Get a bunch of your coworkers (if there are enoiugh of you) to quit the company and start one together, competing directly with your previous employer.
Prove that OSS is better ecomonically for your clients, as well as put those ill-informed bastards that forced Windows out of business. It should be a pretty big hit to your previous employer if a good chunk of you leave.
Maybe that's just wishful thinking, but hey, it could happen.
Frontpage or other tools (Dreamweaver) are very helpful to the professionals because they don't have to type up all the code. I read that in "Professional JavaScript" and that they are called Rapid Developement Tools or something. But I agree with you, you should have at least some idea what you are doing.
As a professional, I'll afraid I hafta respectfully disagree with you, or at least disagree with "Professional JavaScript". All of those autogenerating HTML Word Processors produce bloated, difficult to maintain, HTML.
They are helpful early on when you are unfamiliar with all the HTML tags and their attributes, but you learn over time that nothing beats a great text editor (yay vim) and blind memorizing of the HTML tags.
Additionally, at least with Dreamweaver 4 (which was the last WYSIWYG HTML editor I ever used), it totally obliterated any decent intentation system.
They might be useful for whipping up a nonfunctional prototype, but when developing a fully functional complex Web application, raw text is the only way to go.
A friend of a friend asked me to help him with a final project for one of his classes at ITT Tech. This was a project in ASP for an online bookstore. He was nearing completion of his associates degree in Web Design, and when I got there to show him things, he knew nothing at all. Not even HTML... When I asked him about that, he said he "sorta learned it a while ago". Last I checked, HTML was the staple of Web Development, no? All of his pages that he had made so far were all autogenerated by FrontPage. Goes to show you what good a $30,000 2-year associates degree at ITT Tech is worth.....or rather worthless.
My favorite question from one of those tests: Suppose a girlfriend or boyfriend that you were *really* into said one day, "You and me just aren't right for each other," and dumped you right there. Did you notice the poor grammar?
One way to increase your self-awareness is to take a standard personality test. There are several such tests, but my favorite is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).
About 5 months ago, I quit my full time, decently paying, software development job to start working for myself.
Personally, I don't see what all the whining is about ("waah! my boss fired me to offshore his work to india!"). I've experienced offshoring code first hand on two seperate projects and both times, niether of them understood what was requested. And several tens of thousands of dollars later, they were canned. I find it rather easy to convince people that offshoring is one of the biggest wastes of time and money, and becuase of that, I found it rather easy to go on my own.
I'm hardly what you'd call a people person, but the contracts still keep rolling in. And although I'm currently making less than I was full-time, I'm the happiest I've ever been....I make my own hours, I program in whatever language I want, and I set my own wage. And now I have time to do a morning exercise, to try to lose all this weight I gained working in a cube for 3 years.
Holy Shit....I make a cartman reference and BAM!! Modded to -1 Troll.
Those of you that felt it was necessary to mod me down, understand the context before you go crazy.
In the show he's talking about not taking any crap from a woman. Not that I actually advise "telling her to go make you a pie", or whatever, but christ. This was hardly deserved.
This was supposed to be funny. If anything, just ignore it, don't waste your mod points on me.
"I'd be like hey. Why don't you stop dressing me up like a mailman, and making me dance for you, while you go and smoke crack in your bedroom and have sex with some guy I don't even know on my dad's bed."
"Oooooh Ooooooh....I know what'll fix you lappie....Duct Tape 0wnz0rz U"
And are quick to post it. Only to discover they are one of the 30 others (I'll bet it's up to 30 by now) who posted it and 10 millions others who thought it but saw that the joke has been way overused in this thread.
RAFAEL EPSTEIN: How reliable is the study if it is only 36 patients?
COLIN MASTERS: This is, again, a pilot study, so our next step is to take it into a much larger series of patients, either this drug or a better drug we have in development. What we have on the drawing boards is a better version of this drug which is more effective and will probably go into trials hopefully before the end of this year.
I'd like to see the results after a much more extensive study has been conducted. If this really works, which at least with these preliminary tests suggest, it'd be nice to see alzheimers start to go the way if the dodo.
Carmack is a strong advocate of OSS and Linux and as such, Doom 3 will also be shipping with a linux binary.
You can preorder the Linux the linux Binary Here
My grandmother suffers from dementia. For a while (before her current medication), every few weeks she would have a dream where one of her children or grandchildren were out to kill her and she began mistaking them for real life.
Once we went over there and found she had hidden a knife under one of her table-cloths, and once she even ran away because she thought one of us was going to blow up her house.
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Get a bunch of your coworkers (if there are enoiugh of you) to quit the company and start one together, competing directly with your previous employer.
Prove that OSS is better ecomonically for your clients, as well as put those ill-informed bastards that forced Windows out of business. It should be a pretty big hit to your previous employer if a good chunk of you leave.
Maybe that's just wishful thinking, but hey, it could happen.
hehe...Sounds like the kinda code I kept getting back from the developers my client was offshoring to India and Serbia.
I thought the dot-com bust would have shaken these people out of the IT industry and into mcdonald's and walmart where they belong.
The Quote of the Century!
How right you are, my friend!
Frontpage or other tools (Dreamweaver) are very helpful to the professionals because they don't have to type up all the code. I read that in "Professional JavaScript" and that they are called Rapid Developement Tools or something. But I agree with you, you should have at least some idea what you are doing.
As a professional, I'll afraid I hafta respectfully disagree with you, or at least disagree with "Professional JavaScript". All of those autogenerating HTML Word Processors produce bloated, difficult to maintain, HTML.
They are helpful early on when you are unfamiliar with all the HTML tags and their attributes, but you learn over time that nothing beats a great text editor (yay vim) and blind memorizing of the HTML tags.
Additionally, at least with Dreamweaver 4 (which was the last WYSIWYG HTML editor I ever used), it totally obliterated any decent intentation system.
They might be useful for whipping up a nonfunctional prototype, but when developing a fully functional complex Web application, raw text is the only way to go.
A friend of a friend asked me to help him with a final project for one of his classes at ITT Tech. This was a project in ASP for an online bookstore. He was nearing completion of his associates degree in Web Design, and when I got there to show him things, he knew nothing at all. Not even HTML... When I asked him about that, he said he "sorta learned it a while ago". Last I checked, HTML was the staple of Web Development, no? All of his pages that he had made so far were all autogenerated by FrontPage. Goes to show you what good a $30,000 2-year associates degree at ITT Tech is worth.....or rather worthless.
heh....that's pretty funny. Lucky for me, I never write comments.
It's because they took out "Yub-Nub" at the end of Jedi, and replaced it with some corny "non-Ewok" sounding music. At least that's my major beef!
That and the CGI Jabba in Empire. Unneccesary!
My favorite question from one of those tests:
Suppose a girlfriend or boyfriend that you were *really* into said one day, "You and me just aren't right for each other," and dumped you right there. Did you notice the poor grammar?
HAHA...that's great!
"You'll never shut down the real Napster"
One way to increase your self-awareness is to take a standard personality test. There are several such tests, but my favorite is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).
Determine your personality here: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
I'm an ENTJ (coincidentally, the same as the author of the article).
About 5 months ago, I quit my full time, decently paying, software development job to start working for myself.
Personally, I don't see what all the whining is about ("waah! my boss fired me to offshore his work to india!"). I've experienced offshoring code first hand on two seperate projects and both times, niether of them understood what was requested. And several tens of thousands of dollars later, they were canned. I find it rather easy to convince people that offshoring is one of the biggest wastes of time and money, and becuase of that, I found it rather easy to go on my own.
I'm hardly what you'd call a people person, but the contracts still keep rolling in. And although I'm currently making less than I was full-time, I'm the happiest I've ever been....I make my own hours, I program in whatever language I want, and I set my own wage. And now I have time to do a morning exercise, to try to lose all this weight I gained working in a cube for 3 years.
Holy Shit....I make a cartman reference and BAM!! Modded to -1 Troll.
Those of you that felt it was necessary to mod me down, understand the context before you go crazy.
In the show he's talking about not taking any crap from a woman. Not that I actually advise "telling her to go make you a pie", or whatever, but christ. This was hardly deserved.
This was supposed to be funny. If anything, just ignore it, don't waste your mod points on me.
I think the person that modded me down should go in the kitchen and make some pie.
Hell Yeah. It seems anyone who's making Southpark references are getting modded down.
What gives?
"I'd be like hey. Why don't you stop dressing me up like a mailman, and making me dance for you, while you go and smoke crack in your bedroom and have sex with some guy I don't even know on my dad's bed."
A few years ago I held a LAN Party, but this was no ordinary LAN Party.
I was expecting to play some Quake 3 and Warcraft, but instead, the all-powerful game of the night was TetriNET.
There were people playing that that NEVER EVER play video games (including my girlfriend). And they played for 9 straight hours.
Pretty Nuts!
Fantastic Post!
...my head I'd be scratchin' while my thoughts were busy hatchin' If I only had a brain...
Damn you. Every time I read your sig, I get that song stuck in my head.
It's funny how people are like:
"Oooooh Ooooooh....I know what'll fix you lappie....Duct Tape 0wnz0rz U"
And are quick to post it. Only to discover they are one of the 30 others (I'll bet it's up to 30 by now) who posted it and 10 millions others who thought it but saw that the joke has been way overused in this thread.
RAFAEL EPSTEIN: How reliable is the study if it is only 36 patients?
COLIN MASTERS: This is, again, a pilot study, so our next step is to take it into a much larger series of patients, either this drug or a better drug we have in development. What we have on the drawing boards is a better version of this drug which is more effective and will probably go into trials hopefully before the end of this year.
I'd like to see the results after a much more extensive study has been conducted. If this really works, which at least with these preliminary tests suggest, it'd be nice to see alzheimers start to go the way if the dodo.
too big and complex, yet where basic SQL is a requirement
I've always liked MySQL, and continue to like the features they add to it. But if you're looking for a very basic SQL package, check out SQLLite.
It implements most of the SQL92 Standard and it is a library rather than a daemon.
Just something for those of you that don't like MySQL adding tons of features (stored Procs, triggers, etc).
A quick find for duct tape over this thread yielded 20 results.
I think we have a winner!
Duke Nukem Forever was originally slated to use the Quake 2 Engine.
Well it's now like 7 years later.
DNF better be phenominal
Carmack is a strong advocate of OSS and Linux and as such, Doom 3 will also be shipping with a linux binary. You can preorder the Linux the linux Binary Here
This is exciting stuff.
My grandmother suffers from dementia. For a while (before her current medication), every few weeks she would have a dream where one of her children or grandchildren were out to kill her and she began mistaking them for real life.
Once we went over there and found she had hidden a knife under one of her table-cloths, and once she even ran away because she thought one of us was going to blow up her house.
It would be fantastic to see a cure.
tech: What OS are you running?
me: FreeBSD..
tech: Windows 2000?
me: FreeBSD..
tech: Windows2000? me: FreeBSD..
That kinda sounds like something peter would be asking in Family Guy episode.