You can choose between monstruous XML formats with no real type checking, leading to a whole lot of runtime errors, or annotations that are slightly less verbose, and yet are just as prone to runtime errors.
This. THIS.
I was so happy to ditch Java after 2 years and move to.NET. Java is just configuration hell. Everything takes twice as long because you're fighting the infrastructure instead of actually getting stuff to work. The language itself is the easy part - it's the setup, the config files, the extra config files, the extra extra extra XML files... hell on a stick. Eclipse didn't make it easier, it made it even harder. I couldn't believe how easy c# and visual studio was in comparison. And because Microsoft seemed to have completely ripped of Java's syntax for.NET it was a cinch making the switch.
>That should get you started. DON'T TALK TO SALESMEN. They will try to sell you things.
>Things you probably don't need. Focus on what your interests and skills are, and then build your studio around that.
Very helpful advice. Check out gearslutz.com for some other (hopefully) useful answers. The forum is very good.
>For serious music production use MacOS, its the right tool for the job.
THIS.
I resisted getting a mac for about 15 years. Just do yourself a favour, buy a macbook pro, or even an air, and you will be amazed at how easy everything is and how well everything works. Open source is a waste of time.
Windows will work ok, but for various reasons the music industry has chosen Macs as the standard. In theory you could run everything on Windows ok, but I wouldn't bother. Don't fight it, just get a Mac, you will be saving yourself months of "stuffing around" time.
Nope, that's fair. Is it just? Nope. Is it loving? Nope. Is it compassionate? Nope. Is it mercyful? Nope. Actually I guess it's really not fair after all. Is it fair that these people are sick? Nope.
If my brother was sick for 6 months and couldn't work, I'd tell him to stay at my place. After those six months were up would I demand that he pay me for those 6 months in terms or rent, medicine or food? Nope, because I'm compassionate. This is how we should treat other human beings. This is going to do your head in - but some of us do it even if they don't deserve it. It's called grace.
I play guitar in a rock band named Toehider - we supported Devin Townsend last month. It rocked.
I've interviewed the guys in Dream Theater, Trivium, Machine Head & Megadeth.
I've found over 300 geocaches, quite a few of them in other countries (Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, China).
I mix sound at my church, lead one of the bands and play drums in another band. I'm teaching myself piano at the moment.
I've produced video clips for my own music and had them shown on TV. I've performed my own compositions on TV (thanks "Guitar Gods"!)
I've had a few of my songs featured on "The angry video game nerd" episodes and released an album of them on iTunes. I'm working on a second album.
I was interviewed for ABC TV's "Good Game" last year.
I'm writing a few iphone apps at the moment.
I've worked for tiny non-for-profits, huge corporations, energy companies, travel companies, entertainment companies & beer companies (man that one was goooood, free beer thursday and fridays!!).
I regularly drive my wife nuts by constantly picking up a new hobby every 6 months and then moving onto the next one.
I'm still trying to work out how I can live with myself, being so boring. In fact I think I'll just fall asleeeeeeeeep.
And BTW, all of my programming friends are just as interesting. Just like you guys on slashdot. You're ace too. Stay cool, your pal, LB.
Hmm looks like you can't update your name at the moment. I guess you could call XXX-XXXX to do it:
resources['ffe.ee.myAccount.profile.updateName'] = 'To change your name you must call 1-800-XXX-XXXX';
Hey I wonder what happens when you try to login too many times incorrectly? Apparently nothing:
showAlertText:function() {//TODO: add functionality to show alert text after too many tries at log in
},
I wonder who "Pod 6" is?
//$('#signUpButton').hide(); pod 6 doesn't want this hidden
And then my personal favourite, which is written twice in the code:
// make sure we don;t try to do this before the saml has been posted
Why is there a semicolon in the "don't" word? It is a typo or couldn't they figure out how to escape a single quote character in whatever is generating their JS? (This line is repeated twice) I'm guessing it was just a rushed developer who was running out of time.
But the reason why they had the volume meter is not because they care about your hearing, but for legal reasons. There is normally a restriction on the maximum volume level allowed. Some venues even have an automatic cutoff so that if the volume stays above a particular threshold for a particular amount of time, BOOM, OFF GOES YOUR PA. Terrifying when you're the sound person doing a big gig that people have paid lots of money for.
Especially when you consider how people like David Hicks (trained with terrorists)... have had the government behind them trying to get them home.
David Hicks did not have any help from the Australian government. He was left to rot in Guantanamo for five years without being charged for anything. The government's response was absolutely deplorable, especially considering how UK citizens were pulled out from Guantanamo. Compare Jack Straw's efforts compared to Philip Ruddock or John Howard sometime.
It is the original poster's intention to block inappropriate content. It is probably his duty to take reasonable steps to ensure that porn.com is blocked. If people want to go out of their way to deliberably bypass filtering then they can do that if they wish - but at least now they know that they shouldn't, and they should be held responsible for that.
14 for the first request to hit curiosity.
14 for curiosity to make the request back to earth.
14 for the response back to curiosity.
14 for the response back to fuzzums.
Banning power companies from door to door selling would be BRILLIANT. I am sick of those guys - the amount of crap they spew is incredible. I've heard it all - "Oh we're just dialing in the new power service", "We don't want you to buy anything", "We're not selling anything" and "Can we just see your bill" are all very common. None of them can answer the question "How much money will you save me?" - so I shut the door on them.
I imagine that someone with no idea about the technology could very easily be sweet-talked into changing their billing company all for no benefit. Go ACCC:)
BTW I have found numerous times that when stuck on the phone to some company, saying "Fix this now or I'm calling the ACCC" often gets your issue fixed.
Hardly any of them are in it just for the money. The ones that are just drop out during uni when they realise that you need a brain. I've only met one or two coders who really salivate over the money. Most just want an interesting job to work on and good people to work with.
Maybe Australia is different, but 99% of the coders that I've worked with would never drop the ball in order to just make more money (I can only think of one guy and he was a genuine psychopath). All of the good ones stick around and get the damn thing delivered, normally even when that means late nights and horrible bosses. We have professional pride and always strive to deliver the best possible system given the constraints. If you don't, then word gets around pretty quickly and you'll find it very difficult to get more work. You can always spot these people, they have lots of 3-6 month projects on their resume, and when you drill them for details it's always a bit too vague.
Visual Basic 4.0 starts up in three seconds on a ten year old computer. I have much more advanced IDEs on my machine nowadays, but if I just want to code up something for the fun and expect quick results, I'll still fire up VB4 from 1995.
Wow, really? Maybe you should try using notepad and vbc.exe to compile. Super quick!
Also Java and Visual Studio tend to be used by less skilled developers and students (disclosure: i'm a student). Poor responsiveness of programs written in Java or using VS is more a factor of who is writing it than anything to do with the language / VM / IDE.
Java and Visual Studio less skilled developers? Nope. No it doesn't.
But thank you for your disclosure, that explains a lot.
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You can choose between monstruous XML formats with no real type checking, leading to a whole lot of runtime errors, or annotations that are slightly less verbose, and yet are just as prone to runtime errors.
.NET. Java is just configuration hell. Everything takes twice as long because you're fighting the infrastructure instead of actually getting stuff to work. The language itself is the easy part - it's the setup, the config files, the extra config files, the extra extra extra XML files... hell on a stick. Eclipse didn't make it easier, it made it even harder. I couldn't believe how easy c# and visual studio was in comparison. And because Microsoft seemed to have completely ripped of Java's syntax for .NET it was a cinch making the switch.
This. THIS.
I was so happy to ditch Java after 2 years and move to
I've used Basica, GW-Basic, QBasic, Logo, Visual Basic for DOS, VB6, Turbo Pascal, Turbo C++, Watcom, Visual Studio 2002/2003/2005/2008/2010/2012, Netbeans, XCode, Notepad, Notepad++, Vi, Watcom, Progress4GL and Eclipse.
Hands down, Eclipse was the slowest and most confusingest I've ever used out of ALL of the above.
LOL.
>That should get you started. DON'T TALK TO SALESMEN. They will try to sell you things.
>Things you probably don't need. Focus on what your interests and skills are, and then build your studio around that.
Very helpful advice. Check out gearslutz.com for some other (hopefully) useful answers. The forum is very good.
>For serious music production use MacOS, its the right tool for the job.
THIS.
I resisted getting a mac for about 15 years. Just do yourself a favour, buy a macbook pro, or even an air, and you will be amazed at how easy everything is and how well everything works. Open source is a waste of time.
Windows will work ok, but for various reasons the music industry has chosen Macs as the standard. In theory you could run everything on Windows ok, but I wouldn't bother. Don't fight it, just get a Mac, you will be saving yourself months of "stuffing around" time.
I put a backwards mirror over mine so they thought I was spying on them.
LOL, whoever wrote this is a genius.
1. Being dynamic
LOL.
Works great till you realize the USA is currently worse than a third-world country in terms of broadband penetration and up/down speeds...
Sorry, have you been to any third world countries? In many you're lucky if you can get dial-up speeds, yet alone a constant connection.
Nope, that's fair. Is it just? Nope. Is it loving? Nope. Is it compassionate? Nope. Is it mercyful? Nope. Actually I guess it's really not fair after all. Is it fair that these people are sick? Nope.
If my brother was sick for 6 months and couldn't work, I'd tell him to stay at my place. After those six months were up would I demand that he pay me for those 6 months in terms or rent, medicine or food? Nope, because I'm compassionate. This is how we should treat other human beings. This is going to do your head in - but some of us do it even if they don't deserve it. It's called grace.
Cool story. Thanks for your post :)
You sir, are 100% correct.
It all depends on the quality of the existing code base. More often than not, it's better to start from scratch.
No, no, no, NO it's not. Do your research. Starting from scratch will end up taking you just as much time. Refactor, clean up and fix.
I play guitar in a rock band named Toehider - we supported Devin Townsend last month. It rocked.
I've interviewed the guys in Dream Theater, Trivium, Machine Head & Megadeth.
I've found over 300 geocaches, quite a few of them in other countries (Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, China).
I mix sound at my church, lead one of the bands and play drums in another band. I'm teaching myself piano at the moment.
I've produced video clips for my own music and had them shown on TV. I've performed my own compositions on TV (thanks "Guitar Gods"!)
I've had a few of my songs featured on "The angry video game nerd" episodes and released an album of them on iTunes. I'm working on a second album.
I was interviewed for ABC TV's "Good Game" last year.
I'm writing a few iphone apps at the moment.
I've worked for tiny non-for-profits, huge corporations, energy companies, travel companies, entertainment companies & beer companies (man that one was goooood, free beer thursday and fridays!!).
I regularly drive my wife nuts by constantly picking up a new hobby every 6 months and then moving onto the next one.
I'm still trying to work out how I can live with myself, being so boring. In fact I think I'll just fall asleeeeeeeeep.
And BTW, all of my programming friends are just as interesting. Just like you guys on slashdot. You're ace too. Stay cool, your pal, LB.
There is some gold in this file. Some highlights:
:function() { //TODO: add functionality to show alert text after too many tries at log in
},
//$('#signUpButton').hide(); pod 6 doesn't want this hidden
// make sure we don;t try to do this before the saml has been posted
resources['ffe.ee.myAccount.TEST'] = 'Apples to Apples';
Seems like someone was trying to work out how to add resources. Looks like they also wanted to test out the quoting:
resources['ffe.ee.myAccount.quoteTest'] = '“Apes.”';
Hmm looks like you can't update your name at the moment. I guess you could call XXX-XXXX to do it: resources['ffe.ee.myAccount.profile.updateName'] = 'To change your name you must call 1-800-XXX-XXXX';
Hey I wonder what happens when you try to login too many times incorrectly? Apparently nothing:
showAlertText
I wonder who "Pod 6" is?
And then my personal favourite, which is written twice in the code:
Why is there a semicolon in the "don't" word? It is a typo or couldn't they figure out how to escape a single quote character in whatever is generating their JS? (This line is repeated twice) I'm guessing it was just a rushed developer who was running out of time.
That's what I want to know... this is the INTERNET people, haven't we heard of hyperlinks?? Is this slashdot or what?
Good job on the earplugs.
But the reason why they had the volume meter is not because they care about your hearing, but for legal reasons. There is normally a restriction on the maximum volume level allowed. Some venues even have an automatic cutoff so that if the volume stays above a particular threshold for a particular amount of time, BOOM, OFF GOES YOUR PA. Terrifying when you're the sound person doing a big gig that people have paid lots of money for.
Especially when you consider how people like David Hicks (trained with terrorists) ... have had the government behind them trying to get them home.
David Hicks did not have any help from the Australian government. He was left to rot in Guantanamo for five years without being charged for anything. The government's response was absolutely deplorable, especially considering how UK citizens were pulled out from Guantanamo. Compare Jack Straw's efforts compared to Philip Ruddock or John Howard sometime.
I disagree.
It is the original poster's intention to block inappropriate content. It is probably his duty to take reasonable steps to ensure that porn.com is blocked. If people want to go out of their way to deliberably bypass filtering then they can do that if they wish - but at least now they know that they shouldn't, and they should be held responsible for that.
You mean 56 minutes.
14 for the first request to hit curiosity.
14 for curiosity to make the request back to earth.
14 for the response back to curiosity.
14 for the response back to fuzzums.
Twitter?
Banning power companies from door to door selling would be BRILLIANT. I am sick of those guys - the amount of crap they spew is incredible. I've heard it all - "Oh we're just dialing in the new power service", "We don't want you to buy anything", "We're not selling anything" and "Can we just see your bill" are all very common. None of them can answer the question "How much money will you save me?" - so I shut the door on them.
:)
I imagine that someone with no idea about the technology could very easily be sweet-talked into changing their billing company all for no benefit. Go ACCC
BTW I have found numerous times that when stuck on the phone to some company, saying "Fix this now or I'm calling the ACCC" often gets your issue fixed.
According to the web developer toolbar -> Information -> Page Size:
Documents (8 files) - 57 KB
Images (14 files) - 278 KB
Objects (2 files) - 409 KB
Scripts (4 files) - 102 KB (311 KB uncompressed)
Style Sheets (2 files) - 25 KB (124 KB uncompressed)
Total 872 KB (1179 KB uncompressed)
Hardly any of them are in it just for the money. The ones that are just drop out during uni when they realise that you need a brain. I've only met one or two coders who really salivate over the money. Most just want an interesting job to work on and good people to work with.
Maybe Australia is different, but 99% of the coders that I've worked with would never drop the ball in order to just make more money (I can only think of one guy and he was a genuine psychopath). All of the good ones stick around and get the damn thing delivered, normally even when that means late nights and horrible bosses. We have professional pride and always strive to deliver the best possible system given the constraints. If you don't, then word gets around pretty quickly and you'll find it very difficult to get more work. You can always spot these people, they have lots of 3-6 month projects on their resume, and when you drill them for details it's always a bit too vague.
Visual Basic 4.0 starts up in three seconds on a ten year old computer. I have much more advanced IDEs on my machine nowadays, but if I just want to code up something for the fun and expect quick results, I'll still fire up VB4 from 1995.
Wow, really? Maybe you should try using notepad and vbc.exe to compile. Super quick!
Also Java and Visual Studio tend to be used by less skilled developers and students (disclosure: i'm a student). Poor responsiveness of programs written in Java or using VS is more a factor of who is writing it than anything to do with the language / VM / IDE.
Java and Visual Studio less skilled developers? Nope. No it doesn't.
But thank you for your disclosure, that explains a lot.