Funny how you touch on shit that doesn't matter in the least, yet leave out the one thing that really does paint Obama as an elitist, insensitive bastard: him going on about how people only like guns/religion because they're poor, a month or two ago.
Yeah, that was pretty much the quote that decided me. I'm an Obama supporter now. Pity I don't get to vote though.
Procedurally in the main; I'm bugfixing/enhancing existing PHP4 apps at the moment. I guess I'll brush up on the OO stuff:) We worked mainly with Java back at uni, with a few courses involving design patterns, but that's a good few years back now!
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Your assessment of Right vs Left seems reasonably accurate; we really need a slightly more complex way to specify these things, specifying social left/right and economic left/right.
Basically, all of the bastards seem to want to control something, normally as much as possible.
The GP was saying "quantify", because without some sort of quantification it's difficult to say one is more free than the other. While the countries that are currently more capitalistic may be currently more "free", the old slashdot adage applies; correlation is not causation. Perhaps the increased freedom simply allows capitalism to flourish more easily, not the other way around.
Each to their own, I suppose. In my current job I only have to support IE6, but I pointed out that at some point in time they'd be using either IE7 or Firefox or something else, so the apps I write are tested in IE7, IE6 and FF.
I've yet to come across any specific problems that needed to be handled differently on the server side. Are you talking about emitting different CSS or Javascript from your server side code? Or entirely different markup?
Aaaah, just like the drop bear out here in Australia. I'm sure an Aussie will be able to handle a moose dropping from the trees without batting an eyelid.
Yeah, I've noticed the flag prevalence here, much more than back in NZ. We all like our country, more or less, but publicly displaying nationalistic tendencies (showing a flag on your shop/car/property) more or less marks you as a little retarded...
Perth is where I am, actually. I've got a decent quantity of experience, having graduated in 2002 and working since then. But having to deal with recruiters at all was new to me - in Wellington and Christchurch where I've worked in the past, they're a minority; most jobs are advertised directly.
In the end, I spoke to a few and eventually found some people that I got along well with; a small company, I was interviewed by the CEO, as the main IT recruiter was off overseas. But the guy had come into the industry from a software engineering background and seemed to know the scene well.
The problem was that this seemed to be the exception rather than the norm. Perth has a huge undersupply of workers at the moment and the biggest hurdle to getting a job seemed to be talking your way past a recruiter so that you could get to the people that wanted to hire you!
As a Kiwi that's moved to Aus... Why are you moving to Auckland? I mean, NZ is great. But Auckland is all the worst parts of NZ. You get more money there, but that's it.. If you're after cash, then you get far more in Aus than NZ anyway.
If you're looking for a better lifestyle, look towards Wellington. If you're looking for more cash, then stay in Aus or (possibly, I haven't looked) head towards Canada. The snowboarding in Canada beats NZ as well:)
Seeing as you know the Australian market, and I've recently arrived here - what are the hoops here? The biggest challenge I have is finding a technically competent recruiter; many I've spoken to are fine so long as you repeat buzz words, but if you try to explain anything more complex, their eyes glaze over...
I've got a contract for the moment, but it's up in another month or so... Your experiences here would be useful.
I've just played on my friend's one and I wouldn't even want to write an email on the damn things... I normally type around 90-100wpm and I'd be struggling to hit 20 with an EEE.
But yeah, different strokes for different folks I guess. My friend's much larger than I am and thinks it's fine.
Yes, a lot of people (including me) have posted information about how to get it working. Why? Because it doesn't work out of the box. We wouldn't have bothered if it did, now would we?
And yet so many people do. Amazing.
I wasn't familiar with the problems; I looked, and saw lots of descriptions of working systems. It's hardly what I'd call cherry picking.
I've been using Linux longer and on more systems than 99% of the people here, and my day job is to write kernel code for big piles of interconnected Linux systems (on an unusual architecture at that).
Well how nice for you. If only it had some bearing on the rest of your comment.
Memory sticks get hit up quite often. I came across quite a few "broken" memory sticks and camera memory cards while travelling; people throw them into some computer in a net cafe to upload them and there's a pile of files they can't delete when they take it out.
As per usual, infected files are easy to remove using Linux though:)
I'd tend to agree with you on most counts, but the way that you missed the fact that the GP was a joke does lend some credence to the idea that at least one person that went into the military is a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal.
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Or at least, that's what they tell the tax department :)
Whenever I hear about my government cooperating in any way with those muppets in charge of the US, I feel like launching attacks on them too.
Funny how you touch on shit that doesn't matter in the least, yet leave out the one thing that really does paint Obama as an elitist, insensitive bastard: him going on about how people only like guns/religion because they're poor, a month or two ago.
Yeah, that was pretty much the quote that decided me. I'm an Obama supporter now. Pity I don't get to vote though.Procedurally in the main; I'm bugfixing/enhancing existing PHP4 apps at the moment. I guess I'll brush up on the OO stuff :) We worked mainly with Java back at uni, with a few courses involving design patterns, but that's a good few years back now!
Your assessment of Right vs Left seems reasonably accurate; we really need a slightly more complex way to specify these things, specifying social left/right and economic left/right.
Basically, all of the bastards seem to want to control something, normally as much as possible.
The GP was saying "quantify", because without some sort of quantification it's difficult to say one is more free than the other. While the countries that are currently more capitalistic may be currently more "free", the old slashdot adage applies; correlation is not causation. Perhaps the increased freedom simply allows capitalism to flourish more easily, not the other way around.
Each to their own, I suppose. In my current job I only have to support IE6, but I pointed out that at some point in time they'd be using either IE7 or Firefox or something else, so the apps I write are tested in IE7, IE6 and FF.
I've yet to come across any specific problems that needed to be handled differently on the server side. Are you talking about emitting different CSS or Javascript from your server side code? Or entirely different markup?
Truth? Yes.
Flamebait? Possibly.
Troll? No.
Possibly, because that's what the parent I was replying to was talking about?
What's your preference? ASP.NET? Ruby? Perl?
I don't put any hacks in on the PHP side, it seems to be 95% CSS and 5% Javascript hacks.
Still your voice of reason and common sense, you're killing a good argument before it gets going!
Unfortunately sometimes the scary is insightful...
This is the first time I've felt the need for a +1 Scary moderation option...
Aaaah, just like the drop bear out here in Australia. I'm sure an Aussie will be able to handle a moose dropping from the trees without batting an eyelid.
Yeah, I've noticed the flag prevalence here, much more than back in NZ. We all like our country, more or less, but publicly displaying nationalistic tendencies (showing a flag on your shop/car/property) more or less marks you as a little retarded...
Really? I'm working with PHP here, as it turns out, although my background is more in C (although I've been using PHP for about 6 years now as well).
There doesn't seem to be much of a market for PHP out here in Perth, although more of there is one for C...
If I could actually search on seek for "C" jobs without hitting a mess of "C++" or "C#" jobs, perhaps I could find them ;)
Perth is where I am, actually. I've got a decent quantity of experience, having graduated in 2002 and working since then. But having to deal with recruiters at all was new to me - in Wellington and Christchurch where I've worked in the past, they're a minority; most jobs are advertised directly.
In the end, I spoke to a few and eventually found some people that I got along well with; a small company, I was interviewed by the CEO, as the main IT recruiter was off overseas. But the guy had come into the industry from a software engineering background and seemed to know the scene well.
The problem was that this seemed to be the exception rather than the norm. Perth has a huge undersupply of workers at the moment and the biggest hurdle to getting a job seemed to be talking your way past a recruiter so that you could get to the people that wanted to hire you!
As a Kiwi that's moved to Aus... Why are you moving to Auckland? I mean, NZ is great. But Auckland is all the worst parts of NZ. You get more money there, but that's it.. If you're after cash, then you get far more in Aus than NZ anyway.
If you're looking for a better lifestyle, look towards Wellington. If you're looking for more cash, then stay in Aus or (possibly, I haven't looked) head towards Canada. The snowboarding in Canada beats NZ as well :)
Seeing as you know the Australian market, and I've recently arrived here - what are the hoops here? The biggest challenge I have is finding a technically competent recruiter; many I've spoken to are fine so long as you repeat buzz words, but if you try to explain anything more complex, their eyes glaze over...
I've got a contract for the moment, but it's up in another month or so... Your experiences here would be useful.
I've just played on my friend's one and I wouldn't even want to write an email on the damn things... I normally type around 90-100wpm and I'd be struggling to hit 20 with an EEE.
But yeah, different strokes for different folks I guess. My friend's much larger than I am and thinks it's fine.
And yet so many people do. Amazing.
I wasn't familiar with the problems; I looked, and saw lots of descriptions of working systems. It's hardly what I'd call cherry picking.
I've been using Linux longer and on more systems than 99% of the people here, and my day job is to write kernel code for big piles of interconnected Linux systems (on an unusual architecture at that).Well how nice for you. If only it had some bearing on the rest of your comment.
I rather imagine that porn is illegal in Iraq. And blatantly flouting the local laws is hardly going to endear the troops to the locals.
So banning porn is probably at least half to avoid upsetting the locals. And half tight-assed moralistic idiots.
Memory sticks get hit up quite often. I came across quite a few "broken" memory sticks and camera memory cards while travelling; people throw them into some computer in a net cafe to upload them and there's a pile of files they can't delete when they take it out.
As per usual, infected files are easy to remove using Linux though :)
As for the DVD side of things - autorun anyone?
If I say that's only in America, will I be implying that the ones in the military are unusually smart... or that Americans are unusually dumb?
I'd tend to agree with you on most counts, but the way that you missed the fact that the GP was a joke does lend some credence to the idea that at least one person that went into the military is a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal.