Pretty sure the only ads you will see are the ones that popup after you quit a game. To me it is more like a "this is on sale!" or "here is something new!" type of notification. More like game news, than ads.
Same here. I do have a small problem with the driver though. I have to use a special version or the box might lockup. But it is a great card and has been rendering perfectly for years. Just ordered a 6970.. very excited for the upgrade!
I wasn't doing any pooping. Only pointing out that you need to use the right tool for the right job. Saying C++ is all you need sounds like a developer making excuses for not wanting to learn new languages. You can still write C++ binaries and put them into the cgi-bin for your website back-end but yuck and ouch. Please don't take that statement to mean C++ is garbage. It is not. It just isn't as suited to web development.
Windows only (for now), blah. Still really exciting though! I remember glide being pretty awesome back in the day. It's funny that NVIDIA bought 3dfx and got glide but it is AMD that built a new low-level api. NVIDIA's NVAPI doesn't seem like an openGL or directX replacement but a helper of sorts for managing all kinds of stuff on the card.
The cert MD5 fingerprint is: 85:A3:B9:6E:6D:98:CB:FA:6B:E8:DB:3F:0F:88:F3:BC (typed by hand because FF won't let me copy/paste, blah) SHA1: bc 5f 40 92 fd 6a 49 aa f8 b8 35 0d ed 27 5e a6 64 c1 7a 1b (woo, chrome lets you copy paste)
I don't think he's discounting someone who wants to use a pre-existing library. He's saying he enjoys making them write libraries because one doesn't exist for the given task. But i think calling people coming out of college idiots is itself idiotic. College doesn't teach people to be good and experienced programmers/developers. It gives them a lot of different experiences. He calls C#, Java, Ruby, and Python garbage because he probably has never worked with them. I'm sure he still writes his website's back-end in C++ too, lol.
Sounds like your bias got in the way of developing. I write C# for money. Complaining is fine but you should not only do the work but become great at it. I'd rather write PHP than C#, fyi : )
I've only worked for small companies so i'm probably very clueless as to how large organizations do it. My current company doesn't even have real infrastructure. Everyone has a laptop and all the servers are VMs hosted by a local provider. There is a network at work but it's a couple switches going to a commercial cable internet router. Just VPN in to get access to TFS and all the other remote goodies you need. Everybody is admin of their own box and responsible for keeping it running. Support staff sometimes need help but they are cool people and easy to get along with. "IT maintains the network, workstations, backups etc." That sounds like the kind of stuff you do at home too. It's small stuff that everyone can do. Just like taking out the trash. I can see big companies not being like that though. A layperson could open the wiring closet and lose a whole day in there, lol. If someone wants to upgrade to windows 8, they are free to google how. If the bork the install they can spend the next few days learning how to fix it. In the end they have learned something and are more useful to the company. Someone who tries to get other people to do all that stuff for them would probably not be a good fit.
TL:DR - I have no idea what a big company is like. But i believe you that IT and dev are separate groups. I just don't understand it. Sounds like over specialization or something. Just seems like there should be a lot of overlap.
If IT isn't developing then what are they doing? Just doing maintenance tasks? Sounds like something the interns should be doing/learning. If it's support tasks they are doing then i'd say they aren't really IT. They are support. I'm sure there's a gray area in there somewhere though. But if you are saying that development is not under the IT umbrella then we are not even on the same page to argue, lol.
There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.
Usually it is left mouse button for selecting. Right mouse button for opening a context menu. Middle mouse for pasting and opening/closing any tab. Talking about removal of the middle mouse button functionality makes me think you want a one button mouse (which is fine but non-standard in linux). If you take away the existing middle mouse click functionality it will literally be a vestigial button.
If your company is selling services that were developed in-house then IT is certainly the money maker. If IT is keeping the mail server up then yes, that can be outsourced.
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Legal medicinal whiskey, lol. Funny how we keep running into that kind of "loophole".
Pretty sure the only ads you will see are the ones that popup after you quit a game. To me it is more like a "this is on sale!" or "here is something new!" type of notification. More like game news, than ads.
Same here. I do have a small problem with the driver though. I have to use a special version or the box might lockup. But it is a great card and has been rendering perfectly for years. Just ordered a 6970.. very excited for the upgrade!
I wasn't doing any pooping. Only pointing out that you need to use the right tool for the right job. Saying C++ is all you need sounds like a developer making excuses for not wanting to learn new languages. You can still write C++ binaries and put them into the cgi-bin for your website back-end but yuck and ouch. Please don't take that statement to mean C++ is garbage. It is not. It just isn't as suited to web development.
Windows only (for now), blah. Still really exciting though! I remember glide being pretty awesome back in the day. It's funny that NVIDIA bought 3dfx and got glide but it is AMD that built a new low-level api. NVIDIA's NVAPI doesn't seem like an openGL or directX replacement but a helper of sorts for managing all kinds of stuff on the card.
Fine for me in FF.
The cert MD5 fingerprint is: 85:A3:B9:6E:6D:98:CB:FA:6B:E8:DB:3F:0F:88:F3:BC (typed by hand because FF won't let me copy/paste, blah)
SHA1: bc 5f 40 92 fd 6a 49 aa f8 b8 35 0d ed 27 5e a6 64 c1 7a 1b (woo, chrome lets you copy paste)
I don't think he's discounting someone who wants to use a pre-existing library. He's saying he enjoys making them write libraries because one doesn't exist for the given task. But i think calling people coming out of college idiots is itself idiotic. College doesn't teach people to be good and experienced programmers/developers. It gives them a lot of different experiences. He calls C#, Java, Ruby, and Python garbage because he probably has never worked with them. I'm sure he still writes his website's back-end in C++ too, lol.
Sounds like your bias got in the way of developing. I write C# for money. Complaining is fine but you should not only do the work but become great at it. I'd rather write PHP than C#, fyi : )
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Sounds like they took that from the US military's old "Don't ask. Don't tell." policy.
I've only worked for small companies so i'm probably very clueless as to how large organizations do it. My current company doesn't even have real infrastructure. Everyone has a laptop and all the servers are VMs hosted by a local provider. There is a network at work but it's a couple switches going to a commercial cable internet router. Just VPN in to get access to TFS and all the other remote goodies you need. Everybody is admin of their own box and responsible for keeping it running. Support staff sometimes need help but they are cool people and easy to get along with. "IT maintains the network, workstations, backups etc." That sounds like the kind of stuff you do at home too. It's small stuff that everyone can do. Just like taking out the trash. I can see big companies not being like that though. A layperson could open the wiring closet and lose a whole day in there, lol. If someone wants to upgrade to windows 8, they are free to google how. If the bork the install they can spend the next few days learning how to fix it. In the end they have learned something and are more useful to the company. Someone who tries to get other people to do all that stuff for them would probably not be a good fit.
TL:DR - I have no idea what a big company is like. But i believe you that IT and dev are separate groups. I just don't understand it. Sounds like over specialization or something. Just seems like there should be a lot of overlap.
If IT isn't developing then what are they doing? Just doing maintenance tasks? Sounds like something the interns should be doing/learning. If it's support tasks they are doing then i'd say they aren't really IT. They are support. I'm sure there's a gray area in there somewhere though. But if you are saying that development is not under the IT umbrella then we are not even on the same page to argue, lol.
There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.
I find google reviews to be the most useful. You can even check the person's G+ to see how legit they appear to be.
You might have to get your ring looked at.
Usually it is left mouse button for selecting. Right mouse button for opening a context menu. Middle mouse for pasting and opening/closing any tab. Talking about removal of the middle mouse button functionality makes me think you want a one button mouse (which is fine but non-standard in linux). If you take away the existing middle mouse click functionality it will literally be a vestigial button.
Thanks for the tip!
Natural Explorers : )
I've seen sales people selling things that IT hasn't developed yet (or even heard of).
If your company is selling services that were developed in-house then IT is certainly the money maker. If IT is keeping the mail server up then yes, that can be outsourced.
In a tech company, IT is the entire reason the company has a product to sell.
When it releases, i'll post the link here for you : )
If you lived far away or outside the US, what would you suggest? Build a bike from discarded shampoo bottles at the airport?
I develop at work for money and at home for fun. If programming projects at home sucked i'd probably find a different hobby : /
Dynamic languages aren't going away. You can try a TDD approach if you want something more strict.