothing the OS shouldn't be able to hose.
My Google searches have pointed to a dodgy driver not processing a cancel request from the process that is shutting down and it goes nuts. These processes keep running even when the user has disconnected (this is terminal server)
It's rareish but does happen - must reboot. Having said that, this is not a super-hardened server - just a desktop running ~30 users so it's doing remarkably well all things considered. Just hope moving the app to "the real thing" sorts it out.
I too remember Transputers and they were way too expensive and didn't keep up with performance. Eventually I found that serial processing on a 25 MHZ 386 could take the load of around 5-8 of them. After that a bit of funky coding using networked files blew them away for a fraction of the cost.
I suspect you're correct. I look after an app that 30 concurrent terminal server users run on a hyperthreaded 3GHZ Intel something or other with 2GB RAM. Not top notch but decent enough. The RAM usage stays around 1.8 GB and the CPU around 30% with regular peaks of up to 80. The users run a combination of Word, Outlook, heavy duty Excel and a fat client VB app.
That indicates that the above spec can be over 30 times overkill for an average business user if it doesn't block on IO [due to paging].
There are other reasons to go Oracle. For example I am developing a new system that requires complete 'as at' history for the virtually the entire database. There only a few hundred tables but, even with code generators, the development of all the queries that need to take this into account is substantial. With the later versions of Oracle this comes as a feature of the database. All I have to do is set a session variable and it's done. All my queries are automatically "as at". Well worth several hours/days/weeks of developer time. Sadly this project is not Oracle.:(
Well something interesting has happened on Slashdot at least. I posted a comment to this effect some years ago and got modded to oblivion for being, well, I don't really know. Now apparently it's "obvious". How things change...
if George Bush knocked on my door and demanded something, I don't think anybody would hold it against me if I gave him what he wanted.
Here's what I would say:
Fuck off you stupid cunt. You are a civil servant and a stupid moronic one at that. Fuck off and leave me alone.
If he persisted I would ask to see the due process that gave him the right to make his demand. If he could produce it, fine. If not I would tell him he's a stupid cunt again and close the door on him.
The president is not god. (He's a cunt)
I don't think you can put everyone in the same category. I wake up at around 8.30 am, shower, walk 20 mins to work. I have no breakfast, no lunch, no coffee just water & a couple of smokes during the day. Perhaps I'll have a bit of fruit a couple of times a week. Only on Friday afternoons do I go out for lunch - to the pub for a couple of pints. I get back home around 6:40 and either eat out (good food) or cook (properly) and stuff myself. This is washed down by 3 or 4 beers or a bottle of wine. I'll go to bed anywhere between 11:30 and 1:30am. I am not over or underweight nor do I suffer from any mental inactivity. I think people are just different or at least have trained themselves to be so.
Damn right. These days code is probably the least significant part of any system I work on on a regular basis (and I'm pretty much a coder at heart). It's all about resilience, security, accountability, integration, re-using proven libraries and common code, making sure tech support understand it, release notes, scheduling around other projects blah blah. If somebody came to be telling me they'd spent the week (or even day) writing a better sort algorithm I'd probably fire them.
Maybe your incoherent ramblings worked against you. Seriously - if you code or specify like you post I'd not have hired you. Successful software should not be a stream of consciousness interspersed with IM speak.
I agree and it's important when dealing in a strongly defined document such as a functional specification. In these cases it can make a huge difference as to which you use. MS Word's auto correction of i.e. to I.e. shits me too.
You would have thought so wouldn't you. For some reason this makes me think of the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy where all the marketing people & telephone sanitisers decide to adopt the leaf as currency. Then, due to rampant inflation they decide they need to burn down all the trees. Classic.
yeah, we don't need to concern themselves with those, at all, do we
No. The 99% of users who are not developers do not give a rat's arse about how hard it is for you to write a shell script. They like being able to call a spreadsheet "2005 End Of Year Accounts", "List of issues outstanding on project Dogs Cock" etc.
As long as you can write a script to handle spaces in filename you just have to treat it being a little bit harder as one of those things. Tough luck.
You'd be wise to stay with 9. I "upgraded" to X then 2005 and my system has never been the same since. It's slow, buggy, web projects are restructured, libraries go awol. Total mess. Maybe I just didn't rtfm, but it's been a nightmare.
In Oracle at least, you can map a text file as a table (an external table I think it's called). Then you get the benefit of all your database processing without the overhead during the log.
They found that the overwhelming majority of people would rather have the ability to own a car and use it whenever they want to on an automated highway rather than develop a really good public transportation system
That's interesting, but not really surprising. What I wonder though, is that when driving becomes automatic will the big SUV die a death in favour of smaller, more economical cars now the "safety" factor has been effectively removed. If we must run them on fossil fuels then I hope so.
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I can't agree more.
I would like to think he was scared because he has somehow blagged his way into a job in a language he is not familiar with. Unfortunately I think he is scared because "it is VB and for reasons I am unable to undersand or articulate I think it is wrong".
If it was me I'd count my blessings and STFU until I could speak from a position of knowledge & understanding rather than one of ignorance.
The arrogance of some people astounds me. The owner has built a product good enough to create a company around and this employee thinks it's all wrong on grounds he can't actually specify. Unreal. I'd be scared of being given the boot as soon as they discover what a prick he is.
Loads of enterprises are run on VB apps. I would go so far as to claim most, although I can't be bothered to find out.
Loads of enterprises also run on Excel and Word documents so what does that tell you?
It's pretty similar in other ways. You think what you're getting will be great but all the good stuff was in the sample. The rest is talcum powder & ground up asprin.
I wish the movie makers would concentrate on producing content worth stealing before they worry about all this shit. Personally I haven't paid for anything in ages simply because every time I do, none of it is really good enough to warrant the price (IMO).
OMFG! There's software that allows someone to take complete control over my machine?!?!?! Gah!! What sort of bastard would write such a hideous virus/worm thingie!??!
(yeah - I know..it's a joke)
I've had this too. Sometimes a process just snags 100% CPU and cannot be killed via task manager or anything else. In my experience it's always been Excel or Outlook - nothing the OS shouldn't be able to hose.
My Google searches have pointed to a dodgy driver not processing a cancel request from the process that is shutting down and it goes nuts. These processes keep running even when the user has disconnected (this is terminal server)
It's rareish but does happen - must reboot. Having said that, this is not a super-hardened server - just a desktop running ~30 users so it's doing remarkably well all things considered. Just hope moving the app to "the real thing" sorts it out.
I too remember Transputers and they were way too expensive and didn't keep up with performance. Eventually I found that serial processing on a 25 MHZ 386 could take the load of around 5-8 of them. After that a bit of funky coding using networked files blew them away for a fraction of the cost.
I suspect you're correct. I look after an app that 30 concurrent terminal server users run on a hyperthreaded 3GHZ Intel something or other with 2GB RAM. Not top notch but decent enough. The RAM usage stays around 1.8 GB and the CPU around 30% with regular peaks of up to 80. The users run a combination of Word, Outlook, heavy duty Excel and a fat client VB app. That indicates that the above spec can be over 30 times overkill for an average business user if it doesn't block on IO [due to paging].
There are other reasons to go Oracle. For example I am developing a new system that requires complete 'as at' history for the virtually the entire database. There only a few hundred tables but, even with code generators, the development of all the queries that need to take this into account is substantial. With the later versions of Oracle this comes as a feature of the database. All I have to do is set a session variable and it's done. All my queries are automatically "as at". Well worth several hours/days/weeks of developer time. Sadly this project is not Oracle. :(
1. Ask Slashdot
2. Give away source code
3. Oh shit....
Go on - flame away & mod me down. Then go onto the next post about how there are no development jobs left.
Damn. Used my last mod point not long ago.
Don't forget the effect of beer armour.e r+Armour
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Be
Well something interesting has happened on Slashdot at least. I posted a comment to this effect some years ago and got modded to oblivion for being, well, I don't really know. Now apparently it's "obvious". How things change...
Fuck off you stupid cunt. You are a civil servant and a stupid moronic one at that. Fuck off and leave me alone.
If he persisted I would ask to see the due process that gave him the right to make his demand. If he could produce it, fine. If not I would tell him he's a stupid cunt again and close the door on him.
The president is not god.
(He's a cunt)
I don't think you can put everyone in the same category. I wake up at around 8.30 am, shower, walk 20 mins to work. I have no breakfast, no lunch, no coffee just water & a couple of smokes during the day. Perhaps I'll have a bit of fruit a couple of times a week. Only on Friday afternoons do I go out for lunch - to the pub for a couple of pints. I get back home around 6:40 and either eat out (good food) or cook (properly) and stuff myself. This is washed down by 3 or 4 beers or a bottle of wine. I'll go to bed anywhere between 11:30 and 1:30am. I am not over or underweight nor do I suffer from any mental inactivity. I think people are just different or at least have trained themselves to be so.
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=155172&cid=13
Damn right. These days code is probably the least significant part of any system I work on on a regular basis (and I'm pretty much a coder at heart). It's all about resilience, security, accountability, integration, re-using proven libraries and common code, making sure tech support understand it, release notes, scheduling around other projects blah blah. If somebody came to be telling me they'd spent the week (or even day) writing a better sort algorithm I'd probably fire them.
Maybe your incoherent ramblings worked against you. Seriously - if you code or specify like you post I'd not have hired you. Successful software should not be a stream of consciousness interspersed with IM speak.
I agree and it's important when dealing in a strongly defined document such as a functional specification. In these cases it can make a huge difference as to which you use. MS Word's auto correction of i.e. to I.e. shits me too.
Reminds me of a joke...
http://www.workjoke.com/projoke60.htm/
Does this count as prior art?
You would have thought so wouldn't you. For some reason this makes me think of the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy where all the marketing people & telephone sanitisers decide to adopt the leaf as currency. Then, due to rampant inflation they decide they need to burn down all the trees. Classic.
As would farting in it.
As long as you can write a script to handle spaces in filename you just have to treat it being a little bit harder as one of those things. Tough luck.
You'd be wise to stay with 9. I "upgraded" to X then 2005 and my system has never been the same since. It's slow, buggy, web projects are restructured, libraries go awol. Total mess. Maybe I just didn't rtfm, but it's been a nightmare.
In Oracle at least, you can map a text file as a table (an external table I think it's called). Then you get the benefit of all your database processing without the overhead during the log.