If there were a law recognizing excessive hassle -e.g. anything > 1h- to be compensated at professional tariffs, then SP's behavior would change in a heartbeat.
Perfectly reasonably IMHO. Such law is prone to lobbying during conception.
Think about why Java's "still around" for a minute. It probably serves a purpose or two. IMHO Java's purposes are pretty banal but valid nevertheless.
Java's main purpose lies in openness. As in you can't get strong armed by one player. The second purpose is in Java's type safety. Application programmers won't screw up badly. And so, you can setup an organization with a handful of programmers that actually know what they do and a huge load of application programmers with families, mortgages and lives.
Java's success also has to do with being first to market with the mentioned traits. Don't what would have happened if today's languages would have been around 20 - 25 years ago. But Java still develops and would still be a serious contender in such an hypothetical case.
So Java is the new Cobol. That's being said since the turn of the century and that's pretty much true. With deep pockets and employing huge amounts of programmers, finance influences language popularity massively.
To me, Java is good enough but I don't sell my soul to it. I keep my core code -which contains my unique data structures and algorithms- well away from anything else. Thus minimizing dependency on anything external.
Recently I -somewhat reluctantly- moved from Java 8 to Java 10/11 and I merely had to update a few dependencies. I also had a few test classes using reflection that started show warnings which I had to deal with to completely clean up my code.
I look at other languages respectfully. I see them serving purposes, changing our way of thinking and simply having fun. We're standing on the shoulders of giants but we still are at the beginning of our quest.
...the male is the gaudy and more beautiful sex. In humans, it's the opposite.
I take that to be your opinion. Generally speaking, human males find human females beautiful/attractive and vice versa. Then, arguably, human male's beauty increases with age. Also, human males have manes which we tend to find see as a sign of beauty in other animals.
I assume you're male. Can it be perhaps that you aren't that busy being pretty the whole day and that hence you don't appreciate your own beauty as much?
IMHO one of the differences between humans and other species is that we are able to grow to reach a point where we find that inner beauty trumps external beauty. With age one realises that more people then one thinks are beautiful and life gets better.
Can't read the link so I assume it's about parallelism.
I think we welcome languages that encourage users to divide a problem into many smaller ones. But do we really need them?
What I mean to say is that the value of software lies in the APIs and libs you develop. Having it perform well in a parallel environment takes a bit of clever thinking but most of us will hack it.
There are quite a few programming models and frameworks that already allow astonishing things to happen in parallel. What is Patterson hinting at?
Moore's original law on the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit is over. But there are sufficient derived/similar observation for parallelism. So, well designed parallel programs will still run faster or cheaper in a similar way as Moore observed more than 50 years ago.
A way to make mediocre programmers any better. An excellent programmer can effectively work for 10 mediocre ones. And if the mediocre ones aren't well organized, then the number may be factors higher.
A guarantee that any project will succeed and produce viable stuff. The success of any project almost always relies on the best coder. Nothing more than the Pareto distribution.
A protection against taking the will for the deed. Bad managers make the organization "feel good" about itself without actually delivering anything near to an acceptable level of functionality and maintainability. Ever witnessed a project being abandoned even if it really "deserved" it?
A guarantee that the methodology will be fully embraced. Indeed the failure of doing so will eventually be the crap excuse that nothing in the failure is your fault because the methodology wasn't fyll embraced.
A silver bullet. A crap manager that never delivered anything useful will usually maintain that agile working will solve all current problems. Agile will also not make mediocre managers any better.
It's a waiting game until this fad blows over. Each fad always highlights its own successes and downplays successes achieved with anything else. And then we welcome the successor.
Usually they want a thing they can't express in words. Instead of saying "Hey, can you produce a rough design of an architecture that fixes most of our problems and come up with a rough plan to implement this in two weeks?", they make up their minds by perceived gossip, think of some absurd plan, don't communicate it, don't manage it, and get mad when people don't brown nose.
So, practice positive speech that makes everyone feel good without committing to anything. Not only will you reduce stress at the workplace but eventually you'll be able to work on your own communication skills and say nice stuff you actually mean to your beloved ones.
Screw managers that don't really know their shit by playing along and seeing them sinking deeper and deeper in the pile of manure they themselves produce. And cover your arse by relaying the drivel they spout in emails confirming meetings/discussions you had.
As if M$ hasn't caused deaths. Almost anything causes deaths. Death by sheer desperation is one of the cruelest ways to go.
Oh non existing deity! Why do we still have to reboot Windows 10 almost daily to have patches installed? Why so many meaningless updates on Skype since M$ took over? And always when I actually want to use the bloody thing!
You're worrying about hurting the feelings of the lazy who instead choose to effectively steal from the public to live while contributing nothing? Bless your heart...
The reality is most likely that more decent people have already told you something similar to what I did. And that you still are trying to figure out what the heck they meant. You sound like a tough cooky in need of attention. Go out on a limb and do something nice to someone, anyone, and a first step is set.
Buddy you should brush up on your rhetoric figures of speech and avoid alienation of readers.
I work very hard and I am being well paid and I should agree with you and join you in your rant against unwilling freeloaders. But I don't. I find your writing unnecessary hurtful.
I appreciate the efforts taken. But protesting against a company that behaves immorally is the epitome of silliness.
Companies aren't obliged to have a moral; They merely need to obey the law. They must explore every way of making money and optimizing costs. Their competitors will do likewise.
Go after politicians that created opportunities for companies to optimize their taxes to an absurd level. Hell you can even use your actual influence and vote to try and accomplish your goal and make tax laws more fair.
Critical Code Reviews lead to better code. Perform those thoroughly in house and you should pass any review with flying colors.
Usually the "Critical" bit together with preposterous egos is usually the problem within most organisations. Nobody dares to tell the guru he's wrong. And no manager is ever rewarded for solving difficult problems, unless they can't be circumvented with loads of babble.
Take into account the time you need to screw Ikea stuff together. Or the money you need to pay for the startup.
Then consider that you wind up with extremely heavy chip wood furniture that won't survive a move. Also, the heaviness makes disposal in the country I live an avoidable expense.
Ask yourself whether you want to be surrounded by exactly the same furniture your neighbor has. Crooked doors included.
Suddenly paying twice the amount for good looking light furniture that you can take with you to your new home doesn't seem such a bad idea.
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... did I click this link again?
If there were a law recognizing excessive hassle -e.g. anything > 1h- to be compensated at professional tariffs, then SP's behavior would change in a heartbeat.
Perfectly reasonably IMHO. Such law is prone to lobbying during conception.
Think about why Java's "still around" for a minute. It probably serves a purpose or two. IMHO Java's purposes are pretty banal but valid nevertheless.
Java's main purpose lies in openness. As in you can't get strong armed by one player. The second purpose is in Java's type safety. Application programmers won't screw up badly. And so, you can setup an organization with a handful of programmers that actually know what they do and a huge load of application programmers with families, mortgages and lives.
Java's success also has to do with being first to market with the mentioned traits. Don't what would have happened if today's languages would have been around 20 - 25 years ago. But Java still develops and would still be a serious contender in such an hypothetical case.
So Java is the new Cobol. That's being said since the turn of the century and that's pretty much true. With deep pockets and employing huge amounts of programmers, finance influences language popularity massively.
To me, Java is good enough but I don't sell my soul to it. I keep my core code -which contains my unique data structures and algorithms- well away from anything else. Thus minimizing dependency on anything external.
Recently I -somewhat reluctantly- moved from Java 8 to Java 10/11 and I merely had to update a few dependencies. I also had a few test classes using reflection that started show warnings which I had to deal with to completely clean up my code.
I look at other languages respectfully. I see them serving purposes, changing our way of thinking and simply having fun. We're standing on the shoulders of giants but we still are at the beginning of our quest.
...the male is the gaudy and more beautiful sex. In humans, it's the opposite.
I take that to be your opinion. Generally speaking, human males find human females beautiful/attractive and vice versa. Then, arguably, human male's beauty increases with age. Also, human males have manes which we tend to find see as a sign of beauty in other animals.
I assume you're male. Can it be perhaps that you aren't that busy being pretty the whole day and that hence you don't appreciate your own beauty as much?
IMHO one of the differences between humans and other species is that we are able to grow to reach a point where we find that inner beauty trumps external beauty. With age one realises that more people then one thinks are beautiful and life gets better.
Can't read the link so I assume it's about parallelism.
I think we welcome languages that encourage users to divide a problem into many smaller ones. But do we really need them?
What I mean to say is that the value of software lies in the APIs and libs you develop. Having it perform well in a parallel environment takes a bit of clever thinking but most of us will hack it.
There are quite a few programming models and frameworks that already allow astonishing things to happen in parallel. What is Patterson hinting at?
Moore's original law on the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit is over. But there are sufficient derived/similar observation for parallelism. So, well designed parallel programs will still run faster or cheaper in a similar way as Moore observed more than 50 years ago.
It's a waiting game until this fad blows over. Each fad always highlights its own successes and downplays successes achieved with anything else. And then we welcome the successor.
Now where can we apply for jobs?
Usually they want a thing they can't express in words. Instead of saying "Hey, can you produce a rough design of an architecture that fixes most of our problems and come up with a rough plan to implement this in two weeks?", they make up their minds by perceived gossip, think of some absurd plan, don't communicate it, don't manage it, and get mad when people don't brown nose.
So, practice positive speech that makes everyone feel good without committing to anything. Not only will you reduce stress at the workplace but eventually you'll be able to work on your own communication skills and say nice stuff you actually mean to your beloved ones.
Screw managers that don't really know their shit by playing along and seeing them sinking deeper and deeper in the pile of manure they themselves produce. And cover your arse by relaying the drivel they spout in emails confirming meetings/discussions you had.
As if M$ hasn't caused deaths. Almost anything causes deaths. Death by sheer desperation is one of the cruelest ways to go.
Oh non existing deity! Why do we still have to reboot Windows 10 almost daily to have patches installed? Why so many meaningless updates on Skype since M$ took over? And always when I actually want to use the bloody thing!
I bow to your darkness and to your geekness. Whoever downvoted you was perhaps logged in to the wrong forum.
quicksort?
(That got really dark)
is the computer.
You're worrying about hurting the feelings of the lazy who instead choose to effectively steal from the public to live while contributing nothing? Bless your heart...
The reality is most likely that more decent people have already told you something similar to what I did. And that you still are trying to figure out what the heck they meant. You sound like a tough cooky in need of attention. Go out on a limb and do something nice to someone, anyone, and a first step is set.
But consider the outfit you work for is pretty social when seen in today's context.
So, enjoy the ride and outperform yourself in defining and achieving both business and social goals!
Also consider that most organisations have significant amounts of people doing nothing. Two more will not make a difference.
...for those who don't want to work.
Buddy you should brush up on your rhetoric figures of speech and avoid alienation of readers.
I work very hard and I am being well paid and I should agree with you and join you in your rant against unwilling freeloaders. But I don't. I find your writing unnecessary hurtful.
I appreciate the efforts taken. But protesting against a company that behaves immorally is the epitome of silliness.
Companies aren't obliged to have a moral; They merely need to obey the law. They must explore every way of making money and optimizing costs. Their competitors will do likewise.
Go after politicians that created opportunities for companies to optimize their taxes to an absurd level. Hell you can even use your actual influence and vote to try and accomplish your goal and make tax laws more fair.
I had expected split rate of 1200 and 75 Baud somewhere in your excellent argument.
Never had any sensible job offer through that one. A few really shitty ones. Hence I haven't updated my profile for several years now.
Ditching it altogether has come one tick closer.
All it needs is a terminal and Eclipse working offline, and a large screen for old farts. I'd be ditching my Macbook Pro in a heartbeat.
Critical Code Reviews lead to better code. Perform those thoroughly in house and you should pass any review with flying colors.
Usually the "Critical" bit together with preposterous egos is usually the problem within most organisations. Nobody dares to tell the guru he's wrong. And no manager is ever rewarded for solving difficult problems, unless they can't be circumvented with loads of babble.
I know.
Las Vegas and the Catalan issue are infinitely more news worthy and we're served this manure!
Take into account the time you need to screw Ikea stuff together. Or the money you need to pay for the startup.
Then consider that you wind up with extremely heavy chip wood furniture that won't survive a move. Also, the heaviness makes disposal in the country I live an avoidable expense.
Ask yourself whether you want to be surrounded by exactly the same furniture your neighbor has. Crooked doors included.
Suddenly paying twice the amount for good looking light furniture that you can take with you to your new home doesn't seem such a bad idea.
I ditched Ikea for these very reasons.
I started on Sun SPARC and I'm sad to see it gone some time soon. But I'm also surprised it took that long.
Java EE - Java SE = stuff we can do without more and more.
Java EE > Java SE, meaning everything.
As long as authoritative people call global warming "Just Weather"...
As long as we vote said authoritative people into office...
Our hope lies in education. Lots of it. Regardless of anything.