Any idiot can make things bigger and more complex, it takes a true genius to make things smaller, simpler.
Magento might have the base ideas correct, unfortunately however, the implementation is worse than kissing a frog while swimming in poo, dragging a concrete block on your ankle.
Foreword: I work as a web developer, and work in highly complex dynamic systems, specializing in UIs and system integration.
I've worked with both osCommerce and Magento. Magento has very good marketing engine, really efficient throwing around of buzzwords. Sure it says on the cover to use Zend Framework and MVC pattern. What's not to like? EVERYTHING. The implementation is crappy even at best. It's not true MVC as view components actually FETCH DATA oO;
I spent about 3 weeks to get an new store launched, and launch was even delayed. The same work, the same system could have been done using osCommerce in a week...
I would recommend Magento only to my worst enemy, even that might be slightly too cruel. The list of problems with Magento is too immense to even start listing... But i do say: Put it to SVN, checkout to empty directory and try if it work;)
(Oh, and the development documentation for Magento is complete hokus pokus marketing bullshit)
I've always wanted a computer on which when i want more number crunching power, i just could add a CPU or some ram.
I wish someday i will see computers which is so modular that you could upgrade with a small addition at a time.
Currently if i wanted to get any more number crunching power out of my computer it would be atleast 700euro trip to store... (Jumping to Core i7, DDR3 and a decent mobo as am already running top end of last gen.)
HDDs won't always top on capacity. Right now Intel's X25-M 80Gb costs 289$ according to newegg.
If moore's law hold true on SSDs aswell, like it should and has been for past, we are talking fast change here. As a thought: 1½years, 80gb/145$ 3years, 160gb/145$ 4.5years 320gb 6years 640gb/145$ still... or 320gb for ~73$ or 160gb for ~37$....
Price for 1Mbit will be more likely 10euros. You can already get 512-768kbps wireless (3G) for 10euros a month here in Finland.
24Mbps goes for 37 to 50euros at the moment, 100Mbps for 150euros a month. Yes, that's to home. Ofc actual speeds vary upon distance to the nearest telephone line center.
I know i tried to code myself, without anyone helping me. Didn't really get anything done, what 3yr old would? What counts is that i tried, took the first step.
Apart from that, i remember spending hours upon hours making screenfull after another of ascii art, of sorts. The type 3yr olds usually do.
Being 26 does not mean you are inexperienced. IT can, but does not inherently mean that.
I am 25, have full time experience in web application engineer of JUST 1year, but before that i coded for years upon years each and every day. Since i were 10-11. All that combined, i have a vast experience, and vast array of different skills through being very entrepreneurially minded person.
Hell, for 3-4yrs i refused to code fulltime, because i liked my hobby projects too much, thinking they would interfere causing me not to want to code on my spare time. Guess what? I were completely right.
I have more coding experience than most coders i've seen at my professional network (current company i'm working at, clients, freelancing projects etc.), and it really shows. Then again, i'm probably no Joe Ordinary, my first touch to coding was when i was 3yrs old.
No, you don't stop growing. If there's no significant personal growth involved in your day job, and you work on IT, you are working at the wrong place. You are probably doing some tedious, rudimentary task. Or can't do more.
All of IT, especially coding, is a job where your actual job is to learn as much as possible, to provide the best possible solution, for the least amount of actual work. Intelligent laziness for the win! Simplified means: Keep it simple, Stupid, or the KISS principle on pragmatic level.
It takes any idiot to make things more bigger, more complex but it takes a real genius to make things simpler.
I'm 25, but my first coding experience was 22 years ago. I've been coding for 14-15 years now, out of which about 10 daily. I could careless to code on my free time aswell, i know the "craft" very well already, i consider coding mostly rather simple task, where the biggest challenges lies in design, particularly data structural design most of the time (Try managing terabytes of higly relational and dynamic data, in a realtime web environment.).
I see newbies with just couple years of experience, and i find quite often that tasks they are taking 2 days to complete i could do in 2hrs or less.
The real trick is to understand that coding is actually learning, and your job is to learn as much as possible. If i were you, i would work for FREE on your sparetime, what is what you are essentially doing. The occasional book is still ok, just remember to stick it to times you have nothing else to do (ie. commute using public transportation).
Your spare time is your RELAXATION time, so you are fresh and good to go the next morning. You don't get to relax if you keep on using your brain power at close to max levels 24/7, your brain aswell needs rest to rejuvenate, and especially to actually learn something. You need to take care of your brain by providing it different kind of stimulus, and proper down time. FYI, i know what it is like when you don't give time for your brain to rejuvenate, and it's a nasty bitch, but fortunately cured by good long night sleeps for sometime. (In my case couple weeks min. 11hr night sleeps + naps)
I am exactly the same. Being a web application engineer, i do not want to work on hobby projects at sparetime. Coding has always, and will always be a tool in my disposal, just a tool.
I do occasionally on my spare time read about some cool stuff related to coding, but not much. It reminds me of work. Instead on my spare time, i work on things which has the very least amount to do with computers as possible. Namely, i work on oldschool drifting car, or other car projects most likely. Maybe it sounds an very odd combination, but hey, i get exercise working on cars aswell. Lifting the motor, or banging on some suspension parts to get them loose or to fit, or get the current project done so i can finally get home, does take amazingly much stamina and strength, and when things go shit you are basicly running around or get back to home sooner and faster. Working on a car till 6-7AM ain't no light task.
That's one awesome skill in writing resumes:) Personally, i suck completely in writing resumes. Want to make my resume?;)
I agree with you completely that honesty is a key, along with potential. If a interviewee has potential for growth and is honest about himself, and his lackfull skills. Especially if the guy can admit what he considers hard. Also, i see that being straightforward is good. Myself i'm very open and straightforward guy, with strong opinions, to the point that i've been told that it causes sometimes some difficult situations, but my boss still appreciates for me being so straightforward, because he knows that i will let him know if something's not working right, i won't hide it. My colleagues know aswell that i will make very well known if they screw up, this makes some light competition going on constantly in our office, and everyone striking to do their best.
Infact, i don't have any formal qualifications at all, i didn't even have normal working relationship in software engineering before this, yet, before 1st year end i were being offered managerial position which is opening within next 6months and at the same time almost 10% raise. This was last month, so during recession. Then again, i've already taken a bunch of managerial tasks, just because i can, and no one else is keeping tight enough leash on the new guys and making sure they've got stuff to do.
Every potential employee at our company, i will also interview and check up. Maybe just because i will ask tough questions being quite straightforward;) Oh and this is a small company, when i started i was the 3rd full time employee, by start of next month there will be 6 full time employees.
Actually, most batteries are WAY more dangerous than gas tanks... Gas tanks don't explode in the real world, unlike in hollywood.
To make a bomb out of gas, you need the right air-fuel mixture in compressed space, and compressed a lot...
Batteries DO explode. Infact, some batteries are so dangerous that while charging you need to constantly watch and be around to make sure it's not going to explode, despite electronics controlling already the charge rate, balance etc. Overcharge = Explosion, Undercharge = Might explode. That's Lithium Polymer batteries, which are most energy dense on the market currently, used widely in RC vehicles.
Right now, it costs me around US$32 to fill up completely the 11 gallon tank on my 1998 Honda Civic HX CVT coupe with 87-octane unleaded.
My guess is that by 2020, a full charge from a commercial charger will probably cost US$20 in 2009 dollars--not bad considering the high cost of a fillup nowadays, especially if you have a bigger car.
High cost? You got to be joking...
11 gallon = roughly 44litres. That costs here 55.44euros or roughly 77.62$... Really high cost!
Germans might be regard as brew masters, but we Finns have the best beer in world, Koff by Sinebrychoff, ranked multiple years in row as the best beer from tap.
True or not, i don't know, but i do prefer Koff over anything else i've tasted. Foster's is damn good as well.
Why are they constantly attempting this, even tho users will always be mad?
And with these high prices too... If the per gb price would even be something sensible! I transfer probably over 1Tb a month (backups, video feeds etc), so 0.25 would endup being 250euros per month for me... Many times what i currently pay
This took place in IRC. What do you mean under what license? The source for the project?
That project was completely for my own use, to automate some things.
Simple ... and true... sadly
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It's very simple psychology, "linux geeks" sits in their ivory towers, thinking they are all knowing, and anyone saying anything else is a arrogant, stupid script kiddie (no matter of their experience, age nor merits).
They simply DO NOT realize how wrong they are, because they cannot see beyond their own ego.
Being rather highly skilled, i found it frustrating with some non-mainstream software supposed to be enterprise quality: Documentation at the very best lacking, expectation to read all of it and memorize all of it, and when asking questions you are faced with arrogance, egoistic replies such as "You are just too stupid to understand it", too stupid to understand that Gimp does not have any visible cue for drawing a line, but the way is buried into the 1000page manual? (One real life example from years back)
More technical it gets, more aggressive behaviour you will meet.
This lead me to ultimately abandon the whole community as a bunch of egoistic maniacs, who are too blind from their ego to even realize their own mistakes.
I read lately an article which described in terms of psychology 4-types of a coder, i've found many OSS community "gurus" are on the first ladder, the "copy paste guys, who think they know all there is to it, and even refuses to hear otherwise", that group describes these people the best.
One common denominator is that unless you already know everything they know (read knowledge) you must be an idiot. And the only way to know it all is to be one of the developers, and adopting the very same bad practices.
I'm not saying all OSS is like that or all people affiliated with OSS, just that MOST are like that.
If you need support, and actual answers, stick with commercial (OSS or proprietary), especially if you need HA (High Availability) solutions.
What i'm saying will be confirmed with the flood of flamebaits & trolling following this as a reply.
Want proof? Just try to ask some rather simplistic, non-documented feature/tidbit in IRC for projects like: Exim, Qmail, Asterix(Not the worst by far), Linux kernel, Bind or others with similarly requiring skill & knowledge level. The same can aswell be seen on some more mainstream projects such as Gimp.
On the flipside of the coin, if you get accepted to the community, or get to communicate with more professional people (who do it for professional reasons, not personal) you can actually expect good answers and conversations, but they are golden nuggets. If you get accepted to the community, don't dare to speak aloud your out-of-the-box ideas, or trying to drive innovation, they are highly unacceptable by the same Ivory Tower Demigods. In their world you are basicly attacking them socially and claiming they are dumber than you are, and will in turn deny all merit in your ideas and call you dumb script kiddie. (Oh, Why, Why, Why is it such a TABU to make user friendly software? Oh, Why, Why, Why is it such a TABU to automate simple configuration in more complex software? Or provide readable error messages)
One example lately i had was when talking about C# when developing around an OSS solution, i disliked C#s tendency to seek excuses for crashes, and the immensive need for try catch calls, especially on errors which are not that fatal it was nauseating to develop 75% fail-safes on the nature of the language, and 25% actual business logic! I got attacked strongly against as being incapable of proper code, while the issue was the stupidity of spending most of the time making these try catch clauses, and functions for parsing through a whole object tree to see if that FINAL variable / object exists. Why isn't it sufficient to just check the last one directly, WITHOUT a crash? Why do i have to parse through the whole tree from down to up to see it's existence? Did i check it directly, or not, in any scenario the result is 100% the same: It either exists, or does not exist.
Because of insisting that language design should be the exact opposite: Seeking reasons to continue instead of crashing UNLESS specifically told to crash if an error is met, i were many things, none of them were positive.
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Any idiot can make things bigger and more complex, it takes a true genius to make things smaller, simpler.
Magento might have the base ideas correct, unfortunately however, the implementation is worse than kissing a frog while swimming in poo, dragging a concrete block on your ankle.
Foreword: I work as a web developer, and work in highly complex dynamic systems, specializing in UIs and system integration.
I've worked with both osCommerce and Magento. Magento has very good marketing engine, really efficient throwing around of buzzwords. Sure it says on the cover to use Zend Framework and MVC pattern. What's not to like? EVERYTHING. The implementation is crappy even at best. It's not true MVC as view components actually FETCH DATA oO;
I spent about 3 weeks to get an new store launched, and launch was even delayed. The same work, the same system could have been done using osCommerce in a week...
I would recommend Magento only to my worst enemy, even that might be slightly too cruel. The list of problems with Magento is too immense to even start listing ... But i do say: Put it to SVN, checkout to empty directory and try if it work ;)
(Oh, and the development documentation for Magento is complete hokus pokus marketing bullshit)
I would be running to get one, just like you ;)
I've always wanted a computer on which when i want more number crunching power, i just could add a CPU or some ram.
I wish someday i will see computers which is so modular that you could upgrade with a small addition at a time.
Currently if i wanted to get any more number crunching power out of my computer it would be atleast 700euro trip to store... (Jumping to Core i7, DDR3 and a decent mobo as am already running top end of last gen.)
I'm wondering it's PSU, could it take 230V we have here in Finland, or just US standard 110V ... Anyways would have to solder in new plugs tho ...
HDDs won't always top on capacity.
Right now Intel's X25-M 80Gb costs 289$ according to newegg.
If moore's law hold true on SSDs aswell, like it should and has been for past, we are talking fast change here. As a thought: ... or 320gb for ~73$ or 160gb for ~37$ ....
1½years, 80gb/145$
3years, 160gb/145$
4.5years 320gb
6years 640gb/145$ still
Price for 1Mbit will be more likely 10euros. You can already get 512-768kbps wireless (3G) for 10euros a month here in Finland.
24Mbps goes for 37 to 50euros at the moment, 100Mbps for 150euros a month. Yes, that's to home. Ofc actual speeds vary upon distance to the nearest telephone line center.
I know i tried to code myself, without anyone helping me. Didn't really get anything done, what 3yr old would? What counts is that i tried, took the first step.
Apart from that, i remember spending hours upon hours making screenfull after another of ascii art, of sorts. The type 3yr olds usually do.
What is speak and spell?
C64, Basic is what i did.
Being 26 does not mean you are inexperienced. IT can, but does not inherently mean that.
I am 25, have full time experience in web application engineer of JUST 1year, but before that i coded for years upon years each and every day. Since i were 10-11. All that combined, i have a vast experience, and vast array of different skills through being very entrepreneurially minded person.
Hell, for 3-4yrs i refused to code fulltime, because i liked my hobby projects too much, thinking they would interfere causing me not to want to code on my spare time. Guess what? I were completely right.
I have more coding experience than most coders i've seen at my professional network (current company i'm working at, clients, freelancing projects etc.), and it really shows. Then again, i'm probably no Joe Ordinary, my first touch to coding was when i was 3yrs old.
No, you don't stop growing. If there's no significant personal growth involved in your day job, and you work on IT, you are working at the wrong place. You are probably doing some tedious, rudimentary task. Or can't do more.
All of IT, especially coding, is a job where your actual job is to learn as much as possible, to provide the best possible solution, for the least amount of actual work. Intelligent laziness for the win! Simplified means: Keep it simple, Stupid, or the KISS principle on pragmatic level.
It takes any idiot to make things more bigger, more complex but it takes a real genius to make things simpler.
Just shows how little experience you have.
I'm 25, but my first coding experience was 22 years ago. I've been coding for 14-15 years now, out of which about 10 daily. I could careless to code on my free time aswell, i know the "craft" very well already, i consider coding mostly rather simple task, where the biggest challenges lies in design, particularly data structural design most of the time (Try managing terabytes of higly relational and dynamic data, in a realtime web environment.).
I see newbies with just couple years of experience, and i find quite often that tasks they are taking 2 days to complete i could do in 2hrs or less.
The real trick is to understand that coding is actually learning, and your job is to learn as much as possible. If i were you, i would work for FREE on your sparetime, what is what you are essentially doing. The occasional book is still ok, just remember to stick it to times you have nothing else to do (ie. commute using public transportation).
Your spare time is your RELAXATION time, so you are fresh and good to go the next morning. You don't get to relax if you keep on using your brain power at close to max levels 24/7, your brain aswell needs rest to rejuvenate, and especially to actually learn something. You need to take care of your brain by providing it different kind of stimulus, and proper down time. FYI, i know what it is like when you don't give time for your brain to rejuvenate, and it's a nasty bitch, but fortunately cured by good long night sleeps for sometime. (In my case couple weeks min. 11hr night sleeps + naps)
I am exactly the same. Being a web application engineer, i do not want to work on hobby projects at sparetime. Coding has always, and will always be a tool in my disposal, just a tool.
I do occasionally on my spare time read about some cool stuff related to coding, but not much. It reminds me of work. Instead on my spare time, i work on things which has the very least amount to do with computers as possible. Namely, i work on oldschool drifting car, or other car projects most likely. Maybe it sounds an very odd combination, but hey, i get exercise working on cars aswell. Lifting the motor, or banging on some suspension parts to get them loose or to fit, or get the current project done so i can finally get home, does take amazingly much stamina and strength, and when things go shit you are basicly running around or get back to home sooner and faster. Working on a car till 6-7AM ain't no light task.
That's one awesome skill in writing resumes :) Personally, i suck completely in writing resumes. Want to make my resume? ;)
I agree with you completely that honesty is a key, along with potential. If a interviewee has potential for growth and is honest about himself, and his lackfull skills. Especially if the guy can admit what he considers hard. Also, i see that being straightforward is good. Myself i'm very open and straightforward guy, with strong opinions, to the point that i've been told that it causes sometimes some difficult situations, but my boss still appreciates for me being so straightforward, because he knows that i will let him know if something's not working right, i won't hide it. My colleagues know aswell that i will make very well known if they screw up, this makes some light competition going on constantly in our office, and everyone striking to do their best.
Infact, i don't have any formal qualifications at all, i didn't even have normal working relationship in software engineering before this, yet, before 1st year end i were being offered managerial position which is opening within next 6months and at the same time almost 10% raise. This was last month, so during recession. Then again, i've already taken a bunch of managerial tasks, just because i can, and no one else is keeping tight enough leash on the new guys and making sure they've got stuff to do.
Every potential employee at our company, i will also interview and check up. Maybe just because i will ask tough questions being quite straightforward ;) Oh and this is a small company, when i started i was the 3rd full time employee, by start of next month there will be 6 full time employees.
Who in their right mind gets their hands wet on fuel every time they stop at the pump? oO;
Really, learn to use the pump right.
Just like everyone is always complaining about gas price being too high ...
(Ref: US people earn more than Finnish people, has percentually higher buying force, and pays about 60% less for gas....)
Actually, most batteries are WAY more dangerous than gas tanks ... Gas tanks don't explode in the real world, unlike in hollywood.
To make a bomb out of gas, you need the right air-fuel mixture in compressed space, and compressed a lot ...
Batteries DO explode. Infact, some batteries are so dangerous that while charging you need to constantly watch and be around to make sure it's not going to explode, despite electronics controlling already the charge rate, balance etc. Overcharge = Explosion, Undercharge = Might explode. That's Lithium Polymer batteries, which are most energy dense on the market currently, used widely in RC vehicles.
Right now, it costs me around US$32 to fill up completely the 11 gallon tank on my 1998 Honda Civic HX CVT coupe with 87-octane unleaded.
My guess is that by 2020, a full charge from a commercial charger will probably cost US$20 in 2009 dollars--not bad considering the high cost of a fillup nowadays, especially if you have a bigger car.
High cost? You got to be joking ...
11 gallon = roughly 44litres. That costs here 55.44euros or roughly 77.62$ ... Really high cost!
Germans might be regard as brew masters, but we Finns have the best beer in world, Koff by Sinebrychoff, ranked multiple years in row as the best beer from tap.
True or not, i don't know, but i do prefer Koff over anything else i've tasted. Foster's is damn good as well.
you forgot audio, and other easy to use, efficient, basic media capabilities.
To make a simple piece of vector graphics requires a lot more effort with JS than with flash.
Flash ain't going anywhere anytime, it has it's strengths, and it's constantly being developed further.
not just machines built by machines ... but a machine race which thinks humans are gods ;)
I wonder how they do it technically (yea, i was too busy to actually RTFA), but other than that i wonder why no one has attempted this any sooner!
And i think the scales on the summary are "a little" bit off
Why are they constantly attempting this, even tho users will always be mad?
And with these high prices too ... If the per gb price would even be something sensible! I transfer probably over 1Tb a month (backups, video feeds etc), so 0.25 would endup being 250euros per month for me ... Many times what i currently pay
This took place in IRC. What do you mean under what license? The source for the project?
That project was completely for my own use, to automate some things.
It's very simple psychology, "linux geeks" sits in their ivory towers, thinking they are all knowing, and anyone saying anything else is a arrogant, stupid script kiddie (no matter of their experience, age nor merits).
They simply DO NOT realize how wrong they are, because they cannot see beyond their own ego.
Being rather highly skilled, i found it frustrating with some non-mainstream software supposed to be enterprise quality: Documentation at the very best lacking, expectation to read all of it and memorize all of it, and when asking questions you are faced with arrogance, egoistic replies such as "You are just too stupid to understand it", too stupid to understand that Gimp does not have any visible cue for drawing a line, but the way is buried into the 1000page manual? (One real life example from years back)
More technical it gets, more aggressive behaviour you will meet.
This lead me to ultimately abandon the whole community as a bunch of egoistic maniacs, who are too blind from their ego to even realize their own mistakes.
I read lately an article which described in terms of psychology 4-types of a coder, i've found many OSS community "gurus" are on the first ladder, the "copy paste guys, who think they know all there is to it, and even refuses to hear otherwise", that group describes these people the best.
One common denominator is that unless you already know everything they know (read knowledge) you must be an idiot. And the only way to know it all is to be one of the developers, and adopting the very same bad practices.
I'm not saying all OSS is like that or all people affiliated with OSS, just that MOST are like that.
If you need support, and actual answers, stick with commercial (OSS or proprietary), especially if you need HA (High Availability) solutions.
What i'm saying will be confirmed with the flood of flamebaits & trolling following this as a reply.
Want proof? Just try to ask some rather simplistic, non-documented feature/tidbit in IRC for projects like: Exim, Qmail, Asterix(Not the worst by far), Linux kernel, Bind or others with similarly requiring skill & knowledge level. The same can aswell be seen on some more mainstream projects such as Gimp.
On the flipside of the coin, if you get accepted to the community, or get to communicate with more professional people (who do it for professional reasons, not personal) you can actually expect good answers and conversations, but they are golden nuggets. If you get accepted to the community, don't dare to speak aloud your out-of-the-box ideas, or trying to drive innovation, they are highly unacceptable by the same Ivory Tower Demigods. In their world you are basicly attacking them socially and claiming they are dumber than you are, and will in turn deny all merit in your ideas and call you dumb script kiddie. (Oh, Why, Why, Why is it such a TABU to make user friendly software? Oh, Why, Why, Why is it such a TABU to automate simple configuration in more complex software? Or provide readable error messages)
One example lately i had was when talking about C# when developing around an OSS solution, i disliked C#s tendency to seek excuses for crashes, and the immensive need for try catch calls, especially on errors which are not that fatal it was nauseating to develop 75% fail-safes on the nature of the language, and 25% actual business logic! I got attacked strongly against as being incapable of proper code, while the issue was the stupidity of spending most of the time making these try catch clauses, and functions for parsing through a whole object tree to see if that FINAL variable / object exists. Why isn't it sufficient to just check the last one directly, WITHOUT a crash? Why do i have to parse through the whole tree from down to up to see it's existence? Did i check it directly, or not, in any scenario the result is 100% the same: It either exists, or does not exist.
Because of insisting that language design should be the exact opposite: Seeking reasons to continue instead of crashing UNLESS specifically told to crash if an error is met, i were many things, none of them were positive.
NOoOOOOooooo!
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